POST playlist: a mix of new music for sleepless nights

For my semi-regular program POST for Refuge Worldwide this week, I focused on new releases. This highlighted Lebanon in particular and still didn’t cover the flurry of releases there, but it covered other places, too. It’s all recommended, so here’s the full playback and track listing with links.

Download a book on Dutch electronic music history, Philips and beyond, free

Kees Tazelaar’s On the Threshold of Beauty is a wonderful plunge into the history of electronic music in the Netherlands, 1925-1965, including the Philips Pavilion and the World’s Fair, but a whole lot more. It’s free to download now — the perfect beach book if you’re a total nerd. (Welcome home.)

Peter Kirn - July 3, 2026

Jordan Czamanski with his treasured Yamaha CS-30

Jordan GCZ, Mei Honeycomb, magic synths, and the jazz/techno divide

Timed with the release of Clairvoyant Dimensions, his new album with saxophonist Jeff Hollie, the JuJu & Jordash and Magic Mountain High mainstay talked at length about pressing record and jamming, the lesser-known synths behind the album’s shimmer, and the hilarious origin of the group’s name.

David Abravanel - June 30, 2026

Abadir’s The Primitivist is a high-energy rhythmic tour of Arabic sound

Peter Kirn - June 5, 2026

Kaximia on channeling aggression, soldering into survival; VCF giveaway

Kaximia - June 1, 2026

Let’s all watch Piaman cover songs with a joystick and voice synthesis

Peter Kirn - May 25, 2026

Maggi Payne, photographing crystals, composing for Moog modular III, more

Peter Kirn - May 17, 2026

Disquiet’s Junto is community music making — now in its 750th edition

Peter Kirn - May 15, 2026

In the sound of Wukir Suryadi’s kentongan, a world warning

Peter Kirn - March 25, 2026