Another post about my time on Twitter. I will post the code in a separate post so that the R-bloggers don’t syndicate this one, which is about music.
In my time on Twitter I occasionally posted about what I was listening to. I did this with a #NowPlaying hashtag. I wanted to preserve these tweets – and they can all be found below.
My main motivation with tweeting #NowPlaying was to bring music I enjoyed to other people’s attention. I love finding music I haven’t heard before and wanted to contribute. Sometimes my #NowPlaying tweets were a tribute to someone who had died (or some other occasion). OK I’ll admit it, some of them were a bit “look at me and my eclectic music taste”.
They were always something that I owned (in electronic form) as I don’t stream music as a rule. I tried to provide a bandcamp link in more recent times to encourage people to support the artist.
#NowPlaying over the years
I wrangled a way to look at my #NowPlaying frequency as a calendar heatmap. I tended to send one #NowPlaying tweet per day, at most two. The exception was the EU Referendum day when I decided to post music from non-UK artists, one from a different European country, in support of the Remain vote. That day appears yellow in mid-2016. I’ll post the code for this separately.
I was pretty consistent at posting #NowPlaying tweets. Although they tailed off in 2019 and came back strong in 2020. I don’t remember a reason for that.
Having done some shenanigans in R with my Twitter data over the last week or so, I realised I could preserve these tweets and post them here on quantixed for posterity. It was simply a case of grepl with ignore.case to get them all and then some standard wrangling to output them as plain text, into markdown and then paste here.
What was playing
Below are all the #NowPlaying tweets in almost all their glory (links and images have been removed).
2012-05-30 11:55:46
Enjoying listening to the Game Love single by @gulpworld on this beautifully sunny day. #nowplaying
2012-07-03 10:02:28
#nowplaying Jacob’s Mouse – No Fish Shop Parking. The best (only?) band to come out of Bury St. Edmunds.
2012-07-10 07:59:01
#nowplaying My Bloody Valentine – Glider EP #shoegaze
2012-07-20 07:44:44
Starting the day with some jazzcore from Finland. Deep Turtle – Turkele!! #nowplaying #musicsnob
2012-07-31 08:54:13
#nowplaying The Upsetters – Super Ape
2012-08-29 07:38:23
#nowplaying No-one can drag me down by Cate Lebon
2012-09-25 07:45:29
#nowplaying Tweez – Slint. A bit of Math Rock to accompany some curve fitting.
2012-10-04 08:09:46
#nowplaying Outside In – @cianciaran finally got round to buying this. Sounds good. Different to Acid Casuals.
2012-10-12 15:46:22
#nowplaying Outer Limits – Sleep ‚àû Over (I think you say her name: Sleep Over Forever)
2012-10-16 10:30:46
#nowplaying George Best – The Wedding Present. Well, I am heading for Leeds, seems only right.
2012-10-29 14:10:35
#nowplaying High Land, Hard Rain – Aztec Camera. Excellent for writing to.
2012-11-14 08:29:17
#nowplaying silence. I hate “hidden tracks” at the end of CDs released in the 90s.
2012-11-21 09:02:00
#nowplaying Talk Talk – Laughing Stock. Excellent accompaniment for writing and rewriting and rewriting…
2012-11-28 07:46:40
#nowplaying Naked City – Torture Garden. Jazz muso John Zorn’s grindcore adventure album. Not played it in >20 yr. Better than I remembered.
2012-12-06 07:51:11
#nowplaying a bit of Dave Brubeck. I only own “Ken Burns Jazz” compilation CD. That will have to do. #musicsnob
2013-01-25 08:14:52
#nowplaying Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song) – Billy Joel. #moving
2013-02-21 08:43:16
#nowplaying Phantom Limb – The Shins from Wincing the Night Away. Great song awesome lyric. 11th most played track in my library apparently.
2013-03-10 20:33:18
#nowplaying Miles Davis – Water Babies. Big thanks to the person who donated all the Miles Davis CD reissues to Oxfam in Kenilworth.
2013-03-29 21:42:06
#nowplaying Dear 23 – The Posies. Great LP. John Leckie producing. Crazy phasing on Suddenly Mary.
2013-04-05 11:27:41
#nowplaying Olivia Tremor Control at Georgia Theatre 26/7/12. Last performance before Bill Doss died. Legal bootleg:
2013-04-19 08:11:16
#nowplaying An album with a scanning EM image on the cover. 10 points to anyone who can guess which album from that description!
2013-05-21 07:29:59
#nowplaying Morrison Hotel – The Doors. Farewell, Ray.
2013-06-06 09:31:00
#NowPlaying Isao Tomita – The Planets. 70s Japanese electronica, classic LP. Withdrawn from sale at request of Holst’s relatives for heresy.
2013-06-28 09:47:26
#NowPlaying Pixies – Bagboy.
2013-07-09 12:31:55
#nowplaying Faust – Faust. #krautrock
2013-07-18 08:54:55
#nowplaying Grandaddy – The Sophtware Slump. Riley played “He’s Simple, He’s Dumb, He’s The Pilot” last night on @BBC6Music – what a track!
2013-07-25 10:33:15
#nowplaying Yo La Tengo – Painful. Great 90s shoegaze LP. Fantastic noise.
2013-08-01 10:49:36
#nowplaying September Gurls – Big Star from Radio City LP. Guitar sound is the sparkliest since Nowhere Man – what a song.
2013-08-21 07:29:29
#nowplaying Alvino Rey – My Buddy. Fine pedal steel guitar with a strange vocoder-like device he invented in late 1930s.
2013-09-05 12:46:36
#nowplaying My Bloody Valentine bootleg San Francisco 2013. Verdict: listen to the original records instead.
2013-09-09 12:26:21
#NowPlaying They Are Nothing Without Us – @cianciaran. Read that the drums were too high in the mix, but it sounds just fine to me!
2013-10-21 08:44:11
#NowPlaying Roman Candle – Elliott Smith. The original CD (not the remaster) with all the tape hiss and string squeaks: lo-fi goodness.
2013-10-21 12:24:05
@sr120 @caseybergman Currently on Either/Or (Between the Bars #NowPlaying). Many alternative mixes and boots after this LP chronologically.
2013-10-25 13:42:44
#nowplaying Up The Bakerloo Line With Anne – Can from The Peel Sessions 73-75 #keepingitpeel
2013-10-29 12:40:37
#nowplaying The Flaming Lips – Race For The Prize from The Soft Bulletin. Not sure whether or not this is motivating for manuscript writing.
2013-11-22 07:53:18
#nowplaying Tussle by Day Ravies. Shoegaze/noise pop from Australia. Great artwork if nothing else.
2013-12-02 09:14:41
Manuscript writing/rewriting/eviscerating. #nowplaying U.F.Orb – The Orb.
2013-12-20 16:16:52
#NowPlaying Atheist Xmas EP – Gruff Rhys.
2014-01-15 13:27:33
#nowplaying Along The Banks of Rivers – Tortoise (from Millions Now Living Will Never Die). Awesome finish to an excellent LP.
2014-02-12 09:07:13
#nowplaying Give Him A Ball (And A Yard Of Grass) – Sultans of Ping F.C. from …Cineplex LP. A tribute to the wit and wisdom Brian Clough.
2014-02-12 13:14:47
#nowplaying John Peel’s Radio Show 27th December 1989 – Three great sessions. Recommended! cc @peel07
2014-02-21 08:21:26
#nowplaying Scorn – Vae Solis.
2014-02-25 21:43:49
#nowplaying Outlander – Meic Stevens. Welsh psychedelic folk strangeness. Good accompaniment to data analysis.
2014-03-04 13:42:49
#nowplaying Silverfish – Fat Axl LP. Fantastic 90s noise-rock, sort of riot grrl-ish.
2014-03-07 07:51:38
#nowplaying Cemetry Gates – The Smiths. Guitar layering by Marr/Street is so good. My fave is the slide with chorus at ~1:45 in R channel.
2014-04-17 08:38:45
I’m in Coventry. There’s hardly anyone on campus. Ghost Town by The Specials it is then! #nowplaying
2014-04-27 20:02:07
#nowplaying Mingus Ah Um – Charles Mingus. Legacy Edition. Sounds great.
2014-05-02 07:05:00
#nowplaying The Caves of Altamira – Steely Dan. Killer track with outstanding drumming by Bernard Purdie. See/hear also: Home at Last (Aja)
2014-05-17 22:06:56
#nowplaying If I Could Only Remember My Name – David Crosby. Crystal clear californian harmonies. Thanks to @sr120 for the recommendation.
2014-05-29 16:25:33
#nowplaying Hastily assembled Cambridge playlist: Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, Syd Barrett, Soft Boys. What am I missing?
2014-06-06 09:28:51
#nowplaying A Love Supreme – John Coltrane. #writing
2014-07-02 16:50:30
#nowplaying Knee Deep in Evil – 70 Gwen Party. Very strange 7″ single released in 1992 #keepingitpeel
2014-07-18 08:35:26
#nowplaying Organ Yn Dy Geg – Super Furry Animals from Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyndrobwllantysiliogogogochynygofod (in space) EP #Ankst
2014-09-23 08:08:53
#nowplaying Come On Die Young – Mogwai
2014-10-10 07:12:45
#nowplaying Trompe Le Monde – Pixies. Featuring two songs with the same equation in the title and lyrics, respectively. d = r x t
2014-10-18 19:21:21
#nowplaying Austin Psych Fest 2014 mixtape
2014-10-22 12:09:48
#nowplaying Live in Ravenna – Moon Duo
2014-11-13 10:24:01
#nowplaying Evanescence – Scorn. Incredible record. 82 on this list – between Seamonsters and Laughing Stock!
2014-11-26 10:12:13
#nowplaying Five Leaves Left – Nick Drake. Going through his back catalogue (a day late). Love the attack and tone of his guitar playing.
2014-12-09 17:37:50
#nowplaying Liberia – John Coltrane Quartet from Live at the Jazz Gallery. 15 minutes in and I swear he hasn’t taken a breath.
2014-12-19 07:24:54
Sad news John Fry has died. #nowplaying September Gurls – Big Star. Love the sound: chiming guitar, thundering drums
2015-02-11 20:36:30
#nowplaying Sister I’m A Poet – Morrissey. What a great track, Stephen Street playing like Andy Rourke. Why was this a B-side?
2015-03-16 07:31:04
#nowplaying This Charming Man – The Smiths. I have 8 instances of this song in my iTunes library, only 2 are identical…
2015-03-20 09:21:15
#nowplaying “Looking At The Sun” Matthew Sweet from Girlfriend. #eclipse.
2015-05-13 08:29:52
#nowplaying W H O K I L L – by tUnE-yArDs. I am undoubtedly not cool enough to listen to this record. Feel very old.
2015-05-20 07:41:58
#nowplaying Mwng (reissue) – Super Furry Animals. Worth buying again if only for the version of Ymaelodi √Ç’r Ymylon live at ATP, 2000.
2015-06-08 16:28:55
Manuscript resubmission soundtrack: √ò√ò Void – Sunn O))) #nowplaying
2015-07-22 19:51:09
#nowplaying BBC World Service programme about Maurice Wilkins
2015-08-04 16:18:43
#nowplaying Hey Baby – Chia Pet. To be honest it’s been Riot Grrrl all day today at Royle Lab HQ…
2015-08-17 22:30:39
#NowPlaying Auster – Wozniak. Shoegaze/post-rock.
2015-08-28 07:35:12
#nowplaying Credit To The Nation – Take Dis. Thank you to whoever donated this to Scope last week thereby reuniting me with this record.
2015-09-17 06:27:41
#nowplaying Cardiff In The Sun -Super Furry Animals. I’m staying in the redeveloped waterfront area. Lyrics are spot on.
2015-10-12 20:44:49
#nowplaying 808 State – Quadrastate. Closest thing I have to a time machine #oldskool
2015-10-16 08:33:46
#nowplaying “Hairdresser on Fire” Morrissey. B-side of the Suedehead single. Possibly his finest track.
2015-10-19 07:11:04
#nowplaying Spy vs Spy: The Music of Ornette Coleman – John Zorn. Probably the least far-out of all the Zorn I own.
2015-10-25 20:06:35
#nowplaying Hazy Lazy Hologram – Dr Phibes & The House of Wax Equations. Heard this first, like so much of my music, on Peel. #keepingitpeel
2015-10-27 09:26:18
#nowplaying Air Formation – Were We Ever Here EP. Limited edition vinyl (run of 250) from Club AC30 long gone.
2015-10-30 06:50:25
#nowplaying Royal Headache. The Guardian calls it “soul punk magic”, but it’s just great garage rock from Australia.
2015-11-13 07:48:27
#nowplaying Summerteeth – Wilco. Number 1 in this countdown of 90s music that I’ve been following this year.
2015-11-26 14:52:19
#NowPlaying Everyone’s A Critic – Boyracer. A song about peer review?
2016-01-11 07:09:03
#NowPlaying Hunky Dory – David Bowie
2016-02-10 08:08:54
#NowPlaying Surfing on Sine Waves – Polygon Window. Great music to write to.
2016-02-11 08:11:21
#NowPlaying Race For The Prize – The Flaming Lips. The best (only?) song about scientific priority.
2016-02-12 21:03:47
#NowPlaying Live at WFMU – Silver Pines. 2009 session from Sleep ‚àû Over and Pure X crossover band.
2016-03-08 13:09:49
#NowPlaying Welcome To The Club – Venus In Furs. Shouty surf punk rock for #IWD2016
2016-04-01 13:16:13
#nowplaying Here Comes The Flood by The Divine Comedy from Fin de Siècle.
2016-04-20 07:31:13
#nowplaying How To Die In The North – BC Camplight. Great record on constant rotation.
2016-04-27 07:26:10
#nowplaying This Is It! MOJO presents the projected sound of 2016. Some fine psych on this compilation.
2016-05-18 11:12:08
#nowplaying The Posies – Solid States. Before that, Robert Johnson. From 1936 to 2016 in an instant.
2016-06-10 07:17:22
#NowPlaying The Stone Roses – Beautiful Thing.
2016-06-23 08:18:51
Going for a non-UK EU playlist today. First up Seaside Stars – Magic of Stereo. Germany’s answer to Teenage Fanclub. #NowPlaying #VoteRemain
2016-06-23 10:47:19
#NowPlaying Manu Chao – Clandestino. Multi-linguistic street music from France. #VoteRemain
2016-06-23 11:33:28
#NowPlaying The Merrymakers – Bubblegun. Swedish powerpop featuring the wonderful @davidmyhr #EUplaylist #VoteRemain
2016-06-23 12:35:37
#NowPlaying Hardfloor – Acperience. Acid trance from Germany replete with Roland 303s. #EUPlaylist #VoteRemain
2016-06-23 13:12:14
#NowPlaying The Frank and Walters – Trains, Boats and Planes. Fine indie pop from Cork, Ireland. #EUPlaylist #VoteRemain
2016-06-23 13:47:19
#NowPlaying Le Mans – Saudade. Spanish (possibly Basque) indie gem on Elefant Records. #EUPlaylist #VoteRemain
2016-06-23 14:22:10
#NowPlaying Monade – Socialisme ou Barbarie. Kind of lo-fi electropop from Bordeaux, France. #EUPlaylist #VoteRemain
2016-06-23 15:03:11
#NowPlaying Gabriel Yared Р37°2 le matin. Classic French soundtrack LP from the 1980s. #EUPlaylist #VoteRemain
2016-06-23 15:34:09
#NowPlaying Deep Turtle from Mykistäviä Välikohtauksia compliation of Finnish electro-punk. #EUPlaylist #VoteRemain
2016-06-23 16:12:14
#NowPlaying Europe – The Final Countdown. Yes, I do have this track. Swedish power lite-metal anthem. #EUPlaylist #VoteRemain
2016-06-23 16:19:01
#NowPlaying The Wannadies РBe A Girl. From Skellefteå, SWE. Sweden produces some of the finest power pop. #EUPlaylist #VoteRemain
2016-06-24 06:59:53
#NowPlaying Little Britain – Dreadzone. 🙁
2016-07-01 12:46:28
#NowPlaying Stanley Odd – It’s All Gone To Fuck. Edinburgh rock/rap with Brexit video via Vinyl Villain.
2016-07-06 17:24:33
#NowPlaying Bing Bong – SFA. Come on Wales!
2016-08-09 15:40:41
#NowPlaying Tweez – Slint. Excellent pre-Spiderland math-rock/post-rock that is good for writing to.
2016-08-24 08:14:24
#nowplaying Free Jazz – Ornette Coleman Double Quartet. One quartet in each ear. Jackson Pollock painting on the cover. What’s not to like?
2016-09-15 22:24:35
#NowPlaying Look Park by @lookpark. Laid back and catchy. Enjoying it a lot.
2016-10-13 10:37:09
#nowplaying Set Fire to the Stars – Gruff Rhys @gruffingtonpost on @KeepersFinders Records.
2016-11-23 12:21:51
#nowplaying Sir Robin & The Longbowmen eponymous album. Very good psych/Garage Rock.
2016-11-24 09:10:24
Heading to Cambridge for a PhD viva. Cambridge playlist: #nowplaying Godfather demo. Friend of a friend in this band
2016-12-10 22:44:36
#nowplaying Suzanne Ciani – Buchla Concerts 1975. Synth wizardry/demo from Moog’s rival.
2017-02-01 08:44:33
#nowplaying Orchestral version of Gwreiddiau Dwfn, part of the last track on Super Furry Animals Mwng LP. Sounds great.
2017-03-07 07:28:00
#nowplaying Elliott Smith 1999-04-17. Bootleg gem-good sound. Urgent, full band treatment frm XO/F8 era HT pitchfork
2017-05-09 10:14:44
Heading to Manchester. #nowplaying Power, Corruption and Lies – New Order.
2017-06-02 09:22:09
#nowplaying Kick Out The Tories – Newtown Neurotics.
2017-07-13 09:13:13
#nowplaying Steve Reich/Pat Metheny/Kronos Quartet – Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint. Good manuscript writing music.
2017-08-06 20:53:04
#nowplaying C57BL/6 – Cell Degenerate. Electropunk lo-fi from an LA-based band named after the lab mouse strain
2017-09-12 11:52:09
#nowplaying By Order of the Moose – @elgoodomusic on Strangetown Records. Retro psych, 60s sounds. Good stuff.
2017-10-30 10:21:27
#nowplaying John Peel radio show from 30/10/93 courtesy of @Peel07. Edsel Auctioneer in session.
2017-11-29 07:34:25
#nowplaying Godflesh – Post Self. The album is worth it for the title track alone.
2018-02-13 22:08:31
#nowplaying A Love Supreme – John Coltrane Quartet. Because I just watched the very good documentary Chasing Trane.
2018-03-12 17:50:48
#nowplaying Three Waves – Steve Kuhn Trio (1966). Cool album. Cool cover. Great use of Helvetica. 😉
2018-04-11 19:13:00
Listening to Fluxblog’s 1990s Surveys (1993 mix). Matthew Perpetua’s sequencing in places is genius. Mr Blobby – Mr Blobby followed by Hammer Smashed Face – Cannibal Corpse. #NowPlaying
2018-04-18 11:50:21
#NowPlaying The Epic – Kamasi Washington. Keeping me tranquil while I resubmit this paper.
2018-06-07 07:34:42
#NowPlaying Wildildlife – Six. One of those records that sounds amazing if you play it loud but not so much if you don’t. 😉
2018-06-24 18:18:04
#NowPlaying Passport – Looking Thru. Every bit as awesome as the cover art suggests.
2018-07-13 08:14:37
#NowPlaying Serve The Servants – Nirvana off In Utero. Genius move (by Albini?) to not edit out Kurt Cobain sneezing into the mic at 2:41.
2018-08-02 09:36:41
#NowPlaying Ezra Collective – Chapter 7. Urban jazz hip-hop crossover.
2018-09-21 07:20:03
#NowPlaying Baby Silverskins split 7″ with Pigpile. Nostalgia… a friend sent me this link. Hugely regret selling my copy of this years ago.
2018-09-28 09:34:25
#NowPlaying Deportation Blues – BC Camplight. He played a great session on Riley’s show on Wed.
2018-10-01 15:18:19
#NowPlaying M√∏nk – Thelonious Monk. I’m loving these new/lost/unreleased albums from jazz greats, hope there’s more.
2018-10-22 08:02:57
#NowPlaying Desert Island Discs with Venki Ramakrishnan
2018-10-23 13:31:39
#NowPlaying Music For Nine Post Cards – Hiroshi Yoshimura. Perfect writing music.
2018-12-06 21:10:21
#NowPlaying Everybody’s Happy Nowadays – Buzzcocks. 🙁
2019-01-19 22:36:06
Great LP and #NowPlaying Double bass drum shuffle on opening track Quadrant 4 was the inspiration for Van Halen’s Hot For Teacher.
2019-02-21 22:47:18
#NowPlaying Everything Is Falling Apart – Teenage Fanclub. New song and it appears Euros Childs has joined the band?!
2019-03-25 08:53:43
Sadly a change of plan to the playlist this morning. I’m #NowPlaying Scott Walker + Sunn O))) – Soused.
2019-04-15 08:32:06
#NowPlaying Sunn O))) – Life Metal. Grade A+ amplifier worship. Any drone album that kicks off with a horse whinnying is fine by me.
2019-05-30 07:13:41
#NowPlaying Hurry On Home – Sleater-Kinney. Love this new track produced by St. Vincent.
2019-10-24 07:05:44
Siri suggests I play “Scattered” by @theposies from their Solid States album. What a great tune, Siri. Let’s do it! #NowPlaying
2020-01-10 17:48:00
#NowPlaying Brainiac’s Daughter by The Dukes of the Stratosphear (2019 Stereo Mix from 1985’s Psonic Psunspot LP). Colin Moulding’s bass playing on this track is just perfect. #MusicNerdTweet
2020-02-26 06:42:56
#NowPlaying She Hangs Brightly – Mazzy Star. Sad news about David Roback
2020-04-21 18:16:08
#NowPlaying Muun Bato – Muun Bato. Kind of shoegaze/psych. Heard via iwasateenageshoegazer.
2020-05-15 17:49:10
#NowPlaying OOOO РJibóia. Brazilian Psych/Free Jazz experimental.
2020-07-06 09:31:22
Farewell Ennio Morricone. #NowPlaying
2020-08-09 19:36:55
#NowPlaying Zombie by @elgoodomusic. A Welsh version of west coast acid rock. On @strangetowncru. Bandcamp link here, although I bought mine from Piccadilly Records.
2020-08-11 20:37:04
#NowPlaying Live at the Counter Eurovision 1979 – Misty in Roots. In the hot weather I’ve been playing this wonderful slice of roots reggae quite a bit. Love the typography on the cover too.
2020-08-20 21:26:58
#NowPlaying Jump Rope Gazers – The Beths. It’s been a long time since I got lost in a melody like the one in the title track
2020-08-26 09:29:58
#NowPlaying Hamamélis by ⁦@iwonarabbit⁩ and ⁦@23hangingtrees⁩. Been listening to this for a few weeks now. Experimental folk, drone. Good writing music.
2020-10-06 21:32:46
#NowPlaying A guitarist’s rite of passage is failing to play this track #EVH
2020-10-09 19:58:13
#NowPlaying Untitled (Rise) – Sault. This one and their previous record Untitled (Black Is) have been on heavy rotation this week.
2020-10-30 18:27:01
#NowPlaying 12 Hits From Hell – Misfits. Some Horror Punk for Halloween. Music nerds will know that this album doesn’t actually exist but I got hold of a reimagined version a while back.
2020-10-31 22:10:31
#NowPlaying great dub reggae LP by Scientist. Suitable for Halloween but sounds great in the summer too.
2020-11-21 13:26:21
#NowPlaying a song for @pritipatel Bully by Sugarbomb.
2020-12-24 09:47:20
#NowPlaying not just for sampling. Bernard “Pretty” Purdie’s 1968 classic
2021-01-30 09:08:00
#NowPlaying Nubya Garcia – NPR Tiny Desk Concert. Discovered this fantastic saxophonist on the recent(ish) Jazz625 British Jazz Explosion special
2021-02-19 15:31:04
#NowPlaying Afreaka! – Demon Fuzz. I gravitate towards this album on Fridays for some reason. This is the 2009 reissue.
2021-03-01 17:40:33
#NowPlaying Meic Stevens and other Welsh Psych/Pop/Folk
2021-04-01 14:02:30
#NowPlaying Corona Logic Vol 1 &2. @superfurry covers. Donations requested to Llamau (homeless charity).
2021-04-09 21:24:49
#NowPlaying well, I gave Ruff Ryder’s Anthem by DMX a spin out of respect, but it was followed on this compilation by The Boy Is Mine by Brandy & Monica :-/ #next
2021-05-03 22:28:46
#NowPlaying New Long Leg – Dry Cleaning. Like a post-punk Black Box Recorder or something…
2021-05-12 14:16:37
#NowPlaying Gas Lit – Divide and Dissolve. Sublime album. Thanks to my science-music tweeps for this recommendation.
2021-05-26 06:50:59
#NowPlaying Altered States – Live in Tokyo. Mix of styles, free jazz mainly.
2021-06-01 07:21:58
#NowPlaying NLMN – Corduroy. Not that Corduroy. Swedish dream pop. Bass on this sounds just like Majesty Crush.
2021-06-10 08:38:48
#NowPlaying Mdou Moctar – Afrique Victime. Picked this up recently. It’s a blend of electric folk (wikipedia says Taureg but I’m not an expert), blues and psychedelic rock.
2021-06-23 07:42:35
#NowPlaying Datblygu – Amheuon Corfforol. I think this is their first (cassette) release. Lo-fi welsh goodness. Sad news.
2021-07-02 16:54:25
#nowplaying Osibisa – Osibisa. Afro rock perfect for a Friday
2021-08-17 07:48:29
#NowPlaying Bright – Tape Waves. I like albums that sound just like you hope when you look at the typeface and artwork on the cover. Ethereal shoegaze in early-4AD style.
2021-10-01 06:56:54
#NowPlaying Faded Seaside Glamour – Delays. Incredible range in Greg Gilbert’s voice. Sad news.
2021-10-15 08:24:34
#NowPlaying Camell Laird Social Club – HMHB. Dedicating this track to you ‚@sr120‚
2021-11-01 05:36:32
Love this album and #NowPlaying. Standout track for me is Breakdown.
2021-11-02 22:21:32
#NowPlaying The Dreams: Inventions for Radio – Delia Derbyshire & Barry Bermange. Disturbing 1964 avant-garde analogue sample Radiophonic weirdness. Artwork shows a clipping from Radio Times where Delia Derbyshire is not credited.
2021-11-06 16:27:21
#NowPlaying Saul’s Boutique (bootleg of Paul’s Boutique – Beastie Boys). Recreation of the infamously sample-heavy backtrack to Paul’s Boutique, sans Beastie Boys vocals.
2021-11-16 20:20:00
#NowPlaying Hurry Nothing – Pictured Resort. Superb sounding Japanese dream pop. Standout track “Sunrise”.
2021-11-25 21:19:58
#NowPlaying Spring Island – Delta Sleep. Math rock from Canterbury. Filed under: albums with a clathrin cage-like object on the cover.
2021-11-26 16:01:55
#NowPlaying Solid – Phicus. Free form experimentation from Barcelona. Chemist tweeps will love the tracklist on this one.
2022-01-28 07:59:55
#NowPlaying PORTAL – Sun Organ. Been playing this a lot recently.
2022-02-02 09:34:13
#NowPlaying “I’m Going In A Field” from Lane Lines EP by Massage. Really wish I was going in a field for a lie down…
2022-02-17 21:05:01
#NowPlaying Insektsfolk – Den Osynliga Manteln. A kind of prog-meets-downtempo melting pot. The band’s name means Invisible Cloak apparently.
2022-02-18 19:01:57
#NowPlaying Groupthink – Smoke. I love an album where you know how it will sound from the cover. Sleep meets Sabbath doom. Colossal riffs.
2022-02-23 08:14:09
#NowPlaying 🙁
2022-03-10 14:38:51
#NowPlaying People Are Pissed – @gruffingtonpost. Capturing the mood right now.
2022-05-19 10:42:21
#NowPlaying RLYR – RLYR. You say it Relayer, apparently. Kind of post-rock + prog + psych.
2022-05-19 21:02:52
#NowPlaying The Dragon – Vangelis. Prog/New-Age LP from 1971. Worth checking out if you only know his soundtrack stuff.
2022-06-01 08:57:14
#NowPlaying Dancing Drums – Ananda Shankar from Ananda Shankar and His Music. Record from 1975 that must have been made using time travel as it sounds in places like a breakbeat classic from 90s/00s.
2022-06-09 10:40:28
#NowPlaying Sincere – Hater. Breezy Swedish dream pop.
2022-06-17 12:50:00
#NowPlaying Dub From The Roots – King Tubby. When the temperature rises above ~20°C (don’t laugh) I am compelled to play dub reggae. This is one of my favourite albums in this genre.
2022-07-15 07:03:40
#NowPlaying Phase Corrected – Shot and Shine. There was a time when I would’ve loved a BC Rich Mockingbird…
2022-09-06 21:35:45
#NowPlaying It’s September so… September Gurls – Big Star from #1 Record/Radio City. The chiming Rickenbacker 12-string, the boom of the overdubbed floor tom… this track is perfection.
2022-09-09 18:59:28
#NowPlaying If JFA Were Still Together – Majesty Crush. One of my favourite songs by a band about another band.
2022-09-25 07:59:10
#NowPlaying Pharoah – Pharoah Sanders.
2022-10-16 09:22:40
#NowPlaying Districts, Roads, Open Space – Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan. Ambient soundscapes that are perfect for a Sunday morning. Unashamed to admit that the artist name and artwork on this drew me in.
2022-10-31 16:51:55
#NowPlaying Mastodon – A Commotion (split Feist/Mastodon RSD 7″ 2012). Playing for, well, no reason.
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The post title comes from the hashtag I used to mark my nowplaying tweets.