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for years now, friends (and others) have sent me Spotify links in attempt to share music. I beg you to stop. I have never subscribed to Spotify and I have never listened to a song using that business.

@sk33mask The whole record was ace!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8YOnAMQRmEE

Soon..

Eliane Radigue documentary free to watch for a week here: https://vimeo.com/541076521/d661c359f7

bandcamp fridays are lovely but i would happily swap for a lower fee year round. a number closer to most other ecommerce platform standards (shopify is 3% per transaction). when payment processing is factored in i am losing sometimes up to 20% in fees per sale. way too much 💸

The fee-free @Bandcamp Friday initiative, which was launched in March 2020 as a way to support artists impacted by coronavirus, will return from 4th February 🙌 https://dj-m.ag/3nXaIcC

With live music returning to the Barras tonight, here's the switch on of @TheBarrowlands Neon sign - the largest in the UK - in 1983.
TV funnyman Russ Abbot did the honours, during the Maggie McIver Festival.

Pic: Newsquest

The new series of #JoinTheFuture (@BleepAndBass) debuts this Wednesday, 26th Jan, at 15:00 GMT. It features Jordan GCZ (@jujujordash) in conversation with yours truly, discussing the pandemic, Patreon, improvisation, collaboration and more, plus plays of cuts from his catalogue

You can always tell when a DJ wrote their own bio.

If you're an IDM artist, you shouldn't use the idiomatic phrase "That's music to my ears". It's considered much more professional among producers in the genre to say "That's music to my brain".

I'm working on a podcast about sexual assault and harassment in dance music and would like to speak with survivors about their experiences. You can remain anonymous and we can modify your voice/use voice actors if desired. Pls email annabel_ross@protonmail.com for more info

Do you ever hear a “typo” in an audiobook? I’m listening to a chapter on John Cage, and the reader just read 4’33” as “four feet, thirty-three inches.” 😂

The 40 Best Winter Albums of All Time http://acloserlisten.com/2022/01/14/the-best-winter-albums-of-all-time/

A new pressing plant is opening in Middlesbrough

https://thevinylfactory.com/news/new-record-pressing-plant-press-on-vinyl-middlesborough/

This clip of jazz guitarist @stanley_jordan showing off his generative music system programmed on a Commodore 64 is amazing

Matt Anniss traces the career of sonic adventurer, electronic music pioneer and UK techno mainstay Richard H Kirk in 20 tracks.

https://inn8.net/feature-richard-h-kirk-through-the-decades/

Six years ago, #DavidBowie died

Six days later, 1,000 #Bowie fans packed London’s beautiful @UnionChapelUK for a 5 hour celebration of his life

117 musicians...33 bands, each played one Bowie song

We’re making a documentary about this gig: his “unofficial wake”.
#JustForOneDay https://twitter.com/bowiewakemovie/status/1479911638115442691

There are musicians who think that friending me on FB will somehow help their careers.

Well, I have news for them—they're right.

6 Brian Eno ambient albums that I find more interesting than consensus favorites Music For Airports and Discreet Music:
Thursday Afternoon
Neroli
On Land
Apollo
The Shutov Assembly
Music For Films

185,000 cassette tapes were sold during 2021 https://dj-m.ag/3JINrnG

Put some of my favourite releases of 2021 in a list for @buymusicclub
Thank you @Koreless @BendikGiske @pruvancz @Tsvisions @aya_yco @wataigarashi @Livity_Sound @simocellmusic @ZentraleMMM @reallukeslater @kangding_ray @CodeReturn @DannyDaze +++
>>>
https://buymusic.club/list/barker-2021-favourites

Made from acrylic, this new Brian Eno-designed turntable is fitted with LED lights that move through different hues and colour combinations

https://thevinylfactory.com/news/brian-eno-turntable/

Just so you know……

Headphone Commute's Best of 2021
Music For The Film Behind Closed Eyelids
https://hcdi.gs/2021_01

@ErasedTapes @DGclassics @xximrecords @timereleased @n5MD @krankyltd @TheLeafLabel @MercuryKX @FatCatRecords + 130701

Michael Jackson leveraged songs written by The Beatles into earning over $1,000,000,000.

Yes, The Beatles.

🧵 for every Independent Artist, Creative, Entrepreneur, and Future Mogul.

pretty comfortably the best thing that happened this year, thank you for the monthly ritual 😍@JDTwitch