Episode 39: What Might Happen Next?

In a world that keeps tilting,
between overlapping crises and landmarks quietly collapsing,
we instinctively retreat to the places where breath still exists.

To what feels most beautiful. Most gentle.
Most human.
And perhaps the safest refuge we still know: music.

For weeks now, this show has been trying to tune into those fragile frequencies, the doubts, the impulses, the quiet fears of indie artists navigating an endless flood of new releases.
A constant stream. Relentless. Often overwhelming.

But noticing the tremors already means refusing resignation.

Our role is not to entertain the gallery.
It is to question, to move, to connect.
Like modern troubadours, we tell the story of the world while it is still transforming.

Because the real wealth is not an algorithm.
It is what we build together, slowly, sincerely, with heart.

That’s why What Might Happen Next, by my Californian friend Gizmosophy, felt like the perfect opening question for this episode.

Welcome to Episode 39 of Le Salon Indie de Mitxoda.

I needed to let the machines run quietly this time.
To set a mood rather than impose a direction.
To let you imagine your own living room, a place I gently redecorate as the songs unfold.

Whispers, tensions, detours.
Voices that lean closer instead of shouting.
Moments that ask us to pause, rather than scroll.

We crossed continents without passports.
Languages without subtitles.
Genres without borders.

At times, the question returned:
Are we becoming machines ourselves?

And just when that thought lingered too long, music stepped in to remind us otherwise.
With warmth. With fragility. With truth.

Some songs felt like confessions.
Others like mirrors.
A few like open windows letting fresh air rush in.

Rock shook the room when it needed shaking.
Electronics flickered like city lights at night.
Folk and intimacy grounded us again, closer to the floor, closer to ourselves.

This episode wasn’t built to impress.
It was built to inhabit.

The messages I received these past days were overwhelming, mails, notes, encouragements, long reflections.
And I keep only one thing from all of them:

As long as you are willing to sit down in my Indie Salon,
to listen, re-listen, ask questions, describe what moves you, what you miss, what gently irritates you…
I will gladly keep opening this space.

I ask myself the same question for the newsletter.
After 70 consecutive weeks, I sense a slight plateau.
Five hundred readers. A glass ceiling? A magic indie number?
Maybe that’s perfectly fine.

I’ll keep feeding it, of course.
But I’m already thinking about other shapes.
Different forms.
Still indie. Always.

And yes, the Mitxoda Top100 has reset today, as planned.
You can vote again.
Once a week.
For one track only.
Choose wisely 🙂

Take good care of yourselves,
and see you next week.

🤍
Mitxoda

 

Episode 39 - 23 January 2026

  1. 1 World Premiere WP Gizmosophy - What Might Happen Next 2026
  2. 2 Liz Arcane - How Many Moments (Supernatural Hibernation) 2025
  3. 3 The Stellar Anderson Project - Wicked Woman 2025
  4. 4 J&M Band - Figure You Out 2025
  5. 5 Crayon Tabibito - มือถือใจน้อย 2025
  6. 6 Psy-Lounge - The Machine Tells Me 2025
  7. 7 Melusine - Emotion & Devotion 2025
  8. 8 TiB'O - Vivre 2026
  9. 9 World Premiere WP David Fl'y - Echoes of Pain 2025
  10. 10 World Premiere WP The Sanctity Of Crows - In The Moment 2026
  11. 11 Feminoise - Ever Enough
  12. 12 Perpacity - Lille Flamme (Poverty Of The Flesh) 2025
  13. 13 Michael Gabriel - Island (Surfacing) 2023
  14. 14 Tegan Hughes - Fate - DeepHouse Edition 2025
  15. 15 Aura Davis - Hey 2024
  16. 16 Taylor D - Survive 2026
  17. 17 Laura Delson - The Last Song 2024
  18. 18 The Puncturists - Spectre (I'm Not Alright) 2025
  19. 19 The New Nothings - Too Many Thoughts (Too Many Thoughts) 2024
  20. 20 The Kyle Jordan Project - Tall Blonde Honey 2025
  21. 21 The Mid-Watch - The Highway Back To Me 2025
  22. 22 Bruach - Ye Jacobites By Name 2024
  23. 23 Cas du Pree - Man Of My Word 2026
  24. 24 Nadine de Macedo, Jason Challis, Kelly Best - Promises (Going My Way) 2025
  25. 25 Have I Weather - Porch Sessions EP 2025
  26. 26 Mitxoda feat. Sonophagen - No Rescue (No Rescue (single)) 2024
  27. 27 Brother Dynamite - Get Up 2025

27 tracks

 

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