Hardworking Families

Hardworking Families

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Hardworking Families is an abstract audio wrangler and sound texture tweaker based in Brighton. Also libraries and copyright. Try: https://hardworkingfamilies.bandcamp.com/

58 Followers 95 Following 28 Posts Joined Mar 2025
12 hours ago

Can being “the least intellectually curious person [a source has] ever met”, with no understanding, belief or fixed views truly be a bad thing, if none of his many interviewers & profilers noticed or mentioned it between 2020 and late 2024? Let’s find out

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1 day ago

Thinking of how both Indochina and Iran are rich, diverse regions which exist as geographic, cultural and economic bridges between the lands and peoples surrounding them, and how two generations of US leadership believed they could bury their dreams of self-determination under a deluge of bombs.

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1 year ago

just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

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1 week ago
Two Israeli soldiers killed as latest attacks in
Lebanon leave nearly 400 dead
Israel has been carrying out a military operation in southern Lebanon for more than a week, with three airstrikes hitting Sir El Gharbiyeh village on Sunday.
• Sunday 8 March 2026 17:17, UK
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The absolutely disgusting rot at the heart of British media summed up in a single headline. A wretched clique of pathetic, racist, servile dogs.

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1 week ago
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the Hardworking Families bandcamp now contains this Texture Tape: hardworkingfamilies.bandcamp.com/album/textur...

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1 week ago

Exclusive!!!

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2 weeks ago
A wooden box with a sticker reading 'Tuesday' on it

Ah cool, my Tuesday has arrived

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3 weeks ago

Ok Sam, what's your point? What do you mean by that? What are the implications of the point you are making?

(Questions I would like to hear someone in the room ask him)

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1 month ago

Haptic UK MegaMixxx! (Sounds great, Brighton gig was superb)

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1 month ago

😲

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1 month ago

This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old

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1 month ago
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Hardworking Families

Nothing new to push on my bandcamp, but in honour of the Day, here's some free codes for my highly-tactile pseudo-live album Back, which came out on Minimal Resource Manipulation in 2023.
hardworkingfamilies.bandcamp.com/yum
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1 month ago

They looked alike, but no more than others do.

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1 month ago
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also Tapes! small number of DIY c20s for tonight's show

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1 month ago
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2nite in Brighton

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2 months ago

I'm in this vivid sonic broth somewhere, check it out

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2 months ago
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Jawside Electronics, by Hardworking Families 2 track album

A Christmas gift to you, from Hardworking Families, available for one Xmas day only. Required listening if you've ever been to a noisy gig in Leeds:

hardworkingfamilies.bandcamp.com/album/jawsid...

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3 months ago

Does he not realise that the obvious response to this is "ok man, if you say so 👀"

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3 months ago
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Nybltrax, by Breakwork 2 track album

New trax hardworkingfamilies.bandcamp.com/album/nybltrax

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4 months ago
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Konsztrukting Soundz EVENING #18 - Konsztrukting Soundz

Gig tonight in Leigh-On-Sea 🔥🤟🔥

konsztruktingsoundz.co.uk/project/kons...

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6 months ago

Beer Dickhead answer: it's not as good as it used to be 10+ years ago blah blah

Normal answer: yeah that'll be absolutely fine, and better than many other cheap options 👍

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6 months ago

STARMER: hey I'm appointing this close friend of the world's most notorious paedophile to be US ambassador :)
BRITISH PRESS: ok :)
[One year later]
BRITISH PRESS: wait a minute

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6 months ago
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this is ridiculous

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6 months ago

Liberal politicians if you are so disturbed just pretend Charlie Kirk was a Palestinian child and you’ll get over it in no time

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6 months ago
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Up To A Point, by Michael Trench 1 track album

New release for The Day: hardworkingfamilies.bandcamp.com/album/up-to-...

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6 months ago
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This one Dril tweet in December 2023 was a more accurate depiction of actual events than anything you’d have got off newsstands, from broadcast media or out of the mouths of politicians. It hasn’t got much better since.

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6 months ago

Generally I think it’s a lot easier to understand Reform UK and the general right wing movement behind it as the successful politicisation of being a cunt

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6 months ago
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From the transgenderUK community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the transgenderUK community

www.reddit.com/r/transgende...

Guess what?
The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions.
Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her?
Read her own account here.

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7 months ago

Sun o]

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