These ones are. ⚡

Always exciting to hear a blast of In Your Neighbourhood over the airwaves, especially when it's followed up by Sufjan Stevens (probably the only time I will ever get to say that) and we're coming up to three years since Gilded Cage was released. This edition of The Electric Wave show also includes Not Really (Virtual Reality) by Blancmange, who we shared a stage with back in 2017 (probably some of my favourite live outings with venue The 1865 having a notable part-Shining, part-Butlins carpet) as well as new Erasure and Róisín Murphy. Yes! 

You can listen below and I tip my socially-distanced hat to Rob for a fine selection of music.

The clue was in the title. Here's a BLACK ARROW-led assortment of treats from Tulip Black and the folks at 8K.NZ. Sending thanks across the globe (and the first play in full too). ✨

I was listening to the Koyaanisqatsi soundtrack yesterday whilst swimming through the internet of opinions and ended up feeling several inches shorter. What I should have been doing instead, was summoning up some space sounds with Simon Heartfield below, on his Secret Self show on Seance Radio.

BLACK ARROW is out today! Thanks to everyone who's taken the trip with me and to everyone who sent me a picture of their record too - I've enjoyed seeing a little piece of space on synths (thanks to Simon Pott for the main picture), sound setups and beyond (with the Take Hart music looped in my head)!

It's also been nice to be able to chat to people about the release and hear it played elsewhere, so a big thank you to The Dark Inside, SonOfMarketing, SoundGym and We Buy Records podcast for providing a place for space despite the heaviness of everything right now. With that in mind, I've collected together a few things I've been reading and they will be travelling through space and time shortly via my mailing list, so get involved if you'd like something to read that will briefly let you orbit the Earth. See you in the digital ether!

I haven't been feeling particularly festive, but thankfully Dandelion Radio have come to the rescue, with Andy Morrision's first seasonal show since 2015! You can hear my solemn synth switch-up of a Santa song on rotation daily here in the run up to Christmas. There's also a good dose of Low to make it feel just like Christmas, although I could be wrong and perhaps it isn't like Christmas at all.

The cover is also this month's free mailing list download on my music page. Just type in your email and a gift will be sent to you. Guaranteed coal-free.

I’ve been sending secret synths in to this for a number of years now and still get a surge of pure joy from seeing not just my own name, but a sprawling community of the weird and wonderful who will all, for a short time, populate the forest.

Set your controls for the heart of the Solent and listen to 'The Stars, Like Dust' on BBC Solent Introducing here.

Thrilled to see ‘The Stars, Like Dust’ playlisted on @Radio3FACH alongside lots of great music like Jon Hopkins and Beach House! View the playlist and tune in here.

Detuned doom in a darkened room awaits. Hear an unreleased song on this magnificent cassette release from The Dark Outside!

Pleased to be adding some mildly threatening (and previously unreleased) wailing to this wondrous cassette release from @thedarkoutside. Fans of mysterious broadcasts in the woods and tape player owners, stay tuned.

A few days ago on Twitter and Facebook, I asked the question, “if a song is broadcast in a forest and no-one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”

If you’re curious to know the answer to this and read about the noises in the darkness which make up The Dark Outside, then there’s a nice introduction to it over at The Quietus.

I’ll be contributing this year, having submitted a couple of tracks from an as yet unheard EP and you can too, if it passes the squirrel test...