Internet killed the video star. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

▶️ Recommended: Blawan - NOS. Razor-bladed ASMR electro from Radiohead-remixing Yorkshire producer Blawan. Taken from his headphone-exploding new album SickElixir. blawan.bandcamp.com/track/nos

R&S’ classics comp of early Aphex Twin bangers rears its gurning mug once again with 13 UK rave perennials including Analogue Bubblebath, Polynomial C, and nastiest hardcore techno prototypes in his remixes of Mescalinum United boomkat.com/products/class…

Sad to hear about the death of Dave Ball. He's best known for Soft Cell, but my connection was The Grid, his project with the lovely Richard Norris. A Beat Called Love was one of my entries into dance music, and 1993's Crystal Clear is an absolute top fave tune. RIP.

▶️ Ross From Friends: Pale Blue Dot. Released in 2018, this feels like a stadium-sized banger swaddled in gauze and bathed in gentle sunlight. Good for the soul. rossfromfriends.bandcamp.com/track/pale-blu…

▶️ Jantra: Makhafi. Delightful Yamaha keyboard whimsy from the Al-Fashaga District of North/East Africa. From his 2023 album (deep breath...) Synthesized Sudan: Astro-Nubian Electronic Jaglara Dance Sounds from the Fashaga Underground. ostinatorecords.bandcamp.com/track/makhafi

*chef's kiss* Reform's racism and swivel-arsed white supremacy has no place in Welsh, or indeed UK, politics.

"Before we discard October onto the laundry heap of forgotten month-pants (really need to work on those metaphors), let's listen to some music." ✍️ Read my new blog post: On the Fat Roland radar: a sunset, a head-spin and a marshmallowy James K fatroland.blogspot.com/2025/10/on-fat…

The bestest fave thing I've seen in the past month is this. If you know, you know.

Venetian Snares back in 2015 making spangly melodic gobbets from modular kit. Proves you can have trilling drum mayhem yet still stay ambient. youtube.com/watch?v=tbLt0S…

"I could fill a book with things you don’t know about the science, history, culture, and community of transgender, intersex, and gender non-conforming people ." The Blessed Madonna lets rip about Roisin Murphy's anti-trans activism. attitude.co.uk/culture/the-bl…

"My notes for the album contain phrases like "so very very dirty" and "the scuzz is mesmerising", and "gaaaawjeous" which may or may not be a word." ✍️ Read my new blog post: Bruise Blood cuts deep in Electronic Sound magazine fatroland.blogspot.com/2025/11/bruise…

Stewart Lee: Using Grok is like believing what your farting uncle says at Christmas thenerve.news/p/stewart-lee-…

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW! This month’s Electronic Sound explores the strange and unsettling world of COLD WAR ELECTRONICA and we have a superb 35-track double CD to accompany the mag. Tension! Anxiety! Fear! Paranoia! Doom! Gloom! It’s all here! Get your copy at electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/magazine

I'm throwing my hat into the ring. I'm a journalist, have edited a newspaper, been involved with community TV and radio, possess an independent mind, and I sensitively feel that concerns about woke can be thinly-veiled racism. Sorted. When do I start?

My transcription software is feeling seasonal. It has just transcribed someone saying "Crystal Castles" as "Christmas hostels ". Ho ho ho.

The single greatest line in movie history. youtube.com/watch?v=ouFnQT…

On the Fat Roland laser gramophone today: Modeselektion Vol.04 (DJ Kicks) from 2018. Superb sinister tunes ahoy. modeselektor.bandcamp.com/album/modesele…

Sad to hear about the death of Mani. Plenty of folks will be tipping their bucket hats to his membership of the Stone Roses, but his best work was on the Vanishing Point / XTRMNTR / Evil Heat albums for Primal Scream. RIP. youtu.be/0xBzYsE4y1k?si…

Cabaret Voltaire the other night were cracking. Dusty old tunes polished up nice and good, all pin-sharp but loose in a giddy way. So glad I saw them. This was in Manchester, but here they are last month in some place called Sheffield. youtube.com/watch?v=kVXatZ…