Matt Nida @mattnida.com · 9hMostly Listening 24 - Cover Versions (30th September 2026): mattnida.com/2026/10/05/mostly-list… 000
Reposted by Matt NidaJohn West @jwestjourno.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Atomised media, concentrated gatekeeping. Content creators can’t find sinecured jobs and are forced to rattle tins - while a tiny number of tech giants reap the rewards. A must-read cri de cœur from BAFTA-winning producer and writer @mattnida.com. 154
Matt Nida @mattnida.com · 28/09/2026Sad to hear that bassist and composer Yoshio Suzuki died last week. His two albums on JVC’s Music Interior sub-label are absolutely delightful - especially Morning Picture. I featured a few of his tunes in my Mostly Listening label retrospective back in June. 000
Matt Nida @mattnida.com · 09/09/2026Episode 21 - Big Beat (9th September 2026): mostlylisten.ing/2026/09/09/episode… 000
Matt Nida @mattnida.com · 02/09/2026Episode 20 - Drexciya (LIVE, 2nd September 2026): mostlylisten.ing/2026/09/02/episode… 000
Matt Nida @mattnida.com · 01/09/2026Looping in @jwestjourno.bsky.social who may be able to shed some light on this via his time on the Boots photo counter back in the 90s 110
Matt Nida @mattnida.com · 07/08/2026RIP William Orbit, the producer who sparked my never-ending interest in how records were made. Coincidentally, last week’s Mostly Listening delved into his early demos for Ray of Light, my favourite album of the 90s. Proper tribute mix incoming. 000
Matt Nida @mattnida.com · 24/07/2026The bathos of this Abbey Road crossing livecam - now with a temporary crossing due to roadworks - is exquisite. Last night I watched a bloke lob a traffic cone into a bush. 10/10. 000
Matt Nida @mattnida.com · 23/07/2026Fantastic piece over at POW MAG on the restoration of composer Julius Eastman’s work. The conclusion is sobering. "As we spoke, Rountree told me that every year Wild Up applies for an NEA grant to continue their project of restorin... mattnida.com/2026/07/23/fantastic-p… 000
Matt Nida @mattnida.com · 20/07/2026"The streaming economy made it possible for a small band to put their music online and theoretically be available to everyone, and the cultural assumption became that if you were any good, the algorithm would eventually find you, ... mattnida.com/2026/07/20/the-streami… 000
Matt Nida @mattnida.com · 17/07/2026Tonight! It’s the Ditch takeover at Filly Brook in Leytonstone - I’ll be playing tunes for warm weather from 8pm. See you there! 000
Matt Nida @mattnida.com · 28/05/2026Tonight! It’s the Boards of Canada listening party at Dreamhouse. Me and Chris are repping Really Strange Record Club by spinning classic Warp and woozy IDM in-store beforehand; tickets are sold out but you can hear the warm-up live on Leyton’s community radio station The Ditch from 8:30pm! 020
Matt Nida @mattnida.com · 23/05/2026I’d love to claim the cool points on this, but it was another Matt who brought those 7”s. (I stuck to my usual lane of Japanese synthpop.) I did think of you when those came out of his bag though!! Really hope you can make it down to an RSRC soon! Hope all’s good! 100
Matt Nida @mattnida.com · 23/05/2026What We Listened To - May 2026: reallystrangerecord.club/2026/05/23… 100
Matt Nida @mattnida.com · 09/05/2026Next event: 21st May 2026! Leyton community radio!: reallystrangerecord.club/2026/05/09… 010
Matt Nida @mattnida.com · 27/04/2026Mixcloud is almost critical infrastructure at this point given how many independent/freeform/community radio stations archive to it. The site itself is a bit crap but at this point I find that endearingly human vs the algorithmic frictionlessness you see elsewhere 010
Matt Nida @mattnida.com · 27/04/2026On tonight’s MOSTLY LISTENING - join me in the VIP area to talk about Frank Sinatra, hyper-mediocrity and my memories of Electroclash. Tune in 8pm Mondays at ditch.channel or catch the re-run 11am Tuesdays. 010
Matt Nida @mattnida.com · 19/04/2026Introducing Mostly Listening - a new radio show about musical rabbit-holes I’ve fallen down, launching tomorrow (20th April) with a deep dive on cult Dutch CD-R label Strange Life Records. New episodes broadcasting Mondays @ 8pm (London/BST) on The Ditch, with playlists at mostlylisten.ing. 010
Matt Nida @mattnida.com · 09/04/2026Thrilled to unveil the Laughing Matters Fellowship cohort - an incredible brains trust of producers and writers who I’ll be working with as part of my comedy and climate work at OKRE. The UK has the best comedy talent in the world; I can’t wait to see how they tackle the biggest crisis of our age. 000
Matt Nida @mattnida.com · 06/04/2026SNL UK gives me the same feeling of excitement I got as a teen in the 90s discovering Reeves & Mortimer and repeats of Not The Nine O’Clock News at the same time. I love this show so much. 000
Matt Nida @mattnida.com · 26/03/2026that’s very cool - hope to read about your experiences in future newsletters! 010
Matt Nida @mattnida.com · 25/03/2026Here, have some more Saturday Night Live UK discourse.: mattnida.com/2026/03/25/here-have-s… 000
Matt Nida @mattnida.com · 20/03/2026Next event! New site! New newsletter!: reallystrangerecord.club/2026/03/20… 011
Matt Nida @mattnida.com · 19/03/2026The Ditch is a fantastic radio station broadcasting from my home turf in Leyton, with a playlist mainly focused on electronics and rare groove and some brilliant DJ shows (including the wonderful folksong deep-dive Sing Songs & Talk About Them). Listen here and check their archives here. 000
Matt Nida @mattnida.com · 19/03/2026ID Music: Heavenly Zen Sickness Supersessions "Zen teaching, when stripped of the essential confounding poetry that gives its ephemeral simplicity momentum over the course of a lifetime, begins and ends with the proposition that... mattnida.com/2026/03/19/id-music-he… 110
Matt Nida @mattnida.com · 21/02/2026My pal Ben Howard is a podcast pioneer, launching the definitive cult movie show Mondo Movie over twenty years ago. He’s back with a brilliant new Youtube channel, turning his attention to horror, crime and genre fiction. Subscribe here for crucial intel ahead of your next charity shop haul. 010
Matt Nida @mattnida.com · 10/02/2026My article for the latest edition of The Fence - about the life, death and afterlife of the comedy panel show - is now online at their website! 000
Matt Nida @mattnida.com · 10/02/2026My account of the life, death and afterlife of the comedy panel show for @thefence.bsky.social is now online to read for free! 043
Matt Nida @mattnida.com · 24/01/2026Listening diary: weeks 3-4, 2026: mattnida.com/2026/01/24/listening-d… 110
Matt Nida @mattnida.com · 22/01/2026New York Television is a new online community television station from @kaye.bsky.social (who records wonderful music as Time Wharp). This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a long time. 010
Matt Nida @mattnida.com · 20/06/2025And join us for the next one! Thursday 3rd July! Full details on reallystrangerecord.club! 031
Matt Nida @mattnida.com · 20/06/2025🚨 @pulpyfiction.bsky.social wrote a really lovely essay for @ihavethatonvinyl.com about my East London music social, the Really Strange Record Club. Thrilled to bits with this, have a read here: ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/a-tri...ihavethatonvinyl.comA Trip to The Really Strange Record ClubThere aren’t a lot of places in London where you can go for a pint and expect to hear a 1950s record called ‘My Pussy Belongs to Daddy’, but Dreamhouse Records is one of them– at least it is when the ... 374
Reposted by Matt Nidainthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 20/06/2025part 2: we have a fantastic, interesting essay from @pulpyfiction.bsky.social about a really strange record club ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/a-tri...ihavethatonvinyl.comA Trip to The Really Strange Record ClubThere aren’t a lot of places in London where you can go for a pint and expect to hear a 1950s record called ‘My Pussy Belongs to Daddy’, but Dreamhouse Records is one of them– at least it is when the ... 152
Matt Nida @mattnida.com · 14/06/2025Obviously there's been a ton of takes on the #DoctorWho finale already, but none asking the crucial question: what was it like to watch this at 3am with food poisoning? Available now wherever podcasts are found! 063
Reposted by Matt NidaI’ll Explain Later - conversations about Doctor Who @illexplainlater.bsky.social · 14/06/2025🚨 🚨 NEW EPISODE!! Yes, our I’LL EXPLAIN NOW strand finally kicks into gear for our review of WISH WORLD/THE REALITY WAR. @mattnida.com battles his guts and @jwestjourno.bsky.social *marvels* (geddit?!) at RTD’s influences. LISTEN NOW! illexplainlater.com 1145