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Matt Ashton
@matthewjashton.bsky.social
MUSIC with @theleaflibrary.bsky.social / The Form Group / Sun Drawing / Mirrored Daughters / Basic Design / Sea Glass etc
DESIGN + ILLUSTRATION at intervals
If I reach the end of my time in this realm with my sole achievement being my name on Discogs without a number after it in brackets then I will still be happy.
November 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This is new Soloman Tump is great - damp, autumnal electronics from Dartmoor. Sounds like the noises mushrooms make when they talk to each other through the earth.

solomantump.bandcamp.com/album/open-a...
Open Access Land, by Soloman Tump
7 track album
solomantump.bandcamp.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
November 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
November 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
If It’s Not One Thing It’s Another
I’m Thinking Of Ending Things.
If it’s not called And Another Thing don’t bother
November 8, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Watching this Eurythmics thing - it’s great, but I particularly enjoyed seeing them with Clem Burke on drums. And Holger Czukay! Who’d have thought.
November 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
How many number ones name check the A&R person? #totp
November 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
A thoroughly enjoyable #CDFriday (and Thursday).
November 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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some magnificently chewy textural stuff from the form group (matt ashton of the leaf library). reminding me in places of early 80s eno and roedelius https://waysideandwoodlandrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/provincial-echo
Provincial Echo, by The Form Group
8 track album
waysideandwoodlandrecordings.bandcamp.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
If you missed out on a physical copy get in touch...
OUT TODAY!

'Provincial Echo' by The Form Group.

Matt will have a limited amount of the handmade physical copy very soon, so hang fire if you want one of them.

BUT.... do do do have a listen!

digital.waysideandwoodland.com/album/provin...
Provincial Echo, by The Form Group
8 track album
digital.waysideandwoodland.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:42 AM
OUT TODAY! New solo album from me, the first in many years as The Form Group. An honour to have something out on the excellent @waysideandwoodland.bsky.social label (home to several favourites):

waysideandwoodlandrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/provin...

RIYL Fennesz, Eno's On Land, Ryoji Ikeda
Provincial Echo, by The Form Group
8 track album
waysideandwoodlandrecordings.bandcamp.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
My old group Saloon did some Peel Sessions back in the day, lovingly reissued by Nick's lovely label. This is a great offer - loads and loads of quality archival stuff here. Enjoy!
November 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This has been out for almost a year now! Still got plenty of CDs left (and now shipping to the EU) so I've dropped the price.

sundrawingsounds.bandcamp.com/album/aftern...

It's a wonderful album, thanks in most part to Sea Level and their reworking of my original.
Afternoons At The Library, by Sun Drawing + SEA LEVEL
10 track album
sundrawingsounds.bandcamp.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Hi foxes.
November 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Sky Foam from my new Form Group album, out 07/11 on @waysideandwoodland.bsky.social is on the Key Grips radio show. Thanks K+B.
Listen again: Key Grips with Kristen & Bernie / 30th October 2025

Playing tracks by Jinrag Joshipura, Kelan, The Greater London Banjo Trio, Paranormal music from Okkulte Stimmen, Karen Dalton and more.

@kgallerneaux.bsky.social | @dhallllc.bsky.social
www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/key-...
November 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Nice to see lots of people getting their first go on an escalator in central London this afternoon.
November 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Made this album with SEA LEVEL a while back. Still got some CDs (and am now sending to EU as well).

sundrawingsounds.bandcamp.com/album/aftern...

Acoustic/electronic drifting dream states based on recordings I made in the central library in Helsinki.

@callandresponse.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Right, pick your favs out of this lot!
November 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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What’s wrong babe? You’ve hardly touched your Gregg’s Benedict.
October 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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October 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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10 YEARS! We released our debut album Daylight Versions 10 years ago today. To mark the occasion, the album (plus all the associated releases) is pay what you want on Bandcamp:

theleaflibrary.bandcamp.com/album/daylig...

Thanks to @wiaiwya.bsky.social for everything.
October 30, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Also, re. dearth of Basic Design stuff - this is essentially a BD solo album (before I had the confidence to call it such):

theleaflibrary.bandcamp.com/album/monume...

Currently pay what you want…
Monument Three: Floral Calyx Phase, by The Leaf Library + Basic Design
9 track album
theleaflibrary.bandcamp.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Your Party's response that trans issues will be decided by vote indicates that being transphobic *is an acceptable outcome for them*.

The Green Party has already rejected transphobia. Join us.
I know I've been on Your Party a lot this weekend but I feel like I need to explain why they as a party (and their reply guys) upset me, as an individual, and why I feel they are set up for failure on trans rights. Buckle up cuz this is gonna be a thread.

/1
October 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
This is a wonderful album - a bit slow This Is The Kit-ish. very much looking forward to getting my copy.
Well lookee here - the new Lila Tristram LP… it is simultaneously America and better than America

wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/america
October 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM