The Telepathic Fish compilation features in the Bleep round up of 2025 and to celebrate they’re making an exclusive glow-in-the-dark edition of the original T-shirt we made in 1994. As worn by Sean from Autechre and members of The Grid on Top of the Pops including Richard Norris back in the day. Pre-order here now.
Well, this just happened!! The Telepathic Fish album is No.1 in Rough Trade‘s compilations and reissues of the year 2025. To mark the occasion they’ve made an exclusive blue vinyl edition !! A huge thank you to everyone who helped this comp come into being, all the artists and labels who licensed their tracks, friends and collaborators who shared memories and photos. Special mentions to Mixmaster Morris and Matt Black for the inspiration and collaboration and thinking of Chantal who sadly isn’t here to be a part of this, hoping she would be proud of what we did.
Last but not least to fellow fish Mario Aguera, David Vallade and Doug Shipton @Fundamental Frequencies who put so much work in to make it happen.
Ran across these yesterday in Instagram, hip hop artists rendered in comic cover form by Torre Pentel aka Alejandro Torrecilla. Although his work mostly covers the current generation of MCs, stretching back over the last couple of decades (names I know more from my kids’ liking them than their music) he does also dip back pre-2000 and occasionally outside the rap genre for artists like Herbie Hancock and Sun Ra. Comics aficionados will spot take offs of certain comic covers or logos of yesteryear, he’s pulling not just from the superhero genre but from the undergrounds too. See his work here and buy prints here.
Each year, Olympia plays host to the PLASA (Professional Lighting & Sound Association) event to showcase the latest innovations in the entertainment industry with brands exhibiting their wares across the great hall for three days. For the last few years Rob Halliday has organised a Classic Gear section, showcasing historic sound and light equipment from yesteryear to great effect, rapidly becoming a big draw for the old heads to gather and reminisce about how things used to be done.
This year was the first time a darkened area had been set up to demonstrate projection, hosting Optikinetics co-founder Neil Rice and friends Nigel Bailey, Gareth Dean and Jennie Caldwell to recreate analogue light show practices. Neil showed off his 4x Tutor II x Opti Solar System and colour wheel set up, complete with a mini liquid squash plate he’d devised. Shown above, in this Jon Primrose-edited short, is a similar version to the set up we had a preview of in his home earlier this year.
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)
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.
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.
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.
Unless 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…
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nature’s Way promo shots, Larry in shades, beard and snazzy trousers.
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.
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.
RIP Lawrence ‘Larry’ Michael Wooden (1950-2025)
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.
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.
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
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.
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
The irony of the removal of Banksy‘s latest piece on the Royal Courts of Justice in London is that it’s only strengthened his message. Instead of rushing to protect the image as has been the case with many of his public works in recent years, the ghost image that remains only serves to further illustrate our fading right to free speech and protest. A reminder also that placement and context can enhance a message. Although Banksy rarely repeats a work like this I hope more of these start appearing and are preserved by whoever owns the buildings they’re on.
Markey Funk is in town, he plays Upside Down this Saturday with Doug Shipton and myself and Spiritland next Wednesday – it will be great to see him after all these years.
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.
The summer holidays are over and so now we can expect a raft of new exhibitions opening in London – here’s six that I’m looking forward to. Please post of any you know of that would fit in with these.
Ralph Steadman: Once Upon A Line
28 Aug – 21 Sept
The Muse Gallery, Portobello Road, London
Thurs-Sun 12–6pm | Free entry
Mark Stafford & David Hine
08 Sept – 03 Oct
All Good Bookshop
35 Turnpike Lane, Wood Green, N8 0EP
Open daily 10am-6pm | Free entry
Rock & Roll Public Library 2
13th-18th Sept
The Art Pavilion, Mile End Park, Clinton Road, E3 4QY
Open daily 11am-8pm | Free entry
Blitz: The Club That Shaped The 80s
20th Sept – 29 March 2026
The Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High St, W8 6AG
Open daily 10am-6/10pm – Tickets
David Bowie Centre
‘September’
ongoing
V&A East Storehouse
Parkes Street, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Hackney Wick, E20 3AX
Open daily 10am-5/6pm – Tickets
The Future Was Then
4th Oct – 21 Mar 2026
The Cartoon Museum, 63 Wells St, W1A 3AE
Tues-Sat 10.30-5.30 / Sun 12-4pm – Tickets
and also a plug for Stephen Coates’ month-long celebration of all things spooky
London Month of the Dead
1st Oct – 31st Oct
Various locations around London
Check website for details