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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15h

A couple of albums that I found today for two euros a piece. The Boney M sent me down a rabbit hole about Frank Farian, and I discovered amongst other things that he wrote a 370 page book about why he felt that Dieter Bohlen of Modern Talking was a fraud […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Love For Sale by Boney M and The Harder They Come soundtrack, both on vinyl.

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Okay, I think we've got at least one more album in us this year. Watch this space in particular. #EntropyCircus

A fan hanging in the middle of a derelict area.

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Picked up a double-album of music from the soundtrack of the groundbreaking late 90s anime series Cowboy Bebop. Yoko Kanno's soundtrack music with her band The Seatbelt is rightfully legendary, and moves from big band jazz to funk to blues to... eclectic […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

The order you use the various mycoprotein products in your freezer is a matter of considering the Quorn sequence of your actions.

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

An album track that I would have put out as a single given the live treatment. #kpop #RedVelvet www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MOyde9st4k

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

After all that Magyar rock, a switch over to Germany: Eroc from Grobschnitt with his 1979 album. Good powerful sound and a strong moustache game. #vinyl #krautrock #eroc #grobschnitt

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

RE: mastodon.online/@iotar/117065822719… Just remembered the new album is here. It's long enough after recording that I can't remember how the fuck you do this stuff, so I can now enjoy it in and of itself. Wow, that analogue echo sounds gorgeous. It'll take about a month more […]

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

New T-shirt just dropped, bae, and it was under two euros in Woolworths.

Me taking a call on a dumb phone and wearing a TAKE AWAY KEBAB shirt featuring an image of a bossman carving a kebab.

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

More Magyar rock on vinyl. This time it's V'Moto Rock's second album from 1980. V'Moto Rock were far punchier and ostensibly new wave than Omega, a supergroup featuring Lerch István and Herpai Sándor of jazz-prog trio V'73 and Demjén Ferenc of Bergendy, as […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

My first Omega gatefold, Gammapolis from 1979, sounds as enormous as it looks. #vinyl #omega #prog #MagyarRock

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Not usually a big fan of Korean indie, or indie in general, but Luli Lee's latest album, like Mudd the Student's solo album earlier this year is getting frequent revisits. #kpop #LuliLee #MuddTheStudent #BalmingTiger www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NEqe1yljNg

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

This might seem like a lot of trouble for one visual joke. #studio #kpop #nmixx #bae #PatchBae

Two cut outs of Bae from NMIXX affixed to jackplugs plugged into a patch bay

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Installed a patch bay on the wall above the Model 12 because rewiring the cables on the back of the mixer is a bit of a pain in the bum, buts also because it sets of the painting above it nicely. #studio

mixer, patch bay and many coloured cables

pan out to a wider shot of the studio revealing a painting that kinda looks like an overwrought patch bay.

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Not AI, just good old 3D ray-traced virtual mirrors. Shifting the angles minutely and adjusting the lights is a lot like synthesis. Far more fun than typing prompts. #daz #SallyKitchener

Repeated image of a woman sitting cross-legged across what appears to be a long corridor but is actually a mirror chamber repetition.

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Freq @freq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Bitter Christmas freq.org.uk/reviews/bitter-christmas [a] complex comedy-drama about a film-maker struggling with problems both professional and personal, and all the while another film-maker is figuring out how to tell her story in a way that […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Freq @freq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Richard Andersson with Rudi Mahall, Artur Tuznik and Kasper Tom – Monk And More / أحمد [Ahmed] – Play Monk freq.org.uk/reviews/monk-play-monk @Hakarl ..these records, finally, are perhaps two sides of the Monk coin -- one a stretching and contortion […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Freq @freq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Eric Random – Bone Of Contention freq.org.uk/reviews/eric-random-bon… An impressive set of tunes with real sonic depth, concluding with the soft plumage of “‘Concrete Conversation”‘s undulatory rhythmic with croaking robotics slowly […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Freq @freq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Fushitsusha (live at l’Alhambra) freq.org.uk/reviews/fushitsusha-gen… It's kind of psychedelic music.. The reference for me is something like Les Rallizes Dénudés.. Fushitsusha use that as a kind of springboard.. Where most rock music -- most music […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Fushitsusha live at l'Alhambra (photo: Agata Urbaniak)

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Afternoons are when the temperature turns to bullshit. Maybe we could just lose the afternoons? Early lunch straight to dinner.

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

The Friday vinyl haul this week is all secondhand and all from our favourite Magyar prog rockers Omega. On Tour is actually a compilation of English language cuts on a (west) German label, put out to promote their tour for the 1977 Omega 7 album, while […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Freq @freq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

H Is For Hawk freq.org.uk/reviews/h-is-for-hawk Claire Foy processes her grief over the death of her father through an obsessive commitment to a Eurasian goshawk in this middlebrow but emotionally affecting riff on Ken Loach’s Kes, which dramatises […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

One day I'm bored I might go to a record shop and get Stereolab and Stereo MCs confused repeatedly to drive the staff to fury.

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Freq @freq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Ken Ueno and Wukir Suryadi – Earth Songhttps://freq.org.uk/reviews/ueno-suryadi-earth/ Slow ‘n’ steady, lulling mirroring sounds -- then just when you think it’s grasping towards some om-like union, a repetitive carpet of agitated frets throws things […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

With this box I can make 5 litres of Pocari Sweat. This is enormously good news. #pocarisweat

Box of Pocari Sweat powder next to a model of EVA until 00.

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Freq @freq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

The Name Of The Rose freq.org.uk/reviews/name-rose Like Werner Herzog before him and Robert Eggers today, Annaud makes great use of his locations, and the faces of those inhabiting them, creating a fourteenth century you can almost smell. It may be a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Freq @freq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Lilja – Muna freq.org.uk/reviews/lilja-muna As a treatise on self discovery, the album works really well; the wide variety of songs, the welcoming closeness of the players and the willingness to attempt the road less travelled here and there makes […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Nice mid-week vinyl haul from a junkshop near Thaliastrasse. Two ELO albums, one Vangelis album and a Ry Cooder album. Total cost twenty euros, and they put them in a Whitney Houston carrier bag too! #vinyl #ELO #vangelis #RyCooder

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Working out an ideal setup for the TherapKid + CZ-1 Mini combo that was near perfect, but to for of the desk it needed a slight lift. I was surprised to find the object that was exactly the right size for raising synths that are roughly the size of a VHS […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Freq @freq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

Møster! – Bolts freq.org.uk/reviews/moster-bolts The blustering guitar, dirty, squalling sax and tumble-drier drums really bring to mind a drive through a desert that is alive with discordant debris.. this is a fantastically wilful and blistering collection. #jazz #noise #musicreview

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Freq @freq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

Keiron Phelan and Peace Signs – Hullabaloo freq.org.uk/reviews/keiron-phelan-a… ..arrives with the strong expectation of being another consistent concoction. Dutifully and rewardingly, Phelan and co. don’t abuse such […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

You know the deal by now. It's Friday, and after my last class of the week I did a little vinyl shopping. This week it's Khruangbin! #vinyl #khruangbin

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

2011. Last year of my 30s. Me as off-kilter guitar-god. My partner at the time was in a feminist post-punk band who seemed to spend forever recording their albums, so I regularly flung away prog-fusion epics like this of a weekend. Don't play guitars + or that squall of effects anymore, but in […]

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

I'm happy that BIGBANG are back with us, but the arrogance of dropping a single for the 20th anniversary, that is pretty much treading water, when T.O.P dropped a whole album that is peak across every track, feels unearned. And their riffing off his op-art […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

BIGBANG in op-art/expressionist concept shot

T.O.P doing a more psychedelic take on this, and earlier in the year, and also he's the member of BIGBANG who is literally an art collector.

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Freq @freq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Polypores – Wildlife / Loner Deluxe – Living Room freq.org.uk/reviews/polypores-loner sounds and ideas that can sate listeners’ appetites on subliminal and intuitive levels, whilst also pushing them to sample new additions on the artistic menu. Enter […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Freq @freq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Dead Man’s Shoes freq.org.uk/reviews/dead-mans-shoes An intoxicating mix of vigilante thriller and Poundland #superhero movie all set against a social realist backdrop, it not only works in many seemingly contradictory genres, it does it without […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Freq @freq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Philosophy Of The World / Sarah Kane – Cleansed freq.org.uk/reviews/philosophy-of-t… @Hakarl ...having seen it, this is definitely what I should've wanted, and you should too ...Absolutely fucking horrendous but compelling […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

As is customary I did a little shopping while in town for my last class of the week. This week it's the first Molchat Doma album on "coke bottle clear vinyl". #vinyl #MolchatDoma

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Finally finished this absolute chonker of a biography that I bought at least a year ago. I was slowed-down by the sheer size of the book rather than how interesting the contents are, because it's not a slim volume that you can slip into your pocket, and it's […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Francis Bacon: Revelations by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, and yes, it's an enormous book.

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iotar @iotar.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

Took a while to work out how to arrange these two optimally, but in terms of sonics, fake Commodore 64 SID chip synthesis paired with Casio phase distortion synthesis is a combo to die for. Yes, it needs to go through a reverb to give the CZ-1 Mini pads […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

TherapKid and CZ-1 Mini synths on a studio desk.

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Freq @freq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

Charanjit Singh – Synthesizing: Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat freq.org.uk/reviews/charanjit-singh… @Hakarl This is a fairly legendary record in the world of crate digging. It goes for eye-watering amounts on Discogs, so a re-issue is very welcome […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Freq @freq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

Eclectic Maybe Band – Domestic Dragon freq.org.uk/reviews/eclectic-domest… bassist and composer Guy Segers returns with the ever-evolving hydra-headed Eclectic Maybe Band. It feels that each album is a push on from the previous, with the number of […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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