Derek Walmsley
@derekwalmsley.bsky.social
I'm almost always trying to make the text flow better or reduce the number of words. Music writing in The Wire, Electronic Sound, The Quietus, LRB, elsewhere. slowmotion.blog
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Just been alerted to this flyer from '92 by @rjjny.bsky.social, and thought it was worth noting that when Rammellzee & K-Rob's Beat Bop dropped the following year, it didn't make any money until it was licensed to Electro 2 by Morgan Khan who was a regular down the WAG
was the dj on the night.i'd seen them play the Venue the previous night.when they came to the Wag for some reason their technics didn't work,so they had to use the Wag's crappy garrard sp25's.. awesome night tho..
p.s.love your yt channel bro hx
p.s.love your yt channel bro hx
February 10, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Just been alerted to this flyer from '92 by @rjjny.bsky.social, and thought it was worth noting that when Rammellzee & K-Rob's Beat Bop dropped the following year, it didn't make any money until it was licensed to Electro 2 by Morgan Khan who was a regular down the WAG
Super great to see mann like @thehipkido.bsky.social on here who will definitely be worth a follow
February 10, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Super great to see mann like @thehipkido.bsky.social on here who will definitely be worth a follow
Love this Pablo production from 1978 – and the whole album is heavyweight – and particularly how he was dropping into this militant steppers style even well before the 80s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eelK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eelK...
TETRACK - Look Within Yourself [1978]
YouTube video by Bionic Dub
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February 10, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Love this Pablo production from 1978 – and the whole album is heavyweight – and particularly how he was dropping into this militant steppers style even well before the 80s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eelK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eelK...
This looks awesome.
Hey Ho Let’s Go!
EVERETT TRUE on The Ramones & Nirvana
5 MARCH, Walthamstow
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EVERETT TRUE on The Ramones & Nirvana
5 MARCH, Walthamstow
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Everett True in conversation - The Ramones & Nirvana
Join us to celebrate the reissue of 'Hey Ho Lets Go - The Story of the Ramones PLUS a bonus conversation Nirvana - The True Story
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February 10, 2026 at 2:20 PM
This looks awesome.
Very intriguing www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...
Unmasking US rap iconoclast MF Doom’s final years in West Yorkshire
Podcast by Adam Batty and BBC 6 Music DJ Afrodeutsche follows the leads to Leeds
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Very intriguing www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...
Re lost Floyd film in Ted Milton piece from Rob Chapman’s A Very Irregular Head: bit here: “This wonderful poet called Ted Milton lent me the overcoat, and it was rigged up... we had it move and filmed it and it looked sinister in these dark Victorian alleys”
pschnob.myartsonline.com/sydwanted.htm
pschnob.myartsonline.com/sydwanted.htm
WANTED SYD BARRETT-ERA PINK FLOYD & SOLO SYD BARRETT RECORDINGS:
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February 5, 2026 at 8:05 AM
Re lost Floyd film in Ted Milton piece from Rob Chapman’s A Very Irregular Head: bit here: “This wonderful poet called Ted Milton lent me the overcoat, and it was rigged up... we had it move and filmed it and it looked sinister in these dark Victorian alleys”
pschnob.myartsonline.com/sydwanted.htm
pschnob.myartsonline.com/sydwanted.htm
AI hallucinating “no-debate examples" 🤔
February 4, 2026 at 3:31 PM
AI hallucinating “no-debate examples" 🤔
One of the best ways to dig Blurt retrospectively is via some of the incredible live vids on YouTube
Back in 1980 my brother was an art student at Bath Academy of Art and he invited me up to see a band he’d designed a poster for. What a wild, hypnotic, groovy racket they made, and what a unique figure Ted Milton cut. Never imagined I’d be reading about Ted Milton and Blurt 46 years later. But I am.
February 3, 2026 at 10:20 PM
One of the best ways to dig Blurt retrospectively is via some of the incredible live vids on YouTube
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This is great. Nice job @derekwalmsley.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...
‘Charisma is a form of psychosis’: inspiring Eric Clapton, having kids at 70 … the irreverent life of post-punk puppeteer Ted Milton
He crossed paths with William Burroughs, Terry Gilliam and Spitting Image while whipping up almighty grooves with his band Blurt. Now 82, he’s back on tour – and bracing for a warts-and-all documentar...
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:01 PM
This is great. Nice job @derekwalmsley.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...
What's happening to you, Milton? It's a big old Guardian feature, that's what. With a film about Ted, made by his own family, coming soon, I chatted with him about his poetry, puppetry and wayward life and times, with Roger Law of Spitting Image spitting facts
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...
‘Charisma is a form of psychosis’: inspiring Eric Clapton, having kids at 70 … the irreverent life of post-punk puppeteer Ted Milton
He crossed paths with William Burroughs, Terry Gilliam and Spitting Image while whipping up almighty grooves with his band Blurt. Now 82, he’s back on tour – and bracing for a warts-and-all documentar...
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 9:13 PM
What's happening to you, Milton? It's a big old Guardian feature, that's what. With a film about Ted, made by his own family, coming soon, I chatted with him about his poetry, puppetry and wayward life and times, with Roger Law of Spitting Image spitting facts
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...
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The Wire 505 is out now!
Featuring dälek on the cover, plus an industrial hiphop primer, Vic Bang, Pascal Comelade, O Ghettaõ, Daniel Blumberg’s Jukebox, and much more.
Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/
Featuring dälek on the cover, plus an industrial hiphop primer, Vic Bang, Pascal Comelade, O Ghettaõ, Daniel Blumberg’s Jukebox, and much more.
Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/
February 3, 2026 at 3:04 PM
The Wire 505 is out now!
Featuring dälek on the cover, plus an industrial hiphop primer, Vic Bang, Pascal Comelade, O Ghettaõ, Daniel Blumberg’s Jukebox, and much more.
Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/
Featuring dälek on the cover, plus an industrial hiphop primer, Vic Bang, Pascal Comelade, O Ghettaõ, Daniel Blumberg’s Jukebox, and much more.
Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/
Re: GIOfest bittersweet (and mostly bitter) because the Centre of Contemporary Arts, with its long and legendary history, closed a few days ago. That a great city like Glasgow can’t support a major arts venue is a sure sign that something has gone badly wrong 😥. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/cca-closed-w...
Inside the final days of the CCA
Shock resignations, ‘absent leadership’ and an 80% drop in cash on hand. What happened?
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
February 3, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Re: GIOfest bittersweet (and mostly bitter) because the Centre of Contemporary Arts, with its long and legendary history, closed a few days ago. That a great city like Glasgow can’t support a major arts venue is a sure sign that something has gone badly wrong 😥. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/cca-closed-w...
Big bunch of stuff in the new @thewiremagazine.bsky.social including hardcore hiphop bringing the noise in articles by Joe and Rob, plus me on Autechre guitar, Glasgow improvisers and brief histories of sound recording
February 3, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Big bunch of stuff in the new @thewiremagazine.bsky.social including hardcore hiphop bringing the noise in articles by Joe and Rob, plus me on Autechre guitar, Glasgow improvisers and brief histories of sound recording
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Rihanna's ANTI turns 10 this week. When I met Cecil Taylor at the Whitney Museum for a conversation that became a Wire cover story (and, later, my book IN THE BREWING LUMINOUS: THE LIFE & MUSIC OF CECIL TAYLOR), I gave him a copy as a gift on our last day together.
January 28, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Rihanna's ANTI turns 10 this week. When I met Cecil Taylor at the Whitney Museum for a conversation that became a Wire cover story (and, later, my book IN THE BREWING LUMINOUS: THE LIFE & MUSIC OF CECIL TAYLOR), I gave him a copy as a gift on our last day together.
Remember this clip of them doing “Ticket To Ride” from way back when. Just couldn’t get to it to start with. Now the man machine interface and marshalling of forces sounds effortless (Jools Holland warning) m.youtube.com/watch?v=DqJx...
Sly and Robbie - Ticket to Ride
YouTube video by Kernow Kiwi VHS archive
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January 26, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Remember this clip of them doing “Ticket To Ride” from way back when. Just couldn’t get to it to start with. Now the man machine interface and marshalling of forces sounds effortless (Jools Holland warning) m.youtube.com/watch?v=DqJx...
Oh damn, Sly, no! This was playing LOUD the other day. Like three inch bulletproof glass. “Some man just born to nice up dance…” RIP m.youtube.com/watch?v=ysOY...
Trouble You A Trouble Me
YouTube video by Release - Topic
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January 26, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Oh damn, Sly, no! This was playing LOUD the other day. Like three inch bulletproof glass. “Some man just born to nice up dance…” RIP m.youtube.com/watch?v=ysOY...
eight minutes, sick jam m.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Il...
It Ain't Gonna Be Easy
YouTube video by Elton John - Topic
m.youtube.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:06 PM
eight minutes, sick jam m.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Il...
“The result is a verification fantasy... that an audible threshold exists for “synthetic” or “other”.” Very good read.
In the first essay of a short series exploring Bandcamp’s ban on AI-generated music, multidisciplinary artist Vicki Bennett argues that the platform’s decision rests on the belief in a stable binary between computer and human made music
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...
Authorship under automation - The Wire
In the first essay of a short series exploring Bandcamp’s ban on AI-generated music, Vicki Bennett argues that the platform’s decision rests on the belief in a stable binary between computer and human...
www.thewire.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 3:08 PM
“The result is a verification fantasy... that an audible threshold exists for “synthetic” or “other”.” Very good read.
January 22, 2026 at 9:46 AM
And for @electronicsound.bsky.social I had a blast shooting the breeze with Oneohtrix/Daniel Lopatin swapping a couple of sample library CD tips and talking anything and everything re: his great new Tranquilizer album
January 22, 2026 at 9:39 AM
And for @electronicsound.bsky.social I had a blast shooting the breeze with Oneohtrix/Daniel Lopatin swapping a couple of sample library CD tips and talking anything and everything re: his great new Tranquilizer album
Words from me, for @thequietus.com Organic Intelligence series, I surveyed the resilient underground scene in Euskadi with music from @abjectmusic.bsky.social and help from Hegoa et al, tracing the roots back to punk communities (full guide for tQ subscribers only)
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Organic Intelligence LII: Treasures of the Basque Country | The Quietus
“I guess it’s shadowy seen from an outside point of view,” says Mikel Acosta of Hegoa Diskak, an independent label repping the undervalued music of the Basque Country. ‘Shadowy’ was the term given to ...
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January 22, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Words from me, for @thequietus.com Organic Intelligence series, I surveyed the resilient underground scene in Euskadi with music from @abjectmusic.bsky.social and help from Hegoa et al, tracing the roots back to punk communities (full guide for tQ subscribers only)
thequietus.com/subscriber-a...
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@simonprice.bsky.social don't know if you’ve seen there's an artist Delaney Bailey, but I though it was very Callum Mcmanaman
January 21, 2026 at 5:29 PM
@simonprice.bsky.social don't know if you’ve seen there's an artist Delaney Bailey, but I though it was very Callum Mcmanaman
Reckon I‘d be pretty chill in this scenario as long as there was wireless phone charging
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Reckon I‘d be pretty chill in this scenario as long as there was wireless phone charging
One of the very greatest middle eights ever too
January 19, 2026 at 10:24 PM
One of the very greatest middle eights ever too
A video that takes your breath away 35 years later
January 19, 2026 at 10:19 PM
A video that takes your breath away 35 years later