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From master of science to the sound of science. Mike D tonight in Glasgow. Genuinely thought I’d never get to hear some of these songs live again and the Beasties are such a touchstone for me, it was magic. Oh, and one of the encores was a cover of delta 5, mind your own business. Genius ❤️

Me, today (well, a Master of Science in Applied Data Analytics rather than a tyrannical timelord, but you get the idea!).

Good morning Bluesky ☀️ From time to time I like to repost this seminal exchange between Professor Stanley Unwin and Peter Hawkins, the voice of Bill and Ben. 

Ruin a song by adding "In My Pants" to the title Race for the Prize In My Pants

A few seconds of my Liverpool gig last night at 81 Renshaw. Sold out show. Fully unplugged. Liverpool is as magical as I imagined.

Cabaret Voltaire performing Just Fascination on Switch in 1983

I'm running a day at Iklectik this Sunday for their last outing at their current venue. Hanmah Kemp-Welch is running an amazing workshop for us about building antenna to listen to hidden signals. www.eventbrite.com/e/atmospheri...

Living near Loch Leven, water has seeped into my music & art for years. For a micro-commission with Leven Catchment Collective, I used weird lenses & mics to imagine experiencing the landscape as a fish, bird, lichen, or rock. Full film: surfacepressure.net/k20z @forthriverstrust.bsky.social

Wonderful comp out today ❤️🪡💕

Dis Fig kindly talked me through the guest playlist she's pulled together for @thequietus.com There's madcap electronics, heady noise, some genteel folk, and "the fucking queen" Mariah Carey. Check it out: thequietus.com/subscriber-a... @thrilljockey.bsky.social

🌋 Alt Clut: A Volcanic Kingdom, Ep. 4 - On Top of the World!

My latest obsession is the graffiti that has popped up at West Denton in Newcastle

Here’s some BTS footage from the recording session too and my outdoor Ableton setup, which as you can see is as straight forward as it gets…

It's been a while! Here's some stranger dub and jazzy things over at Dubstack... rentparty.substack.com/p/chapter-54...

Now playing: ghostdubs.bandcamp.com/album/oblique Love it, creepy electronic dub, perfect for this time of year ❤️

Here's a page from a bad comic I made about a vampire high on fungal cloud spores breaking into a nightclub inside a giant egg.

Now playing: thebugvsghostdubs.bandcamp.com/album/implos... Absolutely one of the best things to come out in the last few years, love it ❤️ Getting the new Ghost Dubs tomorrow, very much looking forward to giving that a listen.

Playing through the Sunn O))) rig with acoustic guitar. 😮🤯 Huge thanks to the band and their incredible crew for being so generous and welcoming! Make sure to catch one of these shows if you can, a transcendent experience like no other. 🙏♥️ 📸: Stephen O’Malley

Here's something VERY different to what I normally do : www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIbp... Seeing as Julie Hesmondhalgh was recently on 'The Traitors', here's a short movies she's in that I composed the score for. I had my first go at writing 1940s swing band music and didn't do a horrendous job...

I'm fully speculating here, I can't find any conclusive proof of this, but Dare may very well be the point when 2 different parties influenced by the same recording came together to create the apex of synth-pop. I say recording because the track in question wasn't released as a record until later

Fugazi performing "Brendan 1" Live on the 7th of August, 1993 at the outdoor Sylvan Theater on the Mall in Washington DC for the 'Concert For Justice' on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of MLK's historic March On Washington. Fugazi's music is the product of pure, unfiltered rage and tension.

This weekend!

Iconic yellow hingwies #newhaven #edinburgh

hello! i have put my old VHO up for sale! As featured on Volta 💖 I can't justify having two in this economy 🤣🤣

Now playing 👇 Just a joyous hour and a half of music ❤️ optimomusic.bandcamp.com/album/crate-...

There is ONE space left for this weekend's Patch & Splice at Asylum Studios, Suffolk with myself, @tomwhitwell.bsky.social of MusicThing & analogue filmmaker Graeme Hogg!! You will learn to Patch AND to Splice! Make your own analogue film! Improvise your own analogue music! @thonksynth.bsky.social

Arguably the greatest single by a dance troupe discovered by the producers of the Kenny Everett show while on the razz at Munkberry's in Soho where they caught them dancing to a soul set by the father of future RnB star Kelly Le Roc

Radio broadcast from Bonfire Hill - previews Switched On @bonfirehill.bsky.social @rebeccasubphotic.bsky.social @scholarspeak.bsky.social @tsr2.bsky.social @howlround.bsky.social @horrordwarf.bsky.social @citiesandmemory.bsky.social @everydaydust.bsky.social @beneyes.bsky.social

Now playing: optimomusic.bandcamp.com/album/let-th... Just a reminder - there are tons of these mixes on Twitch’s bandcamp and they’re all class ❤️

12 codes left band.codes/ihn/ihn018-s...

Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!

My cousin organized a series of masked concerts in NYC so immunocompromised and other covid-conscious folks can still enjoy live music events, and is raising funds so he can keep doing so! Love and appreciation to anyone able to chip in 🙏🏾♥️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos...

I'm running a SPOKE workshop in London in a few weeks. Come learn how easy it is to build a touch based midi controller. www.eventbrite.com/e/build-a-mi...

There's a wonderful review of the TSCOOP Volume 1 in this month's @electronicsound.bsky.social thanks to @bobfischer.bsky.social Volume 2 will be out soon with a whole host of new artists 👀 tscoop.bandcamp.com #electronicmusic

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This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

Now playing 👇 This is a great recommendation, utterly hypnotic ❤️

A mere month until the Switched On electronic weekender in Whitby... now a lovely fixture in my calendar every year. Great line-up, nice vibes. And I'm all about the vibes. I'm hosting again, but don't let that put you off.

Another clip from the ‘Reportage’ show on BBC in 1989! This room was upstairs at Livingston Studios in Wood Green, London. Coldcut’s first studio, and where Ninja Tune eventually started the following year. They recorded hits such as “The Only Way Is Up” and ‘Doctorin’ The House’.

Holy shit.

Here are the rest of my gigs for 2026, where I'm exclusively playing in cities that start with the letter "L". Link here for tickets where applicable! linktr.ee/polypores

Don’t let them tell you not to play Depeche Mode on a keyboard made out of chips. Live your dreams! (Powered by the awesome Spokeboard from @vulpeslabs.bsky.social, built for Newhaven Tattie Fest yesterday, destroyed by kids!)

I heard Li'l Sebastian cancelled an appearance claiming he lost his voice when in reality he was just a little horse.

✨ A Sprinkle of JoyousJoyness ✨ Love corvids! Have a JoyousJoyfulJoyness day! #smart #bird #covid #crow #raven #cute #joyousjoyness #repost

4 tapes remaining and that’s it for volume 1. #tscoop tscoop.bandcamp.com/album/the-sy...

Filaments by Various Artists (ST04) Out Oct 19th. Pre-order now. 13 tracks (01:18) CD & digi Video features Blush Tide by @catebrooksmusic.bsky.social (track one) CD art and design by @plant43.bsky.social Mastered by Alex @quietdetails.bsky.social 🙏🏻 silverthreads.bandcamp.com/album/filame... 1/4

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

Coldcut talking about how they sample “noise” in 1989 for BBC2’s ‘Reportage’ show and how it’s like cutting up photos into a collage. “We wanted to be the first people to put a DJ type of record out”.

Please share! Get your copy today at: UK/EU (signed copies) eveale.bandcamp.com eveale.ampwall.com USA fiadh.bandcamp.com/album/enter-... Rest of world hypaethralrecords.bandcamp.com/album/enter-... Become a Forest Dweller and Enter the Woodland Realm! #Metalsky #Blackmetal #Promosky