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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 01/10/2026

also on the idea of fakes, I compiled a playlist of Hindi/Bollywood rip-off songs a few years back that I didn't port over to Tidal, the best of which was probably this (combines Deep Forest and Tubular Bells): www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7kR...

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Gupt Gupt - Title (Extended)

YouTube video by Kavita Krishnamurthy - Topic

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 01/10/2026

unfortunately/fortunately you have activated my cover song obsession - Aretha Franklin doing What a Fool Believes - Yasuko Agawa doing Stop! In the Name of Love - Smith & Mighty doing Anyone Who Had a Heart - Alex Kassian's take on E2-E4 my ~300 song covers playlist: tidal.com/playlist/a51...

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Covers

Playlist - Covers - 290 items

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christa lee @ohpoorpup.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the best part of Control Resonant is landing a Ninja Gaiden II "Obliteration Technique" (the thing where a staggered enemy can be killed by pressing L3 with a cool anim) and The Board's guttural mumbling booms through my Sennheiser HD650s through a Schiit Hel 2 and I go "FUCK YEAH" every damn time

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Sean Seanson @seanseanson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If we wanna cut these off at the source, stop sharing them, stop making videos about them, stop hosting them on your websites. Stop giving talentless hacks the attention they crave. Stop rewarding them for defiling our hobbies.

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The Zium Railway (Available September 13th) @theziumsociety.itch.io · 13/09/2026

In the Valley of the Underground Mountain, within the compartment nation of Lyptch... 🛤️🏛️🎨The Zium Railway🎨🏛️🛤️ an open world gallery, a new exhibition, now available! Free admission. Be welcomed and enjoy. thezium.art/theziumrailway

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The Zium Railway - Exhibition Now Open

YouTube video by The Zium Gallery

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 11/09/2026

five years on from its premiere, Analects of Kung Phu, the 85-minute collage film I cut for artist Jason Phu, is heading overseas - it'll be on display as part of the Busan Museum of Art's upcoming exhibition Future Museology from the 26th of September through March 2027

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 03/09/2026

would be disconcerting/ominous if the absence of a cover image carried across from the proof to the final book

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 02/09/2026

Free as a closer is so damn good

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mmmmmmmmm @mmmmmmuhh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

being underwhelmed by new releases and then clicking on something and listening to it for 2 seconds and yelling that's what i'm fuckin' talking about

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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

TBH I'm grateful for bad first pages - filtering out all the books I don't need to read What I hate is a good first page that sneaks a book past the filter, so I can learn for myself that the remaining 349 pages were phoned in

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 23/08/2026

wow, that Coover is a brilliant edition

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 21/08/2026

I hadn't realised they were translated/released out of order (I'd assumed this one was the second!) - yet to read it but I really enjoyed The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, in particular The Well, which I think gets to exactly what you're describing.

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 14/08/2026

hey, the first sentence in this piece should have 'opt out' instead of 'opt in' in the first instance

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 11/08/2026

anyway the show was great, Elizabeth Fraser forever

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 11/08/2026

doing the Leo meme everytime there was a clip from It Felt Like a Kiss

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 11/08/2026

microdosing Adam Curtis films at the Massive Attack show as a treat

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John Linneman @dark1x.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It really sucks when someone you were following for their work in the retro scene turns out to be big on AI and using it in all their projects. That instantly kills any and all interest in anything they ever make.

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 20/07/2026

huge tune, a brief Pet Shop Boys pivot. Kylie's cover being a ballad is amusing/surprising: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHNa...

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Kylie Minogue - If You Don't Love Me

YouTube video by Corrado Pinna

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 20/07/2026

2 Die Hard With a Vengeance: the first three Die Hard films playing together as one, jumping between them in release order at every shot change (not synced temporally, so the total runtime is around 5hrs)

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 18/07/2026

very successful book fair haul at Trades Hall today - particularly stoked about The Book of Fantasy

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

People Make Games traveled to Michigan to meet Jerry Gretzinger, an 84-year-old man, who's spent most of his life working away on a single, giant map to an imaginary world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is8N...

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The Man Who's Spent a Lifetime Making One, Giant Map

YouTube video by People Make Games

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 12/06/2026

I feel like the first stretch of Deep Red gets pretty close

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 09/06/2026

yes, it also very much feels of a piece despite it being pulled together from nine short episodes/segments (which of course were rewritten to a degree). I'm very keen to read his Palm-of-the-Hand stories consequently.

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 09/06/2026

I recently read Snow Country and this back-to-back and was struck by the similar sense of detachment and alienation among the two young men but the former being written mostly in the 1930s surprised me

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 02/06/2026

Dr. Nosferatu, the Gambler

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 01/06/2026

fell down a bookplate rabbithole

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mmmmmmmmm @mmmmmmuhh.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

this is an excellent one of these. top notch one of these. very good high on the leader board for one of these

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絶えず変化する, by 18 DAYS

from the album 無限の色 [Infinite Color]

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 29/05/2026

big fan of this one (story treatment by ray bradbury!) - I used in it this collage work years back with other sci-fi films of the era: norbateman.co/the-new-monu...

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The New Monuments

A video work about Robert Smithson and 1950s sci-fi commissioned by UQ Art Museum and Monash University Museum of Art.

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 20/05/2026

when I upgraded my PC instead of transferring my plex library I just jumped ship to emby and rebuilt it there - have been pretty pleased with it the last few months

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 07/05/2026

Big rec on the recent Swiss historical film Unrest, which in part plays with competing clocks (train time, factory time) vis a vis how labour gets tracked: letterboxd.com/film/unrest-...

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Unrest (2022)

New technologies are transforming a 19th-century watchmaking town in Switzerland. Josephine, a young factory worker, produces the unrest wheel, swinging in the heart of the mechanical watch. Exposed t...

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 24/04/2026

1997: Gran Turismo released for the PlayStation 1998: The Cardigans release the album Gran Turismo, featuring the single "My Favourite Game" 1999: Gran Turismo 2 released for the PlayStation, with The Cardigan's "My Favourite Game" as the intro track for NA and EU versions 2026: I realise this

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 20/04/2026

the Sugarcubes cover in here is so damn good

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 02/04/2026

big rec on Sogo Ishii's Angel Dust in this zone

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 02/04/2026

best Alvvays song not made by Alvvays www.youtube.com/watch?v=awQz...

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Stuck

YouTube video by Hatchie - Topic

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 19/03/2026

a few tracks on the new James Blake cross over into the Junebug zone (high praise)

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 18/03/2026

@andrew-ray.bsky.social Hi Andrew, I stumbled onto your blog via Kagi's new Small Web feature and am greatly enjoying it. If you haven't read this already, I think you might get some mileage out of Adrian Duncan's relatively recent novel The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 16/03/2026

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

From the article:
"I think that until the bubble bursts, AI will be used by quite a few game companies, and perhaps even beyond the bubble," says Brandon Sheffield of Necrosoft Games, which released the RPG Demonschool last year. "Look, I am not a fool – I understand that AI has some uses. Primary among those being the devaluing of work, the cheapening of labour, the laying off of creatives, and the generation of busywork for humans to fix whatever AI generates."

"It's also useful for burning through water, raising the prices of RAM and chipsets globally, and poisoning anyone near the data centres that run them. So there are a lot of use cases for AI. From spurring on the death of the creative endeavour to dissolving our economy, AI is absolutely gangbusters at what it does. We don't use it in our studio though."

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 11/03/2026

I cannot stop thinking about Marathon: aftermath.site/marathon-bungi...

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