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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If all goes to plan I might see a friend and actually make some beeps this weekend… To imagine a reality any less ridiculous than this would be hubris 🤡⚡️🎹⚡️🤡

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Sunday reading/listening… 🖋️Alan Moore / 🎨Jacen Burrows: NEONOMICON (absolutely NOT safe to read on public transport😱) Clint Mansell w/ Kronos Quartet, Mogwai THE FOUNTAIN ost youtu.be/SjVO2t8BH9w?... “Together We Will Live Forever”🎶 #Lovecraft #Soundtrack

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

light afternoon reading with an apposite soundtrack to boot.. #HPLovecraft ‘s AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS Graphic novelisation by I.N.J. Culbard , Sonic interpretation by FINGERWOLF fingerwolf.com/album/at-the... @dustopianfreqs.bsky.social #Synth #Cassette #Electronica

Statue of Cthulhu sat alongside graphic novel and imagined soundtrack cassette of H. P. Lovecraft’s At The Mountains Of Madness. (Both covers depict gelid blue barren wastes with backgrounds of vertiginous peaks replete with cyclopean architecture).

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

22:05 tonight, #CellarClub @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social are showing THE STONE TAPE (‘72) youtu.be/RyzhioI9BcQ?... trail👆 …top-notch #NigelKneale script full of retrotechnical science and bizarre outbursts & #Radiophonic sound make this a quirkily unnerving spookfest 👻 #Horror

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Guerrilla gearing in Hades2. Today’s brief: Just make it sound wrong. #Electronica

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Tonight’s @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social #CellarClub.. 21:00 DOOMWATCH In The Dark 22:05 THE LIVING DEAD AT THE MANCHESTER MORGUE (‘74) 📽️trail youtu.be/pgNecvMX1ts?... ..featuring a great Giuliano Sorgini #Soundtrack 🎶”John Dalton Street” youtu.be/kAG3HsqMFUw?...

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Blimmin ‘eck it’s the 1st of may! WHITE RABBIT!! … here’s the theme and trail from HARVEY (1950) 🎶 youtu.be/hXVsOWrU6Ws?... 🎞️ youtu.be/dWmc_XRpa9U?... #JamesStewart #Pooka

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Another typical day in Hades😏.. but when my pal Vandal lights himself on sonic fire 🔊 🔥 .. I just let him burn. #Electronica #AnalogueHades

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

..tonight’s #CellarClub 21:00 DOOMWATCH Invasion 22:05 THE DRILLER KILLER (‘79) youtu.be/72QqZ6vWKKI?si… 📽️trail #TalkingPicturesTV #Horror @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

2/2 This little interface has nearly been dropped a couple of times when myself and certain friends have suffered from “over-merriment” (🍻) .. so I thought it time to make it a stable home. Of COURSE I got carried away☺️ I was gonna grind the bolts off, but I think I’ll leave em mad-maxy 🤔

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

1/2 What’s he building in there?? Here’s a bit of TOM WAITS youtu.be/04qPdGNA_KM?... thats been rattling around my head the past couple of days 🔧🔩..

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Keeping #TapeTuesday a sporadic and utterly unreliable affair (found this in a drawer🥳) BUTTHOLE SURFERS : PIOUHGD No, 👆that’s not autocorrect having an off-day youtu.be/BZR75yKs6qE?... 🎶”P.S.Y.” #Noise #PsychRock #ButtholeSurfers

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

#NowPlaying CHRIS AND COSEY EXOTICA youtu.be/Qv10JeOPuAo?... This record drifts in-and-out of favour with me every few years.. but today I’m enjoying it🤔 sorta. #Vinyl #Electronica

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

..10 minutes of rummaging in boxes but I KNEW I had a copy of this lunacy somewhere 🤪 here’s a trail for anyone who’s rapacious for ranidae 🐸 HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN (1988) youtu.be/JUml88mJxyQ?... #HellComesToFrogtown #RoddyPiper

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

#NowPlaying Colin Stetson UZUMAKI ost 🎶”Kirie and Shuichi” youtu.be/3O-9j8IfLQ0?... 👆a bit of light-relief amongst the pounding vorticular doom-jazz😄 Still not seen the anime but will keep an open mind despite the polarised “reviews”. #JunjiIto #Soundtrack #Vinyl #Anime

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

👋 hey! (Not sure where to reply with this) This just dropped last night (I’ve a track on it😉) dustopianfrequencies.bandcamp.com/album/fathom... Check it at your leisure🫡

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

#NowPlaying Basil Kirchin : THE MUTATIONS (AKA- The Freakmaker) 1974 🎶👇 youtu.be/JdmIqFdt3Kg?... trail👇 youtu.be/RsgmvtBBwp8?... [full??📽️👇] youtu.be/25GxODgvMJ0?... #Horror #Soundtrack #Vinyl #TrunkRecords

Illuminated sleeve for the new Trunk Records vinyl release of The Mutations OST - depicting mad scientist Donald Pleasence and a goofily-mutated Tom Baker looking at some mad-science off-screen.
Sleeve says “Unreleased Basil Kirchin film music from 1968 and 1974”

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

#NewMusic DFC21 /Various Artists FATHOMS 2 released on #Cassette & Digital at 8pmUK tonight dustopianfrequencies.bandcamp.com 8-tracks of Eldritch Electronica & Dread Ambience from the depths (& featuring a track by me😉) #Electronica @everydaydust.bsky.social @dustopianfreqs.bsky.social

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Dicking about with the TR-08 ‘s trigger function and ended-up blasting out some old-school electro blips☺️ I’m Picturing the neighbours gurning and doing “big-box, little-box” and obviously loving it!🤥 #Electro #Electronica #RolandBoutique

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Bit o Thursday #Prog CYBOTRON Gods Of Norse youtu.be/8FLRjhbq65Q?... ⬆️🎶✨✨✨ #Synths #Electronica

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

❗️NEW SERIES❗️ ..tonight’s #CellarClub kicks off with 21:00 DOOMWATCH The Plastic Eaters 22:05 THE MONSTER (‘75) (AKA I Don’t Want To Be Born) youtu.be/Et8QMJuj_Wc?si… 📽️trail #TalkingPicturesTV #Horror @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Just twigged that the music for the skeleton fight in The Seventh Voyage Of Sinbad (1958) youtube.com/clip/UgkxQid... ..reminds me of the End theme to Salem’s Lot (1979) youtu.be/Yos0zE16jCw?... …or the other way around😏

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Met a friend yesterday for a festive mooch and was given this.. ALEX KASSIAN X MAD PROFESSOR E2 -E4 youtu.be/aokAyHtWqoM?... A Reference To E2 - E4 by Manuel Göttsching Really flipping good😊 #NowPlaying #Vinyl #Electronica

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

#Horror to read at Christmas.. here’s a bit of #Lovecraft 📖 THE FESTIVAL ( 🖊️ 1923) www.hplovecraft.com/writings/tex... Seasons Greetings to all… I found this old chestnut in my photos but don’t think I ever posted it on here. ✌️

A pencil drawing of H. P. Lovecraft with additional white paper beard and red Santa hat. On his shoulder is a sprig of holly that has sprouted tentacles so it looks a bit like The Great Old One , Cthulhu

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

@talkingpicturestv.bsky.social AS BIG AS A BATTLESHIP.. 12:35 today on Talking Pictures TV THE GIANT CLAW (1957) youtu.be/Mk06zZ3iv6Y?si… 📽️trail #TalkingPicturesTV #Horror #SciFi

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

…getting there… possibly. 🤔 3/3

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Pre-Christmas bloop with me pal Vandal. Noodling, cans and commercial radio in the background for festivity (and the occasional sound-grab🤫) Might post clips later if anything manifests. ⚡️🤖⚡️🤖⚡️

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Trimmed-up. A conspiratorial friend suggested a glowing eye for atop the pyramid… the lunatic side of me is considering it😏 👁️✨

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

3/3 but I’m very happy with it!🥳(even if the manual sanding nearly tipped me over the edge😱) Just need lights and baubles🤔 Here’s something festive.. youtu.be/HM8qQ2LUeq8?... Seasons Greetings to all & hello new followers (I’m working through the followbacks✌️) #Christmas #ChristmasTree #Crafting

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

2/3 … and as per usual my ideas kinda ran ahead of me😏..

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

1/3 I’ve seen a few variations on this design and I had some dry pallets and packing at the back of the garage so thought I’d have a go at a Scrapmas Tree..

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Thanks Rich!! At the end of the day —it’s a lot of work for no reason whatsoever 😆.. but it kept me occupied 🤪 …also made some “Libation Retention Units” .. or “Booze-Shelvers” to the layman 😁✌️ Happy Saturday to ya buddy!🫡

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

.. it came out alright for a rotten lump🥳 (Well done Bat-Ears🐶 for ruining the shot🤪) youtu.be/tPtET2CV55g?... ⬆️Perry Como: Christmas Dream

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

2/3 … finally got it dried, filled, sanded and varnished.. now I’ll just let time do its thing 🤔

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

1/3 A few weeks ago I got bored and went snuffling round the woodpile for a seasonal crafting project. I found a lump of half-rotted birch I liked … but like a dingus I didn’t factor-in how long it would take to dry 🤤

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I can’t be the only person that owns a daft ornament that turns immediately DEMONIC as soon as it goes dark. I call this bugger “pip” and would happily bin him if I didn’t fear a curse😟 Here’s a scene from ROBIN REDBREAST (1970) youtu.be/Bzk1CclDIT4?... #FolkHorror #Horror #PlayForToday

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hey chap(s)🫡 Good to see you on here! I’ll continue to support as usual … and if I ever make headway with the backlog of unmixed/ unfinished tracks I’ve got I’ll be sure to give you a nod😉✌️

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I seem to be picking-up a bunch of new followers.. which is cool ! (It’ll take me a while to check everyone out👀, and hello to fellow “invalid handles”😄) Here’s an old track if anyone fancies a bit of eldritch electro.. (❗️flashing / disturbing images) youtu.be/gR0eVjOMnpw?... 🤖⚡️

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I’m not one for self promotion.. but feel free to add me to any musical lists. I’ll just leave this ⬇️ youtu.be/dKSp4J_9Wwc?... here. 🫡

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

@hauntedscreen.bsky.social (do gifs work yet??) (Hey @giornatanera.bsky.social … I hereby nominate you “THE DUKE “.. please tip me off if any of the old NETWORK pop-up here.. it’d be nice to get-back to old-school levels of lunacy-exchange 🤓😉) youtu.be/RWWTza2r0UY?... 🐙

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

… it’s #Halloween todays #Soundtrack and tonight’s film.. Fabio Frizzi ZOMBI(e)(2)(Flesheaters) youtu.be/BH2OPB7cjIU?si… 🎼”Seq. 8” youtu.be/Ngwa5xwI-eI?si 📼trail #HorrorSoundtrackAtoZ #31DaysOfHorror #ZombieFleshEaters #LucioFulci #Horror #Vinyl

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

🎃 #Zombies till #Halloween 🎃 Carl Zittrer CHILDREN SHOULDN’T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS (1972) youtu.be/xzAXrp2tUOo?si… 🎼Suite youtu.be/FrwAJWGYdqY?si 📼trail #HorrorSoundtrackAtoZ #31DaysOfHorror #Soundtrack #halloween2024 #Vinyl #Horror

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

🎃 #Zombies till #Halloween 🎃 Matt Clifford, Francis Haines, Robert Randles (et al) THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985) youtu.be/Aj2BwZ9SR_0?si… 🎼”Opening Titles (Trioxin Theme)” youtu.be/GkhCAV3wmIU?si 📼trail #HorrorSoundtrackAtoZ #31DaysOfHorror #Soundtrack

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

🎃 #Zombies till #Halloween 🎃 Giuliano Sorgini THE LIVING DEAD AT MANCHESTER MORGUE (1974) youtu.be/MTjRxj3S3EE?si… 🎼”John Dalton Street” youtu.be/wylJGnqcosA?si 📼trail #HorrorSoundtrackAtoZ #31DaysOfHorror #Soundtrack #halloween2024 #Vinyl #Horror

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

🎃#Zombies till Halloween🎃 Nico Fidenco ZOMBI(e) HOLOCAUST (1980) youtu.be/0aIZmGXC3mI?si… 🎼”Living In The Future” youtu.be/8aEBfKjjHlM?si 📼trail(🩸🩸) #HorrorSoundtrackAtoZ #31DaysOfHorror #Soundtrack #halloween2024 #Vinyl #Horror #DrButcherMD

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The Slow Engineer @theslowengineer.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

🎃Z🎃 Riz Ortolani ZEDER (1983) youtu.be/hL_jC564fHk?si… 🎼”Zeder (Tema - Titoli Di Testa)” youtu.be/imS9c7EEfmQ?si 📼trail 🇮🇹 #HorrorSoundtrackAtoZ #31DaysOfHorror #Soundtrack #halloween2024 #Vinyl #Horror #PupiAvati

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