Tom Panton
@tompanton.bsky.social
Music x Tech x Artists x Sound // Current: Music Education & HiFi // Prev: Sonos, Warp, Ledger, Native Instruments etc // London
Higher Than The Sun. The story of four albums released late in 1991, and how - long before Britpop - Creation Records took on the world and almost won. Paperback (15% off code BOOKPITCH15) or Kindle from here. timworthington.org/books/higher...
Higher Than The Sun
Higher Than The Sun by Tim Worthington – the story of Screamadelica by Primal Scream, Foxbase Alpha by Saint Etienne, Bandwagonesque by Teenage Fanclub, and Loveless by My Bloody Valentine &#…
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Got something that's been bugging for a while (25 years!!) off my chest for @thelineofbestfit.com There are musical revolutions bigger than punk and acid house happening in front of our eyes and the culture press just shrugs.
The Monday Meeting
Despite critics hailing this as an age of cultural stagnation, a quiet, globalised explosion of taste is happening right now led by teenagers, writes Joe Muggs.
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Just drove off the M8 listening to the new Boards of Canada album and pulled up behind this. Wheeeee
Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom and Grogu
John Ossoway@ottomancer.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe Good The Bad and the Ugly and Grogu.
INTROIT & PROPHECY AT 1420 MHZ OUT NOW. VIDEO BY ROBERT BEATTY. INFERNO. 29 MAY 2026. warp.net/introit-prop...
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We explore the funky history of the 🎤 vocoder with @charlieharding.bsky.social and CHROMEO. One of my favorite Version History episodes yet
How a piece of military tech changed music forever
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Opening May 30 at the V&A, South Kensington, is the Lost Music Venues exhibition - Featuring around 50 ‘lost’ performance spaces from the 1980s to 2010s.
Laurie Spiegel on the difference between algorithmic music and ‘AI’
Legendary composer Laurie Spiegel on the difference between algorithmic music and ‘AI’
Music Mouse is back for its 40th anniversary.
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NIN tour posters from 20 years ago this spring, during the Bush/Cheney wars. Same as it fucking ever was… Art direction by Designers Republic, design by me.
"At the precise moment when music was becoming synthesised and digitised and sampled, Tom Waits insisted on its traditions of heavy lifting. 'Anyone who has ever played a piano,' he liked to say, 'would really like to hear how it sounds when dropped from a 12th-floor window.'"
‘All these bulletproof songs, one after another’: remembering Tom Waits’s extraordinary mid-career trilogy
Forty years on from the magnificent sequence that began with Swordfishtrombones, collaborators and fans including Jim Jarmusch and Thom Yorke discuss Waits’s journey from bar-room balladeer to conductor of a junkyard orchestra
theguardian.com
Thrilled to launch the 2nd #DartmoorTorsFestival - celebrating Dartmoor’s nature and culture. We’ve got talks, walks, performances and more .. shorturl.at/8ROTt @visitdartmoor.bsky.social @dpadartmoor.bsky.social @dartmoorcollective.org @dartmoorac.bsky.social
Nice feature today in The Guardian. lovely chat with my dear ANOHNI about the Disintegration Loops. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...
‘We watched 9/11 from the rooftop, blasting the music out’: how The Disintegration Loops became a requiem for the attacks
It is an epic piece of music that literally falls apart – and it perfectly captured the end-of-days chaos after the tragedy. Composer William Basinski and musician Anohni recall its febrile birth in N...
theguardian.com
Having watched Andor S2 four or five times already, I think history will recognise its value and timelessness more than the Grammys did.
‘Andor’ Creator Tony Gilroy Gives the Interview He Couldn’t During Its Release
While promoting his cautionary tale about fascism, Disney asked Gilroy to refrain from using the word. Nine months after it aired its finale, the 'Star Wars' series feels scarily prescient.
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This is a really interesting interview - *really* interesting. Well worth a read.
Pedro Telles@detig.bsky.social · 6mo agoHaving watched Andor S2 four or five times already, I think history will recognise its value and timelessness more than the Grammys did.
Agent Claw If you are a normal well adjusted person with a healthy lifestyle there's a good chance you haven't heard of OpenClaw yet. Readers of a certain age and with discerning taste will read that and immediately think of Dr Claw from Inspector Gadget or maybe the slightly less discerning will…
Agent Claw
If you are a normal well adjusted person with a healthy lifestyle there's a good chance you haven't heard of OpenClaw yet. Readers of a certain age and with discerning taste will read that and immediately think of Dr Claw from Inspector Gadget or maybe the slightly less discerning will think of the Cobra C.L.A.W. From GI Joe but sadly I’m not going to be talking about either of those childhood gems today.
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oh shit forgot i had this flic from backstage at msg this summer. pretty much the only politician i wouldn’t be embarrassed to know. “we’ll see if he can run the city tho” yeah yeah same with any mayor that’s the gig. having a genuinely good dude try is a big step up from these previous fucks.
I’ve managed to squeeze in a fair bit of niche music into the pages of the Guardian over the years, but especially chuffed with getting to cover the waltzer sound system wars of Hull Fair. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
Oggy oggy oggy! The donk-tacular dance music of Hull’s huge funfair
With 600,000 people attending, Hull Fair is the UK’s biggest – and has a thrilling but overlooked musical subculture. We follow the blaring soundsystems to meet the DJs and MCs facing off in waltzer b...
theguardian.com
DID YOU KNOW THE COUNTDOWN THEME HAS LYRICS? #CatsDoesCountdown #JimmyCarr #VowelsAndConsonants