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More Extended Turntablism dates

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More dates are emerging for the Extended Turntablism dates I’ve set up for the summer. We head to Holotronica‘s Church House Studios just outside Bristol on July 17th for their second Synced night of audio visual goodness where we’re joined by PuttyRubber on projection duties. Tickets here.

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A couple of weeks later and she joins us (minus Graham) in London for this year’s FogFest alongside Xylitol, Sarah Anglis & Karina Townsend and The Howling at Iklectik in its new home in Peckham.
Tickets on sale soon…

There will be cassettes on sale at both, the new Duplokit album plus a second batch of mine and Graham’s ‘Extended Turntablism vol.1’

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DJ Food – I Hear The Sun – an Inferno promo mix

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As many know, after thirteen years, Boards of Canada‘s fifth album, Inferno, is finally here in all its glorious mystery, sending fans into an internet frenzy after weeks of coded sound and vision and a masterful promo campaign. By now the world has immersed itself into its multi-layered delights and is no doubt trying to deconstruct exactly what they’re seeing and hearing.

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Apple Inferno:Early Hours mix
I was honoured to be asked by the band and Warp to make an Early Hours mix to accompany the album on Apple Music. My mix went up on the day of release, if you use Apple Music you might have found it, some people did but it was there, hiding in plain sight, another little audio Easter egg to be found by fans. The mix is 84 minutes long and contains lots of Boards-adjacent material and music, plenty of details to obsess over too.

Could I hear the album before release and include tracks from it? Actually, yes, so I was the lucky recipient of the record the same day the pre-orders went online – keeping that quiet was difficult I can tell you. I really have to thank the label for trusting me with this and it shows the goodwill surrounding the group that the album only leaked less than a week before release date, no mean feat when you consider the anticipation.

Predictably, Apple have their formats that you have to fit into so the mix title ‘I Can Hear The Sun’ disappeared along the way and a few questions I answered regarding the set got edited down in the process too so I’m reposting them in full below.

​- Did you envision this more as a chill-out set for after a night out, or something for someone just starting their day?

I think this is more of a late night thing personally. I usually start the day by clearing the decks, taking care of business and doing all the little things that need to be done before I can get down to some serious creative work. I’m not sure if this is a ‘background music’ kind of set, the listener will get more out of it if they’re focussed on the details, connections and mood shifts.

​- Do you have any go-to tracks that always are in your chill sets, or do you approach such a mix fresh every time?

I try to make every online mix different if I can but occasionally a mix of two elements is just too good not to repeat. Currently there are a couple that I’ll replay, both were included in my ‘O Is For Orange’ mix for Bleep last year; Spooky’s ‘Orange Coloured Liquid’ with Dream 2 Science‘s ‘My Love Turns To Liquid’ a cappella over the top and Boards of Canada’s ‘Everything You Do Is A Balloon’ with Bomb The Bass’ ‘One To One Religion’ (Skankapella) mix.

​- What was your general approach with assembling this set? What’s key to putting together such a set in terms of headspace or philosophy?

This mix was all about song selection and mood. Being lucky enough to hear Inferno a month ahead of release I could gauge the tone of the album and try to construct something that mirrored the feelings I got from it. To me, the album projects themes of religious devotion and worship, life and death/rebirth, celestial divinity and possible alien visitation – a higher power or calling. There is also a darkness alongside the revelation and sci-fi elements in terms of samples. I wanted to convey all these by showcasing songs I felt conveyed similar sentiments, certain artists who I felt share the unique sonic space BoC have created as well as giving a nod to a few Scottish artists and labels. I think it taps into the same places as the ‘O Is For Orange’ mix, often sharing some of the same names.

In terms of the approach to assembling the mix, the majority of this was done digitally and I used stem-splitting apps to deconstruct some of the tracks and remix or re-edit parts in ways it wouldn’t be possible to do easily with conventional DJ equipment. Boards of Canada are one of the hardest groups to mix into DJ sets in that their music is nearly always out of tune with whatever you want to mix over it melodically. To add to this, they often use unconventional time signatures or add extra bars into a sequence so that a standard 4/4 arrangement will slip out of time with their song structures. I did a lot of work rearranging other songs to fit with their arrangements rather than the other way around and to present the album tracks in new ways rather than untouched.

​- Tell us about 2-3 of your favorite tracks here, and why you chose them/love them.

Linkwood ‘Hear The Sun’ from the early days of the now seemingly dormant label Firecracker Recordings. This track partially gave the mix its title and is the kind of downtempo cosmic jazz thing I love.

​​When I’m making a mix I’m looking for ‘moments’, it might be a transition from one song to another or it can be the coupling of two songs together that form a magical third piece. There’s the moment where I use a sample of a girl talking to someone in a coma, she’s saying ‘I hope you can hear me, ‘cause I want you to know…’ before the BoC track ‘Memory Death’ kicks in, they seemed perfect for each other. I then added spoken word I’d made via voice cloning software over the top using notes from a conversation with a friend who related their experiences on a DMT trip. Together they give the Boards track a new dimension which is, for me, the point of a mix like this.
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​​Jane Weaver’s ‘Your Time In This Life Is Just Temporary’ (PJ Philipson version) is a song equally charged with emotion for me. I originally thought it was about death (and it could well be) but it could equally be about the passing of a relationship. There’s something about this version of the song, the guitars evoke another band I love, The The, and it’s a ‘please play this at my funeral’ kind of song for me.
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​​There seems to be a lot of lyrics or spoken word relating to death inherent in this mix, that wasn’t intentional at all, I just discovered it as I was near the end of making it. I like to think it’s the peaceful, transcendent kind of rebirth into a new life.

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Also, here is the full track list, as Apple inserts ‘ID 1/2/3’ etc. when it can’t recognise a track (ie: it’s not on the platform).

DJ Food – ‘I Hear The Sun’
 – an Inferno promo mix

Studio Kosmische – Golden Dunes 

Jon Hopkins – Singing Bowl (Ascension)(Excerpt)

The Gates of Eden – No One Was There (Requiem)
Field Lines Cartographer – Dying Embers 

The Advisory Circle – A Mechanical Eye (a cappella)

Sven Helbig – Olson (Orchestra Variation)
Hawksmoor – Adviata
The Sexual Objects – Sometimes (Boards of Canada Remix)

Clocolan – Then The Morning Comes
James Adrian Brown – Limbic System 

Boards of Canada – Memory Death
SareemOne – Losing Nilsa 

Atticus Ross – The Bed Montage
Broadway Project – From Treetops

Boards of Canada – All Reason Departs

Beautify Junkyards – Raridade de Contrastes

Datashat – Out To Lunch

The Mothers of Invention – Oh No (a cappella)

Deepart – Connection

Black Moth Super Rainbow – Forever Heavy

Nebyudelic Sound System – Down To The River

Orgone Box – Mirrorball (When I Want To Feel) 

Boards of Canada – Arena Americanada

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Blue Morpho (a cappella)

Paul Cousins – Blueprint

Two Quiet Suns – Ambient Source

Patrick Carpenter – Arrival

Jane Weaver – Your Time in This Life is Just Temporary (PJ Philipson Version)

Studio Kosmische – The Great Author Of The Universe
Linkwood – Hear The Sun

Danalogue – Out Of Phase

Jeff Wayne – The Heat Ray (DJ Food re-edit) 

Boards of Canada – The Word Becomes Flesh

Move 78 – In The Age of Data
Papa Blue – Luna En La Pampa

Boards of Canada – Age of Capricorn

Parchment – Son of God

Boards of Canada – Naraka
The Shamen – Lightspan (samples)

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Last but not least, the fabled blue hexagonal flexi disc (Hexi Disc) hinted at in the garbled dialogue of the VHS tapes sent out to fans at the start of the campaign. Nothing materialised when the formats were announced online but inside the booklet of the limited edition LP was this unlisted treat with a track not included on the album. No mention on the sticker, nothing in the sales notes or promotion, Marvelous!

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Extended Turntablism in Brighton

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The first of several gigs this summer under the banner of ‘Extended Turntablism’.

Graham Dunning: Mechanical Techno pioneer, building turntable towers that trigger an array of rhythms with each layer. Modular synths, light-reflecting prisms and even ping pong balls come into play.

Furrowed: The Vinyl Tattooist, literally at the cutting edge via homemade record cutters creating loops in real time.

Duplokit: Lathe cutting journeymen on a quest to further the exploration of rhythm, sonic groove theory and the boundaries of turntablism. Their UK debut, all the way from Aotearoa, New Zealand!

…and myself (with my Quadraphon turntable) will be descending on The Rose Hill Tavern in Brighton for a night of experimental turntablism

Ticket link : Extended Turntablismtherosehill.co.uk

We’re working on Bristol and London dates too and if you’re interested in putting on this line up in July or early August then please get in touch.

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Open City Documentary Festival 2026

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Three very exciting events are happening next month in London as part of the Open City Documentary Festival. On April 16th the ICA will show a selection of light show-related films curated by Sophia Satchell-Baeza whose book, ‘Sensual Laboratories’ has been on Strange Attractor‘s release list seemingly forever and may at last see the light of day this year. The selection ‘focuses on British and North American work from the 1960s and 1970s, bringing together early films by Barbara Hammer, John Smith, Jud Yalkut, Jerry Abrams, Scott Bartlett, and Mark Boyle and Joan Hills’ and is followed by a Q&A with Jarvis Cocker and John Smith. Tickets here.

The following night is the offical festival party at Rich Mix where I’ll be playing alongside NTS’ Mark Leckey with light shows from Insight Lighting, Turbulent Light and Heavy Flow – I’ve also designed the flyer you see here and it’s a pay what you want fundraiser for Gaza Formula Fund – book tickets here.

On Sunday 19th there will be a workshop with Sophia and light artists Julian Hand and Heena Song on the history and making of light shows. So if you want to get your hands dirty with ink and slides then that’s the place to be. Tickets are only £5 – book here for limited places https://richmix.org.uk/events/making-liquid-light-shows/

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Float V mix for NTS

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Yesterday saw the debut of an exclusive new Float mix for NTS radio to accompany your Sunday morning lie-in, run, breakfast, hangover… This mix was based around various instructional self-help records, now available to listen to again.

Track list:
Singing bowl intro featuring Timothy Leary

Sisterlove – The Hypnotist (OK Mr Mogul)

Giles Swayne – Cry (excerpts)

Sven-Erik Back – Walls / Thou Shall Reach the Jordan in the end or.. (edit)

Tomita – The Sea Named Solaris

David Bowie – Space Oddity (acappella)

Artemiev & Yu Bogdanov – Motion

Henry Jacobs – Audio Collage

Field Lines Cartographer – Information Alchemy

Bengt Hambraeus – Tides (excerpt 1)

Dick Mills – Ascending Asteroids

Occulta Series – The Fortunes of Taurus

Mike Herting – Algodoal

Tomita – The Unanswered Question (edit)

Bengt Hambraeus – Tides (excerpt 2)

Marshall Jefferson – Yellow Meditation For The Dance Generation (Joakim’s Horizontal Remix)
Bengt Hambraeus – Tides (excerpt 3)

Jo Johnson – Variance Remnant 1

Bernie Krause – Once Below A Time

Bengt Hambraeus – Tides (excerpt 4)

RP Beesley – An Instructional Record for Meditation

Electronic Concept Orchestra – Wichita Lineman

Singing bowl outro / Henry Jacobs – Interview with Sholem Stein

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Music and Football 1:1 with Strictly Kev – DJ Food

I had the pleasure to chat with DJ Darren the other week for his podcast ‘The Liverpool Connection – Music & Football’ – although I know absolutely nothing about football so it’s all about the former. As well as a huge array of DJs and musicians from across the dancemusic spectrum, Matt Black has also done an episode and supposedly Funki Porcini and Ollie Teeba are in the pipeline.

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Extended Turntablism Vol.1

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I’ve just released the first of several cassettes on my Infinite Illectrik label – Graham Dunning and myself playing at Robin the Fog‘s Fogfest in 2023 alongside several unheard rehearsal jams. For those not familiar with these kind of sets, we’re using modified turntables to build up soundscapes and rhythms using locked groove records that loop, FX and in Graham’s case, all manner of sounds triggered by his stacked turntable assemblage. Everything is improvised, a live set that sits partway between DJing and hardware performance, plus you can dance to it.

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‘E-x-t-e-n-d-e-d Turntablism Vol.1’ is limited to 50 copies, totals 73 mins and comes with a full colour foldout mini-zine insert. I’m looking at several gig options this summer and there will be several more cassette releases this year from Duplokit, a collab with Furrowed, a label compilation and a second volume of ‘Extended Turntablism’.

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Digital is also available and it’s Bandcamp Friday tomorrow so if you’re going to go for one then maybe stick it in your basket and wait until after 8am tomorrow?

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Cassette and inlay
If you want to witness Graham in the flesh with his Mechanical Techno set up, he’s playing at the new Iklectik site in the Peckham Levels in March via Baba Yaga’s Hut. Tickets are only £10 too!

GD at Iklectik

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2025

As is the custom on this blog, Dec 31st heralds my personal favourites of the year in various categories, leaving it until the last moment to make sure as much gets caught in the net before we flip to 2026. Despite the horrors we experience through the media daily, 2025 was a bit of a vintage year for me personally with new work and family milestones reached despite the hardships all around us. This year has been hugely productive and I’ve released a few things, designed a lot and contributed to several big projects that I’m super proud of. The Autumn was dominated by the Telepathic Fish compilation, something that out-performed our expectations by some way and rumbled into the winter months, making several end of year lists to our delight.
This is not the last word on the Fish…

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Music:
Snapped Ankles – Hard Times Furious Dancing LP (the Leaf Label)
clipping. – Dead Channel Sky LP (Sub Pop)
Paten Locke – Dance On My Grave LP (Full Plate)
Hieroglyphic Being – Dance Music 4 Bad People LP (Smalltown Supersound)
Hieroglyphic Being – RE-SELECTED PSYBIENT JAZZ SOUNDSCAPES VOL. 1+2 (Mathematics)
Move 78 – Game Four LP (self-released)
Marshall Jefferson – Yellow Meditation For The Dance Generation (Joakim’s Horizontal Remix Instrumental) (Utter)
Stereolab – Instant Holograms On Metal Film LP (Warp/Duophonic)
Telefax Productions – Break This House Down 12″ (Classic Music Company)
Coastal County – II LP (Lomas Productions)
Kif Productions – Still Out LP (Sound Records)
Move 78 – In The Age of Data (self-released)
Group Modular – The Tunnel / Lonely Pylon 7″ (Delights)
Jo Johnson – Alterations vol.1 LP (Silver Threads)

Best of 2025 Podcasts
Podcasts:
What Went Wrong?
Some Assembly Required
Tales From A Disappearing City
The Bureau of Lost Culture
What Did You Do Yesterday?
Oh God What Now?
Rule of Three
The Adam Buxton Podcast
We Buy Records
The Fanzine Podcast

2025 gigs exhibitions
Gigs / Events / Exhibitions:
Eno and Anne B @ the British Library, London
Mick Jones’ RRPL @ The Farsight Gallery, London
Visiting Neil Rice’s home with friends for a personal light show display
Linder Sterling @ The Hayward, London
Leigh Bowery @ The Tate Modern, London
Strangely Familiar – Photographer’s Gallery, London
The Dream House, East Dulwich, London
Future Language of the Ikonoklast book launch @ Greyhound Pub, Peckham
My 2hr gig turning into 3 hours @ Cabron Bar, Folkestone
The Epic Story of Graffiti, Birmingham
Telepathic Fish launch party @ Arch555, London
The Jonny Halifax Invocation play Ravi Shankar, Mildmay Club, London
Beautify Junkyards @ Waiting Rooms, London
The closing of the Penge street art gallery, London
Barry Kamen @ Graces Mews, London
Obey/Hirst/Invader – Newport Street Gallery, London
Welcome To The Pleasuredome LP Atmos playback @ L-Acoustic studios, London then pub visit with the Universal team + Holly and Ped!
Furrowed residency @ Rose Hill Tavern, Brighton
Factory Floor and Sculpture @ Simple Things festival, Bristol
The Audiovisual Assembly, @ Bath House, Hackney Wick, London

2025 Design
Packaging / Design:
Got to say, I’ve been a bit underwhelmed by a lot of the design I’ve seen this year, not a lot stood out. The fashion seems to be either surrealist photography in an attempt to ape Hypngosis or terrible painting. Typography on front covers is the exception rather than the rule. I thought maybe I’d just not been paying attention but googling a bunch of ‘best covers of 2025’ lists only reinforced my opinion. It’s all subjective though isn’t it? I didn’t see much if any AI in the lists which is good.
Various Artists – Rave Wars: The Acid Awakens 7″ + Star Wars figure (Rave Wars)
Field Lines Cartographer – Apeiron Anxiety LP (Castles In Space)
Drumetrics – DRB 001 4×5″ records in etched box
Kid Koala – Carpal Tunnel Syndrome reissue LP + flexi disc (Ninja Tune)
Krash Slaughta – B-Boy Mastamind 7″ (Krash Slaughta Records)
Sully – Model Collapse etched 12″ (Fabric Live)
Drumetrics – Drumetronome tablet
ES – Planet Beyond – Selected Cuts Vol.1 LP (Ruiger)

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Artists:
Kurt Jackson (above)
Ray Tijssen aka 0010×0010
Odeith
Chris Bigg
Oritoor
Toor Pentel

2025 Books comics
Books / Magazines / Comics:
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Cartoonist – Adrian Tomine (Faber)
UltraMega – James Harren (Image)
Bowling With Corpses – Mike Mignola (Dark Horse)
Robot Tod – Farel Dal (Floating World Comics)
Absolute Martian Manhunter – Camp/Rodriguez (DC)
OK Okapi – Martin Andersen & Chris Bigg
Future Language of the Ikonoklast (Velocity Press)
The Editor’s Cut – David McDonald (Hibernia Books)
Absolute Batman – Snyder/Dragotta/Martin (DC)
Heatwave – John L. Williams (Monoray)
The Absence – Rian Hughes (Unpublished)
A Humument – Tom Phillips (Thames & Hudson) (A late but important discovery)
Granny Takes A Trip – Paul Gorman (White Rabbit)
Bedetruite – Samplerman (LDC)
The Absence – Budgie (White Rabbit)
Face The Music – Paul Stanley
Stephen Stapleton – The Formless Irregular (Timeless)
The Vaughan Oliver Archive (Unit Editions)
Instant Public Art – Ulrich Blanché (Arthistoricum.net) Read here:
Plunderphonics – Matthew Blackwell (Bloomsbury Academic)

Film / TV:
I just have to admit it, I really don’t watch much film or TV and what I see doesn’t do much for me evidently. I did see the Beautiful Losers documentary from 2008 and like it though.

2025 What have I done
Another year over and what have I done?
Designed the Cobalt 60 LP release for Ollie Teeba & Jonny Cuba
Played at the closing of When Spaceships Appear record shop
Co-compiled and designed the Telepathic Fish compilation, booklet, Float III mixtape and Mindfood 5 fanzine for Fundamental Frequencies
Released the 20th anniversary cassette Raiding the 20th Century Expanded version on Delic Records
Continued my Electrik Collage radio show until April then paused to rethink
Designed the Dan Curtin ‘The 4 Lights’ album for De:tuned
Released the Locked Loop Group 8″ lathe cut zoetrope with Acid Lathe
Designed The Herbaliser Band’s ‘Rehearsal Session’ album
Contributed heavily to the 40th anniversary boxset for Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s ‘Welcome To The Pleasuredome’.
Collaborated with Al White on the Terrace ‘Branches’ LP design for De:tuned
Logo design and branding for OTA Recordings
Provided guest mixes for Oonops Drops on Brooklyn Radio and the 45 Live show on Dublab
Appeared on the Cheap Digs podcast with Moz, the Tales From A Disappearing City podcast with Controlled Weirdness, the Skinny E Media show with Mark, the Do!!You!!! Breakfast show with Charlie Bones and The Bureau of Lost Culture podcast.
Supported the Orb on a few dates of their UK tour
Held an exhibition of Openmind artwork at the Cabron Bar in Folkestone, then also Upside Down Records, Deptford
Contributed a track on the Rave Wars: The Acid Awakens 7″
Held a release party for the Telepathic Fish album at Arch555 in Brixton with Mixmaster Morris, Matt Black and KiF Productions
Taken charge of both the Orion and Pluto lighting archives Larry Wooden (RIP) and Micky Thompson (RIP) from respectively
Revived & updated my O Is For Orange video mix and provided a new version to Bleep for their September guest mix
Created two hour-long Float IV and V mixes for the guest spots on Dublab and Ransom Note respectively.
Finally finished and printed my collage comic, the All Colour, High Fidelity, Radio Cartoon, after 5 years
Designed two zoetropes for Disclosure’s ‘Caracal’ 10th anniversary reissue
Attended the Bound Art Book Fair in Manchester as a seller and speaker then DJed at YES in the evening
Played the Simple Things festival with Graham Dunning and Puttyrubber at the IMAX in Bristol at the behest of Steve Davis
Appeared at the first AudioVisual Assembly gig, performing O Is For Orange alongside The Light Surgeons, Bitvert, Pat Grimm and David Leister
Designed The Real Tuesday Weld’s Crow at Christmas 3″CD Xmas card
Designed Nate Krafft’s Crimson Arsenal/Man Machine reissue for Musique Pour La Danse
The Telepathic Fish LP earns Juno Daily’s and Rough Trade Compilation of the Year (with an exclusive blue vinyl edition for the latter) as well as mentions in the end of year polls by Bleep (with an exclusive T-shirt), Phonica, Resident, Brooklyn Vegan, HHV, Moonbuilding and the New York Times.
Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s Welcome To The Pleasuredome receives Reissue of the Year in Classic Pop magazine as well as compliments from the band.
Recorded an album’s worth of extended turntablism material with Furrowed for a future release
Designed the first cassette for my Infinite Illectrik label, Extended Turntablism vol.1 by Graham Dunning and myself. More to come in 2026…

RIP:
David Lynch, Micky Thompson (Pluto Electronics), Bill Ham (light show pioneer), Marianne Faithfull, Mike Ratledge, Rutherford Chang, Rick Buckler, Roberta Flack, Gwen McCrea, Gene Hackman, David Johansen, Mark Pawson (UK counterculture legend), Roy Ayers, Doug Lear, free speech in America and the UK, John Peck aka The Mad Peck, WH Smiths, Robert McGinnis, Alan Yentob, Sylvester ‘Sly Stone’ Stewart, Brian Wilson, Lalo Schifrin, Luis Jardim, Peter Shapiro, Ozzy Osbourne, Terence Stamp, JD Twitch (Optimo), Larry Wooden (Orion Lighting), Drew Struzan, Ace Frehley, Diane Keaton, Bunny Bread aka State of Art (Non Stop Artists), Dave Ball, Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield, Pam Hogg, Frank Gehry, Martin Parr, Rob Reiner, Ken Downie (The Black Dog), Brigitte Bardot, Martin Jones (UK Hip Hop historian and early champion).

Currently there are several projects lining up for 2026, I could do with some more DJ gigs and I want to find time to revive the Electrik Collage radio show and make it better than the version that was on ROVR radio. There will be more cassettes from Infinite Illectrik too including a long-projected compilation and an album from Duplokit. Thanks to everyone who read this old-fashioned blog over the year, it may finally get an upgrade in 2026, I hope you all had a great Xmas if you celebrated and wish you all a prosperous New Year. See you on the other side.

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Looking forward to:
Foetus’ final LP, ‘Halt’
An Openmind exhibition in Krakow?
More Infinite Illectrik cassettes
Sophia Satchell-Baeza’s The Sensual Laboratories book, finally?
Cineolascape…?
Andrew Humphreys’ ‘I’d Love To Turn You On’ book
The Rogue Trooper film

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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.

ACHFRC stickers
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

Girl with Orange dialogue
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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