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More Torre Pentel

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We’re overdue another Torre Pentel aka Alejandro Torrecilla appreciation post and his latest post today is reason enough as he’s broken the mold somewhat, leaving his hip hop and jazz heroes for something totally differnt; King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard!
I’ve pulled a load of other content from his Instagram page too, the De La Soul below is quite old, before he started mining the Jack Kirby visual lexicon and it’s fascinating to scroll through an artist’s account and watch their progress.

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TP John Coltrane
TP Kid Cudi
TP Nina Simone
TP Rakim
TP Yusef Lateef
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Apologies for so little content here of late, I’ve been so busy with work, some of which I can’t wait to share but don’t want to spoil with even the smallest of glimpses. Gigs are picking up too, I seem to have patches where I’m super busy, then very little. The Open City Documentary Festival party at Rich Mix the other week was great fun, loads of great liquid light visuals. This weekend I’m in Glasgow with Andrew Divine and Spacial Awareness (an ambient Belle & Sebastian offshoot) and then I’m back again on the 23rd for the Knockengorroch World Ceilidh festival, south of the city.
Between those (and not formally announced yet) I’m in Coventry for Deliaphonic at the Delia Derbyshire building alongside PuttyRubber who will be providing visuals to my DJ set on May 14th. Aside from those gigs I’ll largely be chained to my desk either designing, mixing or writing as well as organising the Extended Turntablism gigs this summer (Bristol is happening on July 17th – again, not announced yet). There will no doubt be carboots, record shops, galleries and the odd film showing happening to fit in as well now that the good weather is upon us.

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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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DJ Food Recommends April 2026

BMC April 2026
A bit later to this site this month but lots of great music around right now or just on the horizon and the list is boosted to 12 this month. From the top, The Def Boys are Awkward & MC Roughneck Jihad, the beats and scratches are lo-fi the tracks short and sweet. Angine De Poitrine’s second album dropped last Friday and I am excited! Their internet infamy seems to grow by the day and they’ve just announced more UK dates, I hope they don’t burn out. A new album on Astral Industries is always welcome and even more so by Multicast Dynamics, no previews as yet but past glories bode well.

Hawksmoor’s latest is a trip in every sense of the word, his experiments with a form of DMT informed the album and he underwent ‘a complete reset’ in his own words. Look up current interviews with him, there’s a great backstory to go with this one. Clocolan’s latest is darkly beautiful as ever and Dor Wand’s ‘Alchemy of Being’ dovetails nicely with the intent of Hawksmoor’s in that it’s a meditational drift.

On completely the opposite end of the spectrum, Lone’s new LP, ‘Hyperphantasia’ is rave-tastic, turned up to 11, multi-coloured, vocal-tinged, happy hardcore filtered through a sparkling prism. Chilled out it is not, contender for album of the year it is. Graham Dunning’s new tape is out soon so I have to give him the big up for his inspirational mechanical techno creations plus he’s just completed his PhD so I can call him ‘Dr. Dunning’ now. We have a rare outing together this July in Brighton at the Rose Hill Tavern alongside Furrowed and Duplokit. 310 are back with a new album, the first since member Joseph Dierker passed away, completing material he worked on and their music is always worth your time.

The ‘Part Time Archivists / Part Time Forgers’ compilation comes out of Thessaloniki, Greece on a new label, Necessary Unfold, and showcases contemporary techno and acid from the scene over there. Cavs from King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard releases his second solo album in late April and, as you’d imagine, it’s drum-heavy but previews include bass, guitar and synths so I’m interested to hear the full thing. Seefeel return to Warp for the first new material since 2024 and the sole preview track sounds very promising.

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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/

Open City flyer back

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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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DJ Food Recommends Mar 2026

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This month has been all about Angine de Poitrine, discovering their music (and unique look) was a bit of a revelation and I immediately hoovered up everything on Bandcamp. There’s a new album coming in April and UK live dates in May. The main problem after hearing their music is that there’s not much of it and not a lot else like it so I’ve found myself going back to earlier King Gizzard albums to get a fix of similar sounds rather than listen to them on a loop. Not to diminish other releases this month but there’s been a nice selection of breaks and acid forthcoming; last month’s Radiamax release finally made it to Bandcamp a few days after BC Friday and good friends Fundamental Frequencies released two long lost UK Breakcore 12″s, my favourite being 2XDEF‘s ‘First & Last’. Two legends of the rave scene teamed up for a 12″ on De:tuned that I had the honour of designing – 808 State vs Humanoid‘s ‘In Place of Language’ is a 4 track release that spans all areas of electronica with standout track ‘Raid’ coming off like the son of ‘Cubik’. Jem Stone is at it again with the 3 track Boneshaker EP, my favourite being the moody ‘Wish Bone’.

There’s another release I can’t add to the playlist for some reason (Buy Music Club does this sometimes when there’s no streamable digital audio as part of the package) and that’s a cassette version of my Kraftwerk Kover Kollektion mix from 2004. First made for Solid Steel and showcasing cover versions, tributes and tracks that heavily sample the German four-piece, it became the first of eight (so far, there will be more) volumes of the weird, wonderful world of music inspired by the band. For this I’ve gone back to the original audio and made a logical split in the middle – not just a fade out – and reworked the original cover art I’d designed to fit the cassette format. Along the way I’ve updated and corrected several track listing errors now that we have the beauty of Discogs at our disposal to check these things. You can pre-order the very limited tape from Delic Records here

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Angine de Poitrine


I know this has been doing the rounds on socials for a couple of weeks but I only just got round to watching it. WOW! That they can do this is insane but dressed up like that too? Un-fucking-believable. My new favourite band. Some of the best bits of King Gizzard, minus the terrible lyrics and the dodgy country blues direction they’ve been taking of late. As someone said in the comments, we’re safe from AI when stuff like this exists.

Their music has me transfixed at the complex time signatures and dextorous looping, immediately wanting to see them live and I wanted to applaud at the end of every song. It’s rare that something comes along at my age that knocks my socks off like this does, glad to know there are people out there this crazy.
Their music is on Bandcamp here but the joy of watching them perform live is the real treat.

Sherpa

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808 State vs Humanoid designs

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New design for two giants of the dance music scene – 808 State vs Humanoid – what an honour!
4 track 12″ on black or voodoo orange vinyl available to pre-order from De:tuned records now via Bandcamp

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I went through many elements for this design before presenting the artists with different options which they then whittled down to the final images here. If I get time I’d like to put together a short video of all the different options as it felt like I created a world for them.

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ASG DE56C-Cover-mockup Orange Voodoo
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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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DJ Food Recommends Feb 2026

BMC Feb 2026
That was a long month and a little bit quiet on the music front for me but I’ve managed to find nine things that touched a nerve musically in the grey, wet January of 2026.
First up is David Harrow‘s rendition of Terry Riley‘s ‘In C’ which, although it has been around for some years now (the edition on Bandcamp is from 2020), has just got a vinyl release on Transmat of all labels! No wonder as it’s a fantastic electronic interpretation that flitters all over the place and is ranked high in my list of favourite versions. Heliochrome is the second release from new label Silkzoo and channels 90’s electronica in fine style whilst Ruth Anderson‘s name popped up in two different places over the Xmas period, leading me to Bandcamp to purchase. Firstly she was mentioned in Matthew Blackwell‘s excellent Plunderphonics book which just snuck onto my end of year list at the 11th hour, then a track from her turned up on Jon Nelson‘s Some Assembly Required show, a repository of everything cut up and sample-based. Check her work out, tape collages and drones from the 1970s. A wonderful 45 by Penza Penza turned up on Misha Panfilov‘s label mid December and the event release of Jan was undoubtedly the long-awaited James Adrian Brown album on Castles In Space. I like its grit and nothing outstays its welcome, I think James benefits from coming to electronic music via a live band scenario, a very original record.

I have to highlight my friend Forsaj‘s new release with Lu_x2 under the name Radiamax on Never B Alone Records, it’s a 3-tracker of the best retro breakbeat acid I’ve heard in a long time, imagine Meat Beat Manifesto mixed with LFO and a good dose of 303 action. I really hope this is getting a vinyl release but at the moment it’s digital only. John Davis aka Datasette released the second volume of his ‘Offal’ compilations recently and this one is a huge 200 tracks(!) covering a smorgasbord of experiments, remixes, mashups, versions and lost oddities going back to the 90s in some cases, you have to dig but there’s gold in there. Graham Dunning and I have finally put the recordings of our first collaborations onto a cassette tape on my Infinite Illectrik label. Entitled ‘E-x-t-e-n-d-e-d Turntablism’ (also the name of a short burst of shows coming later this year) it features highlights from the Fogfest 2023 set plus unheard rehearsal jams and is the first in several volumes we’re preparing for release. Lastly, Tristan Perich & James McVinnie released their ‘Infinity Gradient’ opus last year, consisting of hundred speakers wired to the Royal Festival Hall organ, relaying an unfurling minimalist piece in seven movements, it’s got to be heard with no distractions.

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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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DJ Food Recommends Jan 2026

BMC Jan 2026
Happy New Year everyone, the search for new music never stops so here’s some bits I’ve been collecting over the last month of 2025 to see you into the next month and beyond. DrumTalk is the alias of my old acquaintance Nathanial Pearn formerly Natural Self and I recently made an effort to catch up with his output from the past few years – ‘The Science of Love’ being a favourite. Healing Force Project recently put out a new 4-tracker ‘D-IW: Prologue’ which bubbles with acid – maybe a prologue to something bigger? RVZN is a new alias of Markey Funk, exhuming old, unfinished drum n bass productions and releasing them anew into the world. Memorials have a new 2-track single out, always worth hearing what they’re up to. JG Thirlwell brings his 40 year+ Foetus project over the finish line with ‘Halt’, 12 years in the making, I can’t wait to hear it but am waiting for the physical objects to arrive as it will be a special listen as I’ve loved his work since I was a teen and he has been such a huge inspiration in my life since.

Fracture & Neptune are back! The dynamic duo who helped freshen DnB back in the 00s have a new single out on Astrophonica and The Gentle People‘s debut album gets an expanded reissue, worth buying for Aphex Twin‘s remix of their ‘Journey’ single alone, one of his best. Barry Adamson is also back, this time with the ‘Scala!!!’ documentary score he did a few years back, preview tracks sound like everything you’d want from this project. ES is an artist and label out of the Netherlands on Ruiger Records which is worth keeping an eye on, favourite track is ‘Food For Funk’ ironically and you’ll know why when you hear it. Misha Panfilov is so hard to keep up with, some artists seem to breath music and his ‘From Blue To Grey in May’ (not pictured above but featured below) is a kind of Terry Riley meets The Irresistible Force collection of ambient minimalism with his usual analogue edge.

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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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