Dingy Skipper had a minor UK hit in 1973 but broke up soon thereafter, with vocalist Green Hairstreaks going on to front Horseshoe Plantation.

A suitable soundtrack for this might well be the eponymous debut album by Abominations of Yondo, which was released by Earthrid in 2007. It’s available as a free download from Bandcamp. 🎧 earthrid.bandcamp.com/album/abomin...

‘Phantom Circuit #468: Into a Trump Chic?’ Magical music by Mantris, Void Wanderer, Black Seas of Infinity, Delerium, Philippe Petit, Abominations of Yondo, Substak + LR Friberg, Dopplereffekt, KHLD, Alireza Mashayeki and more. @modulisme.bsky.social @ivopetrov.bsky.social @earthrid.bsky.social

Exciting times!

Toxic Chicken brings you ‘Confidence!’! Find your most comfortable chair and absorb the goodwill that flows from this collection of uplifting tunes. Listen with confidence! And keep on clucking! #bandcampFriday #electronicMusic #eccentricMusic

Imminent… Unstoppable… ‘CONFIDENCE!’ New from Toxic Chicken for #bandcampFriday on 1st May.

Meanwhile, from a vantage point high above Ur-Gotham… 💬 “The Sat-signal!”

there’s no one i know here but there are variants of people i do know here

‘Funderground #138’ by @toxicchicken.bsky.social Music from @jimguthrie.bsky.social @johncallaghan.bsky.social @h-e-t-a.bsky.social @furchick.bsky.social and many more. As heard yesterday on BHR. Enjoy the ride and, as always, thanks in advance for reposting if you feel like sharing the fun.

#Np the very interesting selection of music in this show, which includes the title track to our latest release, ‘Neurology Bingo’ by Kemlo and the Zones of Silence (@kemlozones.bsky.social).

“Anthropic gets $5B investment from Amazon, will use it to buy Amazon chips” I read that as $58 and thought both sides were being admirably sarcastic. *Adjusts screen resolution*

"End Of The Street" - my oil painting

Well, no, you don’t have to, of course.

Last evening's #electronicears is now up on Mixcloud www.mixcloud.com/fennerpearso...

Phantom Circuit #467: I Said *Bleep* Stimulating sounds from Mitski, Doomed Bird of Providence, Philippe Petit, Crespi Drum Syndicate, Kemlo and the Zones of Silence, Tomita and more. **** yeah! @doomedbird.bsky.social @jonnyfromspace.bsky.social @PILofficial.bsky.social @kemlozones.bsky.social

That’s absolutely amazon’.

I unexpectedly was given the chance to use a Buchla synth in 2015. I haven’t had the chance again since, but that’s surely an unrelated fact..? 😜

Today is the 89th anniversary of the birth of one of the most important creators of voltage-controlled synthesizers, Don Buchla (1937—2016).

cactus flowers fully bloomed 🌵🌱

Condolences to Andy Kershaw’s family. 66 is far too young. It is rumoured that it was his voice that was sampled for ‘In Malawi’, a silly ditty by Carya Amara that was recorded in 1992, but I couldn’t possibly comment.

No-one: Absolutely no-one: Me: you mean “everyone”, don’t you? 🙄 #literacy

Even creatives like people to be slightly informed about subjects before they start oversharing what they “think”.

@cronicaelectronica.org @wormholeworld.bsky.social @buhrecords.bsky.social @chitrarecords.bsky.social @unpocofria.bsky.social @newfocuslabel.bsky.social @richardchartier.bsky.social @room40.bsky.social @cloudchamber-rec.bsky.social #soundart #musiqueconcrete #drone www.mixcloud.com/spectrasonic...

“New music challenges the brain in a way that familiar music does not. That unfamiliarity forces a kind of struggle to understand the new sound, and that struggle is not a failure state. It is where the perceptual reward actually lives.” – from featured essay at the blog by @signaldept.bsky.social

Since when have download-only releases been “cut from” the digital master? 🍷👃 Is this a job for the irritating “SNAKE OIL?” YouTube thumbnail guy or are our speaker cables simply the wrong colour?

Lots of fun. 🐰

When I joined Bluesky, people did say there were a lot of Fauré posts. I think that’s what they said.

Many thanks to DNT for supporting and distributing my music. They’ve been sharp shooters since the beginning, and I’m excited for this era 2.0. I’m happy and proud to be included in their great new shop. Check it out: dntrecords.com

“Amid [W. David] Marx’s tentative solutions, the most convincing is probably the least popular: stop giving people what they want (or think they want).”

This 39-minute album of experimental yet engaging electronic music has a minimum price on Bandcamp of just £1. That’s not a reflection of the music’s quality or the time and effort that went into it, but to encourage you to listen.

Music isn’t literally alive but… you have to go along with the sentiment! 😜

14:00 CEST (UTC +1) by the look of it, but don’t blame me if it isn’t…

Kemlo and the Zones of Silence – ‘Neurology Bingo’ Earthrid is excited to release the long-awaited first album by this collaborative project. @toxicchicken.bsky.social + @caryaamara.bsky.social = Kemlo and the Zones of Silence. 🚀 Play Neurology Bingo and space out… #experimental #electronicmusic

Mentally Sound - awesome album. Dare anyone to listen to it and stay miserable.

earthrid.com is overrun with chickens! 🐔🐥🐤🐓🐣 A new album release from Earthrid is imminent. Will it buck the trend? Find out soon!

I only saw the abnormal version as a kid, before it got improved. That’s how I turned out like this.

Including ‘Lovely Day’ from ‘Scumbag’ by Toxic Chicken and so much more…

Phantom Circuit #465: Ascent into Chaos #Music from Sin of Envy, This Little Alien, @toxicchicken.bsky.social, @chaosdoll.bsky.social, Basschaos, Swin Deorin, Astrum Luciferi, Sunn O))), Portal, @philippepetitcham.bsky.social and many more. As heard yesterday on @beachyheadradio.bsky.social

A rare look at the EMS Synthi 100. As always with this channel, there is a wealth of information in the script (although I wonder if it’s with the help of a chatbot; for instance, the British English euphemism for “die” is “passed away”, not the U.S. English “passed” 🧐).

#soundart #musiqueconcrete #electroacoustic www.mixcloud.com/spectrasonic...

Well, raising the minimum price of the new album by Toxic Chicken for Bandcamp Friday met with blank stares, as expected, but it amused us, anyway. For now at least, ‘Scumbag’ has reverted to its previous minimum donation price of £2, but feel free to multiply this number by any positive integer.

Phantom Circuit #464: Achromic Tit Pun Tracks by Kavalcade (c/o @wepn.bsky.social), Wahn (c/o @ivopetrov.bsky.social), @toxicchicken.bsky.social (on @earthrid.bsky.social), Portal, Seefeel and many more. First heard yesterday on @beachyheadradio.bsky.social 🎧 www.mixcloud.com/BeachyHeadRa...

Bandcamp Friday crazy special! Minimum price DOUBLED for today only! 💸 Yes, get 100% ON! Well we did say it was crazy. ‘Scumbag’ is cheap at double the price, so why not scum bag yourself an anti-bargain and help us support the marvellous music of Toxic Chicken. #BandcampFriday #GrotShop

New release on Earthrid today: ‘Scumbag’! Sunny sounds but scummy themes by the always inventive Toxic Chicken (@toxicchicken.bsky.social). #electronicmusic #experimentalmusic #scum

Now…

It’s sad to see that many musicians (for example) have apparently created a Bluesky account only to abandon or neglect it. Bluesky is tiny compared to X-formerly-known-as-Twitter™ and the like but it’s incomparably better—especially if you tweak settings. No interest in helping a project grow.

‘Funderground #131’ by @toxicchicken.bsky.social A lively edition with the sounds of @an-eel23.bsky.social @glynmoog.bsky.social @caryaamara.bsky.social @bongosurfo.bsky.social @strawberrystation.bsky.social @bennjordan.bsky.social @ruby-my-dear.bsky.social + many more. As heard yesterday on BHR.

Thanks to @darktrain.bsky.social for playing a track from our release of ‘Quirky & Perky‘ by @toxicchicken.bsky.social in the latest edition of the show. Catch up on Mixcloud:

Damon Krukowski's Why Sound Matters insists that sound is material, labor is real, and the way we treat both reveals what we value. Noise pollution, streaming's devaluation of recorded music, the saturation of shared soundscapes—these are not abstract problems. Yes. And.