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Blue Tapes
@bluetapes.bsky.social
Minimal and often abstract music - from grime to gugak, American primitivism to Japanese ambient - presented with minimal and often abstract cyanotype artwork.

https://bluetapes.bandcamp.com
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Old cyanotypes revisited 49
February 14, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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BLUE FIFTY-SEVEN: HENRY BIRDSEY

Lap steel drone from Old Saw mainman - out Mar 6!

Pre-order here: bluetapes.bandcamp.com/album/blue-f...
February 13, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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3 more tracks of crushing d-beat/crust/bm out of Bos for tonight's listening party! Once the party is over they'll be gone

iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/merch/dystop...

I. You're Next

iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/track/youre-...
You're Next (Listening Party Exclusive), by Dystopiate
from the album Dystopiate - Infiltrator (Single)
iheartnoise.bandcamp.com
February 14, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Art of the day

Kat Lyons (American, 1991) - The Snake Bird (2025)
February 14, 2026 at 12:37 AM
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Unboxing Autechre Guitar.

📦 🟩 🎸

shaneparish.bandcamp.com/album/autech...
Unboxing Autechre Guitar
YouTube video by Shane Parish
youtu.be
February 14, 2026 at 12:14 AM
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🎶 New ONLINE EVENTS! Feb. 9 - Feb. 15 🎶
For starting times and other details, please look at the respective profiles.

SATURDAY / SUNDAY
Dystopiate via @iheartnoise.bandcamp.com
iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/merch/dystop...

3/3
Dystopiate - Infiltrator (Single) Listening Party from I Heart Noise
Listening Party from I Heart Noise.
iheartnoise.bandcamp.com
February 8, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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February 13, 2026 at 2:18 PM
BLUE FIFTY-SEVEN: HENRY BIRDSEY

Lap steel drone from Old Saw mainman - out Mar 6!

Pre-order here: bluetapes.bandcamp.com/album/blue-f...
February 13, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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Gandalf crusading public interest lawyer ass wizard. Gandalf stoner ass who has to save his neighborhood wizard. Mark Ruffalo ass wizard.
February 12, 2026 at 4:32 AM
Old cyanotypes revisited 47
February 13, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Art of the day

glasswork by laurie young
February 13, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Old cyanotypes revisited 46
February 12, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Thanks to Maxie Younger and @pitchfork.com for dropping some words on our new Yapping Portal release!
February 12, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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Top play of the day on our Bandcamp so far - via @dystopiate777.bsky.social. Gritty crust/d-beat/bm out of Bos.

iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/track/infilt...
Infiltrator, by Dystopiate
from the album Dystopiate - Infiltrator (Single)
iheartnoise.bandcamp.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Richie Culver
Who's the most famous alum of your high school?

I'll go first: David Draiman of Disturbed
guys i just found out i went to the same high school as howard lutnick. please respect my privacy at this time.
February 12, 2026 at 8:03 AM
Art of the day

Aleksandr Rodchenko, Spatial Construction no. 21, (reconstruction 1988)
February 12, 2026 at 12:26 AM
A bad day for former teen stars
February 11, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Art of the day

Anna Malina

[07feb17] 103\365 (35mm, digital, salt prints, 2o12)
February 11, 2026 at 8:40 AM
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Listen again: This Is For You, My 7 Listeners / 09th February 2026

Playing tracks by Shina Williams & His African Percussionists, UOUS, Rafael Toral, Swervedriver, Steve Roach & Roger King and more.

@mitchberghini.bsky.social | www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/this...
February 10, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Handclaps are better than snares
February 10, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Art of the day

VelvetsArt

snake dreams
watercolour
February 10, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Is it just me or did the Manics have part of this for From Despair To Where?

youtu.be/FOJ6Q_4ewF4?...
BLACK CLOUD TRAPEZE
YouTube video by Classic Rock Guy
youtu.be
February 10, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.
February 10, 2026 at 6:10 AM
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'Everything circulates without resolving, pulling the listener into a swirling current. Persian Carpets is a fascinating piece which, like the best improvisation, creates a world we never asked for, but find we cannot do without'

Daniel O’Sullivan & Richard Youngs -Persian Carpets

buff.ly/yrKiLjS
February 10, 2026 at 9:00 AM