Music tech pitches: -An Uber for saxophones -A VST that generates dog bark sounds via physical modelling synthesis -A GPU embedded in a 180g vinyl -A streaming platform that only plays music backwards -Toe sock MIDI controllers -Bluetooth maracas -A Eurorack digital picture frame

When you write “I hope this email finds you well” to a person whom you actually don’t hope that about, you’ve technically committed cyber-fraud, which is a very serious criminal offence in most jurisdictions. So that’s something you might want to keep in mind.

A couple of years ago, a worker at the post office suggested that I might be able to have my own plastic post office bin, to put all my packages in and then bring to the post office. It hasn’t happened yet (or been mentioned again) but I’m hoping that if I just keep my head down and work diligently

Check out @xtelyonrec.bsky.social's Special Hour 65: Synthopia, featuring a track off the latest Phrnis release, The Gateway Tape on @strategictaper.bsky.social. I'm a huge fan of the Massive Attack song, btw - this is good company.

Finally saw this guy the other night, after failing to do so 15 years earlier when the opening act was a 90 minute powerpoint presentation about found footage and, being young, foolish and temperamental, I got bored and left. But this was good.

You should only rewind a tape when you’ve reached the end of a side. If you rewind when it’s only half way through, the tape will start to lose its capacity.

The problem with people playing music on public transportation is that no one is making money from it. This is why it bothers people. If the person playing music was sponsored by alcohol brands or mobile payment apps, this would be accepted or celebrated, because it doesn’t undermine confidence

You don’t want AI to replace opera singers, fine. I don’t either! But I do want AI to identify high growth potential music NFTs within my blockchain audio portfolio app and I’m pretty sure most other musicians feel the same.

Frankenstein isn’t the name if the monster. It’s the name of the person who wrote the book. The monster’s name is Poisonfang and the doctor who created the monster is named Dr Cory Nicehands.

How ungrateful some of us are. People share one of our most beloved artforms, music, for free on a boring train ride, and some folks still aren’t satisfied.

Just ate a knockout persimmon. Like a meaty floral marshmallow.

Grab a brew, me and @spennylove.bsky.social are on the radio in 7 minutes!

perfect jcard for a noise tape. no notes. print it

A musician is depressed because they can’t make effective music, so they enrol in an online masterclass with a successful music YouTuber. The YouTuber imparts their knowledge but the musician’s music is no more effective. Many years pass. The YouTuber falls into a disused well while hiking but is

Suited. Booted. Back on Reform Radio. 6pm. Sunday. Rob is married now. No crisps. Maybe songs by @woodfordhalse.bsky.social, @strategictaper.bsky.social, @wormholeworld.bsky.social, @thirdkindrecords.bsky.social, @necrosferatul.bsky.social, @thetrifler.bsky.social & more who aren't on Blue Sky.

If your tapes contain traces of shellfish, you need to declare that on the packaging, because it’s kind of gross.

One surprising thing you learn working at a tape reserve is that the counter on the cassette deck doesn’t count your steps. That’s not what it’s for. It counts the tape’s steps, so to speak. This is why it’s called “physical media”. The media itself is very physical, so you want to keep an eye that.

Ready for Hollywood to start making big budget music biopics about ambient artists where it’s just a 2 hour continuous shot of the artist reading a book on the sofa.

Electronic music production tip: Remember to clean under your nails. During an electronic music making session, all kinds of junk gets in there and if you don’t get it out, you’re looking at a nail infection, which is exactly what you don’t want when you’re trying to make your electronic music.

I’ve never used a hoover bass sound in my music just on the off chance it’s ever revealed that the preset was programmed by J Edgar Hoover.

Even if you hate music, try listening to it while pumping iron at the gym. The results are undeniable.

Today’s review has us looking at a new album from Budokan Boys brought to us courtesy of @strategictaper.bsky.social www.onthefringesofsound.com/2025/11/budo... #nowave #psychedelic #electronic #experimental #noise #wave #musicreview #bandcamp

3 copies left… Sussex Telecom - ‘Limited Company’ Featuring remixes from Minotaur Shock and Rupert Lally thirdkindrecords.bandcamp.com/album/limite...

Don't want to jinx anything, but today has started pretty well, and could conceivably get even better.

You discovered noise music.

Talk radio and podcasts are similar, but the main difference is that radio is intended for groups to listen to together while podcasts are meant to be listened to alone. Between music formats, there isn’t this kind of distinction, so music must always accommodate both groups and individuals.

“Musicians are entrepreneurs of audio and each release they put out is another sonic startup.” -Mozart

All of my kid’s friends thought that when you go to a door and say “trick or treat”, it’s a question and the person who lives there can choose to either give you a treat or request that you perform a magic trick for them, so they’d all prepared crappy disappearing coin tricks.

black_ops @black-ops.bsky.social this weekend features @peetwu.bsky.social @worldofechomusic.bsky.social @400lonelythings.bsky.social @heinouswhiner.bsky.social @angelxsimitchiev.bsky.social @ivopetrov.bsky.social @chocolatemonk.co.uk @porouscollective.bsky.social taktentradio.com?p=4773

Now out in full! Budokan Boys - THE OOZE 👹😳😨😱 strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/the-ooze

best of the best in the weird song game right now

Budokan Boys are back and deep in the night crawlin' electro-doom stalkin' strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/the-ooze

i am asking all the cis people in my life to make a LOT of fucking noise about this

Now out in full! Budokan Boys - THE OOZE 👹😳😨😱 strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/the-ooze

Happy Halloween, everyone! Have a new album from Hoodwinks! hoodwinks.bandcamp.com/album/gay-st...

Just remembering my friend’s uncle telling us to be careful on Mischief Night because people would (somehow?) put Nair inside of eggs and if you got hit in the head with an egg that had Nair in it, all your hair would fall out. Anyway, be careful out there.

There ought to be more buzz around Abadir's new album 𝘒𝘪𝘵𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨. Social media soundbites, ads, and reels collaged into microcosms of semioblitz. Brutal, spastic, and weirdly comforting, all at the same time.

In instrumental music, the protagonist of the music is usually the music. Too often this protagonist is intended to be honest & likeable, which can feel inauthentic, like a character on an early-evening sitcom. Protagonists (ie musics) that are confused, deceptive and even repulsive can work better.

This weekend on @taktentradio.bsky.social

Out in full on Hallowe’en (ie mañana) Budokan Boys - THE OOZE 👻👹🎃😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/the-ooze

Please stop dying, laptop. 5,7 years old is old for a hamster but not for giant tortoise and taxonomically, laptops are closer to tortoises than hamsters, so knock it off.

All music is inherently good. Very rarely, an artist or fans or some unrelated ne'er-do-well can work hard enough that they imbue a piece of music with their badness. It’s sad when this happens, but ultimately that music needs to be sacrificed, eg destroyed in a controlled explosion.

An app that gamifies having even just a shred of humanity.

If you are in an improvised music group, the best way to practice is by playing jenga together.

When you come to the tape reserve to buy a (or return a damaged) cassette, we now provide up to 15 minutes of free internet on your laptop or desktop computer via a LAN cable that you can borrow in exchange for a collateral deposit of similar value.

If you need information, rather than settling for a failed technology like AI or the internet, why not look at the Learning by Listening informational cassette series. There are currently 9 entries and this number is growing every few years! strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/learni...

Pulp playing in ALDI.

Encountered this wild lobster-style creature walking around in an empty parking lot

Putting together a crack team for a heist at the Institute National de L'audiovisue to steal the priceless GRM plug-ins.