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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On my playlist list month…LPs: Immersion/Ghost Dubs/Bonobo/Soft Cell/Chloé Caillet/Zeropoint Projects/Boddy-Scanner/Getdown Services/Formal Sppeedwear… Remix LPs: GLOK x Bytes, PinkPantheress, Daphni…EP: RIP Magic…single: Mandrake Handshake retro: 69 (Carl Craig), Underworld, Lee Perry…live: Orbital

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Dismayed to learn of plans to screen Stonehenge so it can't be seen from the A303 (apparently to stop people hanging out of car windows to take pictures). Getting a glimpse of the monument is always a highlight of a drive down to the SW. We shouldn't let a few idiots spoil that for the rest of us.

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Always a great listen. About to check out the latest ep...

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Great exposé of Reform donation shenanigans, including lawbreaking that could result in jail sentences, on @channel4news.bsky.social tonight. Top work.

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Swimming In Sound @swimminginsound.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

totallyradio.com/shows/swimmi... Live on @slackcityradio.bsky.social 1.00pm catchup on @totallyradio.bsky.social - @swimhq.bsky.social & @malkaspigel.bsky.social with cool tunes. Includes @wirehq.bsky.social , @immersionhq.bsky.social (new single) + tons of new stuff. See alt for info & playlist

$Yes, it's Wednesday, which of course means Swimming In Sound with Malka & Colin. Live on @slackcityradio, catchup on @totallyradio. This week we do pop in to Love Thy Neighbour Towers to catch up with our friend Andy Rossiter and also we do, as always, we include tracks by Wire, Minimal Compact and “something from us” - a 2nd play to the last Immersion single released ahead of the album. The title track “What Is Lost Will Return” – Album out 4th Sept. All upcoming Immersion dates at - https://immersionhq.uk To look up tours by artists we play (including ourselves) – songkick & bandsintown are great ways to search. Worth looking even if we don’t announce dates! Photo taken in Brighton. If you love what we do, please share this post on socials! On DAB in Brighton, Manchester, Norwich, Portsmouth & London. BTW if you are listening on DAB in Brighton we are now broadcasting with increased power & range! www.swimminginsound.com // www.slackcity.org.uk // email - swimming@swimminginsound.com. Colin is also now on Substack - @swimhq Tracklist F.F.F. // Future Is Made Penelope Isles // Another Kind Of Love tai hirose // aero Cosey Mueller // Nimm Mich Jessica Roch // Par Getdown Services // Stop Living K-Lone // Holdup WHIMM // NoPromotion The Yummy Fur // Headphones Bcmc // Boulevard Treats Amanar de Kidal // Temat Coffee Shop Jungle // Room 10 Minimal Compact // This World Wire // Love Bends Bibio & Dorian Concept // Lichen Trip AK/DK // False Belief Starcleaner Reunion // Lay on Plastic Moment Surreal // Refraction The Elgins // Heaven Must Have Sent You eaup, Rinz., tramori // vacation mode Weird Nightmare // Headful of Rain Immersion // What Is Lost Will Return Martin Brugger // Malachite Brown Spirits // Flawed Optimist maya ongaku // You are Silence$

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We went to have a gander at one of the two posh French hotels where they've been filming the new series of The White Lotus, The Martinez in Cannes. Didn't spot any stars, apart from this pigeon poser.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I came first in the Clacton by-election! Of the candidates who bothered to turn up for the results. Here is my victory speech!

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Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Too bad we are all blind now because it's the Perseids later tonight

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Swimming In Sound @swimminginsound.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

totallyradio.com/shows/swimmi... Live on @slackcityradio.bsky.social 1.00pm catchup on @totallyradio.bsky.social - @swimhq.bsky.social & @malkaspigel.bsky.social with cool tunes. Includes @wirehq.bsky.social , @immersionhq.bsky.social + tons of new stuff. See alt for info inc. @kcrw.com & playlist

Yes, it's Wednesday, and time to Swim In Sound with Malka & Colin. You know it makes sense :)

This week but we do in fact make a visit to Love Thy Neighbour Towers to catch up with our friend Andy Rossiter who has like us been travelling. As always, we include tracks by Wire (well Wir this week), Minimal Compact and “something from us” this week we play a track from Nanocluster Vol.3 – Immersion| SUSSd. Also, For the month of October on 5 Thursdays listeners in California can get a double dose of Swimming In Sound when we join KCRW’s DJ residency.

There's also a new UK date announced 06.11.26 Firebug Leicester

All upcoming Immersion dates at - https://immersionhq.uk

To look up tours by artists we play (including ourselves) – songkick & bandsintown are great ways to search. Worth looking even if we don’t announce dates!

Photo taken in Brighton.

If you love what we do, please share this post on socials!

Wednesdays at 1.00PM // Repeat on Friday - all times UK - On DAB in Brighton, Manchester, Norwich, Portsmouth & London. BTW if you are listening on DAB in Brighton we are now broadcasting with increased power & range!

www.swimminginsound.com // www.slackcity.org.uk // email - swimming@swimminginsound.com

Tracklist

Cole Pulice // A New Age
Sir Hiss // Mir
Touch Girl Apple Blossom // The Springtime Reminds Me Of...
Rajery // Afindrafindrao
Club Magic // Plenty Of Fish (Big Heart)
Le Ren // Free Wheeling
Geotheory // LOST WITHIN
supermodel* // superbad
Julia Gjertsen // Waiting for Vera (Original Soundtrack)
Les Big Byrd // Artificial Sunlight
Bukkha // Dub Jah Strength
Bcmc // Kaleidosmoke
Sailor Honeymoon // Click Click
Whalebone // It's a Wonderful Life
Minimal Compact // Rocking Chair
Wire (Wir) // So & Slow (2024)
boy 2000 // flora
School Fair // Spirally Staircase Memory
KOAN Sound // Allure
Guy J // Element (Mixed)
The Kinks // Sunny Afternoon
Kone Kone // Sampadan 25 (Todh Teri Dance Edit)
Cyst // Rabbit
Immersion | SUSS // In The Far Away

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Jonesy Cartoons @jonesycartoons3.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I'm off for a bit, so here's a reminder that 10% of every sale of this @countbinface.bsky.social book from @selfmadehero.bsky.social will be donated to @sheltercharity.bsky.social via @workforgooduk.bsky.social Available to buy at @goshcomics.bsky.social now! #CountBinface #Farage #Clacton

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Berks of DeFrights...or Something. @dandyandafop.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Curious about what faceless corporation owns Grundig now, I slid deep into a hole of double entendres…

It is owned by Arcelik AS, the white food manure of Turkish conglomerate Koc Holding.

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Charlie #cat doing a bit of light reading

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I thought the pictures of the Thetford anti-asylum protesters must have been AI generated, but no - they really do have extra fingers.

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Spent many a night in the 90s chilling out to William Orbit, especially Strange Cargo III. RIP. youtu.be/PneAIfv30jA?...

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William Orbit - Water From A Vine Leaf

YouTube video by atmosfearic1

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Well, that's clearly going to end well isn't it? 🙄 Artificial Intelligence used to design brand new viruses - BBC News share.google/BAjABDnCGv1z...

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Artificial Intelligence used to design brand new viruses

Scientists made 16 successful viruses that had their genetic code designed by artificial intelligence.

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Westminster council wants to clamp down on 'vertical drinking' in Soho (they mean standing up in and outside pubs)... I say these po-faced, boozercidal, killjoy cunts should fuck right off. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

independent.co.uk

London council suggests restrictions on standing at pubs in Soho and West End

A spokesperson for the Mayor of London chided against ‘restrictive and anti-growth policies’ in Soho and the West End

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Bet Trump enjoyed the golden shower there

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Well done Spain and L.Yamal.

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

All the major parties are pulling out of the race for Clacton, so it could be a straight Farage/Binface runoff. Go on, people of Clacton, you know it makes sense. #binfaceforclacton

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This is THE single most annoying thing about Android. Randomly turns volume to inaudible, meaning you have to get phone out of pocket and rewind whatever you're listening to. If I didn't need it at that level I wouldn't have it at that level! Impossible to turn off, even with developer options.

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Close match between Joint and Serena

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Off-Grid @offgridpod.offgrid.tlmb.net.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

**Yards Short, Taylor – Ep.75** For our 5th (not 9th) anniversary we find ourselves yards short, Taylor, as we pass through New Albany, only hanging around a brief while to swiftly make a few puns. === If that sounds like the sort of thing you wouldn’t […] [Original post on offgrid.tlmb.net]

Painting of a bald man with a grey beard, dressed in period peasant/farmhand clothing, holding a walking stick, in a pastoral setting.

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Just reading @doctorow.pluralistic.net's latest, which - as usual - is the most pithy, witty, accurate, fair, essential and impeccably-argued piece of tech industry criticism you're likely to read this year. So do.

Cover of "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI... How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It's Too Late" by Cory Doctorow

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Marbled white butterfly. They're hard to snap on a phone because they flit about so much but managed to catch this one on a thistle.

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

He's bloody good that Messy...

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Jeez. This road's full of fucking speed bumps.

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Was going to post a mashup I'd done until I read this. Seems a bit harsh to treat this guy like a profiteering copyright pirate and give him a sentence (harsher than that handed to a lot of rapists) if he was just a DJ making and flogging his own unofficial remixes... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

East Yorkshire man sentenced for selling illegal CD remixes

Marc Kearns, from East Cowick, admits a number of charges related to music copyright laws.

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Don't believe, and never have done, that you can solve social problems by just banning stuff. #crass #ineffective #posturing

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

The scriptwriters of Disclosure Day need to be abducted by aliens and whisked off to the far reaches of the known universe for the rest of their existence. Not seen such a pile of utterly nonsensical drivel for many a long year. 👽

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Right then, off you fuck now, Keir Tarmac, you soporific, sinusoidal waste of space.

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Off-Grid @offgridpod.offgrid.tlmb.net.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

**Parrot Blabs Smile Recipe – Ep. 73** In which the lass on the bus may have been pondering ‘Mars (anag.)’, solving a maze, anticipating a dessert at the Fat Duck or worrying about the Bill(y/ie). === If that sounds like your sort of prescription for […] [Original post on offgrid.tlmb.net]

Green/red/blue parrot design in a wall hanging

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

New album from @boardsofcanada.bsky.social is absolutely amazing and well worth the 13-year wait! Absolutely f'kin outrageous that Trump nicked one of the tracks for a promo video yesterday though. Hope they sue him for a shitload: pitchfork.com/news/boards-...

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Just spinning Robert Görl (+DJ Sylvie Marks)'s latest, "Dark Silver Moon Light". If you like classic D.A.F., it won't disappoint. Excellent stuff.

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Been to Burnham-on-Crouch today...

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Labour Fiddles While Burnham Roams

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Labour Fiddles While Burnham Roams

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Audio Obscura @audioobscura.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

www.subvert.fm/audio-obscura Subvert officially launches today @subvert.fm --a music platform owned by its community. I have an exclusive 10 track album of laid-back-synth-pop-ambient tunes on this platform. Some strings, some field recordings, some nice melodic beats.

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I was always more of an ICA man myself, but had a few memorable nights at the Scala in the mid-late 80s... so it was a delight to finally get round to watching @alicatterall.bsky.social's excellent docu "Scala!!!" last night. Fab soundtrack by Barry Adamson too. player.bfi.org.uk/subscription...

player.bfi.org.uk

Watch SCALA!!! - BFI Player

Engrossing tribute to London’s legendary Scala cinema, aptly subtitled.

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I've stuck up free lossless versions of a selection of my older (mostly satirical/humourous) numbers from 2003-2020 on new music co-op Subvert, until I get round to making some new stuff: Subvert.fm/jimjarmo

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Just catching up on one of my favourite pods...

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Whenever I hear the name Jacob Elordi, I hear it being sung by Throbbing Gristle's Genesis P. Orridge to the "tune" of "Hamburger Lady".

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Britain filling its councils with climate change deniers... what a great present to give David Attenborough on his 100th birthday. 😔

static.klipy.com

David Attemborough's Serious Reflection

ALT: David Attemborough's Serious Reflection

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Separated at birth? Reform's Tim Montgomerie on Newsnight and Christopher Lloyd as Uncle Fester...

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Jim Mortleman @jimjar.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Well, I've done my bit to try to keep the bigoted, knuckledragging numbskulls' hands off the local levers of power, for whatever fucking good it'll do. ✖️🙄

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