LEVITATOR

@microlevitator.bsky.social

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Scientist & research professor. Defying gravity, trying to improve the world. Vinyl & music enthusiast digging for new sounds. Electronic production, field recording, urban microfarming, hiking on the side. Burqueño af. Personal account, views own

A record shop display with the new Jeff Parker album, with a screening of the film in the background projected on a white sheet

A person standing in a rock climbing gym wearing a black shirt that reads “fly or die” in white letters. The fly or die slogan is a nod to the fly or die series of albums by trumpeter and all-around amazing person, jaimie branch, who tragically passed in 2023.

A dead tree stump wrapped in ribbon and Christmas lights topped with Santa hats on the dead branches. The picture is taken during the day with blue sky in the background

Three albums lined up in front of a shelf full of records. The albums, left to right, are Fly or Die II by jaimie branch, universal beings by Makaya McCraven, and To Cy and Lee by Alabaster Deplume

Pizza with pepperoni, green chile, and pineapple toppings

Mix of red and green chile peppers in a stainless steel pot

A picture of a white turntable with a blue vinyl record for the album Touch by the band Tortoise. The album cover is a scorpion that blends into a sketched face…honestly don’t know how to describe the album cover any better than that

Five LPs lined up in front of a shelf.

A picture of an interstate road with hundreds of semi trucks. The semi trucks outnumber passenger vehicles roughly 5:1

A picture of a vinyl copy of Hyperglyph on a white turntable. Amber colored vinyl. The record cover shows two men in front of a restaurant

A dumped chair in the dry river bed of the Rio Grande

The Flow soundtrack vinyl on white record player. The vinyl is blue and green swirl. The LP jacket is a painting of a cat face

A picture of isotopes park baseball field from behind home plate, first base side. Sunset is shining in between the left field wall and the bottom of monsoon clouds, with the Sandia mountains in the background over right center. The stands are sparsely populated

A close up image of the obi strip from Ben LaMar Gay’s “Yowzers” with a purple LP in the background. Obi strip reads “Tellurian psychedelic fantasia of old familiar folklore and avant-garde blues seduces and inoculates with the irreverence and joy of free music”.

A stack of 5 cardboard mailers used to ship vinyl LPs. Two have International Anthem branded tape and one Backwoodz Studioz

Black hole superette on a white record player. The vinyl is blue. The record cover shows a convenience store

A clear view of a New Mexico mountain range showing excellent visibility from about 10 miles away, with rocky details and snow being visible. This is a typical view (whenever it’s not so windy as to create a dust storm)

Screenshot of the Apple Music depiction of the album Birthing by Swans, which is a brown cover with a large black circle in the center.

Vinyl copy of the album No School by Asterisk, with the cover sitting next to a white turntable with a black vinyl disc

A white record player displaying a black vinyl LP and the album cover for Paul Winter’s Common Ground. The album cover shows a distorted rainbow, a whale, a wolf, a bald eagle, and clouds

Picture of the Fly or Die Live album, with a disc on a white record player and the album cover next to it. The disc is a colored variant with red and blue streaks.

Cover art for PremRock’s Did you enjoy your time here, released via Backwoodz Studioz. Available on all platforms

8 vinyl records and 5 cassette tapes displayed on a couch. Copies include some from linkin park, okonski, spanners, chapel roan, Carlos Niño, Richard Houghten, Shigeo Sekito, Enya, Clutchy Hopkins, and others

Screenshot showing 6 notable new releases from February 28 by Kilbourne, Boldy James, darkside, Ichiko Aoba, Yazz Ahmed, and Daniel Bachman