deleted all the Monkey Cage stuff - having had no prior warning until I saw the announcement of it on a news site, it was a huge shock - let me use this time instead to say - it’s Bandcamp Friday and Rachel and me offer you new poetry and music https://normallyweirdassociates.bandcamp.com/album/the-final-den #poetry #music #bandcamp

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Painting of me aged 3 eating an ice cream

Yo chooms!

Bandcamp Friday is here again - the one day where the whole cut goes straight to the artist instead of getting eaten up along the way.

So I figured I'd make it worth your while: use the code "cyber" at checkout and everything digital in my shop is 90% off. Grab one track, pull the entire catalogue onto your cyberdeck, whatever you feel like. It's all yours to keep, DRM-free, offline, forever.

https://revengeday.bandcamp.com/

This one lands at a good moment for me, too. I've got a surgery coming up that I'm partly covering myself. Nothing dramatic - but knowing there are people out there still listening makes it a whole lot easier. Whatever you load up today is part of that.

Thank you

#BandcampFriday #Music #FediMusic #MastoMusic

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Screenshot of my Bandcamp page overlaid with a CRT effect, making the text and cover artworks not immediately recognizable.

Sure enough, not only am I completely unfamiliar with this song I also have no idea who the performers are. It’s funny how little incidental exposure to popular music I get since I no longer work in an office, or travel there in public transport.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/05/demise-monoculture-why-have-so-many-never-heard-uk-record-breaking-no-1-single-sam-fender-olivia-dean

#Music #Pop

Oh no 😯 😆
https://www.reuters.com/world/german-court-rules-ai-music-firm-suno-broke-copyright-rules-2026-07-31/

#ia #noia #suno #music

♫ They can't kill us all
They can't kill us all! ♫
https://anonradio.net/
#music

Best #music #video of all time

(Heavily biased towards videos I can think of off the top of my head)

I am psyched to announce last night I finished a new song.

"Welcome To 2025" is the hard-hitting opening track to SECTOR 1, my immersive, empathy-driven #antifascist #art project.

It is now available on #SoundCloud. The link is below.

https://soundcloud.com/peteorrall/welcome-to-2025

#industrial #cyberpunk #dystopia #empathy #electronicmusic #SECTOR1 #musicproduction #MastodonMusic #fiction #WelcomeTo2025 #Music

NEXT WEEK ON #ThePlaylist

There will be no next week! Because we'll be at @dwcon and I'm far too lazy to pre-record a show.

But...

ON THE 17TH OF AUGUST ON #ThePlaylist...

Yet another guest theme, this time from @RealAleRocks and Ben Gray, who, because they're drug dealers or they work in a pharmacy or something, would like to suggest:

Pharmacy

A terribly difficult one, I know, as there are basically no songs about drugs. HOWEVER, they're ACTUALLY asking for songs about a pharmacy. So bear that in mind.

Or not. Whatever. I'm not your mum.

Dispense your suggestions this way with #ThePlaylistSuggestion, and with any luck we'll get high on our own supply.

// https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //
// https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/ //

#Music #Podcast #Drugs #BootsTheChemistCanPissUpARope

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Promotional artwork for my radio show. It's designed to look like the now playing screen on a classic iPod, with the show info on the right side of the screen, and a photo of me on the left. It details that the show is broadcast on Mondays from 7pm until 9pm UK time.

We're off to Discworld Con this weekend, so the theme for this week's edition of #ThePlaylist is:

The Discworld

Songs about wizards, and flying turtles, and DEATH, and THE DEATH OF RATS, will abound. Or just songs about discs, or worlds. Are there any flat Earth bangers?

#TheArchive - https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/theplaylist-116-the-discworld/

Listen! Enjoy! Tell all your friend!

// https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //
// https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/ //

#Podcast #Radio #Music #NowPlaying

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This week's theme-specific artwork, which is a digital painting of the Discworld on the backs of four elephants, which are in turn riding on the shell of the Great A'Tuin, an enormous turtle flying through space.

In just ONE CIRCULAR HOUR, the return of #ThePlaylist

We're off to Discworld Con this weekend, so it's only fair that the theme should be:

The Discworld

Songs about wizards, and flying turtles, and DEATH, and THE DEATH OF RATS, will abound. Or just songs about discs, or worlds. Are there any flat Earth bangers?

https://stream.djdarren.site to jump in the chat to quote your favourite lines from the books, whether you've read them or not, or

https://audio.djdarren.site if you just want to listen to exceptional tunes.

// https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //
// https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/ //

#Podcast #NowPlaying #Music #SoonPlaying #Discworld

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This week's theme-specific artwork, which is a digital painting of the Discworld on the backs of four elephants, which are in turn riding on the shell of the Great A'Tuin, an enormous turtle flying through space.

It's the familiar tale of those irresistible cosmopolitan beats being impossible to shake off, here enhanced with some sharp lyrics from Irving Caesar to match the surprisingly sophisticated melody, which became a swing standard after debuting in the musical comedy, "Here's Howe!"

Johnny Marvin, eschewing the use of his many pseudonyms for this outing, does the honours with a lively recording:

https://youtu.be/L5ECXl-HFSo

#Ukulele #Music #1920s

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Ukulele songsheet for "Crazy Rhythm" by Irving Caesar, Joseph Meyer & Roger Wolfe Kahn (1928). Lyrics, chord abbreviations and diagrams, unfortunately too much for alt-text.

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Sheet music cover for "Crazy Rhythm". Black, white and red illustration. Title in deliberately misaligned capital letters. Couple dancing almost in silhouette in front of a very tall arched window with a city skyline visible beyond. Multiple criss-crossing bands of grey, red and light red, each wider at one end than the other, overlap and divide the fram seemingly at random, perhaps representing beams of light or streamers. A trumpet, banjo ukulele, and clarinet or soprano saxophone are illustrated in the foreground, overlapped by the wide bands.

🎶 Well isn't it a lovely day
My patio's on fire ... 🎶

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Patio Song

#Music #NowPlaying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW2EuFaFcsk

#Music #NinaHagen

@RussSharek @rl_dane @peteorrall
to be honest, currently the situation is not great as Ardour doesn't work (or at least it didn't last time I tried it, which was about 8 months ago). There are just slightly less plugins than on Linux, but I see that changing every few months (thank you yuri@). As I really don't like how none of the existing open-source DAWs work, I started developing my own: https://maolan.rs and the latest version is in ports (probably need to wait few days for it to be in packages). I can talk about it for hours, but who wants to listen 😃 Anyway, my wish it is to develop professional #audio and #music production DAW and the way I did it is asking AI what makes different open source and proprietary solutions stand out, picked my list of features and implemented them. People on github had some more suggestions which I implemented and people like @ianthetechie "forced" me to make it more stable by pointing me in the direction of lockelss Rust structures, for which I'm eternally grateful. As latest version published all the features I wanted Maolan to have and finally fixed Windows playback bug, I will continue work on Maolan plugins and https://doc.maolan.rs besides fixing bugs that I find or other people report. As always, I need feedback and comments on how to improve and what I've missed. Oh yes, and @dch gave me access to ARM machine, so I fixed the build on that architecture, which I forgot and FreeBSD currently doesn't build it for ARM ​

I finally made https://maolan.rs on Windows work at least on my machine, so new version is published. That version also removed my hackish way of handling real time with proper lockless structures, and I added Live Session view looking similar to Ableton Live. There's still a lot of work to be done but #audio and #music production using #opensource has never been more fun.

In the future I intend to work on plugins to make DAW more complete. Maolan already supports CLAP, LV2 and VST3, so you can load plugins, but I want to develop some of my own.

Apobangpo.space - A Mastodon server for BTS ARMY and KPop Fans. All welcome! Share your favourite music, scream for your Idol(s), learn together. All fun and no drama. Bangtan Forever, ARMY forever. KPop Forever. (NOTE: You must be over 18 to join.)

https://apobangpo.space

You can find out more at https://apobangpo.space/about or contact the admin account @pixelcats

#FeaturedServer #KPop #Korea #KoreanPop #Pop #Music #BTS #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

got reminded of this old favorite of mine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpGp-22t0lU

#music #songoftheday

🎧 Mood.

"Pure Shores"
All Saints (2000)

From "The Beach" soundtrack.

🎬 Vaughan Arnell.

for @TheBreadmonkey ❤️

#EddieFM #Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVNdTXEJv1A

A rare published songwriting credit for Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards, but not a song he seems to have recorded. The best known version is by Art Fowler, which features his artful ukulele playing, but the performance I've linked to is by Edith Clifford, as it sticks a little more closely to the sheet music and includes the second verse.

https://youtu.be/Z4AB_L_IZdg

#Ukulele #Music #1920s

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Ukulele songsheet for "No Wonder She's A Blushing Bride" by Al Dubin, Ukulele Ike and Irving Mills (1926). Lyrics, chord abbreviations and diagrams, unfortunately too much for alt-text.

One more of the "random LP on lot" records here. Is this even worth putting on the turntable 🤔 man in sweater singing already giving me "this is terrible 1950's music" vibes. #music #lps

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Andy Williams, man on sweater, on his album cover

Wanna hear David Bowie cover The Pixies?

Course you do.

David Bowie - Cactus

#Music #NowPlaying

It's a bird! It's a plane! No! It's #ThePlaylist

This week we have another guest theme, this time from @FloatingOnion who flew in (without a cape) to ask for songs about:

Heroes

He wanted to hear YOUR most heroic tunes. He wanted to hear songs that'll save people from a hijacked passenger jet, or have the ability to leave the last chocolate Hob Nob in the packet. He wanted songs that were strong, and fast, and fresh from the fight, and by golly, he got 'em.

#TheArchive - https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/theplaylist-115-heroes/

Listen! Enjoy! Tell all your friend!

// https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //
// https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/ //

#NowPlaying #Radio #Podcast #Music

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This week's theme-specific artwork, which is pretty much the box design from Heroes chocolates, but it says 'ThePlaylist' instead of that firm that used to make decent chocolate, but then got bought out by Americans and now it's 90% palm oil and tastes like ass.

NEXT WEEK on #ThePlaylist

I'm off to Discworld Con in a couple of weeks, so next week I think it's only fair that the theme should be:

The Discworld

Songs about wizards, and flying turtles, and DEATH, and THE DEATH OF RATS, will abound. Or just songs about discs, or worlds. Are there any flat Earth bangers?

Sling them this way using #ThePlaylistSuggestion, and together we'll spend two hours attempting to make the memory of Sir Pterry proud.

// https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //
// https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/ //

#GnuTerryPratchett #Podcast #Music #DWCon26

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Promotional artwork for my radio show. It's designed to look like the now playing screen on a classic iPod, with the show info on the right side of the screen, and a photo of me on the left. It details that the show is broadcast on Mondays from 7pm until 9pm UK time.

Today's show - Process and Reality

Been revisiting some of my own work in preparation for a local sound art festival and played some incredible Romanian music, The Black Dog and Prince Fatty. Nice.

CAN – Pinch
Lee Perry – Skango
Inpc – Process and Reality 1
Concentration Band – Redundanta Acum
Ing. Coman – 5 Dimeneata
Inpc – Process and Reality 2
The Weather
The Comet Is Coming – Code
The Comet Is Coming – Technicolour
Inpc – Process and Reality 3
Adam Comey – The Close Stage
The Black Dog – Vir2l
Inpc – Process and Reality 4
Australopitecus Oltensis – Toamma
Anatol – Darabuka For The Deaf
Northern Dub Mystic x Uncle Fester On Acid – Step In The Morning
Prince Fatty Meets The Gorgon – Prophetic Dub
Prince Fatty Meets The Gorgon – Jah Jah The Conquerer Dub
Lata Mangeshkar – Inhi Longon Ne
Mahavishnu John McLaughlin – Peace One
Mahavishnu John McLaughlin – Peace Two

https://pirate.mxtthxw.art/@thekalimerashow/episodes/process-and-reality

#Music #RSS #PirateRadio #Vinyl #Dub #Jazz #Electronica #TechnoHonk

"‘In Germany, Jews who reject Zionism are seen as not really Jewish’
For violinist Michael Barenboim, Germany’s memory culture has become a tool for upholding complicity in Israel's crimes and rendering Palestinians invisible."

https://www.972mag.com/michael-barenboim-interview/

#germany #Jewish #Jews #zionism #palestine #music #BDS #interview

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Michael Barenboim at the end of a Make Freedom Ring concert. (Jonas Gottfriedsen)

Used
https://kybernetika.to/fm/
for my musical accompaniment, which worked pretty well, tho some of the hip-hop contrasted badly with the trancey stuff. LTJ Bukem is right in the middle, that's good for it.
#music

🦄 🤘 You’re an angry #MetalHead person but you’re fighting this whole shit while riding a purple unicorn and throwing flowers at people’s face! It’s not Sad But True!

https://youtu.be/7ykY9FJLnoA

#Metallica #Music #Cover #melodicka_bros

In the process of moving in, I unpacked and hooked up my primary speakers, that have just spent 3 years in boxes. Cerwin-Vega E-715, baby. I love the way those sound, incredible bandwidth and dynamic range.

#music #hifi #loudspeaker #bass

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A photo of a large column speaker. The speaker face is black, the front protective cloth is removed to show the drivers. At the bottom is a Cerwin-Vega logo. Above is a 15-inch / 38-cm woofer, with its rubber mount in Cerwin-Vega's trademark red, and a Cerwin-Vega graphic in the center. Above left is a 6-inch / 15 cm mid driver, behind a metal grille, as large as many speakers have woofers. A 1-inch / 2.5cm treble is at the top, again with the Cerwin-Vega graphic. To the right of the mid and treble drivers is the equalizer, controlling attenuation for mids and highs, with yet again a Cerwin-Vega logo, proudly showing the E-715 model number. A French window is on the left, burnt sienna in color, a cream wall and the corner of a flat-screen TV are on the right, with some black and white power cords visible.