Derek Walmsley
@derekwalmsley
I'm almost always trying to make the text flow better or reduce the number of words. Music writing in The Wire, Electronic Sound, The Quietus, LRB, elsewhere. slowmotion.blog
The AI generated hype text that Spotify presents as ersatz sleevenotes to My First Plays On Spotify makes me want to gnaw my own arm off
This reminds me of The Traitors when some complete random gets recruited and tries the robe on, claims it feels great but they‘re squirming awkwardly and you know they’ll be gone soon
Also was privileged to review this important new book on the music world in Ukraine amid war
Savage Pencil strikes again! The brand new @thewiremagazine.bsky.social includes my guide to the world of outernational visionary Augustus Pablo, from sideman dates to digital steppers in the dancehall era, which has been on the back burner for many a month
Big bunch of stuff in the new @thewiremagazine.bsky.social including hardcore hiphop bringing the noise in articles by Joe and Rob, plus me on Autechre guitar, Glasgow improvisers and brief histories of sound recording
And for @electronicsound.bsky.social I had a blast shooting the breeze with Oneohtrix/Daniel Lopatin swapping a couple of sample library CD tips and talking anything and everything re: his great new Tranquilizer album
If you are canny you can still access sleevenotes of the first 30 or so Blood & Fire compilations on a version of their website on the Wayback Machine. Years or more accurately decades of reggae music scholarship
Couple of reallly great things happening this weekend if you can make it. The briliiant Ricardo Dias Gomes is playing with Jeremy Gustin at TRC on Saturday via @hivemindrecords.bandcamp.com
very sad to hear of the death of Jimmy Cliff. We got down to the recent Harder They Come musical in Stratford a month or two back, and it was a pure joy. Beg, borrow or steal a ticket if if comes again.
@scottygb.bsky.social on BBC London lunchtime news: “now, I’ve just realised I’ve dressed like Pudsey Bear”
RIP Adrian Maben! Very glad I got the chance to upgrade from teenage VHS to IMAX this year
Awesome new issue of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social, with amazing Francis Gooding interview going deep into the scales of Ethrio jazz, even wilder Griot Galaxy story, plus my review of @ucpress.bsky.social book by Theodore Gordon rethinking the synthesizer utopia
Among all the good shit in the new issue of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social I got to write about the original don Horace Silver and his killer left hand
Sorry for the tired photo. Had to get up multiple times in the night to reassure him I was not dead.
Love this little note on the bottom of a rave blurb for the reissue of Goldie’s Timeless on the @boomkat.com site (and still not on Spotify)
Luciano Berio in his Wikipedia image looks like a comedian being lined up for Taskmaster series 21. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
Oh no! I can’t have been the only young kid to have seen this and thought ‘OK, cinema can do THIS’