My Music Tastes in 2025

I thought I’d do a little post on my music tastes in 2025, where I’m at musically.

There isn’t much significant change, house music remains a primary listening concern, minimal plays a huge role – if perhaps less so, techno is a rarer beast for my ears, and I have a bit less excitement over the offbeat techno sounds than I did.

Let’s break it down and start with house music.

Because house music will always be there for me – it is central to my soul, central to how I behave as a human being.

It does become harder to find good new house music – much of what I “discover” has been released in previous years, such as Fantastic Man’s Alpha, which is a great house track though released a couple of years back.

Or U Won’t C Me by Mystic Bill, which is so dreamy and I must have been in a dream as I discovered it 9 years after it was released.

Cinthie still makes some really warm house tracks, some of what she makes verges a tad too much into 2010 Defected cheesy house territory, but then other tracks are just total class – and Mellifluous was actually released in 2024 too.

In terms of house music DJ mixes that I’ve listened to over the last year, I’m not sure I’ve heard many good quality mixes – maybe one or two by Cinthie or Demuir.

I do quite enjoy listening to Moxie’s NTS radio show – I feel like I’m listening to someone 20 years younger than me discovering music I discovered 20 years ago quite often, and her enthusiasm for house/garage that I’d forgotten is quite charming. Some of her guest DJs are really good…others so-so, but such is life.

Minimalising Minimal

I feel like quite a lot of the old ro-minimal DJs are playing much tougher and quite boring music nowadays.

DJs like Sonja Moonear, SIT, Cristi Cons…hmmm I’m struggling to think of other examples but there definitely are some, are playing more of a hybrid tech-house almost loopy acidic sound more often.

Barac is still the king of minimal DJs, and is by some way my favourite DJ.

Hours of dreamy, loopy minimal – there was a 6 hour set a little while back also, but I cannot find it.

And then he did this drum-less mix series too.

Barac is totally on another wavelength to most people – and that’s why he’s right up there with my music tastes in 2025.

And there are a few other DJs that I’m really into like Jay Tripwire, Rhadoo and Petre Inspirescu that are playing really good minimal also.

Ricardo is still a complete genius when it comes to productions – I’m Broken is just hauntingly beautiful.

And it was quite recently released – 2023 too.

Unlike another track of his, Mormax, which I discovered recently and was released in 2005…had totally passed me by for 20 years.

Gosh I wish I had earned proper money back in the mid/late 2000’s when he was at his peak, and could have gone to see Ricardo more.

Otherwise, I’m not really discovering much minimal – the days of Unknown Artist releasing minimal edits of cheesy shit like Spice Girls maybe killed the ro-minimal market a bit, and perhaps why other producers and DJs have moved away to the next big thing…though the next big thing, has also passed me by.

Weird Shit

And then there is other music. Other electronic music, of course.

I quite like listening to babyschön’s NTS radio show, which caters for more synthwave and electro kind of sounds, along with Pressure Dome on Noods Radio, which is generally more experimental bass/offbeat techno – both give me a chance to step away from my usual minimal/house stream of music and listen to something different, whilst still being electronic music.

Though still nobody surpasses Ben UFO when it comes to alternative electronic music, the bass, offbeat techno – but also house, techno, garage and whatever else he throws in. Each monthly show feels completely different, and often utterly captivating.

And that’s probably all I have to say about my music tastes in 2025.

I do wish I could go back to the days when everything was super exciting and new, for example when I first discovered minimal, or when I lived for Cocoon – or when I first started hearing house music in the early 90’s.

Alas those days are gone, too much new music is bland (it may well be exciting to younger people who have heard less music) – and who knows what will happen when AI music is the norm.

Until then, I’ll leave you with the Macarena. A cool version though. Honest.