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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧

@robdysonpr.uk
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🌃 @futuresounds.bsky.social writer, podcast mbr, & socials | 🏙 freelance public relations for charities & social purpose orgs | a founding mbr of @CharityComms.bsky.social | @CIPR.co.uk accredited #CassetteCulture #Vaporwave #Boombap #TwinPeaks

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 3h
9 more lining up.... #PhysicalMedia #DVD #October
A selection of dvds horror and horror adjacent:

Maniac, Wrong Turn, Satan's Little Helper, The Old Dark House, The Monster Squad, The Lost Boys, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Evil Dead II, Nothing But Trouble.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 5h
Funnily enough I am re-reading your Intervals of Darkness, this October 👻. Will be in the market to buy your new collection directly from you in a few weeks 😀🎃
Signed copy of Ray Newman's Intervals of Darkness- with a pair of glasses sitting on the cover.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 12h
Day 4 is a classic Cronenberg that I haven't watched for decades: 1986's The Fly.
A human hand - but a very different kind of insect leg - emerge from a black, ribbed pod. A bright white light obscures the rest of whatever is inside.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 14h
Third entry is James Whale's 1933 version of The Invisible Man. I'd not seen it before, and it had elements & performances that reminded me of The Old Dark House (which Whale had made the year before). Stoic, stiff upper lipped, with tinges of lunacy.
The Invisible Man movie poster has illustrations of central characters - including the iconic invisible man himself wrapped in bandages and wearing sunglasses.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 02/10/2026
Day 2, and I'm watching some eps of the new #AmericanHorrorStory13 #AHS13
AHS13 cover image has a hairless cat screaming at a bald woman wearing some kind of full body tights outfit and black leather high heeled shoes. She is contorting with her head in a weirdly low position and the red number 13 is covering her outfit.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 01/10/2026
First up, is The Willies (1990) starring Sean Astin - and some blink or you'll miss them cameos from some Twin Peaks actors.
A campfire at dusk is surrounded by tall trees, and a weird horrible face appears superimposed in the sky.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 01/10/2026
It's time for my annual 31 days of horror, spooky & adjacent movies & TV #October. Last year was pretty cool. Sure there will be some repeat viewings. I always watch underrated Canadian horror, Curtains, for example.
31 spooky and horror adjacent movies - one for each day of October. This was last year's effort.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 24/09/2026
The new issue of Save Ferric has landed through my letterbox, thanks and well done @mflah.bsky.social 👏🏽 📼 #CassetteCulture
Issue 3 of Mike Flaherty's brilliant cassette culture fanzine - spread out on a faux marble table top.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 22/09/2026
The benefits of a super early start for son's new school, is I get a run in through the local park / National Trust site before starting work for the day.
An early morning scene with the sun blazing across a large parkland area, with trees, grass and a blue sky in shot.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 22/09/2026
Before the coffee gets cold.
Coffee shop scene. A pair of blue teal Sony headphones sit beside a cup of coffee in a green mug and the novel Before the coffee gets cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 21/09/2026
Someone say #MinidiscMonday? The The / Dusk / 1993
The The's Dusk features artwork by Matt Johnson's brother, Andy - an image of a tortured, red, being- with gnashing teeth and blue eyes, he could be a devil or a man. A cityscape is seen behind him (London?) And a starry night sky above. A Sony Minidisc player sits beside the box.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 20/09/2026
#Shocktober #Halloween My brother bought me this - it's a copy of a much beloved book that my nan used to have in her house, and every Saturday I would eagerly leaf through its pages when I was waaaaay too young, and find comfort in its macabre and terrifying imagery. It's why I love horror today.
Peter Cushing watches Shane Briant analysing a Frankenstein style man - completely white but with blood red markings round his head and neck, in Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (Hammer 1973) on the front of a hardback entitled 'Horror Films' by Alan Frank (1977).
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 20/09/2026
#comics
Biffo the bear from a 1969 issue of The Beano, declares "This - ha-ha- new hairy carpet of mine - tee-hee- isn't half tickly! Haw-haw!" As a shocked boy looks on; hat jumping from his head in confusion and fear.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 18/09/2026
Well that was very fun to build :) Perfect unwinding task. #Lego #Gameboy
A Lego Game boy with incredible detail and 'moving' faux screen sits beside a Lego Zelda game cartridge. They are on a shelf beside a fake Lego record player, a vintage toy van with Marvel characters on it, and various books about art, hiphop and cassette culture.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 13/09/2026
Vinyl too 🩶. Reading this right now - fantastic.
Long Shadows, High Hopes. The life and times of Matt Johnson and The The by Neil Fraser
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 13/09/2026
#Cassunday I'm going through a massive The The period; Matt Johnson was an outlier in the 80s and early 90s for marrying pop rock and social commentary before his peers. This is a banger. Mind Bomb // The The 1989 // Some Bizarre/Epic records.
The cover of Mind Bomb carries a photo of Matt Johnson's face instead of the usual, more surreal and challenging, artwork by his brother Andy "Dog" Johnson.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 07/09/2026
Gonna need some more shelves. Again. #CassetteCulture #CassetteCollector #CassetteCollection #CassetteLife #Vaporwave #Synthwave #FutureFunk #Slushwave
3 layers of stacked cassette tapes. A pair of Sony headphones, a Sanyo Walkman, and a Helios bust also feature in the scene.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 06/09/2026
Super chuffed with my *strictly limited* edition @strawberrystation.bsky.social mixtape, made especially for @mypetflamingo.bsky.social's Eccos of the Past #vaporwave & #FutureFunk night @ Folklore, London 5/9/26. Picked up some stickers from Strawbs too. Lovely to meet you again, man. Top set!
Strictly limited mixtape made for Eccos of the Past gig in 2026. It features a colourful line drawing of a girl in pigtails. The tape itself sits inside a Samsung Walkman, and is surrounded by Japanese anime style stickers themed around Strawberry Station's logo, releases and aesthetic. Strawberry Station loving life during his set at Eccos of the Past. He is wearing a classic Floral Shoppe tee.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 06/09/2026
Desert Sand Feels Warm at Night / 新世界の弟子たち [New World Disciples] / 2021 @desertsand.bsky.social. Artwork by @zer0rei.bsky.social. Signed copy. #Cassunday #CassetteCulture #Slushwave
Artwork by Zer0 Rei. A surreal Dune-like desert with a red sky features a shadowy hooded figure standing in front of pyramid sculptures. An obi strip lies next to the tape with Japanese writing on it. A Sanyo Walkman lays open with a golden and deep red / brown cassette inside.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 25/08/2026
It's my birthday and I am on a beach in Greece reading about Matt Johnson and The The. All is right with my little world today.
A beach scene. A biography of Matt Johnson of The The sits on a lounger, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. The sun glistens on the waves.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 23/08/2026
#Cassunday Donor Lens // As Still As Spring // 2026 // @mypetflamingo.bsky.social
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 16/08/2026
Synthwave supremo L'Avenue's cassettes dropped this week for new album, En Vogue. And it's some of his best work without a doubt. #synthwave #NewMusic #CassetteCulture #Cassunday
L'Avenue's new album En Vogue features a stylised image of a young woman in an 80s high end fashion shoot. We see her face close up as she wears a pink triangular earing and 80s aesthetic make-up. She is a brunette. The tape box sits on a Sanyo Walkman - visible inside is a matching hot pink tape with sharp firey shards on the design. They all rest on a white plain surface.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 22/07/2026
Check your bowels, guys. After years of problems, a rather unpleasant sigmoidoscopy procedure today diagnosed diverticular disease. Rather that than anything more sinister! God bless the NHS though; all free (i.e paid for by my taxes), and each specialist had a smile, good humour & kindness.
I look like this because 1/3 of my bowel had just been examined via you know where. But it's okay, guys.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 18/07/2026
Incredible scenes watching this IRL this afternoon. BBC News - London Diamond League results: Josh Kerr smashes men's mile world record - BBC Sport www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athlet...
GB's Josh Kerr doing a runaround after beating a 27 year held world record for fastest run mile.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 18/07/2026
At the London Olympic Stadium for the London Athletics Meet 2026 #LondonDL @diamondleague.bsky.social
Three of us outside the London StadiumTrack and field sceneTrack and field scene
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 14/07/2026
Yes! The plus side of this incredible heat and sunshine, this year my garden tomato crop is coming in properly. Last year they stayed green on the vine and I had to make a chutney from them. #Homegrown
An outstretched arm holding a picked tomato from a plant.Tomatoes ripening on a plant.Picked homegrown tomatoes in a bowl.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 05/07/2026
All the things at once. Trying to double screen #Wimbledon and #FIBA qualifiers at the same time. Come on GB basketball, and let's have Djokovic beat the Russian.
GB playing Iceland to qualify in the FIBA World Cup (basketball)Djocovic playing Safiullin at Wimbledon.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 04/07/2026
Well done Fery !! Epic match tonight (which I watched from home), but I saw him this week at the tournament IRL, playing Otto Virtanen. Amazing wildcard GB, making opportunities, and now in top 100 players #Wimbledon 🎾
Arthur Fery gets ready to serve.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 01/07/2026
Incredible to be able to get resale tickets at Wimbledon yesterday to witness Serena Williams playing. She put up a huge effort to challenge Maya Joint; the younger player eventually taking the 3rd set to win. What a legend though.
Dodgy phone pic of Serena Williams - using pop filterSerena Williams in full swing, returning a pointUnder the closed roof at Centre Court at Wimbledon - early second set, with Serena Williams on the right, and Australian Maya Joint on the left.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 23/06/2026
Great - HOT AF - day at the Wimbledon Qualifiers in Roehampton yesterday (I was spotted on the telly apparently). Saw a few GBR players - including Dan Evans, and Paul Jubb, respectively win their matches. Well done, fellas.
Dan Evans in full flow, returning a serve at the Wimbledon QualifiersPaul Jubb, 27 year old at the start of his Wimbledon career - having debuted a couple of short years ago.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 21/06/2026
Advertise your Bluesky account with a Simpsons image.
The Simpsons meme of grandpa in the paper while he shakes his fist at the sky - with the headline 'Old Man Yells At Cloud'.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 20/06/2026
Billy Nomates, and Soul II Soul were absolute highlights and long sought-after live gigs, today @mertoncouncil.bsky.social #StartOfTheLine festival ♥️
Jazzie B of Soul II SoulSoul II Soul (2026 version)The fantastic Billy NomatesBilly Nomates (Tor) on the Start of The Line Main stage.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 18/06/2026
Very much looking forward to digging into @helenebismarck.bsky.social's new book, Fantastic Kingdom, in the coming days. It's just arrived :)
Helen Von Bismarck's Fantastic Kingdom sits in half-sunlight on a chair with a grey, white, and yellow rectangular design.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 14/06/2026
Saw a Saga single issue (#43) in local @thebhf.bsky.social charity shop, which always gets lots of (likely one individual's) comics and graphics novels. Read it before digitally but nice to own in hardcopy. #ComicSky
Issue 43 of Saga comic has protagonist, Alana, on a strange looking horse with colourful stripes and a mohican. She is dressed like a cowboy.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 05/06/2026
Finally home after a brilliant 2 days supporting the Chartered Institute of Fundraising's Let's Talk podcast at the annual convention and awards. I did find 5mins to read though....
Rob is sitting in a ridiculously oversized deckchair, with Chartered Institute of Fundraising branding, reading AI for Public Relations, edited by Stephen Waddington and Ben Verinder.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 01/06/2026
Be an ally. Everyday.
A My Pet Flamingo dad cap, which I wear pretty much every day, especially in this sunny weather - with a straight-ally pride badge pinned to the side.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 18/05/2026
I find it "interesting" that once again BBC News has led with a story with Reform voter dog whistles. It's on migrant phone shopkeepers running operations which "fund smugglers and small boats". It's similar to one on legal advisors "coaching migrants to pose as gay" in order to seek UK asylum...
A screengrab of BBC News website. Underneath the one headlined "UK companies linked to payments for small boats, BBC finds" is an emerging story about WHO giving up an update on the Ebola and Hantavirus outbreaks.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 18/05/2026
It's always a great day at the Super League Basketball playoffs, and an antidote to the political, culture war divisiveness going on the background. Pledging to myself to expend more energy in fun stuff - and to supporting the London Lions all year round! 🏀🦁
A big crown sitting inside the o2 arena in London, at the centre on the ground is a large basketball court.Closer action of play inside the o2 arena. A large crowd watches the London Lions play the Cheshire Phoenix basketball teams.Close up of a dance troupe entertaining the o2 arena crowds in between play.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 12/05/2026
It's arrived! @stephenwaddington.bsky.social & Ben Verinder's new book, 'AI for Public Relations', joins my well-read FuturePRoof no. 6 (AI tools for PR) as part of my reading list. & just for the irony / old school touch, I've laid them next to my trusty & battered Filofax - which I use everyday.
'AI for Public Relations' lies next to FuturePRoof edition 6 (AI tools for PR). And just for the irony / old school touch, I've laid them next to my trusty and battered Filofax - which I use everyday for appointments, meetings notes, and scraps of things to remember. Keeping it analogue.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 11/05/2026
Reading Csikszentmihalyi's 1990 classic, 'Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience', & can't help but attach some of his thinking to the prolific use of AI now. Ppl are outsourcing their happiness - & cognitive ability; & becoming miserable as they give away the enjoyment of learning to machines.
Image is a battered edition of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s 1990 book, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. It's a lovely teal colour.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 10/05/2026
Okay - this rayu, made by friends of friends - is well nice on avocado on toast, with a lentil, tomato, mustard, & dill salad on the side. What you having for brunch?
Korean style peanut rayu on avocado on toast, with a lentil, tomato & dill salad on the side.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 08/05/2026
Here we go again. Cc @hopenothate.org.uk
Image shows a hand holding the hardback edition of lifelong campaigner against the far right, Nick Lowles' book How To Defeat The Far Right.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 08/05/2026
Kanji and vaporwave aesthetic continuing to represent in mainstream fashion....these in Sainsbury's:
Two tshirts with kanji style writing - one a brand link-up with the Peanuts cartoon strip, and the other a kids shirt with gaming icons and elongated / glitchy slogans.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 04/05/2026
Joined MC Till's Everybody's HipHop community, finally. My go to for new boombap every month 🎧. Chipping in where I can - discovered loads of new hiphop artists and releases from Till.
An image of a boombox with Everybody's HipHop written above it. At the bottom is membership details for Rob Dyson.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 02/05/2026
Can confirm the cassette-boxed USB plug and play version of Nobody Here looks amazing in HD in my telly.
A big screen TV is showing a USB plug and play HD version of the vaporwave documentary Nobody Here. A lego portrait of Batman looks on.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 27/04/2026
Some evening Mac Lacrosse / @occams-laser.bsky.social in the form of 2023's Truth Decay. Love side 2 in particular.
The cassette cover of Truth Decay has a faux ripped barcode sticker over the top of a young woman's face; cut off at her eyes - she has her fingers lightly touching the bottom lip of her mouth which wears glossy red lipstick. It resembles a fashion magazine photograph. 

The tape sits on a Sanyo Walkman.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 26/04/2026
Yay there I am in the credits 😄
Indiegogo crowdfunder backers in the credits of Nobody Here. Rob Dyson is circled in blue.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 26/04/2026
Lovely morning stroll / jog with these companions.
Shit South London graffiti My feet in a pair of old maroon Adidas with holes everywhere A beauty spot of river, trees and wildlife in South London (River Wandle)Oooh Rap I Ya by George Clanton - which has an abstract cover design in oranges, blues, yellows and green
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 25/04/2026
Another fun fact, I love cooking - and here is tonight's "scruffy lasagne".
A plate of scruffy lasagne with wholewheat past sheets broken up and cooked inside a mix of beef mince, carrots, celery, cauliflower, baby spinach, tahini, oregano, miso paste, sundried tomatoes,green lentils, smoked paprika, onion, garlic - topped with basil and chili flakes.
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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 24/04/2026
Fun fact, my journey into loving synthesised music - which would ultimately lead me to synthwave and vaporwave - began in the late 1980s when my parents took us to the Ideal Home Exhibition in London, and at one point there was a huge laser light show set to Jean Michel Jarre music. It was profound.
A laser show scene inside a large venue.
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