The Magic Organ

Episode 100! I will not spoil the incredible insights gathered during the effort expended to make 100 new music podcasts focusing on all genres of music. Needless to say the umbrella. under which all these conclusions fall involves the idea that this is absolutely a golden age of recorded music, there is so much great new music to listen to and powerful cultural and economic factors limit the number of people who reach the same conclusion.

Of course, if you are reading this podcast blurb and you are listening or even considering what I'm saying here, I appreciate you and urge you to listen as widely as you can.

Thanks for listening, you should listen for yourself to make yourself a slightly better person as I believe that listening to great music can help to open a person's mind.

Excerpts from this episode:

Kaito Winse: An Kori

Kilbourne: Bald Boys

Los Piranas: Con mi burrito sabanero voy directo al matadero

clipping.: Run It

The Tubs: Narcissist

Dub Syndicate: Intercommunications

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I'm always open to listener suggested playlists if you feel you can hang with the host.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and streaming outlets. You can support them by listening and telling your friends. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast inspire you. God forbid.

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New music thus far in 2025 has been crazy great. A great record is one that bears repeated listens, is interesting and creative in a unique way, and makes you feel something emotionally. Making people feel something through music is not as easy as it may sound.

In a normal year I listen to well over 1,000 excerpts from new recordings and find maybe 20-25 recordings that fit my definition of a best of year recording. You can laugh at me for my nerdy approach to online new music scavenging but I keep a spreadsheet of great records that I find and thus far I've found 17 records that could quite easily end up on my best of 2025. That's a shit ton of new music in a very short period of time.

In this episode the Agender record is easily a candidate to be on my best of 2025 list. Fronted by an Australian woman the record sounds like Devo went to the gym and got ripped and read a lot of feminist literature. The track from Kenya Eugene is a follow up to a single called Bun it, which I most definitely would love folks to check it out.

Otherwise I just keep hitting all the genres, I love the mash what can I say?

Excerpts from this episode:

Baalti: Raja

clipping.: Malleus

Kiala & Afroblaster: One Race

Pissgrave: Dissident Amputator

Kenya Eugene: In and Outtah Love

skaiwater: pop

Agender: Damaged Girls

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I'm always open to listener suggested playlists if you feel you can hang with the host.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and streaming outlets. You can support them by listening and telling your friends. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast inspire you. God forbid.

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Need a little escape from dystopia? Hey, why not try some new music?

Episode 98 consists of pieces of six tracks, opening up with a slyly psych cumbia track and closing out with an outer space ambient maybe improvised electronic. And in between the space sandwich is some British hip hop (love/hate!), a tune from Santrofi which blends Ghanaian highlife with funk and other influences, a rock track with an interesting arrangement and some old school Cuban music.

You best check it out before anybody with flavor is deported to the super prison in El Salvador! As always The Magic Organ is all about quality and variety, enjoy.

Excerpts from this episode:

El Leon Pardo: Cumbia Espacial

Nemzzz: ETA (featuring Luciano)

Santrofi: Gyae me how

venturing: Play My Guitar

Rita Donte: Pase de las misiones

Civilistjavel!: XIII

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I'm always open to listener suggested playlists if you feel you can hang with the host.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and streaming outlets. You can support them by listening and telling your friends. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast inspire you. God forbid.

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There are many awful things about the open American #fascism now culminating in the chaotic reign of President Orange Ballbag. Make no mistake this bullshit has been slowly growing for decades now. The cultural impact of maximum corporate power pushes people into survival mode where there's no time, energy or money to think, relax, explore, maybe even check out new music, poetry, be quiet by themselves and be human.

It's fucking shameful.

If you're listening thanks for listening.

Excerpts from this episode:

HORSEBATH: Only in My Dreams

Blawan: Done Eclipse

Silvana Estrada: Un Dia Cualquiera

Tony Allen & La BOA: CUENTO

James Brandon Lewis: Five Spots to Caravan

John Glacier: Steady As I Am

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I'm always open to listener suggested playlists if you feel you can hang with the host.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and streaming outlets. You can support them by listening and telling your friends. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast inspire you. God forbid.

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In the first 4-5 weeks of 2025 I have found 4 albums certified banging accoring to the Magic Organ banging system, and we kickoff the episode today with a track from one of them. It is a collaboration between a Peruvian artist and an African guitarist and it's upbeat and joyous and it slaps.

During the second track I might have used the word 'crock' instead of rawk. I meant rawk as in rock music. Otherwise it's more of the 13 minute new music podcast for your earholes.

Otherwise, thanks for listening.

Excerpts from this episode:

Ale Hop & Tit Bakorta: Mapambazuko

Squid: Cro-Magnon Man

Fadi Tabbal: (Keep Beating)

Miramar: Juntos

Pigeon Pit: stone song

Damon Locks: Click

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I'm always open to listener suggested playlists if you feel you can hang with the host.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and streaming outlets. You can support them by listening and telling your friends. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast inspire you. God forbid.

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The internet's most fiery 13 minute new music podcast returns with our first sure to make the best of year list, Vaodou Game's new record FINTOU. Their previous efforts are over the top funky and partyistic, pumped beyond belief but this one has slowed down the tempo, added some accordion and guest singers and I think it's a certified bag of bangers as there's more depth to what they're doing here. Plenty of funk is still on offer after these changes, check it out.

Not to say that the other tracks on this aren't bangers -- more African music, some crushing metal from Ice T's Body Count and a lyrical and strange performance from Cameron Winter.

As usual The Magic Organ is about the quality not the genre, creativity over lifestyle every time.

Excerpts from this episode:

Vaodou Game: Raler

Body Count: Do or Die

Shovel Dance Collective: The Merry Golden Tree

Boldy James & RichGains: Janky

Cameron Winter: The Rolling Stones

Songhoy Blues: Dagabi

Pavel Milyakov: air X

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I'm always open to listener suggested playlists if you feel you can hang with the host.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and streaming outlets. You can support them by listening and telling your friends. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast inspire you. God forbid.

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I spend most of January sifting through best of the year before music lists -- Pitchfork, bandcamp, other lifestyle outlets. The NY Times, no I don't take their music criticism seriously at all, blech. I am looking for records that I may have missed and there aren't many, just going up and down the Pitchfork top 50 I had listened to 30+ of the records they recommend.

I think the most interesting track on this episode is the track from Still House Plants. It works as rock due to its reluctance to rock, they barely remain in the genre they are slotted into. Their formula works because they have a great drummer and they seem to be listening to each other as they play something more akin to jazz than rock.

Anyway, it's 2025, enjoy this January foraging session, if you have any great records don't hoard them, let me know.

Excerpts from this episode:

Caxtrinho: Queda Livre

A Taut Line: Jorum

Lowen: Najang Bah Divhayeh Mazandaran

Karen Nyame KG & Gina Jeanz: Sovereign Groove

Still House Plants: Sticky

Jlin: Akoma

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I'm always open to listener suggested playlists if you feel you can hang with the host.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and streaming outlets. You can support them by listening and telling your friends. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast inspire you. God forbid.

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If you were to define the greatness of a music writer/podcaster as how closely their recommended picks line up with other music writers/podcasters, then I would most definitely be a shit ass music critic.

If one were to have half a brain and define the greatness of a music writer/podcaster as working across as many genres as there are and the independence to pick music based on its quality and not on its marketability, well then I would be up there if not at the top of the pile.

Happy 2025! There will be one more best of 2024 episode and I will spend most of January 2025 scrounging the best of lists that I think could contain some diamonds sprinkled in with the manure. Bandcamp has some very good best of year lists, not perfect but very good, the NY Times sucks at music writing, I'll keep it at that.

Thanks for listening!

Excerpts from this episode:

Sisso and Maiko: Chuma

Ghost Dubs: Hot Wired

Etran de L'Air: Erkazamane

Undeath: More Insane

Karate Boogaloo: The Early Bird Catches

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I'm always open to listener suggested playlists if you feel you can hang with the host.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and streaming outlets. You can support them by listening and telling your friends. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast inspire you. God forbid.

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Here we are just before the holidays and the digital town square is flooded with best of lists for music, films and books. Some of my choices occasionally pop up on a list but there are many that are unique to The Magic Organ.

The Magic Organ is a music loving podcast, it is not a music pimping/PR podcast. Going against the grain, focusing on the actual music and not giving a flying fuq about brat summer and whatever other stupid identity nonsense is sprinkled all over listeners to make corporate music appear meaningful.

Randy Mason's hip hop record is a perfect example of an overlooked gem and I continue to maintain that anyone claiming to be a music lover without listening to all the incredible music coming out of Africa isn't really a music lover. Finally, if you dig the rock check out the Meridian Brothers wacko Latin-Captain Beefheart business.

Enjoy and thanks for listening and happy holidays.

Excerpts from this episode:

Meridian Brothers: Se Que Estoy Cambiando

Floating Points: Vocoder

The Zawose Queens: Mapendo

Randy Mason: Wallet Phone Keys

Accra Quartet: Hunters

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I'm always open to listener suggested playlists if you feel you can hang with the host.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and streaming outlets. You can support them by listening and telling your friends. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast inspire you. God forbid.

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Hey hey hey, Part 2 of The Magic Organ's 5 episode cycle of the best of 2024 is up and ready for your earholes. All genres all the time.

Dancefloor, reggae, free jazz, stripper pole electronic music and dark epic rock -- we got it going on and hope you like it.

If you have anything to say about it or want to counterprogram this hit me up, god forbid we break the corporate chains and communicate with one another.

Thanks for listening.

Excerpts from this episode:

Becky Hill: Multiply

Mighty Joshua: Sometimes

(Ahmed): Wood Blues

Nikki Nair: 333333

Big Brave: Not Speaking of the Ways

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I'm always open to listener suggested playlists if you feel you can hang with the host.

You can find these artists on bandcamp and streaming outlets. You can support them by listening and telling your friends. You can celebrate what they do! Let this shitass 13 minute podcast inspire you. God forbid.

Questions, comments, review requests -- contact me at [email protected]