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.

Many thanks to the ISSS for including ‘Metal’ from ‘Quirky & Perky‘* by @toxicchicken.bsky.social in this bumper edition of the show. #np * earthrid.bandcamp.com/album/quirky...

The final Daily Bread column of 2025. New music from @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social @toxicchicken.bsky.social '...what The Doors may have sounded like if they were brought up with the Game Boy and not the blues.' monolithcocktail.com/2025/12/08/o...

it's so paradoxical the music scene & venues & musicians are struggling so much - yet I can't remember a time when so many artists have put out so many absolutely top drawer releases. Albums that would have previously been my favourite of the year now seem to come out on a weekly basis.

Thank you to @phantomcircuit.bsky.social for including new work from “11.11.25” plus a duo piece with @markhjorthoy.bsky.social in Phantom Circuit #457. Always a far reaching, eclectic set!

I was rather mystified just now by what an American YouTuber meant by “low lane C mode” in Logic Pro till I realised he meant “low latency mode”.

‘Funderground #127’ by @toxicchicken.bsky.social Tasty cheesy, weirdness & fun from @pettaluck.bsky.social @bernd-michael-land.bsky.social @caryaamara.bsky.social @an-eel23.bsky.social @neonkittens.bsky.social @orwrimp.bsky.social @johncallaghan.bsky.social and many more. As heard yesterday on BHR.

Millie Fairley, from Eastbourne, East Sussex, has aplastic anaemia, which affects around two people in every million in the UK.

“This is a dangerous precedent: if Southern Water avoids real consequences, the message will be clear: pollution is a PR issue, not an offence.”

you know it’s a bad Cloudflare outage when it even takes out down detector 😅

You thought “Vermilion and Snowy Waxcaps” was the fifth EP by The Cocteau Twins, didn’t you.

And if you’re too brooding and intense to benefit from cheerful music occasionally, we have alternatives too. earthrid.bandcamp.com

A friend just sent me a clip from this video and 🤯 — I was not familiar with the legendary Stan Lemkuil. He starts by explaining the difference between a noise and a sound effect. But his own mastery of making sounds is Michael Winslow grade. youtu.be/KhT0PTa0d9E?...

New by Toxic Chicken: ‘Quirky & Perky’. Staccato synthesisers, electronic toys, metallic percussion and lots of cheerfulness. Most of you seem to need something to pep you up a bit, and this album could be just the ticket! Enjoy the album, and don’t keep the quirkiness and perkiness to yourself. 😉

Here's a Bandcamp link to the pre-order for the new @iheartnoise.bsky.social compilation. Which is shaping up to be a mutated musical behemoth. One to investigate my fellow #MusicSky peeps 👇 iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/2025-s...

Frying tonight... www.mixcloud.com/filigreenigh... #JoinUs for a batty carry on... 🦇📡🦇📻🦇 #HorrorFilm soundtracks, creepy #ambient atmospherics & ghoulish antics in company of @xraydeltaone.bsky.social & spooks 👀

In the latest edition of Phantom Circuit: more daring combinations of chalk and cheese, with Bruno Bernard, Silk Moth, C-Land, Dominique Verdan, The Pink Blob, Prison Affair, Drew Mulholland, Eulipion Corps, Syd Dale, Namin Group, Oriental Mechanic Band, Nonima + Abdicant, Phenoplastic and more.

Suits, synths, tandems, so *many* saxophones, curios and more make this collection more colourful than one might have expected.

@room40.bsky.social @kanshiketsu.bsky.social @greyfrequency.bsky.social @boomkat.com @rsn-entities.bsky.social #soundart #musiqueconcrete #darkambient #electroacoustic www.mixcloud.com/spectrasonic...

17-track, name-your-price compilation with music by LR Friberg, Carya Amara, Autonomaton, Wayne DeFehr, Pariah, Chris DeBry, Wilfried Hanrath, Iliaque, Succulent Succubus, Pixeldoor, Substak, Deborah Fialkiewicz and Stefan Strasser. I am listening to this collection right now. So should you! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Coming right up, at the hour, our 5th birthday line-up is: 🤯 Funderground – with another crate of crazy sounds; 🗒️ Cliff Notes – local events; 🎹 Tasty Noodling – improvises on a birthday theme; 🌎 EarthDate - on plants that eat bugs; 🤖 Robot Shepherd – birthday mix 🎧 www.mixcloud.com/live/beachyh...

‘SynTesla Giorgio III, a monster modular Synthesizer custom-built for Hans Zimmer’s Next Level Tour’ (article by @synthanatomy.bsky.social #synthsky (‘Going for Gold Tour’ would have been a better name though. Is it too late to change it?)

One nice thing you could do today is donate to the Akwesasne Freedom School, which strives to preserve Mohawk language and culture while reversing colonial assimilation. #nativeculture akwesasnefreedomschool.org

Better late than never, I saw the Ithell Colquhoun exhibition Tate Britain yesterday. A British surrealist and mystic (she seemed to be a member of every occult society going), her use of colour, abstract forms and dreamlike/sexualised landscapes is often stunning 1/2

~ "In the hush of autumn’s breath, a tree stands cloaked in quiet death." - Copilot AI ~ Tree Rust by Graffiti Mechanism is now available on #sub65media archive.org/details/s65165 #GraffitiMechanism #ambient #experimental #electronic #8kbps #lobit

Phantom Circuit #453 Trem 77 in a session inspired by sandpainting, plus click songs, space children and sounds inspired by silence, in music by @rongeesin.bsky.social, Lilith Anthropocene, @coporrobi.bsky.social (via @ivopetrov.bsky.social), Axophobe, Get-Effect, Kamiya, Tomita and many more.

#soundart #musiqueconcrete #electroacoustic #darkambient www.mixcloud.com/spectrasonic... @room40.bsky.social @richardchartier.bsky.social @winterlightnl.bsky.social @perceptualtapes.bsky.social @editionsmego.bsky.social @infinemusic.bsky.social @mmaappaa.bsky.social @lexrecords.bsky.social

“Some genres endure because people are devoted to them; others, like soft rock, endure because they are useful catchall categories, and because no one cares enough to police their boundaries.” - Kelefa Sanneh, from the book “Major Labels”

Phantom Circuit #452: Didn’t You Hear? @syntheticvillains.bsky.social, Covolux (c/o @earthrid.bsky.social), @mvw-mikimososumi.bsky.social, Bill Leeb (c/o @shamelesspromotion.bsky.social), @crowslabyrinth.com, @sugaarpan.bsky.social, Talkdemonic (c/o @bathysphererecords.bsky.social) and many more.

Thanks to @spectrasonicsound.bsky.social for including ‘Imponderable’ from ‘Solitudinarian’ by Covolux in the latest edition of The Institute of Spectra-Sonic Sound on #Mixcloud…

Not bad either.

Deep gratitude to @phantomcircuit.bsky.social for acknowledging my fear of 'quiet toilets' 🔕 🚽 alongside many other spellbinding sounds, in the most recent edition... 🙌🏼🙏🏼 🦇

Covolux!

My good friends Simon Heartfield @simonheartfield.bsky.social and Jack packer have a cracking new album out as OLORON. simonheartfield.bandcamp.com/album/field-...

As the *true artist* that I am, I make music only to please myself, not to please others. This is probably why we still have some copies of The Gateway Tape available for you to purchase. Available at @strategictaper.bsky.social's Bandcamp: strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/the-ga... 😵‍💫

Phantom Circuit #451: Celsius 19 Music by Covolux (on @earthrid.bsky.social), @simonheartfield.bsky.social (on @moolakiiclubai.bsky.social), @firestations.bsky.social + @sulkrooms.bsky.social, @soundhex.bsky.social, @shiftingheigo.bsky.social and more. #experimental #ambient #electronicMusic

The new release on @earthrid.bsky.social contains radiant electronic experiments in the key of solitude (but not in a lonely, isolated way). This is an immersive, ecstatic and verdant kind of alone. This is the joy and wonder of hermitude. #ambient earthrid.bandcamp.com/album/solitu...

As first heard as a session recorded for Phantom Circuit:

Bandcamp Friday is over of course—what with it being Saturday and all that—but we are keeping the intro price at just £1 (or more) this weekend. Instant bliss for weary brains for as little as £1! 🤯 & all proceeds* to the artist. * After Not-Bandcamp-Saturday/Sunday platform fee, Paypal’s fee...

The wonderful @earthrid.bsky.social just released a cure for mayhem. Come over & find ultimate bliss in the good side of solitude! Think of peaceful warm pleasentness while floating away in pretty escapism. Love yourself & do yourself a favor by tuning in here: earthrid.bandcamp.com/album/solitu...

Earthrid is delighted to bring you a new album by Covolux: ‘Solitudinarian’ An absorbing immersion in feelings evoked by solitary experience of the natural world. The album is available for the price you think is right, with a minimum of just £1 for #BandcampFriday. #ambient #electronicMusic

Thanks to ‘This is Darkness’ for reviewing Earthrid release ‘Carrion Carya Amara’ by Carya Amara (@caryaamara.bsky.social): “Uplifting and dark in equal measure, this is one of those albums that offers something new with each and every listen. Remarkable!” 🎧 earthrid.bandcamp.com/album/carrio...

This page on Bandcamp has just been updated. Bandcamp is to use Stripe instead of Paypal.

Thanks to Simon for including a track from ‘Mentally Sound’ by @toxicchicken.bsky.social in the latest edition of ‘Secret Self’.

“9 Habits for Clearer Speaking (I Wish I Knew Sooner)” says this YouTube expert on lucid communication. 🤨

Thank you a looot for including my olde tune Bongo Physician❣️ @toxicchicken.bsky.social is doing a great job here compiling modern obscure music. Check out his own musical escapades over at @earthrid.bsky.social too! 🫶🏻

A rare glimpse behind the scenes of the music egg factory earthrid.bandcamp.com/album/mental... @earthrid.bsky.social

Caution: may result in euphoria and addiction. Only mildly toxic. ☣️🐔 “The perfect cure for Mondayitis... infectiously fun and wonderful.” – Dead Heretic “An index into the mind of the closest thing the world of electronica has to Syd Barrett.” – Monolith Cocktail #bandcampFriday #WishYouWouldHear