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Solar 76
@solar76.bsky.social
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Producer of electronic music in a retro-futurist tech-house style.
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Napalm Death - From Enslavement to Obliteration (1988)
October 4, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Belfast, 29/6/2025. We were watching The Sky At Night and yer telescope man Pete Lawrence mentioned that this was NLC time and I looked behind me out the window and saw this.
Noctilucent clouds over Belfast suburbs. High wispy cirrus and altocirrus lit from below in dark twilight sky. Noctilucent clouds over Belfast suburbs. High wispy cirrus and altocirrus lit from below in dark twilight sky.
July 26, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Brian Eno - Ambient 4: On Land (1982)
Album cover of Brian Eno - Ambient 4: On Land. Appears to be a close up of a topographic map.
May 18, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Breakers at White Park Bay, County Antrim, 9/5/2025
Atlantic breakers and wide sandy beach as seen from high sand dunes
May 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Rathlin Island from Portbraddan, County Antrim, 9/5/2025
View across Rathlin Sound in near-cloudless weather - the sea is turquoise/azure
May 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Album covers for the first 4 Solar 76 albums
May 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Tangerine Floyd
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Cover of Solar 76 Tower Blocks EP
May 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Album covers for first 4 Solar 76 albums.
May 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Mike Oldfield – Ommadawn (1975)
It's Mike looking out a rain-streaked window, wondering when he can fly his model planes again. This is my favourite album ever.
April 12, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Mike Oldfield – Hergest Ridge (1974)
Cover of Mike Oldfield – Hergest Ridge (1974) - the ridge lensed and mirrored to look like an island in the sky, Mike's dog and a model aeroplane sit prominently near the top of the image
April 12, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Slieve Meelbeg, Meelmore & Bearnagh from Slieve Binnian north top, 4/4/2025
View of Mourne mountain summits in fair weather, blue sky and cloud shadows on the hills.
April 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Lurigethan & Glenariff from Slievenanee with Arran, Kintyre & Ailsa Craig in the distance, 1/4/2025
View seaward from upland plateau to coastal glens in County Antrim.
April 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Terry Francis – Architecture (1998)
Cover of 'Architecture' CD, geometric design based on the modernist architectural sketches of Sant'Elia.
April 10, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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That is class, and reminded me of this.
Graffiti covered sign with sticker art graphic in the style of a triangular traffic warning 'deep water' sign, featuring a police land rover plunging off a quayside.
March 29, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs (of Saint Etienne fame) used one of these for their 'English Weather' compilation (Ace Records, 2017).
Cover of 'English Weather' compilation, which uses a famous image from photographer Peter Mitchell - a Leeds newsagent shop next to a Methodist church, in misty, mild summer morning light. A couple, presumably the shop proprietors, stand in the doorway.
March 28, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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BBC 12
Graphic ident for imagined future TV channel 'BBC 12' as designed for and included in Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey'
March 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Manuel Göttsching – E2-E4 (1984)
Album cover for Manuel Göttsching – E2-E4, a chess board, 8x8 chequered brown and off-white.
March 23, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Kymantic Melomintion
March 20, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Sasha - Airdrawndagger (2002)
Utterly underrated classic.
March 16, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Long dead television presenter Cliff Michelmore.
There he is.
March 8, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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February 22, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Miles Davis – Miles In The Sky (1968)
Miles Davis – Miles In The Sky (1968) album cover - 'psychedelic' 1960s design
February 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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John Coltrane – Coltrane Jazz (1961)
John Coltrane – Coltrane Jazz (1961) album cover - classic modernist album cover on Atlantic Records. Artist pictured playing tenor saxophone.
February 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Kymantic Melomintion
January 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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George Shaw - Ash Wednesday: 7am (2004/5). Humbrol enamel on board.
Meticulous, atmospheric and hyper-realist oil painting of an English council estate at dawn in late winter/early spring, the first reddish and low-angled sunlight striking the buildings.
January 31, 2025 at 10:40 PM