Faex Optim
@faexoptim.bsky.social
Post-electronic music. Beats and melodies.
Solar Drift out now - https://touched.bandcamp.com/album/solar-drift
bookings - faexoptim@gmail.com
Solar Drift out now - https://touched.bandcamp.com/album/solar-drift
bookings - faexoptim@gmail.com
Anyone seen what happened to DRAM prices last year? Whoever develops a decent cloud-based DAW will probably be onto a winner.....
January 6, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Anyone seen what happened to DRAM prices last year? Whoever develops a decent cloud-based DAW will probably be onto a winner.....
Now available on streaming platforms
January 2, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Now available on streaming platforms
And everyone stop making lists lol.
Make 2026 the year you favour musicianship over aesthetics, musicians over labels, and music over vinyl.
December 31, 2025 at 4:54 PM
And everyone stop making lists lol.
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Make 2026 the year you favour musicianship over aesthetics, musicians over labels, and music over vinyl.
December 31, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Make 2026 the year you favour musicianship over aesthetics, musicians over labels, and music over vinyl.
R.E.M. - Losing My Religion (Official HD Music Video)
YouTube video by remhq
youtu.be
December 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Xmas eve bedtime with young kids is legit the worst 2 hours of the year.
December 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Xmas eve bedtime with young kids is legit the worst 2 hours of the year.
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Antifascist stickers spotted in Dundee, Scotland
December 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Antifascist stickers spotted in Dundee, Scotland
Never mind me...Ivor Cutler is on this...
A few old and new tunes for Secret Self #114 with @bunkr303.bsky.social @warringtonruncorn.com @flcartographer.bsky.social @faexoptim.bsky.social @robertafidora.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy @daveclarkson.bsky.social @sulkrooms.bsky.social @megaheadphoneboy.bsky.social and more youtu.be/eq4kP5nwxek?...
December 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Never mind me...Ivor Cutler is on this...
Musicians - what will be a better use of your time this year-end - 1) applying for summer festivals and never hearing back or 2) buying those wee green toy soldiers with parachutes and dropping them out an upstairs window?
December 18, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Musicians - what will be a better use of your time this year-end - 1) applying for summer festivals and never hearing back or 2) buying those wee green toy soldiers with parachutes and dropping them out an upstairs window?
I always try to give listeners the transcendental experience of listening to some music while doing something else or maybe not.
When you hear a Hans Zimmer score in a film, the feeling that the music evokes is that you are sitting on a sofa watching a movie.
December 18, 2025 at 8:31 AM
I always try to give listeners the transcendental experience of listening to some music while doing something else or maybe not.
Everybody and their dug now is doing a "Top X albums of the year" list.
December 17, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Everybody and their dug now is doing a "Top X albums of the year" list.
Tonight...
Last show of 2025:
Doors 7pm (I'll be on around 7.30 so get in early)
Tickets available (please use code 'faex8'): www.seetickets.com/event/jennifer-walton/sneaky-pete-s/3537079
Doors 7pm (I'll be on around 7.30 so get in early)
Tickets available (please use code 'faex8'): www.seetickets.com/event/jennifer-walton/sneaky-pete-s/3537079
December 15, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Tonight...
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Get it in your diary, folks! Switched On 2026, 6/7/8th November. Early bird tickets only £50 for a full weekend of electronic frivolities and mischief. Are you Switched On? #SwitchedOn #SwitchedOn26 #Whitby #ElectronicMusic
December 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Get it in your diary, folks! Switched On 2026, 6/7/8th November. Early bird tickets only £50 for a full weekend of electronic frivolities and mischief. Are you Switched On? #SwitchedOn #SwitchedOn26 #Whitby #ElectronicMusic
This is on Monday next week. Jennifer Walton is well worth seeing, if you aren't familiar with her. I'll be doing my bit for her tour. 7pm doors, use 'faex8' on ticket link: www.seetickets.com/event/jennif...
December 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This is on Monday next week. Jennifer Walton is well worth seeing, if you aren't familiar with her. I'll be doing my bit for her tour. 7pm doors, use 'faex8' on ticket link: www.seetickets.com/event/jennif...
Trying to rehearse my set with, ironically, my son watching Numberblocks in the same room.
December 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Trying to rehearse my set with, ironically, my son watching Numberblocks in the same room.
Unfortunately i have to be in london next week but this looks ace. You should go.
I am performing at the DF Evening Of Experimental Music event on Wed 10th Dec at The Old Hairdressers in Glasgow.
With MikeKSmith, Speculum Bunny, and The Sound Priestess.
It's a free event. No tickets required just turn up. 🔊
Hope to see some of you there,
ED 🩶🔊
#experimentalmusic
With MikeKSmith, Speculum Bunny, and The Sound Priestess.
It's a free event. No tickets required just turn up. 🔊
Hope to see some of you there,
ED 🩶🔊
#experimentalmusic
December 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Unfortunately i have to be in london next week but this looks ace. You should go.
I always had him pegged as one of those guys who have unnecessary ninja swords hung on his wall.
Shame Jonathan Gullis joined Reform. He had a bright future in standing next to a pub fruit machine telling you what buttons to press.
December 6, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I always had him pegged as one of those guys who have unnecessary ninja swords hung on his wall.
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You can still buy my old stuff on Bandcamp if you fancy it.
December 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
You can still buy my old stuff on Bandcamp if you fancy it.
Busy wee Bandcamp Friday.
December 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Busy wee Bandcamp Friday.
The last time I got a mention in The Skinny was when my old band played with Hey Enemy at Sneaky Pete's in Edinburgh in 2011. Serendipitous it should happen again just before I play the same venue soon.
www.theskinny.co.uk/music/new-mu...
www.theskinny.co.uk/music/new-mu...
Looking forward (and there’s much to look forward to), on 1 December Sonotto kicked the first door down from your advent calendar with new EP i’m sorry :(, in which the Stirling-born, self-styled enigma mines their life for stories of pride and shame (“the songs are expressions of egoic stories and patterns […] which I would feel ashamed to tell anyone.”) For all its Kevin Parker-esque glazed vocals, this is an EP you can move to, whether you’re dancing to the progression of drums on LONESOME HOUSE or jolting at the exquisitely uncomfortable production on standout track NEVER TURNING BACK.
www.theskinny.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
The last time I got a mention in The Skinny was when my old band played with Hey Enemy at Sneaky Pete's in Edinburgh in 2011. Serendipitous it should happen again just before I play the same venue soon.
www.theskinny.co.uk/music/new-mu...
www.theskinny.co.uk/music/new-mu...
"Faex Optim channels his gift for luminous, emotive electronics into a radiant new chapter with Touched Music, crafting an ambient journey whose every shimmer, drift, and pulse feels like a quiet beacon of hope."
igloomag.com/reviews/faex...
igloomag.com/reviews/faex...
Faex Optim :: Solar Drift (Touched Music)
Faex Optim channels his gift for luminous, emotive electronics into a radiant new chapter with Touched Music, crafting an ambient journey whose every shimmer, drift, and pulse feels like a quiet beaco...
igloomag.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:09 AM
"Faex Optim channels his gift for luminous, emotive electronics into a radiant new chapter with Touched Music, crafting an ambient journey whose every shimmer, drift, and pulse feels like a quiet beacon of hope."
igloomag.com/reviews/faex...
igloomag.com/reviews/faex...
A bit late to learning about why Rockstar sacked those developers. Guess that's another business that won't get a penny from me ever again.
December 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
A bit late to learning about why Rockstar sacked those developers. Guess that's another business that won't get a penny from me ever again.
Chatback 0891 50 50 50 Commercial (1995, UK)
YouTube video by ceilingsoldier
youtu.be
December 2, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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The first release on a brand new tape label. This Bandcamp Friday.
December 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The first release on a brand new tape label. This Bandcamp Friday.
@chollymusic.bsky.social released a new single btw, tied to an EP coming in 2026:
cholly.bandcamp.com/album/octopoda
cholly.bandcamp.com/album/octopoda
Octopoda, by Cholly
5 track album
cholly.bandcamp.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
@chollymusic.bsky.social released a new single btw, tied to an EP coming in 2026:
cholly.bandcamp.com/album/octopoda
cholly.bandcamp.com/album/octopoda