The Magic Organ

It has been a garbage can summer for pop music and mainstream hip hop, and while those are the most money making sectors of the recorded music business, there is plenty of action from other parts of our culture that is worthy of Song of the Summer status. That is what The Magic Organ is all about, pushing up quality regardless of commercial domination, fuq the music business.

Song of the Summer can qualify as such for many different reasons, at least here at The Magic Organ it works that way. It could be catchy af like the profane opener from Laura Jane Grace. It could be a sound or a vibe or a sound that creates a vibe like in the second track from Karol G. It could be a ramped up energy like the tunes from Anamanaguchi and The Armed, two surprising rock/rawk picks for The Magic Organ Guy. Or a tune might line up with other things that have been going on this summer like YoungBoy Never Broke Again's tune, My Shit, and the tune I Steal What I Want. There can be any number of reasons.

The new Sabrina Carpenter record is a tragic biscuit, the Lorde record was pretty bad, the Charlie XCX record was not so great (the last one was majorly hyped so it's not surprising) so give the other side of town a shot.

Thanks for listening and hit me up with your six pack of bangers if you have the skills, pickin' ain't easy!

Excerpts from this episode:

Laura Jane Grace: Your God (God's Dick)

KAROL G: Ivonny Bonita

Anamanaguchi: Sparkler

Gelli Haha: Funny Music

YoungBoy Never Broke Again: My Shit

The Armed: I Steal What I Want

coatshek: Labyrinth

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It was a struggle but there will be a Best Songs of the Summer episode next week heads up on that, but not this week. This week is just more dancefloor bangers, weird ass indie music, and a rare pop track kicking off the episode that I actually think is pretty great. Circling back one has to wonder with the absence of a clear song of the summer and what I see as some more quality indie rock and left field hip hop hitting the earholes out there whether we are in the midst of some sort of cultural shift.

Only time will tell and that's why you play the games -- to see what happens.

If you are somewhere out there sitting in a beach chair and you think you can take on The Magic Organ guy, I invite you for the umpteenth time to throw down the gauntlet and roll out with your playlist. Email is listed below.

As always thanks for listening!

Excerpts from this episode:

Gelli Haha: Bounce House

Benjamin Booker: POMPEII STATUES

gyrofield: Bolete

Maxo: Saturday Love (Cherry)

The New Eves: Cow Song

Matmos: Changing States

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First off the mistakes. I try to use the mistakes I make during the spieling of an episode to give that musical outfit more space. In this episode I mistakenly said that Kin'Gongolo Kiniata is from Kenya (you know, all the Ks) when they hail from the Congo. The Congo and its people (often under slave labor type circumstances) power your phones with minerals and they provided the uranium for Uncle Sam to drop atomic bombs on Japan. Weird. Don't miss out on the documentary Soundtrack for a Coup D'Etat which mixes music and politics and violence.

Otherwise, this episode continues on the themes established by The Magic Organ and just keeps celebrating how much great music there is to listen to these days. So much music from all over the world, don't sleep on it.

As always thanks for listening, spread the word if you have a mouth.

Excerpts from this episode:

Lyra Pramuk: Meridian

Kin'Gongolo Kiniata: Angoisse

Death in Vegas: Hazel

Sami Galbi: Win

Nikki Nair & Uffie: The Button

James Holden & Waclaw Zimpel: Sparkles, Crystals, Miracles

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Episode 107! Another slamming best of 2025 thus far episode celebrating the deluge of new music from the first half of this year. No need to listen to the new Miley Cyrus biscuit, or the Lorde snoozefest, or the narcissistic Kesha record, nevermind the latest Justin Bieber tragedy (oh how low can the IQ go? pretty low, apparently). There is so much shit to listen to.

I mighta have gotten the band name and the song title backwards in the case of the fifth excerpt. The outfit is Bejuco, the album is Machete and the track is Me Mueve el Tambo. I have left a long trail of mangled Spanish and African words but on the up side I love Latin music and African music and this record by Bejuco is a mash of them both. Enjoy.

As usual, I throw down the gauntlet and if you have six tracks that you think could hang with my choices then come forth and offer them, be a guest DJ if the tracks pass the smell test. Are you more obsessed with music than I am??? I doubt it.

Thanks for listening, enjoy!

Excerpts from this episode:

Kilbourne: Loon Call

Vaudou Game: Raler

Sarcator: Comet of End Times

Open Mike Eagle: ok but I'm the phone screen

Bejuco: Me Mueve el Tambo

Hieroglyphic Being: The Secret Teaching of the Ages

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So much new music is released over the course of a year and because it is a constant struggle to push the super high quality music that has little to no marketing budget it makes perfect sense to do a best of 2025 thus far this year episode. With another one on the way pronto.

As a listener across almost all of the genres I can say that 2025 has been super fruitful, a landslide of new music that I hope continues. The year end lists tend to be lopsided in favor of releases from the second half of the year so mid year episodes fulfill an important mission: great shit gets released all year round. In this case a special shout out to the Ale Hop record released around the end of January, the Agender punk record, and the Raul Monsalve Latin Afrobeat record, all going on the best of 2025 list, hell all six of the records with excerpts in this episode may make my year end list.

Great episode, thanks for listening!

Excerpts from this episode:

Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta: La Danza del Pajarito

Ben LaMar Gay: the glorification of small victories

Civilistajavel!: XIII

Agender: Logo

Raul Monsalve y los Forajidos: Como el Sol

Los Piranas: El aguazo de Javier Felipe

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Halfway through 2025, gotta couple of best of 2025 episodes coming out in the next two weeks, it's been a smoking year for new music, my best of year list candidates are many and they are righteous.

This episode sports a pair of cumbia tracks and a pair of darker electronic tracks, hence the name the hard shit and the party shit. A lot of folks will get down with dancefloor banger electro but the more abstract electronic can be very satisfying to listen to as well. We do have some dancefloor banging out of Tunisia so don't sleep on that. As well as a track showcasing some traditional African musical virtuosity out of Mali.

Thanks for listening and step to it if you can get 6 tunes that I might not know and can get with; be in touch The Magic Organ is open, wide open.

Excerpts from this episode:

Frente Cumbiero: Buziraco de Paseo

Nazar: Open

Kasse Mady Diabate & Hawa Kasse Mady Diabate: NIAGALEBA

Wrecked Lightship: Delinquent Spirits

Ammar 808: Lelliri Yamma

La Banda Chuska: Cumbia Chuska

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Let's have our own parade and not one based on domination, violence and killing. The Magic Organ freak parade has variety, features people from all over the world, and values their cultures and contributions to humanity without collapsing into New Age bullshit. We do all the musics and it will get rough.

We kick things off with a collaboration between a Romani Balkan brass band and a Canadian guitarist, things get shaggy with a spicy hip hop track called Roof Roof, heads into some Brazilian jazz and indie mashed together by a Japanese female guitarist, segue into a blend of Afrobeat and Latin music (super highly recommended if you like groove music) and then out with some singer/songwriter and a punk rawk track from McCluskey. Whew, that's a lotta action in 13 minutes.

As always, thanks for listening and stay safe out there.

Excerpts from this episode:

Fanfare Ciocarlia & Adrian Raso: The Devil Rides Again

Zukenee: Roof Roof

Mei Semones: Tora Moyo

Bejuco: Fatima

Catherine Campbell

McClusky: people pers

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2025 has already been a banner year for new music, at least as far as I'm concerned, and we're not even at the halfway point. As I'm one of the only music critics listening to all the musics, I speak with knowledge that the continent of Africa, closely followed by Central and South America are the drivers of great music right now. It's a sad time for rock music and by default white people who make and listen to rock music. If you want white music I would refer you to heavy metal which works for non brunch white folks but that genre while reviled by the upper classes is global and there are heavy metal outfits all over the globe.

Episode 103 features two records from Africa, one from Latin America, one from punkers and a heavy metal record by an outfit called Warbringer.

The last track by Azuka Moweta inspired the title of Episode 103, Incomprehensibly Funky. I would urge folks to check out more than the 2 minute excerpt featured here, it's just a taste of how the whole record goes. It really is incomprehensibly funky, it is hard to imagine how they conceived of and performed this music; it is so rhythmically complex, but it is sophisticated from head to toe.

Thanks for listening!

Excerpts from this episode:

Ellis-D: Insect

Famo Mountain: Me & the Chief Were Childhood Friends (I Have Protection)

Whatever the Weather II: 20 C

Julian Mayorga: El Vorrh

Warbringer: Neuromancer

Azuka Moweta and his Anioma Brothers Band: Nne Bu Ogo

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What makes people open their minds? Why are so many folks locked in to very definite categories/liefstyles that all come with their own soundtracks? These are the questions that I think about. For some folks it is a question of money but for a lot of folks it's something else cuz with streaming stores providing the immediate access to every small record I've suggested in the 100+ episodes of the Magic Organ it's not there aren't bangers out there, it's bangers galore.

Could it be my picks aren't good? No fucking way, absolutely not, no way. There are so many great musicians out there, tons and tons across the globe and people here are locked in to Posty Malone and the Tay Tay brands. It's like eating corn chips every meal, you come to this world and you get one shot and you listen to corn chips.

I don't get it, but if you're here thanks for peeping the Magic Organ and this is episode is so special it's called Extra Sauce. I mean it's gotta be named something.

Excerpts from this episode:

Djrum: Waxcap

Chime Oblivion: Heated Horses

Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek: Hop Bico

Yetsuby: 4EVA

Deerhoof: Return of the Return of the Fire Trick Star

Raz Fresco: Earth Spin

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First off a coupla housekeeping items. I mentioned the song tile, Comet of End Times (track 4), but not the band, the band is Sarcator and it's a really good metal record and folks should check it. Secondly, Kombilesa Mi (track 6 excerpt) is from Palenque and they perform in Spanish and their indigenous Palenque language called Palenquero, a blend of Spanish, African languages, and other European languages. Yes, I googled that.

Otherwise, 2025 continues to be a banner for new music thus far as evidence by multiple 7 track 13 minutes of pure fire from The Magic Organ. As I say in the episode once you ice pick the heavy crust of corporate music and get down beneath that there is an absolute ton of great music out there. Also musical genres are bullshit, folks shouldn't be listening by genre but by quality.

Enjoy.

Excerpts from this episode:

Raul Monsalve y los Forajidos: Como El Sol

Gordon Grdina: DISSOLUTION

Barker: Difference and Repetition

Sarcator: Comet of End Times

DJ Elmoe: The Show Arrived

Kombilesa Mi: Asina Gue

aya: heat death

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