Created this half-speed soundscape using my trusty old Revox from an improvisation using some of the elements I'll be using in my forthcoming concert at the Capstone in Liverpool. My Patreon supporters get access to the full 30 minute piece. www.patreon.com/c/ianboddy

Continuing my A. E. van Vogt saga with this 1979 novel 'Renaissance'. The main plot is rather silly tbh - set in a future where Earth is ruled by alien overlords (the Utt) who have established a matriarchal society, forcing men to wear chemically treated glasses to keep them in check. Not his best.

Now playing The Focus Symphony. I wasn’t aware of this until I stumbled upon a pair of excellent documentaries on YouTube. It’s really rather wonderful but then again I’m biased as Focus were my favourite band whilst at High School in the 70s.

Pre-orders for the CD & Vinyl editions of the forthcoming album 'Petite Constellations' (DiN96) from @bluetechonline.com (Bluetech) are open @ dinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/petite... There are links on there to Behind the Sky & @7dmedia.bsky.social in the USA as well as Groove in the Netherlands.

It's always good to have some crazy, spacey, scary FX in your sonic arsenal at a gig. These are from a Morphing Terrarium (Wavetable VCO) > Cwejman Frequency Shifter > Cwejman Spatial Phaser > Erica Synths Black Hole FX with my trusty old Livewire Vulcan Modulator on LFO duties.

And now a photo of a different kind of spaceship. Tbh the cover image by Chris Foss for 'Planets for Sale' is the best thing about this volume. Although credited here to A. E. van Vogt it is actually written by his wife under the name of E. Mayne Hull but looks like later editions switched names.

I'm of an age where I can remember sitting with my Dad & watching the Apollo missions lift off for the moon. Seeing Artemis II do the same over 5 decades later is no less exciting. Total admiration for the ingenuity of all at NASA & the bravery of the 4 astronauts embarking on this new adventure.

Lithosphere (DiN21), my second collaboration with @robertrichmusic.bsky.social is set as a free to download/name your price album for the whole of April. On this release the duo explore the deep, dark places of the Earth. dinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lithos...

Sorting my modular setup for the forthcoming gig alongside @flcartographer.bsky.social & @sulkrooms.bsky.social at the Capstone Theatre in Liverpool on 25th April. Hermod as ever at the centre of things with various sequences & triggers. Arps from the KeyStep. Lots to play with here.

Four weeks today for this concert where I will be playing alongside @flcartographer.bsky.social & @sulkrooms.bsky.social at the Capstone Theatre in Liverpool. We're all playing solo sets followed by a three way jam session which should be fun. Modulars at the ready. Hope to see some of you there.

Now available for pre-order on Vinyl & CD, Petite Constellations (DiN96) the sensational new album from @bluetechonline.com (Bluetech). 13 sonic melodic vignettes, with contrapuntal analogue synth lines that weave and intertwine around each other. dinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/petite...

The next release on DiN will be 'Petite Constellations' by @bluetechonline.com (DiN96). This is a joint release with DiN producing 500 CDs & Behind the Sky releasing 500 Vinyl. Official release date is 29th May with pre-sales (for both formats) going live on our respective Bandcamp sites this Friday

Hanging in the synth man cave of @nigelmullaney.bsky.social

Just over a month until our show in Liverpool at The Capstone! We’ll also be finishing the evening off with a big improv jam session with a room full of synths and my guitar… linktr.ee/sulkrooms

Latest read has been 'Use of Weapons' by Iain M. Banks, the 3rd in his 'Culture" series. I must admit I didn't enjoy this one as much as the previous 2 novels. It has an unusual structure with 2 timelines in alternate chapters with one moving forward in time & the other going back over past events.

Starting to assemble the modular racks I'll be using for my gig at the Capstone Theatre in Liverpool on April 25th alongside @flcartographer.bsky.social & @sulkrooms.bsky.social. These 3 give me plenty of options to mold and shape soundscapes in realtime. Hope to see some of you there.

Hearing the first Chiffchaffs of the year on 14th March. I’m sure this sign of spring is getting earlier each year.

Nice review in from @moonbuilding.bsky.social for my remastered edition of 'Drive', originally released 35 years ago in 1991. "This is a real blast from the past. What makes it all so interesting is that we know where it all ended up some 35 years later". moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-99-1...

Grenzwellen. Mittwoch 11. März 2026 21 - 0 Uhr Radio Hannover Terrestrisch und Stream. radio-hannover.divicon-stream.com/live/mp3-192... Ein Vorgeschmack:

Originally released in 1991, Drive has been remastered with the addition of 3 bonus tracks and is now available as a hi-res digital download album from my personal Bandcamp page. ianboddy.bandcamp.com/album/drive

Lovely interview with @loulayorke.bsky.social over at Tonearm where she chats about many things including her album 'Hydrology' (DiN94) released on the DiN label in November. www.thetonearm.com/wildflowers-...

Crafting a very large, complex patch. There comes a point when the critical mass of something like this goes beyond just simply, "being a patch", and enters more interesting territory - part musical composition & part performative instrument. That's where the real creativity lies.

Recently binged all 7 seasons of The Good Doctor. I don’t usually go in for medical dramas (annoying inter-staff relationships) but this one stood out with its main character being Autistic. At times they perhaps over-exaggerated this but it still resonated at times. How did you find this show?

Now playing Epsilon in Malaysian Pale, which has always been my favourite solo album by Edgar Froese. However this is the 2004 mix version that I’ve never heard before. Sadly I think it’s utterly terrible and destroys all the subtlety of the original as well as some bad distortion in parts.

In Deep Serge Drone territory today. 4 x VCOs tuned to a chord as 2 pairs through 2 crossfaders. Each of these then goes 3 ways:- a pair of highly resonant Band Pass filters, a pair of Waveshapers > Phaser & one pair through a Ring Mod then the Wilson Analog Delay with final FX from the Wellspring.

Now playing Trilogie de la Mort by Éliane Radigue. She has left us with an amazing legacy of work of which this is often cited as her masterpiece. Ultra minimalist in nature this drone work using her beloved ARP2500 opens up immense vistas of deep sound through almost imperceptible tonal shifts.

Fantastic review of DiN95 - "A fearless electronic meditation on obsession & excess, HERZOG: A Retrospective finds d'Voxx transforming cinematic intensity into immersive modular soundscapes". igloomag.com/reviews/d-vo...

Time to Tendrilise the modular set up for some forthcoming shows to give a clean, uncluttered playing surface.

Great review of Polarity Modular, the software instrument I designed in conjuction with @soniccouture.bsky.social utiltising 250 samples from my hardware modulars together with their granular synth engine "It sounds incredibley lush, with a host of great patches" www.soundonsound.com/reviews/soni...

And then in a moment of strange synchronicity you notice your lampshade looks remarkably like the cover of the album you’re listening to (Ambient 2 The Plateau of Mirror).

Now playing Ambient 2 The Plateau of Mirror by Harold Budd & Brian Eno. Originally released in 1980 this has really stood the test of time & for me the opening track “First Light” is still one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard.

Lovely review of HERZOG: A Retrospective (DiN95) by d'Voxx in this weeks @moonbuilding.bsky.social. "d’Voxx say that these tracks “do not attempt to score the films, but rather to inhabit their territories”. And what territories they are". moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-96-2...

It's the official release day for HERZOG: A Retrospective (DiN95) by modular synth duo d'Voxx which showcases their musical interpretations of the five films legendary German director Werner Herzog made with mercurial actor Klaus Kinski. dinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/herzog...

Tracking two complimentary sampled string parts, one at a time, through my venerable old Moog Phaser pedal (what you're hearing are the two parts playing together). Although there are some very good Phaser plug-ins, for me, there's nothing quite like the swish of a good, analogue phaser.

Latest read in my A.E. van Vogt odyssey is Rogue Ship published in 1965, another of his "fix-up" novels. Some of the political maneouvrings on board the spacecraft I found a little tedious but his ideas of time dilation at faster than light travel are really far out & way ahead of their time.

Absolutely dreary outside in SF today. This is a perfect soundtrack. Masterful work here. Ian Boddy and Chris Carter "Caged" 2025 reissue. Cheers! @ianboddy.bsky.social #nowspinning #synths #electronic #vinyl #vinylcommunity

Coming soon. The most important music of all time. The pieces that gave us direction. #ChordConfessions

The sky appears to have gone a strange colour. What could this mean?

Thanks to all who joined the Listening Party last night for HERZOG: A Retrospective (DiN95) by modular synth duo d'Voxx. It was great fun chatting and sharing the music from this wonderful album with such a good community.

Really loved the new series, Small Prophets written by Mackenzie Crook (who previously wrote The Detectorists - which was also wonderful). At times bizarre, hilarious & wistful, it's such a refreshing change to the barrage of unsubtle content that much of modern TV adheres to. Recommended.

Excellent review of HERZOG: A Retrospective (DiN95) by d'Voxx in this months issue of @electronicsound.bsky.social. "Rich in atmosphere, drama and genre-defying ambiiton, this is one of d'Voxx's most evocative releases to date".

Experimenting with the weird & wonderful exFriend synth running through the Boss DD20 & Microcosm. It is a clone of the Ellitone Multi-Synth designed by Maciek Jaciuk and really you never quite know what you're going to get out of it - which can be cool.

A gentle reminder for the Listening Party tomorrow 13th February @ 8:00pm (GMT) - chatroom opens @ 7:30pm. Join label boss Ian Boddy & modular synth duo d'Voxx to listen and chat about their new album 'HERZOG: A Retrospective' (DiN95). dinrecords.bandcamp.com/merch/herzog...

Same patch as yesterday but this time cycling through a few patches using the Program Manager Card on the Buchla Easel Command. Set in 'Both' mode this loads up different patches which I can then interact with on the front panel. A rather handy feature to say the least. #modularsynth #synthsky

Playing a drone in D Major from the Buchla Easel Command via a long 16s delay from the Boss-DD20 & then via the Microcosm. Small tweaks of timbre and tone slowly morph into each other to create this harmonic dronescape.

Next combo I'm experimenting with is the Buchla Easel Command with it's Program Manager Card heading through my trusty old Boss DD-20 Delay Pedal & then the Hologram Electronics Microcosm.

Beautiful concert by the Royal Northern Sinfonia @ the Firestation in Sunderland. An afternoon of English classics with pieces by Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Britten, Holst & Butterworth. For me the stand out piece was the Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis which is 1 of my favourite pieces of music.

Rough seas today so here's a simple sound design experiment. Run the audio twice - once in real time and the other at a tiny fraction faster - in this case 120 vs 120.1 bpm. Creates a lovely and intense flanging effect at the start which will eventually start becoming a short delay.

Listening Party 13th February @ 8:00pm (GMT) - chatroom opens @ 7:30pm. Join label boss Ian Boddy & modular synth duo d'Voxx to listen and chat about their new album 'HERZOG: A Retrospective' (DiN95). dinrecords.bandcamp.com/merch/herzog...

Great to see HERZOG: A Retrospective (DiN95) by d'Voxx at No.1 on the Bandcamp Electronica CD chart. The modular synth duo have created musical interpretations of the five films legendary German film director Werner Herzog made with the actor Klaus Kinski. dinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/herzog...