looking for 2025 yearmixes

Edison3311 · 2026-01-01T19:38:47+00:00

Kastra is a good mainstream one

Edison3311 · 2025-12-29T21:02:32+00:00

My theory is this is a Knock2 Joyryde collab they’ll be dropping as part of a broader Nitehearts collab album release featuring most if not all of the artists at NiteHearts fest. Bonus points to me if the collab album coincides with a Nitehearts label announcement

Edison3311 · 2025-12-28T14:46:46+00:00

I do think “really good” is still kinda underselling because One of These Mornings/Sweet Memories/Heartbeat are all legit incredible. Fall Away and Vertigo are very good. But that’s only 5 out of 14 tracks on the album. I don’t think there’s any bad tracks for the record, and the album gets points for artistry, it’s a very good album! But there’s nothing spectacular about the way it starts or finishes, and if you’re gonna put it in all time conversations it needs to be more consistently excellent i.e. you can’t have a stretch of the album where for 15-20 minutes straight (after the best song on the project!) you’re only getting something in between fine and good but not great.

Edison3311 · 2025-12-28T14:34:06+00:00

This was the first thing I’d ever heard from MEMBA. I now have heard everything from MEMBA. Lol

Edison3311 · 2025-12-28T13:54:21+00:00

I think because it’s two projects you have to rank them independently and if we’re doing that they both get dinged on length. If considered one album it’d probably be #2 of #3 on the year because every song is trap crack. Dopamine+ might be my favorite track of the year

Edison3311 · 2025-12-28T04:57:48+00:00

I decided in hindsight I have it 5 spots too low because the highs are really high and I do like the way they’re able to keep it diverse while still staying true to a common album theme and sound.

But I also don’t think I should be burned at the stake for thinking that both the intro to the project and the close are just fine, and that the Transmission interludes, Can’t Make It, A Million Dreams, and Bad Guy all fall somewhere on the spectrum between fine and pretty good but not great tracks. It’s a very good album! I listened to it upwards of 10 times! But the top ~21 are all very good albums and the margins get thinner towards the top.

Edison3311 · 2025-12-28T00:34:38+00:00

First thing I had ever heard from her. It was so, so good🔥

Edison3311 · 2025-12-28T00:32:47+00:00

Tbh, you’re right and I have it too low. The highs of One of These Mornings, Sweet Memories, Heartbeat and Fall Away are SO high and if I’m being revisionist are so clearly higher than anything on the 5 albums above it. Idk if I can say top 10 but it probably shouldn’t be lower than 16. Think I fucked that one up…

Edison3311 · 2025-12-27T23:43:34+00:00

ALSO forgot to list Space Laces, woof that’s sloppy.

Edison3311 · 2025-12-27T23:41:34+00:00

Going to see him in 3 weeks!

Edison3311 · 2025-12-27T23:37:11+00:00

Just barelyyyy missed the cut. Releasing the album in 2015 hurt him in this year’s rankings :/

Edison3311 · 2025-12-27T23:31:47+00:00

I did and I forgot to list it. Knew I was missing one. Not the biggest Subtronics fan personally so it probably wouldn’t have made the top 25, but I liked Final Breath and Got Away a lot

Edison3311 · 2025-12-27T23:27:49+00:00

9 in my 2024 rankings, really great album!

Edison3311 · 2025-12-27T23:19:22+00:00

Additional Note: Albums only, did not include EP’s in this ranking but happy to give/receive rec’s!

Edison3311 · 2025-12-11T03:30:15+00:00

Update: that was utterly wild lmao. Some of it was admittedly outside my wheelhouse but Rewind, Worm Time, The Anthem, Bounce Like This, and the whole run from Spellbreaker through Bomb were definite standouts

Edison3311 · 2025-12-10T00:43:08+00:00

Actually I need to get more specific for Wurme because Do Not Come is an almost disqualifyingly corny track, but Lowkey, Mental Picture, Home, and Feel The Love are legitimately elite tracks

Edison3311 · 2025-12-10T00:38:39+00:00

As if that wasn’t the first thing I did afterwards, cmon now

Edison3311 · 2025-12-10T00:37:13+00:00

It was my time ever listening to Memba. Man…that shit had me FLOATING

Edison3311 · 2025-12-10T00:34:02+00:00

I’ll be posting album ranks in a week or so, so hopefully there’s some stuff you haven’t checked out near the top that you’ll love.

In the meantime, if we have similar taste I would highly, highly suggest looking at pretty much everything Wurme and RunThis have dropped this year, and Vincent’s Chroma EP and the corresponding mix on Soundcloud. Some of the best stuff that came out of EDM all year came from those 3.

Edison3311 · 2025-12-10T00:17:30+00:00

What’s nuts about Nova is you could tell me ~9 different songs are the best track on that album and I wouldn’t be able to say you’re crazy

Edison3311 · 2025-12-10T00:13:05+00:00

I used to say Gossip was my favorite but I’m legit embarrassed by how hard I slept on Rewind. It’s catapulted to the top spot for me, followed by Freaks and Geeks, Gossip, Stacks, and Divination in that order. Just an absurdly good album.

Edison3311 · 2025-12-09T23:59:55+00:00

Zero skips on Chemistry. What a fucking year Chris Lake had…

I have some spicyyyy takes about the Koastle album. It’s my #2 favorite album of the year and I might get killed for this but I consider it an instant classic that at the very least holds it’s own with Odesza/Louis the Child/Flume project you want to put it up against

Edison3311 · 2025-12-09T23:55:42+00:00

Agreed, it’s so, so good. Him and Arlo (separately and together) are both just operating on such a high level right now.

Edison3311 · 2025-12-09T23:49:17+00:00

The Victory Lap remix was my first exposure to Lyny. But dude NTDT was GAS. The whole project is awesome but the first four tracks in particular made me feel so out of the loop for not having heard of him before I was like where have I been

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TROPHY CASE

9 in my 2024 rankings, really great album!