Decision time! Vinyl. We have 4 of these left out of a run of 50. They will sell at gigs, but we are not going to do a repress unless we have a drastic increase in fame. If you want one dm us, first come first served. Cost including postage is £28 , we'll give you Paypal/bank details by return.

EPs and Albums of the year Been thinking a fair bit about this. Juggling rankings, do I really marginally prefer this album, etc. Then I read a bsky post saying “you can’t rank art”. I mean, obviously, you can, but it’s a faff so instead these are in alphabetical order with EPs before Albums.

FIVE, at least, worldwide #EXCLUSIVE firstplays/premières/unveilings featured during #ColinSpencer Programme #187 thanks to @mnsfprdctn.bsky.social 'Lit Up', 3x #NostalgiaDeathstar and @willieg.bsky.social 'Patience And Shuffle The Cards' ▶️ www.mixcloud.com/ColinSpencer... to #DiscoverAndRemember

More year in MOP. Films. We enjoyed the new Superman, Thunderbolts and Fantastic Four films, and the Running Man remake, and enjoyed Elle Fanning in Predator: Badlands while realising the rest of the film was trash. We also went to see some actual good films, many of which were quite odd.

Gigs. We went to a lot of gigs. Winner though has to be @factoryfloor.bsky.social at @corsicastudios.bsky.social . I’ve been waiting to see them so long. They’re so good. We were right at the front. Sweaty club gigs are the best gigs.

More year in MOP. Gigs! We played some. Supports for AK/DK, Preoccupations Billy Mahonie and The Utopia Strong as well as playing @aylfest and launching our own album. Ended the year in a container in Gloucester next to a skatepark in an industrial estate in a very MOP moment.

R6 on a nu rave kick. Klaxons, Peaches, Goldfrapp, NYPC, Santogold…. that shit was SO GOOD

@dev-core.bsky.social looking at a one time purchase of Mixing Station to run a Midas M-Air MR18 - do I need the X Air license (since they are to all intents and purposes identical) or the Midas HD one? Not worried which but don't want to get the wrong one!

More year in MOP. We got some lovely reviews of our album “Joy” and were in Electronic Sound’s start of year fave underground acts. Thanks so much to @nightshiftmag.bsky.social @electronicsound.bsky.social @stateofbassuk.bsky.social OMS mag and @strummerroom.bsky.social for your support xxx MOP

So a bit more year in MOP. More of an announcement this time, we are now on Beatport and Juno and other electronic outlets. Thanks to @dittomusic.bsky.social for sorting this out. www.beatport.com/label/means-... www.junodownload.com/artists/Mean...

The year in MOP pt 1. We will be doing AOTYs etc but first the reading list. Not that we are pretentious or anything. Books on place and things and music and art and books I have nicked lyrics from. We have other books about dinosaurs and philosophy of science and SF, but these are the core texts.

SEVEN, at least, worldwide #EXCLUSIVE firstplays featured during #ColinSpencer Programme #185 thanks to #DepecheMode : #DigitalAudioFunkTheory Dub, @kicklizard.bsky.social, @mnsfprdctn.bsky.social, #Page & 3x V-Sor,X ▶️ www.mixcloud.com/ColinSpencer... to #DiscoverAndRemember @therobmo.bsky.social

Artists with #NewMusic during #ColinSpencer Programme #185 include @kicklizard.bsky.social, @mnsfprdctn.bsky.social and #Substak + #LRFriberg 🔊 www.mixcloud.com/colinspencer/ 🎧 Saturday 13 December 2025 6-8pm (#UK times) Before then? #DiscoverAndRemember more with www.mixcloud.com/ColinSpencer...

Listening to this insane piece of post punk avant skronk from 1981. This is fkn great. One of them went on to found 808 State…..Playing it again prompted me to try to hunt it down but it is pretty much unobatainable digitally.

Have a bunch of tracks on my hard drive which I never released because they aren’t very good, gonna start telling people they’re “deep cuts”

SIX, at least, worldwide #EXCLUSIVE firstplays featured during #ColinSpencer Programme #184 thanks to #GhostElektron, @mnsfprdctn.bsky.social, 3 by #PowerStateFailure and @rashamon.bsky.social : @kicklizard.bsky.social I'm Coming For You Mix ▶️ www.mixcloud.com/ColinSpencer... #DiscoverAndRemember

So also the inimitable @colinspencermusic.bsky.social played our NEW TRACK “The Mountain and the Snow” from our Xmas Rave Tape last night. This is a bonus DL of a demo/WIP track that we’ve been playing out live and is a bandcamp/physical release only- not on streaming services.

So also the inimitable @colinspencermusic.bsky.social played our NEW TRACK “The Mountain and the Snow” from our Xmas Rave Tape last night. This is a bonus DL of a demo/WIP track that we’ve been playing out live and is a bandcamp/physical release only- not on streaming services.

Some pics from last night’s gig courtesy of Marc @deadanyway.bsky.social Playing in a shipping container next to a skatepark in an industrial estate is peak Means of Production #liveelectronicmusic

Seems about right

Introduce yourself with five apocalyptic horsemen: War Famine Pestilence Death Varying CV standards, this one’s +-5V, that one’s 0-8V, this one’s 10v, none of them say in the manual which they are, get your shit together Eurorack

FOUR, at least, worldwide #EXCLUSIVE firstplays featured during #ColinSpencer Programme #183 thanks to 3 by @milanmusicuk.bsky.social* and @mnsfprdctn.bsky.social 'Paper Lungs' ▶️ www.mixcloud.com/ColinSpencer... to #DiscoverAndRemember *underpinning James Tapping's #ThreeOriginalsByEach feature

This is tonight! Not last night! No.

Going out now! New track!

Anyway we’ve been having a clear out and I wanted to post these old school dinos I had on a poster when I was a kid (the poster is basically coming apart so is going). Look at those tail dragging sauropods and upright duckbills. Look at that T Rex. Just look at it. #paleontology #paleoart #paleosky

so yeah it is the final @nightshiftmag.bsky.social issue of the year and we are in it not once but twice! One of the tracks of the year and a rather lovely live review. Read it all here at nightshiftmag.co.uk/2025/dec.pdf xxx MOP

This one hits hard.

OXFORD ➜ GLOUCESTER. MOP playing Out of Key Studio on Sat 6 Dec, w/Dead Anyway + Wundabyte Tracks from JOY + a BRAND NEW TRACK, run through broken machines, visuals built live while we play Tiny venue, big sound. Only 30 tix! wegottickets.com/event/677608 #acid #noise #OutOfKeyStudio

In Brum waiting for Cabaret Voltaire. I’m up at 6 tomorrow. YOLO I guess

The remaining RAVE TAPES are now available physically and digitally on Bandcamp. DL includes bonus tracks Torment Nexus and a demo of NEW TRACK The Mountain And The Snow. Once they're gone they're gone. Link in bio #oxfordelectronicmusic #oxfordmusic #oxfordmusicscene #cassetteculture #ravetape

Tax us you cowards

ANNOUNCEMENT The Xmas Rave Tape is here! Live mix of MOP tracks! - Play it on the cassette player in your car* as you drive around the M25 following directions from a phone number you got off a dodgy looking flyer in Luton. #oxfordelectronicmusic #liveelectronicmusic #oxfordmusic #oxfordmusicscene

couple of gigs before Christmas xxxMOP

You may be #halloween but are you as Halloween as a dinosaur skellington pumpkin witch? Thought not. #dinosaur #skeleton #pumpkin #witch

We have some gigs coming up before Christmas www.facebook.com/events/77477... wegottickets.com/event/677608 #oxfordmusic #liveelectronicmusic #oxfordmusicscene

Hello if you got vinyl off us and you get a message saying the DL has already been redeemed please let us know and we’ll send a new one. - if we mailed it to you just email us - if you bought it at a gig dm us a picture of you holding the vinyl It has only happened to one person we know of. xx MOP

Elon Musk writing new verses for “A Better Tomorrow” while I’ve been asleep

This gig has been moved to the main room see you there xxMOP

Who among us can ever truly say we don't need a Potato control panel?

Somehow we managed to miss this! Basically I missed it in the contents and have been browsing @electronicsound.bsky.social for the last week and here we are. Thanks so much to @stateofbassuk.bsky.social for this lovely review! We are chuffed to bits. #electronicmusic #oxfordmusic #oxfordmusicscene

SYSTEMS CHECK In a week we are supporting The Utopia Strong and Andrew Liledat the Little Bully for @divineschism.bsky.social good if you could be there #liveelectronicmusic #oxfordmusic #oxfordmusicscene #critterandguitari #lzxvidiot #korgms20 #abletonlive

So yeah the “more to come”. We are super happy with this review from Oxfordshire Music Scene it’s all there. Dystopian disco, eroded acid lines, club ready body blows, “a minimal, industrial slab of post-capitalist catharsis”. It’s like they get us #oxfordmusic #oxfordmusicscene

"The erotic, S&M infused ‘Harder, Faster’ gets the blood pumping, and the nether regions tingling.... dragging us deep into Clive Barker territory." apparently, if you were wondering what our remix sounds like. Launch at the Bully this Thursday! louderthanwar.com/octavia-freu...

Next up we are supporting the mighty The Utopia Strong and Andrew Liles for @divine schism at the Little Bully. We are on first so get there early.

So today’s boomer/spotify rant (sorry to the good boomers. #notallboomers ) has got me 10x more engagement and follows than anything posting about our music. And this is on bluesky which doesn’t even *have* an algorithm. Pretty sure this is symptomatic of something. Anyway, as you were.

“There’s no good music in the charts today” boomers may wish to consider how their Spotify subscription directly contributes to kicking the ladder away so the many amazing small bands can’t progress.

"DARK THROBBING JOY" coming your way on 20 Oct xx MOP tix in linktree in bio

EXCITING GIG ANNOUNCEMENT later today

We are on Electric City Radio! Not gonna tell you where. Listen to the whole show. soundcloud.com/robson_darke...

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