Well, would you believe it!

Night out at the Music Producers Guild Awards 2024. Nominated as Self-Producing Artist of the Year! There is wine 🤩

Bar-tailed godwits at Rainham, Aveley Bay this morning

I was there 🏆

Red-hot WOODCHAT SHRIKE in London. Props to Mark Bravery 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 for the early-morning find and Beddington Farmlands for letting us in.

I’ll go back to the studio now 🎵

Playlist bonanza! Both Spincycle (songs and tunes I love) and Air Gap (ambient beatless jams) updated today. Move, then unwind.

SPINCYCLE
Spotify bit.ly/sp1ncycle
Apple bit.ly/sp1napple

AIR GAP
Spotify bit.ly/a1rgap
Apple bit.ly/a1r-gap

Was at Brent Reservoir today. Props to Canal & River Trust for riverbank clearance. Lots of fallen trees, debris removed. Trash screen grill also unclogged by Environment AgencySE. Will stop overtopping of effluence, plastics into SSSI woodland. *salutes*

(Inspired by Cool Oak) ✊🌿

Lots of cool tunes around. Just updated #SpinCycle , my never-ending playlist, inc fresh cuts from Shabaka, Porij, SZA, Family Stereo. Now almost 1,500 tracks. Brand new, rare, old. 95hrs. There's one for you.

Spotify bit.ly/sp1ncycle
Apple bit.ly/sp1napple

Dam repairs have overrun at Brent Reservoir. Natural England are letting Canal & River Trust delay the refill until mid-April. It will LITERALLY kill the breeding season at a major SSSI. 8 months of planning, yet three empty months wasted, a stupidly late start, no contingency 🤬

This is great. Beautiful artwork by Nat Russell too. 🥲

open.spotify.com/album/3sxMbcOc…

😍 Wow, #SpinCycle , my never-ending playlist, will be 10 years old this year. Still adding tunes I love. Today’s cuts include Four Tet, Two star, Doves. Now almost 1,500 tunes. Old, brand new. 95hrs. Find one to love.

Spotify bit.ly/sp1ncycle
Apple bit.ly/sp1napple

Great to see 5k saves for my AIR GAP playlist (all ambient, beatless jams). Thanks, all. New cuts just added inc Benge, Ola Sandberg, Ambalek. Now over 250 tracks, 20hrs. Unwind.

Spotify bit.ly/a1rgap
Apple bit.ly/a1r-gap

Fuck me, this new album by Fabiano do Nascimento and Sam Gendel is incredible. So full of life and ideas and joy and SPIRIT ❤️‍🔥

Put in on and open the window 🤩

open.spotify.com/album/6hjgspe4…

Many of you know I started Cool Oak in 2021 to help improve my local Brent Reservoir, a neglected green space and important SSSI wildlife habitat in north London. Here’s what we have lined up for 2024. Inspired? Join in!

cooloakgroup.com/news/19kwewilz…

With Brent Reservoir SSSI now mostly drained for dam repairs, it’s depressing how little debris removal ⁦Canal & River Trust⁩ are undertaking in spite of fizzy PR campaign promises. A parking meter currently sits in shallow water by the bridge.

Lazy journalism from Brent & Kilburn Times and Joseph Reaidi. The draining of Brent Reservoir is primarily for statutory dam repairs. A tiny fraction of the budget is going towards a clean-up and habitat works. Most of the rubbish will be untouched. Tell the real story.

kilburntimes.co.uk/news/24012611.…

Decompress? I just updated my AIR GAP playlist (all ambient, beatless jams), inc Tom James Scott, Moshimoss, Alaskan Tapes. Now over 250 tracks, 19hrs.

Spotify bit.ly/a1rgap
Apple bit.ly/a1r-gap