Ambient Mix For A Change

Mixcloud link, just incase the widget isn't visible:

https://www.mixcloud.com/helenthomas/ambient-mix-for-a-change/

Playlist and buy links:

Air Fracture - Two Horizons 

https://airfracture.bandcamp.com/track/two-horizons

Bonobo - Terrapin

Google it.

Farmacia - Aldo Bonzi

https://farmacia.bandcamp.com/track/aldo-bonzi

Array Access - Variation 3 [Exclusive Download]

 Free download: https://soundcloud.com/novafuture/array-access-variation-3

EVE Online - New Moon

Free download:  https://soundcloud.com/ccpgames/eve-online-new-moon

Manfred Hamill - Glock

 https://manfredhamil.bandcamp.com/track/glock

Microvolt - Snowblind

 https://www.beatport.com/track/snowblind-original/6651466

Novika And Pete Grace - Can't Resist

 http://classic.beatport.com/track/cant-resist-original-mix/7602190

Helên Thomas  - Poem About Everything (2018 mix) 

 https://helnthomas.bandcamp.com/track/poem-about-everything-2018-extended-mix

Brian Eno - Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills)

 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Unfamiliar-Wind-Leeks-Hills-Remastered/dp/B001IQAT7O

Air Fracture - Early Works 2

 https://airfracture.bandcamp.com/track/early-works-2

Boards of Canada - Olson (version 3)

 http://classic.beatport.com/track/olson-version-3-original-mix/169431

Electrovember

https://www.mixcloud.com/helenthomas/electrovember/

Playlist with buy links

Zastranienie - Golden Sunrise

https://zastranienie.bandcamp.com/track/golden-sunrise

Jensen Interceptor - Natural Control

https://soundcloud.com/jensen-interceptor/natural-control

ARP 220 - State of Decay

https://fumerec.bandcamp.com/track/state-of-decay

Distorted Drill and Phasz - Acid Jungle

https://bassagendarecordings.bandcamp.com/track/acid-jungle

 

Kara Keith - Fun

https://karakeith.bandcamp.com/track/fun

 

Corinne - Pourquoi Pourquoi

https://music.apple.com/us/album/pourquoi-pourquoi-single/1177572427

 

Mängelexemplar - Prinz und Prinzessin

https://carisma-studios.bandcamp.com/track/prinz-und-prinzessin-2

Void Republic - Strays

https://voidrepublic.bandcamp.com/track/strays

Jensen Interceptor - Soft Cel

https://stilleben-records.bandcamp.com/track/jensen-interceptor-sof-cel

 

Nexus 23 - Transform (Beatprozessor's Dirty Bass Transform)

https://bassagendarecordings.bandcamp.com/track/transform-beatprozessors-dirty-bass-transform

 

Distorted Drill and Phasz - Didgeridoo Commander

https://bassagendarecordings.bandcamp.com/track/didgeridoo-commander

Zastranienie - The Gate of Redemption

https://zastranienie.bandcamp.com/track/the-gate-of-redemption

tags : electronic, techno, dark electro, minimal synth, electro, alternative, coldwave

Firework Poem

Halloween Party Food Ideas Anyone?

The third stanza from 'Season To Taste' from the EP
 'Frowned Sounds'.
helnthomas.bandcamp.com/album/frowned-sounds

In autumn: sundried, road-kill casserole,
Cow-bar culled, magpie inspected, pecked,
Blood marinated potage of pothole,
Maggot-riced, rock salted and flat packed,
Morsels tweezer-peeled from tarmac’s clefts,
With sulphur tufts and rare game braised, I served
A spill of tongues with juicy marrow cracked,
Then Granny Smith’s most vile windfall dessert:
A boozy, worm-holed sludge of apples bruised,
For raisins: drunk wasps and blue bloated flies,
With nutty gravel crumble, clay clods baked;
Poured septic sauce called ‘custard’ on the side.
Three portions later, to my sad surprise,
My favours failed to bring forth your demise.
 

Halloweenesque - Darkish tunes for 2019

This year's Halloween playlist. It's time stamped, and as many of the buy links I could find are included in the list below. #SupportTheArtists
 https://www.mixcloud.com/helenthomas/halloweenesque-darkish-playlist-2019/

  
Kill Shelter - Bodies (ft Buzz Kull)

https://manicdepressionrecords.bandcamp.com/track/bodies-ft-buzz-kull

Normal - Life and Soul

No buy link

Lucky Oddy - Swine Flu

https://luckyoddy.bandcamp.com/track/swine-flu

The Fat - Fiesta Muerta

https://serendiplab.bandcamp.com/track/the-fat-fiesta-muerta

Owen Tingle - Infertility Dance

https://nerveecho.bandcamp.com/track/infertility-dance

Farmacia - Película de Terror

https://farmacia.bandcamp.com/track/pel-cula-de-terror

Demand - Beauty of Decay

https://aufnahmeundwiedergabe.bandcamp.com/album/beauty-of-decay

John Maus - Time to Die

https://johnmaus.bandcamp.com/track/time-to-die

Ladytron - Evil

http://classic.beatport.com/track/evil-axl-of-evil-mix/3221836

Weerm - Evil Edna

No buy link but check out Weerm's bandcamp anyway:

https://weerm.bandcamp.com/

Sheep On Drugs - Uberman (American Sinners Mix)

https://sheepondrugs.bandcamp.com/track/03-uberman-american-sinners-mix

David Byrne - Good and Evil

https://music.apple.com/us/album/rei-momo/357897803

Fun Boy Three - The Lunacy Legacy

https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Lunacy-Legacy/dp/B01L17CVZM

Helên Thomas - Noise Experiment 1

https://helnthomas.bandcamp.com/track/noise-experiment-1

On Being A White Square by Helên Thomas [2019 mix]

Audio with words.

'Same Coin' - two track single on Bandcamp

From the sublime to the irate. Two spoken word tracks, by me, set to musical loops / soundscapes compiled from donated samples, courtesy of Owen J.


Words: Helên Thomas
Music created using samples donated by Owen J.
Sample butchery, musical assemblage and ear work: Helên Thomas

Sex and Death: Two Flies Shagging In A Cobweb

I was in the garden this afternoon, when I noticed two blue bottle flies shagging on a leaf. Well, it is spring. One of the flies decided to take flight and the pair of them, still adjoined, tumbled down into a wispy cobweb. I grabbed my camera, expecting an incredulous spider to arrive ready to parcel them up.

 

Did they escape? Were they eaten by a spider? I filmed the ensuing drama and you can watch all 49 seconds of it below. If you've ever wondered what a shagged out fly looks like, watch 'til the end.

The death of creativity

I wrote this 14.3.2004 but thought I'd paste it here before AI claims copyright. 

Location: Typing pool 

Typing pool?

Bear with me.
Typewriters: Infinite

Typewriters?

OK, PCs: Infinite

Monkeys: Infinite

Monkeys?

Primates: Extinct now. Hairy. Can’t type.

Can’t type?

They’re not so much typing as hitting keys at random, that’s the point.

Time allowed: Infinite

Expected results: The entire works of Shakespeare plus every other piece of literature that could possibly be written ever. (Includes drivel; magazine articles; biographies including those of people not yet born; major works of fiction; drama and philosophy; all text books except those including mathematical formulae; dogma; manifestos; TV listings pages; occasional recipes and LOTS of poetry, infinite amounts of it, in fact all the poetry you could ever write and more). So, do you think you can build it?

No problem.

Can you build it, run it then publish and copyright its entire output?

Yup.

And how long will this take?

Hmmm. Give me a month.

Brilliant. And then, can you build me one that does art?