Evening in the studio. New mascot. Beginning to ring some very decent stuff out of the rig - need to edit the 11 minute modular dub into something a little more digestible, but the ones are there. Sunbane will return.

But I thought it was blood libel www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

We absolutely can afford a UBI, and we do need it, regardless of any impacts AI ends up having. The cost of UBI is its net cost, not its gross cost. If you get $15k and pay $7k higher taxes as part of the deal, that cost is $8k not $15k. Try calculating the costs of not doing UBI. Include fascism.

Can everyone who went to the Underworld gigs in Brixton Academy this weekend please stop talking about it. I wasn’t there and you’re making me sad.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Can’t help but feel this headline ignores the fraud and rape and paedophilia and having ice murder citizens and that time he told Howard Stern that his daughter was a piece of ass.

Imagine what American music would look like if blues musicians had instead of learning how to play blues, improving at their craft with each song, pulled a lever on a machine owned and controlled by Buford Q Sexpervert Esquire the Third

My oh my, who would have thought that Peter Mandelson of all people would turn out to be crooked?

Non-zero chance that I’d be stopped at the US border for mean tweets about their government, but if they are planning to reintroduce polio then I don’t think anyone will want to go anyway. Has a wealthy country ever defeated itself this thoroughly?

If we simply locked up every person mentioned in the Epstein files, it’s hard to argue the world would get worse.

One for the comedians who took the Saudi $$$

mad rush on two marimbas www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsU-... #PhilipGlass

In my opinion, ban the U.S. from global sporting competition until Trump resigns and the Republican party is purged.

Anyway… Miner at the Dial a View, what a tune. Sort of ignored it in the shadow of the singles, various songs about Jed and the all-timer of an opening track, but it has now been lodged in my head for the best part of. Week.

That thing when you notice a track from an album that you’ve known for 20 years and it suddenly grabs you by the jugular to become a massive favourite.

Watch him squirm as his godfather gets more and more unhinged. Hope enough people are paying attention www.theguardian.com/business/202...

youtu.be/jf1T3y6BpK8?... Tomorrow - new record from one of my absolute favourite artists. Anyone else going to tune in for the premier?

A system to hold “professional opinion hackers” accountable for their bullshit might have saved a lot of problems for a lot of people. Some sort of weekly humiliation for the most egregious hypocrisies. A kid’s tv sliming should do, these people aren’t serious enough for real justice.

Denmark should pretend they sold Greenland to Mexico, just to fuck with him a bit.

Watching Two Towers for the first time in years. Has anyone else ever noticed that Faramir appears to be the Aphex Twin?

Has he thought about fucking off? Because he should really fuck off.

Out today - distract yourself from a burning today with Green Tomorrows, new EP from Kavalcade on @wepn.bsky.social

Literally career politicians jumping a sinking ship. Not staying and fighting for what they believe, just moving where their career needs them to.

Imagine if all these Tory defections split the reform vote between “far right” and “too far right for the Tories” and the whole lot of them nullify each other’s vote shares. That would be something

It’s not “nodding towards a subculture”, it’s “loudly and proudly proclaiming their role as white supremicists, at the head of the culture currently running the US” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

wales-epn.bandcamp.com/album/green-... Preview track online - releases next friday 16 - 01 - 26 (yes I know I got the date wrong yesterday - what of it?)

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soundcloud.com/sunbane/ea61... Jamuary modular and OP1 fun. Bleak as fuck minor key noise-techno But also Mega Man

Preview of the new Kavalcade EP - out next Friday on @wepn.bsky.social

The world keeps burning, but people remain amazing and creative and worthy of admiration. EG - the forthcoming EP from Kavalcade. Sounds like Richard D James in a very good mood, swimming in an ocean of bliss flavoured reverb. Previews soon

the American opioid crisis is almost entirely the work of Purdue Pharmaceuticals and the Sackler family of murderous profiteers, but because Americans can't imagine anything being their fault, we've invaded Venezuela over it

Or if Putin was to launch a special military operation to topple the leader of Ukraine… Is this the way now? Three bullies rotating leadership to the rest of the world?

Because the world is in desperate need of more middle-aged white guy opinions, I have started blogging. Will mostly be music, but also possibly the whole burning hellfire thing too (gestures around) because it is getting quite hard to ignore.

Start your 2026 the right way youtu.be/ddzSgxuUAGk?...

If anyone ever breaks my jaw in front of an international audience, I hope that my behaviour engenders sympathy and concern, rather than every single person in the world going “LOL” and posting memes

Honestly, any government wants to win re-election just promise weekly jaw breaking of obnoxious rich people. Think the £5 billion a year in tax expenditure for AJ’s fees would be seen as a sound investment by most people.

Remember 3D films. What if that but for AI?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Funding cut for prevention of sudden infant death syndrome. Because they criticised a quack, children will die. Literally Trump killing babies for the sake of his ego

Cool…

The new @cravenfaults.bsky.social track feels like someone directly massaging my parietal lobes. Listening to this man’s music has already cost me hundreds of pounds in synth modules. Please send help.

'the genocide is now called a ceasefire'

How the fuck are labour so shit?

Remember when the GOP literally stole an election using propaganda and the Supreme Court (W vs Gore) and everybody just shrugged. Maybe they shouldn’t have shrugged. Feels like an underrated pandora’a box moment.

Maybe not being afraid of the rabid right wing press and their hoard of fucking idiot readers is a viable electoral strategy after all. Imagine that. You could run on making the world a better place and not pretend to be a bastard. Unless you are actually a bastard, in which case as you were.

No idea who this guy is. Might be a full milkshake duck waiting to happen, but for now… lol fascists eat shit and die www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

First decent nights sleep in over a week and woke up to the joyous sound of Reform UK getting bodied in the Caerphilly by-election. Sometimes good things still happen

War torn Portland. I am

Watch them grovel to the fascist war criminal. You can buy what is left of their souls for the price of a week’s shopping. But why would you want such shrivelled and empty things in your home? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

No he’s not. Debate is not when everybody with a medical degree tells you you’re full of shit, and you respond with “am I?”

May he rest in piss. You can probably guess who I’m talking about.

Today I have been enjoying this comp and it's a blast. Bangers galore