alka
@magicksquare.bsky.social
electronic music producer / synth builder / librarian Blending (+bending) electronic styles, alka is vast enough for wide open spaces or condensed urban settings. it is the place where lucidity and obscurity meet. https://fanlink.tv/themagnitude
Happy birthday to Haruomi Hosono, who shares a new single today "Note of Mothership," arrives as he turns 79 and enters a new chapter in his singular career. Yours Sincerely, his forthcoming album out September 11th, in limited-edition dark-gold vinyl, CD, cassette, and deluxe box-set formats.
Specific mixes for particular situations: @magicksquare.bsky.social 'Faito ( #VinceClarke Remix)', @arabstrap.scot 'You You You (Radio Edit)', @penelopetrappes.bsky.social 'Caro ( #StephenMallinder Remix)' and others featured during #ColinSpencer Programme #213 ▶️ www.mixcloud.com/ColinSpencer...
#ThreeOriginalsByEach : @possiblespace.bsky.social 's #RobertStorm championed #Laibach #ColinSpencer Programme #213 ▶️ www.mixcloud.com/ColinSpencer... to #DiscoverAndRemember Are all (any?) of Robert's cherished three by Laibach the same songs/versions that you'd select? #Interview #TOBE
5 electronic albums released in 2026 that are better then the new Boards of Canada album; 1. Pan American - Fly the ocean in a Silver Plane 2. Seefeel - Sol.Hz 3. Gareth Jones - ElectroGenetic - Nos Da 4. Alka - Gravity 5. Digitonal - The Night Album
It's hard to describe how good the Alka 'Gravity' album of remixes is on @mortalitytables.bsky.social It's a fantastic piece of work, loads of amazing remixes @excited100.bsky.social @scannerdot.com @veryanmusic.bsky.social just three that stand out. mortalitytables.bandcamp.com/album/gravity
gravity, by alka
16 track album
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Soft tears of rain come to the field. The ghost soil answers their call. Voices of the buried dead drift towards its edge, whispering harsh prophecies. For this is strange England and its conversation of constant augury. This is the now bullied spirits of then and tomorrow. – #DAKilroy, 1982
With the news @cherryredrecords.bsky.social will be releasing a Vince Clarke ‘Remix/Remodel’ 2CD set on 26th June 2026, a good time to revisit of the Beginner’s Guide compiled by ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK in 2015. Remix collection tracklist in comments 🎹💻🎚️🎚️🎚️🎚️ www.electricityclub.co.uk/a-beginners-...
A Beginner’s Guide To VINCE CLARKE - ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK
It would be fair to say that Mute Records’ initial commercial success came on the back of Vince Clarke’s songcraft. First with DEPECHE MODE in 1981 and then YAZOO in 1982, Clarke demonstrated that Mut...
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Particular mixes suit specific situations: @darwinmcdmusic.bsky.social & #Huguenot 'Birds Away ( #Alka Remix)' and @theglidingfaces.bsky.social 'Terracotta ( @milanmusicuk.bsky.social Terracotta Paris To Versailles)' featured during #ColinSpencer Programme #202 ▶️ www.mixcloud.com/ColinSpencer...
Airing tomorrow at 12pm CT on @campradio.bsky.social, a brand new episode of #ElectroJunkyard. Featuring tunes by @magicksquare.bsky.social, @annacalvi.bsky.social, and more.
MAGAZINE MONDAY | Read about the revolutionary sea floor charts of pioneering cartographer Marie Tharp in the current issue of the Library of Congress Magazine. https://lcm.loc.gov/issue/march-april-2026/the-woman-who-mapped-the-ocean/?loclr=blsky
The woman who mapped the ocean
The revolutionary sea floor charts of Marie Tharp.
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Today we're announcing something special, GRAVITY: a collection of remixes from our 2025 release The Magnitude... provided by fellow electronic musicians across the spectrum. We are honored by names like Gareth Jones, Scanner, Vince Clarke, Mick Chillage, Stubbleman, Starkey, Textbeak, et al.
It’s always a lovely thing when someone understands a piece of your very personal work. Thx to Nosnibor at Aural Aggravation for the write-up of my latest piece for Mortality Tables. auralaggravation.com/2026/03/13/a...
alka / Andrew Brenza – My Old Man (A Meditation On Impermanence)
Mortality Tables – 27th February 2026 Christopher Nosnibor Mortality Tables’ Impermanence Project continues apace, this time with a nine-minute work by alka, with spoken word by Andrew Brenza. This…
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Had the pleasure to remix Darwinmcd @darwinmcd and Huguenot’s infectious new synth pop tune Birds Away 🐦 🎶 🔊
Birds Away (Alka Remix)
YouTube video by Darwinmcd - Topic
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Not mentioned: E-mu Emulator boards. I had a crash course in Z80 when repairing one.
Sonicstate@sonicstate.bsky.social · 7mo agoHappy 50th Birthday to the Zilog z80 CPU : A Chip with an Incredible Musical Legacy
Beautiful use of these machines as kinetic instruments. Have you seen some of this? Probably. All of it? I think not! They've been busy...
Endless joys of the Open Reel Ensemble and reel-to-reel performance - CDM Create Digital Music
Japan's Open Reel Ensemble has been active continuously since 2009, with collaborations from Issei Miyake to Ryuichi Sakamoto. But there's a special magic that some of their most experimental performa...
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My latest ambient work for Mortality Tables is a long form meditation on the concept of impermanence using Mat Smith’s touching childhood recordings singing with his late father, James. 🖤
Mortality Tables@mortalitytables.bsky.social · 7mo agoalka / Andrew Brenza ‘My Old Man (A Meditation On Impermanence’ This new track forming part of The Impermanence Project was released today and is available now at mortalitytables.bandcamp.com Photograph: ‘Spitalfields, April 2025’ by Jon Wozencroft @magicksquare.bsky.social #impermanence
One of my fave albums by Synergy aka Larry Fast. Album sleeve art by Hipgnosis (I wonder if Sleazy (coil) had anything to do with this one) and track titles assisted by Peter Gabriel - looking dapper above. #electronicmusic #synthsky
A little bit on the inimitable synth legend, Vince Clarke from a 1989 Smash Hits. Moral of the story: Don't Give UP :)
Point of No Return - an avant-garde mix with wonders by @jamesadrianbrown.bsky.social @castlesinspace.bsky.social @thehomecurrent.bsky.social @subexotic.bsky.social @keithseatman.bsky.social wyrddaze.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/p...
This was a pleasure to work on. It was made using Mat's field recordings of his personal train journeys and narrated by Nero's Tongue. The track embodies the anxious joy and later exasperation of travel - an analogy for life/death.
Mortality Tables@mortalitytables.bsky.social · 7mo agoA year ago today we released ‘drama[mine]’ by alka and Nero’s Tongue. It was accompanied by this short film, ‘Different Different Trains’, filmed by me and edited by @magicksquare.bsky.social youtu.be/uE8t_algLr8
News from the edge of the visible universe: JWST has confirmed this galaxy, MoM-z14, as the most distant one yet studied. We're seeing it as it was 13.5 billion years ago, 98% of the way back to the beginning of time. (MoM stands for "miracle or mirage.") 🧪🔭 science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
Terrible musical related news (the rest has been terrible for some time, but you don’t need me to tell you) cdm.link/ni-insolvency/
Native Instruments GmbH is in preliminary insolvency - CDM Create Digital Music
According to insolvency documents, Berlin-based Native Instruments GmbH (also parent to iZotope, Plugin Alliance, and Brainworx) is in preliminary insolvency proceedings. This is significant news for ...
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Less than a year after our last review of an album by @anewlinerelated.bsky.social , he’s back with a 4-track EP, each piece with its own distinct style, beautifully sequenced. Once again, it’s available on Sound In Silence. #electronicmusic www.etherreal.com/spip.php?art...
Chronique disque - A New Line (Related) : Crewe Away EP
Lors de notre chronique d'A Quarterly Update On The Sadness, publié il y a un peu moins d'un an, nous relevions que les morceaux les plus courts (…)
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Synth history post of the day :: the Teleharmonium, the world’s first significant electronic musical instrument - late 1800s. Image from Simon Crab’s astounding 120years.net #synthsky @synthsky.bsky.social
