Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Two and a half hours of new Paul van Dyk! It's unsurprisingly a bit of an all-over-the-place mess, but it was still an all around consistently engaging fun time that was both more interesting to actually talk about than I expected and didn't feel its length nearly as much as I'd anticipated either.
Support me on Patreon: patreon.com/TheWonkyAngle
My new album "Real Life and Postcard Use" out now: 256pi.bandcamp.com/album/real-life-and-postcard-use
Listen: open.spotify.com/album/2EFAlkyeRPGo3pTHbldWd4
From Then On review: youtube.com/watch?v=O8QcDS9I43k
Music Rescues Me review: youtube.com/watch?v=JqcdfT4wOys
Guiding Light review: youtube.com/watch?v=CNGRBZwDvy8&t=201s
Favorite Tracks: Two Rivers, Take Me Away, This World Is Ours, Love Is Enough, Shed Your Light, Fragmentation, Against The Algorithm, Let Go And Listen (PvD's Fav Timeless Mix), Acid Traxxx, Beautiful Life (Shine Ibiza Anthem 2023), Venture X, Hawkins Square, Artefact, Alternative Sphere
Least Favorite Track: But Not Tonight
Overall Rating: 7.5/10
All ratings based purely off of personal enjoyment at the time of this video's upload and either end in .0, .3, .5, or .7. Take nothing I say too seriously.
Two and a half hours of new Paul van Dyk! It's unsurprisingly a bit of an all-over-the-place mess, but it was still an all around consistently engaging fun time that was both more interesting to actually talk about than I expected and didn't feel its length nearly as much as I'd anticipated either.
Support me on Patreon: patreon.com/TheWonkyAngle
My new album "Real Life and Postcard Use" out now: 256pi.bandcamp.com/album/real-life-and-postcard-use
Listen: open.spotify.com/album/2EFAlkyeRPGo3pTHbldWd4
From Then On review: youtube.com/watch?v=O8QcDS9I43k
Music Rescues Me review: youtube.com/watch?v=JqcdfT4wOys
Guiding Light review: youtube.com/watch?v=CNGRBZwDvy8&t=201s
Favorite Tracks: Two Rivers, Take Me Away, This World Is Ours, Love Is Enough, Shed Your Light, Fragmentation, Against The Algorithm, Let Go And Listen (PvD's Fav Timeless Mix), Acid Traxxx, Beautiful Life (Shine Ibiza Anthem 2023), Venture X, Hawkins Square, Artefact, Alternative Sphere
Least Favorite Track: But Not Tonight
Overall Rating: 7.5/10
All ratings based purely off of personal enjoyment at the time of this video's upload and either end in .0, .3, .5, or .7. Take nothing I say too seriously.
![Bent - Programmed To Love (Album Review) [TWA Anniversary Video]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dpteQhr7vTI/mqdefault.jpg "Bent - Programmed To Love (Album Review) [TWA Anniversary Video]
For the third video in my 10-year anniversary mini-series, Im starting up a new yearly tradition of reviewing one random album of my own choice, and I decided to go with one particular all-time favorite which has an anniversary of its own this year, talking about the 2000s downtempo duo Bent and their masterpiece debut (and all its frustrating alternate tracklistings).
Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheWonkyAngle
My new album Real Life and Postcard Use out now: https://256pi.bandcamp.com/album/real-life-and-postcard-use
Listen (US streaming version): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mL79jtFjJHzLmZjYA7aRO_llY0DeMJBQE
Up In The Air SSIM segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNGRBZwDvy8&t=1226s
More anniversary videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9VloxGOomL6jm3nsQ-2-WEPHU7-dk_Ub
A few of the missing tracks not on the US streaming version, if you need to find them:
A Ribbon For My Hair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF9e6bsPzUU
I Love My Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4ErxYI851E
Exercise 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw66ZPIlXy4
A New Wig For Me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTqYP2dof0w
Memories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM3qkPbf4lY
Beach Buggy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H_DStVcTqA
Favorite Tracks: Exercise 1, Private Road, I Love My Man, A Ribbon For My Hair, I Remember Johnny, Swollen, Exercise 2, Invisible Pedestrian, Memories, Always, Beach Buggy (and depending on the version, also A New Wig For Me and maybe Welly Top Mary could be here)
Least Favorite Track: Chocolate Wings (on the versions that dont include that track, then I guess Irritating Noises?)
Overall Rating: 8.5/10 for the version currently on streaming in the US, 9.0/10 for the original UK CD version, 9.3/10 for the US CD version, 9.5/10 for the European tracklisting
All ratings based purely off of personal enjoyment at the time of this videos upload and either end in .0, .3, .5, or .7. Take nothing I say too seriously.")
![DJ DanceAlone - Acceptance (Album Review) [Patreon Request]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fr29IHvfuC4/mqdefault.jpg "DJ DanceAlone - Acceptance (Album Review) [Patreon Request]
This small-time Memphis techno artist returns once again to deliver one of the most challenging, paranoid and out-there experimental techno/IDM albums Ive heard this year so far as a loose metaphor for the horror of living in America in 2025.
Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheWonkyAngle
My new album Real Life and Postcard Use out now: https://256pi.bandcamp.com/album/real-life-and-postcard-use
Listen: https://djdancealone.bandcamp.com/album/acceptance
More Patreon-requested reviews: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9VloxGOomL5ueXeqSgMqMaLTL8zC2BAz
Owl Theory review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLrzNvGXax0
Dakuan - Memphis Innovation review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd2bjc7uEfs
Favorite Tracks: White Out, Cyclic Dissonance, Magna, Pyramids, Teaching To The Converted, Technological Rejection, Blossoming Mountain, Existential Doubt, Drex, Dying In The Atlantic Ocean
Least Favorite Track: Demonic Saw
Overall Rating: 7.7/10 (update 2026: 8.0/10)
All ratings based purely off of personal enjoyment at the time of this videos upload and either end in .0, .3, .5, or .7. Take nothing I say too seriously.")
![Future Loop Foundation - Memories From A Fading Room (Review & Catalog In Brief) [TWA Anniversary]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iMrjZgjEtQ4/mqdefault.jpg "Future Loop Foundation - Memories From A Fading Room (Review & Catalog In Brief) [TWA Anniversary]
For the 11-year anniversary of this channel, Im talking about the strange story of UK downtempo producer Mark Barrott, and how a bizarre recommendation from a promotional flash game of all things ended up leading me to an obscure album which has since become one of my closest-held personal favorites of all time.
Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheWonkyAngle
Listen: https://futureloopfoundation.bandcamp.com/album/the-fading-room-memories-remixes
Listen (unofficial upload of original CD tracklisting): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp5VPWaW11ynkYHGMKRSNVp4murPJ5RTP
The old Submachine Future Loop Foundation tie-in: https://archive.org/details/submachine_flf
More anniversary videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9VloxGOomL6jm3nsQ-2-WEPHU7-dk_Ub
More Catalog In Brief: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9VloxGOomL6p96Hw0ZVQDVErltFJydSo
Favorite Tracks: Stereo 72, On The Village Radar, Everything Is As It Should Be, Homegrown Dynamic, This Is Where We Live, Sunshine Philosophy, Eagle Eyed, The Sea And The Sky
Least Favorite Track: idk, I guess Garden Communities? I still like that one tho
Overall Rating: 9.5/10
All ratings based purely off of personal enjoyment at the time of this videos upload and either end in .0, .3, .5, or .7. Take nothing I say too seriously.")
