Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL)
@rapideyeelectro.bsky.social
REEL formed when three refugees from The Psychedelic Duelling Wars congealed in the psychic wreckage of a Somerset studio to record Wild Garlick electronics, eschatological ambience & brown acid techno on adapted bits of farm machinery & petrol cans
Brion Gysin: Tuning into the Multimedia Age is such a beautiful book
I only really liked Debt’s early stuff, when it was in chickens & conch shells & shit like that.
We admire great works of art, architecture and engineering. Why not debt?
I’d have given him a lift but we disagreed about The Stone Roses, Doves, The Courteeners & The La’s and he wasn’t budging. I guess sticking to your guns can be a good thing but I thought it was a bit much, tbh. I said I had Fool’s Gold ffs.
Andy Burnham is going to be flying between London and Manchester ffs
Doesn’t happen very often but it’s one of those evenings when all I can be bothered to watch is The Chart Show’s Indie Singles run down. Interesting that they used the Icelandic version of Birthday. m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rru...
The Chart Show - Indie Chart (9th October 1987)
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m.youtube.com/watch?v=N3aP... Went to see The Band of Holy Joy play at The Water Rats in London (with Glaxo Babies) and had maybe too much fun…
Band Of Holy Joy, Drugvirgin, The Water Rats, London, 17/07/26
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Liked Romeo and Juliet but couldn’t get on with Lorna Doone, Under Milk Wood was cool, as was Lord of the Flies and Of Mice and Men. Didn’t like The Old Man & The Sea but To Kill A Mockingbird was great. Couldn’t get on with Twelfth Night but liked Hamlet & Journey’s End. UK
US and UK friends, I'm curious: What books were part of your required reading for highschool literature class? Which of them do you remember loving, and which did you loathe?
Wonder if somewhere there really IS someone who found some great stuff on Temu & just wanted to share the love?
Psychedelics Encyclopedia by Peter Stafford.
I need to print more photographs. I’m going to need my future grandchildren to find more photographs where one person has been mysteriously ripped out or defiled in some way. It’s their birthright & I’m letting them down. #photography
Hope that France and England do the right thing in the 3rd place playoff by just playing headers and volleys for 90 mins
I’ve read Maldoror dozens of times but each time it feels like a particularly evil spell which is somehow ruining my wellbeing. Probably should stop #books Crossposted with @openvibe.social
What an actor. Possession, In the Mouth of Madness, Event Horizon AND The Omen III? And utterly brilliant / demented in all of them.
Thank you for everything, Sam Neill. Truly a fearlessly singular performer who gave us fans so much. 🖤
Watched Agnes Varda’s Le Bonheur (Happiness) 1964 in a v rare break from football & it turned out to be devastating, sad & very beautiful in a different way. Slow(ish) cinema but mesmerisingly shot & you like everyone in it, despite everything. Very French, very mid-60s. A more complex time. #film
This week I am mostly listening to albums by artists beginning with the letter - T Twilight Sequence - Stars of the Wayside #MusicSky @twiseq.com Damn, this is good. Warm, ambient and what I needed lunar-module.bandcamp.com/album/stars-...
Stars of the Wayside, by Twilight Sequence
9 track album
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Now reading Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata - similar clipped & neurodiverse delivery to Convenience Store Woman with a strange, lightly surreal tale about the end of sex which weirdly reminds me of some of Houellebecq’s ‘science fiction’.
Ronaldo’s not THAT bad*, but he’s no Dan Burn #WorldCup2026 *correction: he is
Now reading Han Kang’s The Vegetarian which is, so far, a gentle piece of social realism related to the familial difficulties of maintaining a (what appears to be) vegan diet…
Well, it’s no doubt become fodder for the Ghost Box copyists by now but this guy’s doom-laden voice appeared in a dream last night so consider this an exorcism m.youtube.com/watch?v=x1zT...
Public Information Film - Rabies Outbreak in Britain
YouTube video by badassmofo2
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Marina Herlop has a new album out soon. Excited to hear where’s she going next. pitchfork.com/news/marina-...
Marina Herlop Readies New Album Dja Dja
The Catalan composer and experimental musician will self-release her follow-up to 2023’s Nekkuja
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Listening to @marinaherlop & her music is the music that Max Ernst’s Loplop might make. Psychedelic Bird Music. It’s possible that all the pictures of her are AI & she IS a psychedelic bird. Reminds me a bit of Nuno Canavarro & maybe the one Ekoplekz released under his own name.
Well, Jeff IS in it, I suppose. One thing I DIDN’T expect - it’s actually quite subtle and nuanced about the subject.
Cheering myself up by watching Death Wish (1974). Never seen it, but I heard Jeff Goldblum’s in it & he’s always a laugh.
in 1970, 10-year-old Joel Lipton had a class assignment to write to someone he admired and ask them "What makes a good citizen?" He wrote to Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz. He got back this letter:
Rewatched Todd Solondz’s Happiness (1998). Wonderfully awful & more horrifying than most horror movies.
Was playing some old Kid 606 CDs - made the Egypt v Australia game a bit more exciting - & then went to find some newer stuff & found this mix… kid606.bandcamp.com/album/i-danc...
I Dance For Planned Parenthood DJ mix, by Kid606
2 track album
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Good article here about what makes music psychedelic, mostly about the wonderful Terry Riley, one of the few artists who really gets it. Bang on re: Acid Mother Temple’s version of In C, as well. psychedelicpress.substack.com/p/what-makes...
What Makes Music Psychedelic?
Repetition, Perception, and Form in the Music of Terry Riley
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I read books a lot in public. Subways, bus stops, parks, waiting in queues, sitting in pubs waiting for friends who are always late etc, but I’m hearing a lot about ‘performative reading’ & I’d like to get into that. Any tips for a beginner that could elevate my reading in this way? #BookSky 💙📚