Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL)
@rapideyeelectro.bsky.social
REEL formed when three refugees from The Psychedelic Duelling Wars congealed in the psychic wreckage of a Somerset studio to record Wild Garlick electronics, eschatological ambience & brown acid techno on adapted bits of farm machinery & petrol cans
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“The road from the West Country to London is the A303. You think that’s an accident?” #acid #psychedelicduelling #wyrdwildwest
James Bond is a fictional character, no reason at all you can’t just re-set in a Mad Men universe or Victorian Scotland or Elizabethan London, you muppets. Or have the ACTUAL Muppets do him.
November 12, 2025 at 7:42 AM
James Bond is a fictional character, no reason at all you can’t just re-set in a Mad Men universe or Victorian Scotland or Elizabethan London, you muppets. Or have the ACTUAL Muppets do him.
Right, that’s it; if shops are telling me Christmas is here, I’m starting to play my Scott Walker records. Long story but, I should add, a Scott Walker record is not JUST for Christmas.
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Right, that’s it; if shops are telling me Christmas is here, I’m starting to play my Scott Walker records. Long story but, I should add, a Scott Walker record is not JUST for Christmas.
Can we go back to the old meaning of iconic?
Lily Allen & Scissor Sisters to headline Mighty Hoopla 2026: Other acts confirmed to play next year’s edition of the vibrant South London event include Jessie J, Little Mix’s Perrie, and iconic boyband Five.
Lily Allen & Scissor Sisters to headline Mighty Hoopla 2026
Other acts confirmed to play next year’s edition of the vibrant South London event include Jessie J, Little Mix’s Perrie, and iconic boyband Five.
diymag.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Can we go back to the old meaning of iconic?
Could never quite face Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing (2012) but watched it last night &, my God, post Trump it hits even harder
November 11, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Could never quite face Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing (2012) but watched it last night &, my God, post Trump it hits even harder
Just saying
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Just saying
Wow, logged onto DISSENSUS again for the first time in what must be 15 years and had a lovely time in there. Good to see so many of the old bloggers again, in post form at least.
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Wow, logged onto DISSENSUS again for the first time in what must be 15 years and had a lovely time in there. Good to see so many of the old bloggers again, in post form at least.
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
I’ve started (again) taking little slim paperbacks (poetry is good) that fit in my jeans pocket to read while waiting for friends because they are always late & there’s something just awful about waiting in pubs looking at my phone - but now…
November 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I’ve started (again) taking little slim paperbacks (poetry is good) that fit in my jeans pocket to read while waiting for friends because they are always late & there’s something just awful about waiting in pubs looking at my phone - but now…
Watched Michael Haneke’s The Seventh Continent this morning at 5am (long, dull story). Crikey. Thought I’d already watched it - had the box set for years - but, unless my traumatised mind has repressed it, it turns out I haven’t. By all accounts Haneke is actually a bit of a laugh.
November 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Watched Michael Haneke’s The Seventh Continent this morning at 5am (long, dull story). Crikey. Thought I’d already watched it - had the box set for years - but, unless my traumatised mind has repressed it, it turns out I haven’t. By all accounts Haneke is actually a bit of a laugh.
Double Bill: “We'll cause some trouble, we'll make you laugh, we're Thing One and Thing Two on our behalf!"
John Carpenter says he's working on a sequel to 'The Thing'
"We'll see"
"We'll see"
November 8, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Double Bill: “We'll cause some trouble, we'll make you laugh, we're Thing One and Thing Two on our behalf!"
I was in a slightly ‘tired & emotional’ 3am state in my tent at a small music festival in Wiltshire last year, listening to this & convincing myself it was the ACTUAL… origin of #DrumNBass m.youtube.com/watch?v=puK4...
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Fireworks
YouTube video by SiouxsieBansheesVEVO
m.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
I was in a slightly ‘tired & emotional’ 3am state in my tent at a small music festival in Wiltshire last year, listening to this & convincing myself it was the ACTUAL… origin of #DrumNBass m.youtube.com/watch?v=puK4...
You’d think whoever came up with ‘What if Street Art but Meme?’ idea might have trashed it at conception but we live in a 6/7 world so 🤷 I’ve seen the ‘I farted in yoga’ things in a few places now.
Pretty bad at photos yesterday and didn't get one of the graffiti that said 'Funk Zomby' but I got this
November 8, 2025 at 8:24 AM
You’d think whoever came up with ‘What if Street Art but Meme?’ idea might have trashed it at conception but we live in a 6/7 world so 🤷 I’ve seen the ‘I farted in yoga’ things in a few places now.
Only saw 30 mins of the Cremaster Cycle in a gallery in Paris 20 years ago but I do think of it now and then. I guess one day I’ll see the whole thing
November 7, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Only saw 30 mins of the Cremaster Cycle in a gallery in Paris 20 years ago but I do think of it now and then. I guess one day I’ll see the whole thing
Nightmarish dreams & half-awake hypnagogic twitching all night. Would not do again 3.5 / 7
Can’t sleep so think I’ll just read bits of Maldoror until the dreams come
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#Books
💙📚
DAY 11/20
Comte de Lautreamont - Maldoror
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#Books
💙📚
DAY 11/20
Comte de Lautreamont - Maldoror
November 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Nightmarish dreams & half-awake hypnagogic twitching all night. Would not do again 3.5 / 7
Can’t sleep so think I’ll just read bits of Maldoror until the dreams come
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#Books
💙📚
DAY 11/20
Comte de Lautreamont - Maldoror
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#Books
💙📚
DAY 11/20
Comte de Lautreamont - Maldoror
November 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Can’t sleep so think I’ll just read bits of Maldoror until the dreams come
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"If À Rebours is about anything, it is about the transformations taking place in art and literature during the period in which it was written"
@huwnesbitt.bsky.social on a new critical life of JK Huysmans in this week's @thetls.bsky.social
www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...
@huwnesbitt.bsky.social on a new critical life of JK Huysmans in this week's @thetls.bsky.social
www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...
The decadent novelist who inspired Oscar Wilde
When Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans published his novel À rebours in 1884, he was still a part-time author. By day, the thirty-six-year-old Parisian was a
www.the-tls.co.uk
February 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
"If À Rebours is about anything, it is about the transformations taking place in art and literature during the period in which it was written"
@huwnesbitt.bsky.social on a new critical life of JK Huysmans in this week's @thetls.bsky.social
www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...
@huwnesbitt.bsky.social on a new critical life of JK Huysmans in this week's @thetls.bsky.social
www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...
I understand how attractive / addictive streaming is & its utility re: finding out of press records etc but I’ve never been able to shake the absolute horror I feel about having access to all music at all times… I love the uncertainty of needing to make a choice at some level
I think it’s probably the ONLY good reason to stream but I also always liked it when music I wanted to hear WASN’T available & remained shrouded in mystery - some latent masochism perhaps
November 4, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I understand how attractive / addictive streaming is & its utility re: finding out of press records etc but I’ve never been able to shake the absolute horror I feel about having access to all music at all times… I love the uncertainty of needing to make a choice at some level
Absolutely loving this van Dijk vs Rooney interview… Rooney turning into Partridge before our eyes, Virgil being incredibly statesmanlike and analytical in his responses #LFC
November 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Absolutely loving this van Dijk vs Rooney interview… Rooney turning into Partridge before our eyes, Virgil being incredibly statesmanlike and analytical in his responses #LFC
I was hoping for Throbbing Gristle’s Slug Bait. Next year, perhaps.
Well, I didn’t think they would have used an acoustic version of the theme from Knight Rider for this year’s John Lewis Christmas advert, and I was right, they didn’t.
November 4, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I was hoping for Throbbing Gristle’s Slug Bait. Next year, perhaps.
Remember a long conversation I had with someone at a conference who was doing a PhD on the incredible levels of gang-related knife crime in London in the 50s… and during The Blitz
Britain is not in the grip of mass violence.
The Cambridgeshire train stabbings were horrific - and incredibly rare.
Your odds of being attacked by a stranger are much lower than they were.
Here's the facts! 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/britain-is...
The Cambridgeshire train stabbings were horrific - and incredibly rare.
Your odds of being attacked by a stranger are much lower than they were.
Here's the facts! 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/britain-is...
Britain isn't in the grip of mass violence
The far right are trying to whip up fear and panic with lies
www.owenjones.news
November 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Remember a long conversation I had with someone at a conference who was doing a PhD on the incredible levels of gang-related knife crime in London in the 50s… and during The Blitz
Exactly the reason why people should always try and see the ‘support’ bands - lots of them became my favourite artists (and still do)
The punch line: I saw them and Melvins open for Pearl Jam, who I actually went to see. Little did I know what I would become.
November 4, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Exactly the reason why people should always try and see the ‘support’ bands - lots of them became my favourite artists (and still do)
There’s not that many 80s bands I could still be arsed to see again now but The Butthole Surfers always seemed weirdly ageless, as if they’d crawled out of some thermal duct like a Cthulhu cult, or maybe Cthulhu himself.
November 4, 2025 at 8:22 AM
There’s not that many 80s bands I could still be arsed to see again now but The Butthole Surfers always seemed weirdly ageless, as if they’d crawled out of some thermal duct like a Cthulhu cult, or maybe Cthulhu himself.
Just found this on iplayer. Used to have to watch really dodgy YouTube clips of this stuff. A strange (very brown) joy. This is the kind of thing all the ‘hauntology’ guys ought to be lamenting.
BBC4 are showing The Great Philosophers series from the 70s atm... incredible now to think two guys sat debating Hegel & Marx for 40 minutes used to go out on terrestrial TV at a time when there were only three channels.
And of course one of them looked like this...
And of course one of them looked like this...
November 4, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Just found this on iplayer. Used to have to watch really dodgy YouTube clips of this stuff. A strange (very brown) joy. This is the kind of thing all the ‘hauntology’ guys ought to be lamenting.
Just had a glance at a random year: The Fall, LFO, Carter, Massive Attack, Swans, Buttholes, Primal Scream, Nirvana, Babes in Toyland plus lots of Hip Hop in the 1991 NME Top 20… sounds quite a lot LIKE the UK in 1991, at least
Going through the Melody Maker and NME best albums lists from the early 1990s... I'm up to 1993. Some very questionable choices in there... and a few albums now considered masterpieces are ranked terribly low.
November 4, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Just had a glance at a random year: The Fall, LFO, Carter, Massive Attack, Swans, Buttholes, Primal Scream, Nirvana, Babes in Toyland plus lots of Hip Hop in the 1991 NME Top 20… sounds quite a lot LIKE the UK in 1991, at least
The Quietus @thequietus.com & Freq @freqzine.bsky.social would be a good place to start
If you have the means, now is a great time to financially support news orgs that aren't owned and/or run by awful people.
November 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The Quietus @thequietus.com & Freq @freqzine.bsky.social would be a good place to start