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Telepathic Fish ‘Float IV’ guest mix on Dublab

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You can now listen back to the 2hr Telepathic Fish ‘Float IV’ guest mix from last week on dublab with Doug Shipton and I. My set is largely new tracks with a couple of classics and Doug dives back to the 90s and beyond for his hour.

Tracklist:
STRICTLY KEV MIX
Patrick Carpenter – Santosha (Bandcamp) Space Drum Meditation – Yarra (Space Drum Meditation)
 Lo Five – Unbecoming You (Castles In Space)
 Paul Cousins – Blueprint (Castles In Space)
 Advisory Circle – Gog (Cafe Kaput)
 Listening Centre – The Death of Group D Meter (Castles In Space)
 Loula Yorke – I Felt A Melting In Me (Castles In Space Subscription Library)
 Dub Squad – Blown Fruit (Music From Memory)
 Multicast Dynamics & Sid Hille – Metamorphosis – Part 1.1 (Astral Engineering)
 Eurythmics – This City Never Sleeps (acappella) (RCA)
 John Lennon – Space (Mind Games Meditation Mix Binaural ∿Theta Waves∿ 8Hz) (Universal)
 Klaus Back & Tini Beier – Interferences (Buried Treasure)
 Kosmologic Research Society – Rift (Confused Machines) Multicast Dynamics & Sid Hille – Metamorphosis – Part 1.2 (Astral Engineering) Spooky – Orange Coloured Liquid (Test Pressing)
 Dream 2 Science – My Love Turns 2 Liquid (acappella) (Confusion Records) Multicast Dynamics & Sid Hille – Metamorphosis – Part 1.3 (Astral Engineering)
 LF58 – Radials Part 1 (Astral Engineering)

DOUG SHIPTON MIX
Reload – The Enlightenment (Infonet) Christ. – Arctica (Benbecula) Biosphere – Decryption (Apollo) William Orbit – Silent Signals (I.R.S.) Kat Epple & Bob Stohl – Spiritus Sanctus (Dead Cert) Global Communication – 14.31 (Dedicated) Some Other People – Relativity (Infinite Mass) Black Dog – Raxmus (Warp) Ami Shavit – Alpha 3 (Amis) Gescom – Cicaca (Skam) Emerald Web – Ice Caves (Stargate) Bola – Aguilla (Skam) Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Providence (Constellation) Essential Chrome – Mika (Wide Area Network) Deuter – Ecstasy (Kuckuck)

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The All Colour High Fidelity Radio Cartoon

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This weekend (25/26th Oct) I’ll be at the Bound Art Book Fair at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester with a table selling my latest collage comic, the All Colour High Fidelity Radio Cartoon. This was started in lockdown in 2020 and worked on intermittently for five years until recently when I exhibited some pieces in Folkestone and decided I had enough to assemble a comic/zine/whatever at last.

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That had always been the goal but there was no deadline so I just continued to work on pieces for years, slowly building each page to a point where they were ‘finished’. With the Bound Art Book Fair invitation for Saturday, I decided that would make a suitable deadline to compile a first version of these works.

ACHFRC backUnless I’ve got a deadline I can tinker with things forever (hence no new DJ Food music in years) and this has been on the Infinite Illecktrik release list since 2020 (ii03 – to be accompanied by an album of the same name but that will come later now). Talking of which, I am also readying some new releases for the label which will take physical form soon…

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But I digress, the comic – I’m calling it a comic because a large proportion of it is taken from comics and you can ‘read’ some pages, but really I have no idea what it is – is 32 pages, full colour and includes a free pair of 3D specs to view the centre spread. The first 50 come with a random sticker applied inside and I will have a random selection of badges free for buyers at the fair this weekend.

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I’ll also have the new Mindfood zine (issue 5) and very limited original copies of #1,3 & 4 for sale as well as copies of the Float III mixtape and a handful of the Telepathic Fish LPs. Also there will be copies of my Wheels of Light book, the comic book version of my Search Engine album and whatever else I can find.

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DJ Food + Moz at YES flyer
In addition to that I’ll be giving a talk at 1pm on the Mezzanine about the Telepathic Fish parties and the zines we made at some point on Saturday and in the evening I’ll be playing at YES alongside my good friend Moz. That’s quite an itinerary for Saturday. The comic will go on sale online next week via Bandcamp for those who can’t make the fair.

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More Telepathic Fish press!

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There’s a new interview and exclusive Openmind ‘Seeds’ ambient mix (based around my set at the recent Telepathic Fish launch party) over on The Ransom Note website. The fifth in their mixtape series, this actually started out as a ‘Float’ mix but was reconfigured and retitled as, ‘Openmind’s leave your phone at home & discover Paradise after a forage in the forest’ for this piece. Doesn’t quite trip off the tongue I know but you’ll see why when you listen, I’m very pleased with this set indeed. Buyers of the deluxe album set will have the ‘Float III’ mixtape and a two hour special ‘Float IV’ mix arrives next week on Dublab via Doug Shipton and I, more details soon…

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I was interviewed by Lloyd Briggs for his Deeep Space show on PBS 106.7FM in Australia recently, here’s a link to the show.

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I also spoke to Ben Cardew at Radio Primavera Sound for his Line Noise podcast


Reviews have been popping up in Record Collector, Mojo, Uncut, The Wire and more and the second pressing of the album is now in hand and pre-orders being fulfilled.

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Audiovisual Assembly, SImple Things and the Bound Book Fair

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I’m part of two amazing bills coming up in November – the Audiovisual Assembly that pits The Light Surgeons with Bitvert & Pat Grimm and myself. The Surgeons will be performing their incredible ‘The Consensual Hallucination’ which was one of the most psychedelic things I’ve ever seen and I’ll be doing a rare performance of my ‘O Is For Orange’ set.

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It’s on Nov 21st at The Bath House, Hackney Wick, London and tickets are on sale now with limited early birds cheaper than the full price. https://ra.co/events/2276158

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Earlier, on Nov 8th, I’ll be at the Simple Things festival in Bristol with Graham Dunning engaging in modified turntable madness with Puttyrubber on live visuals on the huge IMAX screen. Sculpture are also on the bill with Stunty & jb glazer. Tickets here:

Two weeks before that I’ll be in Manchester for the Bound Art Book Fair at The Whitworth where I’ll be selling things like the Mindfood fanzines (including original copies) and my new collage comic, ‘The All Colour, High Fidelity, Radio Cartoon’ which has been five years in the making.

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Bleep mix #308 – O Is For Orange 2025 (version 3)

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Today sees the premiere of a new mix I’ve done for Bleep in support of the Telepathic Fish compilation which is currently their album of the month. A version of this mix first appeared in 2013 at a night to celebrate the release of Boards of Canada’s ‘Tomorrow’s Harvest’ LP. It then morphed into an Audio Visual DJ set that I toured around the UK in 2019, playing the Bluedot festival to a packed tent that year. The idea was to thread Boards of Canada’s music with original sample sources, tracks they’d remixed, fan remixes or songs that fitted their sonic blueprint.
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To listen go here: DJ Food Bleep Mix

By coincidence I recently resurrected and refined the mix for a gig booking, updating it into a new version. Tracks were removed, new ones added and remaining ones re-edited, videos were upscaled or replaced entirely. This happened to be a week before I was due to deliver my guest mix to Bleep and it seemed to be too good an opportunity to pass up, given that it also featured a host of other Warp acts too. I abandoned the mix I was going to deliver and put down the first hour of the 90 minute DJ set, including this video mix to go with it. I used stem splitting apps to deconstruct some of the tracks into unique versions before video mixing it all on turntables using Serato then editing the recording in Premiere. Enjoy and spot the recurring themes.

Full audio and video tracklist:

Sesame Street – ‘Oh! Orange’ (Sesame Workshop)
Video: as above

Galt MacDermot – Aquarius (RCA Victor)
Video: ‘Conquest of Light’ – dir. Paul Cohen / ‘Hair’ – dir. Milos Forman / Wobass – ‘Aquarius’ bass solo

Sesame Street – ‘1-10 count’ (Sesame Workshop)
Video: as above

Sesame Street – ‘Slot Machine (legs)’ (Sesame Workshop)
Video: as above

Boards of Canada – Aquarius (Warp)
Video: ‘Moog’ advert – dir. Julian House, / ‘Opening Flowers’ – dir. Bjorn Svin / ‘Yellow Submarine’ number sequence – dir. George Dunning

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Video: ‘Everyman – The Beyond Within’ (BBC documentary, 1986)

Ken Nordine – Orange (Philips)
Video: as above – dir. Jada Lewis, ‘Orange Bird’ – Food & Fun (Disney), ‘Kia Ora Orange’ 70s advert,

Sesame Street – Alphaquest: S (Sesame Workshop)
Video: as above

Boards of Canada – ROYGBIV (Warp)
Video: as above – dir. Triff (fan video)

Delia Derbyshire & Barry Bermange – The Dreams: Colour (ROYGBIV re-edit) (Silva Screen)
Video: ‘ROYGBIV’ (PBS Kids)

Yosi Horikawa – Wandering (First Word)
Video: Yeasayer ‘Henrietta’ (Official Vignette) – dir. Yoshi Sodeoka

Broadcast & The Focus Group – The Be Colony (Warp)
Video: Broadcast – ‘Witch Cults’ #1 & 2’ promo films, – both dir. Julian House

Nevermen – Treat ‘Em Right (Boards of Canada remix) (Lex)
Video: iloobia – ‘Films To Break Projectors’ – dir. iloobia

Boards of Canada – Everything You Do Is A Balloon (Skam)
Video: as above (fan video – dir. Nonameno5), taken from ‘One Got Fat’ (1963) – dir. Dale Jennings

Bomb The Bass – One To One Religion (Skankapella) (Stoned Heights)

Jan Hammer Group – Don’t You Know (Nemperor Records)
Video: Andy Shauf – ‘The Magician’ – dir. Winston Hacking / ‘Outer Space / Collage Animation’ – dir. Sabrina Ashleigh Tan

Sesame Street – ‘Valentine I Love You’ (Sesame Workshop)
Video: as above

Clocolan – Humantime (Bandcamp)
Video: Sculpture – ‘Plastic Infinite’ – dir. Reuben Sutherland

The Books – Group Autogenics I (Temporary Residence)
Video: ‘Terminal Self’ – dir. John Whitney Jr.

No-Man – Heaven Taste (Beats)
Video: Noel Gallagher – ‘It’s A Beautiful World / Holy Mountain’ (edits) – dir. Julian House

Boards of Canada – Happy Cycling (Warp)
Video: as above – dir. Framewall (fan video)/ ‘A Bicycle Trip’ – dir. Lorenzo Veracini, Nandini Nambiar & Marco Avoletta

Boards of Canada – Just An Illusion (Societas x NTS mix)
Video: ‘Phase 4’ – original lost ending – dir. Saul Bass / Imagination – ‘It’s Just An illusion’ video / ‘Bees Hexagons’ – dir. unknown

Boards of Canada – The Colour of the Fire (Warp)
Video: Sesame Street ‘I Love You’ (Sesame Workshop) / ‘Der Phantastische Film’ – dir: Heinz Edelmann

Meat Beat Manifesto – Prime Audio Soup (Boards of Canada remix) (PIAS)
Video: ‘Series 4′ – dir. Normand Grégoire (Nation Film Board of Canada)

Boards of Canada – Dandelion (acappella re-edit) (Warp)
Video: ‘Dive To The Edge of Creation’ (National Geographic)

Autechre – Teartear (Warp)
Video: ‘The Public Voice’ – dir. Lejf Marcussen

The Human League – Being Boiled (Fast)
Video: as above What’s On Granada TV live appearance 1978 / ‘Beyond The Black Rainbow’ – dir. Panos Comastos

Boards of Canada – The Devil Is In The Details (St.Vitus Dance Remix / DJ Food re-edit) (fan mix)
Video: Puttyrubber video feedback / BBC title sequences edit

Datashat – Stop The Message (DJ Food edit)
Video: Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five – The Message (Sugar Hill Records)

Boards of Canada – Nlogax (Skam)
Video: ‘Bridget Riley – Painting The Line’ (BBC)

Indeed – Last Night A DJ Saved My Life (a cappella) (Sound of New York)
Video: as above

Boards of Canada – Olson (Midland re-edit) (mp3)
Video: ‘The Hello Machine’ (AT&T) – dir. Carroll Ballard

Jamie Lidell – Multiply The Voices
Video: Multiply multi-layered – dir. Pablo Fiasco

Boards of Canada – Telepath (Warp)
Video: as above, dir. Faastwalker (fan video)

Spooky – Orange Coloured Liquid (Guerilla)
Video: ‘Tonespor’ – dir. Lejf Marcussen, / Plastic Flowers – ‘Open Space part II’ – dir. Karina Logotheti

Dream 2 Science – My Love Turns To Liquid (Padappela) (Confusion Records)

Sesame Street – Many Me’s (Sesame Workshop)
Video: as above

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Telepathic Fish in Electronic Sound

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The current issue of Electronic Sound has a six page feature on Telepathic Fish by Ben Willmott, someone who was around when we did these parties and certainly came to several. Aside from interviewing the three of us, he’s pulled in quotes from Matt Black, Robin Rimbaud and Daniel Pemberton – all people in our orbit back in the day who have first hand experience of the Fish too. I’ve not included the text of course, you’ll have to buy the mag but later in the issue is a review of the forthcoming compilation by Ben Murphy and nestling next to it is none other than the guvnor, Brian Eno.
If you can’t get the mag or don’t do physical then you can read the feature online if you become a premium member.

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It’s just two weeks away from the launch party in Brixton on August 31st and there’s still much to do, the LPs are in the UK, the cassettes are made although we now have to assemble 150 acetate inlays, the badges and fanzines are delivered and a very special liquid wheel has been custom made by Bubblevision for the night. There’s more press to come and several guest mixes which I’ll post about in the coming weeks, lots in the pipeline still and new things bubbling to the surface daily it seems… Launch party tickets: https://ra.co/events/2218194

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45 Live mix for 2025

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It’s that time again, my annual 45 Live mix over on Dublab for the fortnightly 45 Live show, hosted as ever by the mighty Greg Belson (whose unreleased 1995 album with Nick Faber under their The Hightower Set monikor finally came out last month). As ever I’ve been stockpiling those electronic 7″s from the acid house and rave era and this is a mostly techno and bleep-orientated mix, only occasionally straying into rave territory (believe me though, I have enough to make a stonking piano-led pop house set and probably two full-on rave/hardcore sets).

Kev’s 12th mix – House / Techno / Bleep ’88-92 – Aug 2025

Unknown – The Cimex Invasion promo advert
LFO – We Are Back (intro)
808 State – Cobra Bora (7” edit)
A Guy Called Gerald – Rhythm of Life
The Style Council – Can You Still Love Me?
A Guy Called Gerald – Hot Lemonade (Radio Edit)
Emmanuel – We Shall Overcome (Technogizer Instrumental edit)
Friends of Matthew – Out There (Technomix)
K-Klass – Rhythm Is A Mystery (Percussion mix)
Kraftwerk – The Robots (Single edit)
D-Shake – My Heart, The Beat
Rickster – Rickster Twister (Radio Mix)
Bassomatic – Attack Of The 50 Foot Drum Demon (Psycho Biker Mix)
Rhythmatic – Take Me Back (Robert Gordon Radio edit)
Kenny Larkin – Colony
GTO – The Bullfrog
Kid Unknown – Mayhem
Unique 3 – Rhythm Takes Control (Original Style mix)
Rhythmatic – Frequency
808 State – Open Your Mind
GTO – Listen to the Rhythm Flow
LFO – We Are Back
G.T.O. – Pure
Underground Posse – Hold Back
LFO – Nurture
Kid Unknown – Nightmare
Papillon – The Bully (Original Mix)
Orbital – Halcyon (Edit)
The Shamen – Phorever People (Shamen Dub)
Inner City – Unity

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Tales From A Disappearing City podcast


I had a chat with my friend Neil Keating aka Controlled Weirdness about my formative years in music; record buying, clubbing, graffiti and a fair bit about Telepathic Fish. This is an indepth chat, probably the deepest I’ve gone about some subjects and I provided Neil with a load of vintage photos to illustrate the chat on the YouTube stream.
Glad to be a subject on this excellent podcast, if you like it, check some of the older episodes, the Jerome Hill, Aaron Trinder and Ian St. Paul ones are particularly good. Thanks to Neil for having me and putting the work in with the picture editing.

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Exhibition at Upside Down Records, Deptford

Openmind at Upside DownIf you visit Upside Down Records over the summer you’ll be able to see a selection of my design work for Ninja Tune, De:tuned, Castles In Space and more as you browse the racks. The selection comes from some of the work I recently exhibited in Folkestone but concentrates mainly on record-related designs so there’s none of the collage work that I previewed there, I’ll save that for when that project is ready.

The shop deals exclusively in used vinyl with a few racks of CDs and a small selection of vintage cassettes, they also deal in vintage hi-fi so if you’re in the market for a turntable, speakers or an amp, then they might have something for you. If you’ve not visited the shop before then they’re one stop from London Bridge on the overground or a 15 min walk from the heart of Greenwich. They’re open Wednesday-Sunday, check times online. Thanks to shop owner and good friend, Philippe for hosting my work and for the speedy install today.

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Originals #36: Search Engine collages and zoetropes

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I recently found these photos, completely forgotten save for the one above, whilst looking through files for another project. These show four collages and six zoetropes (some of the first I ever made) from 2013 before I had them randomly inserted into copies of the 4xLP vinyl version of my ‘The Search Engine’ album for Record Store Day 2014.
The zoetropes are high quality prints but the collages are originals, so far I only know of three that have been found, one zoetrope in Estonia and two collages in Helsinki and Nurnberg. I sometimes wonder if the rest are nestled inside people’s copies, still waiting to be discovered, please leave a comment if you have one. The one on the top right of the image below later became the sleeve for a Janko Nilovic and Lavotta Arpad 7″ on Broc Recordz.

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Rave Wars – The Acid Awakens and more…

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The new Rave Wars 7″ suddenly appeared today, I wasn’t prepared for it, nor for my track to be revealed but then nothing is normal about this release.

RW 2
3 different covers (maybe 4?)
3 different tracks, pot luck as to which 2 you get
8 different labels
Multiple different vinyl colourways
1 of 80 different random original SW figures
Vinyl package of the year?

RW 3
This must have been in the works for over 2 years now, glad to be a part of it and have it out in the world. To top it all I found a nice little Lego Stormtrooper mech in the charity, must have been a sign. Order a copy from HERE

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It’s been very quiet on here because I’ve been doing so much I’ve not had the time but I’ll spare you the carboot sale trips, Tate Modern gig with Doug Shipton and Mixmaster Morris and venue location scouting. Press for the Telepathic Fish release has started and I spent a few days hand-making some promo CDs with tracing paper covers for a lucky few. The Openmind exhibition in Folkestone came and went and will be arriving somewhere new soon hopefully.

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I lent Warp some bits and pieces for their show at the Barbican this past weekend too and I’ve been co-ordinating getting the first wave of Acid Endless lathe cuts out to people in the UK.

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The pre-order for the second run of those ends at the end of the month and they will be cut to order so contact me if you want one and you’re in the UK.

Last week saw a visit to the Royal Albert Hall to see Holly Johnson (ex-Frankie Goes To Hollywood) in concert, expect a huge announcement connected with that soon…

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Also last week was the soft launch of a new book from long time friend Remi Rough and Velocity Press – Future Language of the Ikonoklast – an amazing collection of work from the graffiti crew of the same name that operated from the late 80s in the UK and rewrote the rulebook on what could be classed as writing. Seen here with Remi’s latest album, you can pre-order the book and there should be a proper London launch around September with one in Birmingham at the end of the month with special guest Henry Chalfont!.

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Speaking of Birmingham and Henry, one of the reasons he’s there is because there’s an exhibition of his photographs from Subway Art and beyond on RIGHT NOW and it ends at the end of June! Get up there, and while you’re there the High-Vis graffiti/comic festival is on this weekend 21st June in Kingsheath too – all roads lead to Brum.

Epic story of graff

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Buy Music Club June 2025

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Slightly late this month (been very busy) and still no new episode of the Electrik Collage show (it’s coming) – I’m enjoying having two releases and three cover designs in this month’s list. The Locked Loop Group lathe cut zoetrope is on its second pressing now and will be cut dependent on orders received by a cut off date. Big news for this month is the final announcement of a project I’ve been working on with Doug Shipton at Fundamental Frequencies for a year now – Telepathic Fish: Trawling the Early 90s Ambient Underground.

This double album compiles tracks I and my friends were playing at the ambient parties we held under this name between 1992-1995 in London and beyond alongside Mixmaster Morris and Matt Black and a 20 pg booklet included with the package details the whole adventure. I also collaborated with artist Al White on the Terrace album cover for De:tuned (he did the cover, I did the reverse and labels – it came out nice).

Elsewhere, the Move 78 album is one for the end of year lists, Hieroglyphic Being – who has released about five or six albums in the last month alone – mutes the drums for a new series of ‘Re-selected Psybient Jazz Soundscapes’ which are quite revelatory in revealing the complexity of his compositions. I’d missed his ‘Dance Music 4 Bad People’ album on Smalltown Supersound but it’s one of his strongest of late, my suspicion being that his self-releases can suffer from a lack of quality control sometimes whereas music for other labels steps up a gear.

JG Thirlwell‘s third Xordox album is a synthesiser sci-fi epic and Kate Brooks unearths an album’s worth of outtakes from her Advisory Circle project. I’ve not included the new Stereolab album as that was in a previous list but it’s out now and every bit as good as you hoped it would be.

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Openmind exhibition on now in Folkestone

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It’s been a bit hectic recently, hence not many posts as I’ve been busy framing and preparing artwork for my latest exhibition. After 2 days of transporting, hanging, re-hanging and cleaning up artwork, my Openmind show of work is finally up at Cabron Groove Bar in Folkestone.

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The bar will be open 6-10pm for viewings week days and 2-11pm weekends until the 14th June when I will be returning to play a set with support from Brassica and Bobby Dazzler (see posters at the end for full details)

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There are nearly 50 pieces in the show from 1995 to the present day and I’m now working on a digital catalogue of pieces for sale (I totally ran out of time to do that for the show opening).

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DJ Food gig Folkestone

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0282 podcast – cheap digs

I recently had the pleasure of chatting to Moz from 0282 for his ‘Doings’ podcast, about finding cheap records, or the things I look for that are cheap anyway. One of life’s pleasures is looking for and discovering new music and I look almost every day.

There’s been a lot going on recently which is why there’s been few updates here. I did a couple of gigs supporting the Orb recently, have been designing a lot of stuff I can’t quite talk about yet and am currently framing a lot of my work for an exhibition next month in Folkestone, see details below. It’s followed by a gig in the same bar as the exhibition on June 14th so, if you’re in the area that weekend, come on down.

Openmind exhibition

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Buy Music Club May 2025

BMC May 2025
Another bumper selection this month – too much good music! From Richard Norris‘ triple CD psych compilation to Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto‘s short but sweet ‘Electric War’ LP to the biggest surprise of April – a new Stereolab album! For beats you have the new Move 78 album (in the green cover, top right), Paten Locke‘s posthumous ‘Dance On My Grave’ and the reactivated Bassbin Twins‘ ‘Beats Are King 3’ EP. I’m a new convert to goat(jp) and if the sound of Tortoise playing with military precision in the style of a Steve Reich composition is your bag then you might like them too.

310‘s classic prog cut up masterpiece ‘Prague Rock’ is on Bandcamp in a new edition and whilst trawling through the (In)Active Listener‘s comps I came across Scotland’s Nebyudelic Soundsystem with a sitar-drenched wig-out named ‘Down By The River’. Barely active over the years, there’s little else by him out there but there are treats on his Soundcloud page. King Gizzard have a new orchestra-led album coming up but for all your acid needs you could do worse than the L/F/D/M release on Don’t Recordings which twists things into new shapes. Also you may have noticed my own release nestling in there, a Quadraphon turntable acid jam under my Locked Loop Group alias which has taken well over a year to come to fruition due to general tardiness by myself. But here it is, an 8″ lathe cut zoetrope picture disc of two tracks in a die-cut sleeve from Acid Lathe in the US, it’s very limited, it’s not cheap but it’s what I and the label came up with as a release and it’s one of the best zoetropes I’ve done IMO. Pre-order is up as of today and if anyone in the UK wants to save a bit on shipping then contact me as I will be getting artist copies sent over soon and we can get a package together and sort out a deal with minimal postage.

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DJ Food presents Locked Loop Group – Acid Endless

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Out today on the Acid Lathe label from Portland, Oregon – my Locked Loop Group alias over two sides of an 8″ zoetrope picture disc in a fold-over die-cut sleeve. ‘Acid Endless’ is a two part improvised turntable jam on my Quadraphon turntable using locked grooves to generate churning acid beats which were then edited down for this release. Chris from Acid Lathe approached me about doing something a couple of years back, when the idea of the label was just in his head and over time we worked out this release and I helped formulate the label look for him along the way. The cut on the disc is mono but the digital files are stereo so I’d advise you to download them for the full experience.

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I’m really pleased with this release and can’t wait to see a physical copy as I only have these photos to go by at the moment. It’s limited, it’s expensive but it cost a fair bit to make and I’m not sure how many other double-sided zoetrope picture disc lathe cuts are out there? Also, postage is a mother these days so if anyone from the UK wants one and wants to save on postage then contact me and we can work something out when Chris sends my artist copies over, adding extras into the package which I can then send on to you for a more affordable price. Sadly it seems EU postage costs aren’t much different to US these days so this is just an offer for UK residents. Pre-order here, it’ll be released officially on the 12th of May I think but of course it’s Bandcamp Friday today so 100% of the revenue goes to the label/artist for 24 hours.

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DJ Food – Oonops Drops mix for Brooklyn Radio

I did a little mix for the Oonops Drops show for Brooklyn Radio, and it airs today. All 45s, all vinyl, just some beat-heavy bits and pieces I’m digging at the moment and wanted to piece together. I’m finding myself drawn more and more back to the instrumental hip hop/trip hop sound, not in a retro way, many of these tracks are brand new and there’s a lot of it out there. I’ve never stopped loving this sound and it seems to be bubbling back into fashion of late. My mix starts at 40:35 min – 1:10:36 min after DJ Oonops, to be followed by mixes from Sola Rosa and DJ Friction.

Track list:
Shawn Lee – You Seem To have Forgotten What Music Was… (Idlesound)
Ticklish – Lost (Beat Machine Records)
Keina – True Love (Cheeba Cheeba Records)
Buggseed – Crystal Morning Pt.2 (Cheeba Cheeba Records)
Unknown – Glass (Drum Breaks Edits) (Solo 500)
The Psyclops Trees – Beak Street (Flying Saucer Records)
Herma Puma – Rockem Man (Cheeba Cheeba Records)
Herma Puma – Illery Summer (Cheeba Cheeba Records)
Time Signature – Brklyn (Slow) (dub plate)
Lord 69 – Fertilise The Corn (Howlin’)
Mike Bandoni – Kool Trippin’ (Village Live 45)
DJ Koco aka Shimokita – World’s Famous feat. 45trio
MagicTouch – Kyousoku 3 (Delic Records dub plate)

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