Was a real joy writing this for @thewiremagazine.bsky.social Vic Bang’s music is incredible, The Wire is incredible… support both if you can!

Bandcamp Friday bargain: Almost every album on Sao Paulo-based grindcore duo Test's Bandcamp page is 2 euros. I find myself picking one up everytime Bandcamp Day rolls around - they're a force of nature that stretch the possibilities of rapid heavy music... testgrind.bandcamp.com/album/o-jogo...

Tape deal: Nothing “new” for Bandcamp Friday today, but if you are willing to consider music from the ancient epoch of 2025 (or earlier), we’re offering a 1-day 2-for-1 deal on all tapes. Just buy one tape and write which other in-stock tape you’d also like in the comment field on the order.

The Wire 505 is out now! Featuring dälek on the cover, plus an industrial hiphop primer, Vic Bang, Pascal Comelade, O Ghettaõ, Daniel Blumberg’s Jukebox, and much more. Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/

For the new @thewiremagazine.bsky.social I interviewed the wonderful Vic Bang. Such a joy to speak to an artist whose music always sparkles in the most magical way. Grab a copy of the magazine/subscribe at The Wire’s website. (And rejoice in Dälek being on the cover!)

'Built entirely from phonograph recordings predating 1910, captured in Cameroon and Papua New Guinea, Anomaly Index shows background noise is capable of being both spectral and utterly present all at once' Nkisi - Anomaly Index - Spool’s Out: #Cassette Reviews for January buff.ly/s3XWHQq

Thanks very much to @darylworthington.bsky.social at @thequietus.com for including the Black Pylon tape label’s inaugural release ‘Safezone’ by Dogs Versus Shadows in his first cassette round up of 2026! TAPE SCENE FOREVS!! thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Thank you @darylworthington.bsky.social @ @thequietus.com for including 'Inxorable Ascent' in SPOOLS OUT! Honoured... always amazing music in here: thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

My first Spool's Out cassette reviews column of 2026 is now up at @thequietus.com Always such a joy to write this, and there's once again a deluge of fantastic sounds coming out on tape... thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Unfortunately, the time and space (a technofeudalist's playground) are definitely off. Advocating for AI in art at the moment simply means siding with all the grifters, antihumanists and morally corrupt capitalists who are showing the technology down our throats in every other aspect of life. 2/2

The use of generative AI in art can be an incredibly interesting and nuanced discussion. I myself have been fascinated with the subject (and written several papers on it), composers like @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social have made amazing music using systems such as dadabots' RRNs, etc. 1/2

Happy Holidays! You can get a 40% discount on everything/anything at the ineffectual suns Bandcamp by using the code goodriddance2025 at checkout until 5 Jan, including my album of experimental hunting horn from earlier this year… ineffectualsuns.bandcamp.com/album/horns-...

Traditional instruments, folk cultures and mythic ideas of futurity offer slip roads exiting AI’s highway to a hollow future, argues @darylworthington.bsky.social in The Wire 503/504 Read the full essay online: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

Happy Holidays! You can get a 40% discount on everything/anything at the ineffectual suns Bandcamp by using the code goodriddance2025 at checkout until 5 Jan, including my album of experimental hunting horn from earlier this year… ineffectualsuns.bandcamp.com/album/horns-...

🚨Coupon time! 25% discount on tapes & digitals using the checkout code: str25 Valid the next 2 weeks for anything on the STR Bandcamp. It might work for other labels as well, but we haven’t checked. You could try it on Warp or Sony? Definitely works on STR tho. strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com

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For folk in London, this is happening at (the wonderful, legendary) Spanners tomorrow (Wednesday) night to celebrate the new [something's happening] album, out now via @strategictaper.bsky.social Come down, lineup is magic. (advance tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/somethings... )

With AI on his mind and joyous sound in his ears, Daryl Worthington dives into his 20 favourite cassettes of 2025, finding the world’s tape conveyed eccentric undergrounds remain in brilliant form Spool’s Out: The Best Cassettes of 2025 buff.ly/UjKW0KW

The 2025 Spool’s Out review is up now at @thequietus.com including my 20 favourite tapes of the last twelve months. It’s been another bumper year of brilliant sounds carried on small plastic rectangles thequietus.com/tq-charts/co...

In case you're on a Bandcamp Friday splurge/niche festive shopping spree, there's a few things available which I've been involved with this year... Firstly, if you like hunting horns taken out of context... ineffectualsuns.bandcamp.com/album/horns-...

Good morning. Lots of tapes available on this Bandcamp Friday including the most recent by Budokan Boys and [something’s happening] strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com

New @thewiremagazine.bsky.social is out! Proud to have contributed a Rewind essay + reviews of Unsound 2025, and records by Saint Abdullah/Jason Nazary + Rie Nakajima/David Toop. Whole issue is packed with great essays, articles and EOY gear Buy a copy/subscribe to support indie journalism in ‘26

Awesome tape design, strange and beautiful sounds.

Now out in full: [something's happening] - a map has always been an attempt Iris Colomb and Daryl Worthington build delicate, evolving compositions from layers of electroacoustic and found-poetry loops. strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/a-map-...

'a map has always been an attempt', the new album from my text-sound duo with poet Iris Colomb, [something's happening] is out today on the esteemed @strategictaper.bsky.social Unsynced loops recorded at live shows across 2022 strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/a-map-has-always-been-an-attempt

We have the tapes. [something's happening] - a map has always been an attempt Found-text / electro-acoustic live loop layer collage. Available to pre-order now. Full release next Friday. strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/a-map-...

Triumphant, intricately layered synth pop, a levitating collaboration between a Ugandan embaire ensemble and a Japanese dub producer, Daryl Worthington finds rays of joy on cassette to blast away the impending winter entropy #Cassette Reviews for November buff.ly/0TNvxvX

The latest edition of my Spool's Out cassettes column is up at @thequietus.com It's an especially joyous one ahead of the winter gloom, featuring a sparkling bounty of wonderful, bouncey, beautiful and deliriously off-kilter sounds. thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Stunning new edition of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social is out now, inside I interviewed the wonderful Emergence Collective, and reviewed new albums by Malone/McDowall, and Éliane Radigue, and a live review of Tati Au Miel, Sanctuary of Praise and Charles Verni. Grab a copy from the Wire's website.

"Horns Of Death is a strong release in various ways – the intriguing and/or tonally pleasing sounds it contains ... and the sociopolitical context of its instrument it imparts, wordlessly." Lovely review of my tape in the latest New Weird Britain at @thequietus.com thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

I was lucky enough to see one of [something’s happening]’s captivating live performances in Brighton. Highly recommended release!

'a map has always been an attempt', the new album from [something's happening], my sound/text duo with Iris Colomb, will be released on the esteemed @strategictaper.bsky.social in a few weeks. You can preview a few of the tracks over at Bandcamp now: strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/a-map-...

Glorious new edition of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social is out. Inside I reviewed records by Lea Bertucci, Deafkids & Test, and Ø. Grab a copy of the mag from The Wire’s website or your local newsagent.

“All told, it’s an inspired piece of sound art dedicated to an ominous curio of material history.” Thanks @philipsherburne.bsky.social for writing so wonderfully about my new album in Futurism Restated - read/sign up to the always great newsletter here: futurismrestated.substack.com/p/fr-137-on-...

"It was a leap from Wave Field into pure electronic resonance. I had become acquainted with Alvin Lucier’s I Am Sitting In A Room a few years before and it remained a touchstone that inspired this album more than any other." Aeriola Frequency - The Strange World Of #RafaelToral buff.ly/mkT5hYA

As Rafael Toral prepares for the release of a new album and a performance at this year's Semibreve festival, the Portuguese experimental master takes Daryl Worthington through 10 points of entry into his enormous discography The Strange World Of… #RafaelToral buff.ly/mkT5hYA

Was a true joy to interview one of my absolute favourite musicians, Rafael Toral. Really fascinating to learn about the whys and hows behind 10 of his records, including the gorgeous one dropping next month, ‘Traveling Light’ read it @thequietus.com thequietus.com/interviews/s...

“There’s this constant and overarching theme of gloom that hangs in the air….” Huge thanks to @fringesofsound.bsky.social for this insightful review of my new tape. www.onthefringesofsound.com/2025/09/beac...

My new tape 'Horns of Death' is out now on plastic and download. It's made from the sounds of a replica fox-hunting horn, fed into 'electronics' and out again to see what it might say. ineffectualsuns.bandcamp.com/album/horns-...

Over the moon 🌖 about this one folks! Thank you so much @darylworthington.bsky.social for the Fizzy! review! thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

My latest Spool's Out tapes review column is up at @thequietus.com full of wonderful, bizarre, magical sounds, including the best cassette of gnome-inspired computer music I've head in quite some time. thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

My new tape 'Horns of Death' is out now on plastic and download. It's made from the sounds of a replica fox-hunting horn, fed into 'electronics' and out again to see what it might say. ineffectualsuns.bandcamp.com/album/horns-...

Ursula Sereghy’s music creates a place sparkling with possibility and colour. It’s truly unique and it was a real joy learning a little about where it comes from and the ideas, entanglements and inspirations behind it. Interview up at @thequietus.com thequietus.com/interviews/u...

I have a new tape coming out soon called 'Horns of Death'. It's all made from the sounds of a replica fox-hunting horn, a mobile phone and a computer. You can stream some of it here: ineffectualsuns.bandcamp.com/album/horns-...

Argh, that's @spennyt.bsky.social on Collapsing Drums! Apologies. Though @darylworthington.bsky.social's profile on Weston Olencki (who has a stunning new album coming out 19 Sep on @ooutsidetimee.bsky.social) in the new issue is very much worth reading, too!

Shiny 500th issue of the ever-awesome @thewiremagazine.bsky.social is out now! Inside I had the pleasure of interviewing the brilliant Weston Olencki and reviewed the ear twisting new Jung An Tagen album.

The writer, filmmaker and musician explores time and memory on an album of music that sounds ferocious, ecstatic, and at points playfully absurd Sunik Kim - Formenverwandler buff.ly/lSeXXTS

For @thequietus.com I reviewed the astonishing, radical new album by Sunik Kim, out now on Feedback Moves thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

This Friday at Hundred Years Gallery in East London, fox-hunting horn vs sampler, sewing machine explorations and tenderly scuffed DIY electronics.