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
RIP Adrian Maben! Very glad I got the chance to upgrade from teenage VHS to IMAX this year
November 6, 2025 at 7:44 AM
RIP Adrian Maben! Very glad I got the chance to upgrade from teenage VHS to IMAX this year
Awesome new issue of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social, with amazing Francis Gooding interview going deep into the scales of Ethrio jazz, even wilder Griot Galaxy story, plus my review of @ucpress.bsky.social book by Theodore Gordon rethinking the synthesizer utopia
November 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Awesome new issue of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social, with amazing Francis Gooding interview going deep into the scales of Ethrio jazz, even wilder Griot Galaxy story, plus my review of @ucpress.bsky.social book by Theodore Gordon rethinking the synthesizer utopia
A rare piece of Wikipedia shade
October 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
A rare piece of Wikipedia shade
Among all the good shit in the new issue of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social I got to write about the original don Horace Silver and his killer left hand
October 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Among all the good shit in the new issue of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social I got to write about the original don Horace Silver and his killer left hand
Sorry for the tired photo. Had to get up multiple times in the night to reassure him I was not dead.
October 1, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Sorry for the tired photo. Had to get up multiple times in the night to reassure him I was not dead.
Love this little note on the bottom of a rave blurb for the reissue of Goldie’s Timeless on the @boomkat.com site (and still not on Spotify)
September 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Love this little note on the bottom of a rave blurb for the reissue of Goldie’s Timeless on the @boomkat.com site (and still not on Spotify)
Luciano Berio in his Wikipedia image looks like a comedian being lined up for Taskmaster series 21.
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September 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Luciano Berio in his Wikipedia image looks like a comedian being lined up for Taskmaster series 21.
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Oh no! I can’t have been the only young kid to have seen this and thought ‘OK, cinema can do THIS’
September 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Oh no! I can’t have been the only young kid to have seen this and thought ‘OK, cinema can do THIS’
Loved talking to Lucretia Dalt for @electronicsound.bsky.social magazine, in their brand new issue (wooden instrument made in workshop for scale)
September 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Loved talking to Lucretia Dalt for @electronicsound.bsky.social magazine, in their brand new issue (wooden instrument made in workshop for scale)
Loved this tiny John Berger book which uses the memory of his travelling uncle to travel to Bologna and its architecture and fabrics, something like Walter Benjamin’s Arcades crossed with David Toop
August 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Loved this tiny John Berger book which uses the memory of his travelling uncle to travel to Bologna and its architecture and fabrics, something like Walter Benjamin’s Arcades crossed with David Toop
Shout out to a couple of tremendous Wire pieces I didn't get as much time with as I'd have wanted, but great to return to them now.
August 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Shout out to a couple of tremendous Wire pieces I didn't get as much time with as I'd have wanted, but great to return to them now.
I realise Bender is not the answer to your question, but, Bender.
August 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I realise Bender is not the answer to your question, but, Bender.
Man, how cool is Meg Woof’s artwork? Picked this up at Supernormal, it’s too nice to do the dishes with
August 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Man, how cool is Meg Woof’s artwork? Picked this up at Supernormal, it’s too nice to do the dishes with
Lots of things of mine I had fun with this issue inc label guide to the current activities of Ftarri and review of a very fresh film on improvisation in Istanbul by @anileraslan.bsky.social
August 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Lots of things of mine I had fun with this issue inc label guide to the current activities of Ftarri and review of a very fresh film on improvisation in Istanbul by @anileraslan.bsky.social
Oh! New Wire arrived while I was on holiday. There’s a fantastic @abibliss.bsky.social interview with the two remaining Cabs unknotting much of their history plus I was psyched to talk to members of Black Audio Film Collective about their industrial relations
August 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Oh! New Wire arrived while I was on holiday. There’s a fantastic @abibliss.bsky.social interview with the two remaining Cabs unknotting much of their history plus I was psyched to talk to members of Black Audio Film Collective about their industrial relations
Digging around for the millionth time at parents’ house for some kind of half decent CD for the car and…. not bad. not bad at all
July 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Digging around for the millionth time at parents’ house for some kind of half decent CD for the car and…. not bad. not bad at all
Was delighted to meet up with Michael Ranta again, and blown away by this way cool cap he dug out for me
July 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Was delighted to meet up with Michael Ranta again, and blown away by this way cool cap he dug out for me
You freaking morons.
July 17, 2025 at 9:07 AM
You freaking morons.
Also in. the new Wire, I wrote the Against The Grain essay on. how Spotify is distorting the histories of UK black musics , and reviewed rave legend Keith Robinson’s posthumous memoir
July 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Also in. the new Wire, I wrote the Against The Grain essay on. how Spotify is distorting the histories of UK black musics , and reviewed rave legend Keith Robinson’s posthumous memoir
New issue! I had the privilege of telling the extraordinary story of Michael Ranta, the percussionist who played with everyone from Harry Partch to Conny Plank, and hung with Edgard Varése and Toru Takemitsu along the way.
July 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
New issue! I had the privilege of telling the extraordinary story of Michael Ranta, the percussionist who played with everyone from Harry Partch to Conny Plank, and hung with Edgard Varése and Toru Takemitsu along the way.
Finally grabbed this, loved talking with Isabelle, Tina, General Magic about Mego’s 30th anniversary and life after Peter. Also includes a 14 (!) page feature for the St Eitenne-curious among us! @electronicsound.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Finally grabbed this, loved talking with Isabelle, Tina, General Magic about Mego’s 30th anniversary and life after Peter. Also includes a 14 (!) page feature for the St Eitenne-curious among us! @electronicsound.bsky.social
Such beautiful typography (see the first two) on these albums from Thessaloniki’s Granny Records
June 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Such beautiful typography (see the first two) on these albums from Thessaloniki’s Granny Records
Completely unbelievably wild that the WHOLE of Twin Peaks can be watched over on Mubi now
June 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Completely unbelievably wild that the WHOLE of Twin Peaks can be watched over on Mubi now
Psyched to see this in the wild, I contributed an essay on “Togetherness And UK Improvised Music” to this Open Editions collection, talking to Steve Beresford, Orphy Robinson and Valentina Magaletti, alongside some great writers, out right now! openeditions.com
June 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Psyched to see this in the wild, I contributed an essay on “Togetherness And UK Improvised Music” to this Open Editions collection, talking to Steve Beresford, Orphy Robinson and Valentina Magaletti, alongside some great writers, out right now! openeditions.com