Can you jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace?

TIL: Serum uses TAL Reverb for its plate and hall reverb effects.

I have become my parents. At A$5 including post I couldn’t resist. I feel a little guilty because I think the seller probably lost money on this one.

Free stuff!

Last few days to grab Dreamstate at the intro price! A swag of synth/dream/chillwave patches by @killstarr.bsky.social and myself.

Started watching Uncut Gems, immediately intrigued by the music during the opening scene. Turns out Daniel Lopatin aka Oneohtrix Point Never scored the film!

Treat your ears and have a listen to Matt’s walkthrough of these two Diva soundsets.

Todays haul. Reliving my youth. Like millions of other awkward teenagers The Violent Femmes were my favourite group. By art school it was The Pixies. Never owned Doolittle though, it was always just in the air. Not a U2 fan, but have a soft spot for War and got it for A$5.

So they're doing an Anaconda reboot where the plot is that they're doing a reboot of Anaconda...

Gotta love Ian Brown's absolute commitment to not putting the microphone anywhere near his mouth in the music video for I Wanna Be Adored. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D2q...

A VERY well known producer just bought a bunch of my soundsets and plugins. Squee!

Just took my 16yo for their first driving lesson (sans professional instructor). My heart should stop racing any day now. Apparently my car "speeds up when you put your foot on the brake".

Worked on something a bit different recently: my first sound design commission. I designed bespoke synth patches that will be used in the score for a forthcoming MMO video game. The score will combine orchestral and synth sounds, so I'm excited to hear how it turns out.

Is anyone else living in fear of the moment that they discover a cool new musician, get excited and tell everyone about it, then learn that the artist doesn’t exist and the music is AI slop?

I like the sound of “cosy media”. We shall see. www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

An Australian perspective on boycotting Spotify. I doubt it will matter to anyone, but I’m going to pull my handful of tracks off Spotify. Putting my money where my mouth is, and all that. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

The gentleman in the hospital bed next to mine seems to have done a runner. He was admitted night after suffering a stroke, and there was some confusion about the name on his hospital record not matching his actual name. This morning he took a phone call and left the building. Most mysterious.

It surprises me how often I am asked what post processing has been done to Oblivion Sound Lab‘s patch showcase demos, and what external effects were used. The answer is always none.

One perk of being laid up for a few days is that I can catch up on some reading. Very much enjoying visiting Discworld again. Sir Pratchett certainly had a way with words.

Back in hospital. It’s getting real tiresome that every time I catch a cold it ends with a trip to the emergency department. Fuck my lungs.

It’s a great soundset. Don’t sleep on this!

A new release by OGRE is always a cause for celebration. The teaser tracks for Shards are badass. Love the chorus guitar. ogresound.bandcamp.com/album/shards

For those unable to access BBC Sounds (ie all you people lucky enough to not live on Drizzle Island), I’ve created a YouTube Music playlist of the tracks from my radio show. Or at least as close as I can on YouTube. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

If you want to hear more of our Dreamstate soundset then check out Adrian Earnshaw’s excellent walkthrough. Stick around for Adrian’s track at the end of the video, it’s giving me Jean-Michel Jarre vibes 🔥

Some fantastic selections in this playlist by my friend Plastic Horizon.

My bank has implemented 2 factor authentication that requires me to open their app on my phone in order to access the bank's website from my laptop. Might as well just use the phone app in the first place, if I have to open it anyway 🤷‍♂️

Although I pay for a Creative Cloud subscription, I have a deep seated resentment of Adobe, so I'm always trying to wean myself off their products. Currently installing DaVinci Resolve to try instead of after effects for a simple motion graphic task. 🤞

Upgraded macOS. The top feature listed is "8 new emojis". Man, I have been missing out!

You know that you've been looking at too much psychedelic illustration on Pinterest when every suggestion in their daily email looks like this. (Who I am kidding: there is no such thing as too much psychedelic illustration!)

It blows my mind that my 16 year old has never heard of Britney Spears or Justin Timberlake. I'm old, aren't I?

Really stoked to be releasing my first soundset for @uheplugins.bsky.social Diva with Melbourne synth wizard @oblivionsoundlab.bsky.social! Really proud of how it turned out 🔥

As always, a massive thanks for the producers who created demo tracks for the Dreamstate soundset. soundcloud.com/oblivionsoun...

New Diva soundset! This one is a first for Oblivion Sound Lab: a collaboration! I teamed up with fellow Melbourne producer Killstarr, and we each designed 60 patches broadly in a dreamwave and chillwave style. oblivionsoundlab.com/product/drea...

Well I guess you could say this went well..:) #deusex kotaku.com/deus-ex-mank...

This arrived in the post today. I've never actually owned any of The Smiths' albums, despite listening to them loads. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that I can pick up second hand CDs for about the same price that I was paying 20 years ago. This one was A$11 shipped from the UK.

...and of course Soundcloud segues from chillwave to skullstep, because the algorithm is convinced that skullstep is my favourite genre 💀🥁

Came across this artist when working on my next soundset. Not sure why they have so few plays and followers because this sounds pretty damn good to my ears. soundcloud.com/retrophoria/...

Sci-Fi Fantasy is easily the coolest name for a skateboard brand ever. The new video is my lunchtime viewing today. How blessed are we? Back in the day had to wait months for new VHS to ship from the US so we could rent them from our local skate shop and dub them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=48n4...

Strange how in a world of extraordinary music of all kinds, the people on trains with no headphones never seem to play any of it.

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Oh yeah, here's a blast from the past! Another album that I forgot that I own on CD: Crydamoure presents Waves. An incredible selection of French filter house mixed by Le Knight Club (Daft Punk's Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Eric Chédeville) on their own Crydamoure label. Nonstop bangers.

With a picture and description like that, you know you have to click!

Today's CD from the archive: Sonic Youth - Dirty. Daydream Nation will always be my favourite Sonic Youth album, but Dirty is still fantastic, even if it was an attempt to cash in on the popularity of grunge. The kitsch cover photo is by Mike Kelley, which appealed to art school me in 1992.

Another CD from the archives. Great track selection. Pure glitz. I have very fond memories of the electroclash era.

Sorry I will probably be doing this all week. I had completely forgotten that I have 100 Days off by Underworld on CD. Two Months Off is f'ing magical. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Can confirm, this plugin does mad shit.

Trying to wean myself off Spotify. Buying some favourite albums on CD, and rediscovering the few CDs I hung onto. This morning: DJ Shadow - Preemptive Strike. What Does Your Soul Look Like, High Noon and Organ Donor (of course!) are still 🔥

'Marked to Kill' by early 80s synthpop duo 'FEDERATION' 😉 Composed, performed and produced by Phil Heeks (aka THE BRITISH STEREO COLLECTIVE) Vocals by Jane Bailey Concept and record sleeve by Grahame Robertson @cultedge.bsky.social Video by Phil Heeks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbL-jTVBpMg

God knows what I was listening to last time I visited Soundcloud, but all it plays me now is skullstep drum n bass 🤘

Rupert Lally very generously sent me a track to add to the Diffusion playlist. High energy synthpop with a healthy dose of Italo! All sounds from the Diffusion soundbank except percussion. Hear more of Rupert's music at rupertlally.bandcamp.com and on labels like Spun Out Of Control and Third Kind.