Honored to appear alongside so many astounding artists on this one. Out 6.26!
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With the news @cherryredrecords.bsky.social will be releasing a Vince Clarke ‘Remix/Remodel’ 2CD set on 26th June 2026, a good time to revisit of the Beginner’s Guide compiled by ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK in 2015. Remix collection tracklist in comments 🎹💻🎚️🎚️🎚️🎚️ www.electricityclub.co.uk/a-beginners-...
Indeed it is!
R.I.P Moya Brennan.
Particular mixes suit specific situations: @darwinmcdmusic.bsky.social & #Huguenot 'Birds Away ( #Alka Remix)' and @theglidingfaces.bsky.social 'Terracotta ( @milanmusicuk.bsky.social Terracotta Paris To Versailles)' featured during #ColinSpencer Programme #202
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Airing tomorrow at 12pm CT on @campradio.bsky.social, a brand new episode of #ElectroJunkyard. Featuring tunes by @magicksquare.bsky.social, @annacalvi.bsky.social, and more.
Don’t discount the power that AM and shortwave radio played in that as well - Katie Thornton did some amazing investigative journalism on it www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
MAGAZINE MONDAY | Read about the revolutionary sea floor charts of pioneering cartographer Marie Tharp in the current issue of the Library of Congress Magazine. lcm.loc.gov/issue/march-april-2026/t...
Out this date, next month on the inimitable Mortality Tables. @mortalitytables.bsky.social
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abstracted graphic of mainly blue and orange being the cover of Gravity by alka.
Today we're announcing something special, GRAVITY: a collection of remixes from our 2025 release The Magnitude... provided by fellow electronic musicians across the spectrum. We are honored by names like Gareth Jones, Scanner, Vince Clarke, Mick Chillage, Stubbleman, Starkey, Textbeak, et al.
It’s always a lovely thing when someone understands a piece of your very personal work. Thx to Nosnibor at Aural Aggravation for the write-up of my latest piece for Mortality Tables.
auralaggravation.com/2026/03/13/a...
New York Telephone Brooklyn Yellow Pages 1970-71 with an amazing psychedelic cover by Peter Max
Brooklyn yellow pages went so hard
Had the pleasure to remix Darwinmcd @darwinmcd and Huguenot’s infectious new synth pop tune Birds Away 🐦 🎶 🔊
Not mentioned: E-mu Emulator boards. I had a crash course in Z80 when repairing one.
Beautiful use of these machines as kinetic instruments. Have you seen some of this? Probably. All of it? I think not! They've been busy...
Severed Heads did a lot with tape loops in their early work but I suppose that was a more ‘traditional’ approach. Nice article!
My latest ambient work for Mortality Tables is a long form meditation on the concept of impermanence using Mat Smith’s touching childhood recordings singing with his late father, James. 🖤
thanks for the listen 🙏
Peter Gabriel’s melting face cover for his I don’t remember single.
Uh oh …
Synergy Cords album sleeve by Hipgnosis feat a naked man wrapped in a golden light beam on an ominous city street backdrop at night.
One of my fave albums by Synergy aka Larry Fast.
Album sleeve art by Hipgnosis (I wonder if Sleazy (coil) had anything to do with this one) and track titles assisted by Peter Gabriel - looking dapper above. #electronicmusic #synthsky
A clipping from a 1989 Smash Hits magazine featuring The Vince Clarke Story, a brief article mentioning his projects with Depeche Mode, Yazoo, The Assembly, and Erasure.
A little bit on the inimitable synth legend, Vince Clarke from a 1989 Smash Hits. Moral of the story: Don't Give UP :)
Aerial satellite photo labelled in bright yellow letters: 1. Electric Energy
Transmission #531 from GPS III-SV05 (CONFIDENTIAL)
1. Electric Energy
Had this happening in my town last year - very creepy.
Robert Duvall headshot of his portrayal as future city resident, THX 1138.
RIP THX 1138
Point of No Return - an avant-garde mix with wonders by
@jamesadrianbrown.bsky.social @castlesinspace.bsky.social @thehomecurrent.bsky.social @subexotic.bsky.social @keithseatman.bsky.social wyrddaze.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/p...
This was a pleasure to work on. It was made using Mat's field recordings of his personal train journeys and narrated by Nero's Tongue. The track embodies the anxious joy and later exasperation of travel - an analogy for life/death.
The galaxy designated MoM-z14 is currently the farthest galaxy ever detected, spotted by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and confirmed spectroscopically with its NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph) instrument. Through Webb, we are seeing this galaxy as it appeared in the distant past, only 280 million years after the universe began in the big bang. Its light has traveled through space for more than 13 billion years to reach us. Like some other galaxies Webb has discovered in the early universe, MoM-z14 is brighter, more compact, and more chemically enriched than astronomers expected to find in this early era. While it may pass out of record books quickly as the farthest galaxy, MoM-z14 will still play a role in helping astronomers and theorists reach new understanding of the earliest chapters in the universe’s story.
News from the edge of the visible universe:
JWST has confirmed this galaxy, MoM-z14, as the most distant one yet studied. We're seeing it as it was 13.5 billion years ago, 98% of the way back to the beginning of time.
(MoM stands for "miracle or mirage.") 🧪🔭
science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
a very small me standing in front a large banyan tree.
The forest is a college, each tree a university.
Terrible musical related news (the rest has been terrible for some time, but you don’t need me to tell you) cdm.link/ni-insolvency/
Less than a year after our last review of an album by @anewlinerelated.bsky.social , he’s back with a 4-track EP, each piece with its own distinct style, beautifully sequenced. Once again, it’s available on Sound In Silence.
#electronicmusic
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