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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:
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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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Buy Music Club November

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Another month of great music greets us as we power into Autumn – Jo Johnson‘s ‘Alterations Vol.1’ is another contender for the album of the year list, made up of tracks and remanants that she released as they were finished over the course of the year, collected now into an album with the follow up already begun – check her Bandcamp page for more. I recently discovered the band SML on International Anthem which is why this list includes two of their releases and the ever-prolific Future Sound of London also feature twice with an expanded version of ‘A Controlled Vista’ and a new release, ‘Unrealities’ which sees the release of longform pieces made for the Touched Music online listening parties.

Analog Mutants‘ brilliantly-named ‘Brothers of Invention’ is some contemporary hip hop that throws back to the 00’s in style and Ac1D Vicious is manic drum ‘n’ bass on the Beat Machine label’s Swinging Flavors series of dance 45s. Although we have to wait until January for the album, Barry Adamson graces us with one track from his ‘Scala!!!’ film soundtrack and, because it’s Halloween, it’s time for the latest Delights release, this time from Voxatone, returning for a second outing with some fuzz drums that compliment Adamson’s spy jazz perfectly. Last but not least, James Adrian Brown releases the first single from his forthcoming debut album proper – ‘Generator’ – with a host of remixes from the likes of Warrington Runcorn and Field Lines Cartographer.

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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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Buy Music Club October

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A bit late this month as stuff is still busy but winding down on the promo front and I’m starting new projects finally. Loads of new music again to sooth the soul; 2 Headed Deer continue their Library Music Series with the third release: The Occult – very good it is too, reminiscent of early Ghost Box in places. Tezeta were a new name to me when I bumped into Sean from Klang Tone Records in Soho the other week. He furnished me with their new album on his label and it’s a killer, the perfect midpoint between jazz and afrobeat and not a bad track on there. Project Gemini have a new album out with Wendy Martinez but this little 45 I’d missed from earlier this year arrived in the post with it and it hits the spot for me. Sherman Heath is a new name on a new label, Coarse Fish Records, whose debut TGVM EP contains a whole host of tracks and is well worth checking out.

Marshall Jefferson on Utter? Yep. If you dig 24 minute meditational house designed to do Tai Chi to then this is your release of the year, even better is the digital version with bonus 18 min Vertical and Horizontal mixes by Joakim and an acapella. Nebraska has been digging in the DATs again and come up with four unreleased gems, my favourite being the Dudley Moore-sampling ‘Cinema’. Kista‘s new album veers between old school cut and paste hip hop homages to tripped out mushroom folk with hard breakbeats and Move 78 announce their second album of 2025, which I’ve heard in full and is another contender for LP of the year – no kidding. Finally it’s a classic reissue from Polygon Window aka Richard D James, I don’t need to say much about this other than, if you don’t know it then you need it in your life.

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Bleep competition to win a Telepathic Fish deluxe set

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Bleep are running a competition to win one of two deluxe Telepathic Fish sets – just order the album or sign up to their newsletter to be entered into the raffle before October 2nd. Those who already ordered from Bleep will automatically be entered.

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A runner up prize of original Mindfood fanzine issues 1,3 & 4 is also on offer (these are actually rarer than the main prize). We have also just launched a dedicated Telepathic Fish Instagram account for photos, stories, info and upcoming events connected with the parties.

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Matt Black recalls the Roundhouse New Years Day party and more

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And the Telepathic Fish album press rolls on, apologies for the info dump but I’m trying to keep track of it all.
Here Matt Black remembers the New Years Day party we co-hosted inside the derelict Roundhouse for Juno Daily by Ben Willmott.

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Next there’s a Bandcamp piece I took part in where Andy Thomas neatly encapsulates our story, expanded in the booklet that comes with the LP.

Here’s Mario’s opening set from the Telepathic Fish launch party at BoSi on 31st August.

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The Bleep Album of the month campaign is in its third week and here’s an exclusive Q&A I did for them if you scroll down.


I also did an interview with Mark from Skinny E Media about my O Is For Orange video mix, the image isn’t too clear but you get some insights into the intentions behind it and my thoughts of Boards on Canada.

Still to come; a piece for Record Collector and mixes for Dublab and Ransom Note. The repressing of the album is due back at the end of the month I’m told.

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Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Welcome To The Pleasuredome 40th anniversary

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This has been a long time coming, I’ve been working on this as part of a great team for over a year now and it’s finally up for pre-order. The 40th anniversay set of Frankie Goes To Hollywood‘s ‘Welcome To The Pleasuredome’ across 8 discs, inc. 33 unreleased tracks, with full co-operation of the band, a new 5.1 Atmos mix by Steven Wilson over multiple formats.

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Eight discs: 1: Demos + Sessions 2: Relax + B-sides 3: Two Tribes + B-sides 4: Rarities and outtakes 5: The Power of Love + B-sides 6: Welcome To The Pleasure Dome (the single) + B-sides 7: Welcome To The Pleasuredome (the original album) 8: Welcome To The Pleasuredome (the new Steven Wilson 5.1 mix + more). All housed in a 10″ 38 pg book with intro by SDE’s Paul Sinclair and full historial band timeline by myself plus plenty of photos wrapped up in a Philip Marshall design.

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Formats: 8 discs + book / 2xLP (Steven Wilson album mix) / 2xCD (original album + box set highlights) / Blu Ray (original album mix + Steven Wilson 5.1 + Atmos + Stereo mixes) + Welcome To The Pleasure Dome (Supernova) exclusive. The 30 minute ‘Supernova’ version of ‘Welcome To The Pleasure Dome’ (the title track) by Steven Wilson on the SDE Blu-Ray is, in my opinion, the best Frankie remix done since the 80s.

Myriad versions available here

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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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Buy Music Club September

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It’s finally out, today sees the official release of the Telepathic Fish album that I co-compiled with original housemates Mario Aguera and David Vallade to showcase tracks that we regularly played at the ambient parties we held with Chantal Passamonte back in the early 90s. Released on Doug Shipton‘s Fundamental Frequencies label, the double album comes with a 20pg booklet in a spot-varnished gatefold sleeve and early bird pre-orders got a bundle with a new Mindfood fanzine, mystery mixtape and enamel badge. It’s time for it to swim off into the ether and of course, today is Bandcamp Friday so you know what to do…

Currently Moonbuilding mag’s album of the week and Bleep‘s album of the month (more of that soon), there are articles out in Crack magazine, Electronic Sound and The Guardian with more to come. Also check out my longform interviews with Tales From A Disappearing City podcast with Controlled Weirdness and the Do!!You!!! Breakfast show with Charlie Bones.

Of course I’m going to big it up on my monthly recommends but there’s also tons of goodness out this month too including the new Group Modular 7″ which is so good I had to play it twice last Sunday. Consisting of two cuts previously available on very limited releases, it’s a more ambient release than before. Tom Jenkinson‘s first release under the alias Stereotype gets a repress from Warp as does DJ Format‘s in a new 7″ edit from Delic Records. For the sample-heads there’s a new Wagon Christ album coming from De:tuned and Yo Cisco Kidd‘s ‘Smoke Signal’ mines a Madlib-like vein on Cheeba Cheeba Records. For the chilled side there’s a Radx 12″ out at the end of the month on 12th Isle and an oldie but new discovery for me, Joshua Abrams‘ ‘Magnetoception’, he of Natural Information Society. JG Thirlwell releases the third of his Venture Brothers soundtrack collections – check the CD for loads more tracks – and Funki Porcini appears out of nowhere with another fully formed album. Also note the new Drumetrics release of four 5″ records in an etched box – for some reason Buy Music Club wouldn’t recognise the URL so I’ve added it here.

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Telepathic pics

The Telepathic Fish party last Sunday was a proper fishing trip down memory lane. Not only for the tunes we played and the old decor we dug up but the people who came from far and wide, some of who we’d not seen in decades. The CDJs and Matt Black‘s AV set up may have been state of the art but the projectors were classic old school with liquid wheels, rotating prisms and op-art FX. The floor was covered with matting, rugs and cushions and our original inflatable ‘amoeba’ was revived, pulsating away in a high corner all night. There were reflective fish hanging from the tunnel walls, David‘s badge-making corner under UV lights that illuminated the flourescent paint of some of our original banners and a jar of free fish sweets to take.

Mario played his first public gig in years, Doug Shipton ably followed with a blend of deep digs into the German end of his collection and I spun multiple decks with a retro set drawing mainly from the early 90s. KiF Productions arrived as doors opened and performed a live soundtrack to their ‘Still Out’ ambient road trip film homage to the KLF and Mixmaster Morris closed with two hours of his usual eclectic brilliance. Below are just some of the highlights – thanks to photographers Mike Sumpter, Nancy Brown, Mario and Larissa Aguera, Chiara Acanfora and Simon Wright for pooling their photos. My short sweep of the room above gives you an example of the every-moving nature of the space.

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Telepathic Fish LPs arrive

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The LPs are here at last, over a year in the making, gatefold double album with silk smooth finish, spot varnish details and 20 page full colour booklet. Also Mindfood #5 fanzine, 1 hour mystery mix ‘Float III’ cassette and enamel pin badge.

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These all form the deluxe bundle that sold out very quickly on the FF Bandcamp pre-order page. The LP is very much still available but if you missed out on the bundle then we will have a limited number for sale at the launch party next Sunday, August 31st in Brixton at Arch555 – ticket link here.

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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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Buy Music Club August

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It’s been a very busy month, revitalising my O is For Orange audio visual set for the gig at Faith in Strangers in Margate last week and doing promo for the Telepathic Fish album which is out in just under a month. There’s so much going on that I can scarcely keep up at the moment. I’m just finishing my annual 45 Live mix which airs a week today and starting on a guest mix for Bleep next whilst making final tweaks to the video files for last week’s gig. My longtime friend David Vallade had the premiere of a project he’d done with Great Ormond Street Hospital this Thursday at Outernet, the huge corner video screen at Tottenham Court Road station. He’d provided illustrations that had then been animated for the campaign which aims to raise money to build a children’s hospital. It’s on all month on a half hour loop for all to see free.

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Doug Shipton‘s monthly night at the Tate Modern corner bar continues with Malcolm Catto and Paul Sinclair dropping fuzz funk bombs last Thursday, there’s no August one as we’ll be gearing up for the album launch party but it’s back in September. The Mindfood 5 fanzines are back from the printers, the badges arrive any day and the LPs are currently in customs with the mixtapes being made this week, just the cover inlays to make for those. I’ve ordered a special liquid wheel for the party and will be foraging in the loft for original banners this weekend, David has already found two from 30 years ago which will be making an appearance at the party. Tickets can be found here

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I’m posting a slightly depleted Buy Music Club Recommends this month and it’s a week late, mainly because I’ve also been doing a lot of mixes over the month of July and didn’t have much time to listen to new music outside what I was wrangling into a new form for the Telepathic Fish mystery mix cassette, and a guest mixes for Dublab alongside Doug Shipton – forthcoming soon. Also dropping this month are features in The Guardian and Electronic Sound magazine among others.

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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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Telepathic Fish – The Star Fish – Album launch party

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It’s with great excitement that I can announce the launch party for the Telepathic Fish album in association with Fundamental Frequencies! It’s on August 31st, at a unique venue in Brixton, the home of some of the original parties and keeping a similar vibe.

Mixmaster Morris will of course be gracing the decks, as will Doug Shipton, and myself and original Openmind DJ partner Mario Aguera will also be doing sets. Special guests will be KiF Productions who will DJing the soundtrack to the film of their ‘Chill Out’ homage, ‘STiLL OUT’.

Matt Black will be back on visuals, digging out some period animations for the event and we’ll be dragging a few choice pieces of original Telepathic Fish decor out of storage to give it the feel of the old parties. You’ll have a chance to pick up the album five days early too along with other assorted merch.

Tickets available here:https://ra.co/events/2218194

Telepathic Fish - Star Fish back2

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