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Mika Vainio’s swansong album as Ø is here - arguably his solo magnum opus - weaving from panoramic tundras to music box melodies, pitch-bent guitar shimmers and precision bass pulses, quietly radiating hope in negative space… deluxe edition 2LP + CD, now shipping boomkat.com/products/sys...

“A paradox of Sysivalo is that an artist who was often uninterested in melody – focusing instead on microscopic details of sound – has created music of such grace and lyricism”

yep

Brilliant idea. All of Jeremy Marre and Derek Bailey’s landmark series in one day!

I wrote about the limbo between beauty and ugliness and the ‘listening in’ explored by Mika Vainio in his final Ø album for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Well, he used to creepily hang around at beauty pageants.

BBC: "Donald Trump is all about the drama and the pageantry" tbh I doubt he even knows what pageantry means

Ilan Volkov speaking further on Gaza and Israel’s campaign of attacks and violence on BBC news hour at 45 minutes. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Oh no! I can’t have been the only young kid to have seen this and thought ‘OK, cinema can do THIS’

Loved talking to Lucretia Dalt for @electronicsound.bsky.social magazine, in their brand new issue (wooden instrument made in workshop for scale)

Pretty remarkable stash of Kiss FM's amazing Manasseh show from BITD www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiJH...

"I my heart, there is great pain, now, every day, for months" The great Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov calls for a ceasefire at the Proms at the Albert Hall last night

Phone might be out of order right now, try and get me here (or elsewhere) if you need me IRL...

Pressure Sounds put out a comp of his digital productions a few years back. Not sure if it's still available though... www.discogs.com/master/35484...

Augustus Pablo’s underrated and immaculately tough digital productions www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCaq...

There is not much online on Ross Bolleter’s work for ruined pianos, which seems a shame, so here’s a nice film about them www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke9p...

Tresor reissue a 1993 collage of tape looped environmental sounds - running water, dolphins, macaques and the likes - originally conceived as a soundtrack to the bogs at the club, where the 47 minute piece played on a loop to perplexed ablutions boomkat.com/products/mus...

A live appearance by LKJ in Brooklyn (along with a related film)! Sadly I can't make it to this, but if you're in the area you'd be crazy not to go. www.bam.org/linton

After finally listening to REM post-Monster, I put together 2.5 hours of less heralded, live, rare-ish and later REM here (and dropping it here as I discontinue Spotify once again) open.spotify.com/playlist/53m...

Fascinating thread about the very distinctive sound of one of my favourite records of the year, a charming (like, literally) album by Okkyung Lee

I forgot the important bit: props to Mike Cooper for the tip-off.

Absolutely loved writing about this in The Wire this month, a bunch of five young Italian kids composing and jamming on iPads and gadgets after a workshop in Rome, and creating one of the purer collaborations you're likely to hear this year themistakeband.bandcamp.com

Pondering whether there is a form of experience which is not “lived experience“.

T-minus 14h 31m 20s quadrantpark.bandcamp.com

Although I kind of love this idea I'm not massively into cake myself and rather fancy the defiant individualism and DIY spirit of The Wire might better served with, for instance, charts for various different types of bread and street food

Apropos of 'clubs' and 'curators', subscribe to @thewiremagazine.bsky.social instead. On top of everything else, each month you get reports on amazing labels in the Unlimited Editions section, like @darylworthington.bsky.social on Collapsing Drums. Support independent journalism not grubby corpos.

Loved reviewing the new Mark Fell record on @frozenreeds.com which finds sounds from a classical ensemble where there were previously none (LIYL Mauricio Kagel, Luigi Nono etc). Also, cake:

The 500th issue of The Wire comes with a commemorative silver gatefold cover featuring brand new artwork by the magazine’s longstanding resident graphic artist and illustrator Savage Pencil. Pick up your copy here: www.thewire.co.uk/shop/

New issue of The Wire, with an unbelievably badass Savage Pencil cover! In amongst other things, I review the great new book on Baltimore club music by @alshipley.bsky.social

www.mixcloud.com/do_you_radio... this is a good interview with DJ Food / Strictly Kev as well

Very fun article by @joemuggs.bsky.social pegged on a great new compilation

A reunion event for the best London club ever www.koko.co.uk/events/koko-...

A book that desperately needs to be reprinted, albeit with a print-size that is slightly larger than microscopic.

Not to get too LinkedIn on here, but I have some spare freelance capacity this autumn so DM me if you're looking to hire a music writer, copywriter (certified actual human), editor, comms person or ultra-nerdy proofreader. Newsletters, festival brochures, hacking down words to fit, whatever!

And @prolapseband.bsky.social are AOTW here @tapeterecords.bsky.social

this was a blast, I sat down with motorik indie heroes Prolapse and talked about celebrating the downtrodden, repeato riffage, the aesthetics of disgust, and the stories that 90s nostalgia glosses over

Why is the BBC gamifying climate change? www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

The voice of Dizzee Rascal – before all the bad stuff - still sounds better than any other www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tqe...

Some Korean label I hadn't heard of emailed me recently with some new music, but now it's lost in my inbox. Gah. Would love to locate it again.

Looking at how much AI has affected my wedding speech business. This time last year, the previous four weeks I’d earned £2000 through speeches. This year it’s £225. Food’s overrated, anyway.

Placeholder ‘oh right it’s a bank holiday I completely forgot’ post

I realize this is not the same thing, but have you heard this? cleanfeedrecords.bandcamp.com/album/we-wil...

@tattipersson.bsky.social the Bandcamp legend is here, excellent!

Loved this tiny John Berger book which uses the memory of his travelling uncle to travel to Bologna and its architecture and fabrics, something like Walter Benjamin’s Arcades crossed with David Toop

Re: that narrative of ‘Alien was actually about workers’ rights', I'm sure among the many things written/posted on that before was an incredible breakdown of this scene, the 'bonus situation'. The mise en scene of one level of works and another. Gah, what was it!? www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsLP...

An absolute game-halter for me (regarding trip hop). Shadow had been unassailable before that album and there were all sorts of super weird trip hop LPs like Wagon Christ’s Big Soup and mixes like 70 Minutes of Madness which suggested it could go anywhere.

I like to listen to this once in a while to remind myself how inadequate the received idea of triphop is to represent some of the music that came out that field www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVFE...