For the folks who have picked up some of my work this Bandcamp Friday, you are very much appreciated 🖤 I probably advertise my own work less often than I should, so it's always a nice surprise when folks find their way to my tunes.

Everything is quiet. Until it's not.

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If you know me, you'll know the only thing I love as much as the ocean is outer space. There is so much potential for positive exploratory growth in either environment. I want to be excited that we're leaving near-Earth orbit again... So why does the Artemis II mission feel so hollow?

Einsturzende Neubauten is basically the sound inside my head most days. Worth a watch.

When androgynous beings wearing Kraftwerk uniforms begin to pump you full of pink energy from modular synthesizers... you know things are going to get interesting...

I know it's important to separate an artist from their art, for example some of the best military sci-fi authors are huge anti-war folks IRL But it's a real shame to see a guy who writes books about humanity coming together going on a culture war podcast to bitch about wokeness or whatever.

I just learned Andy Weir went on a right-wing grifter's podcast. Shame. Weir's novels didn't read like they were written by a douchebag. But I guess some people hide in plain sight.

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Newest Mixed Bag of Holding is up! Featuring such artists as @unwoman.com, @bettyx.bsky.social, @shubzilla.bsky.social, @tmitg.bsky.social, @chaosdoll.bsky.social, @egolikeness.bsky.social, @willow-scarlet.bsky.social, and so much more! www.mixcloud.com/darkmotherra...

The reaction to my recent ambient release has been pleasantly surprising. While I don't really consider myself an ambient artist, it would be a crime to own as many synthesizers as I do and not explore the genre from time to time. There will be more, but first...

I heard someone make a "Deez Nuts" joke today. We really are doomed to repeat the worst parts of the 80s and 90s forever, aren't we? Someone should write a synthpop track about that... 😏

Phantom Circuit #465: Ascent into Chaos #Music from Sin of Envy, This Little Alien, @toxicchicken.bsky.social, @chaosdoll.bsky.social, Basschaos, Swin Deorin, Astrum Luciferi, Sunn O))), Portal, @philippepetitcham.bsky.social and many more. As heard yesterday on @beachyheadradio.bsky.social

#JustListened And here is our moment of calmness for this morning, thanks to @chaosdoll.bsky.social. A very atmospheric track that brings in just enough excitement to highlight the gentle sounds. Makes me think of wind in trees and reflections of light on water. Very nice! Highly recommended!

News: Chaos Doll releases new ambient single inspired by dives in the Indian Ocean regenmag.com/news/news-ch...

Newest Mixed Bag of Holding is up! Featuring such artists as @unwoman.com, @bettyx.bsky.social, @shubzilla.bsky.social, @tmitg.bsky.social, @chaosdoll.bsky.social, @damseldollhouse.bsky.social, @bellheadband.bsky.social, and so much more! www.mixcloud.com/darkmotherra...

A moment of stillness in the blue, far from the static of the world above. Download for free or pay what you want... All that matters is that you listen.

If a mainstream artist released Depeche Mode's "People are People" for the first time in 2026, I feel like at least half the population would debate the validity of the song's message.

You've become so convinced to chase the carrot on a stick that you have never once considered grabbing the stick and breaking it over the heads of those who organized the chase.

Here we go again...

I'm attending a lunar new year event and some of the dumb shit I'm hearing fall out of white people's mouths is making me want to... assertively shake some cultural education into them.

No nation is a monoculture. Wearing a specific cultural label doesn't always make someone a good person. Even the friendliest places on Earth have their fair share of cruel reactionaries. The internet has flattened perception, obliterated pragmatism and continues to discourage nuance.

One thing I really need to focus on this year is leaning into abstract musical structures. I don't just mean weird time signatures or strange chord progressions, but actually deconstructing the way the art is presented. I have fun/odd ideas and I need to stop sanitizing them for wider consumption.

I just got a new audio tool that I am absolutely going to use the shit out of, to a wonderfully annoying degree, in the near future.

Everything is cyclical. Today's progressivism is tomorrow's orthodoxy. The rebels eventually become the rule makers. It used to happen so slowly that people barely even noticed, nowadays it happens so quickly that nobody can even keep up. Yet the wheel ceases not.

Saw this looks-maxing dude preening and peacocking at my gym, so I offered a "lookin' good, girl!" as I walked past. Watching his ego shatter in real time was delightful.

I aspire to this level of social satire... For those not in the know, this is the same band that did the Iron Sky soundtrack and also performed in North Korea.

I shall see your banger, and raise you... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl4X...

Break apart the earth, there's profit to be earned. The end is the beginning of the future we deserve.

Every so often the universe offers us little reminders that not everything is bleak and while times may be cold and dark, there is always a star on the horizon worth aiming for. No, I'm not going to elaborate. Just musing on my own personal observations.

Slightly minimalist techno

So it's here and ready to pop. 4 hours of music curated to warp your tiny mind, a mix of bips and bops. 8pm-12 this coming Saturday on untidyradio.com Includes music from: @srogimroczek.bsky.social @imrryr.com @chaosdoll.bsky.social @3amnoise.net Plus many more... #music #musicsky

This is what happens when private equity takes over and businesses stop releasing innovative products in favor of sucking every penny they can out of previous assets. For those of you not in the know, this was one of the most reputable brands in music production software for the last 25-30 years.

My 2026 is finally starting to ramp up, the first few weeks of the year are always a bit.. relaxed.. but now, as they say, is the time to make noises..

I was today years old when I learned there are people who brag about having AI Psychosis for clout, in the same way some folks fake having MPD/DID and other extremely rare disorders. They even add gibberish code to their posts, to demonstrate how the "AI" is "influencing" them.

Last summer I wrote a very angry, highly political, and incredibly pessimistic album. I ended up not releasing it. We're in a dark place as a civilization, it would feel better to put something else out into the world right now. Not pop music, but a little light, a little hope maybe. We'll see.

Have a big dive coming up next weekend, hoping to get some footage of a Maori Octopus. They are spikey angry looking little dudes and I love them. 🐙

That writing exercise turned isekai is going to end up on my patreon and deviantart pages in a week or two, just giving it the editing treatment now.

I wish I was joking. It just kinda... Happened.

That time I sat down to practice a writing exercise and accidentally wrote a complete 35 page isekai story involving a gamer girl and her friends getting trapped inside a VR MMORPG world before slowly losing their sense of personal identity and turning into sexy dungeon monsters.

One of the greatest joys in life is hearing someone speak about you in a language they don't expect you to understand as you walk past. The look of shock and sometimes even contrition when you pause, smile and respond fluently, even politely to their vulgarity... Oh that's magical.

I feel seen.

Emerging from the Southern Ocean in full gear after a Christmas shore dive. "Are you a sea monster?" Asks a small girl who stops playing on the beach to observe me removing my fins. "Almost certainly." I reply with a grin. "Sea monsters are cool!" The child beams. Sometimes humans are alright.

"Every human is fundamentally selfish and self-interested," She continued, "but the good ones recognize it, channel it in a way that doesn't burden others. The good ones are rare." "Very rare." He responded, still sorrowful. "Want to get out of here?" She asked, her black lips parting invitingly.

"I can't understand faith, but I think I understand morals." He mused, sad at the state of the world. "That's the rub," She replied with a slight smile to mask her own misanthropic thoughts, "most people have faith that their lack of morals doesn't matter."

Nothing for nothing, but my stress levels are basically nil.. I wonder if there is a clue here... www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

Newest Mixed Bag of Holding is up! Featuring such artists @bettyx.bsky.social, @shubzilla.bsky.social, @chaosdoll.bsky.social, @feyleux.bsky.social, @gonemune.bsky.social, @tmitg.bsky.social, @egolikeness.bsky.social and so much more! www.mixcloud.com/darkmotherra...

I got some really interesting recordings with a hydrophone this week. All oceanic, some very eerie. I wonder what sort of uses I could find for them.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is what the girls on Discord refer to as a Polycule....

I sort of feel like humanity lost the plot when it began equating personal interests with personal identity. A friend legitimately asked me if I've stopped making music because I'm "going diving now", as if I've had to just give up being a musician because I like swimming with cephalopods.