A man who was part of the government which led a war where more than a million people died without any good reason has himself died, that's a headline for you, everything else is a minor detail.

Concerning

Matthew Parris once again the worst person in the UK, and I do not say this lightly.

New Christmas mix up - "At The Christmas Party Hop - Christmas Records 1955-1961" centuriesofsound.com/2024/12/20/at-…

Twitter is a place where you can start off as a normal, if weirdly combative, comedy writer, and end up vigorously defending hate crimes (attempted murder no less!) against minority groups.

Putting aside the cartoonish cruelty of this, half of these contradict the others. What’s the point of a PIP assessment or reassessment if medical proof is sufficient given we have this ridiculous system because both Lab & Tory govts don’t trust GP assessments to begin with

My mix for 2024 is now up on the feed, and you know what, I'll post a link to it in the first comment here too. If you switched off from everything in 2024 (understandable) then you can catch up with some of the best music over three hours.

A new Texture & Artefact today. My friend John died on 25/12/2017 in Zhuhai, China. This is a sound collage of recovered voice messages with ambient music from his childhood friend Zac. centuriesofsound.com/2025/02/17/2-2…

It's #BandcampFriday - do you want to buy my ambient album? You can pay anything for it, £0 or £100,000, and I will get all of that today. Link in first comment because you know why. Also I have a load of other things up there, but this is the one I made myself.

Out today! 1950 Part 1. Nearly three hours of music (and other sounds) from the dawn of the atomic age. Free to stream on Mixcloud, available as a podcast on Patreon. Link is in the first comment, ykw.

A new episode of Texture & Artefact is out today, this is a soundscape made from two years of visiting protests, strikes and vigils in the UK and recording crowd sounds, speakers, chants and other ambient sound. Please listen using headphones. (Link in first comment)

I've put together this mini 1955 mix for my mum's birthday - links in the replies as usual.

Popped back in to twitter to see how things were going. Not great.

Cambridge and South Cambs is not an ‘island of strangers’, we are an area built by people from every corner of the world. That is part of who we are.’ Join us join.greenparty.org.uk

🚨 NEW!🚨 🚨1950 Part 2🚨 Over 3 hours of the best sounds from 1950, across every* genre. Free to stream, and available as a podcast to supporters on Patreon. Come and immerse yourself in the heart of the 20th century! centuriesofsound.com/2025/07/15/195…

Hereford FC manager on Instagram today, straight out of Streatham Rovers Football Club #neverstopnotgivingup

🚨 NEW!🚨 🚨2000 Part 1🚨 Jumping forward (temporarily) to the new millennium, here's the first three hours of music and speech from the year 2000, A year many of you will actually remember. Free to stream, available as a podcast to supporters on Patreon Link in 1st commment

🚨 NEW!🚨 Free to stream, another three-hour exploration of the sounds of the year 2000, this time focussed on sampling, mashup and DJ culture as well as the US election. This is a good one! (Link in 1st comment, or you can search "centuries of sound" anywhere)