Why are we waving at you? Maybe there's a new dee eye why song up on Bandcamp, Mirlo and this very website you're reading now. Go listen, the suspense is eating at us!

There's also a silly idea…

First things first, dee eye why's Autonomous, from upcoming release Bungalow Legs, will be getting its first radio play on Sine Waves on Sunday this weekend (during a special show dedicated to Boards of Canada and featuring a…

For Neighbourhood folks, there's a new addition to the collection today, which is some unheard Gilded Cage stuff I contributed to a simulation game (it had an earlier mention on this blog). Expect detuned choral vocals and weird arps…

Alright, I’m finally crawling out from under the immune gloom of the last couple of weeks to get back on with things (photo of Unfiled at Reykjavik Art Museum in the livelier time before the gloom). I’m currently working on…

As the title suggests, there's a couple of things around The Indie Beat TV (a 24/7 music channel) for your reading and listening pleasure. The first, being electronic musician and TIBtv coordinator Lime Bar chatting about how the channel came…

Yesterday, The Indie Beat TV launched its 24/7 music channel on the federated streaming service Owncast with a video featuring some familiar scenery and characters, plus a preview of what you could expect to see on the channel from a…

A festive fanks on Christmas Eve to Dubhed for their lovely write-up of Christmas Trees and the Neighbourhood, although I think they might be about to go deflate some decorations. Can't say I blame them. Peace on Earth and…

So you might've read the newsletter and seen me talking about The Indie Beat TV, a new 24/7 music channel à la early MTV. Well, it now has a release date: December 28th!

You can find out more about it…

I can be found sharing my experiences with everyone's least favourite music listening platform, Spotify, in this recent Hearing Things article. Thanks to Ryan for talking with me.

Also, I've got some music hidden in this, a surreal…

I have a new and mysterious page on the site, entitled Animation Array. 

Perhaps you're one of the following:

• You're an indie animator and you make short films that you want to try out somewhere. Maybe you're a big…

For anyone attending the upcoming Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan gig with Marina Moore and Secret Self in my hometown of Portsmouth, UK, you might recognise a familiar vocal in the vast atmospherics of the Secret Self set beforehand. One…

I'm delighted to report that my track Huygens, which was first featured on the Cities and Memory compilation Space is the Place (back in 2019), has been selected for the ten year anniversary compilation of the project that's due…

Hello. It's August and I am still uploading old shorts to the Ursinewave PeerTube channel (11 more to go), as well as putting together the next song and video from a forthcoming EP of mine and recording vocals for an…

Hello. I'm now on PeerTube (on https://tv.gravitons.org, a server which received funding from the Arts Council), which is quite interesting, because it's a federated video platform, which means you can follow video channels from your Mastodon account and other…

I recently had the pleasure of chatting to Tom Ray of Lorenzo's Music about how I've made some of my videos, which included a show and tell of showbiz puppet costumes and a broken Oscar replica, plus I talked about…

Who makes short shorts? I make short shorts.You can watch a few of them below.*

*Longer videos are also available.

Just a quick post to link to the new video, which will be premiering this eve.

Hope you'll join us later on and enjoy watching along. 🍿

…to go until the next video goes up! 

In the meantime, here's Test Card F(idora).

That's right, folks. The most recent Scene Spotlight from New Music Fix on BBC6Music focuses on the Fediverse and you can hear tunes and chat from Meljoann, observations on new music platforms popping up, such as Mirlo and Bandwagon.fm…

Cheers to Dubhed for this great write-up about my videos! The next one is well under way and features another Little Chef reference for you to spot, as well as puppets having a nice picnic. You can head over…

As you might already know, I've been putting together another video for the next song. I know music videos are apparently dying (or “if a music video plays in the woods, etc.”), but isn't everything anyway, plus I…

Thanks to this occasional society for mentioning the most recent vid and the upcoming Simon Heartfield remix in their newsletter. It's well worth signing up to if you want a regular dose of electronic music news and you can…

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? 

No, it's a bear in a spacesuit. And he's on some new Ursinewave t-shirts over at the Teemill shop. 

There's also now a page for Ursinewave here.

I've just joined Bandwagon.fm if you're over that way. A bunch of ideas and places seem to be springing up at once for independent music and this looks like another valuable addition, especially for fans of federated spaces.

Meanwhile in…

It looks like Bandcamp Friday will continue into 2025, which is good news.

Let Them Deep Fake (Opt In or Die) is also now up on Mirlo and jam.coop for non-Bandcampers and co-operative fans, as well as being available…