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no. 7 on the chump list majordomo at the tonearm sprinkled liberally with amorous intrigues
one positive coming out of 'vibe coding' is certainly the ability for labels (and soon label collectives, I'm sure) to peace out of the streaming economy by launching bespoke streaming platforms Joseph from greyfade is so on top of this → www.greyfade.com/app
greyfade listening platform — {greyfade}
greyfade is launching a new listening platform in 2026. if you are interested being an early beta tester, please add your name to the list.
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: Arina Korenyu speaks with arc rae, a French producer in Berlin who happens to have a cellist in the next room, about the mouse pointer hidden in the cover art that gave his label tech-anxiety, the graffiti that nearly named his album, and the art of drawing straws →
Half Chance, Half Sculpture—arc rae on 'Bow and Arrow'
The Berlin-based French producer discusses 'Bow and Arrow,' a record assembled from improvised cello and randomized sample slices, and the working life behind it, in which every day at the computer is a straw pulled blind and most of them come up short.
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elegantly burrowing from beneath and right into your email inbox, it's this week's Talk Of The Tonearm newsletter — a missive rich in curated recommendations and clickable links galore + a newsletter-exclusive feature on Dave La Rose, the producer behind the incredible new album 'Havana' →
Built on Borrowed Sound
This week: Danalogue, Curió Curió, M. Geddes Gengras, Myth Math, St. Silva, and Chris Molanphy. Plus, Dave De Rose of Agile Experiments finished a record with an Athenian bus ticket.
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phew I almost took the bait but for now let’s just say I have some complicated views on deep house and DJ culture as someone who was once immersed in both
lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d agoPost your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.
2026 Samuel Pepys, social media influencer: ending the month with pretty good content
Samuel Pepys@samuelpepys.bsky.social · 5d agoEnding the month with pretty good content of mind, my wife in the country and myself in good esteem, and likely by pains to become considerable, I think, with God’s blessing upon my diligence.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: Bill Kopp speaks with M. Geddes Gengras, who cured twenty years of synth-obsessed solitude by mailing tracks to friends and banning second takes, the results intricately assembled into his new album, 'Guest List' →
The Company of Others — M. Geddes Gengras and 'Guest List'
On his fourth album for Hausu Mountain, and his first on vinyl, the restless synthesist talks improvisation, the burden of the solo record, and the surprises that arrived in the mail.
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my wife is about to start work on a new book project and for research purposes (seriously) we're going to attend tonight's FREESTYLE EXPLOSION
Freestyle Explosion | Kia Center
Get ready to sing-along with Stevie B, Lisa Lisa, TKA and more of your favorite artists during Freestyle Explosion coming to Kia Center on July 31!
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: Lawrence Peryer floats through deep space with Danalogue, one-third of The Comet Is Coming, on his solo debut 'Teleportations' — they talk about a Moebius comic that became a civilization, editing tape like triple-distilled vodka, + why imagination might be the last form of hope →
Danalogue Leaves Gravity Behind — 'Teleportations'
Best known for his work in The Comet Is Coming and Soccer96, Danalogue steps out on his own with 'Teleportations,' a record built on vintage synthesizers that turns grief and upheaval into a voyage through deep space.
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: Carolyn Zaldivar Snow talks with St. Silva, the Vermont musician who forages his field recordings, about the chicken of the woods, an ex-megachurch ear for 'the spirit hovering over the waters,' and why he won't make music for wellness playlists →
Listening to the Land — The Mystical Turn of St. Silva
The Vermont musician behind 'Forager' talks foraged field recordings, a boyhood spent in Indiana megachurches, and why he wants no part of the wellness playlist.
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giving in to The Odyssey tonight, but more curious about the arthouse theater screening it than the movie itself — the Enzian Theater, which I've been regularly going to for about 30 years, recently installed an upgraded sound system and 70mm capability, so I'm excited about giving those a spin
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: Carl Dexter speaks with Matthew S, founder of the copyright-baiting label Illegal Art, about the untraceable PO Box that started it, how the sampling ethos extends to his new Myth Math project, and his AI-suspicious students who bond over memes rather than music →
Illegal Art, Myth Math, and the End of Anonymity
Nearly three decades after 'Deconstructing Beck', Matthew S sheds the pseudonyms to release the 'Tongues' EP as Myth Math, discussing his return to sampling, a collaboration with a former student, and the ethical quandaries AI poses to a career built on borrowed sound.
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post a perfect album from 2037 that isn't Scrobottom Layabouts, Deez 4 Finger Jabs, The Boost Goblins, or Lunar Cramden and the Solartots
this week's issue of the Talk Of The Tonearm newsletter is spurting into the air like a once dormant geyser spewing curations, recommendations, and salutations into the atmosphere (and email inboxes worldwide) Mystery Circles artist Tyler Pursel also tells us the score in a newsletter-exclusive bit
Harmonies We Sing to Ourselves
This week: Suzanne Ciani, Steven Hall of Nirosta Steel, Shana Falana, Nolan Hildebrand, Mixol, and Danalogue. Plus, Philadelphia's Tyler Pursel wants his record to sound like a tree with a computer inside of it.
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❝ From an anarchist squat in Berlin, to a futuristic landscape in Taiwan, to a remote village in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, we encounter a series of figures from the internet decentralization movement … →
The End of the Internet
A film about the invisible operating system of the modern world. From an anarchist squat in Berlin, to a futuristic landscape in Taiwan, to a remote village in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, we encounter a series of figures from the internet decentralization movement. These radicals are confronting internet infrastructure and the unexpected ways it exerts pressure on their way of life. A journey through infrastructure, power, and history with the dissidents trying to hardwire a new path forward.
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: Lawrence Peryer speaks with synth pioneer Suzanne Ciani about handing her one-woman Buchla to a 50-piece orchestra on 'CIANI/ORKEST', keeping fifty players in time with a tiny Korg drum machine, decades of playing to folks who wouldn't listen, and finally saying 'yes' at 80 →
Suzanne Ciani — Speaking the Word of the Buchla
On the occasion of CIANI/ORKEST, Suzanne Ciani discusses handing her solitary Buchla music to a 50-piece orchestra, the ocean and the wave beneath her compositions, and the young players bringing analog modular synthesis back.
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the LIttle House on the Prairie reboot except the frontier town they live next to is Deadwood
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: Meredith Hobbs Coons talks with Shana Falana, self-appointed ringleader of The Goddess Party, about a gold-sequined choir singing Bulgarian folk and Kate Bush, self-marriage vows to a mirror, the activism of joy, and a cult worth joining →
Shana Falana, the Goddess Party, and a Cult Worth Joining
The Hudson Valley musician and Goddess Party founder on self-marriage, Bulgarian choral music, and running a benevolent hierarchy, ahead of 'The Wedding,' a two-night rite of borrowed gowns and mirror-held vows.
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: Jon Buckland gets loud with Nolan Hildebrand, a Toronto composer working both the academy and the DIY basement — on a t-shirt insisting sound art is just funded noise, startle-response experiments, bending DLLs into rhythm, and noise as euphoria, not gore →
The Euphoric and Exuberant Noise of Nolan Hildebrand
After the release of 'Noise Trip Explosion', the Toronto composer and Black Galaxie noise artist talks doctoral research, acoustic startle experiments, and why it's worth keeping his wildest studio accidents.
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: Carolyn Zaldivar Snow sits with Arthur Russell collaborator Steven Hall (aka Nirosta Steel) and talks about love songs written to a lifetime of boys, scoring a gangster movie for the Taiwanese mafia, Buddhist bubblegum, and the harmonies he only sings to himself →
I Still Miss Someone — The Boys of Nirosta Steel
Guitar in hand and Arthur Russell forever at his shoulder, Steven Hall turns half a century of desire into harmony he mostly sings to himself.
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watching Mike Figgis’s Timecode and when two women characters are revealed as lovers some lady in the middle of the theater loudly shouted “Lesbians!” in a tone similar to how Seinfeld would say “Newman!”
Boner Vivant@dougtilley.bsky.social · last yr.Got me thinking.. What's the strongest reaction you've seen an audience member have to a scene in a cinema? During the birthday party scene in SIGNS I saw a whole row of young women literally throw their popcorn in the air like a cartoon.
I am sooooo excited about who is on our podcast tomorrow — someone I've been following since I was in my early teens when I was coveting the then-unobtainable synths found within the pages of Keyboard, a magazine on which our guest was frequently a cover star … 🌟
before you react to this like it's an alarming headline I'd wager the percentage was higher in the 1980s
Revenge of the Sith immediately comes to mind with the caveat that I realize I am parsecs away from the target audience for those flicks and was dragged there by a friend who wanted a movie buddy — that said I did get a big soul-purifying laugh out of Darth Vader’s NOOOO moment so that’s something
Defector@defector.com · 3w agoWhat's the worst movie you've ever watched in a theater? defector.com/whats-the-wo...
