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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I remember ordering a tea somewhere in southern Spain many years ago and being handed a glass of hot milk with a teabag in it. Similar vibes.
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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The First 21 Bird Dreams.
21 Bird Dream collages on a staircase. The collages are made from found images, ink, charcoal, pastel, crayon and turmeric
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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Isn’t it just! 🤠
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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Now Again Records Supports Finders Keepers - V/A CD Make Do & Mend series number 9 2012 Benefit CD for labels that lost their stock in the 2011 PIAS warehouse fire #CDFriday
White text on red background reads:
Now Again Records
Supports
Finders Keepers
Make Do & Mend / 09
White text on red background reads:    
1.    Ame Son -JeVeux Justre Dire (FKR025)
2. Zia - Helelyos (FKR029)
3.     Jean Claude Vannier - L'Ours Paresseux (FKR050)
4.     Kor Hua Jai Bee Kuen - Petch Burapa (FKR044)
5.     Sevil and Ayla - Bebek (FKR021)
6.     The Science Fiction Corporation - Man Out Of A Test Tube (FKR024)
7.     Voice of the Seven Woods - Fire In My Head (TN077)
8.     Selda - Ince Ince (FKR011)
9.     Usha Khanna - Jeena Hai To Jee Bhar Hanslo (FKR052)
10.     Mohammad Nouri - Biya Bar-e Safar Bandim (FKR029)
Kindly compiled by Egon (Now Again Records).

Made with empathy and support for all the other self-sufficient labels who lost their stock in the PIAS warehouse fire in August 2011.
"Support Independent Record Labels - Breaking Boundaries Before Breaking Even". A Finders Keepers Production.
All tracks taken from Finders Keepers/ Twisted Nerve / Bird Records / Battered Ornaments and Cache-Cache releases.
Available on CD/LPIT™/10'/12"/MCC or MP3 from www.finderskeepersrecords.com and likeminded retailers.
Finders Keepers Records A&R and label curators - Andy Votel - Dom Thomas - Doug Shipton. info@finderskeepersrecords.com
www.linderskeepersrecords.com
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Santana Abraxas @slime-golem.biz · 22/08/2025
Did I ever post this collage I made of Death from "The Seventh Seal" standing in front of a huge modular synthesizer
Yes, I am quite a skillful player.
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Isolated Community @isolatedcommunity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Avocado 1970 Issue 02 available Tuesday Sept 29. Included with the zine PDF download is the 20-minute track 'Assemblage 02,' with audio contributions of many of the interviewees. Bandcamp listening party on Wednesday the 30th...
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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
More XNAME from @cafeotodalston.bsky.social This time in colour..
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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hexagon crisp packet wheel... #crisppacketart #triangles #monstermunch #hexagon
Hexagon crisp packet wheel... 3 triangulated monster munch packets and 3 real crisps packets with assorted faces.
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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
XNAME delivering an astonishing sound/light performance at day 2 of the David Tudor 100 celebration @cafeotodalston.bsky.social
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The Black Dog @theblackdog.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Psychick Garms www.duststore.com/collections/...
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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🫡
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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
😂😂😂 Time has been somewhat of the essence since getting home from Oto sometime after midnight, sleeping and doing a days work. I’ll try harder!
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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Keiiji Haino & Steve Noble - Cafe Oto CD Cold Spring 2026 Recorded by @inventingzero.net in 2019. So new I haven’t opened it yet! Picked up last night @cafeotodalston.bsky.social #CDFriday #KeijiHaino #SteveNoble
Front cover of CD digipak. Orange and black ‘action’ shot of Haino with a black block sticker on front that reads: 

Legendary Japanese experimentalist
KEIJI HAINO (Fushitsusha) and fearless drummer STEVE NOBLE
(Ethenor)'s monumental concert at
London's Cafe OTO.
Extreme electric guitar treatments and feedback, with graceful percussion... bleak and uninhibited paranoia... a veritable thunderstorm of raucous sound.
CSR370CD 
WWW.COLDSPRING.CO.UKBack of CD digipak. Orange and black ‘action’ shot of Steve Noble’s hand hitting a cymbal. Black block on left with orange text that reads: 

RECORDED BY
JOHN CHANTLER,
28 FEBRUARY 2019
AT CAFE OTO.
MIXED BY JOHN
CHANTLER. INITIAL MASTERING BY JAMES DUNN.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANDY NEWCOMBE MASTERED FOR COLD SPRING BY MARTIN BOWES
GRAPHIC DESIGN BY ABBY HELASDOTTIR
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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Remembering the great man on the fourth anniversary of his passing... #NowSpinning #JazzSky Pharoah Sanders: Village Of The Pharoahs (1973)
Black vinyl LP playing with album sleeve behind
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Lukas @lukasdrawsart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
muppet hodgepodge for jim henson day
Muppet illustrations
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Séamas Aloysius @seamusaloysius.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Remembering Pharoah Sanders (born Ferrell Lee Sanders) (October 13, 1940 💖 September 24, 2022) an American jazz saxophonist. Known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of "sheets of sound". Pharoah Sanders, November 1966 📷 Chuck Stewart
Sanders played a prominent role in the development of free jazz and spiritual jazz through his work as a member of John Coltrane's groups in the mid-1960s, and later through his solo work. He released over thirty albums as a leader and collaborated extensively with vocalist Leon Thomas and pianist Alice Coltrane, among many others. Fellow saxophonist Ornette Coleman once described him as "probably the best tenor player in the world".
Sanders' take on "spiritual jazz" was rooted in his inspiration from religious concepts such as Karma and Tawhid, and his rich, meditative performance aesthetic. This style was seen as a continuation of Coltrane's work on albums such as A Love Supreme. As a result, Sanders was considered to have been a disciple of Coltrane or, as Albert Ayler said, "Trane was the Father, Pharoah was the Son, I am the Holy Ghost".
Pharoah Sanders, November 1966 photographed by Chuck Stewart.
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Jeremy Allen @jeres.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I think I'm just dreaming most of the time now
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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Very much so…
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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Can finally upgrade my £3 CD copy picked up in the 90’s… 🤠
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House of Reggae @houseofreggae.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Excellent short film from the early 80s looking at sound systems around Ladbroke Grove and Notting Hill including Daddy Vego's People's Sound... #reggae #reggaesky
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Blue Note Records @bluenoterecords.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
OUT NOW: Eddie Gale "Black Rhythm Happening" AAA 180g Classic Vinyl Edition store.bluenote.com/products/edd... Following his striking debut "Ghetto Music," the trumpeter presented an extension of that vision on his 1969 follow-up, an extraordinary album of evocative originals.
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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Have you done your jigsaw?
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spaces how Vmd™ @vmdtm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“The “Woo! Alright!” came from soul singer Cheryl Lynn, while further snippets were drawn from ’60s rockers The Troggs, dub reggae producer Mikey Dread and a bleep from a NASA astronaut communication.” djmag.com/features/how...
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How Meat Beat Manifesto’s ‘Radio Babylon’ became breakbeat hardcore’s accidental anthem
Ben Murphy catches up producer Jack Dangers to learn the story of how he accidentally produced the track that would become a benchmark of breakbeat hardcore
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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Just bought a £3 second hand ‘complete series’ DVD copy. Thanks for the reminder…
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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
That first Air Liquide album.. 😍
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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I bought a bandcamp copy for you and an HJ’s copy for myself yesterday on way home after listening to the digital on the train back to London. Cracking record! 🤠
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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I’m absolutely loving it and now hoping Ghetto Music gets a reissue as cheapest UK copy I can see is £50+
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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trapdoor! An absolute classic…
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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Damon Locks has definitely heard it!
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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Eddie Gale - Black Rhythm Happening LP 2026 Blue Note reissue. Where had this record been all my life? Wow! #jazzsky #nowplaying
Blue and purple patterned cover with artist and album title in yellow uppercase text. Eddie and the band looking cool in the colour photo in the middle.
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Laurent Peraldi @tintamarre.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Christiane Barrier
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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Wolf Eyes - Fuck The Old Miami 3” CDr edition of 222 Chondritic Sound 2003 #CDFriday #wolfeyes
Image of a red spider on a black background. Abstract red and black artwork
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Giant Tank / Aldo The Chob @gianttank.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
SOUND THE BELL! SCHOOL’S IN, SUCKERS!!! Sonic Bothy won the Grand Prix at the International Sound Awards in Hamburg yesterday. Congrats to the whole crew on this recognition of our essential work. Up the Bothy! #ExperimentalMusic #FreeImprov #Noise #InclusiveEnsemble #AccessForAll
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Mr Benn @thebowlerhatman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Here is the full packaging for the upcoming Mr Benn dvd release. All the cartoons have been restored & look Fabulous. There are loads of extras, including a cd of Mr Benn - The Music. We hope you love it!! Please pass the word...
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Patrick Monaghan @pkmonaghan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The crazy wonderful people at Presspop in Tokyo have made an excellent Sun Ra figurine! 😻 www.presspop.toys/products/456...
Celebrating 110 years of Sun Ra

Figurine in blue robe with Saturn on it, a synthesizer on stand, and an Egyptian headdress
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🤡 houseof1000cowsarejustfoods 🤡 @cowsarejustfood.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
columbo episodes that give off jean rollin vibes that i wish were jean rollin joints
Columbo ransom for a dead man starring Peter Falk, lee grant (who is currently one hundred years old) and judee sill played by pattye mattickColumbo ransom for a dead man, lee grant and pattye mattick locked in some psychosexual drama Columbo ransom for a dead man, pattye mattick playing someone very specifically of my 'my type'Columbo ransom for a dead man, lee grant a soft stern beauty, here eyes are shining splayed demonic reflections
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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
burningambulance.substack.com/p/dj-shadows...
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DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing..... Turns 30
Contemplating the classic instrumental hip-hop album
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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
HBD Peter Falk 💗
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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Nicely done! 👏🏻
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara & John Cassavetes in Cassavetes's 1969 film Husbands 📷 Marvin Lichtner for Life, May 9, 1969
Cover photo for Life magazine, with Falk, Cassavettes & Gazarra dressed in suits & topcoats, sitting in front of a brick wall.
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby
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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Starving Weirdos - Live @ Valentines 3”CDr 2008 Self released edition of 58 numbered copies with individual hand drawn covers. This is number 28 #CDFriday
Black background. A drawing in gold ink of 6 figures sitting round a long table.Black background with white sticker at top, it reads: STARVING WEIRDOS
BRIAN-STEVE-MERRICK -GREG
W Ryan Carlisle & Spencer doran
LIVE @VALENTINE'S
Portland, Oregon - May 3rd, 2008
As part of Pete Swanson’s challenge night. 
Cover Art by - Sierra Martin
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Monkey @monkeypicks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy retirement Adel Taarabt. Seen pretty much every QPR home game for 45 years and he’s the player I’ve most enjoyed watching. 🐐
Adel celebrates another goal at Loftus Road
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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
2 more cassettes from Jeffrey Alexander & The Heavy Lidders… Live at Tubby’s and Snailhook Tapes Vol.4 #cassunday @lidders.bsky.social
2 cassettes, one with a green and purple cover showing an amplifier in front of some trees, the other shows a dinosaur (sorry don’t know what kind) in front of a palm tree with a blue sky in the background. Purple cassette in green/purple cover and a yellow cassette in the other.
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Jon Amadeus Markley @xjamarkleyx.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Enjoy!
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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Happy birthday Colin! 🎈
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John Hawthorn @mrjohn23.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Double Leopards The Blind Destroyer 3” CDr Chondritic Sound 2005 numbered edition of 217 #CDFriday
Front cover of CD 
DOUBLE LEOPARDS written in yellow dissolving//exploding letters on a coloured background.Gold 3” CD with orange splatters in a small black CD case
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John Chantler @inventingzero.net · 02/09/2026
New release ! 'London Concert' by Space (@lisaullen.bsky.social / Elsa Bergman / Anna Lund) Out 9 October. Recorded at @cafeotodalston.bsky.social by Billy Steiger. Mixed by me and mastered by LUPO. Photography by Märta Thisner. edition-festival.com/en/shop/lond...
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London Concert
A space is often described by its dimensions. The height of the ceiling, the expanse between walls. Division into functional elements of varying density follows. We have ideas of how such dimensions s...
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ᴀʟ ᴅᴏʀᴀᴅᴏ @aldorado.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Soft Cell x Foetus jgthirlwell.bandcamp.com/album/soft-c...
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Soft Cell x JG Thirlwell: Ghost Rider (The JG Thirlwell Remixes), by Soft Cell x JG Thirlwell
5 track album
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