The End of the Month Playlist For September 2026
September 29, 2026
Our Monthly Playlist selection of choice music from the last month. Curated by Dominic Valvona & Matt Oliver.
Choice music and sonics from the last month (or so) picked from our reviews, but also featuring the tunes we missed out on or didn’t get the room to feature at the time.
Curated by Dominic Valvona with choice hip-hop cuts selected by Matt Oliver and some tunes lifted from reviews by Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea. Includes entries from the Ukraine to Turkey to Somalia, the Americas and Europe. This month’s courtesy of featured artist Juga-Naut.
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The Track List For September 2026:
Dragonflies ‘Slower’
megiapa ’11.11’
Your Old Droog & Evidence ‘Brighton Beach’
Pastense ‘Colors in the Puddles’
Al-Khemetic, Sa-Roc & Dezarie ‘Power Bars’
Regina Collage ‘First New Place’
Crystal Eyes ‘Pretending To Be People’
American Motors ‘no horses’
Devon Church ‘Vast As Space’
Boycalledcrow ‘mantis man’
Baba Zula ‘Kutsal Zeytin Halayi’
Juga-Naut ‘Never Nothing’
Che Noir & The Uce ‘Urban Essence’
Jam Baxter ‘Whole Sky’
Dur-Dur Band ‘Adigaa I Dhalanrogey (You’ve Changed Me)’
The Male Pattern ‘Charlie (The Robbery)’
The Bordellos ‘Oh Nora’
Greg Freeman ‘Cahokia’
Party Dozen ‘Euro Stomper’
White Ring ‘CATATONIC’
Blu & Sndtrak ‘LA’
Michael Christmas, Chris Crack & Girl Talk ‘Garfield Hated Mondays But Didn’t Have A Job’
Blockhead, Proleter & Arms and Sleepers ‘Garbage Time’
Datkid, Illinformed & Dumb Logic ‘Narcotic Athletics’
Dollar Brand, Don Cherry & Carlos Ward ‘Bra Joe From Kilimanjaro’
Hieroglyphics, Casual, Opio, Phesto, Pep Love & Del The Funky Homosapien ‘Hard Numbers’
Curly Castro, shemar, Blackchai, Sunmundi ‘New Mutants’
Super Scintillant ‘Phase IV’
Xqui & Pyramids of Phobos ‘Progressive Modernism – Strings Version’
Mike Gale ‘Our Place’
Jon Tye, Amine Mesnaoui & Cubenx ‘Morning Glow’
For The Curious and Those Wishing To Catch Up On The Last Month’s Posts, Here’s The Links:
Perusal #83 – Super Scintillant, Érick d’Orion’s ‘Mes fantômes’, The Bordellos, Devon Church, Dragonflies, Leenalchi, megiapa, Stylianos Ou
Our Daily Bread 661 – Fran Ashcroft, bigflower, Cut Chord, The Free Four, Herb DiamantE, The Male Pattern, Minot, Neon Kittens, Spygenuis
The End of the Month Playlist Revue for May 2026
May 29, 2026
Our Monthly Playlist selection of choice music from the last month. Picked by Dominic Valvona, Matt Oliver & Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea.
The Track list is as follows:
Sub Hop Collective ‘Hundred and One’
Konono No1 ‘Volta’
Sunk Giants ‘Radio Problems’
Party Dozen ‘Special Unit’
Occult Character ‘Anti-Human Hate Machine’
Spirit Level ‘Forest Lagoon’
Khalab & Baba Sissoko ‘Denifurla’
Dumama ‘No Abiding City’
Cocanha ‘Forabanda’
Stik Figa & Heather Grey ‘All Is Fair’
The Allergies ‘Dig It Up’
7X3=21 & Pruven Ft. Masai Bey & Fred Ones ‘Woven Fabric’
Black Milk ‘Crash Test Dummy’
Meiko Kaji ‘Tokyo Nagare Mono’
Farma G & Relense ‘The Circus’
Juga-Naut ‘Scratch The Surface’
Whait/More Eaze/Wendy Eisenberg ‘Suffer Less’
Yazz Ahmed ‘A Moment To Be Free’
J Scienide ‘Stay Tuned’
Von Pea ‘The Goof’
Termanology/Royal Flush/Dru Hoffa ‘Angel Whispers’
Vic Spencer/BlaQ Chidori/J Wade/Aakeem Eshu/Lil Kydd ‘The Becomers’
A-F-R-O ‘The Hangman’
The Bordellos ‘Hop To It Bunny Girl’
Thomas Dollbaum ‘Pulverize’
Kyivite ‘test cylinder’
Neuro…No Neuro ‘Doubting’
Arab Strap ‘You You You’
Opus Kink ‘The Sweet Goodbye’
Double Francoise ‘Allumer’
The Legendary Ten Seconds ‘A Universe That Has No End’
Upupayama ‘Mystic Chords of Memory’
Lunar Bird ‘Sinderesi’
SUO ‘Lightening Strikes’
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The Monthly Playlist For June 2024
June 28, 2024
CHOICE TRACKS FROM THE LAST MONTH, CHOSEN BY DOMINIC VALVONA/MATT OLIVER/BRIAN ‘BORDELLO’ SHEA
That was the month that was: June 2024. Representing the last 30 days’ worth of reviews and recommendations on the Monolith Cocktail, the Monthly Playlist is our chance to take stock and pause as we remind our readers and followers of all the great music we’ve shared – with some choice tracks we didn’t get room or time to feature but added anyway. Thanks to Dominic Valvona for curating, and for choices from Matt ‘Rap Control’ Oliver and Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea.
Homeboy Sandman ‘Win Win’
Pastense & Uncommon Nasa ‘The Ills’
Party Dozen ‘Wake In Might’
The Lazy Jesus ‘Smok’
Sis ‘Mother’s Grace’
Yea-Ming And The Rumours ‘Ruby’
Neutrals ‘The Iron That Never Swung’
Hungrytown ‘Another Year’
Herald ‘Hydrogen Tide’
PAV4N, Sonnyjim, Kartik, M.O.N.G.O., Pataka Boys ‘Bappi Lahiri’
Sans Soucis ‘If I Let A White Man Cut My Hair’
Fat Francis ‘BCMW’
The Bordellos ‘Tastes Like Summer’
Swiftumz ‘Fall Apart’
SCHOOL ‘N.S.M.L.Y.D’
E.L. Heath ‘Cambrian’
Beak> ‘The Seal’
Jennifer Touch ‘Shiver (Robert Johnson)’
Ocelot ‘Sun Silmillia’
L’etrangleuse ‘Les Pins’
QOA ‘LIPPIA ALBA’
Mark Trecka ‘Spirit Moves In An Arc’
Cas One ‘No Deer Hunter’
Bill Shakes ‘Don’t Be A Menace To Blackburn While Drinking White Lightning On A Council Estate’
Guilty Simpson, The Alchemist & Kong The Artisan ‘Giants Of The Fall’
Depf & JClean ‘Wasted’
Ivan The Tolerable ‘Cedars’
Charlie Kohlhase’s Explorers Club ‘Tetraktys’
Staple Jr. Singers ‘Walk Around Heaven’
Head Shoppe ‘Parque De Chapultepec’
The Nausea ‘Nil Inultum Remanebit’
Saccata Quartet ‘Oh OK’
Simon McCorry & Wodwo ‘By Spores’
Neuro…No Neuro ‘Story Time’
Cumsleg Borenail ‘Todays Facade For New Environment’
Joey Valence & Brae Ft. Danny Brown ‘PACKAPUNCH’
NightjaR Ft. Pruven, Vast Aire & Burgundy Blood ‘Piano Heights’
Your Old Droog ‘Roll Out’
Conway The Machine, Method Man, SK Da King & Flee Lord ‘Meth Back!’
