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February 20, 2025

Brett’s Sound Picks: Anouar Brahem’s “After the Last Sky” (2025)

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January 24, 2025

Brett’s Sound Picks: Astrid Sonne’s “Light and heavy (HVAD EDIT)” (2025)

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January 16, 2025

Brett’s Sound Picks: Julius Asal Plays Debussy, “Preludes, Book 1, CD 125: VI. Des pas sur la neige” (2024)

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December 13, 2024

Brett’s Sound Picks: Merely and Malibu’s “E22” (2024)

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December 6, 2024

Brett’s Sound Picks: Nicolas Jaar’s “F Collect” (2024)

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November 28, 2024

Brett’s Sound Picks: r beny’s “braid into chorus” (2024)

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November 5, 2024

Notes On Music and Joy

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October 31, 2024

When The First Nine Minutes Set Up The Last Three: Felicia Atkinson’s “Thinking Iceberg” (2024)

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October 1, 2024

Brett’s Sound Picks: Paradise Cinema’s “Night Search” (2024)

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September 11, 2024

Brett’s Sound Picks: Nonkeen’s “of plasticity” (2024)

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Thomas Brett is a musician and writer who holds a PhD in ethnomusicology from New York University. He is the author of Principles of Electronic Music Production and The Creative Electronic Music Producer, a book described by Sound On Sound magazine as “a deep philosophical analysis of the various creative inspirations, ideas and processes involved in producing electronic music.” His essays have appeared in the journals Popular Music and Popular Music and Society, as well as edited collections by Routledge, Oxford, and Cambridge University presses. Thomas has played percussion on Broadway since 1997 and writes about music at brettworks.com.