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Crazy couple weeks of desperation repairs and subsistence farming before winter fully sets in but getting back to adding and doing more things to the video channel. Get amongst it.
https://makertube.net/a/controlfreak/video-channels
@controlfreak
Ahoy team! Do you enjoy when things are on a #peertube or maybe been thinking to have a hoon around again for some visual and music stuff? I know discovery is perpetually hard and it stinks like a fertilizer truck for artists trying to balance a safe stable home, agency, and sharing too but here we are.
Do you want more live clips, music videos, audio only videos for embedding and sharing, live stream hangouts in the studio doing studio things or drum practice or old tour road stories or or or???
Maybe share something with the neighbours if your amp goes to 11.
#music #fediMusic #musicVideos #liveMusic #streaming #industrial #ebm #power noise #techno #futurepop #synthpop #dystopian #horror -
don't put down your guns yet...
Full manipulate 25 in '26 show with some bonus REPLICATE: https://makertube.net/w/nvufE4M56SuFobs8WfNR1E @controlfreak
Assimilate with the REPLICATE 1.0 covers album:
https://music.control.org/replicate1/
#fediMusic #synthpop #electronic #dance #industrial #covers #music #np #nowPlaying #oontz #streaming #live #concert -
friends, neighbours, fedizens, could you again help me with some reach?
It's hard for #indie #artists to try and have a semi ethical online presence. Even harder when the artist comes from the darker nooks and crannies of the sonic palette, like a boss fight and one of your Famicom buttons is sticking.
Have I reached the end of the verse? Are there any endemic creatures of the night and beauty in the darkness friends out there or, might you pleasantly surprise yourself and hopefully your neighbours with some dark disco, #ebm, #industrial, #goth house, #synthpop, #futurepop, #dance, cathartic #powernoise, #horror, #dystopian, dark and noisy cinematic #soundtracks? We got it all on UHF.
It's been a rough and expensive week at the oontz farm and super quiet here in the digital neighbourhood.
Could you:
- Chuck me a follow here and/or subscribe to my occasional and zero corporate tracking mail list as the feed is not always reliable to communicate events and releases?
- Check out my growing #peertube channel including footage from my NHAM/tibTV concert. @controlfreak https://makertube.net/c/controlfreak_channel/videos
- Have you checked out REPLICATE 1.0, my recent dark electronic renditions #covers album of alt and pop bangers and clangers from the 80s to present? #newRelease #nowPlaying #fediMusic https://music.control.org/replicate1/
- In addition to serenading your neighbours, I would love to be the soundtrack to your moving pictures, animation, video game, physical installation space, haunted house, or any and all cool or punching upward projects you might have or could link me up with? I am seeking donate what you can if you can #commissions for remix and sound assets and am also super happy to offer or tweak existing things from the catalogue for your brief. I can brighten up the tone and sound if that suits.
- Or #donations always welcome if you don't need any sound but would like to just support/sponsor more of all of the above happening, I do enjoy having heat and meds, keep my inclusive and safer online live shows growing as I am unable to physically tour or work for others' tours, and help a subsistence farmer get more aggressively positive sonic assault out there free for the people. https://control.org/#solidarity
- boosts on things from my feed are swell but EVEN BETTER, if you have a minute, maybe tag me up and make a post in your own words about something you enjoyed or was pleasantly surprised by etc from my shows, releases, remixes? I have no idea what to say.
Thanks for your help.
Let's stomp in solidarity.
Free or donate what you can music catalogue #faircamp:
https://music.control.org
independent mail list:
https://mail-list.control.org/subscription/form
I like cleaning drains more than doing promo waffle but I did an interview about the REPLICATE 1.0 release and more:
https://nham.co.uk/2026/02/interview-with-controlfreak/
#music #art #fedimusic #fediart -
friends, neighbours, fedizens, could you again help me with some reach?
It's hard for #indie #artists to try and have a semi ethical online presence. Even harder when the artist comes from the darker nooks and crannies of the sonic palette, like a boss fight and one of your Famicom buttons is sticking.
Have I reached the end of the verse? Are there any endemic creatures of the night and beauty in the darkness friends out there or, might you pleasantly surprise yourself and hopefully your neighbours with some dark disco, #ebm, #industrial, #goth house, #synthpop, #futurepop, #dance, cathartic #powernoise, #horror, #dystopian, dark and noisy cinematic #soundtracks? We got it all on UHF.
It's been a rough and expensive week at the oontz farm and super quiet here in the digital neighbourhood.
Could you:
- Chuck me a follow here and/or subscribe to my occasional and zero corporate tracking mail list as the feed is not always reliable to communicate events and releases?
- Check out my growing #peertube channel including footage from my NHAM/tibTV concert. @controlfreak https://makertube.net/c/controlfreak_channel/videos
- Have you checked out REPLICATE 1.0, my recent dark electronic renditions #covers album of alt and pop bangers and clangers from the 80s to present? #newRelease #nowPlaying #fediMusic https://music.control.org/replicate1/
- In addition to serenading your neighbours, I would love to be the soundtrack to your moving pictures, animation, video game, physical installation space, haunted house, or any and all cool or punching upward projects you might have or could link me up with? I am seeking donate what you can if you can #commissions for remix and sound assets and am also super happy to offer or tweak existing things from the catalogue for your brief. I can brighten up the tone and sound if that suits.
- Or #donations always welcome if you don't need any sound but would like to just support/sponsor more of all of the above happening, I do enjoy having heat and meds, keep my inclusive and safer online live shows growing as I am unable to physically tour or work for others' tours, and help a subsistence farmer get more aggressively positive sonic assault out there free for the people. https://control.org/#solidarity
- boosts on things from my feed are swell but EVEN BETTER, if you have a minute, maybe tag me up and make a post in your own words about something you enjoyed or was pleasantly surprised by etc from my shows, releases, remixes? I have no idea what to say.
Thanks for your help.
Let's stomp in solidarity.
Free or donate what you can music catalogue #faircamp:
https://music.control.org
independent mail list:
https://mail-list.control.org/subscription/form
I like cleaning drains more than doing promo waffle but I did an interview about the REPLICATE 1.0 release and more:
https://nham.co.uk/2026/02/interview-with-controlfreak/
#music #art #fedimusic #fediart -
friends, neighbours, fedizens, could you again help me with some reach?
It's hard for #indie #artists to try and have a semi ethical online presence. Even harder when the artist comes from the darker nooks and crannies of the sonic palette, like a boss fight and one of your Famicom buttons is sticking.
Have I reached the end of the verse? Are there any endemic creatures of the night and beauty in the darkness friends out there or, might you pleasantly surprise yourself and hopefully your neighbours with some dark disco, #ebm, #industrial, #goth house, #synthpop, #futurepop, #dance, cathartic #powernoise, #horror, #dystopian, dark and noisy cinematic #soundtracks? We got it all on UHF.
It's been a rough and expensive week at the oontz farm and super quiet here in the digital neighbourhood.
Could you:
- Chuck me a follow here and/or subscribe to my occasional and zero corporate tracking mail list as the feed is not always reliable to communicate events and releases?
- Check out my growing #peertube channel including footage from my NHAM/tibTV concert. @controlfreak https://makertube.net/c/controlfreak_channel/videos
- Have you checked out REPLICATE 1.0, my recent dark electronic renditions #covers album of alt and pop bangers and clangers from the 80s to present? #newRelease #nowPlaying #fediMusic https://music.control.org/replicate1/
- In addition to serenading your neighbours, I would love to be the soundtrack to your moving pictures, animation, video game, physical installation space, haunted house, or any and all cool or punching upward projects you might have or could link me up with? I am seeking donate what you can if you can #commissions for remix and sound assets and am also super happy to offer or tweak existing things from the catalogue for your brief. I can brighten up the tone and sound if that suits.
- Or #donations always welcome if you don't need any sound but would like to just support/sponsor more of all of the above happening, I do enjoy having heat and meds, keep my inclusive and safer online live shows growing as I am unable to physically tour or work for others' tours, and help a subsistence farmer get more aggressively positive sonic assault out there free for the people. https://control.org/#solidarity
- boosts on things from my feed are swell but EVEN BETTER, if you have a minute, maybe tag me up and make a post in your own words about something you enjoyed or was pleasantly surprised by etc from my shows, releases, remixes? I have no idea what to say.
Thanks for your help.
Let's stomp in solidarity.
Free or donate what you can music catalogue #faircamp:
https://music.control.org
independent mail list:
https://mail-list.control.org/subscription/form
I like cleaning drains more than doing promo waffle but I did an interview about the REPLICATE 1.0 release and more:
https://nham.co.uk/2026/02/interview-with-controlfreak/
#music #art #fedimusic #fediart -
friends, neighbours, fedizens, could you again help me with some reach?
It's hard for #indie #artists to try and have a semi ethical online presence. Even harder when the artist comes from the darker nooks and crannies of the sonic palette, like a boss fight and one of your Famicom buttons is sticking.
Have I reached the end of the verse? Are there any endemic creatures of the night and beauty in the darkness friends out there or, might you pleasantly surprise yourself and hopefully your neighbours with some dark disco, #ebm, #industrial, #goth house, #synthpop, #futurepop, #dance, cathartic #powernoise, #horror, #dystopian, dark and noisy cinematic #soundtracks? We got it all on UHF.
It's been a rough and expensive week at the oontz farm and super quiet here in the digital neighbourhood.
Could you:
- Chuck me a follow here and/or subscribe to my occasional and zero corporate tracking mail list as the feed is not always reliable to communicate events and releases?
- Check out my growing #peertube channel including footage from my NHAM/tibTV concert. @controlfreak https://makertube.net/c/controlfreak_channel/videos
- Have you checked out REPLICATE 1.0, my recent dark electronic renditions #covers album of alt and pop bangers and clangers from the 80s to present? #newRelease #nowPlaying #fediMusic https://music.control.org/replicate1/
- In addition to serenading your neighbours, I would love to be the soundtrack to your moving pictures, animation, video game, physical installation space, haunted house, or any and all cool or punching upward projects you might have or could link me up with? I am seeking donate what you can if you can #commissions for remix and sound assets and am also super happy to offer or tweak existing things from the catalogue for your brief. I can brighten up the tone and sound if that suits.
- Or #donations always welcome if you don't need any sound but would like to just support/sponsor more of all of the above happening, I do enjoy having heat and meds, keep my inclusive and safer online live shows growing as I am unable to physically tour or work for others' tours, and help a subsistence farmer get more aggressively positive sonic assault out there free for the people. https://control.org/#solidarity
- boosts on things from my feed are swell but EVEN BETTER, if you have a minute, maybe tag me up and make a post in your own words about something you enjoyed or was pleasantly surprised by etc from my shows, releases, remixes? I have no idea what to say.
Thanks for your help.
Let's stomp in solidarity.
Free or donate what you can music catalogue #faircamp:
https://music.control.org
independent mail list:
https://mail-list.control.org/subscription/form
I like cleaning drains more than doing promo waffle but I did an interview about the REPLICATE 1.0 release and more:
https://nham.co.uk/2026/02/interview-with-controlfreak/
#music #art #fedimusic #fediart -
friends, neighbours, fedizens, could you again help me with some reach?
It's hard for #indie #artists to try and have a semi ethical online presence. Even harder when the artist comes from the darker nooks and crannies of the sonic palette, like a boss fight and one of your Famicom buttons is sticking.
Have I reached the end of the verse? Are there any endemic creatures of the night and beauty in the darkness friends out there or, might you pleasantly surprise yourself and hopefully your neighbours with some dark disco, #ebm, #industrial, #goth house, #synthpop, #futurepop, #dance, cathartic #powernoise, #horror, #dystopian, dark and noisy cinematic #soundtracks? We got it all on UHF.
It's been a rough and expensive week at the oontz farm and super quiet here in the digital neighbourhood.
Could you:
- Chuck me a follow here and/or subscribe to my occasional and zero corporate tracking mail list as the feed is not always reliable to communicate events and releases?
- Check out my growing #peertube channel including footage from my NHAM/tibTV concert. @controlfreak https://makertube.net/c/controlfreak_channel/videos
- Have you checked out REPLICATE 1.0, my recent dark electronic renditions #covers album of alt and pop bangers and clangers from the 80s to present? #newRelease #nowPlaying #fediMusic https://music.control.org/replicate1/
- In addition to serenading your neighbours, I would love to be the soundtrack to your moving pictures, animation, video game, physical installation space, haunted house, or any and all cool or punching upward projects you might have or could link me up with? I am seeking donate what you can if you can #commissions for remix and sound assets and am also super happy to offer or tweak existing things from the catalogue for your brief. I can brighten up the tone and sound if that suits.
- Or #donations always welcome if you don't need any sound but would like to just support/sponsor more of all of the above happening, I do enjoy having heat and meds, keep my inclusive and safer online live shows growing as I am unable to physically tour or work for others' tours, and help a subsistence farmer get more aggressively positive sonic assault out there free for the people. https://control.org/#solidarity
- boosts on things from my feed are swell but EVEN BETTER, if you have a minute, maybe tag me up and make a post in your own words about something you enjoyed or was pleasantly surprised by etc from my shows, releases, remixes? I have no idea what to say.
Thanks for your help.
Let's stomp in solidarity.
Free or donate what you can music catalogue #faircamp:
https://music.control.org
independent mail list:
https://mail-list.control.org/subscription/form
I like cleaning drains more than doing promo waffle but I did an interview about the REPLICATE 1.0 release and more:
https://nham.co.uk/2026/02/interview-with-controlfreak/
#music #art #fedimusic #fediart -
100%, when people complain about this #NZPol government failing to fulfil their election promises, I am always quick to point out that they are in fact fulfilling their promises and obligations to the foreign interest groups such as #AtlasNetwork and #Project25 which funded their election. The gullibility of the average NZ voter is astounding.
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100%, when people complain about this #NZPol government failing to fulfil their election promises, I am always quick to point out that they are in fact fulfilling their promises and obligations to the foreign interest groups such as #AtlasNetwork and #Project25 which funded their election. The gullibility of the average NZ voter is astounding.
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100%, when people complain about this #NZPol government failing to fulfil their election promises, I am always quick to point out that they are in fact fulfilling their promises and obligations to the foreign interest groups such as #AtlasNetwork and #Project25 which funded their election. The gullibility of the average NZ voter is astounding.
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100%, when people complain about this #NZPol government failing to fulfil their election promises, I am always quick to point out that they are in fact fulfilling their promises and obligations to the foreign interest groups such as #AtlasNetwork and #Project25 which funded their election. The gullibility of the average NZ voter is astounding.
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100%, when people complain about this #NZPol government failing to fulfil their election promises, I am always quick to point out that they are in fact fulfilling their promises and obligations to the foreign interest groups such as #AtlasNetwork and #Project25 which funded their election. The gullibility of the average NZ voter is astounding.
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friends, neighbours, fedizens, could you help me with some reach?
It's hard for #indie #artists to try and have a semi ethical online presence. Even harder when the artist comes from the darker nooks and crannies of he sonic palette, like a boss fight and one of your Famicom buttons is sticking. Last year I arted hard and I am trying to art even harder this year with your help.
Have I reached the end of the verse? Are there any endemic creatures of the night and beauty in the darkness friends out there or, might you pleasantly surprise yourself and hopefully your neighbours with some dark disco, #ebm, #industrial, #goth house, #synthpop, #futurepop, cathartic #powernoise, #horror, #dystopian, dark and noisy cinematic #soundtracks? We got it all on UHF.
Could you:
- Chuck me a follow and/or subscribe to my occasional and zero corporate tracking mail list as the feed is not always reliable to communicate events and releases?
- Mark your calendar to attend and maybe help hype and promote this weeks free #live online #concert where I am kicking off the new @nham presents series on TIBtv. 19th march 2100 UTC at @tibtvnowplayingbot . It's kind of a big deal in our small pond. The friends and colleagues hosting and the regular attendees are rad and you will love the #community vibes in chat. #joinIn and ride the #fediwave. You might even like the #oontz too!
- Have you checked out REPLICATE 1.0, my recent dark electronic renditions #covers album of alt and pop bangers and clangers from the 80s to present? Going to play some that I hadn't in last years' shows, plus sneak debut something from 2.0 at the live show this week. #newRelease #nowPlaying #fediMusic
- In addition to serenading your neighbours, I would love to be the soundtrack to your moving pictures, animation, video game assets, loops and beats, physical installation space, remix, haunted house, or any and all cool or punching upward projects you might have or could link me up with? I am seeking donate what you can if you can #commissions and am also super happy to offer or tweak existing things from the catalogue for your brief. I can brighten up the tone and sound if that suits.
- Or #donations always welcome if you don't need any sound but would like to just support/sponsor more of all of the above happening, I do enjoy having heat and meds, keep my inclusive and safer online live shows growing as I am unable to physically tour or work for others' tours, and help a subsistence farmer get more aggressively positive sonic assault out there free for the people.
- #boostswelcome these things OR EVEN BETTER, if you have a minute, maybe tag me up and make a post in your own words about something you enjoyed or was pleasantly surprised by etc from my previous shows, releases, remixes?
All the above things are in bio and pinned posts.
Thanks for your help.
Let's stomp in solidarity.
Free or donate what you can music catalogue #faircamp:
https://music.control.org
independent mail list:
https://mail-list.control.org/subscription/form
concert 19th March:
https://nham.co.uk/2026/02/nham-in-concert-presents-control-org-manipulate-25-in-26/
I'm terribad at promo but I did an interview and REPLICATE 1.0 release and more:
https://nham.co.uk/2026/02/interview-with-controlfreak/
web 1.0 and dono links:
https://control.org/#solidarity -
Bad news: kick drum head is on the way out. worried it won't make it through the next few weeks of practice much less show. Sadly it is beyond gaffer tape or that armour tape.
Good news: Had some help deep cleaning the micro blackbox theatre space and it feels better and should be less triggering to some of my ancillary hate buffet of ailments.
Great news: I am wildly "ahead" of schedule building the new live show as it was so much fun remixing, reworking, arranging and adding to 25-28 year old stems! All the mixes are sounding proper rowdy. Ahoy to your neighbours!
Shit news: no donations so far this month. no Fedi leads for any donate what you can sound commissions or even proposals for later in the year. I didn't want to post and boost all month about coin or at all really, I hate it, but here we are. Last year was the first time in years I was able to even try to drum again and I rather don't want to sell my kit. This post got heaps of eyes and boosts but no action:
https://social.control.org/@controlfreak/statuses/01KFY1WPQH1NGTD9PW0R3RDCFR
Can you help with an advanced but not required "ticket" for the 19th March show?
My campaign for the year is only to help offset what I need to offer everything I do for free, servers, a few parts as needed to keep the shows rolling which I think they are a pretty well received and worthy hangouts, secure some help with visual art and post production on a few projects, and help me with heat in the studio supplemental food and meds when winter rolls in as an unwaged subsistence farmer. The stress removed allows more space to art hard, and some coin in pocket helps me be able to do more free collabs and remixes and backstage tech and advocacy.
Again, there's much more pressing issues out there for your support but if you receive or would like to help amplify the beauty in the darkness energy from the oontz and related activities, I would love to hear ideas for projects and would receive any support with massive appreciation.
https://ko-fi.com/ctrlfrk
https://control.org/#solidarity
Or it's a great time to donate anything you can if you can and take what you like from my catalogue on my faircamp. Bound to be something in there approaching tolerable? Even if no commissions or donations eventuate, everything I manage to release will always be free or donate what you can in solidarity until we get costed out of even hosting our audio downloads.
https://music.control.org
#getFediHired #commissionsOpen #commissions #solidarity #boostsWelcome #fediMusic #fediArt #gameDesign #faircamp #music #samples #ccmusic
#music #fedimusic #electronic #synth #industrial #ebm #goth #synthpop #covers #newmusic #oontz #dance #livestreaming #concert #live #livemusic -
Hypothetically if one were to make an advert for an upcoming all out oontztacular concert from the micro blackbox theatre ov dooM directly to your neighbours' tympanic membranes, and theoretically if you recall saying in previous shows' chat or have something darkly fun, festive or hype to say about such events and vibes, would you mind sharing here or hitting me in DM if I might use said hype. Feels better than making shit up.
In case you are utterly unfased by adverts, go you, you can just go directly mark your calendar for 19th March 2100 UTC in the confidence that your neighbours shall rejoice.
https://social.control.org/@controlfreak/statuses/01KH3C7WJZAF0XQFA2G0ZG80S2
#askFedi #oontz #streaming #liveElectronics #concert #owncast #industrial #electronic #ebm #dance #goth #dystopian #electronicMusic #fediMusic #concert #hangout #synth #synthpop -
12 hour warning til I bring the noise+ gloom + oontz + rainbows + condors...WHAT? https://stream.gravitons.org/
I am performing a dark and noisy live set as C2 over at Gravitons at 2000 UTC. Possible couple synthpop bangers if chat insists. As if.
https://cal.gravitons.org/event/controlfreak-as-c2-industrial-and-noise-soundtracks
#music #electronic #synth #industrial #ebm #synthpop #goth #horror #liveStreaming #concert #musicVideos #fediwave #condors -
Many thanks to @controlfreak for closing down RFFF25 with what chat seemed to reckon was a bit of a barn burner. Outstanding chat banter, comraderie and support everyone!
Tea was spilt and the offending mug remained on stream along with the chief engineer [roll of gaffers tape], we learnt about cymbal restraint, and had a bit of a synthpop sing song to boot.
Keep up with control freak studio at https://music.control.org
#RFFF25 this is was community sounds like.
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Interview with controlfreak
“I see and hear the world through a filter of tape noise, glitch and warble.”
NHAM: Hey control! First of all, what’s the best way to address you? ctrl? C2? ctrlfrk? control.org? controlfreak? Or did we get it right first time?! And how did you come to adopt these monikers?
controlfreak: All valid.
As a teen it was hard finding other kids that would show up to band practice. So I decided to just do all the things as needed, jokingly as a control freak but mostly just for dependability. Shout out to 4-track cassette. I also have a hard time turning the other cheek to the litany of terrible things in the world that are realistically well out of our individual control. Plus it’s made for a rad domain for approaching 30 years.
Hack the planet.
NHAM: Well it’s lovely to have this opportunity to catch up with you thanks to a brand new release: an album of 10 unique covers, called REPLICATE1.0.
You’ve chosen to cover a range of artists including Editors, Hilary Duff, Soft Cell and Siouxsie and the Banshees. How did you go about choosing which 10 tracks you wanted to cover?
controlfreak: While there are historical and personal ancillary and tertiary reasons certain tracks resonate and made the cut, the primary and absolute definitive criteria was Rule no.1, do I yell it at the top of my lungs when doing loud farm work with closed ears on? That’s the secret sauce!
There were a few complicating factors. First, I don’t like covers and other than for some encore sets in tours over the decades, haven’t really published any. But as many of us do, I’ve had an obscenely long list of candidate tracks should and if I were to tackle some. The variety on the whiteboard is wild.
I’m an ex-drummer not a singer, which makes quite a few tracks I’d love to musically tackle, a bit more, daunting.
Individual track lore can be found on the album page.
NHAM: Would it be fair to say you like to add an extra ounce of oontz, a gritty edge if you will, to broadly electronic, synth pop?
controlfreak: Sure. I court the structures of dance music but exist in an industrial wasteland.
To my mind there can never be enough kick drum(s).
I feel after a certain point, hyper clarity and sterile overproduction has far overshot any utility, so I prefer a “flawed” human touch and organic grit.
I see and hear the world through a filter of tape noise, glitch and warble. My head is full of horror soundtracks to movies I’ll never afford to make. I do have the production background where I could possibly make more pop accessible sounds, but turns out it’s just not my nature. I’m in a good space personally when being less clinical and more organic, chunky, broken and abrasive. Sounding angry is my happy place. I appreciate it’s not for most but always excited when folks cut loose and dip a toe into my dark oontz waters.
On REPLICATE 1.0 I tried to not get too abstract and deconstructive. I hope I put my “sound” stamp there but with some reverence to the source material to be well recognisable. If it induces a wee head scratch or, even better, a nod I am amped to have anyone along for the ride.
NHAM: You only allowed yourself one or two vocal takes on any of the tracks on this album. What was the reasoning for this? Not wanting to put too much strain in yourself / Not wanting to fall in to the eternal pit of perfectionism / or something else?
controlfreak: All of the above. This was Rule no.2 for the project. I had to do all the vocals and force one-takes for all parts. Most days during this project’s creation, one take was more than I could physically muster.
Could I have done better on many vocals especially at later times, absolutely, but this was the rule. The decision to do a vocal session was sometimes because I felt like I could and sometimes because I felt there was no way I could, each surprising me at times in all directions. Also, nothing is ever “done”. As a healing project, it was important to document where I was and what I could or couldn’t do. There is pain, failure, determination and success all in here and I’m enjoying the reflection. Did I text a friend a couple nights in this process that I blacked out during vocal tracking, yes, yes I did. Lore.
NHAM: Do you have a favourite of the ten covers?
controlfreak: My favourites in terms of personal resonance with the source material but also reflecting on persevering and actually managing to do them at all are “I Felt the Pain” by Anything Box, and “Be Mine” from Robyn.
My overall favourite in a sincerely comical way is of course the Hilary Duff track “With Love”. A few metropolitan terrestrial radio shows have played that one and I have quite a chuckle thinking of someone nipping out to grab a cheeky Nando’s and bumping scan on the radio and getting hit with EBM Hilary Duff.
NHAM: There are guest appearances on a few of the tracks from Adam Colegrove, Jamie Hill and Shannon Curtis. Tell us more about how and why these came about
controlfreak: Part of the rules of the project was I had to do everything myself, especially the vocals, which is my least favourite and capable part.
However, another part of my challenge for 2025 was if I wake up in the morning, I want to make music with friends. Since I have been working in parallel on original music, remixes for others and some collabs, I felt it was still in the spirit of the game to bring in some tiniest bits of morale boosting cameos for REPLICATE.
I had been touring with Adam’s projects for years where we’d show up in each others’ live sets, and he has featured on multiple control.org and C2 releases (see PENTALOGY and the fourth estate medicate video).
I could write an entire coffee table book on how awesome Shannon (@shannoncurtis) and Jamie (@hilljam) are. The precursor to attempting this covers project was doing some remixes to get back in the studio via I Am and One Thread. They had zero hesitation in allowing me to endirtify their gorgeous work. Their energy is infectious. Their encouragement is unwavering. Their 80s Kids covers project was a huge boost for me to really have a go at compiling and finishing REPLICATE. I can’t send enough black heart emojis their way.
It’s also been very positive getting many old and dear art and life friends embedded into the upcoming original albums.
That others are willing to abet and contribute to my a/v hijinks is just wild.
NHAM: You’ve said this project was a ‘vehicle to try and get back into producing music’. It certainly seems to have been successful as the past few months have seen you make remixes for other people, play live shows, release a music video AND you’re currently deep in to work on a new album. Can you elaborate on why your creative output had previously stalled?
controlfreak: I have been generically open that serious scary and debilitating health declines stole much more than just my creative time/space/energy.
During recent years one of my means of trying to put two fingers in the air to my situation was mostly anonymous extreme volunteerism on music community building projects. I have two settings, go too hard, and go way too hard. I’m told it helped many but it was neither safe nor good for me.
Having to be an infinite fountain of positivity and a community pillar is one of the hardest things I’ve done. Having to be chronically online to infinitely seed positivity and hope against the monolithic doom of ALL social web/media including if not especially the Fedi is hard.
Unending requests, misconceptions and assumptions, hate et al at the project are one thing, but THE WORST was being stuck in a front seat bearing witness and proxy to so much struggle, and how hard it is out there for all the cousins, especially the bard class. That takes a massive toll. Already in physical health debt this all added an emotional and mental debt that came due.
The wild irony is doing all the things to foster positive organic community building, activism against tools that make life harder for artists, and exploring how to normalise direct support for independent and marginalised artists relegated my personal artistic output at zero.
Selfish as it may be, for self preservation I needed to make space to try to fight to make the space to even be able to sit at a studio desk for 15 minutes. Then see about getting back into making noise as a release valve and fuel for my health battle. Remixes were the dipping of the toe, the covers album project was the cannonball into the deep end. The live shows were wildly ambitious but fully supported by my awesome clinical team. As some confidence and energy built, more work on originals started to take place concurrently.
I hope to continue growing creative activities with recordings, live sets, remixes and sound commissions in 2026.
NHAM: Although it may have come at the expense of your own work, what you managed to do with RFF was huge. You built and galvanised a whole community – a scene around Fedi music – one with kindness, compassion and community at its core. You must be proud of what you achieved there?
controlfreak: It’s nice to see resonance and ripples in community and ethos of things I did differently to prove there was a place for organising and rallying organic community, attribution, consent, empathy, normalising as direct as possible support for indie artists.
Problem being, on the “social” interwebs there is no cruise control. That galvanisation requires someone to be always on, always connected to the many, and always fighting. Fighting: atrophy; platform splintering/visibility/reach/scale/enshitification; bad dev actors (indie and corpo bros alike); funding going to projects that will not help artists and/or in fact harm marginalised folks; the VIP talking head class that hate artists taking a gram of attention from them; IRL doom; and the general walls of noise. That’s a lot of fronts to fight in order to be positive and uplifting. The Fedi has been very good at burning out anyone with a sense of duty to community.
RFF got proper out of control in the best sense for artists and friends for a few years. It was a powerful moment in time where together we proved a project and “popular” account could be totally about lifting up others which was like magnetic repulsion for the egotistical number go up movers and shakers. That level of “isolation” in plain sight and the always on and fighting sucked exponentially for the hamster sprinting in the wheel.
So yeah, love/hate. Loved the results for others, hated being stuck there. I hope the gauntlet thrown down helped adjust some durable baselines for how we treat artists, one another, and how we might assemble and celebrate in spaces outside of as many corporate and influencer stresses and pitfalls as possible.
NHAM: Tell us a little more about yourself. Where are you based, where have you come from, where have you been and how important has music been throughout your life?
controlfreak: I live at the foot of a mountain in the middle of nowhere on an island in the middle of nowhere.
Toured in the 2010s (fun!), but mostly the 90s (less fun!) as an artist, DJ, engineer, hired gun, all the things. Hilarious and traumatising road stories for days.
I was apparently attending some rather rocking concerts in the womb and then up on shoulders. I grew up on the road with a rock band. I was treated as an adult with agency, respect and as one of the crew. There were always pillows or milk crates around so I could sit or stand wherever I wanted to learn how to do all the technical stage and performance things. I was legit working tech crew as an ankle biter. There is old film of me at barely six years old sitting in on drums utterly dwarfed by the kit.
My musical upbringing was light on formality and theory, but very practical and from the literal school of rock. I was always supported and encouraged to perform, experiment and discover. As much as my mum had a fit over me rewiring everything and had to endure daily drumming, decades later she was still front and centre at my recent online concerts taking screenshots and being amped up for hours afterward. She said, “you can never be dark enough to scare me off”. Nice one mum.
NHAM: Currently in progress, what might we expect from your upcoming original album?
controlfreak: I’ve just released some more videos, the latest volume in my mangled sound asset series Broke and Dirt 004, and on 19th March I’ll be performing the control.org album manipulate, celebrating its 25th release anniversary for the *ahem* NHAM in concert series!
Coming up next for original releases is a control.org album called ERADICATE. It is primarily stripped down EBM and industrial club bangers with a few usual introspective and goth adjacent excursions.
Hoping to drum up (lol) remix, sound asset, soundtrack etc. donate-what-you-can commissions and, for continued support in this years studio campaign so I can also develop more custom live shows, do more collabs; an EP of reworking old material called REGENERATE; and the next covers album REPLICATE 2.0. All outlined here. There are even more album plans on the whiteboard of doom.
NHAM: And outside of the music what keeps you ticking? We’ve seen some lovely posts of your garden, your cat and even your own carefully manicured cricket strip!controlfreak: Thanks to friends and lovely strangers’ support last year, I’ve been able to again explore music as a therapeutic tool to be as vertical as I can for as long as I can. But, yes, other things I do in my bloody minded manner that both on paper and in practice I should not be doing are subsistence farming and fast bowling. Shout out again to my clinical team for encouraging my resistance.
NHAM: Lovely to chat with you. We love the new covers album, Replicate 1.0, and are very much looking forward to the new album when it comes. Stay vertical!
controlfreak: And Stomp in Solidarity!
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> What's better than just one resource abyss?The performance cost of Synapse has always been overstated. People would join dozens of high-traffic public rooms, and wonder why their homeserver was doing so much work. There were real technical chokepoints, but many of these have been progressively solved;
https://matrix.org/blog/2018/12/20/synapse-0-34-0-released/
https://matrix.org/blog/2020/11/03/how-we-fixed-synapse-s-scalability/
Matrix 2.0 brings further improvements, like Sliding Sync;
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> What's better than just one resource abyss?The performance cost of Synapse has always been overstated. People would join dozens of high-traffic public rooms, and wonder why their homeserver was doing so much work. There were real technical chokepoints, but many of these have been progressively solved;
https://matrix.org/blog/2018/12/20/synapse-0-34-0-released/
https://matrix.org/blog/2020/11/03/how-we-fixed-synapse-s-scalability/
Matrix 2.0 brings further improvements, like Sliding Sync;
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@controlfreak
> What's better than just one resource abyss?The performance cost of Synapse has always been overstated. People would join dozens of high-traffic public rooms, and wonder why their homeserver was doing so much work. There were real technical chokepoints, but many of these have been progressively solved;
https://matrix.org/blog/2018/12/20/synapse-0-34-0-released/
https://matrix.org/blog/2020/11/03/how-we-fixed-synapse-s-scalability/
Matrix 2.0 brings further improvements, like Sliding Sync;
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@controlfreak
> What's better than just one resource abyss?The performance cost of Synapse has always been overstated. People would join dozens of high-traffic public rooms, and wonder why their homeserver was doing so much work. There were real technical chokepoints, but many of these have been progressively solved;
https://matrix.org/blog/2018/12/20/synapse-0-34-0-released/
https://matrix.org/blog/2020/11/03/how-we-fixed-synapse-s-scalability/
Matrix 2.0 brings further improvements, like Sliding Sync;
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The stream and chat are now live and the lobby forming for the final show of #RFFF25
@controlfreak presenting a live set of dark disco #industrial #ebm #goth #synthpop #dance
https://party.radiofreefedi.net
CW: flashing lights. dystopian themes, implied horror in some video material and the hacked satellite.Let's stomp together!
The last chance to #joinIn with a lovely bunch of artists and digital neighbours to celebrate art and one another.
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Devil has control of the internet (Music video) from Angel Girl Brianna #musicvideo #music #trance - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky6LtLStiTw
#censorship #devil #control #internet #siege #roblox #Instagram #YouTube #deviliscontrolling #control #controlfreaks #AI #controls #society #people #authoritarian #police #state #digital #digitalpolicestate -
Diesen Remix hatte ich im Fediverse entdeckt, er ging sofort ins Ohr und auch nicht mehr weg 😄. Diese Kollaboration von @shannoncurtis und @controlfreak ist auf einer Faircamp-Seite erhätlich:
One Thread (Shannon Curtis vs control.org Remix)
https://music.control.org/onethread/
#SynthPop #DarkDance #FediMusicians #Faircamp
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The Radio Free Fedi Fest of live music and spoken word performances has been amazing; my thanks again to @radiofreefedi for the mammoth job of herding us all.
The festival wraps up tomorrow with what promises to be a heartstopping set from @controlfreak on actual live percussion. I implore you, if you ever loved RFF, come along to its swan song and join in the community one last time.
Live, 24 hours from now, on https://party.radiofreefedi.net
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Cult of the redhat.
"I have a Narcissistic Personality Disorder! Unless I am OBEYED I will bring violence and confinement on anyone DRESSING, WRITING, READING or LOVING without my CONSENT!!!!"
#Nazi #Coup #Billionaires #Nihilionaires #Confine #Arrest #control #ControlFreak #Thieves #GOP
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The peculiarly USAnian institution of the Home Owners' Association (HOA) (I'm Canadian) is notoriously filled with the kind of busybody Mussolini/Franco-wannabe dictators and martinets that want nothing more than to (a) be all up in everyone else's business, and (b) be upset about it.
They get on the boards (no one else wants to be on them), and they set crazy control-freak rules [1] like:
No vehicles parked on street.
No vehicles parked in driveways outside the hours of 8am - 6pm.
No flags allowed.
No advertising allowed, including company branding on vehicles parked in the neighbourhood.
All yards must be covered with lawn consisting of approved grass seed types and be maintained between 2 and 3 inches long at all times.
All windows must have blinds or drapes that show white to the outside.
Only the colours of these three approved paint chips may be used to paint fences with.
All houses must be stucco of one of these 3 approved colours.
House numbers must be displayed in this approved font, and be between X and Y inches high.
No overnight guests without advanced approval.... and on and on and on. And then they go around the neighbourhood looking for violators to report to the board (that they're on) for punishment and correction.
It's downright nutty.
[1] These are all examples I've seen online.
#busybody #martinet #Mussolini #Franco #dictator #control #ControlFreak
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think I might have shared this when it came out, but it deserves another go around, great collection of covers in a kind of industrial synth poppy style.
i've sung the praises of the God Tonight cover multiple times but the whole collection is great.
