Lovely piece by the awesome & inspiring Kate Butler on how she herself was inspired, plus the people who contributed to the new RTÉ2 radio documentary Control, which explores women pop producers’ technical work - Beyond the decks: The movement that opened up Irish electronic music jrnl.ie/7072791

I like Chanel Beads a lot but I think enough time has passed to say that the whole “giving your next album the same name as the last one” thing is annoying

The New Statesman asked me to put down a few thoughts about Belfast. On the politics and media that have failed everyone, and how much, and how little, has really changed. www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

*bursting out of a yellowing Kikagaku Moyo t* Never know when this will come in handy!

Packing up the flat we’ve lived in for the past four years, hoping to purge a load of old clothes etc but the primal part of my brain would rather die than let go of the wrinkled band t-shirts I haven’t worn for at least have a decade

Ol' Rod album v good!

I hope all of Irish history is remembered. I hope much of the culture is preserved, some of the culture is abandoned, and new strands of the culture emerge. What I don't care about if the people of the future doing this have perceived blood links to the island

Simply obsessed with this new Hofbauer joint willhofbauer.bandcamp.com/album/glepp-ep

Blissed out on the Windrush Line AC

New Irish Music round-up is back! ☀️ Killer new Gilla Band tune, sublime stuff from Mel Keane, No You and Stephen Star, and some more. Tuck in. anoisosard.substack.com/publish/post...

Just when I thought I was out, etc. Big thanks to @eoin-murray.bsky.social for having me!

So so so stoked to have gotten @adnhnrt.bsky.social – FKA him of Bandcloud!! – for this in-depth Boards of Canada primer!

🥵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUaC...

Too hot actually

Not at any of the fun festivals this weekend but I DID very passionately (read: drunkly) bang on about Ben UFO at partner’s bemused 20 year old cousin for about 15 minutes at a wedding last night so really what’s the difference

Hello where is good to get food in Bristol*? Lunch and casual dinner recs welcome. Also open to less obvious music/pub tips, I can only loiter in Idle Hands for so long. *Yes I’ve lived in UK for 10 years and work in music I’ve just not been before I’m sorry!

Bíonn an t-ádh orm oibriú le Olan go minic. Agallamh deas déanta leob thíos anseo.

Spoke to Olan Monk about sean-nós, tin whistles, and countering the “Aran Jumperfication” of the west of Ireland with their trad-contorted goth rock They've also released two new live videos for the occasion, featuring tracks from their album Songs for Nothing on AD 93 substack.com/home/post/p-...

When you put a Danny Daze mix on at the wedding

That No You album from Kehoe and Kraft is finally out www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Believe the hype heatcrimes.bandcamp.com/album/paradi...

That wicked Will Hofbauer tune that Ben UFO's played in virtually every set I've heard of his for the past year is finally out! willhofbauer.bandcamp.com/album/glepp-ep

Turning 33 on a Wednesday means that I am eating cake and drinking tea at my desk while trying (and failing) to make sense of the hellfire that is my work email inbox

Noise only becomes unsettling and unwanted when you grow into your learned inhibitions as an adult. Making noise is liberating and the children know this best because they don’t give a fuck what anybody else thinks, especially their parents lol

Yes... HA HA HA.... YES! guttersnipe.bandcamp.com/album/extinc...

An absolutely lovely rewind on Everything But The Girl's gorgeous 'Walking Wounded', which turns 30 today, courtesy of @danieldylanwray.bsky.social

Sub 2 hour half hell yeah

New Lankum album marketing campaign is a bit full on

The most obvious thing in the world to say, but the second the sun comes out like this the only thing worth doing is listening to lots and lots of house music soundcloud.com/dkmntl/shant...

☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=37uK...

Wooooph new Mel Keane is a (pipe) dream deardogs.bandcamp.com/album/pipeworx

Ah fuck the psyops are multiplying

Really hitting the spot today plasticandsounds.bandcamp.com/album/silent...

Do I know any music journalists on here who are proper Boards Of Canada nerds? Make yrsels known if so

Very sad to learn that Moya Brennan has died. RIP ✨ The first and only person to ever sing in Irish on Top Of The Pops, a celestial voice who helped bridge Irish folk music into an electronic realm in a way that I still think deserves a proper reappraisal today. Blasting Clannad today, as should u

Something to listen on this soggy Easter Sunday?

Many such cases

Anois, Os Ard is back, just in time for yr long weekend. Wrote about dreamestate indie-pop, folk-horror soundscapes, notes on becoming and the apocalypse, ‘90s internet star ambience, a breakthrough rap masterclass, some drone stuff, some club stuff, all sorts! open.substack.com/pub/anoisosa...

A pleasure and privilege to work with one of my favourite profile writers to commission, Michael McKinney, on something a little different for us at DJ. He spoke to several DJs and collectives where he lives in Minneapolis about how the DIY scene there is standing up against ICE in recent months

Happy 100th birthday Frank O'Hara www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtDY...

Never watching football again

The thing about Czechia is they always try to shoulder it in

New DJ Birdbath! 🫧 theorytherapy.bandcamp.com/album/plunge

the question on everyone's lips today

Had a really nice time interviewing one of my actual heroes a little while ago djmag.com/features/tim...

Have said this before in other forms, but will reiterate it here: if you're doing long-form writing of any sort, reading the words aloud into a microphone is a completely unparalleled cheat code. It's free, easy, and so effective it feels like it shouldn't be allowed. I do it in a few stages...

You can listen to Pepe Bradock's 'Deep Burnt' whenever you want you know www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTvF...

Played for the final time at Corsica Studios. The recording is now online. soundcloud.com/midland/the-...