Quick update to say that Is It Too Late For Fan Clubs? has now been played on Amazing Radio's Pop channel, the UK stream and on Amazing Radio USA! They even gave me a badge (which is good, because I collect them).
Additionally, [dramatic clock chime/intense music/delete as appropriate] two songs from Apophonia are currently on the Synthpop News 2024 playlist below.
I'm on the weekly playlist for the Pansentient League's new Synthpop finds! Have a listen below.
And here's the video for Is It Too Late For Fan Clubs? in case you missed all the awkward photos…
You can now hear not one but TWO Apophonia tracks on the Birmingham Electric playlist of New Wave and Synthpop goodies. As of today, Shoreliner is currently third on the list!
…and also for F List, an organisation promoting gender equality and diversity within music in the UK. My song Is It Too Late For Fan Clubs?, for which I recently released a video, has just been added to their ongoing playlist which champions female and gender diverse musicians. You can also create a listing on their site here and read more about some of the initiatives that they are involved with.
For those looking for New Wave / Synthpop / Post-punk Gems, there's a playlist meeting your exact requirements and, currently, Is It Too Late For Fan Clubs? is on there, along with some band called Kraftwerk. Never heard of them. 🙃
As well as being on the Electrozombies Spotify playlist for New Synth Pop Songs 2024, Is It Too Late For Fan Clubs? is also currently on the Amazing Radio pop channel. You can tune in to listen here.
Ahead of several releases going up on streaming services and keen to do some more video things, I have been working on a video (shot by Rob Quickenden) for Is It Too Late For Fan Clubs? which should go up very soon. Unless this whole thing turns out to be a setup for a very elaborate April Fools' Day post*?
In the meantime, here's another puppet having a terrible time (which is becoming something of a theme) and a short trailer (wish I still had some of those outfits)…
*It isn't, although I can be seen sporting some clown accessories in the main video.
Obtuse Roy Orbison reference aside, I have uploaded much of my music to streaming platforms and it will be available to listen to on Spotify, Apple Music and others from April 1st.
Otherwise, you can find it at the usual places where all the cool kids go. That's Bandcamp, this site, jam.coop or Mirlo.
Slightly late to the party, given that it's almost March, but Dandelion Radio have uploaded a radio show from January featuring tracks released last year (including Biarritz). You can listen to their 2023 Review below.
P. S. Andy, I'm not sure I got the pronunciation right either!
Those of an electronic persuasion can hear You Live Alone, taken from Apophonia, on a new Beachy Head Radio Deck Chair mix below from Simon Heartfield. It's also features a collaborative track from Simon Heartfield's new release on it and something by 65daysofstatic, who I've seen play a number of times, including their live accompaniment and rescoring of the film Silent Running, which is well worth searching out (and may have filmic links to another song under the old CURXES name).
Fractal Meat on a Spongy Bone anyone? That's where you can feast on Murray's Theme, plus a whole host of other sonic treats on NTS Radio. Graham Dunning, of modified turntable and Mammoth Beat Organ fame, hosts the show and the tracklist is as follows:
Ikue Mori - Conflict
Amy Sterly - I Found The Note
Jean VOGUET - Pièces et Miniatures pour UNE GUITARE ÉLECTRIQUE SEULE N°3
Shit & Shine - Joy_12
Iran Sanadzadeh - Oblique Moons
Viola Yip - Viola Yip at Music/Fun April 24, 2020
Max Eastley - Centriphone, Amplified And Filtered
He Can Jog - Spark (Will Long Remix)
abstract poem - where the bird finds solace in memories etched into its feathers (grief is a paper bird flying through a burning forest – part 1)
Jean Tinguely - Sculpture at The Tate (4)
Garden Path - Get Her Mummy
Antez & Seijiro Murayama - Antez & Seiji 01
David Birchall / Andrew Cheetham / Colin Webster / Otto Willberg - Ask A Clown Or The First Face You See That Day
Lamina - Sous la terre
DeForrest Brown, Jr. & James Hoff - Project for Revolution in New York
Anna Xambo - mnnw (extract)
Dusepo - Dashti Karevan
Harry Partch - Castor & Pollux: A Dance for the Twin Rhythms of Gemini: From Plectra & Percussion Dances
Hell on Hearth - one hundred and seventeen.
Roberta Fidora - Murray's Theme
Listen on NTS.live or hit the play button below.
Additionally, several of my releases are now available through jam.coop and Mirlo (as well as Bandcamp and here on the website). I may add the CURXES releases later on as well, but if you have any strong opinions either way, you can send a message through the contact door or over on Mastodon.
Shoreliner is currently streaming on the Amazing Dance page. 🪩
That is Cock Block, of course, which is a mixtape released every Friday at noon on 8k.nz. Incredibly, you can hear ETHER/ORBIT *in its entirety* below. Whew. ✨
Large thanks to the ever-supportive Rob Harvey for playing In Your Neighbourhood on his lovingly-curated Synth City show and just a little reminder that the song is up as a free download when you join the mailing list (I generally send them a few months apart from one another because I'm not a plugin company). Go grab it!
To what does the mysterious title above refer?
It can only be a new show from blue star radio! Here, you can listen to my contribution to the recent Cities and Memory project, Shortwave Transmissions, along with pieces from Moray Newlands and Audio Obscura (and also music from Grouper and Mica Levi for good measure). Get ecstatic for static below. 👂
Just a short update, but wanted to share this playlist by an excellent, equality-championing organisation called The F-List, with thanks to them for featuring my remix of isvisible isinvisible's Luna Still. Watch below and read more about The F-List here. You can also find the remix over at Bandcamp. 🌝
We're back looking and listening to the night sky. My track 'Huygens' can be heard as part of Blue Star Radio's 41st episode, fittingly concluding with those stars who've recently drifted out into the infinite night, and a Leyland Kirby track. Listen below (full tracklist here). ✨
Huygens Probe Shines for Cassini Cameras. Photograph from NASA's Image and Video Library.
Orange you glad you took some time to read this blog? Because Youth Ascension, from the album with the fright-filled front, is on Resonate's staff pick playlist for February. You can listen to this month's top of the co-op pops here.
Start your weekend listening with our February 'staff picks' playlist 🎧 link in bio 👆#resonatecoop #playfair #ethicalstreaming #digitaldignity #musiccooperative #stream2own #futureofmusic #staffpicks pic.twitter.com/UB0NuxnllC
— Resonate (@resonatecoop) February 19, 2021
Additionally, if you've been following a lot of the recent discussion around streaming and you're wondering about alternative ways of listening, I've now added several links on Twitter to folks rethinking the current offerings. Sweet streams are made of this, etc.
Stop that moon buggy and take one giant leap onto this playlist, featuring all of the songs we played at the Isle of Wight Festival.
The Stars, Like Dust is the first song in space (if space is a DOPECAUSEWESAID playlist)! Click here to listen.
In dust we trust. The Stars, Like Dust can now be seen from this new playlist via US friends DOPECAUSEWESAID. No telescope required. ⭐
I'm unfashionably late to the party, but so cool to see 'In Your Neighbourhood' on this excellent playlist.
As well as being a super world indie tune, ’In Your Neighbourhood’ has made Dope Cause We Said’s end of year playlist! Go here to lend it your ears.
Nice picture of a building found on this person’s Twitter.
‘In Your Neighbourhood’ is featured amongst this year’s SWIT hits. It’s such a good playlist, in fact, that it has caused cassettes to grow eyes and ears! Listen here.
Massive thanks to Patrick Mahan for adding 'In Your Neighbourhood' to his Heavy Rotation and Spankin' New playlists and brightening up this dreary Monday.