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<h1 id="simon-greenwood">Simon Greenwood</h1>
<h2
id="senior-linux-system-administrator-primarily-in-web-based-technologies-and-the-internet">Senior
Linux System Administrator primarily in web based technologies and the
Internet</h2>
<p><a href="mailto:cv@simongreenwood.me.uk">Email</a> | <a
href="https://matrix.to/#/#simon:serversonic.co.uk">Matrix</a></p>
<h2 id="current-position">Current position</h2>
<p>Senior System Administrator, AdminGeekZ Ltd</p>
<h3 id="specialized-in">Specialized in</h3>
<ul>
<li>Linux System Administration, primarily Enterprise Linux and
Debian-based systems</li>
<li>Web server technologies including Apache HTTPD, nginx and
LiteSpeed</li>
<li>Email system management and monitoring</li>
<li>MySQL server optimisation</li>
<li>Bash and Python scripting</li>
<li>Web control panels including cPanel, DirectAdmin and</li>
<li>Virtualisation and constainerisation technologies including KVM and
LXC</li>
<li>Service deployments with ansible, docker, containerisation</li>
<li>DNS and network management</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="looking-for">Looking for</h3>
<ul>
<li>Remote or hybrid work</li>
<li>Full time or contract</li>
<li>Linux System Administration</li>
<li>Break/Fix repair roles</li>
<li>System design</li>
<li>Discovery and Migration projects</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="skills">Skills</h3>
<ul>
<li>Linux and Unix system administration (30 years)</li>
<li>System troubleshooting</li>
<li>System discovery and analysis</li>
<li>System design and deployment</li>
<li>Almost 30 years involvement with Internet technologies</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="occupation">Occupation</h2>
<h3 id="present">2011 - present</h3>
<p><strong>AdminGeekZ Ltd</strong>, UK/International</p>
<ul>
<li>Senior System Administrator Remote system administration and DevOps
services for businesses located around the world, principally with
dedicated LAMP and nginx/php-fpm servers and cloud based systems. System
tuning and provisioning for high performance and reliability based
around MySQL, apache, nginx, PHP and varnish. Extensive experience with
cPanel and Plesk control panels, backups and general server management.
Security including system updating, hardening and tuning and the
configuration of systems for HTTPS and other secure protocols.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="previous-positions-to-2010">Previous positions (to 2010)</h2>
<h3 id="section">2010 - 2011</h3>
<p><strong>BuzzSports Ltd</strong>, Leeds, UK</p>
<ul>
<li>Senior System Administrator, buzzsports.com Setting up server and
desktop systems for a gaming startup in Leeds using a LAMP based system
on Rackspace servers. Implementation of processes and security to meet
requirements of a UK gambling license and PCI-DSS compliance.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="section-1">2010</h3>
<p><strong>The Tote</strong>, Wigan, UK</p>
<ul>
<li>Contract Linux PCI-DSS Compliance Consultant Providing technical
advice and support for a PCI-DSS compliance project for this high
profile online betting service, including auditing production
environments and developing and documenting system hardening strategies
and ongoing patching and support processes in a RedHat Linux
environment.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="section-2">2010</h3>
<p><strong>Lloyds Bank for HP plc</strong>, Knutsford, UK</p>
<ul>
<li>Contract Technical Consultant A project at a major financial
institution to identify legacy hardware and its applications and suggest
a migration strategy into a managed Linux environment. This involved
system discovery in a mixed Solaris and HP-UX environment and
documentation and communication with stakeholders regarding
requirements.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="education">Education</h2>
<h3 id="section-3">1985-1988</h3>
<p><strong>Teesside Polytechnic, Middlesbrough.</strong> - Humanities
BA</p>
<h2 id="older-positions-to-2000">Older Positions (to 2000)</h2>
<h3 id="section-4">2008</h3>
<p><strong>O2 plc</strong>, Leeds, UK</p>
<ul>
<li>Contract Migration Consultant Discovery and documentation project to
identify and migrate legacy hardware into a virtualized Sun
Microsystems/Oracle environment.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="section-5">2007 - 2008</h3>
<p><strong>Computacenter plc for BT plc</strong>, Salford, UK</p>
<ul>
<li>Contract Design Analyst Major internal virtualisation project for
BT, migrating business applications running on Sun hardware to a Sun
T-series environment new datacentre in Rochdale. The project involved
evaluating applications for viability for migration and designing,
building and migration the application.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="section-6">2007</h3>
<p><strong>Farnell plc</strong>, Leeds, UK</p>
<ul>
<li>Contract System Administrator Providing assistance in rolling out a
new version of the Farnell online store. Installing and patching Solaris
9 and apache and other software components on Sun V240s using JET for
use as web servers; evaluating Sun T2000s as potential candidates for
the web infrastructure layer.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="section-7">2006 - 2007</h3>
<p><strong>Portrait Quadstone</strong>, Edinburgh, Scotland</p>
<ul>
<li>Contract System Administrator Relief system administration support
for this Edinburgh based software house, managing a mixed collection of
Solaris, SuSE Linux and Windows machines, including maintaining backups,
print services and desktop, production and website support. Use of
Legato Networker for backups, Norton Ghost for Windows system imaging,
VMWare for virtualisation services and assorted tools for maintaining
services and systems.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="section-8">2006</h3>
<p><strong>Wipro for Sun Microsystems</strong>, Leeds, UK</p>
<ul>
<li>Contract System Administrator Providing installation support
services for a greenfield platform servicing 40 machines, from V20Z to
E480, in standalone and cluster configurations. Monitoring and reporting
on backups using Netbackup, managing and documenting configurations at
the OS level, advising on system requirements and managing service
requests from client and contractors.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="section-9">2006</h3>
<p><strong>TechnoPhobia Ltd</strong>, Sheffield, UK</p>
<ul>
<li>Contract System Administrator System administrator for a well
established web design agency based in Sheffield. Assisting with day to
day operations internally and for their client hosting services. This
included working with Linux (primarily Debian with some RedHat and SuSE)
Windows 2003 and Solaris systems, managing Apache and IIS web servers,
qmail and courier mail systems, Oracle and MySQL databases and dealing
with day to day problems and queries from staff and clients, and
documenting systems and processes.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="section-10">2005</h3>
<p><strong>EDS Business Exchange Services</strong>, Cheadle, UK</p>
<ul>
<li>Contract Network Analyst, Providing assistance in the design and
installation of a Disaster Recovery facility for an international
business unit within EDS. Configuration and installation of Cisco 2900
series routers, design of the network and DNS topologies, system
monitoring and intrusion detection.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="section-11">2004 - 2005</h3>
<p><strong>City of Edinburgh Council for BT Global Services</strong>,
Edinburgh, Scotland</p>
<ul>
<li>Contract System Administrator Support and management of a large
local authority service delivery platform at operating system level,
primarily on Solaris 2.6, 7, 8 and 9 and also on SunOS and HP-UX.
Principle duties involved monitoring system services using Big Brother,
managing backup regimes using ufsdump based scripts and Netbackup.
Storage management using Solstice DiskSuite and Veritas Volume Manager
and Veritas Filesystem with NIS and samba. Reporting and managing faults
with Sun and attending remote sites to oversee repairs by third party
engineers. Assisting in ithe implementation of new projects and
commissioning of new machines built and hardened according to CEC and BT
standards using Jumpstart and direct installation methods.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="section-12">2001 - 2004</h3>
<p><strong>Equifax plc/IBM UK Ltd</strong>, Bradford, UK</p>
<ul>
<li>Senior Systems Administrator Managing firewall and networking
services and general system administration and support for this major UK
online credit reference service. Developing firewall policies for WAN
and Internet services using Checkpoint Firewall-1 on Sun and Nokia
platforms. Integrating and supporting new client networks and existing
services in a commercial infrastructure with twenty four hour operation
and support. Assistance in the relocation and commissioning of Sun
Enterprise level servers including E450, E4500 and E10000 machines. Day
to day network and system administration duties including web server
maintenance using apache, tomcat and Java 2; scripting in sh, ksh and
perl, storage management using DiskSuite and Volume Manager and support
of services running under Sun Cluster v3. Supporting load balancing
systems using Cisco LocalDirector and apache and mod_rewrite.
Commissioning and building of new machines using direct install and
Jumpstart. Change and problem management using IBM CPMA and ManageNow
systems and Bugzilla. IBM took over Equifax’s IT infrastructure in
August 2003 and transferred Equifax IT staff to their employment. The
Equifax platform was migrated to an IBM facility, including the
migration of the firewalls to a Cisco PIX/Checkpoint FW-1 solution.
Extensive involvement in the build and configuration of the new platform
on Sun Enterprise machines, AIX on IBM p-series and Linux virtual
machines on IBM z-series mainframes.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="section-13">2000 - 2001</h3>
<p><strong>Granada Media plc</strong>, London UK</p>
<ul>
<li>Webmaster Managing the day to day operations of the web services of
the Granada Broadband group. Providing technical solutions and support
for a number of high profile web sites including the official
‘Coronation Street’ and ‘Emmerdale’ sites. Integrating the official
Arsenal FC web site into the Granada Broadband platform. Integrating the
ITV Football website into the Granada Broadband platform. Finding and
implementing solutions to the problem of handling high volumes of time
related traffic. Platform was based on Sun hardware running
SunOne/Netscape/iPlanet and apache web servers, squid caches and various
application services including Tomcat, Chilisoft ASP, Netscape Web
Server/Sun Java Enterprise System and systems developed in-house.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="section-14">1990 - 2000</h3>
<p>Sportal, PSINet, assorted banks in the City, Reuters, Dow Jones,
Clara.Net, Global Internet, Easynet, World Corporate Games, Finance for
Business, NCB, Doncaster Borough Council</p>
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# [Simon Greenwood](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/)
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- [About Me](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/pages/about-me.html#about-me)
- [Contact info](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/pages/contact.html#contact)
- [My CV](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/pages/curriculum-vitae.html#curriculum-vitae)
- [CV Part 2](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/pages/cv-part-2.html#cv-part-2)
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# A fix for 'cert is required but missing for this certificate' in certbot
Posted on Tue 30 July 2024 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
Yes, this is probably a bit search spammy (like search actually works any more), but it\\s an interesting little fix and a view into how certbot works. Apart from when new posts are published, a server I manage is served wholly from Cloudflare. We have recently migrated it and apart from the initial caching phase it runs with no load. As the key components were synced over by rsync, this copied over the LetsEncrypt certificates, which, because of the Cloudflare caching, failed to renew at some point, silently. Certbot\\s version control is in the `/etc/letsencrypt/archive` folder. Certificate files are written here with a number appended to them and symlinked to `/etc/letsencrypt/live`, so while certbot works correctly, there will be an archive file with a number, so `cert1.pem`, `cert2.pem` etc. In this case however, the certificate files in `/archive` weren\\t numbered, so when attempting to renew the certificate manually, certbot fails with the error `cert is required but missing for this certificate`. The fix is, fortunately, simple: rename the cert files in `/archive` with a number and relink them to the files in `/live`. Run the renew command again and the certificates will be reissued correctly.
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# [Simon Greenwood](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/)
Gracefully degrading
- [About Me](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/pages/about-me.html#about-me)
- [Contact info](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/pages/contact.html#contact)
- [My CV](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/pages/curriculum-vitae.html#curriculum-vitae)
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# A touch of email scam forensics
Posted on Wed 26 July 2023 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
I deal with a number of clients in the legal profession, and this morning one of them forwarded me an email which he thought was suspicious. It appeared to be sent from a Rob Moore at a company called Progressive Property, and the body of the mail was this:
```
Good Afternoon,
I hope you are having a good weekend
I am instructed to deal with your firm for the purchase of a property, we are real estate company acting on behalf my clients .
The Executors appointed were her husband (predeceased) and another firm of solicitors who have renounced. The beneficiaries are the children, Tania Beaumont and Catherine Ried. They are applying for the Grant of Probate as residuary beneficiaries and therefore acting as Executors.
Please can you contact them to give a quote. They are happy to keep this probate sale with us.
Let me know when informations you need, they are looking to market the property around £3.25m.
Please can you copy in Tania’s husband into correspondence, his name is Peter Beaumont and he is very helpful.
```
A couple of GMail addresses and a plausible looking footer, except there was no From: address (not necessary of course, but generally expected), and a footer which included the logo of Progressive Property and the email `rob@progresssiveproperty.com`, and a legal disclaimer footer of the type that every legal firm has, except again, on a quick search the company it purported to be from didn't match anything else and the address didn't match the company at all
Yes, three s's. On additional readings the body of the mail looks increasingly like a [419 scam](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_scam) every time you read it, and the domain name returns Cloudflare records and a Microsoft Exchange login page.
It occurred to me to look up Progressive Property and of course there's a successful UK company called and Rob Moore is one of the founders. Obviously they're in no way related to this scam but it was increasingly understandable how much trust this could create, and it was clearly aimed at a particular business sector.
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# [Simon Greenwood](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/)
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- [About Me](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/pages/about-me.html#about-me)
- [Contact info](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/pages/contact.html#contact)
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# Adding an IPv6 default route with network-scripts in an EL8 server at OVH
Posted on Wed 06 September 2023 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
This is a bit of a niche one, not least because `network-scripts` is _supposed_ to be on its way out as a configuration method, despite [cPanel](https://cpanel.net) still not supporting NetworkManager properly. No problem people, it's only been around for ten years.
This may also be specific to [OVH](https://ovh.com)'s network, but I haven't found a resource that covers it, so here are my notes.
Dedicated servers at OVH are allocated a /64 IPV6 range. The gateway is the last address in the range, which is slightly more eye crossing than with IPV4, but ends in `FF:FF:FF:FF`. However, in EL8 (and in Debian-derived distros to my knowledge), ifup doesn't add a default gateway if it can't ping the address, and it can't ping the address because it needs a default gateway. This also applies to IPV4 in OVH's network, which is a pain for automatic provisioning.
The `network-scripts` system is remarkably flexible, and wrangling it is a dying art, but the key here is the `ifup-post` script. This runs after `ifcfg-<device>` and goes through a sequence of the other scripts in `/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts`\- you can see which ones if you look at the code.
One of these is `route6-<device>` and this is where you add your default route so it's added after the initial network config. In OVH images it is disabled, and perhaps confusingly, includes a list of static routes generated by cloud-init. Rename that one, and using your editor of choice (vim, you animals), open a new file `vi route6-eno1` (for example) and enter your gateway and default route like this:
```
2001:xxxx:xxxx:xxff:00ff:00ff:00ff:00ff dev eno1
default via 2001:xxxx:xxxx:xxff:00ff:00ff:00ff:00ff dev eno1
```
Enable the script by making it executable `chmod +x route6-eno1`.
and restart the network with `systemctl restart network`.
and you should now be able to ping the IPV6 host of your choice (let's face it, your local google.com gateway).
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# [Simon Greenwood](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/)
Gracefully degrading
- [About Me](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/pages/about-me.html#about-me)
- [Contact info](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/pages/contact.html#contact)
- [My CV](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/pages/curriculum-vitae.html#curriculum-vitae)
- [CV Part 2](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/pages/cv-part-2.html#cv-part-2)
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# Adding S3-compatible cloud storage to Pixelfed
Posted on Mon 11 September 2023 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
[Pixelfed](https://pixelfed.org) is a [federated](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse) photo sharing service that is an alternative to [Instagram](https://instagram.com) and uses [ActivityPub](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/) to share posts across other services such as [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.com), [Pleroma](https://pleroma.social/) and indeed WordPress. It is one of the more mature Fediverse apps and has been in continuous development for several years.
As with Mastodon and other apps that can share images and other larger media files, it supports saving attachments to S3-compatible cloud storage. However, this isn't well documented so far, so here's a few notes on getting it to work, specifically with [iDrive E2](https://www.idrive.com/object-storage-e2/), a low cost E2 storage provider.
Pixelfed is a [Laravel](https://laravel.build) application and its user config is stored in a `.env` file in the application root. The S3 section looks like this:
```
## S3 Configuration (Post-Installer)
PF_ENABLE_CLOUD=true
FILESYSTEM_CLOUD=s3
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=
AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=
AWS_BUCKET=
AWS_URL=
AWS_ENDPOINT=
AWS_USE_PATH_STYLE_ENDPOINT=false
```
IDrive E2 appears to be based on [Minio](https://mini.io) but the priniciple is broadly similar for all S3 compatible services:
1. Create a bucket
2. Create credentials for that bucket
3. Configure the application with those credentials
I think they're fairly self-explanatory in that the service will usually present them in the same way. The default region can be a bit of odd one but the naming seems to be arbitrary - I'm using iDrive's London region, which is labelled LDN, so go with what the service gives you.
`AWS_URL` is as it says, a standard URL, so it's https:// `AWS_ENDPOINT` / `AWS_BUCKET`. `AWS_ENDPOINT` is an important thing though - IDrive has the option of public and private endpoints with different hostnames. I'm not entirely clear on how a private endpoint works in this context - I would think it's a location that needs to be accessed with a shared key - but as you're publishing images online that's not going to be possible, and in testing I couldn't get Pixelfed to write to a private endpoint. In addition they're going to need to be public on an open server, so following the principle of least privilege, public and read-only works.
I had to comment `AWS_USE_PATH_STYLE_ENDPOINT` out as setting it to false didn't work for some reason. There's probably something in the code that assumes it's going to be an AWS URL or similar.
The Horizon dashboard was very useful for debugging. Again, this is a Laravel tool and part of the admin suite. I'm not that familiar with Laravel and but it basically appears to be the application manager. It writes to a log but that doesn't say much, and all the useful information is in the dashboard.
If you want to share images in the Fediverse, Pixelfed is the application you need. Its author, [Daniel Supernault](https://mastodon.social/@dansup) has been steadily improving it for years, and he's also currently working on a secure and federated messaging system intended as a drop-in replacement for direct messages. Cloud storage reduces your hosting costs as it's usually cheaper in bulk than VPS, and it's portable, so now you can replace Instagram with something under your control.
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# Adventures in BTRFS: Replacing an array
Posted on Wed 20 December 2023 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
## Preamble ramble
There aren't a lot of real world examples of using [BTRFS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs) around online. Some of the most useful advice I found was in r/BTRFS on Reddit but it's hard to actually find user experiences beyond the theroretical.
This is sort of one, but the tl;dr is _have good backups and learn from your experiences_. The practical stuff starts at 'The Practical Stuff'.
I've had a home disk array for a long time for various reasons. As much as anything I have a home music streaming system as I prefer to buy and own music, even if it is as a download, and over the years I have digitised CDs, originally into iTunes but currently using [Funkwhale](https://funkwhale.audio).
The current disk array is a [Terramaster D5-300](https://www.terra-master.com/uk/products/d5-300.html), a five disk [JBOD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-RAID_drive_architectures) array that has Windows based software RAID support, but, being Just A Bunch of Disks, can be set up with other on-disk RAID architectures, so, as a Linux user, there were a couple of immediate choices: ZFS, or BTRFS.
[ZFS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS) is an enterprise level filesystem that was originally developed by Sun (RIP) but was ported to Linux when Sun's BSD based OS Solaris was open sourced before the Oracle takeover and was forked as [OpenZFS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenZFS). ZFS itself is a great filesystem, but at the time (2016) OpenZFS development had slowed and it's not really a good fit for the kind of low powered machine that goes with a home setup (I think I set it up on an Acer Revo at first).
BTRFS, on the other hand, is in the Linux kernel, so if something runs the kernel, it should work, and just needs the `btrfs-tools` package to manage it, so it can be configured and moved around if necessary.
At the beginning of this month, owing to a full fibre upgrade and a declining powerline network that meant my home office wasn't enjoying the benefits of the kind of connectivity that was unimaginable when I first plugged in a modem, I had ethernet run around the house by Tom at [WestworldIT](https://westworldit.com), which required the study to look less of a tip, facilitiating a much needed clean but also the shutdown of the server for a while, and as is often the case in these situations, checking the disks with `smartctl` showed that a couple of the aging second hand 3TB disks in it failed their tests. I had a pair of 4TB disks so went looking for some more slightly less aging second hand ones and found some via eBay at [the Edinburgh Remakery](https://www.edinburghremakery.org.uk/).
As the array disks were holding up, I backed them up to a spare 4TB and started the replacement.
## The Practical Stuff
Note: there are mistakes here. If you know anything about BTRFS you will probably be shouting at me.
The array was originally set up as RAID10 with metadata striped 1c3, so on three disks.
I replaced one of the failing disks with the spare and ran `btrfs balance /mount`. I should have possibly done `btrfs replace` here but both seem to be valid at this point. However, `balance` is a rich command and works best with filters, which are well described in the [manual page for btrfs-balance](https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/btrfs-balance.html), so running it as is is going to take some time.
When the new (second-hand) 4TB disks arrived the next day, I left them to warm up and let the balance complete.
The disks were a variety of 'desktop' (does anyone have a 4TB drive in a desktop these days - I suppose they do) and NAS disks, all around six years old. They all checked out with `smartctl`, so I started to replace the older 3TB disks using `btrfs replace start <id> /dev/sdx /mount`.
Each disk took about 24 hours, for around 2.5TB of data. The first two worked perfectly. Progress can be monitored with `btrfs replace status /mount`.
I did two disks and resized them, but the third appeared to be showing problems when trying to mount the volume. It appeared it might be the disk itself but smartctl didn't show anything. I swapped it out for the other spare 4TB that I used to back up (copying the data onto one of the 3TB disks and a bit of juggling).
However, here was my mistake: I picked out the last disk I replaced for the backup, and that must have been the one that had metadata on it, so I was now down to two metadata disks and the replace had got stuck and the volume would only mount read only, indicating that it was time to get data off and start again. You are welcome to shout now, as I did.
As I have backups I decided not to fight and just recreated the volume and started restoring and it looks like it's going to be a day or so of rsyncs.
## Lessons learned
1. Maintain backups
2. Watch what state your metadata is in between swapping disks - I'm not 100% sure that this was the issue but it's what I suspect, and balancing metadata would probably have avoided it.
3. Have patience - it's a slow process and rightly so. Cloning disks appears to be an alternative but I'm not sure how that would work with a RAID scheme like 1c3.
4. Maintain backups.
As a note the current storage host is a 8GB Raspberry Pi 4, which is excellent as a server but less so in doing maintenance work, so that gets handed off to a laptop.
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# Closing down an instance
Posted on Sun 22 October 2023 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
I set up [offworld.fedisonic.cloud](https://offworld.fedisonic.cloud) when it was apparent that Twitter was going to start circling the drain pretty quickly. I had an idea of running a Mastodon instance for anyone in my circle who wanted it, but with my usual overambition I started to think that it could be a business of some kind.
I first looked at Mastodon when it was announced back in 2016 or so, when it was becoming apparent when Twitter was getting gamed, and put up an instance on a VM, but the discovery process wasn't there and it was hard to find people and I took it down again. I made a mental note to watch ActivityPub and developments around it. I joined [mastodon.social](https://mastodon.social) (and [chaos.social](https://chaos.social), which is the opposite) when the toxicity in Twitter was starting to become the norm but didn't find it compelling, but still kept an eye on what was going on.
When That Guy squandered enough money to end world hunger on being That Guy on Twitter every day, enough was enough. I had a couple of underused servers so threw up a instance, invited people to see what the fuss was about and imported my followers as everyone was doing the same.
Now it's just short of a year later and I've closed that server. I'm running one for myself. set up in a better way, and of the people I invited, one has stayed on Mastodon.
Over the last year I've realised a few things:
- Mastodon is not the Fediverse. It's shorthand for the network because it is the most popular platform, and we like to have an easy handle for these platforms.
- Mastodon the application is technically simple to set up. I am a sysadmin of several million lifetimes' experience to be sure but it is made of common components and the documentation is well written, and if you can set up WordPress or Drupal it's not too much of a challenge.
- Mastodon the service is challenging to maintain. The abillty to block instances and indeed users at the server level is powerful, but a year ago it relied on a hashtag which of which it quickly became apparent was open to abuse and indeed straightforward politics.
Now, common blocklists have emerged and operators can choose what to use, but with any kind of success comes abuse, and it's obvious that public instances have bigger operating overheads than scaling their hardware.
- Mastodon the software is resource hungry. At scale it is probably very efficient. With two (two!) active users it's overkill and things like scheduled deletes of busy follows could grind my server to a halt if that server was in the same timezone (if that makes sense). As a system that's designed with privacy in mind it's also difficult to troubleshoot as there are no logs by default (they can be switched on of course) so the main source of information is the job queues.
- Technically, use cloud storage rather than on server storage, or at least don't use the same disk device. Cache as well, also not on the same disk device. It creates a lot of I/O.
- Legal implications are getting more onerous across the world, and while they're a grey area for small instances, in the UK at least, we're not far from operators having to take a lot more responsibility for their users.
Running a small server with and for other people is a committment. Doing it for money would be something else again. I'm glad that there are businesses setting that up
On the actual social side of social media (remember that?), my experience of the Fediverse has been generally good. My feed seems to be largely cat pictures (especially on #caturday, but finding good people has been relatively easy. I'm not a big socialiser at all but I've long liked how the Internet works in that respect, and as ActivityPub is basically marshalling RSS feeds, we're back where were before we were rudely interrupted, just doing it in a way that makes more sense now.
I am going to try a couple of other platforms as I don't think Mastodon is the best option for a single user fediverse instance, or even two or three users. and work out how to aggregate different applications, like WordPress for example, so that's the next year sorted.
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# Disabling a Wacom laptop touchscreen in an Arch Linux based OS
Posted on Tue 22 August 2023 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
## (Without disabling everything else)
My main laptop is a [Lenovo X1 Yoga 2nd Gen](https://www.lenovo.com/gb/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadx1/x1-yoga-2nd-generation/22tp2txx12y) running [Manjaro KDE Plasma](https://manjaro.org/download/). Lovely machine and does what I want it to do. As a Yoga device, it has a touchscreen, which I don't use a lot and have often thought of disabling.
The other day, the laptop had the wrong kind of drop, which has cracked the touchscreen in the corner. This hasn't affected the display at all but has messed up the touchscreen input so that it keeps getting random signals that trigger events, which was sufficiently intrusive to need to turn off the touchscreen
The first thing I found was [this from the Manjaro Forum](https://forum.manjaro.org/t/deactivating-the-touchscreen-pen-of-a-convertible-laptop/121390/6). Tl;dr, disable the module that powers the touchscreen with `sudo modprobe -r usbhid` and make it permanent by creating a blacklist at `/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist/wacom` that contains the following:
```
blacklist wacom
blacklist usbhid
```
and restart.
This worked fine when just on the laptop, but I have a multi-monitor desktop setup that has a USB mouse and keyboard, and when I came to start work this morning, neither worked. Enabling `usbhid` in the blacklist just brought the spurious touches back.
There was going to be something that creates rules to selectively allow USB devices, and that something is [USBGuard](https://github.com/USBGuard/usbguard).
The [Arch Wiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/USBGuard) documents it well, but basically install with `pacman -Sy usbguard` (or your software manager of choice), and create your ruleset as `root` with `usbguard generate-policy > /etc/usbguard/rules.conf`.
This lists all your connected devices as allowed, including the touchscreen:
```
allow id 056a:50b6 serial "" name "Pen and multitouch sensor" hash "B1HYEaAtN9VpnKbIK5GQeZFfg3XN7EAAeQUvTx5zIhk=" parent-hash "jEP/6WzviqdJ5VSeTUY8PatCNBKeaREvo2OqdplND/o=" via-port "1-10" with-interface { 03:00:00 03:00:00 } with-connect-type "not used"
```
To disable it, change `allow` to `block` to stop it being processed, or `reject` to stop the device being loaded at all. At the moment I have it set to `block`.
Start USBGuard with `systemctl start usbguard` and enable it on boot with `systemctl enable usbguard`.
This stopped the touchscreen responding but kept the USB keyboard and mouse working. I haven't tested it across a reboot yet but I can't see why it won't continue to work.
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# Fixing a frozen screen caused by systemd 256
Posted on Sat 03 August 2024 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
[Systemd version 256](https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/tag/v256) has been rolled out in several distributions recently, including Arch and Debian and variants. It adds a feature where user sessions are frozen when the system enters sleep, but in my case, running Manjaro Linux with KDE on a Gen 1 Lenovo T14, this meant that when the system woke, the screen remained frozen and required a reboot by switching to the command line with `Ctrl-Alt-F3`.
At first I perhaps unfairly assumed that this was KDE as it affected the desktop but left the mouse working and indeed the system accessible with through the console, but after a bit of digging around in the system journal with `journalctl -b-1 -p4 --no-pager` (a really useful command that I didn't know before), I found the error `Cannot start frozen unit Session 10 of User xxxxx` from systemd.
Searching on that brought up the problem and conclusively pointed at the 256 update, and a solution, or at least a fix until the issue is fixed.
The fix is to add an override to the `systemd-suspend` service. This doesn't actually have a service file in `/etc/systemd/system` in Manjaro at least, so you need to create the directory `/etc/systemd/system/systemd-suspend.service.d` and create an override file called `disable_freeze_user_session.conf` with these contents:
```
[Service]
Environment="SYSTEMD_SLEEP_FREEZE_USER_SESSIONS=false"
```
Save this, and restart systemd with `systemctl daemon-reload`.
This disables user freeze on sleep and for me at least, reverted to the previous behaviour. I found that a lot of the examples mentioned Nvidia video hardware, which I don't have, so it's probably a wider issue than I've found.
I've added a comment to the [Github issue](https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/33083).
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# Hope you like our new direction
Posted on Tue 03 December 2024 in [Other](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/other.html)
If you're reading this online, it means my blog has been switched from Wordpress to a static file site based on Pelican successfully. If it was put through your letterbox by a shadowy figure in the dead of night, then welcome to the Inner Circle, and await further instructions.
It's all been fairly straightforward anyway: Pelican converts a Wordpress XML export file to static files. I used the `-m` switch in `pelican-import` to export as Markdown by preference although pelican itself defaults to ReStructured Text.
The theme is [Flex](https://github.com/alexandrevicenzi/Flex), which seems to be about the best documented theme that I've found, and I might or might not twiddle with it some more.
I'm working on a POSSE script, although it seems that there are plugins that do what I had in mind all ready, so I might give them a try.
There will no doubt be more meta stuff as I go on (although not Meta).
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# HTTPS forwarding in OPNSense
Posted on Sat 28 January 2023 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
This took a few days to work out and I finally found it buried in an [Opnsense forum post](https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=6155.0), so here it is in a slightly easier to find way.
## Objective
To forward HTTP(S) traffic to a virtual machine running Nginx (or any other HTTP proxy or load balancer) through a gateway running [OPNsense](https://opnsense.org).
## Solution
### 1\. Change the Web GUI port
Even if the Web GUI is inaccessible from the public interface of an Opnsense VM, it's still listening on it on both port 80 and port 443, so change the port.
In System > Settings > Administration > Web GUI, assuming you have set the protocol to HTTPS, change TCP Port to something other than 443:
![Opnsense Web GUI TCP Port](http://https-forwarding-in-opnsense.html/static/img/opnsense-web-gui-TCP-port.png)
Press Save and the configuration will reload. You may need to click on the link in the notification bar for it to complete.
### 2\. Create aliases for the HTTP(S) service
This was the bit I didn't get. I was trying to define NAT ports and IPs manually. [More about aliases in OPNSense](https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/aliases.html)
Assume your internal network is 192.168.1.0/24 and your web server is at 192.168.1.10. The WAN address is the address is the IP address of your gateway.
In Firewall > Aliases > View
1. Click the plus button to add a new alias.
2. Enter the following:
- Enabled: check
- Type: Hosts
- Name: Reverse Proxy (or whatever, this is the identifier)
- Content: 192.168.1.10
- Statistics (as required)
- Description: The reverse proxy host
3. Click Save
4. Click the plus button to add a new alias again.
5. Enter the following:
- Enabled: check
- Type: Port(s)
- Name: Reverse Proxy Ports
- Content: 80, 443 (each port is a separate item)
- Statistics: (as required)
- Description: Reverse proxy ports
6. Click Save and Apply Settings.
### 3\. Create a NAT rule
In Firewall > NAT > Port Forward
1. Click the Plus button to add a new Port Forward rule
2. Enter the following:
- Interface: WAN
- TCP/IP version: IPv4
- Protocol: TCP
- Destination: WAN Address
- Destination port range: from Reverse Proxy Ports to Reverse Proxy Ports (this will be in the dropdown under Aliases)
- Redirect Target IP: Reverse Proxy (from the dropdown)
- Redirect Target Ports: Reverse Proxy Ports (from the dropdown)
- Pool Options: Default
- NAT Reflection: Enable
- Filter rule association: Rule
3. Click Save and Apply settings.
This also creates a rule in Filewall > Rules > WAN for the aliases.
If your web server/load balancer VM is up and you at least have a default configuration available, you should get a page.
H/T to [huticip](https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?action=profile;u=15697) in the Opnsense forums.
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# In League With Seitan
Posted on Sat 07 December 2024 in [Other](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/other.html)
If you're vegan or vegetarian you will probably have come across seitan. It's made of wheat gluten and common in China and Korea. If it's made properly it has a similar texture to chicken and takes sauces and marinades incredibly well. It can also be breaded and deep fried as an alternative to nuggets or even burgers. It's been quite hard to find as an ingredient in the UK, and tends to be found in Oriental supermarkets rather than mainstream ones.
I was interested to see that London based vegan fast food business [Temple of Seitan](https://www.templeofseitan.co.uk/) had collaborated with Yorkshire tofu maker Tofoo to make the seitan they use in shops avail\\ble in supermarkets. Except... they haven't.
I picked up a box in Sainsbury's as it was on offer, and I got around to using it yesterday. The fine print is that it's tofu with 22% seitan and chicken flavour. Now, I like Tofoo's tofu as it's very firm so great to cook with out of the box without pressing, and I assume the Temple actually do use something that's mostly wheat gluten, but I'm not sure what this is. It unpacks as a small grey sausage which doesn't look particularly attractive, and I was at a loss as to how to actually use it. It's too small to cut into katsu fillets, which would be an obvious use for it, however, I had some katsu sauce (well, Chinese curry sauce) so decided to press on, and, as suggested on the packaging, tore it up and browned it a bit and mixed it with the sauce and some veg. It tastes fine and works like that, but didn't match my vision of making a katsu fillet, or indeed something like the smashing looking battered goodness on the Temple's website.
In all, it's Tofoo doing what they know and putting the Temple's name on it. It's a bit stretchier and more tearable than tofu (or Tofoo) and would probably work really well for pulling for pulled 'pork' type of things, but that's not really what I was looking for.
Having decided after nearly 40 years of being vegetarian to go fully vegan this year, we have been looking for alternatives to some of our staples, not least a Quorn roast for Christmas (they have egg in). We've since found that Asda are doing a vegan chicken style roll with stuffing, but in the spirit of DIY, I'm going to have a go at making a seitan roll myself. Apart from sourcing the wheat gluten (slightly harder than going to the supermarket), it's pretty easy stuff to make, easier than tofu for example, so I've had a couple of goes with variable results, and will report further.
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## [Listening Diary 20250206](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20250206.html\#listening-diary-20250206)
Posted on Thu 06 February 2025 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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A bit of relaxed tag chasing through @mirlo today
- Melondruie - Into the Depths - @melondruie@sunny.garden [https://mirlo.space/melondruie/release/into-the-depths](https://mirlo.space/melondruie/release/into-the-depths): Minimalist sequencings that sounds like icebergs calving in the dark. A soundtrack for exploring Camp Century in Greenland.
- Time Rival - Music for Recovery - [https://mirlo.space/timerival/release …](https://mirlo.space/timerival/release/music-for)
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## [Listening Diary 20250205](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20250205.html\#listening-diary-20250205)
Posted on Wed 05 February 2025 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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- Firnwald - Blue Arcana - [https://firnwald.bandcamp.com/album/blue-arcana](https://firnwald.bandcamp.com/album/blue-arcana): ambient, post-industrial downbeat/DnB-ish techno from Bavaria. An enveloping production with a big soundstage and interesting voice samples. My touchstone is late 90s Cabaret Voltaire again, which probably means I should listen to more from the 2000s.
- Mogwai - The Bad Fire …
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## [Listening Diary 20250204](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20250204.html\#listening-diary-20250204)
Posted on Tue 04 February 2025 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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- Satanicpornocultshop - Arkhaiomelisidonophunikheratos - [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP1lC0FnuI0KaKWATw\_745JhAmpnffPAW](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP1lC0FnuI0KaKWATw_745JhAmpnffPAW) HT to @XenoDangerEvil@dpw.social. If someone says something is weird, I'm going to be there, and this doesn't disappoint. 2010 LP from a Japanese experimental sampler/turntable/kitchen sink ensemble start with gentle acoustic folk and then, well, go off …
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## [Listening Diary 20250129](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20250129.html\#listening-diary-20250129)
Posted on Wed 29 January 2025 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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- Ghostwriter - Tremulant - [https://ghostwriter3.bandcamp.com/album/tremulant](https://ghostwriter3.bandcamp.com/album/tremulant): Some might call it neofolk. A modern reimagining of turn of the 20th century sprituals from a loose group of hauntology associated artists. Acoustic, sparse and haunting.
- Rassclart! inpc - The Kali Mera Show 290125 - @inpc@go.mxtthxw.art [https://video.mxtthxw.art …](https://video.mxtthxw.art/w/8UA5hKFHAu9kMFwLDH6QJF)
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## [Listening Diary 20250124](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20250124.html\#listening-diary-20250124)
Posted on Fri 24 January 2025 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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Today I am blaming the wind.
- fields we found - resolve / relate 01 - @fieldswefound@mstdn.social [https://fieldswefound.bandcamp.com/album/resolve-relate-01](https://fieldswefound.bandcamp.com/album/resolve-relate-01): a restful and immersive 20+ minute drone piece with slow changes and drifting tones. Check out his subscription as well.
- fields we found - Paths - [https://fieldswefound.bandcamp.com/album …](https://fieldswefound.bandcamp.com/album/paths)
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## [Listening Diary 20250123](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20250123.html\#listening-diary-20250123)
Posted on Thu 23 January 2025 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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A bit of a unfocussed kind of a day, and some Mirlo trail following.
- Andres Garcia VS Floating Mind - gva ufo - [https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2025/01/22/andres-garcia-vs-floating-mind-gva-ufo/](https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2025/01/22/andres-garcia-vs-floating-mind-gva-ufo/): Minimal techno single from the Monokrak netlabel ( [http://www.monokrak.net/](http://www.monokrak.net/)). Garcia's 'La Noria' has a 125 bpm chunky bassline backed …
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## [Listening Diary 20250122](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20250122.html\#listening-diary-20250122)
Posted on Wed 22 January 2025 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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- Schema - Schema - [https://schemaschema.bandcamp.com/album/schema](https://schemaschema.bandcamp.com/album/schema): I really should take a note of who posts these pointers. Turn of the century experimental fuzz that bridges the surprisingly narrow gap between Sonic Youth and Stereolab, with added experimental electronica. It feels like some friends getting together to make a …
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## [Listening Diary 20250121](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20250121.html\#listening-diary-20250121)
Posted on Tue 21 January 2025 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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Busy with my daughter's birthday yesterday so...
- Kosmicher Laufer - Track Club EP - [https://kosmischerlaufer.bandcamp.com/album/track-club-ep](https://kosmischerlaufer.bandcamp.com/album/track-club-ep): A collection of Martin Zeichnete's other work besides the East German Olympic Programme. Five more tracks of beautiful period electronic kosmische from a world that really should have existed.
- Polygonia - Living Patterns …
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## [Listening Diary 20250120](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20250120.html\#listening-diary-20250120)
Posted on Mon 20 January 2025 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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Not much yesterday, I was busy and really shouldn't have looked at the news.
- Xylander - Happy New Dystopia! - @xylander@mastodon.social [https://xylander.bandcamp.com/album/happy-new-dystopia](https://xylander.bandcamp.com/album/happy-new-dystopia): New and aptly if unconsciously timed from Xylander, rattly but understated breakbeats, lush but brooding synths and found voices that form a soundtrack …
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## [Listening Diary 20250115](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20250115.html\#listening-diary-20250115)
Posted on Wed 15 January 2025 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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On an 80s tip, plus new music from Subexotic
- Syncbeat - Peel Session - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HIZZLpMwuE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HIZZLpMwuE): A 1984 A Certain Ratio spinoff that recorded a single, several tracks under different names for the first UK Electro compilation and this Peel session. Funky digital breakbeat before breakbeat was …
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## [Listening Diary 20250110](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20250110.html\#listening-diary-20250110)
Posted on Fri 10 January 2025 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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Haven't got myself together to do this recently, so here's a catch-up.
- Snowbeasts - The Snow 2025 - [https://snowbeasts.bandcamp.com/album/the-snow](https://snowbeasts.bandcamp.com/album/the-snow): A freebie from GetMusic - an industrial techno cover of Coil's haunted 1991 track. I'll be exploring what Snowbeasts do more.
- Shirley and the Pyramids - Maid of Time - [https …](https://surelyicomequickly.bandcamp.com/album/maid-of-time)
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## [Listening Diary 20241220](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20241220.html\#listening-diary-20241220)
Posted on Fri 20 December 2024 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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- Underworld - Dark & Long - [https://www.discogs.com/release/15659-Underworld-Dark-Long](https://www.discogs.com/release/15659-Underworld-Dark-Long): Sometimes only a bit of Underworld will do. All the versions of Dark & Long collected from the EPs. There are a lot, but the variations between them keep it interesting.
- Lost Harbours - In the Direction of the Sun - [https://cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp …](https://cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-direction-of-the-sun)
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## [Listening Diary 20241219](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20241219.html\#listening-diary-20241219)
Posted on Thu 19 December 2024 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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- Whirling Hall of Knives - Blown Vestige - [https://cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/blown-vestige](https://cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/blown-vestige): Fuzzed out, largely beatless, ambitronica from a now seemingly inactive Irish duo. Switches between atmospheric blooms and distorted guitar keyboard textures.
- GNOD R&D/Whirling Hall Of Knives - GNOD/WHOK - [https://riotseasonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gnod-whok](https://riotseasonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gnod-whok): Going off …
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## [Listening Diary 20241217](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20241217.html\#listening-diary-20241217)
Posted on Tue 17 December 2024 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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- Isan - Winter Chimes - [https://isan.bandcamp.com/album/winter-chimes](https://isan.bandcamp.com/album/winter-chimes): Everyone's favourite remotely collaborative analogue duo make a Christmas EP, a gentle mix of very analogue glockenspiel, bells and chimes, an ideal accompaniment to a glass of nog, egg or otherwise.
- Hladowski/Hampton/Strachan - They All Were Looking for a King …
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## [Listening Diary 20241216](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20241216.html\#listening-diary-20241216)
Posted on Mon 16 December 2024 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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- Dace Merryweather - Magnapinna/Phantom Jelly - [https://dace.bandcamp.com/album/magnapinna](https://dace.bandcamp.com/album/magnapinna) Epic (11 minute!) prog paen to a squid, it says here. It goes many places and does many things. The b-side sounds like a soundtrack for jellyfish swimming in a tank.
- D-Fried - "Images Sur la Mer" - [https://www.phonocake …](https://www.phonocake.org/islm)
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## [Listening Diary 20241213](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20241213.html\#listening-diary-20241213)
Posted on Fri 13 December 2024 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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- Tomoroh Hidari - 12 Months of Mornings - [https://ivorybunkerrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/12-months-of-mornings](https://ivorybunkerrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/12-months-of-mornings) Final release from Hidari, whose death was announced yesterday. A two year long project in which he took pictures of the morning sky, posted them to social media, selected the ones that got most engagement and used the …
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## [Listening Diary 20241212](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20241212.html\#listening-diary-20241212)
Posted on Thu 12 December 2024 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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- Cathode Ray Tube - Overworld - [https://conditionhuman.bandcamp.com/album/overworld](https://conditionhuman.bandcamp.com/album/overworld) : Extended dub industrial techno workouts that evoke images of people in leather jackets with those sunglasses with wind guards on hanging around factories, or possibly Camden's Underworld in 1992. We knew how to party back then. I think I might …
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## [Listening Diary 20241211](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20241211.html\#listening-diary-20241211)
Posted on Wed 11 December 2024 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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- Ordos Mk.0 - Sunset Shore - [https://ordosmarkzero.bandcamp.com/track/sunset-shore](https://ordosmarkzero.bandcamp.com/track/sunset-shore): An evening walk along a stretch of water, lost in thoughts.
- Ordos Mk.0 - In My Watery World - [https://ordosmarkzero.bandcamp.com/album/in-my-watery-world](https://ordosmarkzero.bandcamp.com/album/in-my-watery-world): a thematic EP from a composing jam that evokes a video game set underwater. Gentle …
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## [Listening Diary 20241210](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20241210.html\#listening-diary-20241210)
Posted on Tue 10 December 2024 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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- Stuffed Foxes - Standardized - [https://stuffedfoxes.bandcamp.com/album/standardized-2](https://stuffedfoxes.bandcamp.com/album/standardized-2): Newest LP from French psych-rock/shoegazers, dynamic epic squalls of guitar that evoke all the bits you like in the recent history of (alt)-rock.
- Keygen Church - Tenebre Rosso Sangue - [https://keygenchurch.bandcamp.com/album/tenebre-rosso-sangue](https://keygenchurch.bandcamp.com/album/tenebre-rosso-sangue): Saw this last night and …
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## [Listening Diary 20241209](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20241209.html\#listening-diary-20241209)
Posted on Mon 09 December 2024 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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- The Heartwood Institute - Forgotten Futures - [https://theheartwoodinstitute.bandcamp.com/album/forgotten-futures](https://theheartwoodinstitute.bandcamp.com/album/forgotten-futures): Cumbria's Heartwood Institute turn their attention to affairs 250 miles south, to events in the Capital, where something is afoot. Music for washed out prints of lost 70s SF series.
- Navigator - Flame Is Slow (Singles etc. 1996​-​1997) - [https …](https://wrongspeedrecords.bandcamp.com/album/navigator-flame-is-slow-singles-etc-1996-1997)
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## [In League With Seitan](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/in-league-with-seitan.html\#in-league-with-seitan)
Posted on Sat 07 December 2024 in [Other](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/other.html)
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## [Listening Diary 20241206](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20241206.html\#listening-diary-20241206)
Posted on Fri 06 December 2024 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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Mostly Bandcamp listening for #BandcampFriday, if you posted them, thanks.
- Pye Corner Audio - Deep Lake Drift - [https://pyecorneraudio.bandcamp.com/track/deep-lake-drift](https://pyecorneraudio.bandcamp.com/track/deep-lake-drift): in which The Head Technician puts out a track for Bandcamp Friday as usual, and this time it's practically a techno banger, if the dancefloor was haunted
- MiDi …
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## [Listening Diary 20241205](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20241205.html\#listening-diary-20241205)
Posted on Thu 05 December 2024 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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- Low - Live on 'Ned's Musical Dustbin' on KUCI 88.9 FM, July 1995 - [https://soundcloud.com/nedraggett/sets/low-live-on-neds-musical-dustbin-on-kuci-889-fm-july-1995](https://soundcloud.com/nedraggett/sets/low-live-on-neds-musical-dustbin-on-kuci-889-fm-july-1995): Early radio session from just after the release of their debut LP 'I Could Live in Hope'. The audio quality makes them sound more fragile than their usual slow quietness really …
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## [Listening Diary 20241204](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20241204.html\#listening-diary-20241204)
Posted on Wed 04 December 2024 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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Continuing a wander through Subexotic today.
- Simon Klee - Phototaxis - [https://simonklee.bandcamp.com/album/phototaxis](https://simonklee.bandcamp.com/album/phototaxis): a short collection of sparse but filmic modular workouts.
- Dogs vs Shadows and Simon Klee - Music for Nature Documentaries - [https://subexoticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-nature-documentaries](https://subexoticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-nature-documentaries): I'm a sucker for a cover that looks like a …
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## [Listening Diary 20241203](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20241203.html\#listening-diary-20241203)
Posted on Tue 03 December 2024 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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- Alan Sparhawk - White Roses, My God - [https://alansparhawk.bandcamp.com/album/white-roses-my-god](https://alansparhawk.bandcamp.com/album/white-roses-my-god): First post end of Low solo LP from Sparhawk is primarily electronic, with a vocoder on the vocals that is disorienting in variable ways. It's too tempting to read things into the drum machines and obscuring of the …
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## [Hope you like our new direction](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/hope-you-like-our-new-direction.html\#hope-you-like-our-new-direction)
Posted on Tue 03 December 2024 in [Other](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/other.html)
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## [Listening Diary 20241202](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20241202.html\#listening-diary-20241202)
Posted on Mon 02 December 2024 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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- Pefkin - The Rescoring - [https://pefkin.bandcamp.com/album/the-rescoring](https://pefkin.bandcamp.com/album/the-rescoring): HT to @REEL: three immersive pieces based on layers of viola, synth amd voice. Sonically reminiscent of early Dead Can Dance between their post-punk and mediaeval phases, and autumnal lost wandering.
- Scholars of the Peak - Polymorphic - [https://thescholarsofthepeak.bandcamp.com/album …](https://thescholarsofthepeak.bandcamp.com/album/polymorphic)
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## [Listening Diary 20241129](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20241129.html\#listening-diary-20241129)
Posted on Fri 29 November 2024 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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- Hardwicke Circus - Carlisle City Council - [https://carlislecitycouncil.bandcamp.com/album/hardwicke-circus](https://carlislecitycouncil.bandcamp.com/album/hardwicke-circus)
- The Lanes Re-development - Carlisle City Council - [https://carlislecitycouncil.bandcamp.com/album/the-lanes-re-development](https://carlislecitycouncil.bandcamp.com/album/the-lanes-re-development) \- A new project from Jonathan Sharp of the Heartwood Institute. Seemingly straight sounding syntheised corporate library music from the 70s and 80s. It would seem to tread …
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## [Listening Diary 20241128](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20241128.html\#listening-diary-20241128)
Posted on Thu 28 November 2024 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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- In Vitro Tide - Surface 10 - [https://dinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-vitro-tide-din8](https://dinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-vitro-tide-din8) Current free/pay what you want offer for DiN's 25th anniversary, a rattling mix of sequencers and glitchy breakbeat before that was even a thing
- Portable Reality Generator - Field Lines Cartographer - [https://dinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/portable-reality-generator-din85](https://dinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/portable-reality-generator-din85) A scenic …
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## [Listening Diary 20241122](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20241122.html\#listening-diary-20241122)
Posted on Fri 22 November 2024 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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- Pictobug - Engineers [https://engineers.bandcamp.com/album/pictobug](https://engineers.bandcamp.com/album/pictobug) Engineers reconvened in 2019 as a duo and made an instrumental LP. Downbeat and introspective while still sounding like the core of Engineers
- Shoreline - Lyndon Scarfe [https://cuedotrecords.bandcamp.com/album/shoreline](https://cuedotrecords.bandcamp.com/album/shoreline) First LP from the now seemingly abandoned Cue Dot Records …
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## [Listening Diary 20241121](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20241121.html\#listening-diary-20241121)
Posted on Thu 21 November 2024 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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- Psychosomatic Waves - Mazanko: [https://submarinebroadcastingco.bandcamp.com/album/psychosomatic-waves-2](https://submarinebroadcastingco.bandcamp.com/album/psychosomatic-waves-2) apparent free form electronic skronk although that isn't the case according to the web page. A good exercise in sound design
- Dark Air - Eko\_Fisk and Gears In The Rain - [https://www.zenapolae.com/zen300](https://www.zenapolae.com/zen300) Restful ambient/downbeat electronica
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## [Listening Diary 20241120](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20241120.html\#listening-diary-20241120)
Posted on Wed 20 November 2024 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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- The Crystal Method - The Crystal Method [https://www.discogs.com/master/642133-The-Crystal-Method-The-Crystal-Method](https://www.discogs.com/master/642133-The-Crystal-Method-The-Crystal-Method) Morning randomised shower listening, possibly inspired by my wife's current 'Bones' marathon. The Method being The Method but they seemed to have settled into a sound at this point, need to hear their more recent stuff. Product contains …
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## [Listening Diary 20241119](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20241119.html\#listening-diary-20241119)
Posted on Tue 19 November 2024 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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- Tall Trees (and other tales) - Kemper Norton < [https://zonawatusa.bandcamp.com/album/tall-trees-and-other-tales](https://zonawatusa.bandcamp.com/album/tall-trees-and-other-tales) \> (pre-release) Hallucinogenic dreams of dancefloors where the music means less than the experience and both are elusive memories.
- Musicke for Psychedelic Duelling vol. 3: The Loplop Pit - Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd (R.E.E.L.) @REEL < [https …](https://zonawatusa.bandcamp.com/album/musicke-for-psychedelic-duelling-vol-3-the-loplop-pit)
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## [Listening Diary 20241118](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20241118.html\#listening-diary-20241118)
Posted on Mon 18 November 2024 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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- cyber // underground - UNDO: [https://music.whitevhs.xyz/cyber-underground/](https://music.whitevhs.xyz/cyber-underground/) Anime themed Japanese cutup/hip-hop rather like Monodrone and vocaloid nosebleed kawaii. My daughter might like it.
- Deep In - Fugue State: [https://faircamp.fstateaudio.com/deep-in/](https://faircamp.fstateaudio.com/deep-in/) Crunchy industrial bleeptronics sliced many ways
- Ashes of Hope - F3RNI: [https://liberty-net.ddns.net/music/ashes-of-hope …](https://liberty-net.ddns.net/music/ashes-of-hope/)
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## [Listening diary 20241115](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20241115.html\#listening-diary-20241115)
Posted on Fri 15 November 2024 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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- Looptober 2024 playlist - pulu: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef7YudED4K4&list=PLB40yY6tNhTb-jP3jCRiXKtfs5TDBlA4t&pp=iAQB](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef7YudED4K4&list=PLB40yY6tNhTb-jP3jCRiXKtfs5TDBlA4t&pp=iAQB) pulu made a loop with a different device or piece of software every day for Looptober this year, from modern Android apps to a tracker on a TI-84 calculator. Genius.
- Cuttings - Flying Vipers: [https://flyingvipers …](https://flyingvipers.bandcamp.com/album/cuttings)
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## [Listening Diary 2024-11-14](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-2024-11-14.html\#listening-diary-2024-11-14)
Posted on Thu 14 November 2024 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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- happy jams - @pulu: https://pulu.bandcamp.com/album Wonky techno of the best kind, like Plone decided to make a dance record then got distracted.
- UFORAVE!DEMONDAYS - @pulu: [https://pulu.bandcamp.com/album/uforave-demondays](https://pulu.bandcamp.com/album/uforave-demondays) a live set that takes in glitch voices, techno and chiptune. The soundtrack to the film …
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## [Listening Diary 2024-11-13](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-2024-11-13.html\#listening-diary-2024-11-13)
Posted on Wed 13 November 2024 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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I added a scrobbler extension to Firefox and did a bit of testing. Doesn't work with Faircamp yet. Early days, early days.
- Key13 - Seventh Friend: [https://music.key13.uk/seventh-friend/](https://music.key13.uk/seventh-friend/) \- New from the herder of misaligned aardvarks, bouncy synth and guitar instrumental
- r beny - discerned in the fugue of streams …
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## [Listening Diary 2024-11-12](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-2024-11-12.html\#listening-diary-2024-11-12)
Posted on Tue 12 November 2024 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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Some very ambient listening today. Felt like that kind of day.
- Sleep Deprivation - The Black Dog [https://theblackdog.bandcamp.com/album/sleep-deprivation](https://theblackdog.bandcamp.com/album/sleep-deprivation) New from Sheffield's most prolific techno outfit, a double LP of detached, drifting drones, relaxing and uplifting at once, and immersive, like the best 'Dog is.
- Neuromancer - Black …
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## [Listening Diary 20241018](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20241018.html\#listening-diary-20241018)
Posted on Fri 18 October 2024 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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The Advisory Circle: As The Crow Flies [https://iamblip.bandcamp.com/album/old-gear](https://iamblip.bandcamp.com/album/old-gear)
I Am Blip: Old Things [https://iamblip.bandcamp.com/album/old-gear](https://iamblip.bandcamp.com/album/old-gear)
Birmingham Electric: Communication [https://birminghamelectric.bandcamp.com/album/communication](https://birminghamelectric.bandcamp.com/album/communication)
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## [Listening Diary 20241017](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20241017.html\#listening-diary-20241017)
Posted on Thu 17 October 2024 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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Cluster: Cluster 71 [https://clusterofficial.bandcamp.com/album/cluster-71](https://clusterofficial.bandcamp.com/album/cluster-71)
Anthony Manning: Islets in Pink Polypropylene [https://germstore.bandcamp.com/album/islets-in-pink-polypropylene-1994](https://germstore.bandcamp.com/album/islets-in-pink-polypropylene-1994)
Sun Electric: Castor & Pollux [https://sunelectric.bandcamp.com/album/30794-live-1995](https://sunelectric.bandcamp.com/album/30794-live-1995)
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# [Simon Greenwood](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/)
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## [Listening Diary 16/10/2024](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-16102024.html\#listening-diary-16102024)
Posted on Wed 16 October 2024 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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Roberta Fidora: Information Array [https://robertafidora.bandcamp.com/](https://robertafidora.bandcamp.com/)
From [https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/aphex-twin-selected-ambient-works-volume-ii-list](https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/aphex-twin-selected-ambient-works-volume-ii-list):
Tod Dockstader: Water Music Part One [https://dockstader.bandcamp.com/album/tod-dockstader-quatermass](https://dockstader.bandcamp.com/album/tod-dockstader-quatermass)
Laurie Spiegel: The Expanding Universe [https://lauriespiegel.bandcamp.com/album/the-expanding-universe](https://lauriespiegel.bandcamp.com/album/the-expanding-universe)
Michael O'Shea: No Journey's End [https://moshea.bandcamp.com/album/-](https://moshea.bandcamp.com/album/-)
CHBB: Mau-Mau …
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## [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary.html\#listening-diary)
Posted on Mon 14 October 2024 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
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Meljoann: Bye [https://mirlo.space/meljoann/release/bye-single](https://mirlo.space/meljoann/release/bye-single)
Magus Sound: United Kingdom of Dub [https://mirlo.space/magus-sound/release/united-kingdom-of-dub](https://mirlo.space/magus-sound/release/united-kingdom-of-dub)
Silent Broadcast: A Shard of the Moon [https://mirlo.space/silent-broadcast/release/a-shard-of-the-moon](https://mirlo.space/silent-broadcast/release/a-shard-of-the-moon)
NSKE: Machines [https://mirlo.space/nske/release/machines](https://mirlo.space/nske/release/machines)
nilehn: Abdicator [https://mirlo.space/nilehn/release/abdicator](https://mirlo.space/nilehn/release/abdicator)
RobOfWalthamstow …
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## [Proxy Mailcow behind Nginx Proxy Manager the easy way](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/proxy-mailcow-behind-nginx-proxy-manager-the-easy-way.html\#proxy-mailcow-behind-nginx-proxy-manager-the-easy-way)
Posted on Sat 14 September 2024 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
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A quick one as no-one seems to have written it down properly.
Mailcow ( [https://mailcow.email](https://mailcow.email)) is a dockerized mail system. By default it will run on port 80 and port 443 of an IP address, so it occupies the web addresses of, say, a cheap VM.
Nginx Proxy Manager …
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## [Fixing a frozen screen caused by systemd 256](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/fixing-a-frozen-screen-caused-by-systemd-256.html\#fixing-a-frozen-screen-caused-by-systemd-256)
Posted on Sat 03 August 2024 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
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[Systemd version 256](https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/tag/v256) has been rolled out in several distributions recently, including Arch and Debian and variants. It adds a feature where user sessions are frozen when the system enters sleep, but in my case, running Manjaro Linux with KDE on a Gen 1 Lenovo T14, this meant that when …
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## [A fix for 'cert is required but missing for this certificate' in certbot](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/a-fix-for-cert-is-required-but-missing-for-this-certificate-in-certbot.html\#a-fix-for-cert-is-required-but-missing-for-this-certificate-in-certbot)
Posted on Tue 30 July 2024 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
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Yes, this is probably a bit search spammy (like search actually works any more), but it\\s an interesting little fix and a view into how certbot works. Apart from when new posts are published, a server I manage is served wholly from Cloudflare. We have recently migrated it and …
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## [Adventures in BTRFS: Replacing an array](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/adventures-in-btrfs-replacing-an-array.html\#adventures-in-btrfs-replacing-an-array)
Posted on Wed 20 December 2023 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
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## Preamble ramble
There aren't a lot of real world examples of using [BTRFS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs) around online. Some of the most useful advice I found was in r/BTRFS on Reddit but it's hard to actually find user experiences beyond the theroretical.
This is sort of one, but the tl;dr is …
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## [Closing down an instance](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/closing-down-an-instance.html\#closing-down-an-instance)
Posted on Sun 22 October 2023 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
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I set up [offworld.fedisonic.cloud](https://offworld.fedisonic.cloud) when it was apparent that Twitter was going to start circling the drain pretty quickly. I had an idea of running a Mastodon instance for anyone in my circle who wanted it, but with my usual overambition I started to think that it could …
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## [The Scape of Net](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/the-scape-of-net.html\#the-scape-of-net)
Posted on Thu 19 October 2023 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
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A touch of #anecdotage: I worked at Easynet in the early days of the UK commercial Internet, and we packaged #Netscape browser in our welcome pack as it was initially free for non-commercial purposes and we stated we were providing it as an option for browsing the web rather than …
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## [Adding S3-compatible cloud storage to Pixelfed](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/adding-s3-compatible-cloud-storage-to-pixelfed.html\#adding-s3-compatible-cloud-storage-to-pixelfed)
Posted on Mon 11 September 2023 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
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[Pixelfed](https://pixelfed.org) is a [federated](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse) photo sharing service that is an alternative to [Instagram](https://instagram.com) and uses [ActivityPub](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/) to share posts across other services such as [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.com), [Pleroma](https://pleroma.social/) and indeed WordPress. It is one of the more mature Fediverse apps and has been in continuous development for several years.
As with Mastodon …
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## [Adding an IPv6 default route with network-scripts in an EL8 server at OVH](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/adding-an-ipv6-default-route-with-network-scripts-in-an-el8-server-at-ovh.html\#adding-an-ipv6-default-route-with-network-scripts-in-an-el8-server-at-ovh)
Posted on Wed 06 September 2023 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
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This is a bit of a niche one, not least because `network-scripts` is _supposed_ to be on its way out as a configuration method, despite [cPanel](https://cpanel.net) still not supporting NetworkManager properly. No problem people, it's only been around for ten years.
This may also be specific to [OVH](https://ovh.com)'s network …
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# [Simon Greenwood](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/)
Gracefully degrading
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## [On microblogging](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/on-microblogging.html\#on-microblogging)
Posted on Thu 31 August 2023 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
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On his blog, [Terence Eden](https://mastodon.social/@edent) wrote about the [Time I Invented Twitter](https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/08/that-time-i-accidentally-invented-twitter/) and it's an interesting proposition which would have just been slightly ahead of its time in 2003. Microblogging probably needed Internet enabled phones to take off, like social networking in general.
Douglas Adams was a very intelligent man …
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## [Disabling a Wacom laptop touchscreen in an Arch Linux based OS](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/disabling-a-laptop-touchscreen-in-a-linux-based-os.html\#disabling-a-laptop-touchscreen-in-a-linux-based-os)
Posted on Tue 22 August 2023 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
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## (Without disabling everything else)
My main laptop is a [Lenovo X1 Yoga 2nd Gen](https://www.lenovo.com/gb/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadx1/x1-yoga-2nd-generation/22tp2txx12y) running [Manjaro KDE Plasma](https://manjaro.org/download/). Lovely machine and does what I want it to do. As a Yoga device, it has a touchscreen, which I don't use a lot and have often thought of disabling.
The other …
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## [On defederation](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/on-defederation.html\#on-defederation)
Posted on Mon 07 August 2023 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
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The Apple TV series Mythic Quest had an episode in which the game found it had an extreme right wing problem. Their solution was to corral the right wingers in a server where they could shout at each other and fight as much as they wanted without bothering other players …
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## [What does this button do?](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/what-does-this-button-do.html\#what-does-this-button-do)
Posted on Sun 06 August 2023 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
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I got my first Android phone, a [Moto Droid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Droid), in 2010. It's wasn't my first smartphone as that had been a quest with varying degrees of success for years (I still miss the Nokia E series keyboard phones a bit).
Among the things installed on it was Facebook. Even then …
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## [A touch of email scam forensics](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/a-touch-of-email-scam-forensics.html\#a-touch-of-email-scam-forensics)
Posted on Wed 26 July 2023 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
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I deal with a number of clients in the legal profession, and this morning one of them forwarded me an email which he thought was suspicious. It appeared to be sent from a Rob Moore at a company called Progressive Property, and the body of the mail was this:
```
Good …
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## [One to one NAT on OVH vRack with OPNSense](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/one-to-one-nat-on-ovh-vrack-with-opnsense.html\#one-to-one-nat-on-ovh-vrack-with-opnsense)
Posted on Sat 28 January 2023 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
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I have a virtual OPNSense router as the gateway to a production network based on Proxmox servers (more about this another day). All VMs and containers get an unrouted IP address in the 10.x.x.x range and I have a couple of IP ranges for public access, generally …
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## [HTTPS forwarding in OPNSense](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/https-forwarding-in-opnsense.html\#https-forwarding-in-opnsense)
Posted on Sat 28 January 2023 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
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This took a few days to work out and I finally found it buried in an [Opnsense forum post](https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=6155.0), so here it is in a slightly easier to find way.
## Objective
To forward HTTP(S) traffic to a virtual machine running Nginx (or any other HTTP proxy or load balancer …
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# Listening Diary 16/10/2024
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Roberta Fidora: Information Array [https://robertafidora.bandcamp.com/](https://robertafidora.bandcamp.com/)
From [https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/aphex-twin-selected-ambient-works-volume-ii-list](https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/aphex-twin-selected-ambient-works-volume-ii-list):
Tod Dockstader: Water Music Part One [https://dockstader.bandcamp.com/album/tod-dockstader-quatermass](https://dockstader.bandcamp.com/album/tod-dockstader-quatermass)
Laurie Spiegel: The Expanding Universe [https://lauriespiegel.bandcamp.com/album/the-expanding-universe](https://lauriespiegel.bandcamp.com/album/the-expanding-universe)
Michael O'Shea: No Journey's End [https://moshea.bandcamp.com/album/-](https://moshea.bandcamp.com/album/-)
CHBB: Mau-Mau [https://chbb.bandcamp.com/album/chbb](https://chbb.bandcamp.com/album/chbb)
Trans-4M: Sublunar Oracles [https://trans-4m.bandcamp.com/album/sublunar-oracles](https://trans-4m.bandcamp.com/album/sublunar-oracles)
Silence: Omid/Hope [https://silencemusik.bandcamp.com/album/silence-i-2022-remaster](https://silencemusik.bandcamp.com/album/silence-i-2022-remaster)
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# Listening Diary 2024-11-12
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Some very ambient listening today. Felt like that kind of day.
- Sleep Deprivation - The Black Dog [https://theblackdog.bandcamp.com/album/sleep-deprivation](https://theblackdog.bandcamp.com/album/sleep-deprivation) New from Sheffield's most prolific techno outfit, a double LP of detached, drifting drones, relaxing and uplifting at once, and immersive, like the best 'Dog is.
- Neuromancer - Black Rain [https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/neuromancer](https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/neuromancer) The soundtrack to the 1994 audiobook of William Gibson's classic novel, released separately for the first time. Monumental drones and clicks like systems decaying under the weight of the world. You'd call it vaporwave if it didn't still sound like the future.
- A Distant Blur - Broken Chip [https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/a-distant-blur](https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/a-distant-blur) Scenic landscapes through mist and rain, with long loops crossing and fading.
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# Listening Diary 2024-11-13
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I added a scrobbler extension to Firefox and did a bit of testing. Doesn't work with Faircamp yet. Early days, early days.
- Key13 - Seventh Friend: [https://music.key13.uk/seventh-friend/](https://music.key13.uk/seventh-friend/) \- New from the herder of misaligned aardvarks, bouncy synth and guitar instrumental
- r beny - discerned in the fugue of streams [https://quietdetails.bandcamp.com/album/discerned-in-the-fugue-of-streams](https://quietdetails.bandcamp.com/album/discerned-in-the-fugue-of-streams) \- October release on quiet details, skilled ambient drone that meets the brief perfectly
- Blanket Swimming - A Quiet Vision [https://cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/a-quiet-vision](https://cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/a-quiet-vision) guitar based ambient loops with field recordings of water and air, an accompiment to silence
- Key 13 - Carousel [https://music.key13.uk/carousel/](https://music.key13.uk/carousel/) Yes, I'm working through @keef's Faircamp. Political post-pop
- Muslimgauze - Infidel (East Meets West mix)
- Muslimgauze - Indian Summer of Benazir Bhutto - ht to @zombiewarror - he was doing this stuff before you were, and doing it fantastically: [https://muslimgauze.bandcamp.com/music](https://muslimgauze.bandcamp.com/music)
- Muslimgauze - Muslimgauze Memorial Mix Part 5A - [https://muslimgauze.bandcamp.com/album/muslimgauze-memorial-mix-part-5](https://muslimgauze.bandcamp.com/album/muslimgauze-memorial-mix-part-5) as I've just found him on Bandcamp, the final mixtape, of a series, industrial, psychedelic and a precursor to techno. Hypnotic.
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- happy jams - @pulu: https://pulu.bandcamp.com/album Wonky techno of the best kind, like Plone decided to make a dance record then got distracted.
- UFORAVE!DEMONDAYS - @pulu: [https://pulu.bandcamp.com/album/uforave-demondays](https://pulu.bandcamp.com/album/uforave-demondays) a live set that takes in glitch voices, techno and chiptune. The soundtrack to the film of a dystopian GameBoy game
- Origins - Our Solar System: [https://oursolarsystem.bandcamp.com/album/origins](https://oursolarsystem.bandcamp.com/album/origins) Epic psychouts from a mysterious and mystical Swedish collective
- I Feel (a) Love (Supreme) - Tuluum Shimmering [https://tuluumshimmering.bandcamp.com/album/i-feel-a-love-supreme](https://tuluumshimmering.bandcamp.com/album/i-feel-a-love-supreme) A sprawling, immersive psych/drone workout loosely based on 'I Feel Love' and 'A Love Supreme' that builds and builds in layers. If you haven't found Tuluum Shimmering yet, go and get started
- American Electronic - James Britt @jamesbritt: [https://jamesbritt.bandcamp.com/album/american-electronic](https://jamesbritt.bandcamp.com/album/american-electronic) If a group of car production line robots decided to start an Autechre covers band, it might sound like this. All the parts are there, not necessarily in the right order
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Cluster: Cluster 71 [https://clusterofficial.bandcamp.com/album/cluster-71](https://clusterofficial.bandcamp.com/album/cluster-71)
Anthony Manning: Islets in Pink Polypropylene [https://germstore.bandcamp.com/album/islets-in-pink-polypropylene-1994](https://germstore.bandcamp.com/album/islets-in-pink-polypropylene-1994)
Sun Electric: Castor & Pollux [https://sunelectric.bandcamp.com/album/30794-live-1995](https://sunelectric.bandcamp.com/album/30794-live-1995)
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The Advisory Circle: As The Crow Flies [https://iamblip.bandcamp.com/album/old-gear](https://iamblip.bandcamp.com/album/old-gear)
I Am Blip: Old Things [https://iamblip.bandcamp.com/album/old-gear](https://iamblip.bandcamp.com/album/old-gear)
Birmingham Electric: Communication [https://birminghamelectric.bandcamp.com/album/communication](https://birminghamelectric.bandcamp.com/album/communication)
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- Looptober 2024 playlist - pulu: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef7YudED4K4&list=PLB40yY6tNhTb-jP3jCRiXKtfs5TDBlA4t&pp=iAQB](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef7YudED4K4&list=PLB40yY6tNhTb-jP3jCRiXKtfs5TDBlA4t&pp=iAQB) pulu made a loop with a different device or piece of software every day for Looptober this year, from modern Android apps to a tracker on a TI-84 calculator. Genius.
- Cuttings - Flying Vipers: [https://flyingvipers.bandcamp.com/album/cuttings](https://flyingvipers.bandcamp.com/album/cuttings) From a GetMusic freebie, a collection of roots dub jams that spins tape echo all over the place. As chilled as dub can be, but mostly too short to nod out to.
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- cyber // underground - UNDO: [https://music.whitevhs.xyz/cyber-underground/](https://music.whitevhs.xyz/cyber-underground/) Anime themed Japanese cutup/hip-hop rather like Monodrone and vocaloid nosebleed kawaii. My daughter might like it.
- Deep In - Fugue State: [https://faircamp.fstateaudio.com/deep-in/](https://faircamp.fstateaudio.com/deep-in/) Crunchy industrial bleeptronics sliced many ways
- Ashes of Hope - F3RNI: [https://liberty-net.ddns.net/music/ashes-of-hope/](https://liberty-net.ddns.net/music/ashes-of-hope/) Desolate but expressive ambient drone for the end days
- Beating the Chaos Clock - F3RNI: [https://liberty-net.ddns.net/music/beating-the-chaos-clock/](https://liberty-net.ddns.net/music/beating-the-chaos-clock/) Immersive analogue ambience
- Fall - Dual: [https://dual.bandcamp.com/](https://dual.bandcamp.com/) 2000 Live set from Sheffield ambient/drone group, accomplished textures and layers
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- Tall Trees (and other tales) - Kemper Norton < [https://zonawatusa.bandcamp.com/album/tall-trees-and-other-tales](https://zonawatusa.bandcamp.com/album/tall-trees-and-other-tales) \> (pre-release) Hallucinogenic dreams of dancefloors where the music means less than the experience and both are elusive memories.
- Musicke for Psychedelic Duelling vol. 3: The Loplop Pit - Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd (R.E.E.L.) @REEL < [https://zonawatusa.bandcamp.com/album/musicke-for-psychedelic-duelling-vol-3-the-loplop-pit](https://zonawatusa.bandcamp.com/album/musicke-for-psychedelic-duelling-vol-3-the-loplop-pit) \> (pre release) Where Kemper Norton's memory is driven by those pills, this is one is driven by bits of blotting paper with ...something... on it. Dense.
- Doggerland - feinstruktur @feinstructur < [https://feinstruktur.bandcamp.com/album/doggerland](https://feinstruktur.bandcamp.com/album/doggerland) \> Environmental ambience mixing synthetics and field recordings to create an alien yet familiar landscape
- Music for Airports - Bang on a Can < [https://www.discogs.com/master/108504-Bang-On-A-Can-Brian-Eno-Music-For-Airports](https://www.discogs.com/master/108504-Bang-On-A-Can-Brian-Eno-Music-For-Airports) \> Semi-classical cover of Eno's LP that recreates an original that was made from tape loops remarkably well.
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- The Crystal Method - The Crystal Method [https://www.discogs.com/master/642133-The-Crystal-Method-The-Crystal-Method](https://www.discogs.com/master/642133-The-Crystal-Method-The-Crystal-Method) Morning randomised shower listening, possibly inspired by my wife's current 'Bones' marathon. The Method being The Method but they seemed to have settled into a sound at this point, need to hear their more recent stuff. Product contains some Hooky.
- A Constellation of Lies - Hy Vib @Weru [https://chillway.bandcamp.com/](https://chillway.bandcamp.com/) Three drifting chillout workouts that feel like the end of a great night out, when that was everyone back to mine and a smoke, rather than a cup of decaff tea and bed.
- 2024-08-24 Live Experiments Echo Vocation [https://echovocation.bandcamp.com/](https://echovocation.bandcamp.com/) Downtempo live modular track that loops around a theme pleasantly
- Droneuary 2024 - Various Artists [https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/album/droneuary-2024](https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/album/droneuary-2024) Huge collection of drones of all interpretations from this year's #Droneuary. Interesting stuff but a lot to get through.
- Looking at Lifeforms - The Twilight Sequence: [https://cissublibrary.bandcamp.com](https://cissublibrary.bandcamp.com) Four track EP of modular noodlings with a pastoral theme
- Dark Air - Eko\_Fisk & Gears in the Rain [https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2024/11/19/eko\_fisk-gears-in-the-rain-dark-air/](https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2024/11/19/eko_fisk-gears-in-the-rain-dark-air/) HT @clongclongmoo Downbeat electronics from a Creative Commons Netlabel that deserves further listening
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- Psychosomatic Waves - Mazanko: [https://submarinebroadcastingco.bandcamp.com/album/psychosomatic-waves-2](https://submarinebroadcastingco.bandcamp.com/album/psychosomatic-waves-2) apparent free form electronic skronk although that isn't the case according to the web page. A good exercise in sound design
- Dark Air - Eko\_Fisk and Gears In The Rain - [https://www.zenapolae.com/zen300](https://www.zenapolae.com/zen300) Restful ambient/downbeat electronica
- Post:Soc Post:Script - Various [https://submarinebroadcastingco.bandcamp.com/album/post-soc-post-script](https://submarinebroadcastingco.bandcamp.com/album/post-soc-post-script) 2017 compilation from Submarine Broadcasting Company with a range of its artists. Their subscription is amazing value if you like experimental and left field music.
- Methods of Dreaming - Hawksmoor [https://spunoutofcontrol.bandcamp.com/album/methods-of-dreaming](https://spunoutofcontrol.bandcamp.com/album/methods-of-dreaming) Hazy, rural psychedelia, a walk through the countryside with a few mushrooms
- Coil - Ian Boddy - (WFR Subclub) Berlin School ambience from one of the UK's longest established and best exponents, on the now closed WFR Subclub on Bandcamp. Drifting, spacey (in many senses) sequencer driven electronica
- The Corn Mother (Dawn Rising Edition) - Various - A Year in the Country [https://ayearinthecountry.bandcamp.com/album/the-corn-mother](https://ayearinthecountry.bandcamp.com/album/the-corn-mother) One of a series of pastoral, hauntological compilations that draw on myths, legends, superstition, folk tales and otherness. They've been doing it for longer than you have.
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- Pictobug - Engineers [https://engineers.bandcamp.com/album/pictobug](https://engineers.bandcamp.com/album/pictobug) Engineers reconvened in 2019 as a duo and made an instrumental LP. Downbeat and introspective while still sounding like the core of Engineers
- Shoreline - Lyndon Scarfe [https://cuedotrecords.bandcamp.com/album/shoreline](https://cuedotrecords.bandcamp.com/album/shoreline) First LP from the now seemingly abandoned Cue Dot Records, neoclassical and filmic ambience that soars at times
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- In Vitro Tide - Surface 10 - [https://dinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-vitro-tide-din8](https://dinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-vitro-tide-din8) Current free/pay what you want offer for DiN's 25th anniversary, a rattling mix of sequencers and glitchy breakbeat before that was even a thing
- Portable Reality Generator - Field Lines Cartographer - [https://dinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/portable-reality-generator-din85](https://dinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/portable-reality-generator-din85) A scenic ride through vast artifical horizons on a modular pony. Yes, they're a thing look them up.
- Disturbing Dreams 27 Nov 2024 - Audio Interface - [https://www.audiointerface.org/](https://www.audiointerface.org/) Second outing for this new show, crunchy and spiky, like a mouthful of extra hot bombay mix.
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- Hardwicke Circus - Carlisle City Council - [https://carlislecitycouncil.bandcamp.com/album/hardwicke-circus](https://carlislecitycouncil.bandcamp.com/album/hardwicke-circus)
- The Lanes Re-development - Carlisle City Council - [https://carlislecitycouncil.bandcamp.com/album/the-lanes-re-development](https://carlislecitycouncil.bandcamp.com/album/the-lanes-re-development) \- A new project from Jonathan Sharp of the Heartwood Institute. Seemingly straight sounding syntheised corporate library music from the 70s and 80s. It would seem to tread the same concrete path as Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan but knowing Sharp's Heartwood output, there's something more elemental to it.
- Dwell Time - Xqui & Dogs Versus Shadows - [https://subexoticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dwell-time](https://subexoticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dwell-time) I've only just come across Subexotic and I'm having a look through their catalogue and wondering why I haven't before. This one is warped muzak for abandoned shopping malls.
- Solstice 24 - Various - [https://subexoticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/solstice-24](https://subexoticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/solstice-24) <\- recent compilation from the above label, with a pretty diverse collection of tracks from a number of the usual suspects of the UK electronic scene. They have a subscribers club on Bandcamp which I think I might have to give a go.
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- Pefkin - The Rescoring - [https://pefkin.bandcamp.com/album/the-rescoring](https://pefkin.bandcamp.com/album/the-rescoring): HT to @REEL: three immersive pieces based on layers of viola, synth amd voice. Sonically reminiscent of early Dead Can Dance between their post-punk and mediaeval phases, and autumnal lost wandering.
- Scholars of the Peak - Polymorphic - [https://thescholarsofthepeak.bandcamp.com/album/polymorphic](https://thescholarsofthepeak.bandcamp.com/album/polymorphic): Hauntological music from the High Peak area of Derbyshire, so it got my attention right away. Soundtracks for afternoon schools programmes on psychogeography with a nod to Plone and the Radiophonic Workshop.
- RadioPhobicSherkPop - low beats and fat fingers - A RadioPhobicSherkPop mixtape - @RadioPhobicSherkPop: [https://soundcloud.com/user-967338943/low-beats-fat-fingers-a-radiophobicsherkpop-mixtape](https://soundcloud.com/user-967338943/low-beats-fat-fingers-a-radiophobicsherkpop-mixtape): a meaty, beaty, big and bouncy 20 minutes from the attic of Birmingham's premier purveyor of wonky bedroom electrofunk and uneasy listening. A look inside the creative mind you probably didn't want but glad you did anyway.
- The Home Current and Peter Wix - Unfortunes - [https://thehomecurrent.bandcamp.com/album/unfortunes](https://thehomecurrent.bandcamp.com/album/unfortunes): Continuing my exploration of Subexotic's discography. In which techno purveyor The Home Current makes a lyrical dance record with the lyrics presented as spoken word monologues in variety of voices, which create an elusive and ephemeral narrative that seems to walk similar maps to Iain Sinclair.
- Cub\\cub - Trig Point - [https://cubcub.bandcamp.com/album/trig-point](https://cubcub.bandcamp.com/album/trig-point): More from Subexotic: woozy BoC-sh electronics from Leeds based Cub/cub, stretched tape loops that for morning after country walks.
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- Alan Sparhawk - White Roses, My God - [https://alansparhawk.bandcamp.com/album/white-roses-my-god](https://alansparhawk.bandcamp.com/album/white-roses-my-god): First post end of Low solo LP from Sparhawk is primarily electronic, with a vocoder on the vocals that is disorienting in variable ways. It's too tempting to read things into the drum machines and obscuring of the words, but as it progresses it finds a path and some moments as intense as anything Low created.
- Underworld - Strawberry Hotel - [https://underworld.bandcamp.com/album/strawberry-hotel](https://underworld.bandcamp.com/album/strawberry-hotel): Looking at The Quietus' 2024 Hundred Best LPs reminded me that I hadn't bought this yet, so I had to rectify that. Underworld, like The Fall and Mogwai, are always the same and always different, and this one is at times melodic and at others stripped back, with the usual grooves sometimes pared down to 7" rather than 12" single length and even not being grooves at all. There's a theme and more of a collective effort to it, but it may need a couple of listens to work out what it is.
- Shellac - To All Trains - [https://shellac.bandcamp.com/album/to-all-trains](https://shellac.bandcamp.com/album/to-all-trains): I also didn't buy this at the time, wasn't sure if I wanted to hear it after Albini's death, but of course it isn't there this time, just a speeding train of taut riffs to get dragged behind, the best half hour's joyride you'll have today.
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Continuing a wander through Subexotic today.
- Simon Klee - Phototaxis - [https://simonklee.bandcamp.com/album/phototaxis](https://simonklee.bandcamp.com/album/phototaxis): a short collection of sparse but filmic modular workouts.
- Dogs vs Shadows and Simon Klee - Music for Nature Documentaries - [https://subexoticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-nature-documentaries](https://subexoticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-nature-documentaries): I'm a sucker for a cover that looks like a BBC sound effects record, and the tracks don't disappoint. Short, minimal incidental pieces that create mental wildlife films.
- Central Office of Information - Shadow Work - [https://coinfo.bandcamp.com/album/shadow-work](https://coinfo.bandcamp.com/album/shadow-work) \- Common themes of the kind of dislocation, shifted perception and misremembering that contribute to hauntology and vaporwave, with rhythmic and sometimes even funky drum and bass.
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# Listening Diary 20241205
Posted on Thu 05 December 2024 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
- Low - Live on 'Ned's Musical Dustbin' on KUCI 88.9 FM, July 1995 - [https://soundcloud.com/nedraggett/sets/low-live-on-neds-musical-dustbin-on-kuci-889-fm-july-1995](https://soundcloud.com/nedraggett/sets/low-live-on-neds-musical-dustbin-on-kuci-889-fm-july-1995): Early radio session from just after the release of their debut LP 'I Could Live in Hope'. The audio quality makes them sound more fragile than their usual slow quietness really was. Includes their version of 'Transmission', the last one you ever need to hear.
- Coldcut x On-U Sound - Outside the Echo Chamber - [https://coldcut.bandcamp.com/album/outside-the-echo-chamber](https://coldcut.bandcamp.com/album/outside-the-echo-chamber): 2017 collaboration between two legends of cut-up and dub: Covers reggae, bhangra, Indian film music and hip-hop in an epic hour of joy. HT to @inpc, who knows a thing or two.
- Various Artists - Future Sounds of Kraut Vol 3 - Compiled by Fred and Luna - [https://compostrecords.bandcamp.com/album/future-sounds-of-kraut-vol-3-compiled-by-fred-und-luna](https://compostrecords.bandcamp.com/album/future-sounds-of-kraut-vol-3-compiled-by-fred-und-luna): brilliant modern krautrock/motorik electro compilation and I will be going back for the rest.
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- Pye Corner Audio - Deep Lake Drift - [https://pyecorneraudio.bandcamp.com/track/deep-lake-drift](https://pyecorneraudio.bandcamp.com/track/deep-lake-drift): in which The Head Technician puts out a track for Bandcamp Friday as usual, and this time it's practically a techno banger, if the dancefloor was haunted
- MiDi BiTCH - Hyperborea - [https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/hyperborea-cyd-0121](https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/album/hyperborea-cyd-0121): Modern widescreen Berlin School electronics that wouldn't be out of place on DiN or other electronic labels.
- Fastachee - third places - [https://fastachee.bandcamp.com/album/third-places](https://fastachee.bandcamp.com/album/third-places): For want of pigeonhole I'd call this post-rock, (mostly) instrumental guitar lead with interesting synths and glitchy bits. Well worth some more listening.
- DebonaireToast - Lithopedion EP - [https://debonairetoast.bandcamp.com/album/lithopedion-ep](https://debonairetoast.bandcamp.com/album/lithopedion-ep): Ruminatory dark ambient with percussive overtones. 'Litho' made me think of the lithophone in one of our local museums, a xylophone made of tuned stones, and there are elements of that here.
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- The Heartwood Institute - Forgotten Futures - [https://theheartwoodinstitute.bandcamp.com/album/forgotten-futures](https://theheartwoodinstitute.bandcamp.com/album/forgotten-futures): Cumbria's Heartwood Institute turn their attention to affairs 250 miles south, to events in the Capital, where something is afoot. Music for washed out prints of lost 70s SF series.
- Navigator - Flame Is Slow (Singles etc. 1996​-​1997) - [https://wrongspeedrecords.bandcamp.com/album/navigator-flame-is-slow-singles-etc-1996-1997](https://wrongspeedrecords.bandcamp.com/album/navigator-flame-is-slow-singles-etc-1996-1997): Navigator were a band I missed when they were around, even to point of not getting to the Garage early enough when they supported Mogwai there, so this was exciting to see. This collection of their singles starts as low key post rock inspired by Slint or Codeine, and drifts towards and past Bark Psychosis ambience and experimentation. I've certainly missed something. Hopefully Wrong Speed will put out their LP 'Nostalgie' as well.
- Navigator - Nostalgie - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NNHGgP\_uN0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NNHGgP_uN0): Of course, it's on YouTube, and it take where they were going with the singles even further, almost to pure silence and noise at times, like an industrial winter landscape.
- Lehto - Northbound - [https://lehto.bandcamp.com/album/northbound](https://lehto.bandcamp.com/album/northbound): Lehto's tracks have been standouts for me when listening to Radio Free Fedi, and yesterday was the first anniversary of the release of this LP. It's that downbeat dance like Royskopp or Simian, with with folk, jazz and African influences as well as environmental sounds. It certainly deserves a wider hearing.
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- Stuffed Foxes - Standardized - [https://stuffedfoxes.bandcamp.com/album/standardized-2](https://stuffedfoxes.bandcamp.com/album/standardized-2): Newest LP from French psych-rock/shoegazers, dynamic epic squalls of guitar that evoke all the bits you like in the recent history of (alt)-rock.
- Keygen Church - Tenebre Rosso Sangue - [https://keygenchurch.bandcamp.com/album/tenebre-rosso-sangue](https://keygenchurch.bandcamp.com/album/tenebre-rosso-sangue): Saw this last night and thought I'd give it a listen. Italian electronic instrumental death metal, which of course must exist according to the Unified Theory of Metal, which posits that all musical genres have a metal state. Rather bracing, like having your head in a threshing machine is bracing.
- Various - Zenapolae: Compilation 24 - [https://www.zenapolae.com/zen294](https://www.zenapolae.com/zen294) Ambient, drone and downbeat compilation from a veteran German based netlabel. A collection of tracks from recent releases on the label, ranging from neoclassical drone, to layered guitared ambience and straight(ish) instrumental electronica. Worth a listen and all free to download.
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- Ordos Mk.0 - Sunset Shore - [https://ordosmarkzero.bandcamp.com/track/sunset-shore](https://ordosmarkzero.bandcamp.com/track/sunset-shore): An evening walk along a stretch of water, lost in thoughts.
- Ordos Mk.0 - In My Watery World - [https://ordosmarkzero.bandcamp.com/album/in-my-watery-world](https://ordosmarkzero.bandcamp.com/album/in-my-watery-world): a thematic EP from a composing jam that evokes a video game set underwater. Gentle and dare one say, immersive?
- Black Tempel Pyrämid - The Hierophant - [https://submarinebroadcastingco.bandcamp.com/album/the-hierophant](https://submarinebroadcastingco.bandcamp.com/album/the-hierophant): Squally, looping experimental lo-fi kraut/psych jams from a prolific Colorado, US band. I saw that Cruel Nature had released one of their LPs and found I didn't have it, but I have this one from SubCastCo. Not what I expected from the description but pretty good all the same.
- david a. jaycock - Music for Space Age Shopping - [https://davidajaycock.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-space-age-shopping](https://davidajaycock.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-space-age-shopping): New from Subexotic, part of their Shopping Centre Trilogy, all released last Friday. Like Carlisle City Council's The Lanes Re-Development, it plays with electronic soundtracks and library music, in this case evoking the concrete shopping centres of the 60s and 70s that have often since been redeveloped or demolished. Some tracks have a dynamic hopefulness that would accompany a promotional film and others evoke the windswept bleakness of Sunday afternoons in them, or complete abandonment.
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- Cathode Ray Tube - Overworld - [https://conditionhuman.bandcamp.com/album/overworld](https://conditionhuman.bandcamp.com/album/overworld) : Extended dub industrial techno workouts that evoke images of people in leather jackets with those sunglasses with wind guards on hanging around factories, or possibly Camden's Underworld in 1992. We knew how to party back then. I think I might need to explore some more.
- PDP8 - logging - [https://pdp8.bandcamp.com/album/logging](https://pdp8.bandcamp.com/album/logging): HT to @RadioPhobicShirkPop Lo-fi techno, presumably not made with a PDP-8, but you can never tell these days. Had me bouncing in my chair.
- Loula Yorke - A Man On A Galloping Horse Wouldn't See it - [https://cissublibrary.bandcamp.com/album/a-man-on-a-galloping-horse-wouldnt-see-it](https://cissublibrary.bandcamp.com/album/a-man-on-a-galloping-horse-wouldnt-see-it) New from the Castles in Space Subscription Library, 35 minutes of Yorke's minimal but expansive modular explorations, rhythmic and hypnotic.
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- Tomoroh Hidari - 12 Months of Mornings - [https://ivorybunkerrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/12-months-of-mornings](https://ivorybunkerrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/12-months-of-mornings) Final release from Hidari, whose death was announced yesterday. A two year long project in which he took pictures of the morning sky, posted them to social media, selected the ones that got most engagement and used the images as the basis for tracks using assorted methods. The result is noisy but not without structure and some interesting parts.
- Tomoroh Hidari - Live in Tokyo - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWZnx6lO0-g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWZnx6lO0-g): A live set from September that explores more melodic and rhythmic areas than the LP above, rises and breaks down like a techno set.
- Ian Boddy - Options - [https://ianboddy.bandcamp.com/album/options](https://ianboddy.bandcamp.com/album/options): Reissue of his third cassette LP from 1981. Very much of its time, but as its time was that of Jarre, Schulz and Tangerine Dream at their best, it stands up remarkably well against them. The live set on the b-side is equally accomplished, with excellent sounds produced from minimal kit.
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- Dace Merryweather - Magnapinna/Phantom Jelly - [https://dace.bandcamp.com/album/magnapinna](https://dace.bandcamp.com/album/magnapinna) Epic (11 minute!) prog paen to a squid, it says here. It goes many places and does many things. The b-side sounds like a soundtrack for jellyfish swimming in a tank.
- D-Fried - "Images Sur la Mer" - [https://www.phonocake.org/islm](https://www.phonocake.org/islm): Via @clongclongmoo: Long form sea-themed ambient piece that drifts in remarkably descriptive movements. Restful and beautiful.
- Salisman Communal Orchestration - Of The Desert EP - [https://cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/of-the-desert-ep](https://cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/of-the-desert-ep): most recent release and name from Chicago via Newcastle psych/shoegaze experimentalists. 60s harmonies and sun-bleaches tremelo guitar. A band who should have much more recognition than they do.
- Salisman Communal Orchestration - A Queen Among Clods - [https://salisman.bandcamp.com/album/a-queen-among-clod](https://salisman.bandcamp.com/album/a-queen-among-clod): 40 minutes of similar bleached out, blissed out psychedelics, like that time you took what you thought was a Nelson's travel remedy tablet to get the coach to the coast, only it wasn't.
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- Isan - Winter Chimes - [https://isan.bandcamp.com/album/winter-chimes](https://isan.bandcamp.com/album/winter-chimes): Everyone's favourite remotely collaborative analogue duo make a Christmas EP, a gentle mix of very analogue glockenspiel, bells and chimes, an ideal accompaniment to a glass of nog, egg or otherwise.
- Hladowski/Hampton/Strachan - They All Were Looking for a King - [https://maryhampton1.bandcamp.com/track/they-all-were-looking-for-a-king](https://maryhampton1.bandcamp.com/track/they-all-were-looking-for-a-king): A Scottish carol written by George Macdonald and performed by a small acoustic ensemble including organ, cornet and recorder, and some beautiful harmonies.
- Meljoann - Bye - @meljoann [https://boyscoutaudio.bandcamp.com/track/bye](https://boyscoutaudio.bandcamp.com/track/bye): Shiny modern ultrapop that my daughter would probably like. I think it's pretty groovy too, and so should you.
- Meljoann - Squick - [https://faircamp.meljoann.com/squick/](https://faircamp.meljoann.com/squick/): From the last to the first, and it still sounds like the future. I am considering giving all my money to Mustics.
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# Listening Diary 20241219
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- Whirling Hall of Knives - Blown Vestige - [https://cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/blown-vestige](https://cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/blown-vestige): Fuzzed out, largely beatless, ambitronica from a now seemingly inactive Irish duo. Switches between atmospheric blooms and distorted guitar keyboard textures.
- GNOD R&D/Whirling Hall Of Knives - GNOD/WHOK - [https://riotseasonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gnod-whok](https://riotseasonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gnod-whok): Going off down a rabbit hole, this is a joint EP with Paddy and Chris of GNOD marrying GNOD's front end to industrial beats as opposed to their usual punishing grind, and creating something that sounds like it fell off an 80s industrial compilation. WHOK offer two variations on something that is both cranked up guitar riff and ambient drone.
- Ordos Mk 0 - Buchla Experiments - @ordosmarkzero [https://ordosmarkzero.bandcamp.com/album/buchla-experiments](https://ordosmarkzero.bandcamp.com/album/buchla-experiments). The Buchla (Arturia's virtual one I presume) is often used for experimental noise so it's pleasing to hear it used for patterns and melodies here. From Ordos's current offer of their entire discography for not a lot at all, which is worth a punt.
- Audio Interface/James Aletsch - A Night Before Christmas - [https://www.audiointerface.org/shows/james-aletsch/](https://www.audiointerface.org/shows/james-aletsch/) A special Christmas show of ambient electronics, calm noise and distant pop (it says here), which would be a cosy hour of a lot of splendid stuff if my study was warmer...
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# Listening Diary 20241220
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- Underworld - Dark & Long - [https://www.discogs.com/release/15659-Underworld-Dark-Long](https://www.discogs.com/release/15659-Underworld-Dark-Long): Sometimes only a bit of Underworld will do. All the versions of Dark & Long collected from the EPs. There are a lot, but the variations between them keep it interesting.
- Lost Harbours - In the Direction of the Sun - [https://cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-direction-of-the-sun](https://cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-direction-of-the-sun): A collection of field recordings and drones with poetry. Desolate but uplifting.
- Enofa - The House By the Sea - [https://enofa.bandcamp.com/album/the-house-by-the-sea](https://enofa.bandcamp.com/album/the-house-by-the-sea): More pastoral ambience with more rhythmic passages. More a collection of sketches than a complete LP.
- Low - I Could Live in Hope - [https://www.discogs.com/master/225930-Low-I-Could-Live-In-Hope](https://www.discogs.com/master/225930-Low-I-Could-Live-In-Hope): After listening to an [early radio session](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/listening-diary-20241205.html) last week, it occurred to me that I've never actually heard their debut LP, so I'm correcting that now. All the parts are there , perhaps a little primitive, but the same pace and intensity.
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# Listening Diary 20250110
Posted on Fri 10 January 2025 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
Haven't got myself together to do this recently, so here's a catch-up.
- Snowbeasts - The Snow 2025 - [https://snowbeasts.bandcamp.com/album/the-snow](https://snowbeasts.bandcamp.com/album/the-snow): A freebie from GetMusic - an industrial techno cover of Coil's haunted 1991 track. I'll be exploring what Snowbeasts do more.
- Shirley and the Pyramids - Maid of Time - [https://surelyicomequickly.bandcamp.com/album/maid-of-time](https://surelyicomequickly.bandcamp.com/album/maid-of-time): Also a GetMusic freebie - fourth LP from Saskatoon, Canada psych/shoegazers with a great early 90s sound, pointers Thee Telescopes, post-feedback Jesus and Mary Chain and Loop.
- Ian Cat - Paint the Stars Tonight - [https://iancat.bandcamp.com/album/paint-the-stars-tonight](https://iancat.bandcamp.com/album/paint-the-stars-tonight) Another GetMusic freebie - long form looping guitar ambience in the style of Frippertronics, something I'm always up for.
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# Listening Diary 20250115
Posted on Wed 15 January 2025 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
On an 80s tip, plus new music from Subexotic
- Syncbeat - Peel Session - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HIZZLpMwuE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HIZZLpMwuE): A 1984 A Certain Ratio spinoff that recorded a single, several tracks under different names for the first UK Electro compilation and this Peel session. Funky digital breakbeat before breakbeat was a thing, driven by Donald Johnson's slap bass, which still sounds amazing even if slap has mostly been relegated to Level 42 and 80s nostalgia now.
- A.R. Kane - Up Home - [https://arkaneband.bandcamp.com/album/up-home](https://arkaneband.bandcamp.com/album/up-home): Shoegaze or dreampop before those things existed. Fuzzed out guitars, stoned and wandering in caverns, an accompaniment to their debut LP '69'.
- Drew Mulholland and Garden Gate - Night Blooming Flowers - [https://gardengate.bandcamp.com/album/night-blooming-flowers-2](https://gardengate.bandcamp.com/album/night-blooming-flowers-2): New from Subexotic. A hauntological soundtrack that is sometimes pastoral, as in 'shadows in the woods' and sometimes reminiscent of David Lynchian industrial noise.
- Audio Obscura - Acid Field Recordings in Dub - @Audio\_Obscura [https://audioobscura.bandcamp.com/album/acid-field-recordings-in-dub](https://audioobscura.bandcamp.com/album/acid-field-recordings-in-dub): Audio Obscura returns with a collection of dubbed up environment ambient pieces that remind me most of late (mid-90s) Cabaret Voltaire and not just because he mentions Chris Watson in his notes.
- Miles Otto - Desynclined - [https://milesotto.bandcamp.com/album/desynclined](https://milesotto.bandcamp.com/album/desynclined): The debut full length LP from Otto and the first I've heard of his music, a sort of deconstructed electronica that verges on techno sometimes and abstract crunchy noise at others. Interesting for its approach but coming as much from an academic exercise as the dancefloor.
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# Listening Diary 20250120
Posted on Mon 20 January 2025 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
Not much yesterday, I was busy and really shouldn't have looked at the news.
- Xylander - Happy New Dystopia! - @xylander@mastodon.social [https://xylander.bandcamp.com/album/happy-new-dystopia](https://xylander.bandcamp.com/album/happy-new-dystopia): New and aptly if unconsciously timed from Xylander, rattly but understated breakbeats, lush but brooding synths and found voices that form a soundtrack to the horrors of well, about now.
- Brickwall Unlimited inc - Boomtastic -@dereisenhofer@metalhead.club [https://brickwallunlimitedinc.bandcamp.com/track/boomtastic](https://brickwallunlimitedinc.bandcamp.com/track/boomtastic) \- Lovely no frills bit of old skool acid
- Vernal Ecosphere - Finite Planetary Possibilities - [https://vernalecosphere.bandcamp.com/album/finite-planetary-possibilities](https://vernalecosphere.bandcamp.com/album/finite-planetary-possibilities) From Getmusic, Conceptual Berlin school inspired sequencer ambience with expressive percussion, a soundscape on a galactic scale. A great looking cover too.
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# Listening Diary 20250121
Posted on Tue 21 January 2025 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
Busy with my daughter's birthday yesterday so...
- Kosmicher Laufer - Track Club EP - [https://kosmischerlaufer.bandcamp.com/album/track-club-ep](https://kosmischerlaufer.bandcamp.com/album/track-club-ep): A collection of Martin Zeichnete's other work besides the East German Olympic Programme. Five more tracks of beautiful period electronic kosmische from a world that really should have existed.
- Polygonia - Living Patterns - [https://polygonia.bandcamp.com/album/living-patterns](https://polygonia.bandcamp.com/album/living-patterns): Organic, minimal techno that starts in forest floor mulch and evolves into speed gamelan, or a lost tribe's ritual performed with a drum machine. Truly mesmerising trance music.
- 7xx7 - VGA - [https://7xx7.bandcamp.com/album/vga](https://7xx7.bandcamp.com/album/vga): Two versions of the same short tune that sounds like a bit from a game. Could be Minecraft going by their icon. The second version could be a chiptune version but there's very little difference in them. An interesting little diversion.
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# Listening Diary 20250122
Posted on Wed 22 January 2025 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
- Schema - Schema - [https://schemaschema.bandcamp.com/album/schema](https://schemaschema.bandcamp.com/album/schema): I really should take a note of who posts these pointers. Turn of the century experimental fuzz that bridges the surprisingly narrow gap between Sonic Youth and Stereolab, with added experimental electronica. It feels like some friends getting together to make a record, but I'd happy to hear more. Listening to the Bandcamp Daily below I've just seen that the singer is Mary Hansen from Stereolab.
- Sad Man - Dark Ambient Collection - [https://sadmanband.bandcamp.com/album/dark-ambient-collection](https://sadmanband.bandcamp.com/album/dark-ambient-collection): Straight off, ambient this isn't, unless you live in a dying post-industrial dystopia, but don't we all. Samples and snippets are spindled, folded and mutilated and compiled into passages from which tunes or recognisable beats sometimes briefly emerge. It's sounds chaotic but it's cleverly manipulated and certainly intense. There are elements of Speedy J at his most extreme, DJ Beekeeper's epic shed shows and Aphex Twin when he's in one of those moods, which is pretty good company to be in.
- Various - A History of Cascadian Psychedelic Music in the ’90s - [https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/pacific-northwest-psychedelic-album-guide](https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/pacific-northwest-psychedelic-album-guide): A Bandcamp Daily from last weeke looking back on the less grungy parts of the north-west US music scene of only last week. I tapped into the Kranky/Constellation continnuum at the time, but this is a selection of similar and other stuff that was going on at the time in the top left corner of the US, and is more to add to the list.
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# Listening Diary 20250123
Posted on Thu 23 January 2025 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
A bit of a unfocussed kind of a day, and some Mirlo trail following.
- Andres Garcia VS Floating Mind - gva ufo - [https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2025/01/22/andres-garcia-vs-floating-mind-gva-ufo/](https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2025/01/22/andres-garcia-vs-floating-mind-gva-ufo/): Minimal techno single from the Monokrak netlabel ( [http://www.monokrak.net/](http://www.monokrak.net/)). Garcia's 'La Noria' has a 125 bpm chunky bassline backed by ghostly accordians, which makes me think it's about the Chilean ghost town of the name. Floating Mind's 'Trying to Do the Same, is a 106 bpm bit of moody ambience with a squelchy 303 and a haunted theme with some background paranormal activity.
- Rivulets - r i v u l e t s - [https://rivulets.bandcamp.com/album/r-i-v-u-l-e-t-s](https://rivulets.bandcamp.com/album/r-i-v-u-l-e-t-s): 2002 debut LP from Denver, Colorado based Nathan Amundson, sparseslowcore acoustic guitar based songs recorded with Low at their studio, which will be the thing that everyone picks up on, and they do add some of their sound to it, but it on first impressions there are elements of Nick Drake, early Shearwater, maybe Sun Kil Moon. He's still going, and has a subscription, which would be a nice variety to my usual electronic stuff.
- Jeff Mills - Exhibitionist 2 Mix 3 - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU-UsvYbIV0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU-UsvYbIV0): 11 minute solo TR-909 techno workout that would have everyone dancing in a club. A dextrous use of the controls, but I was rather concerned about his knees giving out myself.
- 12ax7 - Ukumehame - @12ax7@stoney.monster [https://12ax7.fm/ukumehame/](https://12ax7.fm/ukumehame/): Surf rock single from US twangy brothers. 'Ukemehame' is a slippy slidy thing like being three beers in in a tiki bar, and 'Turbines to Speed' takes on the Batman theme emboldened by those beers and ends up running around a harbour with a bomb, or something.
- The Robe - N as in Nina/In Panorama - [https://mirlo.space/therobe/release/n-as-in-nina-in-panorama](https://mirlo.space/therobe/release/n-as-in-nina-in-panorama): Even in these digital times, a good sleeve can draw me in. A tribute to Starlog magazine with someone who looks like Dave Grohl in mediaeval dress, or Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen in his normal attire, in front of a planet being predated by a black hole. The tunes are 80s-referencing electropop of the kind that wouldn't be out of place on Cherry Red or Blanco y Negro in 1986 and charming for that.
- Kydia - Holy Grail - @KydiaMusic@mastodon.social [https://mirlo.space/kydia/release/holy-grail](https://mirlo.space/kydia/release/holy-grail): 2023 single from the cohabitee of the fediverse's favourite one eyed cat, modern baroque with a catchy chorus.
- Odd Radio Circles - Lunar Sea - @oddradiocircles@mastodon.social [https://mirlo.space/radiocircles/release/lunar-sea](https://mirlo.space/radiocircles/release/lunar-sea): Gauzy fragment of soundtrack for a poetry reading, twangy reverbed guitars and distant pads, very calming.
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# Listening Diary 20250124
Posted on Fri 24 January 2025 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
Today I am blaming the wind.
- fields we found - resolve / relate 01 - @fieldswefound@mstdn.social [https://fieldswefound.bandcamp.com/album/resolve-relate-01](https://fieldswefound.bandcamp.com/album/resolve-relate-01): a restful and immersive 20+ minute drone piece with slow changes and drifting tones. Check out his subscription as well.
- fields we found - Paths - [https://fieldswefound.bandcamp.com/album/paths](https://fieldswefound.bandcamp.com/album/paths): slow, thoughtful wanderings through pastoral landscapes. Some beautiful packaing as well.
- Ian Hawgood - Savage Modern Structures - [https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/savage-modern-structures?from=footer-ar-a770426596](https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/savage-modern-structures?from=footer-ar-a770426596): More environmental ambience with the cover giving an idea of the sound, of buildings in decay, overcome by the landscape. It's rather like The Black Dog's brutalist dronescapes, with loops fading and building in a an organic haze.
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# Listening Diary 20250129
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- Ghostwriter - Tremulant - [https://ghostwriter3.bandcamp.com/album/tremulant](https://ghostwriter3.bandcamp.com/album/tremulant): Some might call it neofolk. A modern reimagining of turn of the 20th century sprituals from a loose group of hauntology associated artists. Acoustic, sparse and haunting.
- Rassclart! inpc - The Kali Mera Show 290125 - @inpc@go.mxtthxw.art [https://video.mxtthxw.art/w/8UA5hKFHAu9kMFwLDH6QJF](https://video.mxtthxw.art/w/8UA5hKFHAu9kMFwLDH6QJF): The breakfast show that knocks Today into a cocked hat, and tricks Nemone out of her dinner money every single day, today with a few tracks from the upcoming remaster of Stoned Immaculate by Dub Syndicate. Yes thank you.
- Dub Syndicate - Stoned Immaculate - [https://dubsyndicate.bandcamp.com/album/stoned-immaculate](https://dubsyndicate.bandcamp.com/album/stoned-immaculate): so I thought I'd better give it a listen. This LP was originally released in 1991, when the world had caught up with dub again as the soundtrack for 'everybody back to mine'. This is dub taken beyond its roots as versions of existing tracks to something that exists for itself, for meditation, contemplation and altered states.
- If Only the Trees - Drop The Air - @olsugarbread@mastodon.social [https://ifonlythetrees.bandcamp.com/album/drop-the-air](https://ifonlythetrees.bandcamp.com/album/drop-the-air): wide screen post-rock that does that post-rock thing. The singer sounds like a cross between Peter Murphy and Matt Berninger from the National and the music has elements of (perhaps inevitiably) Mogwai, but also iLiKETRAiNS. It presses a lot of my buttons.
- They Danced Like Programmed Angels - Stay This Way Forever @olsugarbread@mastodon.social [https://theydancedlikeprogrammedangels.bandcamp.com/track/stay-this-way-forever](https://theydancedlikeprogrammedangels.bandcamp.com/track/stay-this-way-forever): I think you can file this under mostly instrumental acoustic guitar lead black metal. Or post-metal? I dunno, but I'm listening to more now.
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# Listening Diary 20250204
Posted on Tue 04 February 2025 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
- Satanicpornocultshop - Arkhaiomelisidonophunikheratos - [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP1lC0FnuI0KaKWATw\_745JhAmpnffPAW](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP1lC0FnuI0KaKWATw_745JhAmpnffPAW) HT to @XenoDangerEvil@dpw.social. If someone says something is weird, I'm going to be there, and this doesn't disappoint. 2010 LP from a Japanese experimental sampler/turntable/kitchen sink ensemble start with gentle acoustic folk and then, well, go off on a mad ride through J-Pop, indie covers (Feed Me With You Kiss played reasonably straight), Missy Elliot, Paddy McAloon, cutups, shredding guitar and more pensive acoustics, ending at Serge Gainsbourg. Another one for the list I think.
- 30 Dawn Chorus - A Warning to the Curious - [https://30doorkey.bandcamp.com/](https://30doorkey.bandcamp.com/): Starts off in a somewhat uncertain direction, rather like a lot of hauntological electronica, but gradually, themes start to emerge and it reveals itself to be the soundtrack for a 60s British spy horror film scored by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and Edwin Astley, and if that isn't a genre someone missed something.
- CausaliDox - In Case I Don't See You - [https://causalidox.bandcamp.com/album/in-case-i-dont-see-you](https://causalidox.bandcamp.com/album/in-case-i-dont-see-you): Intricate percussive, filmic electronics from a cinematic world where the sky is the colour of a dead television. It has a sort of 90s industrial feel without sounding like it. Probably those blokes in welding goggles again, but standing around in an abandoned factory.
- Solventis - Alcyon - [https://solventis.bandcamp.com/album/alcyon](https://solventis.bandcamp.com/album/alcyon): Mostly French language neofolk framed with big guitars and bigger feelings. It drifts rather into 80s 4AD territory too, both the Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir (oh, all right, Les Mystere des Voix Bulgares) and early Dead Can Dance. Quite enchanting.
- Collins - Skins - [https://garycollins.bandcamp.com/album/skins](https://garycollins.bandcamp.com/album/skins): A mixture of warped circuits and half remembered songs of the fathers. There's something going on in someone's head, and it might not just be yours.
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# Listening Diary 20250205
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- Firnwald - Blue Arcana - [https://firnwald.bandcamp.com/album/blue-arcana](https://firnwald.bandcamp.com/album/blue-arcana): ambient, post-industrial downbeat/DnB-ish techno from Bavaria. An enveloping production with a big soundstage and interesting voice samples. My touchstone is late 90s Cabaret Voltaire again, which probably means I should listen to more from the 2000s.
- Mogwai - The Bad Fire - [https://mogwai.bandcamp.com/](https://mogwai.bandcamp.com/): To quote John Peel on The Fall, always different, always the same, but as always, it's a great same, like turning a piece of cut glass around in your hand to catch the light. Intense, pensive, LOUDquietLOUD as always. Does this one have a theme? Not sure yet. A new producer, John Congleton, who seems to know his post-rock, has brought a transparency to the sound that isn't always there. It's not as electronic as 'As The Love Continues', nor does it have the same intensity, which might have been due to being their Covid LP. It's Mogwai being Mogwai, 30 years in this year, making a Mogwai record, which is always a good thing.
- PERY - Your Kingdom is Doomed - [https://pery.bandcamp.com/album/your-kingdom-is-doomed](https://pery.bandcamp.com/album/your-kingdom-is-doomed): A set of DAW-less acidy booms, beeps and squiggles and samples. Dramatic, possibly SF themed, and showing what can be done with a minimal amount of kit.
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# Listening Diary 20250206
Posted on Thu 06 February 2025 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
A bit of relaxed tag chasing through @mirlo today
- Melondruie - Into the Depths - @melondruie@sunny.garden [https://mirlo.space/melondruie/release/into-the-depths](https://mirlo.space/melondruie/release/into-the-depths): Minimalist sequencings that sounds like icebergs calving in the dark. A soundtrack for exploring Camp Century in Greenland.
- Time Rival - Music for Recovery - [https://mirlo.space/timerival/release/music-for](https://mirlo.space/timerival/release/music-for): Slow, blurry ambience that ebbs and flows into liquid gamelan, slow industrial percussive interludes, tamed static crackle that reflects The Black Dog's brutalist
- Liota - liotia:normal (Raasclart! dub) - @inpc@go.mxtthxw.art [https://mirlo.space/liotia/release/n](https://mirlo.space/liotia/release/n): A single from Whitstable's finest purveyors of trip-hobp, dubbed up by the initimatible Matt Smyth. A lovely mix of soulful vocal, spaced out beats and reggae bass.
- s28 - We Sail With the Tide - @s28@musicians.social https://mirlo.space/s28/release/we-sail-with-the-tide: A short thematic EP of oceanic downbeat that seems to document setting out on a voyage. Peaceful but with an air of anticipation.
- The Shining Tongues - This Body of Mine Will Disintegrate - [https://mirlo.space/the-shining-tongues/release/this-body-of-mine-will-disintegrate](https://mirlo.space/the-shining-tongues/release/this-body-of-mine-will-disintegrate): 80s style post-punk rock that would fit in amongst the likes of Echo and the Bunnymen, The Sound and The Chameleons with some contemporary flourishes embellished with audio explorations. It wouldn't look out of place in my record collection, and it might even join it.
- Lorenzo's Music - If I was Alone - @lorenzosmusic@mastodon.social [https://mirlo.space/lorenzosmusic/release/if-i-was-a](https://mirlo.space/lorenzosmusic/release/if-i-was-a): Wonky lo-fi mamba (or one of those beats on a vintage drum machine) that shuffles and slides with a ba-ba-ba hook and a simple but catchy refrain.
- Oak Sun Gift - Crocus - [https://mirlo.space/oak-sun-gift/release/crocus](https://mirlo.space/oak-sun-gift/release/crocus): EP of shoegaze guitar ambience and dubbed out bass that immediately put me in mind of '69' by A.R. Kane, good company to be in.
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# Listening Diary
Posted on Mon 14 October 2024 in [Listening Diary](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/listening-diary.html)
Meljoann: Bye [https://mirlo.space/meljoann/release/bye-single](https://mirlo.space/meljoann/release/bye-single)
Magus Sound: United Kingdom of Dub [https://mirlo.space/magus-sound/release/united-kingdom-of-dub](https://mirlo.space/magus-sound/release/united-kingdom-of-dub)
Silent Broadcast: A Shard of the Moon [https://mirlo.space/silent-broadcast/release/a-shard-of-the-moon](https://mirlo.space/silent-broadcast/release/a-shard-of-the-moon)
NSKE: Machines [https://mirlo.space/nske/release/machines](https://mirlo.space/nske/release/machines)
nilehn: Abdicator [https://mirlo.space/nilehn/release/abdicator](https://mirlo.space/nilehn/release/abdicator)
RobOfWalthamstow: The Enchanted Loom [https://mirlo.space/robofwalthamstow/release/enchanted-loom-the](https://mirlo.space/robofwalthamstow/release/enchanted-loom-the)
Fast Ghost: Rewind [https://mirlo.space/fast-ghost/release/rewind](https://mirlo.space/fast-ghost/release/rewind)
Overbud: OB2 [https://mirlo.space/overbud/release/ob2](https://mirlo.space/overbud/release/ob2)
Midnight Reveries: Monolith [https://mirlo.space/midnight-reveries/release/monolith](https://mirlo.space/midnight-reveries/release/monolith)
Lichen: Walking Breaks The Silence [https://mirlo.space/lichen/release/walking-breaks-the-silence](https://mirlo.space/lichen/release/walking-breaks-the-silence)
Kydia: When You See The Moon [https://mirlo.space/kydia/release/when-you-see-the-moon](https://mirlo.space/kydia/release/when-you-see-the-moon)
Default Media Transmitter: Receiver [https://mirlo.space/default-media-transmitter/release/receiver](https://mirlo.space/default-media-transmitter/release/receiver)
Time Rival: Catastrophist [https://mirlo.space/timerival/release/catastrophist](https://mirlo.space/timerival/release/catastrophist)
Angstalt: staubfänger [https://jam.coop/artists/angstalt/albums/staubfanger](https://jam.coop/artists/angstalt/albums/staubfanger)
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Title: Listening Diary 20250206
Date: 2025-02-06T10:46:24.262Z
Category: Listening Diary
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A bit of relaxed tag chasing through @mirlo today
- Melondruie - Into the Depths - @melondruie@sunny.garden <https://mirlo.space/melondruie/release/into-the-depths>: Minimalist sequencings that sounds like icebergs calving in the dark. A soundtrack for exploring Camp Century in Greenland.
- Time Rival - Music for Recovery - <https://mirlo.space/timerival/release/music-for>: Slow, blurry ambience that ebbs and flows into liquid gamelan, slow industrial percussive interludes, tamed static crackle that reflects The Black Dog's brutalist
- Liota - liotia:normal (Raasclart! dub) - @inpc@go.mxtthxw.art <https://mirlo.space/liotia/release/n>: A single from Whitstable's finest purveyors of trip-hobp, dubbed up by the initimatible Matt Smyth. A lovely mix of soulful vocal, spaced out beats and reggae bass.
- s28 - We Sail With the Tide - @s28@musicians.social https://mirlo.space/s28/release/we-sail-with-the-tide: A short thematic EP of oceanic downbeat that seems to document setting out on a voyage. Peaceful but with an air of anticipation.
- The Shining Tongues - This Body of Mine Will Disintegrate - <https://mirlo.space/the-shining-tongues/release/this-body-of-mine-will-disintegrate>: 80s style post-punk rock that would fit in amongst the likes of Echo and the Bunnymen, The Sound and The Chameleons with some contemporary flourishes embellished with audio explorations. It wouldn't look out of place in my record collection, and it might even join it.
- Lorenzo's Music - If I was Alone - @lorenzosmusic@mastodon.social <https://mirlo.space/lorenzosmusic/release/if-i-was-a>: Wonky lo-fi mamba (or one of those beats on a vintage drum machine) that shuffles and slides with a ba-ba-ba hook and a simple but catchy refrain.
- Oak Sun Gift - Crocus - <https://mirlo.space/oak-sun-gift/release/crocus>: EP of shoegaze guitar ambience and dubbed out bass that immediately put me in mind of '69' by A.R. Kane, good company to be in.

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Date: 2025-02-07T09:52:39.684Z
Category: Listening Diary
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- Pye Corner Audio - Where Things Are Hollow: No Tomorrow - <https://pyecorneraudio.bandcamp.com/album/where-things-are-hollow-no-tomorrow>: A (very) extended version of Pye Corner Audio's 2017 EP, from four tracks to four LPs. There's new material from the time and a bunch of remixes, and it all manages to bring out a funkiness that isn't always apparent in the Head Technician's work. The remixes extend his minimal into proper bangers.
- Various DiN Artists: - iNDEX 9 - <https://dinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/index09-din90>: Latest compilation of tracks from recent releases on the DiN label, mixed as a continuous mix, and as always it's a luscious collection of modular ambience. I'd happily have their whole collection if it wasn't now north of half a grand.
- FACS - Wish Defense - <https://wearefacs.bandcamp.com/album/wish-defense>: An update of the 90s Chapel Hill sound, angular, minimal and skronky, with a low key vocal that sometimes verges on atonal, but that also spins out into light raucousness. It will perhaps get overshadowed by being The Last Record Steve Albini Recorded, but it deserves to be heard for more than that.

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# On defederation
Posted on Mon 07 August 2023 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
The Apple TV series Mythic Quest had an episode in which the game found it had an extreme right wing problem. Their solution was to corral the right wingers in a server where they could shout at each other and fight as much as they wanted without bothering other players.
The Fediverse, running, as it does, largely on free software, came about in part due to Twitter and other platforms' unwillingness or inability to deal with an extreme right wing problem. However, as it's free and open source software, the bad actors were also free to create their own instances and interact. The response was filtering, blocking and defederation.
If you run a Mastodon, or other Fediverse social media instance, even if it's for yourself, it's one of the most powerful tools you have. You can filter hashtags, users and whole instances both personally and globally.
Lists have developed over the years along with the tools to apply them, but they have often been personal efforts. The hashtag #fediblock can also be used, but it's something of a blunt instrument and is too easily hijacked for personal opinions and even feuds.
The current attempt to deal with this in an effective way is the [Oliphant.social blocklist files](https://codeberg.org/oliphant/blocklists), created through a consensus of [ten of the most active fediverse instances](https://writer.oliphant.social/oliphant/trusted-source-membership) This produces a collection of blocklists that can be applied as an administrator sees fit. Follow the instructions there to download, maintain and apply them. At the moment I apply the Tier 0 blocklist.
In addition, Ro Iskinda's [The Bad Space](https://thebad.space) collects the most commonly reported bad actors and new ones that appear, and can be used with an API to check if you encounter a doubtful user or instance.
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# On microblogging
Posted on Thu 31 August 2023 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
On his blog, [Terence Eden](https://mastodon.social/@edent) wrote about the [Time I Invented Twitter](https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/08/that-time-i-accidentally-invented-twitter/) and it's an interesting proposition which would have just been slightly ahead of its time in 2003. Microblogging probably needed Internet enabled phones to take off, like social networking in general.
Douglas Adams was a very intelligent man who liked his gadgets - Macintoshes, synths and left-handed Casio guitars appeared in the first Dirk Gently novel, [Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Gently%27s_Holistic_Detective_Agency), and, with The Book in [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy) he, at the very least, created the idea of a portable device that knew everything.
When the commercial Internet started, Adams got involved in games, co-founding [The Digital Village](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H2g2#History), developers of the game [Starship Titanic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Titanic), who then started [h2g2](https://www.h2g2.com/), a collaborative dictionary project described as the Earth edition of the Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy.
In his article [My Vision for H2G2](https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A550955), written in 2000, he wrote this:
> ...when you write in something as simple as 'The coffee here is lousy!' the Guide will know exactly what to do with that information and where to put it. And if you see, a few seconds later, a note which says 'Yes, but the cheesecake is good' it might be worth looking round the other tables to see who you've just made contact with.
That resonated with me, and I filed it away. At the time I had a kind of mobile Internet setup, with a [Palm V](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_V) and a [Nokia 8210](https://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_8210-19.php) that communicated by infrared, that I could actually browse the web on, and with a bit of coaxing even use telnet on. Given this experience with the mobile web, I got tipped off about a trial project that involved the [Handspring Visor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handspring,_Inc.), a PalmOS device that improved on Palm's hardware by adding an expansion slot, that among other things, had a GSM phone module and a TCP/IP stack (my memory says it was actually [Trumpet Winsock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpet_Winsock) ported to PalmOS, but my memory sometimes makes things up). For £99 and couple of feedback sessions, I had a connected handheld device.
At the feedback session, they walked me and other trial users through what they had in mind, and from what I can remember, it was fairly grey stuff. Online banking seemed to feature quite a lot, and it turned out that the service was rather limited by the data provider and a relatively high cost for data at the time. It might have even been limited in availability from 8am to 8pm or something like that. Given the lack of ideas coming from the company, I quoted DNA's idea above, which seemed to me to be a logical progression, and it seemed that the idea had never occurred to the company.
The project was abandoned. I heard later that the running cost was unpopular - data pricing was on top of airtime, which wasn't cheap back then, but also that the applications they were aiming at just didn't catch the imagination. I held onto the Visor for a while but it more or less died when PalmOS died, and by the first generation of genuinely smart handheld devices were starting to appear.
To embrace that in 2003 was to look forward from blogging, which, let's not forget, was huge then, to something much more personal, but also that would as Adams imagined, hopefully add to the sum total of global knowledge.
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# One to one NAT on OVH vRack with OPNSense
Posted on Sat 28 January 2023 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
I have a virtual OPNSense router as the gateway to a production network based on Proxmox servers (more about this another day). All VMs and containers get an unrouted IP address in the 10.x.x.x range and I have a couple of IP ranges for public access, generally but not always behind Haproxy. This doesn\\t seem to be documented properly elsewhere.
\## A quick summary:
1\. Assign IP range(s) as Virtual IPs
2\. Create a One to One NAT between an external IP from a virtual IP range and an internal address
3\. Create a WAN rule for the ports you want open to the internal address.
\### 1\. Assign IP ranges as Virtual IPs
Our servers are with OVH and connected by their vRack service, which is remarkably flexible - connected servers can use an unrouted IP network, which is shared between them automatically, and for routed IP addresses, you rent a range (minimum is a /30, for reasons I\\ll explain shortly) and allocate it to the vRack, and in the simplest usage they are allocated to a physical interface on a server and routed to the ranges\ gateway, which is, somewhat counter-intuitively, the second to last address in the range, which is why the smallest range possible is a /30:
\| Range \| CIDR \| Gateway \| Usable addresses \|
\|-------\|------\|---------\|------------------\|
\| 192.168.10.20 \| /30 \| 192.168.1.22 \| 1 \|
\| 192.168.10.16 \| /29 \| 192.168.1.22 \| 5 \|
\| 192.168.10.16 \| /28 \| 192.168.1.29 \| 12 \|
For the purposes of this article, I\\ll add a /29 as I have a routed one that\\s about to be reallocated from my account.
a) Go to Interfaces > Virtual IPs > Settings
b) Press \\+\
c) For the mode in this context, you will use Proxy ARP as IP Alias is for a single IP - the \\Single IP\ option is disabled.
d) Select WAN for the interface
e) Select \\Network\ for Type
f) Enter the network range in the Address field without the CIDR range and select that from the dropdown. You don\\t define a gateway at this point, which also seems a bit counterintuitive but that comes at allocation time.
g) Set a description and save.
h) Apply changes on the main page.
\### 2\. Enable Reflection in the Firewall settings
UPDATE 19/12/2022: I\\ve been trying to work out why I couldn\\t search other ActivityPub services from my Mastodon instance and found that on my local network at least, I couldn\\t find the address of my blog, so this is the fix for being able to access services internally.
a) Go to Firewall > Settings > Advanced
b) In the Network Address Translation section, check the Reflection options that you use. I went with all three just to be sure.
c) Save.
\### 2\. Add a One to One NAT
a) Go to Firewall > NAT > One-to-One
b) Press \\+\
c) For \\Interface\ select \\WAN\
d) For Type selected \\BINAT\ so outbound traffic is rewritten as well
e) For \\External network\ select an IP from your allocation and give it the CIDR range /32
f) For \\Source\ select \\Single host or Network\ and enter the IP address of the destination server/VM/container, again with a CIDR range of /32. This is also somewhat non-intuitive at first as the pfSense instructions say the CIDR range should be the same for both addresses and in this case we have a /29 for external traffic and a /22 for internal traffic.
g) Set \\Destination\ to \\any\
h) Add a description
i) Set NAT reflection to \\Use system default\ or as required. The default is set in Firewall:Settings:Advanced and is Disabled.
j) Save
k) Apply changes on the main page
\### 3\. Create firewall rules
a) Go to Firewall > Rules > WAN
b) Press \\+\
c) Action is \\Pass\
d) Interface is WAN
e) Direction is in
f) TCP/IP version is generally TCP
g) Source is \\any\
h) Destination port range will usually a single port for a protocol such as HTTPS
i) Destination is \\Single host or Network\ and the value is the IP address of the backend device with the correct CIDR range for your network, so in this case it\\s 10.10.x.x/22
j) Optionally set a description, but it\\s advisable as it\\s useful for documentation.
k) Save
l) Apply changes on the main page.
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# Proxy Mailcow behind Nginx Proxy Manager the easy way
Posted on Sat 14 September 2024 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
A quick one as no-one seems to have written it down properly.
Mailcow ( [https://mailcow.email](https://mailcow.email)) is a dockerized mail system. By default it will run on port 80 and port 443 of an IP address, so it occupies the web addresses of, say, a cheap VM.
Nginx Proxy Manager ( [https://www.nginxproxymanager.com](https://www.nginxproxymanager.com)) is a dockerized way of managing an nginx proxy.
The theoretical right way of connecting the two is by bridging or sharing the docker networks, but a more straightforward way is connecitng the exposed ports on the VM IP address. Not localhost or 0.0.0.0 because they're in the docker network, the IP address of the VM. Annoying simple but not necessarilly obvious.
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# The Scape of Net
Posted on Thu 19 October 2023 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
A touch of #anecdotage: I worked at Easynet in the early days of the UK commercial Internet, and we packaged #Netscape browser in our welcome pack as it was initially free for non-commercial purposes and we stated we were providing it as an option for browsing the web rather than supported software.
The pricing model changed in February 1995 and the company had a visit from a sales person at Netscape's UK office, who presented them with a bill for the retail price of the number of copies of the browser they had distributed.
A deal was negotiated based on that (it might have been zero, I never found out the details) and the pricing policy changed within a year, quite possibly because they'd had the same response in many ISPs.
Netscape's position as most popular web browser lasted as long as it took for Microsoft to license the same code base (Mosaic, licensed from Spyglass, who had in turn licensed the code from the University of Illinois) and improve on it and include it with Windows. Their other corporate products, Web Server, Identity Server, etc which were pretty good at the end of the 90s, also got passed around various companies and survive as open source versions that are arguably more successful than their commercial antecedents.
That could have been Mark Andreesen's legacy, but it was all born out of a want to get rich, and as he's got older, he's gone the same way as so many of the early tech bros, and like many of them, not actually doing anything useful as a means.
[This piece puts it in a much better way.](https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/why-cant-our-tech-billionaires-learn)
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# What does this button do?
Posted on Sun 06 August 2023 in [Technical](https://simongreenwood.me.uk/category/technical.html)
I got my first Android phone, a [Moto Droid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Droid), in 2010. It's wasn't my first smartphone as that had been a quest with varying degrees of success for years (I still miss the Nokia E series keyboard phones a bit).
Among the things installed on it was Facebook. Even then I was suitably suspicious so wanted to remove it, except I couldn't without rooting as it was a system app, and this was the awful wrapper-around-the-website version. However, being a system app, it still had full access to your phone. Which was nice.
However, by 2010 it had been being installed for a few years, if not as native app, as phone provider bloatware, and I think this was a major contributor to Facebook's takeup. You took your phone out of its box, went through the welcome screens and there it was. You could sign up and you could speak your brains to your heart's content.
I think this was as important a change in Internet culture as Microsoft putting an icon on the Windows 95 desktop labelled 'The Internet'. No, wait, come back.
Large scale social networks were not a new thing when Facebook went global. Friends Reunited created networks based on school connections in the late 90s. Six Degrees, Livejournal, Friendster, Myspace, Orkut all came and went to varying degrees. Google tried and couldn't get it to work, even when betting the farm on it. In that context, Facebook survived and persisted by learning continually, starting with putting the icon on your desktop/phone screen.
It annoys me that I have to keep a Facebook presence, for a few friends and that the parents of my daughter's school use it for messaging, but it and WhatsApp are the lowest common denominators for messaging, but I've handed that off to a bridge - I'm testing Beeper, but could fall back to Matrix bridges (same thing, self hosted) if it doesn't work out.
Of course, this is little compared to having a whole device under your control, especially when [Google has now seemingly decided that it doesn't believe in the open Internet any more](https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/02/googles-plan-to-drm-the-web-goes-against-everything-google-once-stood-for/).
I'm not going to say 'this is what you should do' on this blog at any time, but I am going to say 'this is what I'm going to do'. I've been online for nearly 30 years, nothing compared to some people, and one of the compelling things about the Internet for me is interoperability. Walled gardens always become overgrown, and when someone decides to effectively turn one inside out, then it's time to do some weeding (yes, I'm prone to that sort of hyperbole, sorry).
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