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1 week reminder! 3/4 roll of gaffer tape has been busy practicing the run sheet and cues and is excited to invite you to assemble for to kick out the jams 19th March 2100 UTC.
NHAM in concert presents: control.org manipulate 25 in '26. Dystopian dark disco, friendly as dancefloor. Bonus choose your own adventure synthpop cover bangers. See you in chat.
#concert #live #streaming #fediMusic #industrial #ebm #electronic #goth #dance #synthpop #futurepop #music #owncast #dystopian #fediwave #nham #joinin #hangout -
the worst thing about #starmer isn't that he is useless at running the country - it is that he is such a fucking authoritarian zionist control freak.
locking up a judge for reminding ppl that they have freedom of opinion is just fucking wrong. -
the worst thing about #starmer isn't that he is useless at running the country - it is that he is such a fucking authoritarian zionist control freak.
locking up a judge for reminding ppl that they have freedom of opinion is just fucking wrong. -
the worst thing about #starmer isn't that he is useless at running the country - it is that he is such a fucking authoritarian zionist control freak.
locking up a judge for reminding ppl that they have freedom of opinion is just fucking wrong. -
the worst thing about #starmer isn't that he is useless at running the country - it is that he is such a fucking authoritarian zionist control freak.
locking up a judge for reminding ppl that they have freedom of opinion is just fucking wrong. -
the worst thing about #starmer isn't that he is useless at running the country - it is that he is such a fucking authoritarian zionist control freak.
locking up a judge for reminding ppl that they have freedom of opinion is just fucking wrong. -
In 2 hours we will assemble for a listening party for the release of my new album REPLICATE 1.0.
https://makertube.net/w/27VvkNXUXcYk22mSCrSQRj
see above post.
#fediwave #livestream #hangout #fedimusic #electronic #synthpop #covers #industrial #dance #goth #ebm #hacktheplanet #condors #rainbows -
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
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Numerical Hexadecimal Arithmetical Mathematical – NHAM Mixtape 16
Welcome to the 16th edition of a fine showcase of 12 Fedi musicians. Count it in with me: a-one, a-two, a-one, two, three, four…
As ever there’s a radio show version of this mixtape with some chat about the tracks. That can be found on Audio Interface (@audiointerface) from the first Monday of the month as well as featuring in NHAM Radio‘s Mixtape Mondays and Thursdays slots.
⬇️ Click below to begin playing, and keep the page open to hear the mix in full.
[If viewing from the Fediverse you need to click here to listen to the mixtape on NHAM]
1. Plaits Space II by AmbientSpace
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Ambience in the wiggly, wobbly, upbeat sense for take off. Ambient Space is Chris Mills, an electronic music producer from New Zealand, a french horn lover and one of the finest proponents of bonkwave.
@ambientspace2. Izanami by DebonaireToast
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Up and down like a Weston donkey, this groove hits the spot, pausing only for dial up nostalgia. Traditionally a fine artist, a photographer, a graphic designer and video editor, Alabama-based Nadia Purge aka Mandi Cook has in more recent years added music production to her wide skill set, making tunes as “DebonaireToast” inspired by dark, electronic, ambient and electro-industrial dance music.
@debonairetoast3. Jumpsuit by Humanoid No More
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Rave piano. Need I say more? Nope. Never. But also: cut vocal shouts, airy sweeps, darkened tones, bass beats. Mega blend! Creating beats loosely between hip-hop and house, Humanoid No More are a duo based in British Columbia. “Jumpsuit” comes from their recently released Tropical Moon EP.
@dtronic4. ١٠٦ by she hacked you
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I just can’t get hacked enough. Delightfully dancey, wonderfully wistful. Representing Cairo at it’s hottest, she hacked you is a comatose day–dreamer, night-timer and party–crasher also known as ekis.
@ekis5. One Thread by Shannon Curtis vs control
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One Fedi star remixes another. Damned if I won’t survive. A superb example of the remix work available from control.org, who is always open to donate-what-you-can sound design commissions. For anyone wanting a remix you can find all of the info at control.org where there is also news of a covers album, an original album, and a remix EP all dropping at the back-end of the year. Now that’s control.
@shannoncurtis @controlfreak6. Say What You Wanna Say by C.Circo
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Take my arm and bounce with me. Now kick. More delicious dance from Ottawan electronic music producer C Circo. The track is from his brilliant “Metamorph” album released this year after a period of downtime, having found renewed energy to do so by the Fedi Scene and in particular the bonkwave community.
@CCirco7. Mr. Decimal by Blix Byrd
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This just grabs and pulls with textures finely layered and vocals strongly piercing. And the break down, oh the break down. Blix Bird represents the most recent adventurous, experimental, intelligent sounds from Alison Wilder, and Mr. Decimal comes from her LP “IX” – an album that demands your attention and asks you to climb with the composer over a barbed-wire fence and in to a world probably not quite like your own, full of stinging and prickly things, where there is a freedom but perhaps little love.
@alisynthesis8. Rejection by Lorenzo Miniero
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Turns out there’s a beauty to be found in the vast open space carved out by rejection. The movie sample at the end is actually an introduction to the next song (Resentment) on the album. -Each song on “R U There?” has the same, forming a narrative through the mind and its emotions as you listen through the progressive rock journey from start to finish. Lorenzo himself is an open source software developer and accomplished musician from Napoli.
@lminiero9. Continuity by Chris Harris
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A gorgeously crafted track. Continuity is a homage to Vangelis (electric piano at start), David Gilmour (lap steel in middle) and Mike Oldfield (Squier Strat at close), with even a very quick nod to John Williams hidden in there. It was written at a time of physical pain from kidney stones, which Chris says may have contributed to it sounding more melancholy than he’d expected. That and the cellos (from Spitfire Audio’s “BBC SO” and “Abbey Road ONE” orchestral plugins)! Chris, from my old stomping ground in Bristol, is an extremely prolific musician who utilises all manner of instruments and produces a wide scope of musical output.
@headfirstonly10. Seventeen Carrots by sideSister
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Look who’s back! Discerning and fun as ever. Combining some of the lesser-spotted instruments and oozing originality. Seventeen Carrots is the opening track to their brand new album, “Space For You”, which is out this month! The third Kiwi act in this mixtape, Sidesister are dynamic mother and daughter duo Leigh and Aelyth, who fret that modern life has little room for the undisciplined in “Seventeen Carrots”. “Space For You” is a ten track LP which takes a look at our world and considers ways they can make it into a world they’d prefer to live in.
@elsemusic11. Artifiko by Camilo Bravo
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More expert combination of rhythms, sounds and textures, this time out of Quito in Ecuador. A programmer by day and musician by night, Camilo hosts the musicians.today Mastodon instance as a community for musicians of all levels, instruments, regions, languages, and genres. “Artifiko” comes from his 2023 album “Volatil”, for which he captured himself recording and editing every sound put in to all 16 songs of the album. Quite remarkable. Although I did see some daylight in the videos so I reckon the programming may have taken a bit of a backseat in 2023!
@cambraca12. Juliregn by RYA!
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Wow. What a way to finish a mixtape full of beauty and intelligence. No matter when or where you’re listening you’re sure to leave this session feeling the refreshing warmth of rain in Northern Hemisphere July. Thank you RYA! The 8-piece band from Umeå take inspiration from nature, Swedish folk, jazz and electronic pop. Described as a song for people who continue to hope despite having doubts, “Juliregn” is from their latest album, “Mareld över Kvarken”.
@rya#Bandcamp #bonkwave #Faircamp #FediMusic #Hot #mixtape #music #NHAM #NHAMmixtapes #playlist
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Nonesuch Homecoming And Merrymaking – NHAM Mixtape 13
Radio Free Fedi returns to action for a one off festival this month: RFFF. It runs throughout July and we broadcast a special live NHAM mixtape show at the beginning of the event, showcasing acts performing live at the festival. Therefore all of the tracks in this mixtape have been chosen from those performers.
As always there is also a radio show version of this mixtape with me chatting between the tracks. That can be found on Audio Interface (@audiointerface) from the first Monday of the month as well as featuring in NHAM Radio‘s Mixtape Monday slot.
⬇️ Click below to begin playing and keep the page open to hear the mix in full.
[If viewing from the Fediverse you need to click here to listen to the mixtape on NHAM]
1. Take It if You Want It by Shannon Curtis
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@shannoncurtis
This has got to be up there as one of my favourite Shannon Curtis songs. Perfectly capturing that 80s vibe and adorning it with lyrics attuned to the politics and crises of the present day.2. Double You Slash Hackers (AxWax 2023 Remix) by Delegates of Culture
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@axwax
In the last millennium AxWax made hip hop. Now he makes stuff with synths. This 2023 remix of one of his old hip hop tracks is a combination of both. Delegates of Culture were a collective of 10 artists from five countries, including AxWax on beats and Skuff and Ill Seer with the rhymes.3. 1.1.0 by control
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@controlfreak
With director and filmmaker Cameo Wood on vocals this is control, aka controlfreak aka our glorious Hamster – the man behind RFF and RFFF. The man we have so much to thank for in helping build the amazing community of independent bands and artists we have in The Fediverse. Much that has come since RFF in terms of promotion of independent musicians in the Fediverse – the NHAMs, the TIBRs, the Audio Interfaces – we’re all standing on the broad shoulders of the one little hamster called control.4. yaoi gagarin by pulu
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@ahihi
Miranda from Helsinki aka Pulu makes some incredible sounds. The last couple of releases for bonkwave compilation albums testify for that. Written in Sonic Pi (a live coding environment based on Ruby) the short but sweet yaoi gagarin comes from the 2024 album, ‘nested’, having been written for Alternative Party 2024’s Obscure Music competition, which it won first prize!5. Bercée d’illusions by sknob
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@sknob
I remember first listening to this when it came out last year and being utterly blown away. It was one of those moments – headphones on, active listening – I was overcome and transported in my head to a huge theatre surrounded by an orchestra playing the track. It’s part of the Cities EP containing four very different tracks all well tied together by the theme of living in (or not living in) cities. The EP is an absolute triumph. I’ve gladly purchased my copy and I’d encourage you to as well: It’s available on @mirlo for any amount – pay what you feel.6. Growing pains by sgrow
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@lislegaard
sgrow is one of Norweigan soundscape artist Kristoffer Lislegaard’s projects, collaborating with his wife Vilde Ilkama Nupen. They made four releases between 2013 and 2019 of which Growing pains was on the ultimate one, Circumstance II. Since then Kristoffer has done some fantastic stuff both in collaboration as Øy and his solo work. Most recently he released the live set of his performance when he open for Autechre in Oslo.
Hot off the press: A fifth sgrow album is due to be released early in 2026!7. Skinicism by Doctor Body
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@alisynthesis
Atomospheric sounds and a mesmerising vocal performance from Doctor Body – one of at least four pseudonyms used by Alison Wilder. Doctor Body is actually a collaboration between Alison and Greg Wilder, her ex husband with whom she does a fantastic podcast called Too Much Music.8. Adding Up To Nothing by Sockpuppet
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@fluffy
With both haunting and jaunty qualities, this is a lovely lo-fi tune from Sockpuppet aka fluffy. It’s the final track from the 2015 album Refactor.9. Sorry You Died by bgm
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A little earlier this year bgm put out the video for this track, shot some 10-15 years ago, and it moved me to tears. Sorry You Died was about his family cat. He thought it would be a good idea to record the acoustic guitar in a boathouse, sitting on a gas can, swatting at mosquitoes, for “atmosphere”. The recording subsequently came out on the album “They Don’t Run Your Life.”10. Plume by Calin Dica
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Calin Dica said the baroque cello melody came by itself over a rather classical harmonic progression and that the lyrics were inspired by a good friend who could have become a lover in another arc! I love the feel in this song. The evocation in the vocal is very strong and makes me want it more. I have no idea what is actually being said as my French is sadly non-existent, so it’s all vibe driven.11. Secrets by Meljoann
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Earlier this year we serialised the album Status from which this track comes. Pure sugary retro pop with Motown bassline as Meljoann herself says. A hit from an album of hits. Check out the fantastic video and read more about it.12. Never Meet Your Heroes by Futzle
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@futzle
The typical brilliant blend of intelligent wit and musical nouse from Futzle also known as Deborah Pickett. Never Meet Your Heroes is from the EP “Futzle: the Musical” and it brings the perfect mood to leave as an outro to this month’s celebration of all things Fedi music.#FediMusic #festival #Hot #mixtape #music #MusicFestival #NHAM #NHAMmixtapes #playlist #RFFF #RFFF25
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Numskulls, Harlequins & Amusing Misleaders – NHAM Mixtape 10
Released on April Fools’ Day I had to give this one a fitting title. But the tomfoolery stops there. There are no pranks below. Only more great tunes found in The Fediverse.
Last month a brilliant little album of collaborations between artists who connected via Radio Free Fedi was released, including one track featuring yours truly. It was such a top album that I’ve included five of the collaborations within this mix.
The radio show version of this mixtape (where you have to put up with me talking a bit too) can be found on Audio Interface (@audiointerface) from the first Monday of the month.
[If viewing from the Fediverse you need to click here to listen to the mixtape on NHAM]
1. Dancing and Kissing by Bitplanes
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@bazkieKicking off with a most uplifting of tracks for all the dancers, kissers and cuddlers out there.
2. You are not alone by C.Circo and sknob
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@CCirco, @sknobAm I only dreaming? This song is a dream in every sense. I feel like I’ve drifted off under a tree on a lovely sunny day and am dozing in and out of a lovely light dream.
3. origami universe by pulu
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@ahihiOriginally released on the first disc of last autumn’s 3-disc Not What I Call Bonkwave compilation, origami universe is a triumph in glitching, breaking and euphoric chanting. pulu is Miranda, a ‘computer sound worker’ from Finland.
4. collapse by control.org
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@controlfreakI get real Underworld vibes from this beast of a tune taken from the 2002 album ‘radiate’. Control yourselves!
5. Night Dad by Galaxy Brain
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@galaxybrainLondon electronic music producer Galaxy Brain named this song after a Korg M1 patch. It comes from a four track EP of the same name which she describes as a love letter to late 80s and early 90s deep house.
6. The Space Between the Sea and the Sky (Default Media Transmitter remix) by Key13
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@keefmarshallIn mystic tradition ‘thin places’ are energy fields where it is said that the veil between our world and the eternal world is thin. The space on the horizon where the sky meets land or sea is often cited as one of these places. This track captures that essence magnificently.
7. Nothing Comes Around by Edith Frost
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@edithfrostA gorgeous folk pop song from a brand new album by the singer-somgwriter from Austin, Texas.
8. Shame by Matt Young & Edvards
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@mattyoung, @EDVARDSIn this relatable tale of regretting youthful misdemeanour, Matt and Edvards combine superbly for a dose of melodic, retro pop-rock.
9. Leave the Light On by Futzle featuring Aelyth from sideSister
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@futzle, @elsemusic, @jimbobEthereal vocals, captivating chord changes and a swinging beat that you can’t help but nod, tap and groove to.
10. ZOE by Center of the Universe
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@couniversRTFM! 😂 Great line. From the album COU which contains eight 3-letter-acronym titled songs, ZOE – presumably about the electric car – heaps the fun in to the funky. The deep vocal and content matter makes this a perfect sequel to Hot Chip’s Playboy (driving in a Peugeot with the top down) for the renewables generation! Although I’m not sure whether Norwegian DJ and artist Center of the Universe sees it that way, citing the album as a collection of obsolete technologies which once had promises of a brighter future.
11. DOINITRITE by Babu Menos
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@babumenosWow! Nods to Byrne, Gabriel and Bowie in this epic juxtaposition of a funky, happy-sounding groove that depicts an angry, greedy, needy, ruthless and narcissistic world leader who considers himself infallible.
12. That One Day by Default Media Transmitter/Xylander
(Words written by Deborah Pickett, read by Eivind)
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@defaultmediatransmitter, @xylander, @eivindClosing out with the four way collaboration that closed out the Comfy Collaborations album. A mammoth soundscape about the end of everything can really go in no other place. Enjoy it while you can.
#bonkwave #FediMusic #Hot #mixtape #music #NHAM #NHAMmixtapes #playlist
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Destroying Autocracy – November 13, 2025
Welcome to this week’s “Destroying Autocracy”.
It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. Since big media’s journalism wing is flailing and failing in its core duty to democracy, this is also a collection of alternative reporting on the eternal battle between autocracy and democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can’t be free without safety and privacy.
FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ’em.
The Programmer’s Fulcrum is the future (and smaller) home for a fusion of Symfony Station and Battalion. Its tagline is Devs Defending Democracy, Developing the OMN.
You can sign up now and for 2025 get an email with links to and featured articles for each week’s Symfony Station Communiqué and Battalion “Destroying Autocracy” post along with their featured articles. And you’ll be set with TPF after the fusing.
We are posting on the Fediverse now at @thefulcrum @thefulcrum.dev and original website content will start in 2026.
Featured Item(s)
Wrekage/Salvage writes:
Once you’ve seized the tools of political life to build communal power, it’s hard to forget what a hammer feels like in your hand.
Bonfire Networks is a tiny software org that has spent the past couple of years building a framework for communities on the open social web. At the end of last week, they released Bonfire Social, a microblogging app.
Like Mastodon, Bonfire Social runs on ActivityPub, but it takes differently opinionated approach to sociability.
(It has) features I (and many others) have been advocating for in Fediverse software for years, often while people explained at length that such things simply could not be implemented.
Most exhilarating to me, though, is that they aren’t just building another microblogging app. They’re making a toolkit for internet community software that is healthy and good and designed around real human needs from the start.
As they put it in their crowdfunding campaign, they’re making building blocks for communities on the open social web.
Total awesomeness that needs to blow up. We will cover (and support) Bonfire extensively on The Programmer’s Fulcrum.
We start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.
The response to Russia’s War Crimes, Techno Feudalism, and other douchebaggery
The Kyiv Independent reports:
Ukraine slaps new sanctions on Putin’s team and propagandist publishers
Radio Free Europe reports:
EU ‘Democracy Shield’ Aims To Counter Russian Disinformation
Open Web Advocacy has:
Tim Berners-Lee On Apple’s Browser Engine Ban and Web Apps
Heise reports:
Office alternative from Germany by Ionos and Nextcloud is now available
Great.
Speaking of Germany, The Guardian reports:
ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules
Meta could face millions in fines for not signing content deals in Australia
Digital Rights Bytes asks:
Can the government read my text messages?
404 Media reports:
Judge Rules Flock Surveillance Images Are Public Records That Can Be Requested By Anyone
TechCrunch reports:
Wikipedia urges AI companies to use its paid API, and stop scraping
Brookings says:
Preach brother.
Poynter reports:
As independent newspapers disappear, a secretive alliance fights to save them
Neutral
Open Knowledge shares:
Open letter: Harnessing open source AI to advance digital sovereignty
The Ringer has:
How Catastrophic Is It If the AI Bubble Bursts? An FAQ.
The Evil Empire (AKA Autocracy) Strikes Back
404 Media reports:
DHS Gives Local Cops a Facial Recognition App To Find Immigrants
TechCrunch reports:
Why a lot of people are getting hacked with government spyware
Lawmakers warn Democratic governors that states are sharing drivers’ data with ICE
Euractiv reports:
EU’s red tape bonfire puts AI ahead of privacy protection
NOYB reports:
EU Commission internal draft would wreck core principles of the GDPR
The Guardian reports:
The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power.
Tech giants vow to defend users in US as spyware companies make inroads with Trump administration
Freedom of the Press Foundation reports:
Kansas county pays $3M for forgetting the First Amendment
Pariah States
BleepingComputer reports:
APT37 hackers abuse Google Find Hub in Android data-wiping attacks
BitDefender reports:
Russian hacker admits helping Yanluowang ransomware infect companies
The Register reports:
UK asks cyberspies to probe whether Chinese buses can be switched off remotely
Krebs on Security reports:
Google Sues to Disrupt Chinese SMS Phishing Triad
Big Media
The Columbia Journalism Review has:
Editorial Independence Means Technological Independence
The Open Media Network peeps.
The Guardian reports:
EU investigates Google over ‘demotion’ of commercial content from news media
Big Tech
And:
Big Tech’s control freak era is breaking itself apart
The Techno Anarchist Manifesto lists tools to help you avoid most of this AI horseshit.
Lies, damned lies and AI: the newest way to influence elections may be here to stay
Jesus.
Digital colonialism: the new frontier of Latin American dependency.
A side effect of techno feudalism.
PC Mag reports:
Asking ChatGPT About Affairs or Abortion? Be Careful, Marketers Are Peeking at Your Prompts
Cybersecurity/Privacy
The Register reports:
OWASP Top 10: Broken access control still tops app security list
IEEE Spectrum reports:
Your AI Agent Is Now a Target for Email Phishing. New tools can help thwart the attacks.
Like bitcoin, if you use this shit you deserve what you get.
DarkReading reports:
Orgs Move to SSO, Passkeys to Solve Bad Password Habits
GlassWorm Returns, Slices Back into VS Code Extensions
Check out VS Codium friends.
BleepingComputer reports:
Police disrupts Rhadamanthys, VenomRAT, and Elysium malware operations
Fediverse
Elena Rossini shares:
The rebellion will be federated – 2025 edition
A New Social has:
Bonfire explains:
Matters of care – why Bonfire maintenance comes first.
Comciencia has:
A comunicação da ciência no Fediverso
Laura Hargreves shares:
Growing My Own Little Fediverse: The Joy of Going Further Down the Rabbit Hole
Inside My Matrix: How I Reclaimed Messaging from the Cloud
TechCrunch reports:
Threads targets podcasters with new features, aiming to become the home for show discussions
BTW, fuck Threads.
Slightly Decentralized Social Media
The Dabbler has:
Chicken Caesars: they’re messing with your Bluesky feed
TechCrunch reports:
Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine’s video archive
Hmm, this is built with Nostr.
CTAs (aka show us some free love)
- That’s it for this week. Please share this edition of Destroying Autocracy.
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Keep fighting!
Ringleader, Battalion
Reuben Walker
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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 Community Looks Like – RFFF25 Review
It’s always the way when you go to a festival, isn’t it? – That it takes a good while to acclimatise back in to normality again. Well now that the dust has settled and we’re back to at least some sense of normality let’s look back on the amazing month of July, the whole of which was set aside for Radio Free Fedi Fest 2025.
We must begin by showing our gratitude to @radiofreefedi for coming back from the sunset to galvanise the community once more, and again being a beacon for highlighting the depth of talent in the Fedi music scene. Huge appreciation to the Hamster for powering that wheel all month long.
The Festival kicked off way back on the first of July with a typically outstanding performance from @shannoncurtis and @hilljam in which they performed their 80’s Kids live show especially for us. Fresh off touring the show they recreated the set from their basement, including the full light show and treating us to insights in to their workings with a Q+A after the set. The pair are without doubt masters of their crafts, and they combine those crafts perfectly to give us maximum joy. The 80s Kids tour is going on the road again soon. Check out the 80skids.live tour dates page to see if they’re coming to a town near you!
Speaking of Q+A, the next day was our turn to get on the stage. @sknob and I (@ethicalrevolution) answered some of your questions in between presenting my 13th NHAM mixtape, which was put together as a showcase of RFFF25 – 12 songs from 12 of the artists that were to perform over the month. I was so grateful to sknob for his expertise in putting together the technical and aesthetic aspects of the show, and of course for the moral support. If you missed it we did manage to record the show which you can catch up on here.
On the third day of the event Damon Thomas (@ruralgloom) performed with spoken word. I was still backstage chatting to all the groupies that had assembled from our show so I missed it but Deb was there and she said, “Damon Thomas read excerpts from his Southern Gothic written works, in his gentle understated style, a thoroughly relaxing vignette of small-town life and growing up in the US South. We were left with images from a delightful time capsule of little people looming large in little places.”
Next to perform was @fluffy and it was a performance the likes of which I’d never seen before: A fully blown VR performance in which the Fluffy that we saw was an animated critter on an animated stage in an animated venue with an animated guitar! The set is available on demand and you can follow Fluffy to be notified of future live performances, as we were informed that this critter from Seattle performs relatively regularly.
Then came @lislegaard who was an absolute delight. Kristoffer totally took us down in to full relaxation zone before belting us out with the booms and glitches in a really epic performance which combined amazing sounds and visuals. You can catch the show again on Kristoffer’s Hyper8 page. And he’s another to keep an eye on for future streams.
Next up was my NHAM co-conspirator @sknob. The master songwriter’s gig from the Rugged Scrublands somewhere in the South of France is also available on demand. In it he opened up by playing through his current EP, “Cities” before going through a rendition of some of his bonkwave tracks and playing covers of other Fedi musicians including @futzle, @keefmarshall and even 8 year old me!
The baton was then passed to Fedi superstar and regular streamer @meljoann who combined wit, wizardry and wickedness (in the good sense!) despite having to take a call from her therapist (former talk show host, Dr Synergy Myers) during the show. This set wasn’t recorded but Meljoann is prolific when it comes to livestreaming. Just follow @relay to keep in the loop with future performances.
On July 12th Pulu (@ahihi) put on a show-stopping performance of beautiful sounds and quality beats in an incredible method of performing via multi-computer set up on a balcony by some woods in Helsinki. Rather than try to go in to the detail of the music production, for which I still can’t quite fathom, you can check it out for yourself via the recording of the stream. One particularly incredible moment in the show for me was when the bird song samples were being played and outside my own window behind me real birds were echoing the same calls to give me proper surround sound!
The next night @jimpurbrick defrosted his Moogs for Remember Glaciers’ first 100% solar powered telling of Duncan Porter’s tale of two visits to the Rhone glacier. An eye opening storytelling of the demise of glaciers for many in the lobby. While this particular show was not recorded, there is a version available from his Gravitons Festival 2024 set.
As we came towards the middle of the month Grüezi Sexgott (@DePemig) moved their weekly live streamed jam session over to the Radio Free Fedi stage as we dimmed the lights, heightened the haze and mellowed in to a smooth and funky improv set from the accomplished four-piece. They play every Tuesday at 9pm Swiss time.
Then came @alexglow. What a performer. Alex was so relaxed; at times moving; always fun; with quite beautiful playing; and being very clever – all rolled in to one concert. She played covers and originals, taking requests too, of any song so long as it was about space. It’s something she does on Sunday’s over on spacesongsunday.com
I tried but largely failed to tune in to @axwax whilst on a coach. Fortunately it was made available to catch up on. With graphics that bounced in time with the music and an impressive rack of machines, synths and a big red button AxWax powered through some classic acid, techno, hip-hop and of course bonkwave. Donning his 80s Kids t-shirt in the sweltering Spanish heat, the ever delightful Axel played an encore of 20 minutes or so after the main set while we awaited the second act of the night…
Back home by this point I was able to enjoy @Jazzaria from the comfort of my own sofa. We watched an animated keyboard playing the notes that were improvised from prompts given in the lobby which included 80s sitcoms, nightly news, small mammals in fancy hats, tramping cats and 80s detectives. It was quite something seeing vague concepts being brought to life by the sounds of a keyboard.
Then on July 23rd we witnessed @conniptions being brilliant with a large 4-stringed instrument, brilliant with a small 8-stringed instrument, brilliant with a regular 6-stringed instrument and even being brilliant on the magic trumpets. All on his actual birthday – inviting all of us festival goers to his party of left-field anti-folk – as we bopped along and celebrated with him. More from the creations of Fit and the Conniptions can be found here.
Next came ‘A Christmas in July Wasted’ with Deb Pickett (@futzle). The set up was as smooth as the performance as Deb beamed across the globe from Victoria, Australia. With lyrics and chord progressions often too clever for me Deb went down like a plump chap in a red suit down a chimney – with a bang and full of treats and gifts!
With the month drawing out we turned our gaze over to Toronto in Canada where @bgm performed from a basement with a low ceiling. Sadly he was too good that the hour whizzed by in an absolute flash. A highly accomplished musician and video maker, bgm did not disappoint.
What was disappointing, however, was that this was to be my last show. I had to leave the festival early for other commitments so I hand you over to sknob to run through the final three events…
Thanks Sam. Well, I’m not used to this exercise, but I’ll try to do the artists justice.
After a few words of introduction, Calin Dica aka @akash literally blew our socks off as soon as we heard the first notes of his spectacular guitar playing. Expertly jumping from his guitar to his electronic gizmos with dizzying precision and grace, and even surprising the audience with some epic guitar solos, Calin Dica/akash treated us to a barrage of pure energy in song form. I think it’s safe to say we were all flabbergasted when he told us this was the first time he’d ever performed his music in a solo set. Catch up on demand.
What can I say about nightmother aka @alisynthesis. I discovered her music only recently thanks to Sam, and to say that I’m a fan would be the understatement of the year. In fact I probably shouldn’t be allowed to review her set at all, but here we are, and here we were, teleported into her beautiful studio filled with too many knobs and dials to count (and a couple of totally oblivious dogs on a comfy looking couch). If you think you know synthesizers and electronic music, think again. The sounds that Alison conjures out of her machines is glorious, as is her singing. In fact, the chat which is usually full of wisecracking banter was stunned into silence on several occasions. I do have one complaint though. The set was way too short. Alison, we want more! Catch up on demand.
Synth music can also be gloriously harsh and furious. Just ask @controlfreak. Sorry, I don’t speak genres, but this absolutely ferocious set (showcasing the darker side of oontz as he eloquently puts it) was exceptional not only for its stunning and sometimes disturbing visuals, but also for its uncompromising original pieces old and new, its spectacular remixes of @shannoncurtis, and for its real drums played on an actual, real, physical drum kit! And when you thought you couldn’t be any more delightfully surprised, controlfreak got up and actually sang for us, well, beautifully (if he’ll pardon the expression), bringing RFFF25 to a perfect conclusion. Back to you Sam.
We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again, and again. We’re forever grateful for Radio Free Fedi and this month was a perfect exemplifier as to why. It’s about the @music and the artists but it’s not just about the music and the artists, it’s about the community. And this, THIS, showed just what community looks like.
#bonkwave #community #FediMusic #LiveStream #music #RFF #RFFF25
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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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Fair to say the @radiofreefedi Fest (#RFFF) line up is looking rather tasty. 🤩
…And there are still more acts to be added to the roster. Bring on July! 🗓️
Full line up:
https://party.radiofreefedi.net/Acts confirmed so far:
@shannoncurtis @mixtape @ruralgloom @fluffy @lislegaard @sknob @meljoann @ahihi @alexglow @axwax @Jazzaria @futzle @bgm @akash @alisynthesis @controlfreak @jimpurbrick @DePemig -
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 -
November: released broke and dirt 003 code name bateria quebrada - the latest in our series of loop and sample packs of abrasive percussion mangled from manual sessions mic'd up an acoustic kit for the first time in over a decade!
https://music.control.org/brokeanddirt003/
We have the next few in the broke and dirt series mapped out. Volume 004 is beautifully disgusting noise collage beds and decimated synth pads.
#ccby #mastoMusic #gameAsset #drumLoops #samples #loops #musicProduction #loops #drums
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Ik bevind me op dit moment in ware he, en zoek 100 excuses om vooral geen klussende man in mijn huishouden te hebben.
Wat die "666-meetlat" waarschijnlijk betekent in jouw huishouden:
AI heeft het helemaal goed!
De Heilige Drie-eenheid van de Klusser: Alles moet waterpas, haaks en volgens de millimeter-norm. "Even snel een plankje ophangen" bestaat niet; dat is een middagvullend programma inclusief laserwaterpas.
De Controlefreak-modus: Hij legt de lat niet alleen hoog voor zichzelf, maar ook voor jou (en de rest van de wereld). Als jij een schilderijtje "op het oog" recht hangt, krijgt hij waarschijnlijk lichte hartkloppingen.
Regels zijn Regels: De 666-norm (zoals bij ladders: niet boven de zesde sport, etc.) is er voor de veiligheid. Misschien is hij zo iemand die je de trap af jaagt als je op je tenen op de bovenste trede staat te balanceren.
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I heard some protest chants out in the paddock. Turns out it was my Chief Culture Jammer Doom Kitty.
Doom Kitty is not angry but definitely disappointed at the things in the feed getting all the ephemeral oxygen. She would love it if you took a moment to read and boost the above top post in this thread and amplify some good connections for creative resistence and support independent artists doing a thing.
And of course more cats.
Come on fedi, flood the feed until we get at least one clout VIP accidentally boosting an independent artist.
#cats #catsofmastodon #fedicats #notCaturday #blackcats #voidcats -
I've gone live at https://party.radiofreefedi.net
Spinning some tracks I'm not performing as lobby forms for my first live performance in 6 years at 2200 UTC
Let's blow the doors clear off #RFFF25
My themes and tones are dark but there can be beauty in the darkness. We have so many things to collectively fight and fear.
But join me, my various rolls of tape holding this show together and some lovely digital neighbours and let's stomp together.
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"...in control."
May this thread haunt #Elmo, the #QLoon, until the end of time.
This #narcistic #megalomaniacal control freak ruined the #GlobalTownsquare of the #FreedomOfSpeech for the citizens of earth.
This is particularly a blow to the #democracy movements around the globe, like the #ArabSpring, who had come to depend on it.
This's precisely why he + his authoritarian investors staged the #TwitterTakeover:
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I've gone live at https://party.radiofreefedi.net
Spinning some tracks I'm not performing as lobby forms for my first live performance in 6 years at 2200 UTC
Let's blow the doors clear off #RFFF25
My themes and tones are dark but there can be beauty in the darkness. We have so many things to collectively fight and fear.
But join me, my various rolls of tape holding this show together and some lovely digital neighbours and let's stomp together.
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I've gone live at https://party.radiofreefedi.net
Spinning some tracks I'm not performing as lobby forms for my first live performance in 6 years at 2200 UTC
Let's blow the doors clear off #RFFF25
My themes and tones are dark but there can be beauty in the darkness. We have so many things to collectively fight and fear.
But join me, my various rolls of tape holding this show together and some lovely digital neighbours and let's stomp together.
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I've gone live at https://party.radiofreefedi.net
Spinning some tracks I'm not performing as lobby forms for my first live performance in 6 years at 2200 UTC
Let's blow the doors clear off #RFFF25
My themes and tones are dark but there can be beauty in the darkness. We have so many things to collectively fight and fear.
But join me, my various rolls of tape holding this show together and some lovely digital neighbours and let's stomp together.