Martin James

Martin James

@st8ofbass.bsky.social

Author / academic / music journalist/ musician / Nostalgia Deathstar / Mothloop / State of Bass UK

120 Followers 149 Following 25 Posts Joined Aug 2024
3 months ago
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Beautiful Losers by Box Disciples on Apple Music Album · 2025 · 5 Songs

@gothmusicfeed.bsky.social
Lost Classic from 80s uk goth music.apple.com/gb/album/bea...

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3 months ago
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Four albums in 2025 from my label State of Bass…
2026 promises four more albums and our second book - the long awaited second half of The Prodigy biography

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3 months ago
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Beautiful Losers by Box Disciples on Apple Music Album · 2025 · 5 Songs

@gothmusicfeed.bsky.social
Lost Classic from 80s uk goth music.apple.com/gb/album/bea...

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5 months ago

Sometimes you have to go way back in time in order to move forwards…

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5 months ago

“Listened to it three times on my holiday” ( Matt, Hundred Records)

It is great and I have the CD available in store.

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5 months ago
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How did I end up writing the sleeve notes for The Prodigy’s Their Law?

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5 months ago
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Crowdfunding campaign for the untold story of The Prodigy - We Live For The Beats. Go to indiegogo and search ‘the Prodigy Story part 2’…
50% funded!!! #musicbooks

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5 months ago
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Nostalgia Deathstar’They Kill The Flame’ is available now…
‘One of the coolest electronic albums of the year..’ (Blitzed Magazine)
‘Savage and prescient’ (Electronic Sound).

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5 months ago

Good luck- we had a nightmare putting compilations through RouteNote - including out most successful compilation being taken down because Spotify flagged one song for out performing the rest of the album. It was by the biggest artist on the album and it spiked after they plugged it on their socials

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9 months ago
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General Seven: Emotion - Pressure - Splendour - General Seven YouTube video by Trevor Tweedy

Not shared this here before… when we were young! youtu.be/sqo42dGdW68?...

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8 months ago

Wow that must have cost a fortune to get all of those articles and photos copyright cleared.

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9 months ago
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General Seven: Emotion - Pressure - Splendour - General Seven YouTube video by Trevor Tweedy

Not shared this here before… when we were young! youtu.be/sqo42dGdW68?...

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9 months ago

Thanks for the review… Kiffie and Scenius each have some amazing releases on their Bandcamp pages.

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9 months ago

What was it called?

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9 months ago
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Mutant Electro,the final release in the acclaimed Generation Blitz compilation series is out now via Bandcamp. generationblitz.bandcamp.com/album/genera...

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9 months ago
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Jamz Supernova - Live bars & new album chat with Bryte - BBC Sounds Bryte joins Jamz to chat new album plus shares some live bars over the Weekend Warm-Up mix

This set from Ghanaian rapper Bryte blew my mind yesterday - which was a problem because I was driving. Listen loud and dance wildly - but not when you’re driving 😂 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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10 months ago
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Generation Blitz | MUTANT ELECTRO REVEAL #11 | Facebook MUTANT ELECTRO REVEAL #11 Means Of Production - Zero Oxford's finest purveyors of acid electro punk deliver squat party energy with this blistering exploration of the zero hours contract......

So yeah anyway if you want a track from our upcoming album a bit early get the Generation Blitz compilation from @st8ofbass.bsky.social - In fact get it anyway it is full of electro goodness! www.facebook.com/groups/15938...

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1 year ago
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Art V STEM - YouTube

The weather is all about Anti-Cyclonic Gloom in the U.K. today.
Have you heard the new Nostalgia Deathstar yet? 😎 youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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1 year ago
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Art V STEM Nostalgia Deathstar · Single · 2024 · 1 songs

Something new from Nostalgia Deathstar - it’s called Art V STEM and it’s out now… we like it. You might too.
open.spotify.com/album/4B1k3v...

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1 year ago
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The Ground Belongs To Me Nostalgia Deathstar · The Ground Belongs To Me · Song · 2024

I keep trying BlueSky, one day I’ll get how it works- in the meantime here’s a song called ‘The Ground Belongs to Me’ that Nostalgia Deathstar just released. open.spotify.com/track/6VSMYK...

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1 year ago

I once saw Pink Floyd live. They did the entire Wish You Were Here followed by the whole of Animals. Their encore was Money… that was a version of hokey I can get behind

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1 year ago

Yes. I was dead against it until my son showed me how much it helped him both prepare and revise.

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1 year ago
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Human Resource Single · Nostalgia Deathstar · 2024 · 1 songs

The latest single from Nostalgia Deathstar aka me and @ghost-elektron.bsky.social is on stealing platforms now. It’s called Human Resource, it’s about precarious employment and it’s already been likened to Crackdown era Cabaret Voltaire - this is dark audio warfare

open.spotify.com/album/5rSmT0...

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1 year ago

That’s been normal practice since the beginning- one of my old bands supported a band who’d had a couple of hit singles. The buy on was ridiculous - we paid because, you know, investment in our future!

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1 year ago
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Generation Blitz - Dusk to Dawn, by Generation Blitz 34 track album

Backstory #4
In July 2021 we released the first in the acclaimed Generation Blitz compilation series. Called 'Dusk to Dawn' we brought together amazing artists from the global synth pop underground with the brief to re-imagine the sound of the Blitz Club. generationblitz.bandcamp.com/album/genera...

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1 year ago

Our compilations will only be physical and DL in future… Or we’ll just cut out Spotify.

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1 year ago

I release compilations through Route Note they withdrew all tracks as a result of Spotify complaints over four tracks becoming popular. They also withheld all monies owed. I won’t use them ever again.

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1 year ago
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'Human Resource', the first single from Nostalgia Deathstar's forthcoming second album will be released into the wild on Sept 6th. A pounding synth-hymn to the era of managed decline, strategic resourcing and the reduction of human value to spreadsheet cost analysis.

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1 year ago
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Honestly, when it comes to reunions I’m far more excited by the first album in 30 years from The Wolfgang Press

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1 year ago
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Honestly, when it comes to reunions I’m far more excited by the first album in 30 years from The Wolfgang Press

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