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Johan Graden's album, with Allen Arkbro is one of the great records released in recent years - for my sins I'd not kept track of what he was up to recently. Turns out he has a new album on Black Truffle, but also this which is incredible : johangraden.bandcamp.com/album/diakron

PSA: another gentle reminder to mind the sweep

If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

I lived in Soho for over a decade. Much of what was there is gone - this felt like a link to the past.

"I would like to clean his nose. If I could."

One of the strangest things that ever happened to me was to be be present when a close friend was accidentally called by Uri Geller. Evidently he misdialled a number and got my mate Jon. What bends my head is how it feels like it should be important but was actually utterly meaningless. Appropriate.

@shaneparish.bsky.social have Autechre shown up to any UK shows?

RIP Elliott Smith. Gone 23 yrs. Dang.

(Easy Listening Jazz pauses)'I'm sorry we are experiencing a high volume of calls* ... our team** are working hard to support you' (Easy Listening Jazz recommences) * several ** Marcus the intern

Investigative/undercover Journos in the UK have been fucking smashing it in the last 7 days. Seriously doing a lot of good work.

the problem with teaching granular synthesis is accidentally creating a texture that hypnotizes you into zoning out for 7 hours

Morning: Listening to an incredible @bodegapop.bsky.social WFMU thing called 'Bad Russians' (i.e oppressed by the USSR) and there's a tune called 'Dangerous Game' by 'Arsenal' which could easily be late Mike Gibbs Orchestra - just amazing. Also literally impossible to Google because of UK football.

If you aren't playing this on Halloween then you aren't doing it right www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxda...

*checks Very Sensible talking points, clears throat* when students riot for better school conditions it’s thuggery but when white supremacists riot for a racially pure England it’s legitimate concerns,

@bandcamp.com users might be worth watching out for phishing coming in via your contact form. I've had two so far today.

Beginning to understand that the trick in writing funding applications in the UK (arts council) is in part understanding the difference between ArtSpeak and OrgSpeak.

I've just made a 16 hour history of documentary cinema. I think #NAZA is one of the best I've ever seen.

Facebook reels are all like, “my grandma taught me this” and it’s just someone putting their shirt on a hanger

Let’s have another look at the time Nigel Farage went to the US to bad mouth Britain, but ended up getting his arse handed to him by the US Senate.

We did it.

'Restrictions on public dancing and on certain Western popular genres meant that a less dance-oriented and more abstract version of electronic music came to represent and embody desires that could not otherwise be expressed...' Organic Intelligence LXI: Modular Music From Iran buff.ly/HZYKeay

Going to have to keep posting this quote from the other founder of UKiP, Alan Sked for obvious reasons...

Because vibecoded vst plugins are flooding the market with slop these days I have been collecting a list of audio developers that explicitly state on their website that their code is not generated by AI. I think it's time to share the ones I have so far in a little thread i'll keep expanding:

Thomas Cooper Gotch painted many pictures of children holding lanterns through the 1920s and was often concerned with themes of childhood and adolescence. This evening parade seems not quite of this world; the faceless girls in white dresses leading seem somehow symbolic.

For the first time, the British government has acknowledged that Russia interfered in the 2016 Brexit referendum. So who did BBC Newsnight invite on to discuss what happened? Sergei Markov, Putin’s former spokesman. Par for the course, says Nerve co-founder @carolecadwalla.bsky.social 1/

I get this a lot, but perhaps with less emotional intensity. For me it's a lot like knowing there are so many places I will never visit.

“Ukraine’s recent strikes on Russian data centres has huge and underreported consequences for Putin’s regime. Coupled with escalating economic problems and battlefield reversals, Russia is now in a desperate place. “But the biggest fallout may be far away from Russia’s borders — in Trump America.”

I always found it incredible that Starmer never pulled the 'Reform are Russian Actors' lever. You can debate the level of interference, but there's a whiff of pure truth about it, only driven home by the post Yandex immolation bot stats. This will only get worse for them I hope.

We need to be clear. This isn’t about shooting small boats. It’s about shooting people. Probably shooting small children.

Ford Granada

There's a bit in Gladiator where Maximus fights a BAFTA

The only book I have ever bought for its cover alone - £1.49 well spent.

Having grown up in Wales, I can testify that if you are actually worried about your culture and history being under threat, the thing to do is write poetry and songs, perform plays, tell stories and organise festivals, not just sit around whining.

Laughter is linguistic: in conversation it helps manage turn-taking, marks awkward pauses, eases social tension. it has rhythm, pitch, and tone that communicate emotional meaning and different writing systems translate the sound of laughter into unique text conventions ( hahaha etc)…

Not all who wander are lost, but they are in my fucking way

listening on R4 to Scottish kids asking questions directly via radio to a scientist on the ISS as it flies over and it's genuinely moving.

how many fucking oil refineries did Russia have????

The human race's tenuous future rests upon the neurological trait inherent in the species whereby fast and unexpected death = bad but slow and boring death = who cares

chapter a million-and-four of The French Don't Fuck About has just been published it seems.

rip 😔

For anyone who finds (like me) Harry Partch's work a tricky proposition for the beginner, this video is a wonderful guide to his instruments - and since they are distillations of ways of thinking about music - his philosophy on making music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UZj...

Something strange. It's relatively unusual to find a video on youtube of Georges Perec actually speaking himself. Everything has been dubbed over. The best place to find anything substantial is the ever fecund UBU.