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🇫🇷 sci fi til i die. game writer, ttrpg designer, cyclist, neurodivergent (ADHD/BP-III). he/they.
As 5 Million Worlds Press, I publish modules for Mothership RPG, The Lost Bay RPG, Cloud Empress, and my WIP space game 5MW RPG.
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27 - Band on the Run, Wings
Gotta get my grandad poprock in, haha. My fave Beatle brings only fun tunes here. Ok, he's corny, but maybe I am too. This album helped me break our of my Master's thesis.
"Stuck inside these four walls / Sent inside forever / Never seeing no one nice again / Like you."
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26 - Some Are Lakes, Land of Talk
This album brings me instantly back to the summer before I moved to France. The well of emotion Elizabeth Powell commands is powerful, and transporting.
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25 - All Is Violent, All Is Bright, God is An Astronaut.
Hard to pick a post-rock album, but I think this one is why I started my dive into the genre. And of course, it's because the band name is a sci-fi trope...
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24 - Drunk, Thundercat
Loads of talent on this record, and always a treat to listen to. To boot, this vinyl has one of the funniest packagings I own, and the 10" records are perfect to put on when I want a good reason to leave a conversation to keep the music going (look, I'm not super social, ok?)
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23 - Manga, Maya Andrade
Singing mostly in a Portugeuse-based Cape Verdean Creole, this album is my gear-shift. When I need to get out of my head, force myself to leave my work cave, and enjoy the real world, I start by putting this album in my ears and just fucking walking.
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22 - Every Bad, Porridge Radio
So I get super affected by sad music, it strongly affects my mood, so I try not to listen to much, but holy shit, this album is so savage, and what an opener, damn.
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21 - Goodbye Break, Ty Segall
Tough call for which Ty album to post, but my first wins out. "My Head Explodes" into "The Floor" also makes me into A CRAZY PERSON (I have a whole sf story outlined, inspired by these two songs). A concert highlight of my life was Ty Segall, but that's another story.
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20 - Malibu, Anderson .Paak
The opening and closing tracks to this are just perfect to my ears; I feel "The Dreamer" in my soul. Something about this album being about the hard work to do what you love appeals to me. Also, samples from "Without You" introduced me to Hiatus Kaiyote.
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19 - Midnite Vultures, Beck
Such a hilarious set of bangers, and idk, maybe I'm just weird, but it really doesn't sound like it was made in 1999 to me.
"I'm a full grown man but / I'm not afraid to cry-y-y-y-y-y-y, yeah."
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I adore Daft Punk, but the lion's share of my love stuck with Gorillaz. And they're still making rad music!
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It's just stupid how good it is when King Giz isn't even a metal band, haha.
"PERI-PERIHELION!"
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18 - Human Performance, Parquet Courts
Was a toss up between this and Wide Awake! (2018), but I don't skip any songs on this one. Got to see them at a tiny venue in Strasbourg Oct 2016. I even wrote a cryptic sf short story based on "One Man and No City" that was published in Unstamatic.
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17 - sweeps, departure
Lo-fi beats, lots of piano, retro sci-fi audio clips. Chill stuff. I'm a fan of this artist's whole discography, and have it on a lot while I'm working. Bonus shout out to city nights (2019).
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Funk was a huge influence on the creation of rap/hip-hop as a genre, itself stemming from 60s/70s Soul/R&B/Psychedelic Rock/Jazz Fusion.
Continue on your Parliament journey, and I guarantee you won't be disappointed. Mothership Connection, Funkentelechy, Up for the Down Stroke, all gooood stuff.
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16 - Discovery, Daft Punk
Nearly a quarter a century ago, Toonami aired a Midnight Run special edition of cartoon music videos. Knowing it'd have Gorillaz, my brother and recorded it on VHS, but we watched it over and over for those first four songs of Discovery.
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Awesome and fun group interview! More on Sentient Locations, please!
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yes!! was a very fun time
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I murdered my autocorrect, haha, def helps with the swearing!
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Ahh, yeah I've never had predictive text, so maybe that's the big one. I'm just an idiot about "I GET TO SAY WHAT I WRITE" with my tech
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Whoa, really? That surprises me. Filmmaker's 3?
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15 - INFEST THE RAT'S NEST, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
So, as i told @astrolich.bsky.social, my ma ingrained 80s/90s metal into my DNA (pulitzer when?). I really don't get it, but this album MMOLATES MY BRAIN. Also, maybe you'll see a Mothership adventure based on this soon?
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I turned it off on my phone. Is that not possible on all phones?
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I was sucked into the humanity of the novel, especially compared to the brothers' novel Hard to Be a God (still great!), which is an angle I feel Le Guin hit better.
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You joke, but Temple Grandin literally did this, hahaha
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Oooh, looking forward to it! If you need alpha readers, hmu!
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So excited you forgot how to spell. Luckily, the editor was around, 😘
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80s/90s metal is in my DNA (thanks, mom), and I am wondering... Have you listened to King Gizzard's INFEST THE RAT'S NEST?
I "quit" metal after 2004, but this album still makes me absolutely crazy for reasons I don't fully understand (though part of it is sci-fi metal concept album).
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Killing it Diogo! I broke my streak last week (while on vacation), but still managed to get a few ideas down. Keep on inspiring, 🤘
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14 - The Lonesome Crowded West, Modest Mouse
Sometimes, you need good guitar and weird words while you're alone in California with barely an idea why you're there (because mania), and are about to leave your country permanently (though you didn't know that at the time). Then, you do the cockroach.
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13 - Love Deluxe, Sade
Ok, look, I'm a Sade novice, I'll admit, but I probably listened to this album for a month straight at a time in my life that I really needed it, OK? Sometimes that's what happens in life. I'm sure everyone reading this has an example too.
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12 - Wet Leg, Wet Leg
But let's talk about new shit. This album is fucking killer. Come at me if you want (because music rec, yes please), but British women do feminist rock better than Americans. And their new album drops in less than a week. I saw them live in 2022, and THE HYPE IS REAL.
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11 - In the Court of the Crimson King, King Crimson
While we're in the 60s (if you can believe it listening to this album), gotta shout out "21st Century Schizoid Man" through to "The Court of the Crimson King."
Bonus: I think it's fucking hilarious that their drummer recorded "Cold As Ice" too.
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10 - Axis: Bold as Love, Jimi Hendrix
Put the guitars away (don't, but), Hendrix will always be the greatest. Technical skill cannot surmount the soul and blood and spaceships of Hendrix's talent. This was my first Hendrix, at 18, probs not the "best" but I still love it.
BE BOLD AS LOVE.
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9 - Audit in Progress, Hot Snakes
When I need to FUCKING GO, I put this album on. "Kreative Kontrol" is my goddamn anthem.
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8 - Demon Days, Gorillaz
My entrance to uni album. "Feel Good, Inc" is probably one of the weaker tracks on this album, if that means anything to you. Sadly, the climate change themes to this album hit harder today as they did in 2005. But the outro lives on the hope that we can do better.
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Parliament + Funkadelic (P-Funk) is the foundation of hip-hop. You probably know plenty of P-Funk, and lemme tell ya, the "B-sides" do not disappoint.
The finale to "Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts" changed my life in my fight against my bad brain chemistry.
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7 - Fear of Music, Talking Heads
David Byrne at his most UNHINGED, and I am 100% fucking there for it. I want to get up on a stage and give 110% of myself barking, "You know animals are hairy? They're living on nuts and berries / They want to know what's best, they're making a fool of us."
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6 - Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City, Kendrick Lamar
This is, in my humble opinion, the best rap album ever. But caveat: I'm a sucker for modal storytelling and Bildungsromans. Also, "I pray my dick get big as the Eiffel Tower / So I can fuck the world for 72 hour" is such a fucking hilariously 16 yo bar.
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5 - Ah Um, Charles Mingus
This is probably my favorite jazz album (as a plebe who only knows how to play one thing: The Radio).
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4 - The Epic, Kamasi Washington
I like a big epic voyage across a whole album, and Kamasi Washington delivers BIG on this one with three full length LPs. I later learned this was intended as a story about a Black samurai, but in my head, I was in outer space (I mean, just look at the cover).
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3 - One Size Fits All, Frank Zappa
Uh oh, the opener to "Inca Roads" is about alien spaceships. I'm really predictable, ain't I? Some of the best Ruth Underwood playing is on this album, too, damn she is amazing.
Though I'm half-convinced The Nose (of P-Funk fame) is a dig at Frank Zappa.
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2 - The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein, Parliament
Is it a surprise that a guy who wrote an adventure module called Bio-Drones & Cryo-Clones likes this album?
"Getten' to Know You" is one of my all time fave songs.
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In no particular order:
1 - The Electric Lady, Janelle Monáe
I got caught by Monáe when Tightrope hit, and was immediately sucked into the Metropolis Suites, The Chase, ArchAndroid, and The Electric Lady is Q.U.E.E.N.
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I own Stalker but can't get its old ass to work on my PC, ðŸ˜
(I'm also an idiot, so it may be easier than I'm making it out to be)