VA - Playlist: Best of Experimental 2025 (2025)

Carefully curated by our team of passionate music experts, here is our non-exhaustive playlist of our favorite experimental songs released in 2025. Featuring Klein, M. Sage, Mas Aya, Dustin Wong, Patrick Shiroishi, Konx-Om-Pax, Oren Ambarchi, Sarathy Korwar, Scotch Rolex, Zeena Parkins, Lawrence English, Tim Hecker, The Necks, Whatever the Weather, Rafiq Bhatia, Woo, Lyra Pramuk, Merzbow, øjeRum, Maurice Louca, Pan-American, and more.

Tracklist
1 – M. Sage – Open Space Properties
2 – The Necks – Causeway
3 – Jeremiah Chiu – Different Rooms
4 – Stephen Vitiello – Rhythmic Rhodes
5 – Bitchin Bajas – Keiji Dreams
6 – Klein – score for J
7 – Walt Mcclements – A Painted Ship
8 – Elsa Hewitt – Water Lion
9 – Oren Ambarchi – Yek
10 – Mas Aya – Capullo
11 – Dustin Wong – Glass Beach
12 – Joe Westerlund – Tem
13 – Patrick Shiroishi – Mountains that take wing
14 – Konx-Om-Pax – Phantasy 2
15 – The Dwarfs of East Agouza – Titular
16 – Sarathy Korwar – Is There Beauty?
17 – Susumu Yokota – Unravel (2025 Remastered)
18 – Chihei Hatakeyama – Three Dice
19 – Scotch Rolex – Ring Dirt
20 – Geologist – Route 9 Falls
21 – Zeena Parkins – Transparency and Staining
22 – Fadi Tabbal – All those nights
23 – Lawrence English – Even The Horizon Knows Its Bounds III
24 – Park Jiha – Bloom
25 – Masma Dream World – Seeking Your Protection
26 – Eiko Ishibashi – Par
27 – Okkyung Lee – let’s walk down to the swamp together
28 – Rafiq Bhatia – The Sky Breaks Open
29 – Tim Hecker – Monotone 3
30 – Whitney Johnson – 48|50
31 – Takuro Okada – Following Morning
32 – Woo – Divine Impulse
33 – Whatever The Weather – 23°C (Intermittent Sunshine)
34 – Alex Zethson – CRYO I
35 – YHWH Nailgun – Pain Fountain
36 – Lee Ranaldo – Early New York Silver I
37 – Pan-American – Omni Country
38 – Retail Drugs – Anti-Lonely
39 – Penelope Trappes – Anchor Us To Seabed Floor
40 – Macie Stewart – Murmuration/Memorization
41 – Oneohtrix Point Never – Cherry Blue
42 – Painkiller – Secret Sins
43 – Natural Information Society – Always 9 Seconds Away
44 – Shrunken Elvis – Marina pt. 2
45 – Bogdan Raczynski – what is real is blood
46 – Loscil – Bell Flame
47 – Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet – At a distance (Live)
48 – AYA – heat death
49 – Light-Space Modulator – Her Name
50 – Laibach – Secret Gardens
51 – Joaquin Cornejo – Ríos Voladores
52 – soo:k – Thistle Kiss
53 – Qasim Naqvi – Power Down the Heart
54 – Maurice Louca – Ghab
55 – øjeRum – Til Vinden I Dine Øjne III
56 – Nadah El Shazly – Enti Fi Neama
57 – Lyra Pramuk – Unchosen
58 – Merzbow – Sedonis B
59 – Coil – Sex With Sun Ra (Part One - Saturnalia)
60 – Pan-American – John The Baptist Was A Creature Of Habit
61 – Pure Altruism – Having A Bad Day
62 – Badawi – Deport Me, Baby
63 – Genesis P-Orridge – Firesong
64 – Pegg – Baseball Season
65 – Molly Joyce – August 9, 1999
66 – Sanguis – New Back There
67 – Disiniblud – Give-upping
68 – Ekaterina Bazhenova-Yamasaki – 04
69 – Lynyn – Roll 5321
70 – Saint Abdullah – In Thickness Of Relation