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Warren Hatter @frenchrocksampler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Another triumph from @hausumountain.bsky.social, and it’s on its way to UK shops (well, @resident-music.com at least)

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G @grassi.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Boundaries 2026!! Tickets on sale NOW. Programme is due very soon, felt i needed to get the tickets out there ASAP. As always Boundaries is affordable, accessible and all ages. Tickets are £25/35/45/55.. Line up is looking like boldest, biggest, diverse one yet!! www.eventbrite.com/e/boundaries...

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BOUNDARIES FEST 2026

BOUNDARIES 2026 ! The 6th edition of Sunderland's only event dedicated to celebrating & supporting International experimental music & art!

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Warren Hatter @frenchrocksampler.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This is such an extraordinary piece of work. Seeing @apartment-house.bsky.social perform it at @cafeotodalston.bsky.social years ago was one of those occasions where it felt like an honour to be in the audience

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Warren Hatter @frenchrocksampler.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Early Stereolab song: Millions die all the time Because you buy things But it’s OK inevitably Because there will be revolution Ba ba ba ba aah aah Late Stereolab song: You are me, progress is love Whose inner beauty we explore with calm reflection The revolution is inside you

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Gavin Miller @worriedaboutsatan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

If you have a physical music collection, just go fishing through it once in a while. Have a big ol' rummage, get all your CDs, tapes, vinyl, whatever, out on the floor and just look through em. Bang a few on, read some liner notes, it's just magic, honestly.

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 31/07/2026

Warren Hatter revels in the long overdue reissue of a "perfectly formed" 1976 album of dystopian French electronica, which should now be heard by a much bigger audience than it was 50 years ago Reissue of the Week: Mar-Vista’s Visions Of Sodal Ye @bornbadrecords.bsky.social buff.ly/omeTpq7

Mar-Vista’s Visions Of Sodal Ye album cover. Light gold/beige border with an illustration in blue and black of a woman with a whip standing before a large head which has been broken at the top as though the skull were the shell of a boiled egg.

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Ben @benbl.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The Beat-Club has just casually dropped some live footage of Can - unseen since 1972 👇

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Can - Halleluhwah (1971)

YouTube video by Beat-Club

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Warren Hatter @frenchrocksampler.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Not sure how @luketurner.bsky.social and @jahduran.bsky.social will feel about EasyJet keeping the ploughman’s dream alive but with crackers not bread

EasyJet inflight magazine offering a Ploughman’s snack box. Bland-looking photo with appetising description (“Rich, creamy cheeses, sharp pickles and the crispiest of crackers. Just call us cheesyJet”)

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Warren Hatter @frenchrocksampler.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

A classic. And ‘Le Goudron’, one of the extra tracks not on the original album, is blinding youtu.be/aZt9qcQy51o

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Le goudron

YouTube video by Brigitte Fontaine - Topic

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Warren Hatter @frenchrocksampler.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Ha, I just came here to say that, so thanks for doing the legwork

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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Edgard Varèse! Olivier Messiaen! Eliane Radigue! Pierre Schaeffer! Pierre Henry! Jac Berrocal! Thierry Muller! Philippe Besombes! Jean-Louis Rizet! Jean-Hervé Peron! Christian Vander! Jean-Pierre Turmel! Yves Von Bontee! Your boys took a hell of a beating!

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Warren Hatter @frenchrocksampler.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Every time I see this photo, I feel a sense of calm and wonder, but then I’ve never thought about the practicalities of wearing the robe

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Warren Hatter @frenchrocksampler.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Great to see Steve Kirby getting some props, he does amazing things

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Warren Hatter @frenchrocksampler.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Tagging @davidstubbs.bsky.social the author of Fear Of Music, who may have a view :-)

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Warren Hatter @frenchrocksampler.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Ha! Also me rn, about to go to the dentist for two fillings

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Warren Hatter @frenchrocksampler.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This was 41 minutes very well spent. The new Horse Lords is Horse Lordsier than ever, with added funk and ecstatic moments

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Warren Hatter @frenchrocksampler.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Sad to learn that Areski died today. I only know his work through Brigitte - one collaboration that I’ve taken to is this song, superficially light but (I think) a conversation between two people hurtling to their deaths youtu.be/WcNWgDLBNVc

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Brigitte Fontaine, Areski Belkacem - C'est normal

YouTube video by Chansons, Folklore et Variété

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Warren Hatter @frenchrocksampler.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

This is amazing, no less wonderful for its unclear provenance.

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Warren Hatter @frenchrocksampler.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Three months after the Prekop and Raffa album, another beautiful thing from Crash Symbols, this one ambient and smothering crashsymbols.bandcamp.com/album/lunation

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Lunation, by Bára Hladík & PJS

2 track album

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Warren Hatter @frenchrocksampler.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Another little known French should-be classic, (1982) from the album Pénétration. Catalogue were Jac Berrocal, Gilbert Artman and J-F Pauvros. The most post-punk improv I know.

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Catalogue - Khomeiny Twist

YouTube video by bonzoboydog

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Warren Hatter @frenchrocksampler.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

One of the great almost-unknown 1970s French Underground sounds. 15 minutes of actor Bernard Verley intoning Rimbaud’s poem over a massive psych improvisation by Catharsis. Verley sounds completely transported by the band’s flight. 1972, since you ask

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Bernard Verley & Catharsis - Rimbaud c'est Toi (1972) 04 - Mauvais sang-Voyelles

YouTube video by tiguissas

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Warren Hatter @frenchrocksampler.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I second this, by @hayleyscott.bsky.social. A blinding album by Brighton’s finest

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Warren Hatter @frenchrocksampler.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

If there were such a thing as an Ambient summer smash, this would be it :-) By Steve Roach & Serena Gabriel on @projekt.bsky.social Records

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Entering Elysium, by Steve Roach & Serena Gabriel

5 track album

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Using Spotify is just as bad as using X, in some aspects, even more consequential: Spotify is actively killing music, not just exploiting musicians. All other streaming platforms are better, and have as wide a choice. Migrating your playlists is dead easy. Please leave that evil platform - now.

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Strange Attractor Press @strangeattractor.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Read the obituary for artist Éliane Radigue, who occupies a chapter in the forthcoming Srange Attractor book 'Concrete Science Fiction Riot', written by the book's author Warren Hatter @frenchrocksampler.bsky.social thequietus.com/news/remembe...

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"Sounds Can Have Their Own Meaning": Remembering Éliane Radigue | The Quietus

Warren Hatter reflects on the life of an extraordinary, innovative artist, ignored for most of her life before being celebrated this century

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Warren Hatter @frenchrocksampler.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

“Radigue homed in on the sound – looked within it. She was a true experimental artist” My piece for @thequietus.com remembering Éliane Radigue, who left us on Monday

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Warren Hatter @frenchrocksampler.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Thanks for all the love for this, and thanks @thequietus.com for commissioning. Éliane was - and remains - such an inspiration.

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Warren Hatter @frenchrocksampler.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

So true. Realising that high volume isn’t necessary for her work’s impact was a massive step for me in appreciating Radigue. (A lesson I learned someone on the other place many years ago)

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Robin Rimbaud - Scanner @scannerdot.com · 24/02/2026

Farewell to French composer Éliane Radigue (1932-2026) who taught us the radical power of slowness, of patience, and attention stretched to the threshold of perception. Her work will continue to resonate—slowly, endlessly—like a tone that never quite fades.

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Warren Hatter @frenchrocksampler.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Oh no. She was unique. There’s a case that Éliane was the most revolutionary musician of our times, and yet almost unknown until 25 years ago.

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Warren Hatter @frenchrocksampler.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Everything about this tape is beautiful crashsymbols.bandcamp.com/album/only-c.... By @rjraffa.bsky.social @1sampre.bsky.social on Crash Symbols out of West Virginia. The label is open to UK/EU distribution so raise your hand if you might be able to help.

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Only Came To Say Goodbye, by Ryan J Raffa & Sam Prekop

6 track album

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Warren Hatter @frenchrocksampler.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

There's a band in Mexico called Rëslip making heavy Zeuhl with the intensity, but not the virtuosity, of Koenjihyakkei. Thrilling stuff noizumx.bandcamp.com/album/warth-k

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Warthåk, by Rëlisp

4 track album

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Warren Hatter @frenchrocksampler.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Let’s do this. (I have - to Tidal a while ago)

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Warren Hatter @frenchrocksampler.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Well this looks fascinating www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...

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Golden Brown @goldenbrownmusic.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I know a lot of us have feelings about Bandcamp’s changes in ownership over the last few years. But it’s still true that buying music directly from independent labels and artists on Bandcamp remains one of the best ways to support the musicians you listen to.

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Warren Hatter @frenchrocksampler.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

This reads like WeTransfer will train LLMs on all the stuff we transfer, royalty-free forever. You know, the stuff you’ve slaved over that has some value.

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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

BLUE FIFTY-FOUR: BEN RICHTER Deep listening accordion drone on tape or digital from here: bluetapes.bandcamp.com/album/blue-f...

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