Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Cultural moment. Everyone locked down in unreal pandemic quarantine grief having writers expertly pulling their strings while watching an unreal town in magickal quarantine having its strings pulled by a grieving witch. Stories about modern gods sometimes break containment and do really weird shit. 020
Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The first three episodes of WandaVision are up on YouTube, so I'm prepping for VisionQuest with a rewatch. Just saw the Family Ties/Roseanne episode, which is up there at the pinnacle of what television can accomplish, writers so in my head and breaking my heart that it feels like a magic trick.youtube.comMarvel Studios' WandaVision S1E1 | Full Episode | Disney+ Original SeriesYouTube video by Marvel Entertainment 120
Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Gafacci's recent streak is returning banger after banger. Go Ghana! 🇬🇭 @selvageflame.bsky.social - relevant to your interests.music.youtube.comDowadubYouTube video by Gafacci - Topic 000
Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026You're a child. You're cooking, you're making a snack. The salt mill falls from the counter and hits the floor. You know where this is going, if a tree falls in the forest etc. I feel as though you have to become a philosopher of evil as a parent in order to stay detached and curious. 011
Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I've clearly been so preoccupied this month that I've barely listened to anything new since. This is unlike me. Probably need to fix my heart. 000
Reposted by Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a TraceSeth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 04/09/2026It's Bandcamp Friday! Rather than touting my wares (Googleable) here's four I've enjoyed recently: selvageflame.bandcamp.com/album/archli... loulayorke.bandcamp.com/album/starli... partsandlabor.bandcamp.com/album/set-of... guttersnipe.bandcamp.com/album/extinc... Have a listen, buy and share. 121
Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026perfectyoutube.comHeat | Rom-Com TrailerYouTube video by Bertram Storm 010
Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Returning the Soul Stone as an homage to the Seventh Seal writes itself. Cap needs to preserve the timestream and wants to resurrect Natasha but can't bring himself to hand the Stone back to the guy he almost died fighting in WWII. Scott Walker already gave us the needle drop. It's too perfect. 000
Reposted by Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a TraceMoving Furniture Records / Orphax / Sietse @movingfurniturerecords.com · 28/09/2026I'm really excited to announce my new album . ‘En de stilstaande tijd voor (elektro-)akoestisch ensemble’ with Anne La Berge, Dario Calderone & Gareth Davis. The first album using my own name contemporaryseries.bandcamp.com/album/en-de-stilstaande-tijd-voor-elektro-akoestisch-ensemblecontemporaryseries.bandcamp.comEn de stilstaande tijd voor (elektro-)akoestisch ensemble, by Sietse van Erve3 track album 3165
Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026coining it: 'aspirational evil' I think he's conceptualising the competence of evil here in terms of the capability to inflict impact on the world, which is one of the most impoverished definitions of competence I've ever encountered. If you don't care about law and regulation then this is easy. 020
Reposted by Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a TraceKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility 5776512129
Reposted by Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a TraceSeth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Now here's a review I've never seen before - published in Bad Alchemy, reviewing 'egregore', an album by my duo with @domlash.bsky.social (Intonema, 2017). intonema.bandcamp.com/album/egregore www.badalchemy.de/download/bad... 011
Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Now here's a review I've never seen before - published in Bad Alchemy, reviewing 'egregore', an album by my duo with @domlash.bsky.social (Intonema, 2017). intonema.bandcamp.com/album/egregore www.badalchemy.de/download/bad... 011
Reposted by Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Tracebugpressure.bsky.social @bugpressure.bsky.social · 23/09/2026BIG thx to @normanrecords.com for making @ghostdubs.bsky.social 'Oblique' their 'New album of the day' today...! ❤️ www.normanrecords.com/features/bes... 192
Reposted by Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a TraceDJ Boozy Brunch @griph.bsky.social · 02/10/2023 6922164
Reposted by Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace⚡𝔅𝔲𝔟𝔟𝔩𝔢𝔤𝔲𝔪 𝔐𝔦𝔡𝔩𝔦𝔣𝔢 ℭ𝔯𝔦𝔰𝔦𝔰⚡ @bunnycartoon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Neon Genesis Evangelion, ep 13: 110229
Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I can't remember where I heard them. But given the period I started listening to them it was probably an MP3 post on @fluxblog.bsky.social 000
Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I'd only heard Batard Sensibles before this. It's super duper. 100
Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026today's secondhand haul 110
Reposted by Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a TraceKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 20/09/2026This thing I made two years ago continues to hold up pretty well 947288
Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Bastl Kastle 2 with Oliver Torr Glazmo Kick & Glazmo Skrub + Cyma Forma & Bambounou RND Synth #bastl #bastlkastle2 #cymaforma #cymaformarndsynth 010
Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Bastl Kastle 2 with Oliver Torr Glazmo Kick & Glazmo Skrub + Cyma Forma & Bambounou RND Synth #bastl #bastlkastle2 #cymaforma #cymaformarndsynth 140
Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 20/09/2026found my old european tour diary by accident while scanning through old files 120
Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Fabulous find in Oxfam Park Street yesterday. Saw them way back in the day at the Freebutt - @clivehenry.bsky.social, were you on the bill? Trying to remember why I was there, I have a fake memory of playing but maybe I was just driving? NP | N - nisennenmondainisennenmondai.bandcamp.comN, by nisennenmondai3 track album 221
Reposted by Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a TracePaulo da Fonseca @paulodafonseca.bsky.social · 19/09/2026hei! after a thousand of setbacks (I mean, these days and age) I finally managed to release new music. hope you're all well. love. lesondouble.bandcamp.com/album/wtiilesondouble.bandcamp.comwtii, by pä2 track album 0224
Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Every time I hear 'Clear' I get awestruck by the drum programming. Just ridiculously strong work. 000
Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026'Unknown Territory' and 'Clear' are well worth revisiting if you have time. Especially 'Clear' - I have a sense (that I'd like to research more) that it sits, under-acknowledged, in the line that runs through to The Bug and Hyperdub. 110
Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Simenon is ripe for a Primer. Such a lineage - Neneh Cherry, then Wild Bunch, ZTT, On-U Sound adjacent, a couple of Sinead O'Connor's best records (Thank You for Hearing Me, wow), Depeche Mode, now we're finding out that he remixed a whole lot of Bowie's 'Outside'. I think 'Clear' is so underrated. 100
Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Mind blown. Just discovered that Tim Simenon worked uncredited on Adamski's 'Killer' and an early version of Seal's 'Crazy'. 'Into the Dragon' was the first record I ever owned. 'Killer' was the first single, and 'Seal' the first album, that I bought with my own money - because I loved 'Crazy'. WTF 130
Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Knopfler would benefit from a primer mixtape. One of those careers where I don't know whether I'd ever want to put on a full record, but the standouts are outstanding. 210
Reposted by Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a TraceJason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1 4253902351
Reposted by Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a TraceLive Tapes @livetapes.heads.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026Heart Trio (William Parker / Hamid Drake / Cooper-Moore) - 9/11/26 - San Francisco, CA www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJKzjTDycCA 031
Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Where "WHSMITH" foreshadows the future political opinions of one member of The Smiths, singular: "What the Heck, Smith" 000
Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Enjoyed the bizarre sensory stuff at the "Anish Kapoor: Not a Painter" exhibition at the Hayward, even if I'm firmly on Semple's side. He should be making mirror mazes rather than exhibiting in galleries though. 010
Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 12/09/2026While Zorro is awesome, if you'd told me this morning that I would find a deep dive into the train physics from the 2005 Legend of Zorro fascinating I wouldn't have believed you. youtu.be/iyWyliFoCuk?...youtu.beVFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGi 242 Ft. Richard TaylorYouTube video by Corridor Crew 000
Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Reckon I've listened to the same loop on my Buddha Machine for thirty hours this week and now I hear it all the time. 000
Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026@erdjohann.eurosky.social modelling the finest in field recording snarkware 010
Reposted by Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Traceerdjohann @erdjohann.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026@sethcooke.bsky.social look what has arrived 0151
Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Dunno whether you've seen it, but I wrote album notes for Sightseer. They're at the Drive link on Bandcamp. 011
Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 08/09/2026My guess: it's due to the phase during which I edited heavily. Sightseer, Triangular Trade, Double B, Weigh the Word and the An Agoraphobe section of Selected Works all had a ton of it, most audibly Sightseer's micro-editing. After that I dialled it back, because I find editing totally joyless. 110
Reposted by Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a TraceBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/12/2024It has been a, uh, difficult week but I have not laughed louder and harder at something in a very long time than at this. 249122212792
Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"He wanted to talk about world peace and meditation, and I’m not into that." Herzog on David Lynch. We don't deserve you, Werner. 1287
Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 05/09/2026^^^ This is not the same thing as thinking their story and justification will work. Genuinely think they're taking a risk with whether this stunt will succeed. I'm slightly more cautiously optimistic than I was. It's a gamble, and I don't think it can be justified by financial short-termism. 000
Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I think it will be less straightforward than that. The reveal isn't who has been cast, because everyone knows that. It's how the story justifies the casting, and whether that pulls the rug out from under anything we thought we knew. Based on rumours we might not be told that in Doomsday. 100
Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 04/09/2026It's Bandcamp Friday! Rather than touting my wares (Googleable) here's four I've enjoyed recently: selvageflame.bandcamp.com/album/archli... loulayorke.bandcamp.com/album/starli... partsandlabor.bandcamp.com/album/set-of... guttersnipe.bandcamp.com/album/extinc... Have a listen, buy and share. 121
Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a Trace @sethcooke.bsky.social · 04/09/2026That's okay. Comments like that operate in accordance with the FLCL Quantity Theory of Doing Things for the Audience Personally, which lays out a framework explaining the phenomenon whereby nothing for some is counterbalanced by everything for others. 000
Reposted by Seth Cooke | Every Contact Leaves a TraceGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The government must know full well that many people have neither the space nor the money to store extra food in their homes. It is individuating responsibility for a collective problem. As usual, it is the poorest and most excluded who will suffer from it. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comMinister tells Brits to stock up on days of supplies after ‘supersize’ El Niño warningExclusive: Angela Eagle urges UK citizens to be ‘a bit more resilient’ as they plan for national emergencies 1032071793