This is an unusual thing to have on an academic website, but music is about as important to me as math if not moreso, so it deserves a page. Besides, according to some, music is math. I figured I’d start sharing bits of music (generally EPs or LPs) I’ve been enjoying, as sharing and discovering music are two of the great joys of life to me. Maybe you’ll find something new! Links will be to Bandcamp when possible.
- I’ve DJed for over a decade, playing primarily trance with some techno and ambient, you can hear those mixes on Soundcloud.
- Here is a clip of me playing with my former rock group Partial Disorder!
- Here is a recording by Franklin Jen with me on saxophone.
Links are listed by approximate times I’ve listened, not by release date. Last updated March 2026.
2026
- Makaya McCraven - Universal Beings (Jazz Beat stuff)
- Aloka - Strange Forms (Aggro Breaks)
- KMRU - Forge (Ambient)
- Kindtree - As We Laid Together (Ambient)
- Isabel’s Dream - Monomara (Intelligent DnB)
- Stasys & Azaleh - Return of the Primordial Garden (Bass wonk)
- Eliana Glass - E (Whimsical piano)
- Palm Springs - Turning Yr Back On The Dolphin (Singer-songwriter)
- Herbert & Momoko - Clay (Downtempo)
- pot pot - Warsaw 480km (Indie)
- shower curtain - words from a wishing well (Indie)
- Jacques Greene - Serenity (Breaks)
- sixtoo - Duration (Beats) - I ran into this legend at a Kissa in Tokyo. Great conversations!
- Loscil - Ash (Desolation)
2025
- Sigha - Metabolism (Wata Igarashi Remixes) (Techno) - honestly, this one’s about a decade old on my PC but I fell in love with it again recently
- Moodymann - Black Mahogani (Beats)
- Various - Mono No Aware (Ambient)
- Voices from the Lake - II (Dub techno)
- ex_libris - 001 (World techno?)
- Joanne Robertson - Blurrr (Emo ambient indie)
- Oneohtrix Point Never - Tranquilizer (Happy Anxiety Music)
- Kara-Lis Coverdale - Changes in Air (Ambient) - very happy she’s back!
- Photek - Solaris (Drum n’ Bass)
- Wata Igarashi - My Supernova (Chaos techno)
- efdemin - Poly (Ear music)
- Wayne Shorter - Juju (Post Bop)
- HAAi - Humanize (Dance)
- The Flashbulb - Kirlian Tapes (IDM)
- Larnell Lewis - In The Moment (Jazz)
- Area 3 - View (Bubbly)
- Tim Reaper - sfs (Beats)
- Deepchord pres. Echospace - Liumin (Dub techno)
- Los Thuthanaka - Los Thuthanaka (i really dk)
- JASSS - Eager Buyers (idk)
- Thundercat - The Golden Age of Apocalypse (Thundercat)
- Pugilist and Pod - Iridescent (Breaks)
- Verses GT (Nosaj Thing, Jacques Greene) - Verses GT (Beats)
- Rival Consoles - Landscape From Memory (IDM)
- Purelink - Signs (Dub techno)
- Sonic Youth - Washing Machine (Experimental rock)
- fka Twigs - EP2 (Hyperpop)
- james K - Rum EP (Experiemntal)
- Rival Consoles - Landscape from Memory (IDM)
- Jonny Nash - Once Was Ours Forever (Ambient)
- Talib Kwali and Madlib - Liberation II (Hip-hop)
- Fireground = Smile As One (Techno)
- Stillhead - A Real Piece of Work (IDM)
- Djrum - Under Tangled Silence (IDM)
- SW. - The Album (Dub Techno)
- Elephant Gym - Work (Math Rock)
- The Weather Station - How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars (Folk)
- Fennesz and Ryuichi Sakamoto - Cendre (Ambient/Classical)
- Brendon Moeller - Blue Moon (Downtempo)
- Stove - Is A Toad In The Rain (Indie Rock)
- Ovlov - Buds (Indie Rock)
- Ann Annie - el prado (Ambient)
Favorites
- Jon Hopkins - Immunity (IDM/Techno)
- Eco - Wolves (Progressive Trance)
- Floating Points - Elaenia (IDM/Ambient/Jazz)
- 18 Carat Affair - Vintage Romance (Vaporwave)
- Nils Frahm - Felt (Contemporary Classical)
- Telefon Tel Aviv - Fahrenheit Fair Enough (IDM)
- The Breathing Effect - Mars Is A Very Bad Place For Love (Jazz Fusion/Psychedelic Rock)
- KOAN Sound - Polychrome (Trip Hop)
- Leon Vynehall - Nothing Is Still (Contemporary)
- Boards of Canada - Tomorrow’s Harvest (IDM)
- Skee Mask - Pool (Techno/Ambient/IDM)
- Susumu Yokota - The Boy And The Heron (Ambient/Psychedelic)
- Animal Collective - Sung Tongs (Freak folk/Psychdelic)
- BT - This Binary Universe (Ambient/Downtempo)
- John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (Spiritual Jazz)
- Alice Coltrane ft. Pharoah Sanders - Journey In Satchidananda (Spiritual Jazz)
- Matt Lange pres. Altered Tensions - The Answer To The Question You Forgot To Ask (Glitch)
- Efdemin - New Atlantis (Techno)
- Shlohmo - The End (LA Beats)
- Flying Lotus - Los Angeles (LA Beats)
- 2814 - 新しい日の誕生 (Birth Of A New Day) (Vaporwave/Ambient)
- Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly (Hip-Hop)
- Atmosphere - Seven’s Travels (Hip-Hop)
- dj healer - nothing 2 loose (Ambient/Breaks)
- Hania Rani - Esja (Comtemporary Classical)
- djrum - Portrait With Firewood (IDM/Breaks/Techno)
- Rob Clouth - Zero Point (Glitch/IDM)
- Clark - Body Riddle (Glitch/IDM)
- Earl Sweatshirt - I Don’t Like S***, I Don’t Go Outside (Hip-Hop)
- Donato Dozzy - K (Dub Techno)
- Porter Ricks - Biokinetics (Dub Techno)
- Culprate - Deliverance (Trip Hop)
- Kikagaku Moyo - House In The Tall Grass (Psychedelic Rock)
- Dream Theater - Octavarium (Progressive Metal)
- Evenings - Yore (Lo-fi)
- Michael Brecker - Michael Brecker (Jazz)
- Pharoah Sanders - Elevation (Spiritual Jazz)
- Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto - Two (Live at Sydney Opera House) (Experimental/Ambient)
- The Phantom’s Revenge - ALL AT ONCE (House?) Favorite track title: “out getting bread with the energy of someone being tracked by several government agencies while trying to escape an avalanche”
- Woolymammoth - Filling Spots (Bass/Glitch)
- Jan Jelinek - Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records (Textures)