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Eric K
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Piano player in the whorehouse of life.

Background check:
https://w.wiki/Eu9x

Vintage non-responsive website:
https://www.kleptones.com

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#stewartlee bang on the (musical) money as usual. Those were indeed the days.
Remember the Our Price? Remember the Zavvis? Remember the Virgin MegaMegaStores? Remember when music consumption had a cultural currency? Remember walking home with the record under your arm so the other kids knew what you were into? Thomas Dolby! The Piranhas!! Asia!!! Remember paying the travelling community to caper and sing for small change on the common? Remember walking home with the travelling community under your arm so the other kids knew what you were into. Romantic Romany ballads! Concertinas from County Clare!! Clogs!!! Remember listening to the throb of your own heart, the rustle of air in your lungs, and the hum of electromagnetic energy in your ears, realising that you yourself were a form of music, and walking home with yourself under your own arm so that the whole cosmos knew what you were into? Those were the days!
December 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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You what, The Guardian???

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/dec/03/share-your-views-on-music-produced-by-ai

#music #TheGrauniad
‘We'd like to know your feelings on music produced by Al The tide, it seems, is unstoppable. In July, the band the Velvet Underground went viral, amassing more than 1m Spotify streams very quickly - only to be revealed as an entirely AI confection. One week in November, three Al songs rode high in
December 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
kleptones.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
my pick, Dead Kennedys, natch, really had to pay tribute to teenage me learning the bass in my bedroom, this was always a real joy to play, and hey, as topical as ever!

#listeningclub
Black and white photograph of the four members of the band Dead Kennedys posing indoors, one wearing a shirt with the band's logo symbol.
November 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
kleptones.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Giggling at the number of #marillion references shoehorned into the cast list of the Slow Horses episode I just watched.

#music #eastereggs #SlowHorses
Cast (in order of appearance) Tall Dog GHI ALOYSIUS Agent Singh BALLY GILL Agent Smith REBECCA DYSON-SMITH Carl DANIEL FEARN 0Id Dog NICK MOSS Agent Trewavas DAN MERSH Agent Helly JOE BARNES Agent Grendel ROXY FARIDANY Welsh Dog SUNNY DHILLON Dex Winnit SEAN CERNOW Park Lawyer MATT GREEN Police Officer Lisa Sass SARAH DAYHIN News Reporter at the Zoo GREG McHENZIE Zookeeper HARRY LARKIN Irfan BILAL HASNA Officer Hogarth CONNOR MILLS
November 1, 2025 at 12:03 AM
kleptones.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Oh lor...

https://badmachinery.com/comic/2025-10-24/
Comic panel of a woman with short gray hair and a stern expression pointing her index finger against a vibrant, abstract, psychedelic background while saying, "Drugs for breakfast, lunch, and supper, this lot! Well, not in my band!"
October 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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...and sad to get home from the concert to find out Dave Ball has died. Between him and Vince Clarke, they accidentally wrote the book on 80s electropop. Much copied, never bettered. And then The Grid and more besides. Reminiscence pinched from Rich Norris's […]

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Dave Ball 3.5.59 — 22.10.25 Being in a duo is unlike being in a band. It's not a gang, it's not a team. It's got a different dynamic. There's just the two of you, trying out ideas, bouncing off each other. It's more like a reflection, a sounding board. it feels more like being siblings than extended family. That's the relationship I've had with Dave Ball, over nearly forty years. Dave died yesterday morning. Boy, am I going to miss him. We had an inauspicious start. We met in a tiny studio in Chiswick, where | was co-producing a record that tumed into ‘Jack the Tab’ with Genesis P.Orridge. We'd been at it for a day and a half, and, astonishingly, had nearly finished the whole album. Dave, who was a friend of Gen's, tuned up on the Sunday afternoon. | was quite nervous about meeting him — he was a proper pop star after all - and a very big presence in that cramped room. But we hit it off straight away. Dave set up his Alesis sequencer and drum machine, plugged into a big warm synth, and we were away. | made up some lyrics to shout, and got in the vocal booth with Laura B, who supplied a breathy chorus. Gen's complaining that the track is taking too long — an hour and a half, which is half an hour longer than we've taken to record and mix the other tracks. Dave and the assembled gang put down a couple more tracks in about three hours, and the album's finished....
October 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Unexpected #stevereich Music for 18 Musicians ahoy! And very welcome it is too.
Steve Reichs Music For 18 Musicians being performed on stage
October 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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My pick - Knew @faberfedor was a fan, and not wanting to pick an obvious one, also being mindful of this weekend's protests in the USA, that was Rage Against The Machine's "Township Rebellion" from their debut album.

#listeningclub
A black and white photo shows Rage Against The Machine performing outdoors in front of the George Washington statue at Federal Hall, flanked by large white columns.
October 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Ah, the Season Of The Grey is upon us.

Farewell sun, see you in March i hope.

#amsterdam #weather
Screenshot of a weather forecast showing today's overcast conditions and a five-day outlook with all dark cloudy icons.
October 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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"Saved: My Picture World" – Diane Keaton’s Autobiographical Scrapbook

“I don’t think I am an abstract artist because I’m not that much of an artist. I’m just a person who cuts out paper, throws it up on the wall, or finds old photographs that I see at the […]

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Surrealist collage on black ground featuring cutouts of children suspended under a sparking light source, a cake, a large celestial body, and the vertical text "CASKET COVERS AND PALLS".
October 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
kleptones.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
It's amazing watching him write it in real time, it really is.

https://mastodon.social/@jwallison@mastodon.art/115346693743932827

#music #beatles #badmachinery
A two-panel black and white comic strip showing Paul McArtrey attempting to write "Get Back".
October 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Can someone answer me a basic recording nerd question?
Why do so many re-releases of older stereo recordings have their left & right channels swapped?
Afaik, 2-track tape is always aligned the same way, so unless the cables are crossed (unlikely in a pro […]

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Illustration showing how stereo half-track recording occurs on the heads of a reel to reel tape recorder.
October 6, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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"You have been listening to..."
Double legends Asha Bhosle & The Kronos Quartet's 2005 album "You've Stolen My Heart - Songs from R.D. Burman's Bollywood".
A beautiful trip, imho - hope you enjoyed!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27ve_Stolen_My_Heart

As […]

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Cover of Kronos Quartet and Asha Bhosle - You've Stolen My Heart, Songs from R.D. Burman's Bollywood album
October 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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In an attempt to pick something non-sports related, I reached this, which should need no introduction, but was originally called "Games For May" after the London event that inspired it.
#listeningclub
Black and white promotional artwork featuring a cartoon train labeled "Pink Floyd" with passengers, smoke clouds spelling out "See Emily Play," and record label information including Columbia, EMI, and catalog number DB8214.
September 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Says it all, really.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/sep/08/court-staff-cover-up-banksy-image-of-judge-beating-a-protester

#banksy #art #protest #gormless
Two uniformed men, one in a white shirt and tie, the other in a black jacket, stand in front of a building.
September 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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"I try to play my music
They say my music's too loud
I try to talkin about it
I get the big run around
When I rolled with the punches
I got knocked on the ground
With all this bullshit going down..."

The Isley Brothers puttin ideas in people's heads back in […]

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August 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Hey there, returning once more with the 3rd and final chunk from our Kings Day DJ set in Amsterdam this year, this time a couple of hours from right near the end of the day, so everything's getting decidedly ravey, but we're still chucking in a few favourites […]

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People dressed in orange dancing with arms raised in celebration, with a man in a pink cap and purple wisteria in the background.
August 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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#rip Ronnie Rondell Jr.

#music #pinkfloyd #stuntman
Two businessmen in suits shake hands on a street, with one man engulfed in flames.
August 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Mysteriously, overnight, a portrait of Thomas Jefferson has appeared in the garden.

If you know anyone who has lost one, here 'tis.

#spook #amsterdam
Framed portrait of Thomas Jefferson surrounded by plants.
August 16, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Hey there, back again with the 2nd chunk from our Kings Day DJ set in Amsterdam this year, this time from mid-way through the day, heading from jazzier soulful sounds into more solid 4-4 territory, mixing some quality oddball grooves from around the world […]

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Crowd of people wearing orange hats and clothing, with orange bunting strung across the scene.
August 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Presenting the first of three choice chunks of our Kings Day DJ set in Amsterdam this year - For the last few years we've been hosting a lil secret location block party where we can play an extended set, dropping as many solid personal favourites as we can […]

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A large orange balloon floats above a street decorated with Dutch flags.
August 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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’All I know about method is that when I am not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I am working, it is quite clear that I know nothing.’ - John Cage.

https://robertwilson.com/lecture-on-nothing

RIP Robert Wilson

#rip #robertwilson
Robert Wilson performing John Cage's "Lecture On Nothing".
August 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Surely some mistake, @pixelfed ?
(This is pixelfed.social, btw)
Alert box saying "Account size limit reached"
July 31, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Plucked from the Red Hot organization's "Transa", a recent compilation of songs created "celebration of the trans community", that was Lightning Bug's "Please Tell Me", which seemed quite appropriate. Also that fuzz riff, eh?

#listeningclub
July 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Delighted to announce a 20th Anniversary Remastered Edition of our third album, "From Detroit To JA".

Again we've tapped audio maestro Anthony Chapman to bring things up to date and he's done another fine job. Hope you enjoy the upgrade!

Head to […]

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Album cover of "From Detroit To JA" by The Kleptones showing a blurry whirlwind of TV screen sized images centred on a vintage top loading washing mashine.
July 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM