Finally checked Sugar Bytes' Drumcomputer plugin. Wow, I'm impressed. Picked up Battalion recently as well, and feel like I now have everything I need for beats on an iPad (having been using Patterning, Hammerhead and FAC Drumkit mainly so far). #iOSMusic #iPadMusic sugar-bytes.de/drumcomputer...

Would never have drawn a line from Appalachia to Java, but this album of fiddle (and more) keeps reminding me of gamelan - specifically the Tarawangsa Ritual Music release on Javasounds. Other things too, but the tuning and more have strong similarities sallyannemorgan.bandcamp.com/album/second...

iPad Synth Is Now Free : KV331 SynthMaster 2 is a free download until November 17th

My plan for fixing the world: correspondence chess. Everyone can slow the fuck down, and Russia gets somewhere better to focus.l

This is the deepest nonsense. 1) everything about generative AI is *fundamentally* relational. It is literally 100% relational. 2) like it or not, you need to actually engage with the topic you're fighting against 3) most human thieves are taking lame shortcuts. Some humans elevate sampling to art

Final show in this incarnation tonight. TBH I'm ready for it to change (even though I like the latest album a lot more than the last few), but also the last tour was one of the best times I've seen them, so 🤞

“I’ve got a great marketing plan, we’ll get the dumbest motherfucker in our industry, one that just nobody respects, and we’ll have him say the most asinine thing possible and that will be our pull quote, it’s surefire

I'm losing my mind over how many reviewers are like "GDT's Frankenstein makes you wonder who the real monster is." THAT'S THE STORY! That's the story Shelley wrote!

Well, I didn't get as much music purchasing done as I'd hoped, but I did get through six months of Bandcamp emails. Some dope releases in here though

What an amazing idea for an album. Basically sonic alchemy: transforming garbage into gold romeopoirier.bandcamp.com/album/off-th...

Autechre in Brighton tonight: not quite Hearn Street Garage great, but great. Sorted me the fuck out. The first half sounded like something beautiful trying to emerge through some sonic barrier, always thwarted. The second half was relentless. Always beyond expectation before you know what that is

Fighting the good fight

Just spotted some new FAC plugins. Love his stuff. Polyflo is like the Bram Bos LFO (essential) but with way more options. Haven’t had a go yet, but it looks awesome www.fredantoncorvest.com/FAC_Polyflo.... #iOSMusic #iPadMusic

Whoever thought this was a good idea, was (not to put too fine a point on it) fucking stupid www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Just saw Inside No. 9 Stage/Fright. I am not a fan of the theatre normally. Huge fan of Inside No. 9. This was one of the best things I've ever seen. Pure joy. My face is totally worn out from laughter. But the horror bits were brilliant too. Everything I live about creativity in one

Oooh. AudioKit have done an Access Virus Ti2-inspired synth (for a fiver) #iOSMusic apps.apple.com/gb/app/viral...

Fellow travellers on the information superhighway, let me regail you with opinions about Windows 10 end of support. /1

Everything you always wanted to know about force skin www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

We're coming for ya Ldn m8 OPEN EAR @ CAFÉ OTO Trá Pháidín 7of9 t-woc 7.30pm, Thursday 30th October Cafe OTO, Dalston, London Tickets: £14 / £12 members Go get 'em www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/open-...

Marathon last weekend. 9th time running the distance, 1st time racing. It’s horrible. Too long to *want* to maintain the high effort required to empty yourself, and in practice it gets harder as you go. An Ultra is much more fun. The terrain, pace and environment varies, it’s mainly aerobic…

This is incomprehensible. Kilian Jornet finished his latest project, ascending all 73 of the ‘14ers’ in the lower 48 states (peaks >14,000 feet, or 4,267 metres), connected by bike, optimising for aesthetics over speed, smashing FKTs along the way, in 31 days www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

Oh, one release from last month's shopping I forgot to mention was this Terrace album on De:tuned. That rare thing, a good techno album, which is something that De:tuned seem to be cultivating very well recently detunedrecords.bandcamp.com/album/branches

Haul. Didn't get as deep through the Wishlist as per

Grime and Footwork are a very good fit teklife.bandcamp.com/track/still-...

Herbert's Clay is probably his best since working with Dani Siciliano, and reminds me of those albums. Quite a grower too matthewherbert.bandcamp.com/album/clay

@jo-johnson.bsky.social @quietdetails.bsky.social I know I'm two months late to the party, but really loving Escape Now. It might be my favourite thing you've done

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Loads of stuff I didn't know about Tahoe in here www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Said it before, and saying it again. Artists not bothering to get self-released music mastered isn't good enough if you're asking someone to buy it. Pay what you like - whatever. But it really does matter. I actively avoid buying some artists' self-releases for this reason. It's just disappointing.🧵

Oh man, Bluesky allows posting your own gifs now. Fucking. Gamechanger.

The #BCFriday haul. Was pretty exhausted today, so didn't think I'd make it very far, but definitely made some backlog progress, and there are some great releases in here

Just been chatting about sending off for shit, like cereal box shit, etc. Man, those were the days. There's actually still some stuff you send off for, as it happens. Long live sending off for shit

Haven’t shared any music clips in a while. Been working on this on holiday. Mostly all new parts added to a track created on #iOSMusic during commutes. Definitely having to bounce down a lot on the smaller/weaker iPad Air, but still so powerful for such a small thing. Loopy Pro is now indispensable

Day 9 on a very weird spit in the middle of the west coast of France (Gironde). Nothing here but sand, pines and concentrations of nudists. The beaches are really dramatic, especially with recent weather. One of the friendlier parts of France I've visited. It's not exciting, but very easy to be here

Watching Last Kingdom again - this time with the kids. Man, it's a great series, and I believe reasonably true to the history (someone please correct me if wrong there). They get so many things right with it. If anyone liked the idea of Vikings but not the reality, this is a great alternative

Bleep43 resident Stelios Bouboukis has created a special, immersive 2-hour mix to get us in the mood for Inclines on 11th October 2025 at The Bath House, London. Stelios has mixed tracks from our wonderful guests with music from his extensive collection, travelling deep and wide ✨🗻 bit.ly/3VqJR8U

So... in American English, you have a mobile home, which is exactly the same thing as a static home in Britain. Not humanity's best work really

If you'd like to join the Silver Threads promo list, let me know.

joearmon-jones.bandcamp.com/album/all-th... I keep forgetting to tip Snakes off this album. I dig the first half, but then around three minutes in it shifts massively into this gorgeous dopey groove that is pure hot Summer Day. So good, and much more straight hip hop than most of his music.

My favourite kind of ravers

This is the palette of 70s Los Angeles (my earliest memories), but missing some darker orange in between, and more saturated than I can capture at night. Basically yellow-orange, orange and brown. Youth