Some tunes from Skalon
Hi everyone. This is Skalon.
I’ve been listening to music for 30 years and collected quite a few great albums to share. Yep, I’m from the album listening generation.
I’ll be glad if some tunes get their way into your heart. Cheers.
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Two Shell — IIcons
A fresh album from an ambitious, bold British band. High-energy music, great production — you can tell these guys are true pros at their craft.
Genre-wise, it’s labeled as post-dubstep. I’m not an expert in that field, so I’ll take their word for it, but what it sounds like to me is insanely dynamic, dense beats with an irregular kick drum that just make you want to move, lift weights, or stride quickly through city streets.
It’s a rich, heavy sound — at times quite dark, but never so dark that you couldn’t enjoy it outside of a club and with a clear head.
Bottom line: if you’re heading to the gym or just need a jolt of energy — give it a try.
Genres: Dance, Post Dubstep
Tags: Energizing
15 Aug, 2025
Downliners Sekt — Silent Ascent
I first came across this album in February 2018, and for the next few months I listened to it almost daily. Even now, I still come back to it, sometimes — once or twice a week.
In my entire music library, it’s the most-played album among those I don’t use for work (I just checked: 325 plays!).
How has it not worn out its welcome? I’ve noticed something interesting.
Genre-wise, it’s fast-paced future garage, built on an uneven, skipping beat that’s intriguing in its own right. But as is typical for future garage, it’s layered with countless field recordings: creaks of rusty hinges, found percussion, and a dense, intricate web of rhythms.
And it’s this abundance of small details that creates such a unique effect. Imagine a tight, driving beat, but over it — off to the upper left of the soundscape — you hear someone banging on a piece of metal in a garage, completely off-beat. That “wrongness” is weird at first, but strangely delightful, and even once your brain “gets the trick,” it never stops engaging.
Overall, the music is incredibly rich in detail, blending fast, energetic rhythms with smooth, melancholic atmospheres.
The dynamics shift too: some tracks would work in a club, others are dreamy ambient, and some are heartbreakingly beautiful. But together, they strike a perfect balance.
Genres: Future Garage
Tags: Moody, Energizing, Atmospheric
15 Aug, 2025
Lawrence English — Kiri No Oto
I love noise music, and this is one of those albums that perfectly captures everything I enjoy about it.
I know noise isn’t exactly a popular genre (and it’s no mystery why). But if you want to give it a chance, this album is a good place to start. Unlike something like Merzbow, which demands a serious taste for BDSM, this is more like soft noise — the sounds here are enveloping and cozy.
While preparing this post, I read that kiri no oto in Japanese means the distortion of sound that happens in thick fog. I think the musician nailed that feeling perfectly.
It’s one of my favorite albums to work to — which explains why, according to Apple Music, I’ve played it several hundred times.
For those who aren’t used to this kind of music but want to give it a try: the first track is noisier than the rest. At least make it to the second one :)
Genres: Soft Noise, Ambient
Tags: Minimalism, Meditative, Productivity Music
25 Jul, 2025
Limousine — Siam Roads
Sharing one of my favorite albums.
It’s by a French group who started out playing pretty traditional post-rock with strong jazz influences. Then they traveled to Thailand, immersed themselves in the local music, learned to play the Thai guitar, and recorded this absolutely incredible album.
I first heard it in 2014, right before heading to Khabarovsk, where I ended up living for almost a year and a half. Of course, Khabarovsk is practically farther from Thailand than Moscow is, but I still vividly remember the strange feeling of being out in the Russian Far East with this music playing in my headphones. This album really helped me deal with the sense of loneliness and isolation I felt after leaving Moscow.
Since then, I’ve actually been to Thailand, and I can say with confidence: this album is perfect for a sunset ride on a scooter somewhere like Koh Phangan.
Genres: Jazz, World
Tags: Easy Listening, Chill
24 Jul, 2025
Tommy Guerrero — Road to Nowhere
Let me share one of my favorite albums from recent years. It sounds best when you’re driving along the seaside on a sunny day. I realized this first-hand when I visited Kaş — one of the most charming and cozy towns on the Turkish Mediterranean coast I visited.
The artist is a legend in the skateboarding scene, and I feel like that carefree vibe of gliding down a smooth road toward the intriguing unknown runs through every track on this album.
I also recommend using this album for a soundtrack at the start of a summer gathering, when guests are just arriving, sipping their welcome drinks, and feeling out the first threads of conversation.
It’s lighthearted but never basic — music that sets the perfect tone for a great party.
Genres: Jazz, Funk
Tags: Easy Listening
06 Jul, 2025
Consumed In Key — Plastikman & Chilly Gonzales
The motto of minimalism is “less is more”: a radical restriction of expressive means generates a more interesting result.
A classic example of minimalism in electronic music is the ascetic electronic shamanism of Richie Hawtin, aka Plastikman. He's one of the founders of minimal techno, and his 1998 album Consumed is a genre-defining classic.
It was all the more unexpected to encounter its jazz reinterpretation.
It might seem sacrilegious to add details to an icon of minimalism, but the result of the experiment resonated with me so much that it has become one of my most listened-to albums in the past six months.
The restrained yet expressive jazz piano lent a completely new hue to the barren electronic landscape.
Gentle and slightly naive in their seemingly simple jazz standards atop the dark, hypnotic foundation of heavy bass drums and acidic layers of synth pads, they combine like refined lyrical iamb with the image of a grim and introverted poet, tightly buttoned up in black clothes.
Despite the stark contrast, the conflict of these elements creates a new balance. Harmonizing in their minimalism, they evoke a sense of introverted dreaminess, a pure and sincere aspiration for beauty.
Considering that in recent years I've moved away from most radical forms of minimalism, and classic Plastikman seems a bit dry to me, I find this album very cohesive and profound. I hope you'll enjoy it too.
Genres: Techno, Jazz
Tags: Minimalism, Jazz
05 Jan, 2024
Bucky — Had to Leave
Being quite a cheerful person, I nevertheless listen to a lot of sad music. Probably for balance.
Today in Saigon, the weather is rainy, and I'm sitting in a cafe listening to this track, watching the reflections of headlights passing by on the wet asphalt outside.
Bucky is an excellent representative of the future garage genre (the founder of the genre is considered to be Burial — I'll write about him later): the characteristic broken, skipping beat and fat angry bass are combined with atmospheric keyboards and angelic vocals. It is precisely the combination of aggressive beats and bass with enveloping atmosphere and sublime voices that creates the characteristic feeling of euphoric flight for this musical direction.
I've loved this genre for a long time, but for some reason, I rarely come across really interesting representatives. I heard this album last year, and it is now firmly associated with solo travel to unfamiliar cities. A mixture of bright sadness, anticipation, and a sense of adventure.
I recommend it to all introverts.
If you decide to listen, turn on this track in good headphones, walking around the evening city. It will be especially nice if you have recently arrived in this city, do not know how long you will stay in it, and what will be the next point of the route.
Genres: Future Garage
Tags: Atmospheric, Moody
04 Jun, 2023
The Embassadors — Healing the Music
Exotic and exquisite music for a refined cocktail experience in a wannabe haute cuisine bar
At least I would like to characterize this album that way.
Once I watched a video about a Japanese man who runs a listening bar in Tokyo: a place where people come not only to drink and eat, but also to listen to great music. There is a super geeky audiophile system, no signboard, and guests are united by the host's musical taste.
I immediately understood that this is my dream. I hope that in 10 years I will have such a bar, I will come to it on Friday evening to fry burgers or steaks for people and mix cocktails to great music.
I even have a list of what will be in this bar.
This album was one of the first I included in the "golden playlist" of my future bar.
The Embassadors — Healing the Music is a joint album of a German jazz ensemble with an African singer who sings songs in Swahili.
Known participants here are Hayden Chisholm (avant-garde clarinetist) and Burnt Friedmann (cool electronic musician).”
Genres: World, Jazz
Tags: Unusual vocals
24 May, 2023
East of Oceans — Broken Seas EP
Not sure if there are many fans of this kind of music, but personally, I've listened this album to a frazzle over the past year and a half, so I have to share it.
It will appeal to jungle/DnB fans who know a thing or two about euphoric introverted music. Some tracks are heart-wrenching. Those who know about euphoria will appreciate it.
By the way, the performer is the same guy as bvdub — a very atmospheric and enveloping ambient made of a huge number of layers.
Genres: Jungle, Drum-n-bass
Tags: Atmospheric
22 May, 2023
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