Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Guardian style used to be that anymore is not written like that any more. But it's not the case anymore 060
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Back from the bunker with this piece freshly turned from the lathe, a survey of recordings of Aphex Twin, from pseudonyms and limted eds to SoundCloud dumps. Loved being inside this world 1273
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Richard Dawson: the complete reverb tapes. 2335
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Was this first paragraph written by Stormin’ Norman? 120
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Strong argument against the use of AI right here. 250
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 27/03/2026The AI generated hype text that Spotify presents as ersatz sleevenotes to My First Plays On Spotify makes me want to gnaw my own arm off 450
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 11/03/2026This reminds me of The Traitors when some complete random gets recruited and tries the robe on, claims it feels great but they‘re squirming awkwardly and you know they’ll be gone soon 160
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Also was privileged to review this important new book on the music world in Ukraine amid war 160
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Savage Pencil strikes again! The brand new @thewiremagazine.bsky.social includes my guide to the world of outernational visionary Augustus Pablo, from sideman dates to digital steppers in the dancehall era, which has been on the back burner for many a month 3448
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Big bunch of stuff in the new @thewiremagazine.bsky.social including hardcore hiphop bringing the noise in articles by Joe and Rob, plus me on Autechre guitar, Glasgow improvisers and brief histories of sound recording 0181
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 22/01/2026And for @electronicsound.bsky.social I had a blast shooting the breeze with Oneohtrix/Daniel Lopatin swapping a couple of sample library CD tips and talking anything and everything re: his great new Tranquilizer album 2201
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 04/01/2026If you are canny you can still access sleevenotes of the first 30 or so Blood & Fire compilations on a version of their website on the Wayback Machine. Years or more accurately decades of reggae music scholarship 2261
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 28/12/2025What was I thinking with that screenshot. This one. 010
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 28/12/2025Always happy to see Dana Andrews on my screen 1110
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 27/12/2025some serious heat on iPlayer films section for your noir xmas 370
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Couple of reallly great things happening this weekend if you can make it. The briliiant Ricardo Dias Gomes is playing with Jeremy Gustin at TRC on Saturday via @hivemindrecords.bandcamp.com 031
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 25/11/2025very sad to hear of the death of Jimmy Cliff. We got down to the recent Harder They Come musical in Stratford a month or two back, and it was a pure joy. Beg, borrow or steal a ticket if if comes again. 0100
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 13/11/2025@scottygb.bsky.social on BBC London lunchtime news: “now, I’ve just realised I’ve dressed like Pudsey Bear” 020
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 06/11/2025RIP Adrian Maben! Very glad I got the chance to upgrade from teenage VHS to IMAX this year 060
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Awesome new issue of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social, with amazing Francis Gooding interview going deep into the scales of Ethrio jazz, even wilder Griot Galaxy story, plus my review of @ucpress.bsky.social book by Theodore Gordon rethinking the synthesizer utopia 0203
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Among all the good shit in the new issue of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social I got to write about the original don Horace Silver and his killer left hand 080
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Sorry for the tired photo. Had to get up multiple times in the night to reassure him I was not dead. 0131
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Love this little note on the bottom of a rave blurb for the reissue of Goldie’s Timeless on the @boomkat.com site (and still not on Spotify) 170
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Luciano Berio in his Wikipedia image looks like a comedian being lined up for Taskmaster series 21. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co... 1151
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Oh no! I can’t have been the only young kid to have seen this and thought ‘OK, cinema can do THIS’ 080
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Loved talking to Lucretia Dalt for @electronicsound.bsky.social magazine, in their brand new issue (wooden instrument made in workshop for scale) 0163
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Loved this tiny John Berger book which uses the memory of his travelling uncle to travel to Bologna and its architecture and fabrics, something like Walter Benjamin’s Arcades crossed with David Toop 180
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Shout out to a couple of tremendous Wire pieces I didn't get as much time with as I'd have wanted, but great to return to them now. 181
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 16/08/2025I realise Bender is not the answer to your question, but, Bender. 050
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Man, how cool is Meg Woof’s artwork? Picked this up at Supernormal, it’s too nice to do the dishes with 1182
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Lots of things of mine I had fun with this issue inc label guide to the current activities of Ftarri and review of a very fresh film on improvisation in Istanbul by @anileraslan.bsky.social 090
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Oh! New Wire arrived while I was on holiday. There’s a fantastic @abibliss.bsky.social interview with the two remaining Cabs unknotting much of their history plus I was psyched to talk to members of Black Audio Film Collective about their industrial relations 1182
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Digging around for the millionth time at parents’ house for some kind of half decent CD for the car and…. not bad. not bad at all 0100
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Was delighted to meet up with Michael Ranta again, and blown away by this way cool cap he dug out for me 1130
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Also in. the new Wire, I wrote the Against The Grain essay on. how Spotify is distorting the histories of UK black musics , and reviewed rave legend Keith Robinson’s posthumous memoir 2141
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 01/07/2025New issue! I had the privilege of telling the extraordinary story of Michael Ranta, the percussionist who played with everyone from Harry Partch to Conny Plank, and hung with Edgard Varése and Toru Takemitsu along the way. 1617
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Finally grabbed this, loved talking with Isabelle, Tina, General Magic about Mego’s 30th anniversary and life after Peter. Also includes a 14 (!) page feature for the St Eitenne-curious among us! @electronicsound.bsky.social 0161
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Such beautiful typography (see the first two) on these albums from Thessaloniki’s Granny Records 1144
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Completely unbelievably wild that the WHOLE of Twin Peaks can be watched over on Mubi now 2102
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Psyched to see this in the wild, I contributed an essay on “Togetherness And UK Improvised Music” to this Open Editions collection, talking to Steve Beresford, Orphy Robinson and Valentina Magaletti, alongside some great writers, out right now! openeditions.com 0101
Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Very sadly didn't get a chance to use my sound-spinner in the lesson yesterday. 190