Monthly playlists, curated collections, and end-of-year lists built from Ethan's music library
Best of
2025
2024
A year defined by pregnancy, building a Brat.
2023
2022
2021
Rest in peace SOPHIE.
2020
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2019
Fantastical times had at HQI.
2018
Launched Guru Records and pressed up a 12" for GURU001.
2017
Working at Metropolis studios, living in Peckham and DJing quite a bit at this point.
2016
London is my city. DJing on HoxtonFM.
2015
My first time solo travelling visiting Emma in the US. This year I discovered Arthur Russell and Young Thug — my world changed.
2014
I moved to Stockwell, and Emma moved away.
2013
I first moved to London, to a flat in Brixton. Interning at WhoSampled.
2012
Fully living in my headphones, city meandering a lot. I finish uni on a high but swiftly followed by a stagnant summer unable to get paid work.
2011
Things just got so exciting here; in the UK with Post-Dubstep, and with US Hip Hop/RnB. I'm travelling up to London from Portsmouth for a lot of late nights in dark rooms at this time.
2010
Found out clubbing is really great. Learnt to DJ.
2009
Heartbroken, off to uni. Rough one from memory.
2008
Learnt to drive and found a new happy place blasting stuff from the Ford Fiesta with an iPod and an aux cord
2007
Surely this was Peak Myspace™️
2006
At this point I'm just being fed whatever NME threw at me each week. MSN messenger.
2005
The year of my first trip to Glastonbury festival with mum. My iTunes backups only go this far back — adolescent me only cared so much for cataloguing.