The Listening Club - 7th January 2024

Greetings folks, and Happy New Year to you all.

Hope you've had an enjoyable one, whatever you've been up to. Been a gentle time here in Amsterdam, eating, drinking and conversing as befits the season - not much partying, but we're saving that for later this month when we vacate the premises for a few weeks (from Sun 21st Jan for 4 Sundays!) . Thanks to those of you who have offered services to keep this ship running in my absence - I will be in touch on M-don in the next few days to discuss the details - and still open to more offers of help if you're so incluned, please let me know.

Way back in time, we saw @Woj on frisbee duty, playing his traditional end-of-year game of "I wonder what that's like?! with "Data" by Tainy, which definitely got the assembled bopping in an early-xmas-party-where's-the-punch sort of way. Thanks extended for the pick and for sailing the frisb over to @EmmaPrice, who has had a serious amount of time to consider her pick, and still a week more to go, because...

...Yeah, it's that time again, when the best new sounds that passed through your ears in the preceding year gather together in one place to duke it out, it's the 2023 Festive Vortex - This year a bumper crop of 33 selections, from the sublime to the ridiculous and back again, encased in just over two hours of playtime (looks like we're going to have to restrict submissions a bit in future, eh?, especially if folks insist on picking such long tunes, hemhem!).

Anyway, much like 2023 itself, it is what is was, so download here, stream below:

See you at 20:00 GMT Tonight. Bring leftovers!