Currently putting together the next one, but ICYMI the latest issue of Happening Again went out on Halloween. It's packed with bangers but special mention to @pulseemitter.bsky.social's Tide Pools which I think will be one of my Albums Of The Year.

twitter being bought and turned into a propaganda machine for fascism, which is directly pumped into every journalist in the world's brain, is one of the worst things to happen in the last few years. we might not survive it.

Taking it as a positive of consciously being more offline that I have no idea what this (possibly confected) BBC scandal is.

I am truly turning into my father with a rant like this but good lord is modern technology dreadful. The hoops you have to jump through to do the simplest things. Diagnosing a broken phone and trying to test replacements turned into a farce within minutes.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

I’m really excited to share my new album ‘Apeiron Anxiety’ with you - available from @castlesinspace.bsky.social Bandcamp & the best record stores ;) (Also,happy cosmic birthday to you, dad. I owe you everything & miss you every day x) fieldlinescartographer-cis.bandcamp.com/album/apeiro...

Bought the GTA Trilogy for my Switch and I honestly think I could play Vice City forever.

lol

Not only did everyone seemingly go hard this year for Halloween, everyone also apparently put all their Christmas decorations up on the first of November.

Good morning! For those that missed it, a new Happening Again went out at the end of last week...

It is both tragic and funny that after all of the hundreds of billions of dollars poured in to GenAI, it still can’t do something’s as basic as this without just making shit up.

Happy Halloween! The new Happening Again just landed in inboxes. It's not all spooky listens, but there are a few albums perfect for tonight and this time of year.

Moonbuilding Weekly Issue 86, the fright night special, is out now ... moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-86-3...

The word is often over-used and used incorrectly, but there really was something incredibly Lynchian about the latest episode of The Chair Company. From the little absurd conversations, to the Lost Highway-like horror moments, to the surreal interactions. Great television all round.

Really don't want to turn my Bluesky into constant AI rants (lol) but it so depressing to see AI generated art out in public. I've seen points of sale adorned with it, a handyman with *that* cartoon style of art as his logo, and Halloween-themed coffee with a badly generate hand.

Is it worse to publish not-proofed human copy, or not-proofed AI copy? Because I keep seeing both regularly. And it's really depressing. And I also can't believe this is a sentence that I've typed out and has meaning.

After talking on here a little while ago about the relentless march of the music biz basically memory hole-ing any joy or career highlights you might've had because you haven't released anything in the last week, I thought 'you know what? fuck it, why not show off a bit?' So here's a thread:

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

I'm late to this but @lofive.bsky.social has pulled together a brilliant collection of artists for Médecins Sans Frontières. 𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙚𝙠. is the result of a shared challenge to take a drum break sample and make whatever what you like with it. emotionwave.bandcamp.com/album/- The results are outstanding.

It really is a pain in the arse that Imgur is now blocked in the UK.

Good morning. The new Happening Again went out last night, the first of Spooky Season. There's a vague horror theme to it, with lots of good stuff for your ears.

Good morning. The new Happening Again went out last night, the first of Spooky Season. There's a vague horror theme to it, with lots of good stuff for your ears.

It’s 30 years since the launch of Muzik and I’ll be talking about the magazine at a House Of Koko event in Camden tomorrow night (Friday), together with several other members of the Muzik team. It’s many years since I’ve seen some of them, so this should be good fun!

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW! We have GARY NUMAN on the cover of this month’s Electronic Sound and we’re bundling the magazine with an exclusive red vinyl seven-inch featuring two tracks from ‘Telekon’ chosen for us by the great man himself. Get your copy now at electronicsound.co.uk/issue130garynuman

In the age of forums and early days MySpace and Bebo (and *very* early Facebook) I made some great friends who I still keep up with and have met multiple times. Everything post-2010 has been like shouting into a toilet.

Aside from anything else, it's become clear as I've become an adult that *more* people should have done some sort of English or humanities degree or module. It feels mad now that people used to sniff at Media Studies.

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

DON'T HAVE CHILDREN IF YOU DON'T WANT TO PARENT THEM GOOD GOD HOW HARD IS THIS TO UNDERSTAND?!

This year is apparently the year I chose to try and read about eight books at once, so I've obviously further decided that my spooky October read shall be King and Straub's 'The Talisman'.

i truly cannot get over this stupid AI image of a gas stove

It feels like the 00s again for all the wrong reasons.

Some great reporting here: “One of the most prominent YouTubers, Anthony Styles, 59, has since deleted his AJ Audits channel after it was revealed he is a convicted paedophile. He was known to frequent protests… where demonstrators claimed to stand for the “protection of women and children”

Probably a good idea to stop using Twitter/X then.

ICYMI: a new edition of Happening Again is out now and the musical round-up this fortnight is heavy on the synth work.

Why would you want this? Who is this for? How does a human agent even represent an AI actress? Wtf is going on?

A really fun one to put together, with some absolute stonkers. The new Happening Again has just dropped into inboxes. Come and read why I'm raving about Mega Drive, OGRE Sound, @sferro.bsky.social, Infinite Luxury (@occams-laser.bsky.social), and the 'Silksong' score.

A really fun one to put together, with some absolute stonkers. The new Happening Again has just dropped into inboxes. Come and read why I'm raving about Mega Drive, OGRE Sound, @sferro.bsky.social, Infinite Luxury (@occams-laser.bsky.social), and the 'Silksong' score.

Why are people posting on social media in 5120x1080.

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For some reason, the last two issues of Happening Again have been my best performing. Thank you to all who read it. If you enjoy it, feel free to recommend it someone or even better yet, subscribe!

Do I know anyone that might have an inkling as to wtf is going on with BBC News at the moment? Their live reporting on Kimmel's monologue this morning misrepresented what was said (never mind the fact that we don't need "live" reporting on a show you can't even watch in the UK.

Since many of us are cancelling streaming services, now might also be a good time to support writers and artists. Times are extremely tough for creatives, so why not buy a book, commission an art piece, sign up for a Patreon, tip your favorite creators. Everything helps.

The horrors are never-ending, so let's all listen to some Tangerine Dream.