Sean Albiez
@ghost-elektron.bsky.social
musician-author-researcher | dr of electronic music | exiled Mancunian in Devon | https://linktr.ee/SeanAlbiez
CDs of my new ghost elektron album 'The Romance of Modern Mechanism' have arrived - available from ghost-elektron.bandcamp.com/album/the-ro...
October 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
CDs of my new ghost elektron album 'The Romance of Modern Mechanism' have arrived - available from ghost-elektron.bandcamp.com/album/the-ro...
A review of my new ghost elektron album in the new Electronic Sound magazine - really happy with this! 😎
October 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A review of my new ghost elektron album in the new Electronic Sound magazine - really happy with this! 😎
Right then - next job is to fit a new internal battery in this synth - my Yamaha YS200, bought in July 1989 (A1 Music in Manchester £454) - my first proper synth, including an 8 track sequencer. Then am going to install the Steem Atari emulator for PC so I can run YSEditor and get sound designing 😎
October 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Right then - next job is to fit a new internal battery in this synth - my Yamaha YS200, bought in July 1989 (A1 Music in Manchester £454) - my first proper synth, including an 8 track sequencer. Then am going to install the Steem Atari emulator for PC so I can run YSEditor and get sound designing 😎
So how have I spent the ghost elektron 'The Romance of Modern Mechanism' release day? Mainly playing around and reacquainting myself with this - and reading up on how to fix the effect selector potentiometer that barely works (apparently many EM1s have this exact same problem) ...
October 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
So how have I spent the ghost elektron 'The Romance of Modern Mechanism' release day? Mainly playing around and reacquainting myself with this - and reading up on how to fix the effect selector potentiometer that barely works (apparently many EM1s have this exact same problem) ...
Finalised CD digipak artwork for my 2nd ghost elektron album - The Romance of Modern Mechanism - out this Friday (3rd October) - with thanks to Louise Morell for putting this together using some of my photographs 😎 ghost-elektron@bandcamp.com
September 29, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Finalised CD digipak artwork for my 2nd ghost elektron album - The Romance of Modern Mechanism - out this Friday (3rd October) - with thanks to Louise Morell for putting this together using some of my photographs 😎 ghost-elektron@bandcamp.com
My new ghost elektron album 'The Romance of Modern Mechanism' is out next Friday 3rd October. Now available for pre-order on CD or Digital via Bandcamp - the first release on the State of Bass ambient-instrumental-experimental sister label Stateless Bass.
ghost-elektron.bandcamp.com/album/the-ro...
ghost-elektron.bandcamp.com/album/the-ro...
September 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
My new ghost elektron album 'The Romance of Modern Mechanism' is out next Friday 3rd October. Now available for pre-order on CD or Digital via Bandcamp - the first release on the State of Bass ambient-instrumental-experimental sister label Stateless Bass.
ghost-elektron.bandcamp.com/album/the-ro...
ghost-elektron.bandcamp.com/album/the-ro...
After our Nostalgia Deathstar album release, had almost forgotten that my 2nd ghost elektron album will be out on Friday 3rd October via Bandcamp (digital and CD) and the usual stealing platforms - it's ambient-instrumental-experimental. Cinematic, dark and light ... more details soon ...
September 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
After our Nostalgia Deathstar album release, had almost forgotten that my 2nd ghost elektron album will be out on Friday 3rd October via Bandcamp (digital and CD) and the usual stealing platforms - it's ambient-instrumental-experimental. Cinematic, dark and light ... more details soon ...
Wow - very nice review of our new Nostalgia Deathstar album in Electronic Sound magazine - 'Savage and prescient' - that'll do 😎
September 12, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Wow - very nice review of our new Nostalgia Deathstar album in Electronic Sound magazine - 'Savage and prescient' - that'll do 😎
Nostalgia Deathstar's new venture
July 15, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Nostalgia Deathstar's new venture
Just completed this - an update to a study I put together in 2022 for the Henkin Brothers Archive Association - Evgeny Henkin was both an important Berlin street photographer in the late 1920s and 1930s, and a pioneer as a Thereminist
November 22, 2024 at 12:47 PM
Just completed this - an update to a study I put together in 2022 for the Henkin Brothers Archive Association - Evgeny Henkin was both an important Berlin street photographer in the late 1920s and 1930s, and a pioneer as a Thereminist
Currently immersed in European digital newspaper archives (again) tracking the activities of the Berlin School of Electrical Music from 1928-1930 - but the story isn't contained by those dates - started on this in the lockdown era - still finding stuff, like this ...
November 16, 2024 at 12:04 PM
Currently immersed in European digital newspaper archives (again) tracking the activities of the Berlin School of Electrical Music from 1928-1930 - but the story isn't contained by those dates - started on this in the lockdown era - still finding stuff, like this ...
First fruit on an apple tree grown by our young'un from a seed ...
November 16, 2024 at 10:31 AM
First fruit on an apple tree grown by our young'un from a seed ...
Forget New York - it all started in Burnley in 1945 😆
October 25, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Forget New York - it all started in Burnley in 1945 😆
Sometimes as an academic you wonder if your ideas have ever travelled beyond academia - if you've ever made any kind of research impact (no ... NOT the REF kind) - just discovered this book discusses two of my studies on British-German connections in 1970s electronic music - made me very happy 🙂
October 22, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Sometimes as an academic you wonder if your ideas have ever travelled beyond academia - if you've ever made any kind of research impact (no ... NOT the REF kind) - just discovered this book discusses two of my studies on British-German connections in 1970s electronic music - made me very happy 🙂
From 1912 ... when 'futurist' meant any radical composer ...
September 30, 2024 at 2:33 PM
From 1912 ... when 'futurist' meant any radical composer ...
Towards Dartmoor
September 15, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Towards Dartmoor
This morning's (related) 2nd hand bookshop buys 😀
September 7, 2024 at 11:20 AM
This morning's (related) 2nd hand bookshop buys 😀
Bellever Forest, Dartmoor
September 3, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Bellever Forest, Dartmoor
Does anybody remember this proto-hauntological book - I came across it as a kid on Jackanory, got hold of it at Unsworth library, and the story stayed with me for decades even if the book didn't ... until I bought it a few years ago ...
September 2, 2024 at 7:44 PM
Does anybody remember this proto-hauntological book - I came across it as a kid on Jackanory, got hold of it at Unsworth library, and the story stayed with me for decades even if the book didn't ... until I bought it a few years ago ...
More from yesterday's trip to the (closing today) Dingles Fairground museum in Devon
September 1, 2024 at 10:42 AM
More from yesterday's trip to the (closing today) Dingles Fairground museum in Devon
Dingles Fairground Museum, Devon - first and last visit as it closes this weekend …
August 31, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Dingles Fairground Museum, Devon - first and last visit as it closes this weekend …
Just got home to find this had arrived 😎 Looking forward to starting this - after trying to thin down my no-longer-used-for-lecturing books, seem to have started accumulating them again ...
August 27, 2024 at 8:29 PM
Just got home to find this had arrived 😎 Looking forward to starting this - after trying to thin down my no-longer-used-for-lecturing books, seem to have started accumulating them again ...