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@manton I migrated from Substack to Micro.blog and the files exported from Substack were an absolute mess! Amazing how much they managed to overcomplicate it

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The bathos of this Abbey Road crossing livecam - now with a temporary crossing due to roadworks - is exquisite. Last night I watched a bloke lob a traffic cone into a bush. 10/10.

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Fantastic piece over at POW MAG on the restoration of composer Julius Eastman’s work. The conclusion is sobering.

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As we spoke, Rountree told me that every year Wild Up applies for an NEA grant to continue their project of restoring Eastman’s work, and ever year the funding had been approved. But then the administration changed, and the funding for “Gay Guerrilla”—already approved—was suddenly revoked. This is this is the way that culture works, when fascism is in power. The erasure of artists who prod at the hypocrisies of empire is not a historical artefact alongside the music: It is a present,...

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Episode 14 - Michael Mann (22nd July 2026): mostlylisten.ing

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The streaming economy made it possible for a small band to put their music online and theoretically be available to everyone, and the cultural assumption became that if you were any good, the algorithm would eventually find you, and if it didn’t, you weren’t. This is approximately as true as saying that if you are a good fisherman, the fish will eventually find your house.

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Absolutely magnificent paean to local scenes from the debut edition of thisish.

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Tonight! It’s the Ditch takeover at Filly Brook in Leytonstone - I’ll be playing tunes for warm weather from 8pm. See you there!

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Episode 13 - Cosmic Pastoral (15th July 2026): mostlylisten.ing

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Closing with some wonky foley LA beat stuff from Barney!

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My favourite warm weather ambient LP…

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Outernatipnal sounds from Jim!

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Heatwave vibes from Ollie

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Chris answered the call and brought us some dub!

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A selection of (occasionally unrecognisable) covers from Josh.

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And we’re off! Warming up with some classic Japanese house.

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Episode 12 - Brass in Space (8th July 2026): mostlylisten.ing

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Episode 12 - Brass in Space (8th July 2026): mostlylisten.ing

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Next event - Thursday 9th July 2026! reallystrangerecord.club

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Episode 11 - Synthesised Nature (29th June 2026): mostlylisten.ing

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Episode 10 - Ryuichi Sakamoto & Friends (22nd June 2026): mostlylisten.ing

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Episode 9 - The Beach Boys, 1970-1988 (15th June 2026): mostlylisten.ing

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Episode 8 - Minimal Music (8th June 2026): mostlylisten.ing

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Episode 7 - Music Interior (1st June 2026): mostlylisten.ing

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Tonight! It’s the Boards of Canada listening party at Dreamhouse. Me and Chris are repping Really Strange Record Club by spinning classic Warp and woozy IDM in-store beforehand; tickets are sold out but you can hear the warm-up live on Leyton’s community radio station The Ditch from 8:30pm!

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Tonight! It’s the Boards of Canada listening party at Dreamhouse. Me and Chris are repping Really Strange Record Club by spinning classic Warp and woozy IDM in-store beforehand; tickets are sold out but you can hear the warm-up live on Leyton’s community radio station The Ditch from 8:30pm!

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Episode 6 - Miles Davis (25th May 2026): mostlylisten.ing

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@gheizhwinder.bsky.social I’d love to claim the cool points on this, but it was another Matt who brought those 7”s. (I stuck to my usual lane of Japanese synthpop.) I did think of you when those came out of his bag though!! Really hope you can make it down to an RSRC soon! Hope all’s good!

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What We Listened To - May 2026: reallystrangerecord.club

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@cosmicchambo.bsky.social bought! Love this label

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@cosmicchambo.bsky.social Mixcloud is almost critical infrastructure at this point given how many independent/freeform/community radio stations archive to it. The site itself is a bit crap but at this point I find that endearingly human vs the algorithmic frictionlessness you see elsewhere

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@jameskettle.bsky.social did they learn nothing from Arc of Infinity

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@manton quite a few - but not all - of the Bluesky accounts I’m following via Micro.blog are showing with the default profile pic (blue butterfly) even if they’ve got a proper pic configured. Is there a way to reload the account to pull in the the pic?

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@cosmicchambo.bsky.social that’s very cool - hope to read about your experiences in future newsletters!

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@manton am not unbiased but I thought the whole show was a triumph

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@mattnida.com cc @cosmicchambo.bsky.social

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@manton definitely newyorker.com and thequietus.com - probably a few more. I like the function in Feedbin that toggles between the feed post and the full extracted article. (Though I think I like Inkwell’s lack of unread count event more!)

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@manton enjoying playing with Inkwell! Just curious if article extraction (for sites that truncate articles in RSS) is on the roadmap, or is that outside the scope of the project?

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@mattnida.com feat @kaye.bsky.social @cosmicchambo.bsky.social and more!

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@cosmicchambo.bsky.social timezones permitting, I would 100% tune in for this!

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@mattnida.com And join us for the next one! Thursday 3rd July! Full details on reallystrangerecord.club!

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@foxydigitalis.bsky.social Happy Birthday Brad!!

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@eruditorumpress.com First heard this song in my teens and liked its vibe. Heard it again a few years back (in my late 30s, having lost a few people along the way) and started sobbing uncontrollably in public. Which is basically what it’s about. A high watermark on so many levels.

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@mattnida.com HUMAN LEAGUE - All I Ever Wanted, 2001.

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The whole Secrets album is among their best work, the titanium-grade Nine Inch Nails production sound still hits.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdz_…

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@mattnida.com DEAD OR ALIVE - Isn’t It A Pity, 2000.

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An unexpectedly moving moment of self-aware introspection. “I’m a kind of hybrid of the cartoon and the feature” is a breathtaking lyric.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jsu…

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@cosmicchambo.bsky.social Loved this week’s newsletter, and listened to the first show which is wonderful. Now on a detour to listen the Astra interview you posted then will come back for the other two eps. Inspiring work as always.

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@tardisnet.bsky.social We brought this up the closing minutes of the ep. I think it’s basically an “allowable” plot hole to set up the rug-pull reveal that Conrad’s a bad dude, but it doesn’t really stack up that he’s got a huge conspiracist following and a ton of Patreon subscribers yet isn’t on Ruby’s (or UNIT’s) radar

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@jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social I love this. I found William’s music during quite a difficult time for me and it helped enormously; as well as the beautiful work, I admire his courage in unpacking a lot of deeply personal, work-in-progress thinking in recent interviews. This was an amazing listen.

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@mattnida.com Thank you!

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@foxydigitalis.bsky.social Lovely interview. Sample tracks blew me away! Hopefully I can see Walt when he plays in London later this year.

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@motherslug.bsky.social Super-hyped to watch this - thanks for the recommendation!

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@foxydigitalis.bsky.social also the best, most unwieldy Bandcamp URL I’ve seen today

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