My parents are hosting Xmas, which apparently means I get to spend £££ on wine for the rest of the family, *and* Xmas eve moving all their furniture around.

Try to live your life in such a way that a mob of puppets don't sing to you about how much of an arsehole you are while you're on your way to work

The Wedding Present at our local venue earlier, actually proper bloody ace, no messing about. @kittydorkling.bsky.social accidentally heckled David Gedge at one point, which will be an entertaining footnote to add to my memoirs.

Props to Juno (online record shop): sent me the wrong version of a 3x12" LP, oops, but replied to my query within 24h, shipped replacement straight off next day delivery, and let me keep the incorrect item. Good customer service isn't totally extinct yet, apparently.

Local charity shop acid result! Lurking behind all the Chris De Burgh albums I just found this '94 Plastikman remix of X-Press 2 for three quid, in ok nick. This is Musik era stuff, and unsurprisingly it sounds ace.

Quality crunchy bleeps from @5d3m.bsky.social for this evening's soundtrack

Sabres Of Paradise. Pretty damn good.

You've just died. The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you. PLAY SAFE KIDS

Right! Two new liquid instrumental drum and bass tracks by me out now, links to all the streamers and stores as they update here: tr.ee/UywQ8lC4j-

Old DJ shouts at cloud: colored vinyl is annoying, it makes it harder to mix because you can't see what the groove is up to. Transparent is even worse because the flip shows through making it even harder to see what's going on. Also it's more expensive. Plain black options please, labels

Jimmy Cliff always reminds me of building my first DIY music PC, because I had him on repeat as I figured out how to stick all the bits together. First thing I did to test the soundcard was loop a bit of him over a break. A unique voice. RIP. youtu.be/EFPCN0yuuzs?...

Got to be this one for me I think. Top notch bass. RIP Mani. youtu.be/NSD11dnphg0?...

Just spent an hour or so in the room with the proper open fire in the pub and now my beard smells fucking amazing omg

Massive shout out to whoever gave me this stinking cold, nice one *cof* *cof* *sniffle* *HOONK* *cof* bastard

Fugitive apprehended

Finally unpacking my old CDs after about 15 years in storage. Very glad I didn't bin them all like they told us to

Horror Stories for After Halloween

Finally got to see* Autechre live last night. Went right down the front, nodded my head next to some very advanced ravers determinedly bopping along for the whole gig. 1.5 hours of unbroken mayhem, absolutely amazing. *sort of, AE gigs are totally dark

If they put an algorithm on the TL on this site I will give up on social media. I want to see posts from people I follow, when they post them. That is it. In years to come, when social media is dead, they will blame it's demise on deviating from this very simple formula

Working on some stems that a talented jazz keyboard player friend has sent me, they're really good, but the timing is very, er, natural, and suddenly I understand why Logic has all this tempo analysis and flex-time stuff in it. You can just fix slightly wonky bits like magic, amazing

Just back from a nice afternoon of pylon hunting. This one was having a little lie down.

That's my xmas present sorted @kittydorkling.bsky.social

New toy. Let's make some acid

30 years old and still stunning. This record rewired my brain when it came out. Finally sprang for the 3x12", slightly crackly but sounds so good

Igorrr just knocked my socks clean off. Operatic breakcore metal, I think? Absolutely bloody amazing whatever they are

It’s crazy that we invented the internet and then it completely tore us apart. Like imagine if we invented the mass produced assembly line automobile and then it caused 40,000 deaths per wait

really we should get rid of the idea that a band’s entire discography should be on streaming services. maybe the singles? “if you like this, here’s a link to the album, which will cost you £10” you know, like how you’d hear something on the radio and think “i liked that, i’ll buy it”

Absolutely loving these two new tunes from @mintimperial.com Some lovely, laid back dnb. open.spotify.com/album/3jB0ZC...

Just totally normal music production stuff going on officer nothing to see here yep all fine cheers

The last time I put out some tunes the label used AI for the artwork, which I was not wild about. This time I made sure, as with my music, that nobody was stolen from for the graphics either. The image here is a photo I took in Berlin in 2008, I think it fits the vibe of the title track.

I have new music out! Jazzy/liquid DnB, go to mintimperial.com top post links to streamers as they update. Because of the mad way low-level music promo works I would *really* appreciate people sticking ❤️s & 🔥 comments on the IG posts: www.instagram.com/themintimper... (DJs/mates HMU for WAVs.)

Day off vinyl haul results, it's a good job my nearest record shops are miles away or I'd be permanently skint

To all the influx of new blue sky users: you won't read this because you're not following me, I'm not on any welcome pack lists, all of my followers are pure of heart and mind, stay blessed 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Post you from a different era 1999

Saw this leggy fella on the way through town earlier. Also saw one flapping along a few miles away, pretty sure it wasn't the same bird. Yeah I know they're common as pigeons in some places but we don't have many of them so two in one day is pretty nice

Timothée Chalamet Benedict Cumberbatch Malachi Mulligan Dactylic dimeter Pleasingly, dactylic dimeter is an example of itself

"No more than a liter of wine a day" - In the early 1950s, when French wine consumption was 140+ liters/capita, France launched the campaign "Santé Sobriété" to limit alcohol consumption. In 1954, Philippe Foré became the chief designer. #WineHistory`

Boards of Canada's Olsen performed on a PDP-1. Holy shit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubk...

Tech dudes! I don't want to talk to my tools! I want to press well designed buttons that make them do precisely what I tell them to, not have them vaguely guess my intentions and needs from fuzzy vibrations in the air and get it wrong. I have lots of friends and family to do that for me already

This is absolutely stupendous. Easily the best rendition of a GnR song by miles yes I'm including everything the original band recorded in that fight me

Years ago I did a photo-a-day for a year project, an exercise in discipline and technique and dealing with the supreme indifference of the world towards any of my creative efforts. Time to sort and recycle

Super Furry Animals are back! Yeeeeeassssssss...

Several Youtubers that I was subscribed to have surreptitiously stuck up flags (you know which flags) in the background of recent vids, and I'm sorry lads (they're all lads) but you're not as subtle as you think you are

Hell in a handbasket

Portishead have come together to do this brand new version of Roads in aid of Together For Palestine, they uploaded it to their Youtube just yesterday with the stunning black and white video of them performing it live ❤️ You can donate here: togetherforpalestine.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2Am...

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Garden mushies, earlier. Autumn is here, everyone start your decay cycles

New track. weebl.bandcamp.com/track/finall...