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More Extended Turntablism dates

Synched flyer Portrait July web
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)

*cough*

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!

BoC Hexi Disc

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Turbulent and Pink Floyd film festival


‘Turbulent Light’ is the name of a new film commissioned for the Just Another Movie: Pink Floyd in Film season at Regent Street Cinema from May 23rd – Jun 7th. Curated by Sophia Satchell-Baeza (who also curated a lightshow-centric selection last month at the ICA and whose book, ‘Sensual Laboratories’ is imminent) it showcases countercultural films featuring the band and their music.

Turbulent Light is also the name the above film creators, Julian Hand and Heena Song, operate under for their light show and I’ve had the pleasure of doing several shows with them over the years, most recently at the Open Documentary Film Festival in London where they projected around my DJ set. To me they’re channelling the spirit of Mark Boyle with their shows and the film reminds me of Boyle’s classic ‘Beyond Image’ short with music by Soft Machine, replaced here by The Oscillation, a band that Julian has a long association with as a visual artist. There will be posters and prints available at the screenings as well as showings of 25 and 60 minutes cuts of the film.

Pink Floyd In Film poster

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Boards of Canada posters in Soho

BoC posters Oxford StIt’s been an exciting week for Boards of Canada fans. News broke last Tuesday of a VHS tape sent out to selected people across the world containing a brief but garbled message, very much in the style of similar transmissions around the time of the band’s last album promo campaign for ‘Tomorrow’s Harvest’. The fact that the tapes were sent from the same address used by Warp and Bleep for their distribution rang alarm bells.

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Fans immediately set about trying to decode the tape and decipher the muffled spoken word or identify the brief visible images which include a sign saying ‘I Love Jesus’, images of televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker and what appears to be a 3D rendeing of a hexagaon made up of smaller hexagaon, the same logo printed on the label of the VHS tapes. The audio seems to have been identified as coming from what may have been a radio advert for a magazine (Moody Monthly, that does exist) from the Moody Bible Institute AD, a religous organisation from Chicago, originating in 1886. Their website states; “Moody exists to proclaim the gospel and equip people to be biblically grounded, practically trained, and to engage the world through gospel-centered living. In short, we prepare people for their purpose and calling!”

The unconfirmed audio source also mentions hexagonal flexi discs several times but no trace of a flexi disc associated with the magazine has been located yet. What is odd is, as a collector of flexi discs (and odd formats in general) as well as religious records, I have NEVER seen a hexagonal flexi disc. I have a couple of hexagonal vinyl discs but not a flexi as you’d have to cut down a larger disc to achieve the shape and the largest flexi I have is a 10″. Is someone trolling us with this supposed interpretation of the muffled audio clip or have BoC inserted new audio into the ad to sow more seeds? Is a 7″ hexagonal flexi disc the next thing to look for? Possibly on Record Store Day this weekend? At the time of writing approx 30 VHS tapes had been identified, all seemingly the same in content but in both PAL and NTSC formats.

Friday night/Saturday morning saw pictures of four posters bearing distressed ‘children of the damned’ type images on them start appearing on streets in London, Barcelona and LA. Each poster had only the same hexagon symbol as the VHS tape in one corner, nothing else, seemingly confirming a connection at least. I spent part of Sunday afternoon in Soho, looking for posters with my partner and managed to snap these images, firstly sitting in plain sight on a hoarding on Oxford Street.

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BoC poster 4
The posters below were some of the first to be found and posted online, nestling down St. Anne’s Court, a side alleyway off Wardour Street in Soho. To me, these could all plausibly be connected to a new release from Boards and I’m looking forward to what they do next…

BoC posters St Anne's Court

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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

Open City flyer front
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/

Open City flyer back

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Funki Porcini’s Laserium


Here are some shots and footage from last night’s Laserium show, presented by Funki Porcini at the Limehouse Town Hall in East London. It was a fantatic event, full of interesting people who connected socially between sets and showcased several homemade visual and audiovisual creators working in the field, old and new.

Laserium screen

Laserium crowd
Laserium compere

Henry Rolls‘ Lumatron was present as a ‘chandelier’ in the stairwell and was very difficult to capture in full, I’d love to see it up close and in a darker space sometime. Sadly I missed Henry’s talk as it was earlier in the day but urge you to check out his Instagram for a timeline of his machines which he started during lockdown made from Lego. SDNA‘s projection mapping in between sets and during mine captured a whole wall, filling it with William Latham-esque animation to brilliant effect. I also missed Dr Reekie‘s talk about his Exploding Cinema which I’d ove to know more about, another book on the reading list is the history of the movement, published last year.

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Jack Kirby Heroes & Humanity exhibition

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A Jack Kirby retrospective entitled Heroes & Humanity was been open since September at LA’s The Skirball Cultural Center and my good friend Steve Cook has been posting beautiful shots from it over three different entries on his Secret Oranges Substack.

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Being that he’s a skilled photographer, he’s managed to capture the original artwork perfectly in all its gritty, pasted up, whited-out, dog-eared glory. Below are just a selection that he graciously allowed me to repost but you should check out his original posts as well as his excellent Substack too. Even better, if you’re in the LA area you should get along to view the real thing before it closes at the end of March.

Kirby Silver Surfer
Kirby FF collage
Kirby FF cover
Kirby costume
Kirby omac
Kirby Thor cover
Kirby portrait
Kirby Demon
Kirby Demon 2
Kirby Metron

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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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The Audiovisual Assembly


The Audiovisual Assembly is coming to Hackney Bath House on 21st November – The Light Surgeons are performing ‘The Consensual Hallucination’ which is one of the most incredible things I’ve seen them do in the 30 years I’ve known them. Bitvert is also performing with liquid visuals from Pat Grimm and I’ll be doing my Boards of Canada-centric ‘O Is For Orange’ audio visual set. Tickets: https://ra.co/events/2276158

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The All Colour High Fidelity Radio Cartoon

ACHFRC front
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…

ACHFRC 3D
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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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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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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RIP Larry Wooden (1950-2025)

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Very saddened to hear that Larry Wooden passed away today after a short battle with cancer. Here’s a photo I took of him just over a month ago, through a lens we found whilst sorting through boxes of Larry’s life. He was an amazing man, full of ideas, sharp as a pin with a super dry wit. For a 70+ year old I’d regularly get messages from him at 1am and his telephone calls were always long ones.

He was born 1st Feb 1950 at The Limes, Norwich Road, North Walsham, Norfolk. A lover of photography from an early age – something that would influence a lot of his later interests – Larry started drumming lesson at ten years old after wanting to play them since he was seven. At 11 he swapped a previous interest in Hornby trains for a chemistry lab that he would then turn into a photo lab two years later in 1963. The same year, he first saw Dr Who on TV – a show he would love for a lifetime and name his lightshow after. Photographing the Doctor and Daleks directly from the TV, the enterprising Larry would sell the photos at school and make himself a miniature Dalek by studying the images at just 13 years old. During a stint helping him sort through his belongings we chanced upon this model, wrapped up in a box, not too worse for wear despite the 60 years since its creation.

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In 1967 he gave up on his A Levels, learned to drive and his family moved to Longs Farm, Tollenshunt Major near Maldon in Essex where his dad was in charge of the Goldhanger Fruit Farms. He saw The Equals live at the Gaiety Theatre in Ramsey and joined his first band, D’Arcy Spice in 1968 alongside Jerry Arnold, Alan Valentine, Alan Jolly and Tony Loton. The same year he founded Orion Lighting and starting making lighting for the band. Their first gig was in 1969 at the Embassy Suite, Colchester with District Line, The Shey and Jimmy Pilgrim & the Classics and then Larry formed Nature’s Way in the summer who gigged relentlessly throughout ’70-71. Larry’s Doctor Who Lighshow was unveiled at the Felixstow Pier Pavilion on 24/04/71 and he would light the likes of The Groundhogs, Van Der Graaf Gernerator, Mott The Hoople, Osibisa, Uriah Heep, Keef Hartley, Desmond Dekkar, Dave & Ansell Collins, Geno Washington, Fleetwood Mac, Hot Chocolate and many more before quitting his day job at the tax office on Xmas Eve of 1971.

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Light shows and gigs continued throughout the early seventies including lighting The Sweet, Queen, Thin Lizzy, 10cc, Cockney Rebel, Suzi Quatro, Screaming Lord Sutch and Emperor Rosko among many more. Somewhere along the way Nature’s Way morphed into Peppermint Way and in early ’74 Larry retired the lightshow to concentrate on his lighting company. Orion made the first picture wheels, custom made control equipment like the 10 Way Chaser and the Spirochaser as well as manufacturing wheels for David Hone’s Solar Prism Lighting. He attended the BADEM (British Association of Discotheque Equipment Manufacturers ) lighting shows in ’76, ’77 and ’78, the latter of which would feature a four page colour Orion leaflet inside the centrefold of the Disco International program.

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The Orion shop opened in 1978 at 20 Wethersfield Road, Colchester and ’79 and ’80 saw appearances at the Discom lighting shows in Paris where he demonstrated prototypes of the Galactic Floor – a light up disco flooring. The eighties weren’t kind to Larry though, Orion went bankrupt after the financial crash (like Pluto Electronics and many others), his marriage ended and he worked a succession of jobs and played in several bands to little success. But by the end of the eighties things were looking up; he was doing laser shows at the Andromeda Club, earning the nickname ‘Laser Larry’ and working the lights at the Hippodrome in Colchester, mixing the likes of Sister Sledge and the Drifters when they passed through. He booked the Rock nights there for a while, opened the Chaplins sandwich bar next door and even tried to unsuccessfully buy the venue at one point.

By 1992 he had moved on and was still gigging, briefly ran both an embroidery business and a dating agency, was once the UK’s sole developer of 3D stereo photographs and a keen practitioner of lenticular animation. He had interests in magic tricks, sci-fi and fantasy, family trees and gadgets of any kind – I’ve never met a man with so many watches and laptops. I only knew him for the final years of his life, tracking him down for my book on projection wheels and interviewing him about his Dr Who Lightshow and Orion Lighting years. After that we became friends and he graciously took part in the launch party, showing off his original wheel art and taking questions all night. He certainly didn’t waste a moment, a keen member of the lighting community and a very unique man.

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RIP Lawrence ‘Larry’ Michael Wooden (1950-2025)

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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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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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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

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