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@bluetapes

Minimal and often abstract music - from grime to gugak, American primitivism to Japanese ambient - presented with minimal and often abstract cyanotype artwork. https://bluetapes.bandcamp.com

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Literally just ate two

07.03.2026 16:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

He’s just desperate to do a nuke before he dies or goes to jail

07.03.2026 13:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So, Iran has surrendered, but the country is going be completely destroyed and certain death anyway, just because?

07.03.2026 13:34 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe this is a theme with Robin Hood adaptations - thinking of the quirky approach to geography in Prince of Thieves

07.03.2026 10:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So no idea if it’s true, but those ladies were certainly vindicated on some of this stuff

07.03.2026 10:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Before the allegations became mainstream there was a groupie forum that had been circulating those rumours about Watkins for years, and a common theme there was that the band and management knew about it but were turning a blind eye for financial reasons.

Obviously evidence is purely anecdotal

07.03.2026 10:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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Out today!

BLUE FIFTY-SEVEN: HENRY BIRDSEY

Slowly-unfurling lap-steel drone from Old Saw master

06.03.2026 11:07 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Little known fact that Justine Frischmann was actually seeing Pam St Clement and Damon Albarn at the same time, which provided inspiration for several early Suede and Blur songs.

07.03.2026 09:32 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Art of the day

Rosanna Jones β—† Burn marks as autobiography

07.03.2026 09:00 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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This is the start of a horror film.

07.03.2026 08:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I find it difficult too. Not sure why.

06.03.2026 21:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Did Pete write this

06.03.2026 21:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

She wasn’t fired for lawlessness, though, she was fired because she contradicted Trump.

06.03.2026 21:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Great, you just made Sonic cry.

06.03.2026 19:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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An Egg from the 90s

06.03.2026 15:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Cool. The off-white plastic on the C64 always had a bit of a grimy look.

06.03.2026 14:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
blue fifty-seven, by Henry Birdsey 2 track album

Get it here

bluetapes.bandcamp.com/album/blue-f...

06.03.2026 11:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Out today!

BLUE FIFTY-SEVEN: HENRY BIRDSEY

Slowly-unfurling lap-steel drone from Old Saw master

06.03.2026 11:07 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€˜lol learn some new chords bro’

06.03.2026 10:41 πŸ‘ 133 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Art of the day

Georges Matthieu (French, 1921 - 2022)

Fzey - 1965

06.03.2026 08:05 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Let things die.

05.03.2026 22:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Today I leant the opening line Monkey Gone to Heaven is β€œThere was a guy” and not β€œThere was a god”

05.03.2026 21:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Old argyrotypes revisited 03

05.03.2026 20:08 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’d put it in the top two films starring Karate Kid

05.03.2026 17:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I think I need a bit of folded paper and a pen to explain it to this scientist

05.03.2026 17:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

While his physics make sense on a literal level, if Sam Neil in Event Horizon has taught me anything it’s that space-time can in fact be folded, which allows a vessel to travel from one point to another without needing to have a faster than light speed ship or masses of fuel

05.03.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I wonder what they do for day jobs.

05.03.2026 15:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Turning into the Missy Elliott of metal

05.03.2026 15:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Are Electric Wizard still going? They haven't released an album in nearly 10 years

05.03.2026 14:30 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œAdmittedly I never made it all the way through the book, but I just don’t remember there being that many occurrences of the N word in Tolkien’s text…”

05.03.2026 14:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0