Forgotten Futures, December 2025
In the final Forgotten Futures of 2025 I have 11 tracks of exciting electronic delights to brighten the darkest of winter days. I hope you enjoy listening to these tracks as much as I do. Please share show with a friend and perhaps drop a message to one of the artists. Merry Christmas one and all!
TRACK LIST
1. NDORFIK, Binary Echo [https://ndorfik.bandcamp.com/album/binary-echo-vaag-remix]
Taken from: Binary Echo (VAAG Remix) (Local Gods)
© All rights reserved. Used with permission.
Binary Echo was inspired by Murakami’s The City and Its Uncertain Walls and its dual-world idea. The single is on pre-order now, you'll get the first track immediately and on December 26th a remix by Dutch electronic musician Marc Brinkerink (aka VAAG) will be added. VAAG's mix turns the track into a layered soundscape suitable for a new season of Mr. Robot or the next Blade Runner.
2. Fennel, Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh [https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-ghost-of-christmas-passed]
Taken from: The Ghost Of Christmas Passed (Passed Recordings) Featured Release
© All rights reserved. Used with permission.
Christmas and ambient rise from the grave to haunt your headphones once more in The Ghost of Christmas Passed!
Following on from 2022's Christmas Passed [https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/christmas-passed], this Winter's Christmas compilation brings you over 3 hours of fireside crackles, chiming bells, hearty hohoho's, and nostalgic carols all with lashings of luscious pads, soothing reverberence, and ethereal delays. Absolutely ideal for someone looking for some festive tunes with a complete tonal twist. Whether Yuletide merriment is something you love or loathe, whether you love a Christmas jingle or desperately need a break from Mariah, The Ghost of Christmas Passed has something for ambient fans everywhere.
3. Wilks, Take it in [https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/a-soul-to-borrow-bc096]
Taken from: A Soul To Borrow (Bricolage)
CC BY [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/]
Taken from Wilks' second EP, called 'A Soul To Borrow', which was released on the Bricolage label in October.
Wilks told me he made this using samples collected over the years and that he scrutinised it waaaaayyy too much. Apparently there are 24 different versions! Luckily the label head at Bricolage was very patient and the whole EP is now ready for your consumption.
4. Default Media Transmitter, Field is jungle now [https://defaultmediatransmitter.bandcamp.com/album/the-machines-are-having-fun]
Taken from: The machines are having fun (Self released)
CC BY-NC-SA [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/]
Default Media Transmitter's new album is a crunchy journey though left field electronica, experimental ambient and breakbeats. In parts noisy and dystopian, also pretty in some places too. We are invited to enjoy the puns.
5. Shellbeat, 303×3 [https://soundcloud.com/shellbeat-records]
Taken from: 303x3 (Self released)
© All rights reserved. Used with permission.
"Weird tones on the way to their mission — I am always focussed on melodic driven beats and inspired from certain sounds. The track 303x3 was the result of the conjunction between the 303 and the Jomox Alpha Base kickdrum."
6. EKT, Pioneer Plaque [https://ektmusic.bandcamp.com/album/pura-vida]
Taken from: Pura Vida (Self released)
© All rights reserved. Used with permission.
40+ tracks incoming - some with beats and some without - hop, skipping and jumping thru various genres. Tracks will be added each month up until Feb. 26/2026
Each track was recorded live, one-take, dawless - no computers, zero overdubs. The idea behind the album is to take niche musical ideas and make them palpable to an audience that doesn’t usually listen to electronic music. Touchstones include OM’s Conference of the Birds album, DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing, John Maus, late 90’s “trip-hop” stuff on the Ninja Tune and Mo’ Wax labels and even a little Beck.
This album is free to anyone who sends a screenshot or photo proof of them deleting Spotify and/or any social media app.
7. Socool, Silver Falls [https://socool.bandcamp.com/album/to-the-nines]
Taken from: To the Nines (Self released)
© All rights reserved. Used with permission.
Subtle and spacious, the music embraces an atmosphere of quiet intensity, pairing textured ambient soundscapes and broken beats. A meditation on precision and letting go, the album takes its name from Emily Sobool aka Socool’s favourite number and the weight it carries - from Cloud 9 highs to the pursuit of perfection.
The album takes in downtempo, chill out, trip hop, breakbeat, drum'n'bass and lo-fi to great effect.
8. On Idyl, Sipping whiskey on Christmas Eve, out in the snow, under a full moon [https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-ghost-of-christmas-passed]
Taken from: The Ghost Of Christmas Passed (Passed Recordings) Featured Release
© All rights reserved. Used with permission.
50% of any sales of the Ghosts of Christmas Passed compilation will be donated to Doctors Without Borders (www.msf.org).
Passed Recordings are hosting a free Bandcamp listening party [https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/merch/the-ghost-of-christmas-passed-listening-party] for the release at 7pm GMT on December 19th
9. Near Stoic, All It Takes Is A Dream To Get To The Next Day [https://nearstoic.bandcamp.com/album/notebook-thoughts-short-stories]
Taken from: Notebook (Thoughts & Short Stories) (Third Kind Records)
© All rights reserved. Used with permission.
Nicholas from Third Kind Records recently got in touch and sent me a number of things to listen to, expect to hear more from this excellent label on future shows. To start I've chosen to play this excellent track by French artist Near Stoic taken from his album Notebook (Thoughts & Short Stories) released back in 2021.
10. Veryan, Incantations [https://thirdkindrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-beltane-tape]
Taken from: The Beltane Tape (Third Kind Records)
© All rights reserved. Used with permission.
The Beltane Tape compilation was released on Third Kind Records in May 2025. Featuring music from Swansither, Nicholas Langley, Rupert Lally, Veryan and many more wonderful artists.
11. Felix Machtelinckx, The Riser [https://felixmachtelinckx.bandcamp.com/album/deep-south]
Taken from: Deep South (Subexotic Records)
© All rights reserved. Used with permission.
"I started the research for the album with one central theme: drought. The dry ground beneath my feet felt like a good place to start. I went out in nature with an old cassette field recorder in the South of France, in search of textures that moved me. Soon I started to improvise little songs, lullabies and poems in unknown languages accompanied by nature and its rich palette of sounds. Creating rhythms by hitting tree barks, scratching rocks and walking among the thyme and rosemary in the rocky mountains, coexisting with a threatening hot summer wind. These improvisations became the base of the tracks on Deep South. All of the roots of the songs were created from an improvised session in nature. From a to z. I never chopped or messed with the base tracks."
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