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I’m a Local Government lifer, Musician and Linux dabbler. This is a large and sprawling disorganised mess - a bit like me really. I’m interested in lots of things at the same time but a LOT of music. I’m not really doing this for any particular purpose other than being an old-ish dog learning some new tricks

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  • Jun 08, 2025
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Lawrence of Belgravia

Lawrence, formally of Felt, then Denim, Go Kart Mozart and Mozart Estate. A singular talent and man and pleasure to meet him and talk briefly outside of the Betsey Trotwood in Clerkenwell.

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  • Jun 08, 2025
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Mr Plum & The Armchair Anarchists

Thorpe Park has a rather tame ride called “Mr Money’s Banana Ride” which is basically a big gondola sing shaped like a banana. Fred, guitarist of The Fred and Al Experience was rather taken with it despite it’s lameness and he rode it three times in row on Al’s birthday outing. I thought the ride sounded lie a lost psychedelic single so it was born (very quickly) in one evening in my studio with my new work flow of.. just bugger it. So drums, bass and guitars are a noisy mess and it was put down whilst I didn’t lose momentum. For some reason I usually end up sounding like Syd Barrett or is that Syd Sarratt ?

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  • Jun 04, 2025
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Cramps - Bad Music For Bad People

The Cramps were an American rock band formed in 1976 and active until 2009. Their lineup rotated frequently during their existence, with the husband-and-wife duo of singer Lux Interior and guitarist Poison Ivy the only ever-present members. The band are credited as progenitors of the psychobilly subgenre, fusing elements of punk rock with rockabilly. The addition of guitarist Bryan Gregory and drummer Pam Balam resulted in the first complete lineup in April 1976. They released their debut album Songs the Lord Taught Us in 1980. The band split after the death of lead singer Interior in 2009.

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  • Jun 04, 2025
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Mummies - Tales From The Crypt

LThe Mummies are an American garage punk band formed in San Bruno, California, in 1988. Exhibiting a defiantly raw and lo-fi sound, dubbed “budget rock”, the Mummies’ rebellious attitude and distinctive performance costumes exerted a major influence on garage punk and garage rock revival acts later in the decade, as well as in the 1990s. Their recorded output was intentionally completed with poor, cheap equipment, including their first and only studio album Never Been Caught, which was released after the group’s initial break-up.

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  • May 25, 2025
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The Drunkees - For Pete's Sake

For Pete’s Sake was a Monkees Tune which rolled on the end credits of the TV show. It was written by Peter Tork who was their Bass player and was the beginnings of their fight to write and play their own songs. The Monkees were a manufactured band but then again so were the Sex Pistols and it’s an old a story as time that at some point a Punk rebellion will happen.

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  • May 18, 2025
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Team Alien

Somewhere in Denge Marsh a group of Aliens have “Gone on holiday by mistake”. A nearby static caravan site of Romney Sands attracted the visitors advertising a thrilling stay. Close to the hum of Dungeness Power station, the aliens take shelter in the abandoned gravel pits next to the concrete acoustic radar dishes. They’ve been stuck there for about 40 years now and are largely unnoticed. They quite like our music and the decent chips from the nearby Pilot pub but there is now a creeping sense of Ennui with the human race and it’s limitless stupidity.

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  • May 16, 2025
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Derrick Harriott - Rocksteady 1966-1969

A selection of magical rocksteady music from one of the masters of the genre…One of the forerunners in Jamaican music from its very beginning, Derrick Harriott, along with a stellar cast, showcases the some superb rocksteady.

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  • Apr 28, 2025
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Timelapse

Slightly bored and restless I built a Raspberry Pi Zero powered time-lapse camera from cheap bits.

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  • Apr 28, 2025
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Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Barafundle

Barafundle is the fourth album by Welsh psychedelic folk band Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, which was released 7 April 1997 in the United Kingdom. The album’s title comes from the name of a beach in Pembrokeshire, Wales.

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  • Apr 28, 2025
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East of Eden - World of East of Eden

East of Eden were a British progressive rock band, who had a Top 10 hit in the UK with the single “Jig-a-Jig” in 1970. The track was stylistically unlike any of their other work. Although some might consider them a symphonic progressive band, others state that their style is mostly jazz-oriented

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  • Apr 22, 2025
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The Focus Group - Elektrik Karousel

Elektrik Karousel It’s an evolution of the Cut-Up experiments of the earlier albums where Julian House developed a musical style that mirrored his collaged design work. House, with help in the studio from Broadcast, Julain House weaves his samples into a rich tapestry of electronics, fuzzed guitar and processed exotic instrumentation together with fractured skipping rhythms and submerged melodies. There’s a weird alchemy at work that manages to distil essences of jazz, psychedelia and soundtracks into something utterly unique. For a clue to its moods, think Czech animation, Italian Giallo, early Radiophonics, HP Lovecraft stories, 1960s underground cinema, Lewis Caroll and baroque psych.

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  • Apr 22, 2025
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Caetano Veloso - Caetano Veloso (1971 album)

Caetano Veloso is the third self-titled album by Caetano Veloso. It was recorded in England, when the artist was in an exile imposed by the Brazilian military dictatorship for being subversive. It is mostly sung in English and portrays a sad tone throughout, reflecting his feelings about homesickness and the absence of his family and friends. It was released first in Europe, and then in Brazil, in 1971.

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  • Apr 21, 2025
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Robyn Hitchcock - On Songwriting

A companion piece to John Edginton’s documentary “Robyn Hitchcock:Sex,Food,Death…and Insects”. Robyn discusses his songwriting process while trying out four unfinished songs.

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  • Apr 21, 2025
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The Heliocentrics - Infinity of Now

The Heliocentrics’ albums are all confounding pieces of work. Drawing equally from the funk universe of James Brown, the disorienting asymmetry of Sun Ra, the cinematic scope of Ennio Morricone, the sublime fusion of David Axelrod, Pierre Henry’s turned-on musique concrète, and Can’s beat-heavy Krautrock, they have – regardless of the label on which they’ve released their music – pointed the way towards a brand new kind of psychedelia, one that could only come from a band of accomplished musicians who were also obsessive music fans. Drummer Malcolm Catto and bassist Jake Ferguson are the Heliocentrics’ masterminds and producers, and they are obsessive weirdos in today’s musical climate, searching, progressive humans who are often out-of-time with current trends.

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  • Apr 21, 2025
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UB40 - Signing Off

Signing Off is the debut album by British reggae band UB40, released in the UK on 29 August 1980 by Dudley-based independent label Graduate Records. It was an immediate success in their home country, reaching number 2 on the UK albums chart, and made UB40 one of the many popular reggae bands in Britain, several years before the band found international fame. The politically-concerned lyrics struck a chord in a country with widespread public divisions over high unemployment, the policies of the recently elected Conservative party under Margaret Thatcher, and the rise of the National Front party, while the record’s dub-influenced rhythms reflected the late 1970s influence in British pop music of West Indian music introduced by immigrants from the Caribbean after the Second World War, particularly reggae and ska – this was typified by the 2 Tone movement, at that point at the height of its success and led by fellow West Midlands act The Specials, with whom UB40 drew comparisons due to their multiracial band line-up and socialist views.

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  • Apr 21, 2025
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Robyn Hitchcock - Mossy Liquor

Mossy Liquor is the title of a vinyl LP released by Robyn Hitchcock in 1996. The album preceded the release of the Moss Elixir CD by a few weeks, and half of it was made up of demos or alternative versions of the Moss Elixir material.

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  • Apr 21, 2025
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Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators

Nicole Willis rolls out with her third album made together with The Soul Investigators: Happiness In Every Style. It is bound to send shivers down backs all around the world. As the name suggests, the new album will offer variety and tilt towards a more positive note after the murky Tortured Soul.

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  • Apr 21, 2025
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Kraftwerk - Computerworld

Computer World (German: Computerwelt) is the eighth studio album by German electronic band Kraftwerk, released on 11 May 1981

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  • Apr 13, 2025
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Skinshape - Oracolo

William Dorey (born. June 20, 1991, Swanage, United Kingdom) better known as Skinshape, is a British singer, multi-instrumentalist and DJ based in London. His music are of genres psychedelic rock, reggae, funk, trip hop. He has also been a bassist for the band Palace (2014-2017). He has his own record label, called Horus Records, which reissues Jamaican reggae songs from the 60s-80s.

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  • Apr 13, 2025
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The Richard Dimbleby Lecture Sir Tim Berners-Lee: The World Wide Web - A Mid-Course Correction (HD)

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is well underway: the Internet of Things, AI and virtual reality are soon to be commonplace in our lives. Yet fewer women than men are online, more than half the world remains offline, and developing countries are missing out on revolutionary opportunities. Originally broadcast on BBC on 17th November 2019, reuploaded for educational purposes only.

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  • Apr 13, 2025
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This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED

“We are watching the collapse of the international order in real time, and this is just the start,” says investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr. In a searing talk, she details a fast-moving technological coup and the rise of the “broligarchy”: an unprecedentedly powerful class of tech executives (like Elon Musk) who are complicit in dismantling democracy and enabling authoritarian control across the world. She shares a guide on how to digitally disobey in this age of runaway corporate power, data harvesting and mass surveillance — and reminds you that you have more power than you think. (Recorded at TED2025 on April 8, 2025)

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  • Apr 13, 2025
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Frightnrs - Nothing More to Say

Nothing More to Say" is the debut album by the reggae band The Frightnrs, released in 2016 by Daptone Records. It’s a rocksteady-influenced album, noted for its smooth, lovestruck style reminiscent of late 1960s Jamaican music. The album is tragically shadowed by the lead singer Dan Klein’s passing shortly before its release, adding to the record’s intensity.

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  • Apr 13, 2025
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Mulatu Astatke

Ethio Jazz is a landmark album by contemporary Ethiopian music pioneer Mulatu Astatke from back in 1974 on Ethiopia’s Amha Records. It features melancholic wind melodies and a polyrhythmic rhythm section that soon draws you in while sultry vibraphone and smoky organ tones blend the essence of American jazz with Ethiopian musical traditions. This unique fusion creates a sound that remains a high point in Astatke’s career and the Ethio Jazz genre overall. It’s a faultless demonstration of Mulatu’s ambitious creativity and one that masterfully balances diverse musical elements. For that reason, this timeless album continues to resonate in the jazz world and beyond.

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  • Apr 09, 2025
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The Badgers

After not seeing them for a while the Badgers seem to be back and about in the garden - at 4am, so they have missed the chicken and eggs the foxes have feasted on by then.

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  • Apr 05, 2025
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R.E.M - Chronic Town E.P.

Chronic Town is the debut extended play by American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on August 24, 1982, on I.R.S. Records. Containing five tracks, the EP was recorded at the Drive-In Studio in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in October 1981, eighteen months after the formation of the band.

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  • Mar 30, 2025
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Norman

Norman is the little fox of last years litter. I have a group of foxes I feed and I’m on about the 5th of 6th generation so I wanted to add a few videos and pics to this site and it’s also given me an excuse to learn how to set up video shortcodes in Hugo.

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  • Mar 29, 2025
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Marshall Allen - New Dawn

Two days after his 100th birthday, Marshall Allen started recording New Dawn, his debut solo album. A member of Sun Ra’s Arkestra since 1958, Allen assumed leadership of the band in 1995. Throughout his nearly seventy-year career, Allen has never released a solo album under his own name, and yet, instead of capping such a legendary output, New Dawn seems to herald a new beginning. A love letter to spacetime, it channels a century of musical intelligence into seven tracks, showing Allen at his most protean — freely moving from relaxed, transdimensional palettes to bluesy big band and beyond.

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  • Mar 28, 2025
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Gallery

Experiments with a Hugo gallery theme.

I built this which is a hugo generated gallery from this theme:

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  • Mar 28, 2025
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Vinicius & Baden - Os Afro Sambas

Os Afro-sambas is a 1966 studio album (that should not be confused with the album of the same name and different artwork recorded live) by Baden Powell and Vinícius de Moraes. The live album is ranked number 29 on Rolling Stone’s list of 100 Greatest Brazilian Albums.

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  • Mar 23, 2025
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Noura Mint Seymali - Arbina

Noura Mint Seymali hails from a Moorish musical dynasty in Mauritania, born into a prominent family of griot and choosing from an early age to embrace the artform that is its lifeblood. Yet traditional pedigree has proven but a stepping-stone for the work Noura and her band have embarked upon in recent years, simultaneously popularizing and reimagining Moorish music on the global stage, taking her family’s legacy to new heights as arguably Mauritania’s most widely exported musical act of all time. Gamely wielding the griot’s idiom, a form itself distilled from centuries of trans-Saharan musical knowledge, Noura Mint Seymali’s sound as heard on this record carves out a unique position in the musical cartography of West Africa, at once her country’s leading proponent of the avant garde and yet a rigorously devoted tradition-bearer.

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  • Mar 18, 2025
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Morteza Mahjubi

Improvisation & Avaz in Bayat-e Zand (Golha-yi Rangarang #290) (feat. Abdolvahab Shahidi) - Morteza Mahjubi

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  • Mar 18, 2025
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Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek - Yarin Yoska

Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek’s latest album Yarın Yoksa. The show stopping intensity of Derya backed by the psychedelic soul of Grup Şimşek with production by Leon Michels has yielded a stand out record that challenges genre with a broad appeal and a powerful message.

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  • Mar 16, 2025
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Shrubbies - Memphis in Texas

Memphis in Texas was the first and only album by Shrubbies. In the aftermath of Lake of Puppies, an alt folk/pop band featuring William D Drake, Sharron Fortnam (North Sea Radio Orchestra/Cardiacs/Lake of Puppies/Led Bib/Lost Crowns) and Craig Fortnam (North Sea Radio Orchestra/Arch Garrison/Lake of Puppies) formed Shrubbies with Sarah Smith (Cardiacs/Sea Nymphs) on sax and keyboards, and Ben Clarke on drums. When he left the band, Dominic Luckman (Cardiacs) joined the fold! Following Sarah’s departure from the band, Dan Maitland signed up. They played enthusiastically on the London circuit from 1996-1999, made this record, released it then split up. Craig’s songs are settings of poems that Sharron wrote in her bedroom next the North Sea

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  • Mar 16, 2025
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Lake of Puppies

When William D. Drake and Sharron Fortnam became friends in 1987, it was obvious they would have to make music together, even if they didn’t know it yet.They were riding the same wave…

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  • Mar 15, 2025
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Batsumi

Insanely brilliant South African Jazz L.P. from 1974

Available from Bandcamp here

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  • Mar 15, 2025
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Mary Lou Williams - Mary Lou's Mass

1975 facsimile reissue of Mary Lou Williams’s magnum opus of religious jazz: Mary Lou’s Mass. Newsweek called the score “an encyclopedia of black music, richly represented from spirituals to bop to rock.” This is Williams’s “Music for Peace,” a landmark recording which addressed many of the social ills of the 1960s and 70s. It is perhaps the most openly religious jazz recording made at that time. In her own words, it is “Music for the Soul.”

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  • Mar 09, 2025
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Mother Gong - Fairy Tales

This remarkable album, originally released in 1979 features an all-star lineup of artists brought together by talent of Mother Gong’s Gilli Smyth. Renowned for her work with Gong, Smyth’s unique vocal stylings—the ethereal “space whisper”—lead the way on this otherworldly journey.

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  • Mar 09, 2025
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Staying: Leaving Records Aid to Artists Impacted by the Los Angeles Wildfires

Everything has changed, and it is changing still. The early days of 2025 (an already baleful year, vis-a-vis America’s darkening political horizon) have wrought heretofore unimaginable destruction in the land we now call Los Angeles. The wildfires that began on the morning of Tuesday, January 7th—and which are still raging—are, in scope and intensity, unlike any other disaster, natural or manmade, in the city’s living memory. Thousands of homes destroyed. Twenty four lives lost at the time of writing (that number will almost certainly rise), and innumerable lives forever altered. The devastation arrived suddenly, and has persisted over the course of a punishing and surreal week.

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  • Mar 02, 2025
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The Chills - Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs

‘Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs’ is a Martin Phillipps passion project. A dedicated reimagining of his earlier unreleased songs that became his artistic farewell, a lasting legacy, and a reminder of his huge, underappreciated talent. The album has been finalised for release with the love and support of his band, family and friends.

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  • Mar 02, 2025
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Writing - Begone Squirrels

I often think about writing and every now and again I will have tentative go at it. I’m very much enjoying “Closer To The Edge” on Substack as it’s clearly in the style of Hunter S. Thompson who is someone we really could do with to eviscerate the whole Shit-show of what is happening in the U.S. right now with the likes of Trump and Musk.

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  • Feb 23, 2025
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Lee 'Scratch' Perry and Friends: Land Of Kinks - The Jamaican Upsetter Singles 1970, 2CD

• 14 tracks new to CD. Fascinating insight into Lee Perry’s musical development. • A must for all committed Upsetter fans. Lee Perry had reached the top of the Jamaican music business as the 1970s dawned. His international chartbuster, ‘Return Of Django’ had not just confirmed his standing as one of reggae music’s leading music makers, it also provided the funds that facilitated a significant increase in studio time, so providing the luxury of further experimentations with sound.

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  • Feb 22, 2025
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Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee

Diamond Jubilee is the seventh studio album by Canadian band Cindy Lee, the project of musician Patrick Flegel. A triple album (double CD), it was released on 29 March 2024 on Flegel’s own label Realistik Studios, available exclusively on YouTube or for purchase from a Web 1.0-style Realistik Studios website. On 23 October 2024, it was released on Bandcamp and physical pre-orders were made available.

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  • Feb 20, 2025
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Peter Perrett

Legendary Only Ones front man at Islington Academy 19-2-2025 Take Me Home: Sometimes I go walkin’ in the dark I’m waiting for fate to jump out at me Feels like I’m walkin’ in the shoes of another man Someone who refused to ever follow the plan

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  • Feb 18, 2025
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Prince Buster

Let’s Go To The Dance: A 60-minute compilation of 20 rocksteady songs from 1967–68, including “Let’s Go To The Dance” and “All My Loving”

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  • Feb 16, 2025
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David Vorhaus

In this historical video excerpt, David Vorhaus talks about two of his analogue inventions - the MANIAC analogue sequencer, and the Kaleidophon from 1979.

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  • Feb 16, 2025
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Septik Breth - Nah Again

Seminal Romney Marsh Grindcore lunacy from the mid 80’s - “Septik Breth” were two of my friends with a cheap keyboard, a drum machine, some guitars and basses and a karaoke cassette machine in a garage somewhere in Littlestone.


Excavated Releases of “Septik Breth” and “Bonjela”

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  • Feb 16, 2025
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Planetary Peace - Synthesis

A collection of songs created by two American expatriates living in London in 1980. Recorded in their living room on a Teac tape machine, Synthesis was entirely composed and performed on a mail order Serge synthesizer kit that Planetary Peace (the husband and wife duo of Will & Kalima Sawyer) had built themselves.

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  • Feb 10, 2025
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Croxley Green

Croxley Green is both a village and a suburb of Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire, England. It is also a civil parish. Located on the A412 between Watford to the north-east and Rickmansworth to the south-west, it is approximately 20 miles north-west of central London.

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  • Feb 10, 2025
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Tala Vala - The Lotus

Tala Vala combine experimental recording methods bridging marginalised genres, synths, brass and strings, jagged guitars and primal percussion. Both the Ep and album were recorded on 2 inch tape and mixed by Jake Jackson who engineering credits include Mica Levi and Nick Cave & Warren Ellis.

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  • Feb 10, 2025
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Charlene Knight - If My Dreams Come True

Charlene Knight recorded as a solo artist on Pamela Records in 1961 with the sides_If You Pass Me By / If My Dreams Come True. and in 1962 as Bob O’Donnell & The Tru-Tones_Shy Boy / The Magic Trumpet.

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  • Feb 09, 2025
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The Sportsman

Colley’s Dog 5.2% ABV Yeast, hops, water and malt. Lots and lots of malt. Tasting notes This dark ruby premium ale is all about the malt, and we’ve packed a lot into this brew. It’s nutty, it’s malty and full of body. An old school strong English bitter.

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  • Feb 06, 2025
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Dog

“Dog” by artist Diego De La Rosa. oil on panel, 10 x 8 inches 2022.

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  • Feb 06, 2025
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More Mermaid

More adventures in reluctant software development.

Having discovered last week that a heady brew of Mermaid scripting and AI could speed up some epic and dull process mapping for a caseload database system, I thrashed out some charts to send to the overseers.

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  • Feb 06, 2025
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The Rainy Daze - Fe Fi Fo Fum (Blood of Oblivion)

The Rainy Daze was a psychedelic pop group formed in Denver, Colorado in 1965. They were composed of singer/guitarist Tim Gilbert with his brother Kip on drums, lead guitarist Mac Ferris, bassist Sam Fuller, and keyboardist Bob Heckendorf.

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  • Feb 01, 2025
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Pete La Roca - Basra

By the time drummer Pete La Roca recorded his debut album Basra in 1965 he had already appeared on 9 Blue Note sessions as a sideman and spent time in bands led by Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane. But it was another tenor titan, Joe Henderson, that La Roca brought in as the sole horn voice to front a dynamic quartet that was completed by what liner note writer Ira Gitler called “one of the most attuned rhythm sections in jazz” featuring bassist Steve Swallow and pianist Steve Kuhn. The resulting album is one of the great underrated gems of the Blue Note catalog featuring an expansive 6-track set that includes 3 compositions by La Roca (“Basra” “Candu” “Tears Come from Heaven”), Swallow’s tune “Eiderdown,” “Malagueña” by Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona, and a stunning ballad performance of the standard “Lazy Afternoon.”

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  • Feb 01, 2025
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Spiritual Jazz 17 - Saba/MPS

The Jazzman label continues its excellent Spiritual Jazz compilation series with a focus on the SABA and MPS labels from Germany, who released tons of music by a diverse range of international jazz artists in the sixties and seventies. Few have heard of these labels next to colossuses like Blue Note and Impulse! - Spiritual Jazz 17 ought to change that, containing music from artists range from Elvin Jones to Pedro Iturralde and Hideo Shiraki.

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  • Feb 01, 2025
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Mermaid

Mermaid - Diagramming and charting tool

JavaScript based diagramming and charting tool that renders Markdown-inspired text definitions to create and modify diagrams dynamically.

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  • Jan 27, 2025
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Syrinx - December Angel

Syrinx was a Canadian electronic music group active from 1970 to 1972. Propelled by the compositions of keyboardist John Mills-Cockell and backed by saxophonist Doug Pringle and percussionist Alan Wells, the group broke musical ground with their innovative use of the Moog synthesizer and their world music inspirations. Their song “Tillicum” received national attention as the theme music for the television series Here Come the Seventies.

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  • Jan 26, 2025
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Mbongwana Star - Shégué

Mbongwana Star is a band from Kinshasa, Congo. Of the seven members of the band, two of them (Coco Ngabali and Theo Nzonza) were among the founding members of Staff Benda Bilili.



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  • Jan 26, 2025
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Peanut Butter Conspiracy - I'm Falling

The Peanut Butter Conspiracy was an American, Los Angeles-based, psychedelic pop/rock group from the 1960s. The band is known for lead singer Barbara Robison and for briefly having Spencer Dryden of Jefferson Airplane as a band member.

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  • Jan 26, 2025
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Vivian Stanshall - Spreading His Light

Vivian Stanshall was an English singer-songwriter, musician, author, poet and wit, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, for his exploration of the British upper classes in Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, and for acting as Master of Ceremonies on Mike Oldfield’s album Tubular Bells.

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  • Jan 26, 2025
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Philip Larkin - This Be The Verse

“This Be The Verse” is a lyric poem in three stanzas with an alternating rhyme scheme, by the English poet Philip Larkin. It was written around April 1971, was first published in the August 1971 issue of New Humanist, and appeared in the 1974 collection High Windows

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  • Jan 26, 2025
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Tom from Myspace

On the rise and fall of Social Media.

Thomas Anderson is an American technology entrepreneur and co-founder of the social networking website Myspace, which he founded in 2003 with Chris DeWolfe. He was later president of Myspace and a strategic adviser for the company.

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  • Jan 25, 2025
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Connie Converse - Father Neptune

Elizabeth Eaton Converse was an American singer-songwriter and musician, best known under her professional name Connie Converse. She was active in New York City in the 1950s, and her work is among the earliest known recordings in the singer-songwriter genre of music

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  • Jan 25, 2025
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Television Personalities - Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out - Radio Sessions 1980-1993

This new collection brings together classic radio sessions from Television Personalities, the masters of DIY post-punk and indie pop. Featuring two 80s BBC sessions that aired on John Peel and Andy Kershaw, along with a super rare 1992 WMBR set, this double LP features covers of Buzzcocks, The Raincoats and Daniel Johnston with previously unreleased songs and a bonus download WFMU session from 1993

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  • Jan 25, 2025
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Liz Green - Haul Away!

Produced by Liam Watson at Toe Rag studios. Liz Green made two albums and then retreated. An extraordinary talent and too good for our times. I’d like to see her make more records but get why she doesn’t.

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  • Jan 22, 2025
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WSL Mapping in Windows 11

Windows sub-system Linux -

WSL is great in Windows 11 and I’m mostly using the Ubuntu sub-system for Hugo and web development as it’s quick and easy to move around.

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  • Jan 22, 2025
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Music Emporium - Nam Myo Renge Kyo

Music Emporium was an American psychedelic rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1967. Fronted by experimental multi-instrumentalist Bill “Casey” Cosby, the group was created at UCLA, and developed a sound centered around Cosby’s keyboards and vocal harmonies. Music Emporium released one ultra-rare self-titled album in 1969, which is praised among psychedelic enthusiasts and has been re-released multiple times.

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  • Jan 22, 2025
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Sic Alps - Message from The Law

Sic Alps were an American garage rock band from San Francisco, California. Formed in 2004 by Mike Donovan and Adam Stonehouse, they released music on Siltbreeze, Drag City, Woodsist and several other independent record labels.

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  • Jan 20, 2025
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Serge Gainsbourg et Brigitte Bardot - Comic Strip

Bardot and Gainsbourg in lurid form

Serge Gainsbourg - (2 April 1928 – 2 March 1991) was a French singer-songwriter, actor, composer, and director. Regarded as one of the most important figures in French pop, he was renowned for often provocative releases which caused uproar in France, dividing public opinion.

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  • Jan 20, 2025
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Antoine - Les Elucubrations

No health and safety bothers for Antoine

Pierre Antoine Muraccioli (born 4 June 1944), known professionally as Antoine, is a French pop singer, and also a sailor, adventurer, writer, photographer, and filmmaker.

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  • Jan 20, 2025
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Joi Lansing - The Silencer

Another Joi Lansing Scopitone. Just beautifully camp!

Scopitone is a type of jukebox featuring a 16 mm film component. Scopitone films were a forerunner of music videos. The 1959 Italian Cinebox/Colorama and Color-Sonics were competing, lesser-known technologies of the time one year before the Scopitone in France

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  • Jan 19, 2025
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Joi Lansing - Web of Love

Truly camper than a row of tents.

Joi Lansing was an American model, film and television actress, and nightclub singer. She was noted for her pin-up photos and roles in B-movies, as well as a prominent role in the famous opening “tracking shot” in Orson Welles’ 1958 crime drama Touch of Evil.

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  • Jan 19, 2025
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Clinic

Done and Dusted II

Clinic are an English rock band, formed in 1993 in Crosby, Liverpool by frontman Ade Blackburn, guitarist Jonathan Hartley, bassist Brian Campbell and drummer Carl Turney.

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  • Jan 19, 2025
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Site Building

Hugo and static sites.

Why I had enough of Ghost and MySql and why static sites work better for me.

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  • Jan 12, 2025
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Notes From The Underground - Radical Music From The 20th Century

An almost mind bogglingly diverse compilation from Cherry Red - Things put together that really should not work on paper but it’s like a pychedelic fever dream of Radio 3 late junction meets Jarvis Cocker’s Sunday service and some more.. I’m enjoying this immensely and for £11 for four CDs it’s exceptional value and the kind of utter genius that seems to be Cherry red’s licensing team at the moment. I might sneak into their cellar and sleep there.

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  • Jan 07, 2025
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The Roundtable

A uniquely British studio sound combining fantastic funky 60’s pop feel with English medieval instrumentation. Recorded in 1969 studio band The Roundtable featured the Early Music Consort’s David Munrow and Chris Hogwood alongside UK jazzmen including Don Lusher, Kenny Clare and Kenny Baker.

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  • Jan 07, 2025
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Radioactivity - Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk - Radioactivity

The joy of finding this in some tiny little backstreet record shop in Tontine Street in Folkestone in the mid 80s. It was a lot harder to find records then (pre-internet). I think I picked up Computerworld in the same shop.

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