Damian Manda 67.2283° N · 167.0650° W Realm of the Arctic

Records / headphones / house lights

Music, in rotation and in the room.

A long listening history, saved playlists, a growing record shelf, and 111 nights of live music beginning at Red Rocks in 2008.

Listen / collect / play

Music profiles

DiscogsPhysical collection Last.fmListening history since 2007 SpotifyPublic playlists SoundCloudSoundCloud profile

Listening profile

What stays in rotation.

Electronic music has held the center for years, especially psytrance, DnB, house, and bass music. Rock, island reggae, pop, acoustic work, and the occasional sharp turn all have room.

Twenty years / choose a year

Turn the year dial

Move through the years to see which artists kept getting another play. The colors mark broad musical neighborhoods, and each year stands on its own because some stretches of listening are better documented than others.

  • Rock + metal
  • Bass + DnB
  • House + electronic
  • Pop + R&B
  • Reggae + roots
  • Acoustic + classical
  • Indie + alternative

Selected rotation

2026

Five artists I returned to most often that year. The numbers are Last.fm plays, best read as a glimpse of that particular stretch.

  1. Iration 48
  2. Oskar med K 31
  3. Lane 8 28
  4. nimino 28
  5. Wind Walkers 28

Last.fm / Since 2007

The long rotation

Full history
Scrobbles
131,414
Artists
21,051
Listening since
20 May 2007
  1. Infected Mushroom 1,299
  2. Mannheim Steamroller 931
  3. Nightwish 646
  4. Pretty Lights 636
  5. Van Halen 585
  6. Acoustic Eidolon 546
  7. Scorpions 511
  8. Kaskade 488

Spotify / 14 public playlists

Current shelves

Open profile

209 Shazams are the catch-all shelf: songs I heard somewhere and wanted to find again, from Metrik & Grafix and John Summit to Neil Young, Lady Gaga, Santana, Pretty Lights, and Michael Jackson.

  1. 01 My Shazam TracksRecent finds across house, DnB, pop, rock, funk, and bass music
  2. 02 Get FunkyOPIUO, Daily Bread, The Floozies, Nu:Logic, and The Funk Hunters
  3. 03 Hawaii LivingIsland reggae and local rotation led by Maoli, Kolohe Kai, The Green, and Iration
  4. 04 Groovin'House, DnB, and electronic tracks centered on rhythm
  5. 05 ChillDowntempo, melodic house, and quieter electronic tracks
  6. 06 Classics RemixesModern reworks of familiar songs across house and DnB
  7. 07 Deep DnBAtmospheric DnB with S.P.Y, Etherwood, Total Science, and Camo & Krooked
  8. 08 Power HourClassic rock and power metal

Physical shelf

148 records, several musical eras.

My record shelf has its own shape: family records from the 1960s through the 1980s, classical and jazz, rock and disco, plus newer pressings that follow what I listen to now.

Catalogued records
148
1970s + 1980s titles
83
2020s titles
36
Inherited records
66

Original release year

The shelf by decade

  1. 1 1950s
  2. 13 1960s
  3. 45 1970s
  4. 38 1980s
  5. 1 1990s
  6. 3 2000s
  7. 6 2010s
  8. 36 2020s

Needle / headphones

Cross-format anchors

These are the names I put on the turntable and keep returning to elsewhere.

  1. Mannheim Steamroller 1 record 931 Last.fm plays
  2. GRiZ 2 records 467 Last.fm plays
  3. Wilkinson 2 records 304 Last.fm plays
  4. LP Giobbi 2 records 299 Last.fm plays
  5. Andreas Vollenweider 3 records 275 Last.fm plays
  6. Sofi Tukker 3 records 250 Last.fm plays

In the room

111 nights under stage lights.

The first major concert was Jethro Tull with my parents at Red Rocks in 2008. The most recent was The Loose Dogs at Safety Roadhouse outside Nome, AK.

Recorded concerts
111
Cities
30
Venues
69
Billed artists
151

2008–2026

Attendance by year

2024 had the busiest calendar: 17 shows.

  1. 2
  2. 1
  3. 4
  4. 11
  5. 2
  6. 5
  7. 8
  8. 6
  9. 2
  10. 2
  11. 4
  12. 11
  13. 4
  14. 1
  15. 1
  16. 14
  17. 17
  18. 12
  19. 4

The circuit

Most frequent cities

  1. Washington, DC 32
  2. Seattle, WA 20
  3. Boston, MA 15
  4. New York, NY 8
  5. Honolulu, HI 5
  6. Silver Spring, MD 5

Repeat sets

Most-seen artists

  1. Infected Mushroom 5
  2. Rob Noble 5
  3. Pretty Lights 4
  4. Adventure Club 3
  5. Feed Me 3
  6. OPIUO 3
  7. Savoy 3

Headphones / house lights

The repeat signal

A few artists show up everywhere: in the headphones, on the shelf, and under stage lights.

Pretty Lights

A 26-track artist playlist and a recent Shazam

4 recorded shows

OPIUO

Flapjack is in Get Funky, alongside 39 recent Last.fm plays

3 recorded shows

S.P.Y

A recurring name in Deep DnB and Best Hard DnB

2 recorded shows

Fred V & Grafix

Forest Fires appears in Deep DnB

2 recorded shows