What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

COLDSTREAM EMPIRE - my new album, out today. One 12'42" recording, subject to classifiers and erasure, repeated five times. everycontactleavesatrace.bandcamp.com

If you see this, post a Comics cover you love. Iron Man 232 was the first comic I ever bought, age 10 (weird place to start). Invisibles had the biggest impact on my life. But Jack Kirby's introduction to Cap, decking Hitler on 20th December 1940, a year prior to Pearl Harbour, is my favourite.

Zr + 4HC1 → ZrC14 + 2H2U + 3F2 → UF6 Roberto Altmann Excerpt from his Geste Hypergraphique. There's a copy at Southeran's going for £700. sotherans.co.uk/products/alt... Which is also where Frédéric Acquaviva is curating a rare Lettrist UK exhibition. www.cassiusandco.com/poet-artists...

Here's an almost forgotten Marvel curiosity. It taught me about fascism when I was ten years old. Nightmares of Future Past is a module for the Marvel Super Heroes role playing game, based on the classic Chris Claremont story Days of Future Past (originally published in Uncanny X-Men #141-142).

Secondhand Nord Drum 2, priced by someone who hasn't seen them going for twice this amount. One of the all-time great drum synths for someone capable of swooping on this.

At the risk of posting deep cut dweebery, freedom is the right of all sentient beings. But there's a better fictional character to name this after if you're misguided enough to see it as a suit of armour around the world. I'll stop now before I try for a hat trick. Sorry. As you were.

It should be possible for musicians to whinge openly about having to hustle without it being interpreted as passive-aggressive hustling. My tactic here is to vaguepost whinge so no one can tell which specific thing I'm whingeing about having to hustle for, so no one feels on the hook for ignoring.

Very cool. The Korg Nu:Tekt NTS-1 synth & NTS-3 Kaoss Pad have SDKs and dev communities for building and sharing extensibility. Now this YouTuber has built a no code web client for automating the conversion of Pure Data patches for either platform.

Catching up with Friday's excellent releases. NP | STARDUST - DANNY BROWN NP | MERCY - ARMAND HAMMER

Has anyone tried playing these simultaneously?

Three quarters of the way through. Seems a lot in service of a little. Disappointing insta-purchase. :( NP | Lux - Rosalía

First they took our criminals, and I said nothing, for I wasn't a criminal.

don’t throw away yr broken gear, kids boomkat.com/products/1-4...

Sharing with @labourbristol.bsky.social so they have knowledge of the evidence base to inform policy. BLUF - this is social engineering to create community pathways to push society to the right, with the extreme right platformed and promoted as part of that system.

84% of trans people polled by YouGov said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people. A terrifying story - founded on actual data - which the BBC still refused to carry. Link to polling in the blog. goodlawproject.org/abject-terro...

COLDSTREAM EMPIRE - my new album, out today. One 12'42" recording, subject to classifiers and erasure, repeated five times. everycontactleavesatrace.bandcamp.com

alternative forms to release digital audio pt. 2 received today from @sonicrubbish.bsky.social some wonderful created art newspapers with dl codes from his kindling edition at sonicrubbish.bandcamp.com/merch/kindli... among other with @sethcooke.bsky.social and @tjnorrisart.bsky.social

My new album, COLDSTREAM EMPIRE, releases tomorrow on Every Contact Leaves a Trace. In preparation for that, I've re-released LūDō on Bandcamp. LūDō was previously available only on Bluesky (thread below). Of course it's still free here, if you don't do Bandcamp. sethcooke.bandcamp.com/album/l-d

My new album, COLDSTREAM EMPIRE, releases tomorrow on Every Contact Leaves a Trace. In preparation for that, I've re-released LūDō on Bandcamp. LūDō was previously available only on Bluesky (thread below). Of course it's still free here, if you don't do Bandcamp. sethcooke.bandcamp.com/album/l-d

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

Your daily dose of climate hope. From the team at RMI: rmi.org/wp-content/u...

just discovered the bizarre "reimagine" function that appeared on my google pixel's photo editor during the last software update - in this case, "reimagining" an ordinance survey map via the prompt "a different map"

JUST IN! 'A Peace Of Us' by Dean & Britta & Sonic Boom Repress of the Christmas-themed collaboration between the Luna pair with the producer and Spacemen 3 legend. @carparkrecords.bsky.social www.normanrecords.com/records/2058...

RUNES

dishwasher apparition

Why on earth do asylum seekers need to be more than half a mile from Inverness high street? Is he worried that they might take over an empty shop front and rejuvenate the local economy

Dealing with the building insurer because the tree outside is causing damage to our house. There's a reading of the Sepultura song where they're just super-pissed about their subsidence claim. youtube.com/watch?v=F_6I...

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Astonishing album. He's taken the most autotuned elements of singsong mumble rap and grafted them to folky acoustic arrangements, and focused it through the lens of Christian lamentation to obviate the relationship between rap and blues. A record that makes you listen differently to other records.

NP | fleshdeath - svn4vr

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Great Friday for new music. Earl Sweatshirt is reliably great, Carrier is solid if you're into Photek & der Burial of Omit.

tonight! wegottickets.com/event/678323

"We want these tools to succeed and are open to working with AI companies to deliver for audiences and wider society" These particular tools won't succeed for search/news. LLMs are next token predictors generating well-formed text. This is the expected behaviour. It's not a bug, it's how they work.

Carrier’s debut 2LP ‘Rhythm Immortal is finally here, dancing in negative space between Photek’s frictional syncopations, Rhythm & Sound’s dubwise minimalism and T++’s fractured dynamics - featuring Voice actor and Memotone for added noirish frisson 🔥 boomkat.com/products/rhy...

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greater love hath no one than this youtube.com/clip/Ugkxamp...

Excellent haunted amulet framing. "T'is but a bauble - a child's plaything!" ^^^ famous last words before the incredulous fantasy novel character gets one-shot by the eldritch abomination

Talking about Mike Nelson with Haptic when they visited, about how I referenced his work on my 2018 album 'Double B' that barely anyone heard, how I know that barely anyone heard it, and about how miserable it is for that album to still feel so current. sethcooke.bandcamp.com/album/double-b

Been thinking about Peter Thiel's addiction to Tolkien for naming defence and surveillance tech. It's always a very sensible, sanitised Tolkien. It's never Teleporno, or Gróin, or the Fatties (Fatty Bolger, Fatty Lumpkin), or The Brown Wizard. I want the NHS FDP to be delivered by The Brown Wizard.

Been thinking about Peter Thiel's addiction to Tolkien for naming defence and surveillance tech. It's always a very sensible, sanitised Tolkien. It's never Teleporno, or Gróin, or the Fatties (Fatty Bolger, Fatty Lumpkin), or The Brown Wizard. I want the NHS FDP to be delivered by The Brown Wizard.

Shout-out to the DJ at Strange Brew playing Wamp Wamp by Clipse literally the moment YHWH Nailgun left the stage.

Late to the party, but I finally read the Wire Cabaret Voltaire interview on the way to Scotland. Struck by the disconnect between celebrating the ongoing resonance of their existing material vs making art in resistance to AI is really hard. Those don't go together.

Europe Map (Land) - Louise Hopkins

Constrain the best public view of your best artwork to the shitter guys. It's the only way.

My thirteen year-old daughter wanted to watch a horror movie, so we watched 28 Days Later. Very proud of her - commenting mainly on its sadness, stillness and beauty, her disbelief at the opening London sequence, her horror when she realised the soldiers' plan, her enjoyment of the soundtrack.