2025 music recap

i mostly spent this year on my phone's local music player when it came to listening to music. to my surprise, the samsung music player is pretty decent! early 2025, the spotify hack that i was using suddenly just stopped working though i still use spotify on my pc on my browser with an ad blocker LOL, Harmony Music did the job pretty well for streaming songs on my phone but late 2025 they announced that the people behind it will no longer give it support. AND SO this year was when i fully commited to the bit of downloading albums and EPs. my library grew quite a bit. as a consequence i am now more of a album listener than a playlist one. crazy.

my car has no aux, no bluetooth so i just tune into whatever the radio is playing when i'm on the go. i also have a radio playing constantly in my living room just to catch local news and stuff. i feel like i listened to the radio WAY more this year than 2024. and that is probably because in 2025 i discovered my uni's radio station radio universidad. i have been fighting for my LIFE trying to find radio stations that are listenable to me. during 2025 i found out about this radio station and i was just amazed at the variety of programs they have. it reminds me a lot of when an online friend of mine hosted a vocaloid program on their university's radio station. maybe one day radio universidad will have that... but sadly i don't think it's opened for students. either way, this radio station has been a highlight of my year even if i didn't exactly ended up searching for songs i've heard through here. actually that's a lie i did search a nokia ringtone orquestra rendition i heard on a random tuesday at 10pm but i couldn't find it. goated as hell. the many times their jazz program has accompanied me during lonely car rides at 1am is just insane.

in terms of music taste, i think i have stayed pretty much the same as 2024. every year i've been finding myself listening to less and less kpop. i think i'm just a bit burnt out by it though there really is some gems to be discovered in that genre of idol music. i will one day remake my playlist page so i can show this to the world. but for now i am just a bit tired of kpop. the biggest jump i did from my usual listening session was probably getting into jane remover because of my girlfriend. other than that, i enjoyed a lot of the same stuff that i tend to enjoy.

as always, i wished i had listened to more music but hey! at least there is always next time.

favorite songs

click on them for a bit of my thoughts on them!

cameo love - tripleS

tripleS always has that drum n bass locked the fuck in in that studio it's kind of crazy. i really enjoyed this one from them, lovely voices too.

baile inolvidable - bad bunny

i find it very funny that the only listening log of 2025 is... bad bunny's debi tirar mas fotos. but anyway, this song really just mezmerized me from first listen. ESPECIALLY the intro i love the intro so much with those female background vocals and it makes me so MAD when i hear the radio edit of this song because it just straight up skips the intro and goes straight into the song and *EXPLODES*

ruder buster - toby fox

yall believe me when i say i cried when i got to 1:06 right... and i still get so emotional listening to it and thinking about how far toby fox has come.... wow.

camel8strike - asian glow

MY FAVORITEEEEE from asian glow's 11100011 (which you will see in a bit...) really fuck with the drums and vocal samples here.

diablo - tripleS

an insanely catchy song. also i just love this fucking beat so much.

wrong number - the deep

this single song is very much responsible for every minute i've spent listening to songs i used to listen to 10 years ago for the past month.

dkbk - TAK

when i saw that TAK stopped producing kpop songs i got really scared because i thought this meant that he was going to stright up just stop producing. to my luck, this was basically the best thing that happened to me. because it meant i wa free from kpop and now my favorite kpop producer is doing VOCALOID! this was honestly such a happy ending to me... though this song isn't vocaloid. and yet it is my favorite one that he released this year

bird's eye view ft. 예람 - KIRARA

a very lovely song by a korean producer that i've kept up to date with all these years.

love lightside - 2 mello

my love for breakbeats and drum n bass has not died down at all this year.

i choose you - f5ve

this fucking heavenly pre-chorus I HAVE NOT heard a pre-chorus this good in a while. this is so real. also i love the color palette of the music video.

icarus - ARTMS

i was actually gonna put goddess because i reallyyy do love that song as well and i also think the whole EP should have had the vibes and sound goddess has BUT icarus is just so breathtakingly beautiful. and don't get me started on the full music video. massive props to digipedi for that music video good lord.

experimental skin - jane remover

my favorite one from jane remover's revengeseekerz. the drop at 3:50 feels SOOOOOOO good. i feel like this type of music might be like an acquired taste. not something i would listen to all the time but it does hit.

past - kensuke ushio

the chainsaw man reze arc ost had so many bangers, this song makes me Feel the most out of all of them. reminds me a lot of silent hill songs. it's so dark in the begin and yet so delicate as the song continues... and i find it SO AWESOME that the song that i like the most is the one that plays when makima talks to aki about manipulating angel devil oh man... oh man.

evangelic girl is a gun - yeule

my favorite from their latest album. which i did enjoy quite a bit but i didnt end up listening to it that much throughout the year. this song was made for the club.

magic i want you - jane remover

lovely lovely. it is just so groovy. i kinda fuck heavy with the sounds that this EP, ♡, has though i don't like it really that much as a whole to listen to it constantly. dream sequence is very awesome as well.

favorite albums and EPs

asian glow's 11100011

an album that stayed with me for a while. i really liked how raw this felt with songs like the worst way to start an end and yet at times it would sound so sweet with songs like jitnunkebi. i adore this album very much and i am pretty sure this was the only thing i listed to from jan 2025 - sep 2025.

fav songs: camel8strike, jitnunkebi

the deep's kpop b!tch

this might have been the only kpop album that i tuned in into for 2025 and you know what? i am okay with that because this turned out to be such a bangerrrr.

the sounds that are in these songs are straight out from the 2010's electropop music and oh my god do i miss this kind of music blasting in my ears. i think i even started making a playlist of old songs i used to listen to in middle school because of this album. there's just so much fun to have here!

fav songs: wrong number, lucky star, EDM

kensuke ushio's chainsaw man the movie: reze arc - summer's end

an amazing soundtrack for an amazing movie. going into this movie i did not expect at all to be blown away by the music BUT I DID IN FACT GET BLOWN AWAY! first of all, the sound design of this movie was simply amazing. even listening to the OST digitally doesn't exactly do it justice compared to how the song are mixed in the movie. but nonetheless, in the pool has to be the prettiest piece of music that i've heard in a while. is so tragic and sweet. when i heard the music glitch out in the theater with sweet danger and later the breakbeats mixed with the strings in dance with chainsaw i was just flabbergasted. this movie was such a treat.

fav songs: past, in the pool, in the sea, dance with chainsaw

favorite finds

for non-2025 releases that i discovered.

energetic - wanna one

loona's hyunjin uploaded a dance practice of loona to this song and since that day i have not known peace. you watch the music video for this and the color grading is SOOO 2017 it's ridiculous. thank god i did not hear this back then because i might have gotten a little bit insane.

三日月ステップ - r-906

a project sekai find. also this music video is kinda... 🌈

水死体は恋したい - LonePi

discovered through a friend's vocaloid radio program: miku music. THANK YOUUUU miku music [1]

apricot - iyowa

thank you miku music [2]. this one is just kinda crazy with it.

wendy - uki3

thank you miku music [3] AND HERE is where it begins. i think of all songs discovered through miku music this song was my favorite. it is so catchy and it makes me wanna get up and dance every time i listen to it.

uki3's troy

i got so obsessed with the previous song that i started listening to the entire album one day and MANNNN. it's all so catchy and interesting. some lovely electronic vocaloid songs. the opening song with the MLK SAMPLE caught me very off guard and it's probably the 3rd times that i've heard MLK get sampled in a vocaloid song. okay... either way the album still bangs and i wanted to more into this producer.

fav songs: wendy, dancer in the dark, kyakusyoku

balloon & ewe's facsimile

i find the concept of this album so fucking endearing. it's a collab album between two producers: balloon (who's album corridor i've covered on my listening log back in 2023) AND our beloved uki3 but this time it is under another name of his: ewe. it's basically an album where these two producers re-arrange each other's songs with two new songs from each of them right in the middle of it all. i just love each of the re-arrangements and just how well they fit with one another. i am especially surprised with balloon's re-arrangement of uki3's taikou train in which now it has more of a rock sound to it with the vocaloid being flower this time around and MY GODDDD is this one of the best things i've heard this year. is so packed with energy. which i think got me to eventually listen to the original song. and that original song came from an EP...

fav songs: taikou train arranged balloon, ame to petra arranged uki3, lupus

uki3/ewe's error EP

AND THIS EP RIGHT HERE was basically the Thing that made me emotionally stable by the end of 2025. i cannot express how beautiful i find this EP. the opening song, error is just magical to me and it makes me feel like i am being teleported into the soundscape of this release. the keyboard sounds at the start with the clicks, there's just something about that that makes me feel so calm. it is pretty much alike to troy but there is still something about it that i just like so much. blood and fish ended up being a song i really liked from here alongside the awesome arazome train. i think this EP just makes me feel a it more emotional, where compared to troy it just makes wanna dance around.

this made me search more even MORE of his music and i ended up listening to his non-vocaloid music under yoh kamiyama.

fav songs: error, arazome train, blood and fish, resume

yoh kamiyama's closet

i can say this def has a different vibe compared to his vocaloid releases but it still keeps a pretty similar sound to what i've grown to love from him. it's like a bit more developed and with a more rock sound intead of heavily electronic. regarless, in this album he shows both sides of this. there's this interlude in the middle of the album called O (until death) YOU that i find so charming. it feels like something taken from the error EP i think it's really sweet seeing vocaloid producers grow so big to the point they start releasing music where they are the ones singing too besides producing the music. and i really do like his voice though it's nothing i haven't heard before. yoh kamiyama really is an amazing producer to me. i've had so much fun with his music and i hope releases more stuff in the future.

fav songs: yellow - CLOSET version -, O (until death) YOU, laundry, seventeen, irokousui, gunjo

other

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