A quick and knotty mixtape I made for tomorrow morning’s run, built from my favorite songs for lumbering along the river this summer—and lumber is the operative word. Laced with static and fried chatter, these tracks move like I do: sighing and lurching like a tired beast. But wait until the bass hits at the 41-second mark. It makes living in 2025 feel worthwhile. 

Sixsixsevenfortyseven’s Wounded Dogs is one of my favorite albums this year, a low-frequency exercise in patience, just like running or any repetitive act that hunts for freedom through repetition. An Egyptian low-rider comes next, followed by some metropolitan Detroit sleaze. This sequence lopes along until we get to Drissi El-Abbassi belting from the 1980s in Algeria. Look at this album cover. He was born to make us sweat. But his voice gets shredded by Autechre’s “Clipper” as we drop into more frigid and fractured terrain before winding down with a touch of Digital Underground. Here’s the hyperlink to tonight’s broadcast, or listen below.

I often think about this line from Richard Powers’s Orfeo: “Make the music that you need, for need will be over, soon enough.” 

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Sixsixsevenfortyseven - I Stood There
Wounded Dogs | Youth, 2025 | Bandcamp

Jana & El Nashmy - 3al Bayez
Place: Egypt | Air Texture, 2025 | Bandcamp

Erika - Tomorrow’s Fires (Whodat Remix)
Anevite Void Remixed | Interdimensional Transmissions, 2025 | Bandcamp

DVA Damas - Wet Vision II
Wet Vision | Downwards, 2015 | Boomkat

Drissi El-Abbassi - Zedti Laadab Aliya
Nashazphone | Bandcamp

Autechre - Clipper
Tri Repetae | Warp, 1995 | Bandcamp

Broken English Club - Prayer Space
Suburban Hunting | Cititrax, 2015 | Bandcamp

Plastikman - Contain
Consumed | Minus, 1998 | Bandcamp

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