i wrote a round-up of 2025, and put up a new instalment of the Live Compendium for sale today! Having a January subscriber sale!! Digital tier is 1/3 off at £30 for a whole year 🥵 and renews at that price :) read all about my year here ✨ loulayorke.com/2026/01/01/s... selected recordings there👇

Forever Neon Lights // 30.01.26 My debut album via @castlesinspace.bsky.social Pre-order now on gatefold neon marble purple 12” vinyl www.jamesadrianbrown.com xxx

My third and final album of 2025, Flow and Fracture, is up on my Bandcamp page and has dropped into subscribers' collections already: jojohnson.bandcamp.com. Muzan Editions made 150 of these precious cassettes and I only have 4 to sell right now. Oh. Only one left!

Thanks a million to @electronicsound.bsky.social and Ben Murphy for featuring my music and @silver-threads.bsky.social in this months edition of their luxury magazine. I've been a wary interviewee for a long time but found chatting to Ben super relaxed and hope that comes across.

🎛️Trevors Virtual Cassette Library 160🎛️ Drop a comment on the timeline of the Mixcloud show (if you have an account) 🎧 www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tr... 🎨 Grocer Cat @s4agb.bsky.social Substak, LR Friberg @flcartographer.bsky.social SourceCodeX Arcane Trickster @puppy-bordiga.bsky.social Cousin Silas

Top 5 of ‘25: 1. @jo-johnson.bsky.social - Alterations Vol.1 2. These New Puritans - Crooked Wing 3. @vasculator.bsky.social - Nothing Left To Dissolve 4. @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel - The Universe Will Take Care Of You 5. @loulayorke.bsky.social - Time Is A Succession Of Such Shapes

Many thanks to @abulmogard.bsky.social for including my track ‘Dying Embers’ from the ‘Apeiron Anxiety’ album on his latest ROVR show. Check it out - some beautiful music here www.rovr.live/s/ds4rc7lqf1...

Received top tier merch here as brilliant present - new darts set complete with custom ‘Dreamtides’ flights 😂😊

@jamesadrianbrown.bsky.social merry Christmas mate 😂😂 Have a lovely day both x

A new live set from @apta.bsky.social : apta.bandcamp.com/album/apta-l...

The shortest day. Happy solstice all & here’s to the return of the light fieldlinescartographer.bandcamp.com/track/last-l...

Argh. Obviously what I saw here at first glance was a dude making an absolutely sick patch on his 6U 84HP eurorack system. I need to get out more.

A few old and new tunes for Secret Self #114 with @bunkr303.bsky.social @warringtonruncorn.com @flcartographer.bsky.social @faexoptim.bsky.social @robertafidora.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy @daveclarkson.bsky.social @sulkrooms.bsky.social @megaheadphoneboy.bsky.social and more youtu.be/eq4kP5nwxek?...

Fantastic pre Xmas present - this absolute belter from @sulkrooms.bsky.social & the tee shirt is just 🔥

#MavoyMusicTop300AlbumsOf2025 220 @flcartographer.bsky.social - Resplendent In The Light Of The Universe (ambient, Something Else ) / Apeiron Anxiety (ambient, @castlesinspace.bsky.social )

I live in Lancaster <shrugs>

«The external world was a complete fiction» J.G. Ballard talking about The Atrocity Exhibition and superabundance of fiction, 1970.

Favourite albums of 2025 in no particular order, Part 2, featuring: @jo-johnson.bsky.social; @chloeharris.bsky.social; @polypores.bsky.social; @flcartographer.bsky.social; @quietdetails.bsky.social; @silver-threads.bsky.social; @worriedaboutsatan.bsky.social; Wil Bolton. More to follow…

Too much fucking perspective.

The Sarno Ultra album we wrote with @kaylapainter.bsky.social is number 7 in @moonbuilding.bsky.social albums of the year list As is our lastest Jilk album moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-92-1... ALSO in the top electronic albums for @acloserlisten.bsky.social acloserlisten.com/2025/12/14/a...

Lovely to get down to the OG home turf this weekend & see family & friends

The new Happening Again just dropped into inboxes. It's the last one of the year, and I'll be back in January. Despite not being a festive issue, I seem to bring up Christmas a lot. Thanks to everyone who continues to read and subscribe. It means a lot, especially at the moment.

It's a pretty dazzling 1-2-3 I think!

Huge thanks to @moonbuilding.bsky.social placing ‘Solar Maximum’ at the no.2 spot in their AOTY. It’s an honour to be in a list amongst some brilliant pals& artists: I’m chuffed to see the superb @jo-johnson.bsky.social next to me in the number 1 spot here, as ‘Alterations Vol.1’ is my AOTY too🔥

Sarno Ultra (Sarno ultra), debut album from me and Jon from @jilk.bsky.social made the end of year list in @moonbuilding.bsky.social 🥳 So chuffed to have this in there, to hear it reached people and they vibed with it is second to none!! Released via @bricolageg5.bsky.social 🩷

HUNGRY VORTEXXXXX!

Absolutely sick to death of Instagram posts where a marble runs down a ramp, or some fucking water goes down a plug hole & the text is like “Because, physics” Yeah. We fucking know. We’re not idiots. Everything* is physics, you absolute melts. Stop it. (*Apart from magick, obviously)

‘Rewilding’ is here to check if you haven’t yet heard it : thomasragsdalemusic.bandcamp.com/album/rewild... Physical items are selling nicely (only 10 CDs left now). I really hope you enjoy this album and I’ll be expanding on it in a release early 2026 (spoiler - it’s a concept album about worms)

Last week I released a new album and I just wanted to say thanks for all the support on it - it’s been a bloody amazing couple of days! I wrote a big thing about it attached here on why I love our untamed wild Earth and how it’s changed my music writing...

I’ve just remembered something. The Ashes in Australia can get in the bin. Fucks sake.

It's Bandcamp Friday! So why not pick up a copy of my new LP, Hungry Vortex? Four extended jams exploring polyrhymic fixations and cosmic jazz freakouts. Digital is here, plus details of how to get the vinyl too. Thanks to everyone who has supported it so far! polypores.bandcamp.com/album/hungry...

Moonbuilding Weekly Issue 91 is out now featuring @agneshaus.bsky.social as Album Of The Week, the incredible new @polypores.bsky.social record and much more... moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-91-5...

My excellent pal TR with one of his finest ever releases I think here. It unfurls & builds like a beautiful dark flower. Incredible thomasragsdalemusic.bandcamp.com/album/rewild...

It’s Bandcamp Friday, so here’s a gentle message that you can find all 3 of my album releases of 2025 on that excellent platform via the Woodford Halse, DiN & Castles In Space imprints Thankyou ✊🏻

Two shirts for my birthday- both fantastic presents by which to know me: These New Puritans, who were simply one of the best gigs I’ve been to this year (& an album to suit - just unbelievable) & what may possibly be a promotion winning shirt for 25/26… though I dare not dream, yet.

#NowPlaying Field Lines Cartographer - Information Alchemy Apeiron Anxiety (Castles in Space) fieldlinescartographer-cis.bandcamp.com/album/apeiro... @castlesinspace.bsky.social @flcartographer.bsky.social

Jofra here batting more effectively than the bulk of the middle order

Looking backwards and forwards, 2025 into 2026 - my latest newsletter for your entertainment and illumination open.substack.com/pub/robinrim...

Anthony Child - of the Beginning old-technology.bandcamp.com/album/of-the... 2025 was a difficult year for all of us. For me it was one of loss, breakdown, heartbreak, reflection and discovery.

Oh ffs.

Oh Ben

What’s this pink ball BS calling it dinner ? It’s still tea. Here in LA1 it’s always tea. Dinner is what you have around noon ;-)

I work in schools, annually I have to complete Prevent training, to spot signs of radicalisation and report it appropriately. Significant parts of the British media, both broadcast and online, say things that I would report to Prevent if a young person said them. This is absolutely horrifying.

The new @polypores.bsky.social album isn't merely good, it's astonishing. Stephen has been on the form of his life lately, and this is so good it just makes me wonder why I even bother. A joyous maelstrom of kaleidoscopic polyrhythms and gorgeous melodies. polypores.bandcamp.com/album/hungry...

The new record from @polypores.bsky.social is an absolute banger - wild polyrhythmic psych jazz thrillride energy 🔥🔥🔥 polypores.bandcamp.com/album/hungry...

Kind of interesting that much of the crowd bleating about ‘rewarding scroungers’ with the lifting of the 2 child benefit cap seem to be that same crowd who’ve also been bleating about “looking after are (sic) own” all year with relation to immigration.

As someone who has (I think !) every Polypores release, ever, I think I’m qualified to say this is my boi Buckers at the very top of his game. Beautiful psychedelic, polymetric, prog-jazz long form workouts that display once again truly singular talent. Unreal. polypores.bandcamp.com/album/hungry...

I've made a mix of ambient and low(ish) key electronica from the last 18 months. Featuring @flcartographer.bsky.social @warringtonruncorn.com @apta.bsky.social @drsausagesmd.bsky.social @kaylapainter.bsky.social etc Everyone you'd expect really www.mixcloud.com/indolent_chi...

Many thanks to Ben Hogwood for this review 🙏🏻 ——————————————— arcana.fm/2025/11/29/s...