I would rather he lives out his term. Everyone who voted him in has to feel the full brunt of the damage he can cause them. If he dies, they will lionise him.

Obvious caveats around funding etc, but could be a big deal for Scottish arts - potentially a pull factor rUK as well.

(Some will argue it did anyway, but that's another conversation)

I'm kind of glad I moved on from the BOC-adjacent style that I was into for a while. Would probably quit as all my music would be about to sound 2nd rate soon.

My second of four Planck Tone guest mixes available now.
Listen here:
www.mixcloud.com/mahork-mahor...

Featuring:
@faexoptim.bsky.social
scav
Polygon Ring, Esem
Djane Ki, Innocent but Guilty
alfa00, LR Friberg
Christophe Bailleau, Paradise Now
Dolphins of Venice
TFSL
Toni Dimitrov
...

Cheers mate.

Crisps AND cake? How bourgeois.

I don't get Pret. It's one of those southern phenomenons I'll never understand.

3 cassettes on a table

DOGS VERSUS SHADOWS NICHOLAS LANGLEY - 16mm

Shipping to UK from UK now, get it before they’re gone!

“If there is one thing that this duo can do perfectly, it is create a positively surreal experience.” Fringes Of Sound

strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/16mm @strategictaper.bsky.social

ROYGBIV has to be the synth equivalent of Stairway to Heaven (for the few synth shops still remaining).

Cover of FORETRAX 4 by ireless

FORETRAX 4 by @ireless.bsky.social out on streaming services this Monday

ditto.fm/foretrax-4

Of all the manosphere nonsense, I find the cigar thing by far the most cringe.

Lars Ulrich is a great example for young musicians everywhere. You can be really shit at your instrument but still make it in the biggest rock band in the world.

Getting a few remix requests lately (both friends/acquaintances and commercial). Also open to production projects.

Faexoptim@gmail.com

I cannot express how quickly I bought these.

It's great Disney made a song about an argument in a pub.

My experience, fwiw, is that the "scene" is winding up a bit. People are generally less engaged and not buying as much music/supporting artists in the way they were. It happens. I have my views on why, but I'll keep those to myself. Be assured you're not alone in noticing it.

FIND THE PATH FORWARD (album), by Amongst the Pigeons 10 track album

My new album is out very soon.

I’d love to say I’m excited but it’s been really hard to get any traction, coverage, pre orders.

If you’d like to have a listen / there are a few tracks already released.

amongstthepigeons.bandcamp.com/album/find-t...

Huge thanks to everyone who watched the stream. Full set on the toob.

4TN - Faex Optim YouTube video by Four Track Nights

At 6.30pm GMT this evening, my live performance for Four Track Nights goes live on YouTube. Featuring all tracks from Solar Drift plus a couple of new to-be-released ones. I hope you can join us.

4TN is an A/V installation in an abandoned supermarket in Paisley.

Link:
youtu.be/nKW3pF9Rrm8?...

I have an 8yo daughter myself, so can only imagine what her family are, and have been, going through. Superhuman strength to recover from that kind of loss.

Hard to know how to respond, and the "heart" emoji thing is probably inappropriate. Incredibly sad.

Got my son a guitar. He quickly set about decorating it.

Went to see Clark. He was great.

Sorry, there's context. Wasn't just a random moan lol

Gentle reminder - I've had people who had preview copies of records and not deliver, promoters fuck me around or ghost me, labels treat me in a mercenary fashion. I won't engage with any of them again. These people aren't gatekeepers. Don't email me if you've dicked me around in the past.

i’ll delete later.

i love louis theroux, i get called him in the street occasionally. but i wonder if the ‘enough rope to hang themselves’ era of documentary making is over now given the worst people are surrounded by rope and turning it into cash?

He's 2nd in the chart. That doesn't scream "cancelled" to me.

Wee ditty in progress