VØID CONTEMPLATION TACTICS

Exiting The Stream: Spotify

Even if unwholesome action fills worlds upon worlds, and swallows up all things, opting-out is emancipation

Dec 10

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November 2025

ID Music: Let's Not Have Hope

The sound of the heart's luminous emotional capacities, shattered by great, perhaps unbearable suffering

Nov 2 • Daniel Chamberlin

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October 2025

Someday Your Body Will Disappear

Air-gapped archives, hippy-dippy digi-dub, disappearing bodies, and music for after the end of the world

Oct 3 • Daniel Chamberlin

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September 2025

Stop Making Sense

Welcoming new subscribers with a post-world music supersession, plus Joko Beck's crossover thrash dharma

Sep 3 • Daniel Chamberlin

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July 2025

ID Music Live from Taos Mesa

A newsletter-exclusive basketball supersession, plus our debut on the Northern New Mexico airwaves

Jul 9 • Daniel Chamberlin

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June 2025

There's Always This Moment II

Midwest myths, G N' R Lies, and a few ignoble basketball truths

Jun 21 • Daniel Chamberlin

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There's Always This Moment I

Talking and not talking about basketball, Zen center life, barber shops, and reggae

Jun 16 • Daniel Chamberlin

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May 2025

ID Music: Astra Taylor

Non-self improvement and doing less in the age of insecurity

May 5 • Daniel Chamberlin

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April 2025

ID Music: Joko Beck x David Graeber II

There’s nothing else in the universe but this, and other Zen remedies for capitalist hexes

Apr 1 • Daniel Chamberlin

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February 2025

ID Music: Joko Beck x David Graeber I

Anarchist dharma vs capitalist spirituality, pastoral ID Music updates, and other cold comforts

Feb 28 • Daniel Chamberlin

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Midwinter 2025 Void Contemplations

Cat videos, parapolitical podcasts, vintage heavy mellow mixes, and other cold comforts.

Feb 8 • Daniel Chamberlin

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January 2025

365 Days of Inter-Dimensional Music

Wrapping up the year in righteous jammage with a focus on fresh, relatively underexposed sounds

Jan 15 • Daniel Chamberlin

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