{"code":200,"data":{"id":"5fgxxhml5f","slug":"my-bonkers-2025-fedi-music-year-in-review","appearance":"norm","language":"en","rtl":false,"created":"2025-12-31T05:17:16Z","updated":"2026-03-22T12:35:42Z","title":"My Bonkers 2025 Fedi Music Year in Review","body":"#music #design #collaboration #blogpost\n\n[Another banner year](my-crazy-2024-music-making-year-in-review), spread across multiple projects, ranging from #bonkwave to #RFFF25 to #NHAM to #TIBtv, to a little solo stuff. I don’t know how long any of this will last, but I’m relishing it while I can.\n\u003c!--more--\u003e\nSkip to [Design](#design) | [Community](#community)\n\n## \u003cspan id=\"music\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003eMusic\n\nIn more or less chronological order, I think:\n\n- I co-wrote [You Are Not Alone](https://music.futzle.com/comfy-collaborations/3/) with @CCirco@ravenation.club for the [Comfy Collaborations](https://music.futzle.com/comfy-collaborations/) #RadioFreeFedi tribute album organized by @futzle@old.mermaid.town\n- I released [a couple of extra tracks](https://sknob.fr/faircamp/comfy/) based on *You Are Not Alone*.\n- I released a new song, [Cities](https://sknob.fr/music/?cities)\n- I wrote jingles for [NHAM Mixtape Radio](https://nham.co.uk/listen/) and [Not What I Call Radio Bonk Wave](https://not.what.i.call.radio.bonkwave.org)\n- 2 of my bonkwave songs were [delightfully remixed](ive-been-rebonked)\n- I released [The Rite of Bonk](the-rite-of-bonk) for the [Four Seasons of Bonk Wave-Bonks of Spring 1](https://music.bonkwave.org/the-four-seasons-of-bonkwave-bonks-of-spring-1/) album\n- I collaborated on [Hi It’s Spring](hi-its-spring) (production) with Sam (@ethicalrevolution@climatejustice.social) for the *Four Seasons of Bonk Wave* Spring album\n- I gave a few related songs a common home by releasing the [Cities EP](https://sknob.fr/music/?cities_album) (which got a [lovely review on NHAM](https://nham.co.uk/2025/06/cities-by-sknob-2/) by @babumenos@sunny.garden)\n- I performed the [sknob bonks cities live](sknob-bonks-cities-live-rfff25-livestream) livestream for *Radio Free Fedi Fest 2025* #RFFF25 (and covered other fedi musicians)\n- I contributed some vocals to [Happy Bonk Day 2025](https://music.bonkwave.org/bonkwave-allstars-happy-bonk-day-2025/) as part of a great lineup of BonkWave Allstars herded by @axwax@chaos.social \n- I released [Ukulele Bonk](https://sknob.fr/music/?ukulelebonk) on the [Four Seasons of Bonk Wave-A Midsummer Bonk’s Dream 1](https://music.bonkwave.org/the-four-seasons-of-bonkwave-a-midsummer-bonks-dream-1/) album\n- I released [Wannawadda](https://sknob.fr/music/?wannawadda) on the [Four Seasons of Bonk Wave-A Midsummer Bonk’s Dream 2](https://music.bonkwave.org/the-four-seasons-of-bonkwave-a-midsummer-bonks-dream-2/) album, part of the first ever *Bonk Wave Sample Challenge*\n- I produced (and played on) [Better Than That](https://sknam.nham.co.uk/summersamsknob/) by Sam, which was also released on the Bonk Wave summer album (and I also make a guest appearance on the [fantastic video](https://spectra.video/w/mNieEJNJbV2Xg5zmUnsFsG) Sam made for the track)\n- I wrote and recorded a song I’m quite proud of for the upcoming *Four Seasons of Bonk Wave* fall album (which should come out this winter or next spring, in typical #bonkwave fashion)\n- I released a new song, [Choo-Choo Train](https://sknob.fr/music/choo-choo-train)\n- I wrote 4 new songs for an upcoming concept album or EP, and have been [chronicling my progress on Mastodon](https://mamot.fr/@sknob/115472801832298733). We’ll see how far it goes and how long I can resist the urge to release them...\n\n![Collage of album covers.](https://sknob.fr/img/musique/sknob2025.jpg)\n\n## \u003cspan id=\"design\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003eDesign\n\nI used to do quite a bit of UI and web design back in the day, experience which I put to good use this year:\n\n- I designed [album covers](https://music.bonkwave.org) for the *Four Seasons of Bonk Wave* album series, with real-time feedback from the bonkwave community, and essential contributions from @Traiken@mastodon.social\n- I designed web and fedi assets (and the NHAM RFFF25 LiveStream graphics) for NHAM\n- And I did the version 1.0 redesign of the [NHAM](https://nham.co.uk) website (CSS mockup, Sam had to actually implement it)\n- Which gave me the impetus to finally recode and redesign my antiquated music site from scratch, which I’d been meaning to do for about a decade ; check out the new [sknob/music](https://sknob.fr/music), and read all about the redesign in a [series of posts](sknob-music-v5-release-notes) right here\n- I made a bunch of hand-drawn NHAM animations for the NHAM program slots on The Indie Beat Television (#TIBtv)\n- I made a bunch of more general NHAM promo videos for #TIBtv\n\n## \u003cspan id=\"community\"\u003e\u003c/span\u003eCommunity\n\nOn top of the musical collaborations with @CCirco@ravenation.club, the bonkwave community and Sam [mentioned above](#music), I participated in the following initiatives to promote music and musicians on the #fediverse:\n\n- I did some virtual leg work vetting artists and asking for their consent to be listed in the [Indie Art Support Community (IASC) directory](https://indieart.support) which is built on the shoulders of @radiofreefedi@musician.social (and you can apply by pinging @hello@fedi.indieart.support on fedi)\n- I was involved in prepping the launch of the [NHAM](https://nham.co.uk) fedi music discovery site, and I’m also an admin of the site (for which I wrote a few posts too, like [The Best Spotify Alternative](https://nham.co.uk/2025/04/the-best-spotify-alternative) and [Imposter Syndrome](https://nham.co.uk/2025/04/imposter-syndrome/))\n- I handled the technical plumbing for and co-hosted a [NHAM Mixtape livestream](https://nham.co.uk/2025/07/special-live-nham-show-with-qa/) for [Radio Free Fedi Fest 25](https://party.radiofreefedi.net) #RFFF25\n- Last but certainly not least, I was part of the group of fedi musicians corralled by @limebar@mastodon.social to prep the launch of [The Indie Beat Television](https://tv.theindiebeat.fm), a 24x7 “Fedi MTV” (brainstorming, transcoding and tagging a ton of videos, pixel-pushing, and contributing a few musical snippets to station IDs and such). Don’t forget to follow @TIBtv@tv.theindiebeat.fm on the fediverse!\n\nAs I said in a [mid-year progress report](its-the-community-stupid):\n\n\u003e I can’t believe how lucky I am to be part of the incredible fedi music community and to have met and collaborated with so many delightful, open-minded, super-creative people, who have opened my eyes and ears in so many ways.\n\nAll in all a fine way to keep my head above water in these troubled times, and a constant and much-needed reminder that there is plenty of good, and good people in the world, and that *we have agency*.\n\nThank you everyone \u003cspan class=\"emoji\"\u003e❤️\u003c/span\u003e","tags":["music","bonkwave","NHAM","RadioFreeFedi","fediverse","design","collaboration","blogpost","RFFF25","TIBtv","community"],"images":["https://sknob.fr/img/musique/sknob2025.jpg"],"paid":false,"views":1372,"likes":13}}