Prestige Format Picks đź’» 18 November 2025

a new way to listen to a classic, some great electronic music, and something wild

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Ryan Ruppe
November 18, 2025 • Read this in about: 6 minutes

still listening to tapes and cds

next week will be all about music for autumn

the blue post-it is to remind me exactly where to hit the CD player for it to read CDs.

Radiohead - OK Computer (R channel only)

Right now, my stereo is technically not a stereo because it only outputs right channel sound. This isn’t usually too much of an issue, as good amount of stuff is essentially dual-mono, or at least close enough that it’s not too bad. But listening to my slightly damaged cassette copy of OK Computer out of the right channel only was like listening to a whole new album. There were no guitar solos, and so many interesting textures and bits of the songs that I had never heard before. Give it a try!

I’m a bit of a newbie to Clark’s music, but I’ve been digging this one since someone posted it in a channel of a slack I’m on. Ranging from downtempo ambient to breakbeats, classic “futuristic” synth sounds are the backbone of Steep Stims. It’s an immersive listen and it sounds huge in headphones. If you need some focus music, check this out.

Another recommendation from the same source, Stabil is vintage 2006 clicks and cuts-style glitch. In slack, the person who posted it said

“It's a careful study of phone and modem tones, aliasing, and low bitrates.”

which is a perfect description. Hitting play on track 1 sucked me in and I’ve been listening to this one a lot.

An intense and spacious recording of a Japanese dub artist live-editing the music played by the Nakibemebe Embaire Group, the “last custodians of the embaíre, a colossal log xylophone sunk into the earth and played communally by eight musicians”. If you read that and thought “hell yeah” then definitely hit play on this one.

There's a new Oneohtrix Point Never album coming out, called Tranquilizer. Made from a dump of vintage 90s samples, the preview tracks sound incredible, definitely an album for fans of Chuck Person’s Eccojams Vol. 1.

This has led me to listen to a bunch of OPN this week, and I found something interesting. After listening to his Garden of Delete, I decided to throw on something more upbeat, so I put Anamanaguchi’s 2019 album [USA] and realized that it’s really them doing a Oneohtrix Point Never album. I never got into it when I first listened, but in this context, I’m really digging it.

thanks for reading!

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