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Tracks from the cutting room floor for this week!

Welcome to 100 wreks: Origins, the series where each of the 100 wreks hosts will be discussing our hyperpop journeys and playing the music that got us into the scene! Tracklist: Kyoto - Glitch Gum Track 10 - Charli XCX Fade Away - Hannah Diamond 2021 (umru) - A. G. Cook Second hand embarrassment - underscores just like you - saoirse dream woodside gardens 16 december 2022 - Jane Remover calcium - ecco2k misplace - Jane Remover Toy Car - six impala Person (Angel Mix) - Petal Supply

This evening, we drew heavy inspiration from the WREK theme of “Songs you don’t hear on the radio”. But today, our segment featured songs that you don’t even hear on Indian radio. A lot of the songs we’ve played on this show have been underrated but specifically today, we are diving into some of our personal favorites that always leave us wondering, "Why isn't this popular???”  For both of us, the majority of the songs we picked today were actually pulled from our own playlists that we’ve had f

hey y'all! this week was full of bangers (+ a few chill songs to even it out 😌) - hope y'all enjoy!

It's pretentious week at Gold Soundz! films & literature & poems & INDIE MUSIC

Welcome to Continental Drift, folks! In this episode, we’re gonna foray into the Philippines! You can find the playlist here and listen to the episode here! The Republic of the Philippines is an island country in Southeast Asia. An archipelago comprising 7,641 islands, its capital is Manila, and with a population of 110 million, it is the 12th most populous country and 7th most populous country in Asia. The official languages are English and Filipino (which is the standardized version of a lang

Howdy folks, welcome to Continental Drift! Also happy new year! (ignore the fact that this post is almost a full month late) So lucky for the first day of the year to fall on a Monday, because I have quite the retrospective planned for this episode! See, you could say I'm making up for lost time; we're going to listen to one track that corresponds to each episode we did over the course of the fall 2023 semester, either songs I found for the episode they correspond to but had to cut for time, or

Howdy folks, welcome to Continental Drift! For this episode, I decided to do Angola because I am absolutely in love with the kinds of music there (also their flag is so cool! Have you seen it? It's amazing). The catch? This episode was written during winter break as I was getting ready to go visit family, and what's more, in the time I spent putting this episode together I couldn't find a wealth of good/consistent information about Angolan music, so I might not have as much to say about it as I'

Howdy folks, welcome to Continental Drift! This episode, we're gonna play with the format a little; instead of focusing on a single country, we're gonna look at a single theme that manifests differently in different countries. I'm talking, of course, about lutes! You can find the playlist here and listen to the episode here! A lute is any plucked string instrument that has a neck and strings that lie parallel to the sound board (which is what the strings resonate against). So guitars are a kind

Welcome to Continental Drift, folks! In this episode, we’re gonna drift to Nigeria! You can find the playlist here and listen to the episode here! The Federal Republic of Nigeria is a West African country bordered by Niger to the north, Chad to the northeast, Cameroon to the east, and Benin in the west, with its southern boundary formed by the Gulf of Guinea. Its capital is Abuja, and with a population of over 210 million people, it is the 6th most populous country and the most populous African