BEST OF 2024 featuring THE BUG, DJRUM, DRUMSKULL, CHATEAU FLIGHT, FCUKERS, FLOATING POINTS, GLASS BEAMS, JOHNNY FROM SPACE, PIEZO, SAM LINK, SISTER ZO + SAM BINGA, SKEE MASK, THREE HANDS OF DOOM, TSHA + many more on this extended ABSTRACT SCIENCE year-in-review podcast. Co-hosts CHRIS WIDMAN, BILL BEARDEN aka WHOA-B, JOSHUA P FERGUSON + HENRY SELF mix 4 hours of future music favorites from 2024. [aired 05 + 12 December 2024 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM]

>CHRIS WIDMAN
Stenny “Hazy Grove” (Maha, Ilian Tape, 2024)
Monolake “Global Transport” (Studio, Imbalance Computer Music, 2024)
Skee Mask “Stomp” (ISS010, Ilian Tape, 2024)
Sam Link “Mae” (Stone Wheel EP, Satellite Trax, 2024)
Machinedrum “Capone” (RISE, Ninja Tune, 2024)
Om Unit & James Bangura “Ruffneck” (Rushing 1621, Local Action, 2024)
West Norwood Cassette Library “Jump Up (Get Beat Down) (Rawtrachs Remix)” (WNCL Recordings, 2024)
Joy Orbison “flight fm” (Toss Portal, 2024)
The Bug “Bodied (Send For the Hearse)” (Machine, Relapse, 2024)
Three Hands of Doom Ring “Dirt” (Three Hands of Doom, Nyege Nyege Tapes, 2024)
Struction “Flip” (Basis, Ilian Tape, 2024)
gyrofield “Cold Cases” (These Heavens, XL, 2024)
Samurai Breaks & Napes “Wavelord Bizniz” (Wavelord Bizniz EP, Hooversound, 2024)
Objekt “Ganzfeld” (Djrum Remix – short edit) (Kapsela, 2024)
Plaid “Unions” (VINT, Lapsus Records, 2024)

>BILL BEARDEN aka WHOA-B
Ivy Lab "Look Away" (Sneaker Social Club, 2024)
Liquid DnB-like Ambient Grime "02 Garage Mix" (Sneaker Social Club, 2024)
Omagoqa & General C’mamane "Indumezulu" (The Other Side, 2024)
Piezo "Thoughts, Heavy" (Foodman Remix, Ansia, 2024)
Chimpo "Slime Climb" (Pineapple Records, 2024)
Danny Scrilla "I Gotta" (Perfect Records, 2024)
Two Shell "Everybody Worldwide" (Y̴͍̐o̴̱͋u̶̬͒n̴̹͘g̴̩͆ , 2024)
DJ Swisha & OSSX "Smooth Landing" (Not On Label, 2024)
Gemi "Faster" (Time Is Now, 2024)
Bored Lord "Vernal" (Not On Label, 2024)
DJ Beverage "Ride" (Diamonds Take Time, 2024)
Coido "Wedge" (Twenty Twenty, 2024)
Sister Zo & Sam Binga "Chop Dat" (Amy Kisnorbo & Sam Binga Remix, Pineapple Records, 2024)
The Glitch Mob "L-EV8" (Twenty Twenty, 2024)
Drumskull "Scrolling Shooter" (Hooversound Recordings, 2024)
Kinoteki "BB-Heart+Soul" (Tabula Rasa, 2024)
Carlos Corté$ "Oasis" (Broken Lip Remix, BSN Posse, 2024)

>JOSHUA P FERGUSON
Fergus Jones “It Should Be (Free)” (Ephemera, Numbers, 2024)
Total Blue “Chaparral” (Total Blue, Music from Memory, 2024)
Gi Gi “Dreamliner” (Dreamliner, Quiet Time Tapes, 2024)
Chateau Flight “Clair de Lune a Mykonos” (La Folie Studio, Versatile, 2024)
Jonny from Space “Level Skip” (Back Then I Didn’t But Now I Do, Incienso, 2024)
Priori “To See Our Secret Die” (This But More, NAFF, 2024)
Fields of Mist “Orbital Mist” (Biospore Farmers, Ilian Tapes, 2024)
Jichael Mackson “Good Morning Sunshine” (Wait for It, Ilian Tapes, 2024)
Jahari Massamba Unit “Rubato Love” (YHWH is LOVE, Law of Rhythm, 2024)
Glass Beams “Black Sand” (Mahal, Ninja Tune, 2024)
Tristan Arp “invisible cities” (a pool, a portal, Wisdom Teeth, 2024)
Donato Dozzy “Lucrezia” (Magda, Spazio Diponible, 2024)
Jamie xx “Falling Together” (In Waves, Young, 2024)

>HENRY SELF
John Glacier “Emotions” (Like a Ribbon, Young, 2024)
Four Tet “Loved” (Three, Text, 2024)
Mount Kimbie feat. King Krule “Empty and Silent”(The Sunset Violent, Warp, 2024)
Caribou “Honey” (Honey, Merge, 2024)
Elkka “Make Me” (Prism of Pleasure, Ninja Tune, 2024)
Floating Points “Key103” (Cascade, Ninja Tune, 2024)
Peggy Gou “Find the Way” (Gudu, 2024)
Fcukers “Tommy” (Baggy$$ EP, Technicolour, 2024)
Âme, Curses “Shadow of Love” (Innervisions, 2024)
TSHA feat. Caroline Byrne “Sweet Devotion” (Sad Girl, Ninja Tune, 2024)
Vegyn “Makeshift Tourniquet” (The Road to Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions, PLZ Make It Ruins, 2024)
Kim Gordon “Psychedelic Orgasm” (The Collective, Matador, 2024)
Mk.gee “Rylee & I” (Two Star & the Dream Police, R&R, 2024)
Nala Sinephro “Continuum 7” (Endlessness, Warp, 2024)


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