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Cape of Irmin Schmidt's Sideburns

@thestain.bsky.social
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Tries to write book. Reads book instead. Loves unusual and obscure music, test cricket, retreating into history. Not one to grouse.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m on the newest episode of The Bugle with Andy Zaltzman and Catherine Bohart! It was a lot of fun!!
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World Leaders Forced to meet Trump
YouTube video by The Bugle
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Cape of Irmin Schmidt's Sideburns @thestain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For the first time in 3.5 years, I've just done an honest day's paid* work. They can knock me off the stats now. *payment pending
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Cape of Irmin Schmidt's Sideburns @thestain.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Doing a poo is FREE. They can never take that from you, for all their science.
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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Leaving card idea.
Think of me fondly and remember all those times I was right.
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Cape of Irmin Schmidt's Sideburns @thestain.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yes please
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Cape of Irmin Schmidt's Sideburns @thestain.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Don't get me started
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Cape of Irmin Schmidt's Sideburns @thestain.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm no expert
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Cape of Irmin Schmidt's Sideburns @thestain.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Sometimes there's too much music and it gets confusing. So today I will only be listing to Rob (and Rob-adjacent) music. So far...
Cover art of Lightning Dreamers, by Rob Mazurek (2023)
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Cape of Irmin Schmidt's Sideburns @thestain.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
@actualnames.bsky.social
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UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I cannot begin to tell you how much joy this music from Thailand, Mexico, Colombia, Ukraine, Costa Rica, Bulgaria, South Africa, Minneapolis, Chicago, Bournemouth and Croydon will bring you.
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The Best New Electronic Music on Bandcamp, August 2026
Our guide to the month’s crucial electronic LPs.
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Cape of Irmin Schmidt's Sideburns @thestain.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Make a band edible: The Vinegar Strokes
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:

[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]

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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 

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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.

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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free 
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-

BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister 

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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?

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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill

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HITLER:
What we are proposing -

CHURCHILL:
Hang on

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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -

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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here

BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate

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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate 
You don't debate fascists

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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!

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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...

CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-

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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!

BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak

[ends]
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odubhda @odubhda.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Now playing: Alice Coltrane's Universal Consciousness. Feel free to honk your horn.
Alice Coltrane's Universal Consciousness. A black vinyl LP on a Stanton turntable. Lego Wall-E looks on from the record shelves on the right.
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Cape of Irmin Schmidt's Sideburns @thestain.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Went looking on YouTube for some footage of John Fahey and got hit with this
A prick, holding a sign that says 'John Fahey'. There are guitars behind him. Bottom left it says 'acoustic life', which I suppose just means hearing things. He looks like he'd kill you for your liver.
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
We go somewhere different every night.
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Cape of Irmin Schmidt's Sideburns @thestain.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I taunted the devil to cum.
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Cape of Irmin Schmidt's Sideburns @thestain.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Sometimes you come across Mega City 4* in the wild and then you disappear into the ether. *Whatever band you loved at 15. I don't care. The one you liked was shit.
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Cape of Irmin Schmidt's Sideburns @thestain.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Every poo is a fight for survival. Either I die or the poo dies. Victor so far, but who writes the scripts?
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Cape of Irmin Schmidt's Sideburns @thestain.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I don't think Stephen Fry really works for Sainsbury.
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 05/09/2026
Loraine James has released a surprise new album, titled It’s Nothing Personal You can listen to the full LP here: @lojammusic.bsky.social @warprecords.bsky.social buff.ly/4IkOMqt
Black and white photograph of Loraine James sitting on some steps near a block of flats.
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Cape of Irmin Schmidt's Sideburns @thestain.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Why do you like the thing you like that I don't like?
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A man is vacuuming while trying to make conversation with someone in another room. He is thrilled with the turning radius of the machine. A voice from the other room yells, “What?” The vacuuming man yells back, “I said this puppy’s got serious turning radius.” It’s likely he’ll continue to repeat himself over the sound of the vacuum  Artist’s note: I’m always aiming for bold and sloppy line work. We achieved that here.
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Cape of Irmin Schmidt's Sideburns @thestain.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This new Klara Lewis has the air of unconcluded solo dances in an empty room. Which doesn't sound like a recommendation, but really is. klaralewis.bandcamp.com/album/opening
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Opening, by Klara Lewis
13 track album
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Shreya Ila Anasuya - THE POISON PALACE @thresholdrose.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
#BookSky, please let this post find any novelists debuting this/next year and living in the north of England.
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Cape of Irmin Schmidt's Sideburns @thestain.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
New Acid Mothers Temple is, I think, somewhere near the peak of their considerable powers vhfrecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-a-n...
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In A Not C, by Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
2 track album
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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The STR business model is simple. We buy a song, eg on Bandcamp, but raise the capital for that by borrowing against the song, so the debt is the song’s. Then we strip out ghost notes, backing vox, reverb, anything not essential and sell it off. In a few years we flip this optimized song for profit.
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Jules Rawlinson @julesrawlinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Some codes for Yield Point - Studies for physically modelled brass synthesis and Serge modular synthesiser. pixelmechanics.bandcamp.com/album/yield-... efx8-japv vejv-usht zudd-yabw n5qe-77d4 l88b-5jxa cznl-byab e3aq-xuuw rx96-5pj4 d4y2-b28a spua-xl77 Use them at: pixelmechanics.bandcamp.com/yum
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Yield Point, by Jules Rawlinson
9 track album
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flash kirstie gordon @artie.gay · 03/09/2026
Turning the Spinal Tap amp down a bit was my 9/11
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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Music production tip: A cool way to “build a track from scratch” is using AI. You’ll need to use a computer for this. Just type into an AI program on the computer what you want the track to sound like. But try not to type in anything that you don’t like, because that can make the track sound bad.
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Sean Reynard / Quentin Smirhes @seanreynard.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Tickling Susan's Fancy!
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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Jesus Bitches Spouse Argentina, San Juan, Catholic Church Records, 1655-2013
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Cape of Irmin Schmidt's Sideburns @thestain.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
name your favourite Bob
Flash from off of Fingerbobs, moving slowly, steadily
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DocHackenBOOOOOsh @dochackenbush.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Pistachio/Moustachio #art
Doodle of a pistachio and a pistachio with a moustache, labelled ’pistachio’ and ‘moustachio’, respectively.
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Cape of Irmin Schmidt's Sideburns @thestain.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
You think I couldn't kill you with my eyes?
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Cape of Irmin Schmidt's Sideburns @thestain.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It's nice to have techno, isn't it? For the centre. For the soul.
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Golden Brown @goldenbrownmusic.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Finally got around to listening to this and it’s extraordinary
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j-e-l 🎃 @jelbugle.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
#HomeMadeMusic A song about the future! cmajel.bandcamp.com/track/alone-...
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Alone in the Robotic Future, by The Various Artists
from the album Greatest Hits
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Cape of Irmin Schmidt's Sideburns @thestain.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Can't believe the spiders want my flesh ☹️
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: people standing at the barrier for a race track, watching as the cars race around the bend toward them. A man says, “here he comes… MACH 5 MONKEY!” Panel 2: in a split second moment which feels like an eternity, Mach 5 Monkey (a mandrill wearing sunglasses, steering the car with his foot) passes by and glances over his shades at an attractive young woman in the crowd. Panel 3: as the cars veer away, kicking up wind and dust, the crowd goes bananas. The young woman blushes and thinks, “he looked at me…”
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Cape of Irmin Schmidt's Sideburns @thestain.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRHe...
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Pet Shop Boys - It's A Sin (Official Video) [HD REMASTERED]
YouTube video by PetShopBoys Parlophone
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Cape of Irmin Schmidt's Sideburns @thestain.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
What the hell am I going to do with my weekend now, Joe Root? Selfish bastard. 🏏 #TheCricket
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Realm of Dusk @realm-of-dusk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
To make things free and easy, here are some codes for the new Realm of Dusk album. RIYL glitchy textures, analogue atmospheres, chaotic rhythms... Feel free to share. blastedgorse.bandcamp.com/yum cjlm-ux4m cfs6-jveg edh2-g8r3 8hed-ufx4 2c7c-jmma dpwc-ytyb unxl-hbdy v5eq-vw4r 9667-gwed nnnd-b4rc
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Cape of Irmin Schmidt's Sideburns @thestain.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Just remembering when Newport was the new Seattle
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Cape of Irmin Schmidt's Sideburns @thestain.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Ollie Robinson has a cartoon face #TheCricket #Analysis
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Cape of Irmin Schmidt's Sideburns @thestain.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This EP by the Tindersticks www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIkL...
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Kathleen
YouTube video by Tindersticks - Topic
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Mr Benn @thebowlerhatman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I spoke to David McKee's son about this exhibition last night. This is the McKee family archive and hasn't been exhibited before, so it's well worth seeing... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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As if by magic, Mr Benn appears in exhibition of late author's characters
An exhibition showcases the work and popular characters of late children's author and artist David McKee.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 15/08/2026
TW: Suicide If you tell people you have SI, many are likely to suggest you call 988 or text the suicide lifeline. These are good resources *if you need to be kept physically safe;* they are not as helpful if your ideations are passive. Allow me to share some things that have helped me. /1
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Cape of Irmin Schmidt's Sideburns @thestain.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
If you do it with a numb hand, it doesn't feel like someone else. It just makes it difficult to grip.
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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Jethro Dickweed England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
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Cape of Irmin Schmidt's Sideburns @thestain.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
#NowPlaying A Saturday classic. No praise high enough for this one. The sound of electric limbs.
Cover art of 808 State's phenomenal Newbuild album
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