BEST OF 2025 featuring BAMBINODJ, BARKER, BIOSPHERE, BROKEN LIP, DAN CURTIN, DANIEL AVERY, DJ POLO, DJRUM, IMPÉRIEUX, KINOTEKI + DJ FLP, MARIE DAVISON, NICK LEÓN + JOHNNY FROM SPACE, PAUL ST. HILAIRE, PURELINK, TORTOISE, WEVAL + 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 2025. [aired 04 + 11 December 2025 on WLUW-Chicago 88.7FM]
>CHRIS WIDMAN
Lapalux “Bias Angel” (On The Grid, LPLX, 2025)
Coen “Headbanger” (Moshpit, Maloca, 2025)
Verraco “Basic Maneuvers” (XL Records, 2025)
Dan Curtin “Trust Blind” (The 4 Lights, De:tuned, 2025)
Surgeon “Soul Fire” (Shell~Wave, Tresor, 2025)
Fjaak +J.Manuel “Binder” (Tectonic Sound, Tectonic, 2025)
Weval “Dopamine (DJ Edit)” (Ninja Tune, 2025)
Dean Grenier “View Source” (Hand Works Music, 2025
Impérieux “Fena” (Hessle Music, 2025)
Barker “Stochastic Drift (Stochastic Drift, Smalltown Supersound, 2025)
jonathan d. valdez “Music Frozen Dancing” (Perception, 2025)
Deft + Manni Dee “Busy Bee” (Swamp Season, Hooversound, 2025)
Batu “Clump” (Question Mark, Lethal Press, 2025)
Undulae “Temple Of Symmetry” (Temple Of Symmetry EP, Satellite Era, 2025)
Slikback “Data” (Tempa, 2025)
easygoingtech “909local” (easygoingtech, 2026)
>BILL BEARDEN
Kinoteki & DJ FLP “160 Proof” (Limiting Factor, 2025)
AJ Tracey & Jorja Smith “Crush” (Casement Remix, Not On Label, 2025)
Proc Fiskal “UK Torrent” (Shleekit Doss, 2025)
Freedjom “13-8=0_0” (DJ Strawberry’s Düğün Fix, Beat Machine, 2025)
Nectax “Soundboy Gambit” (Over/Shadow, 2025)
Sully “The Wash” (Fabriclive, 2025)
Broken Lip “Neighbourhood” (pt.1+2, Iberian Juke, 2025)
Cesco “Flump” (Pineapple Records, 2025)
JD Reid & Hagan “Leaf” (Baby Gravy, 2025)
TMSV “Dimensional” (Perfect Records, 2025)
Darama & Kush Arora “Rattle” (Not On Label, 2025)
bambinodj “Carrier” (OST, 2025)
DJ Polo “Currents” (Night Slugs, 2025)
Anecho “Spiritual Blitz” (Dimeshift, 2025)
Low End Activist “Wave 03” (Best Intentions, 2025)
L-VIS 1990 “Low Pulse” (Club Djembe, 2025)
>JOSHUA P FERGUSON
Bitchin Bajas “Skylarking” (Inland See, Drag City, 2025)
Damon Locks “Hold the Dawn in Place (Beyond pt 2)” (List of Demands, International Anthem, 2025)
Stone “Feely” (Dream Curtain Eternally Gentle, 3XL, 2025)
Headache “Most Undo Tomorrow” (Thank You for Almost Everything, PLZ Make It Ruins, 2025)
Stereolab “Immortal Hands” (Instant Holograms on Metal Film, Warp)
Space Dimension Controller “Reflect Itself” (Six Beginnings, Test Pressing, 2025)
Coatshek “Triple Virgo” (Sound Bath, Dark Entries, 2025)
Sam Prekop “Font” (Open Close, Thrill Jockey, 2025)
Biosphere “Like the End of the World” (The Way of Time, AD 93, 2025)
Paul St Hilaire “Mary Jane Greenfield” (w/ The Producers, Kynant, 2025)
Tortoise “Works and Days” (Touch, International Anthem, 2025)
Djrum “Waxcap” (Under Tangled Silence, Houndstooh, 2025)
james K “Hypersoft Lovejinx Junkdream” (Friend, AD 93, 2025)
Sven Wunder “Misty Shore” (Daybreak, Piano Piano, 2025)
>HENRY SELF
Dijon “my man” (Baby, R&R/Warner, 2025)
Oklou “Blade Bird” (Choke Enough, True Panther, 2025)
Oneohtrix Point Never “D.I.S.” (Tranquilizer, Warp, 2025)
John Glacier “Emotions” (Like a Ribbon, Young, 2025)
Daniel Avery “Tremor” (Tremor, Domino, 2025)
caroline “Beautiful Ending” (caroline 2, Rough Trade, 2025)
FKA Twigs feat. PinkPantheress “Wild and Alone” (EUSEXUA Afterglow, Young, 2025)
Marie Davidson “Statistical Modelling” (City of Clowns, Deewee, 2025)
Effy “2011” (The Syndicate, Fragrance, 2025)
Destroyer feat. Fiver “Bologna” (Dan’s Boogie, Merge, 2025)
Amaarae & Charlie Wilson “Dream Scenario” (Black Star, Interscope, 2025)
Whatever the Weather “3°C” (Whatever the Weather II, Ghostly International, 2025)
Maria Somerville “Violet” (Luster, 4AD, 2025)
Nick León feat. Jonny From Space “Metromover” (A Tropical Entropy, TraTraTrax, 2025)
Darkside “S.N.C.” (Nothing, Matador, 2025)
Purelink feat. Loraine James “Rookie” (Faith, Peak Oil, 2025)
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