Daryl Worthington

On 12 March, celebrating 5 years of @wabi-sabi-tapes.bsky.social at the mighty Spanners in London with sets from Mélodie Blaison, Kate Carr, myself and DJs Laura Not and Andrew Hulme from the Final Image label. Come on down! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/melodie-bl...

On 12 March, celebrating 5 years of @wabi-sabi-tapes.bsky.social at the mighty Spanners in London with sets from Mélodie Blaison, Kate Carr, myself and DJs Laura Not and Andrew Hulme from the Final Image label. Come on down! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/melodie-bl...

Was a real joy writing this for @thewiremagazine.bsky.social Vic Bang’s music is incredible, The Wire is incredible… support both if you can!

O Jogo Humano (2019: 3rd Full Length, Individual Tracks), by Test 53 track album

Bandcamp Friday bargain: Almost every album on Sao Paulo-based grindcore duo Test's Bandcamp page is 2 euros. I find myself picking one up everytime Bandcamp Day rolls around - they're a force of nature that stretch the possibilities of rapid heavy music... testgrind.bandcamp.com/album/o-jogo...

Tape deal:
Nothing “new” for Bandcamp Friday today, but if you are willing to consider music from the ancient epoch of 2025 (or earlier), we’re offering a 1-day 2-for-1 deal on all tapes. Just buy one tape and write which other in-stock tape you’d also like in the comment field on the order.

The Wire 505 is out now!

Featuring dälek on the cover, plus an industrial hiphop primer, Vic Bang, Pascal Comelade, O Ghettaõ, Daniel Blumberg’s Jukebox, and much more.

Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/

For the new @thewiremagazine.bsky.social I interviewed the wonderful Vic Bang. Such a joy to speak to an artist whose music always sparkles in the most magical way. Grab a copy of the magazine/subscribe at The Wire’s website. (And rejoice in Dälek being on the cover!)

Anomaly Index by NKISI album cover. A very pale greyish blue image of a small man made structure with a ladder for access.

'Built entirely from phonograph recordings predating 1910, captured in Cameroon and Papua New Guinea, Anomaly Index shows background noise is capable of being both spectral and utterly present all at once'

Nkisi - Anomaly Index - Spool’s Out: #Cassette Reviews for January

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Spool's Out: Cassette Reviews for January by Daryl Worthington | The Quietus The tape revival has been revived. According to Official Charts Company data, UK sales of cassettes dipped slightly in 2024, but in 2025 they rallied, 164,000 units sold, 53 per cent up on the previou...

Thanks very much to @darylworthington.bsky.social at @thequietus.com for including the Black Pylon tape label’s inaugural release ‘Safezone’ by Dogs Versus Shadows in his first cassette round up of 2026!
TAPE SCENE FOREVS!!

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Spool's Out: Cassette Reviews for January by Daryl Worthington | The Quietus The tape revival has been revived. According to Official Charts Company data, UK sales of cassettes dipped slightly in 2024, but in 2025 they rallied, 164,000 units sold, 53 per cent up on the previou...

Thank you
@darylworthington.bsky.social
@ @thequietus.com for including 'Inxorable Ascent' in SPOOLS OUT! Honoured... always amazing music in here: thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Spool's Out: Cassette Reviews for January by Daryl Worthington | The Quietus The tape revival has been revived. According to Official Charts Company data, UK sales of cassettes dipped slightly in 2024, but in 2025 they rallied, 164,000 units sold, 53 per cent up on the previou...

My first Spool's Out cassette reviews column of 2026 is now up at @thequietus.com Always such a joy to write this, and there's once again a deluge of fantastic sounds coming out on tape...

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Unfortunately, the time and space (a technofeudalist's playground) are definitely off. Advocating for AI in art at the moment simply means siding with all the grifters, antihumanists and morally corrupt capitalists who are showing the technology down our throats in every other aspect of life. 2/2

The use of generative AI in art can be an incredibly interesting and nuanced discussion. I myself have been fascinated with the subject (and written several papers on it), composers like @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social have made amazing music using systems such as dadabots' RRNs, etc. 1/2

Horns of Death, by Beachers 11 track album

Happy Holidays! You can get a 40% discount on everything/anything at the ineffectual suns Bandcamp by using the code goodriddance2025 at checkout until 5 Jan, including my album of experimental hunting horn from earlier this year… ineffectualsuns.bandcamp.com/album/horns-...

Time out of Joint - The Wire Traditional instruments, folk cultures and mythic ideas of futurity offer slip roads exiting AI’s highway to a hollow future, argues Daryl Worthington in The Wire 503/504

Traditional instruments, folk cultures and mythic ideas of futurity offer slip roads exiting AI’s highway to a hollow future, argues @darylworthington.bsky.social in The Wire 503/504

Read the full essay online: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

Horns of Death, by Beachers 11 track album

Happy Holidays! You can get a 40% discount on everything/anything at the ineffectual suns Bandcamp by using the code goodriddance2025 at checkout until 5 Jan, including my album of experimental hunting horn from earlier this year… ineffectualsuns.bandcamp.com/album/horns-...

Strategic Tape Reserve The Strategic Tape Reserve is a fully independent (non-aligned, secular) organization dedicated to the dissemination and responsible management of ferric cassette material and content.

🚨Coupon time!

25% discount on tapes & digitals using the checkout code: str25

Valid the next 2 weeks for anything on the STR Bandcamp. It might work for other labels as well, but we haven’t checked. You could try it on Warp or Sony? Definitely works on STR tho.

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TONIGHT 👇👇👇👇👇

For folk in London, this is happening at (the wonderful, legendary) Spanners tomorrow (Wednesday) night to celebrate the new [something's happening] album, out now via @strategictaper.bsky.social Come down, lineup is magic. (advance tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/somethings... )

Quietus Spools Out, The Best Cassettes of 2025 graphic. A small skull-faced jester under the titles, a rocky outcrop and clouds at the top.

With AI on his mind and joyous sound in his ears, Daryl Worthington dives into his 20 favourite cassettes of 2025, finding the world’s tape conveyed eccentric undergrounds remain in brilliant form

Spool’s Out: The Best Cassettes of 2025

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The 2025 Spool’s Out review is up now at @thequietus.com including my 20 favourite tapes of the last twelve months. It’s been another bumper year of brilliant sounds carried on small plastic rectangles thequietus.com/tq-charts/co...

Buzz, by [something's happening] 12 track album

Annnnd, earlier this year [something's happening] also had an album out on the wonderful Flaming Pines. This one involves location recording with language and sound, and experimental translation. flamingpines.bandcamp.com/album/buzz

a map has always been an attempt, by [something's happening] 12 track album

There's also a new album from [something's happening], the duo of poet Iris Colomb and I, out on the wonderful @strategictaper.bsky.social (tbh every release on the label is worth checking out) FFO loops of text and sound that go out of sync strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/a-map-...

Horns of Death, by Beachers 11 track album

In case you're on a Bandcamp Friday splurge/niche festive shopping spree, there's a few things available which I've been involved with this year...

Firstly, if you like hunting horns taken out of context... ineffectualsuns.bandcamp.com/album/horns-...

[something’s happening] and Budokan Boys tapes

Good morning. Lots of tapes available on this Bandcamp Friday including the most recent by Budokan Boys and [something’s happening]

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New @thewiremagazine.bsky.social is out! Proud to have contributed a Rewind essay + reviews of Unsound 2025, and records by Saint Abdullah/Jason Nazary + Rie Nakajima/David Toop.

Whole issue is packed with great essays, articles and EOY gear

Buy a copy/subscribe to support indie journalism in ‘26

Awesome tape design, strange and beautiful sounds.

a map has always been an attempt, by [something's happening] 12 track album

Now out in full:

[something's happening] - a map has always been an attempt

Iris Colomb and Daryl Worthington build delicate, evolving compositions from layers of electroacoustic and found-poetry loops.

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'a map has always been an attempt', the new album from my text-sound duo with poet Iris Colomb, [something's happening] is out today on the esteemed @strategictaper.bsky.social Unsynced loops recorded at live shows across 2022 strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/a-map-has-always-been-an-attempt

We have the tapes.

[something's happening] - a map has always been an attempt

Found-text / electro-acoustic live loop layer collage.

Available to pre-order now. Full release next Friday.

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