Yazmeen Dessert Rose

Muslim stuff: Qur'an Reciters, Muslim vibes, 1444 AH (Islamic Year), Female Artists in Nasheed and Islamic Pop, Indonesian Sholawat/Pop Islami, Oriental Traditional Music from LPs & Cassettes, Naat from Pakistan, Bangladesh, India & Sri Lanka, Nasheed from Arab Countries, Hadroh Al-Banjari / Hadroh Al Habsy, Maddahi, Marsiya, Soaz, Nohe, Roze, Manqabat, Mosibat & Latmiyat / Shia Nasheed, 1445 AH (Islamic Year), Chechen Pop / Modern Lezginka, MrTehran, Navahang, RadioJavan etc. - Iranian Music, Discovering Islamic Pop & Nasheed Music, Falasteen, Falasteen..., 1446 AH (Islamic Year), Ramadan Mubarak, 🧕 Islamic dress code 🧕 (collaboration)

Romanian stuff: Romanian Composers After 1960 (Spectralism, etc.), Romanian Jazz, Manelectronics / Manele psihedelice / Neomanele, Rominimal sense of humor

South Asian stuff: Indian Indie, Naat from Pakistan, Bangladesh, India & Sri Lanka, Oriental Traditional Music from LPs & Cassettes, Dastar (Sikh Turban)

Japanese stuff: Kimono, the Japanese dress code, Japanese Small-Press Oddities (90s-2000s), Obi Strip Galore, Rakuten-core

Literary stuff: Poésie française / French Poetry, Poesia portuguesa e lusófona -- Poetry in Portuguese, Bokklubben - The Library of World Literature ("The 100 Best Books in the History of Literature")

RYM: Top Releases I Have Contributed to RYM Database, Albums That Were Not on Any Lists (Until This One), RYM Ultimate Box Set > Downtempo: Trip Hop Part 2, Tribute to 88Turkana, Language Speedrun

RIP Bandcamp: The Tape Label Report (Bandcamp)

Obscure/random stuff: 50 underground albums you've never heard of (according to The Guardian), Albums That Were Not on Any Lists (Until This One), Japanese Small-Press Oddities (90s-2000s), Random Album Picks (So-So Dada) a.k.a. The Flubbengagster Reprominum, Homestibus Suddenly d'Or Kickbubblegum Titles, Surrealist's Survival Toolkit, Beer Mountain: The Story of BSBTA & A Beard of Snails, [ found sounds, field recordings, oddities ] titles at Aquarius Records, Tribute to 88Turkana, CD Baby (1998-2020)

Cover art: Cocktail Album Covers, Too colourful covers, Obi Strip Galore, Hanbok, the Korean dress code, Dastar (Sikh Turban), Kimono, the Japanese dress code

Miscellaneous: CD Baby (1998-2020), Douban Music Top 250 ("the RYM from China"), Discogs Techno Chart (#1-100), My dad's shelf (Italo-Disco, Hi-NRG, Spacesynth, Romanian Popcorn etc.), Rolling Stone's The 250 Best Guitarists of All Time (Updated for 2023), Language Speedrun, Douban Best of 2023

Listening Logs: Cutting on the Backlog? Mission: Impossible...

Some of my genre explorations: folk and avant-folk, some Western classical music, modern & contemporary classical, jazz and experimental improvisation, field recordings & sound art, techno/IDM/glitch, ambient and drone, art pop and progressive pop, dream pop and shoegaze, post-rock and krautrock, downtempo and trip-hop, and a bit of plunderphonics, sound collage and vapor.

Bands: Pour a Little Everything Else: My Top 50 Cocteau Twins Songs UPDATED 1/2024, Better Than Reason Sweeter Than Reason: My Favorite Top 50 Stereolab Songs

Contemporary classical: KAIROS, Wandelweiser and Beyond

Jazz: Jazzwise: Top 20 Jazz albums of the last five years (2015), International Jazz Day 2020: Featured Artists #JazzDayAtHome, Minimal Improvisation / Tonus-Music / Zen-Funk

Leftfield Funk Rare Groove (45s, 1998-2012)

Downtempo and trip-hop: UPDATED 2024 Obscure albums that are (on the fringe of) trip-hop, Chillout Otaku: An Archaeology of Compilations UPDATED 1/2024, RYM Ultimate Box Set > Downtempo: Trip Hop Part 2, Snobbery Inc. - A Trip-Hop Shortlist, triphoppin.net, tripnotic.de (The World of Trip Hop), snow_san / snowsan (Snowy Sundaes) and his elusive downtempo vault

Lo-fi hip hop: Beatmakers list - Lo-fi Hip-Hop / Chillhop / Jazzhop / related, Lo-Fi Beats (Spotify-core), my f(l)avourite lo-fi beats, [Scrap] The only Lo-Fi Hip Hop vinyl guide you´ll ever need!, Lo-Fi Beats: Bandcamp-core, Lo-Fi Beats: Tidal-core

Chillwave: /mu/ Essential Chillwave (2010), /mu/ - Somewhat Official /mu/ Chillwave Guide, /mu/ Essential Chillwave (2012)

My year lists: My 2022: it can be the end any moment now, My 2023: too much, never enough..., My 2024: double down, My 2025: all possibilities

Transglobal Music Charts: Transglobal Music World Chart October 2021, Transglobal Music World Chart November 2021, Transglobal Music World Chart December 2021, Transglobal Music World Chart January 2022, Transglobal Music World Chart February 2022, Transglobal Music World Chart March 2022 Free Jazz: 2016, 2017, 2018 The Attic: 2015, 2016, 2017, January 2023 Brian Olewnick (Just outside): 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Richard Pinnell (The Watchful Ear): 2010, 2011, 2012 Jazzwise: Top 20 Jazz albums of the last five years (2015) NME Best of 2005 - Deleted Version (?) U-Cover's favorite records of 2004

Blog archives: Deleted Scenes, Forgotten Dreams, RIP <>, cookshop-core reloaded, Oriental Traditional Music from LPs & Cassettes

Labels: KAIROS, Primavera Classics, Beer Mountain: The Story of BSBTA & A Beard of Snails, Wandelweiser and Beyond

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WIP

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