Melting Pot Radio Hour #24: Top Digs Of 2025
Perhaps because of the moment when I’m finally posting this, far away from the traditional beginning of the year, maybe because I so desperately want to get caught up with delinquent posts and get back to sharing new old things here in this space, but I had zero desire to do a “regular” Melting Pot Radio Hour rundown of things that I picked up in 2025. Might also have been because I sold way more records than I picked up, and actually had so few things that made it into my collection that it was a bit of a struggle to even bring three sets of seven songs together at all, this time around I just felt like doing a mix and only doing a mix, and so, here is that mix, a little over 80 minutes of music, minus my usual voice. Perhaps it’s because 2025 turned out to be the first year in a very long time where I wasn’t connected to any radio station or doing any radio programs. That chapter feels very much closed, but the desire to share music remains…And so with all of that, here are 21 of the best things I dug up, in the wild and digitally, in 2025. Started with Warning and just went stream of consciousness with the rest of the set. I’m not sure what possessed me towards the end of this set when it gets to Stars On The Lid, but shit gets a little weird…You have been forewarned.