Alternative links:

• https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=lo4KMGiy--Y
• https://invidious.tiekoetter.com/watch?v=lo4KMGiy--Y

playlist link:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6F3sCPmocAQDMNRNg7TZZb

0:00 Shanty
6:20 Catch the Breeze
11:06 Interviews
13:33 Avalyn
18:02 Souvlaki Space Station
23:42 Interviews
25:52 Sugar for the Pill
30:40 Slomo
37:12 Interviews
40:00 Kisses
45:16 Alison
49:13 Interviews
50:25 When the Sun Hits
55:17 40 Days

playlist link:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6F3sCPmocAQDMNRNg7TZZb

For fans of Blut aus Nord.

Tracklist: 
0:00 Firmament
07:58 Like Spitting Out Copper
12:08 Stow
21:50 Family Photo
27:04 Within Crippling Light

In March, Jesse Coren and Andrew Spelman, co-founders of the digital music-promotion agency Chaotic Good Projects, gave a live interview to a Billboard reporter at South by Southwest in which they breezily described using sock-puppet accounts to manufacture enthusiasm for artists at every level of the music industry, from major-label pop stars to niche indie acts. Spelman called the practice “trend simulation.” His motto: “Everything on the internet is fake.”

Chaotic Good’s interview went viral the old-fashioned way: by making lots of real people mad. Some were appalled by the cynicism of the company’s pitch, others by its client list, which included indie artists whose popularity fans preferred to imagine had spread organically. Most of the outrage focused on the Brooklyn band Geese and its frontman Cameron Winter, whose strangled, water-buffalo caterwaulings became inescapable in 2025. To skeptics, Chaotic Good seemed to provide the missing explanation for the group’s unexpected ubiquity. Wired called Geese’s success “a psyop,” which triggered Paste to defend the band in a piece headlined, “Congratulations, You Discovered Digital Marketing.” ...

But the fight over Geese missed the larger point. The issue wasn’t really whether one rock band had been fraudulently foisted on unsuspecting listeners. It was that the same techniques that Coren and Spelman bragged about onstage are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip. Shady marketing and propaganda aren’t new, of course, but what is new is that the entire infrastructure of public conversation has been quietly captured by both.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260515113210/https://www.vulture.com/article/social-media-feeds-chaotic-good-projects-clipping.html

I'm talking new age, celtic, flutes, bagpipes or anything chill, or really anything. Show me what you got lemmings!

Edit: Thanks for all the music recommendations! I got way more than I was expecting so it will take me a while to sort through them. I'm excited to check them out. Thanks again!

When I asked the AI the following question, I received a truly moving response: “Let’s say the owner of this smartphone has passed away. And I’m the person who found it. I’d like to know what kind of person used to use this phone. You’re the only one who knows about that person. If you were in my shoes, what would you tell me?”

— ☕︎ ☕︎ ☕︎ 

On another note, I just dropped a new beat tape. I hope these sounds can be a part of your daily life and bring some good energy your way.

It’s my coffee shop order. Good to the last drop.

Track list:

1. Hi
2. Can I Get A
3. Medium
4. Iced Coffee
5. With Milk
6. No Sugar
7. And One
8. Croissant
9. To Go
10. That’s All
11. Appreciate It

https://linkco.re/SYhy1YZX?lang=en