ICYMI, this week's newsletter rounds up incredible new LPs from Carrier, In Transit (Dave Huismans), Natural Information Society, Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo, Spanish guitarist Paul Pérrim, Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O'Rourke, Lifted pal Jeremy Hyman & more! futurismrestated.substack.com/p/fr-142-per...

Great reporting (and a crazy-making story) from Andy Cush

'Manzana', the companion album to '1979' is out today, exclusively on @bandcamp.com on CD and digital. mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/album/manzana

Last week Balmat released µ-Ziq's 1979, @mikeparadinas.bsky.social' 2nd album for the label. Today we're back with 1979's surprise-released* companion album MANZANA! (*unless you were in the Bandcamp listening party last week, in which case you knew) mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/album/manzana

I seem to remember whole congressional hearings about the terrible destructive force that is violence in video games and yet, there is a very strange quiet about an unregulated technology that coaches people to suicide.

These transcripts are some of the most sickening things I’ve ever read.

Cheers for the tip @philipsherburne.bsky.social jeremyhyman.bandcamp.com/album/low-air

I reviewed Mark Fell's mind-bending new album of chamber music (yes, you read that right) on the @frozenreeds.com label, plus the inaugural EP on the National Centre for Mark Fell Studies, best label name I've heard in a while pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Is there any good thing that AI supposedly makes better cause all that’s ever been reported about it is how actually makes bad things worse. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/b...

Who did this?

The spontaneous chants of "Shame!" are particularly satisfying

My new album "1979" is out today on 2LP and Digital. Listen now: balmat.lnk.to/1979 Buy on Bandcamp: mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/album/1979

I quite enjoy this because I truly hope that his children grow up to despise him as the gutter racist he is

This is starting in five minutes!

ha ha ha hah hahahahhahah oh my god

Published a long interview with San Francisco legend Jonah Sharp aka Spacetime Continuum and his son Jasper, aka Cahl Sel, one of the only intergenerational electronic music duos I know. Includes original photography and vintage rave flyers from Jonah’s archive, likely never published before.

Man, music discovery is so fucked these days. At least for me. I had no idea that Steve Hauschildt had a new one out until I read @philipsherburne.bsky.social's newsletter this week. I was a huge fan of all the Emeralds folks and had zero clue. stevehauschildt.bandcamp.com/album/aeropsia

I had a fascinating conversation with Steve Hauschildt about his great new album, his move to Tbilisi, and what's next for Emeralds 👀 futurismrestated.substack.com/p/fr-141-ste...

Join me in a Bandcamp Listening Party tomorrow at 7pm. Listen to 1979 in one go and in the correct order and there'll be a special announcement too! mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/merch/ziqs-1...

GTFOH

Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O'Rourke have shared surprise four live albums following their Unsound shows

😭

jesus fucking christ

Nothing drives home how completely unwieldy Apple's password protocols are more vividly than trying to walk a parent with dementia through changing their Apple ID over the phone

There were a lot of things I was supposed to do today but it's Friday so I put together a new Mixes Digest instead, as a treat futurismrestated.substack.com/p/mixes-dige...

Friday

You'll pry these Oxford commas out of my cold, dead, third thing hands

I feel like an appropriate legal penalty for Trump’s destruction of the East Wing would be the demolition of an equivalent proportion (say, roughly 1/3) of Mar-a-Lago

I reviewed a truly phenomenal album on Spacetime Continuum's recently revived Reflective label. Absolute manna for fans of mid-90s Autechre, Aphex, Burger/Ink, Skam, et. al. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

In 13 minutes, I'm going to be joining The Trend Report's Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick to talk about music writing and music criticism. Access the Google Meet link here! calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0...

My "this is not a Nazi tattoo" tattoo has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my tattoo

Trump finally accomplishing what Ziad Jarrah failed to do

I did manage to get one photo of Autechre last night.

Still appalled at how paltry and terrible the NYT coverage of the protests were and how nobody there feels any responsibility to address the criticism. This was not something that caught them off guard. This was many levels of decisions.

Diarrhea Donald always did love himself a nickname

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

Block list for Trump regime government accounts. How to Dismantle a Dictatorship, Step 4: Block validation. #3E bsky.app/profile/did:...

The trump regime is setting up official agency accounts here on BlueSky, and they’re dragging their MAGA trolls with them. Block liberally.

No matter where you live or if you’ve never protested before, there’s a local No Kings Day event for you. Join a peaceful protest to make it clear that We The People will never bow down to a wannabe king: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Wishing everyone a fruitful No Kings day, today and every day, from the Balearic islands. There are barely any Americans where we live, so we've got our posters up on the front door.

Had a moving encounter with Beverly and Elizabeth Glenn-Copeland this week

J. D. VANCE: We need to end DEI. MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)

It gets exhausting, feeling this much contempt for the people running things.

KAVANAUGH STOP

Sunday reading: I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves. This week’s piece:

That's quite a spread

I reviewed feeo's fantastic debut album for AD 93, one of my favorites of the year. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

A bureaucracy like DHS and Border Patrol have dedicated staff whose sole responsibility is the drafting, approving, and posting of such social media content. They know the people involved. They know damn well why and it is because this is a Nazi government.