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On The Player Now III
Introduction A year ago, I published this playlist of what I was listening to, so I thought it might be fun to do another one, and I published the one below four months ago:
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 7 months ago in Beat
The El Pea Situation
Introduction About a month ago, I started becoming obsessed with the vinyl album "El Pea", and I am not sure why. I had also aquired a copy of "Bumpers", which is a great album, and "Nice Enough To Eat" was one of the first albums that I bought, and it introduced me to a lot of artists who are absolute favourites of mine.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 7 months ago in Beat
🪞Top 10 Selves You Had to Become (Just to Survive)
We live in layers. Not lies — layers. Versions of ourselves we shape to fit into families, friendships, timelines, systems, scenes.
By The Yume Collective8 months ago in Beat
🏙️ Top 10 Buildings You Remember from Dreams (But Never Existed)
Some buildings only exist when you close your eyes. You’ve walked their halls. You’ve opened their rusted doors. And yet they can’t be found on any map.
By Yokai Circle8 months ago in Beat
🫧 Top 10 Emotions You Can Only Feel Once
There are emotions you can name: sadness, joy, fear. And then there are the others. The ones that only show up once. They don't announce themselves.
By Yokai Circle8 months ago in Beat
🚪 Top 10 Liminal Spaces You’ve Felt But Never Named
Liminal spaces aren’t just empty buildings. They’re moments. Feelings. Crossroads between what was and what’s next. You’ve felt them before —
By The Yume Collective8 months ago in Beat
🧠 Top 10 Uncanny Emotional States (That Ambient Music Can Simulate)
Not all feelings fit on a chart. Some emotional states aren’t joy or sadness or anger. They’re strange. Uncanny. They whisper instead of scream.
By Yokai Circle8 months ago in Beat
🌙 Top 10 Feelings You’ve Had But Could Never Explain
Some emotions have names. Others don’t. They arrive suddenly — in the middle of a song, a silent hallway, a glint of sunlight on tile —
By The Yume Collective8 months ago in Beat
🚪 Threshold Music: Soundtracking the Liminal Self
There are places that don’t belong anywhere. Hallways. Waiting rooms. Parking garages at 3AM. They’re in between locations—transitory, uncanny, emotionally unspecific.
By Yokai Circle8 months ago in Beat
📵 The Aesthetic of Disconnection: Why We Romanticize Being Unreachable
You’ve seen the images: A flip phone glowing in the dark A lone figure walking under orange streetlights A hotel room with the curtains drawn
By The Yume Collective8 months ago in Beat
🕯 Sonic Séance: Channeling the Dead Through Dark Ambient
Dark ambient is often described as haunting—but what if it wasn’t just a vibe? What if it was a method of summoning? Not in the theatrical occult sense, but as a ritual of remembrance—a way to invite the presence of those we’ve lost, or the versions of ourselves that time has buried.
By Yokai Circle8 months ago in Beat
🕯 Shadow Listening: Why the Music You Love Might Be About the Parts You Hide
Some songs feel too intense to explain. Not because they’re loud, but because they hit something inside you you weren’t ready to look at.
By The Yume Collective8 months ago in Beat