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CAMP Radio @campradio.bsky.social · 18h

Listen again: From Bonfire Hill / 13th October 2025

Playing tracks by Bonfire Hill, Faex Optim, Band Of Cloud, The Twelve Hour Foundation, TSR2 and more.

@bonfirehill.bsky.social | www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/from...

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Faex Optim @faexoptim.bsky.social · 20h

Like the Red Army in April 1945, I've made it into Berlin.

(Deliberate Mark Corrigan vibes)

Cheers to 20 Seconds Magazine for featuring the track...

TJ Norris 📷 🎥 📻 @tjnorrisart.bsky.social · 23h

Very pleased to note that @faexoptim.bsky.social's piece 'Ar Saoghal' (after PBK) from 'Elemental Studies' was featured on Berlin's 20 Seconds Magazine (10/7), and you can listen here: soundcloud.com/20-seconds/2...

20 Seconds Radio - Episode 20 (7/10/25) on Archipel Stations

Episode 20 of 20 Seconds Radio on Archipel Stations Community Radio, 88.4 Berlin/90.7 Potsdam. 20 Seconds editors Daniel Melfi and Timothy Isherwood present the magazine’s breadth of coverage in soni

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Faex Optim @faexoptim.bsky.social · 1d

Due to scheduling changes, Touched are releasing this two weeks later than originally planned on 21st November.

Faex Optim @faexoptim.bsky.social · 8d

My next full-length LP 'Solar Drift' will be release by Touched Music on 7th November. The album will be available on Vinyl, CD, and digital formats - 6 original tracks + 2 guest remixes (and 2 bonus remixes on CD and digital versions) - available initially via the label's Bandcamp.

More to follow.

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Faex Optim @faexoptim.bsky.social · 2d

There's a reason the Trainspotting line "it's shite being Scottish" resonated so much up here.

Simon Varwell @simonvarwell.bsky.social · 2d

Half-time in Scotland v Belarus. A land of questionable autonomy with a massively underperforming football team, versus…

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Faex Optim @faexoptim.bsky.social · 2d

I'm trying to get my son into watching football. I think that Scotland game just set me back 5 years.

Faex Optim @faexoptim.bsky.social · 2d

I sometimes watch old Fred Dibnah documentaries. Even from the footage I get a bit queezy. Steeplejacking was (and probably still is to an extent) a hardcore occupation.

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Faex Optim @faexoptim.bsky.social · 5d

Get in in this listening party. Myself and a plethora of other great artists contributed in different guises to the soundtrack and reworks.

TJ Norris 📷 🎥 📻 @tjnorrisart.bsky.social · 6d

LISTENING PARTY: This Saturday at 12PM CST. That is 10AM in Seattle, 11AM in Denver, 1PM in Washington DC, 6PM in London, 7PM in Paris, etc....Please RSVP Today!

Elemental Studies Listening Party!
carpesonum.bandcamp.com/album/elemental-studies

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Faex Optim @faexoptim.bsky.social · 8d

My next full-length LP 'Solar Drift' will be release by Touched Music on 7th November. The album will be available on Vinyl, CD, and digital formats - 6 original tracks + 2 guest remixes (and 2 bonus remixes on CD and digital versions) - available initially via the label's Bandcamp.

More to follow.

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Faex Optim @faexoptim.bsky.social · 8d

Did it stop for no Reason?

(I'll leave)

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Everyday Dust @everydaydust.bsky.social · 17d

My full Four Track Nights performance is on YouTube now.

It’s a live re-imagining of my long form piece Resurrection Of The Foghorns.

Hope you enjoy it. 🩶

#experimentalmusic #darkambient #musiqueconcrete #soundart #avantgarde #soundtrack #horror #industrial

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDmN...

4TN - Everyday Dust - Resurrection Of The Foghorns

YouTube video by Four Track Nights

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Faex Optim @faexoptim.bsky.social · 19d

Any bloggers/mags etc who want to review some pre-release electronical dance music, drop me a DM.

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Faex Optim @faexoptim.bsky.social · 23d

Little preview of a live performance recorded for Four Track Nights over the weekend. Full set will follow in the coming months.

youtu.be/NPQ7SWINnos?...

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Faex Optim @faexoptim.bsky.social · 26d

Some of these are unbelievably good.

youtu.be/rTLPT4eBVL8?...

"Man in the Box" ( Soul)

YouTube video by Fake music

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Faex Optim @faexoptim.bsky.social · 28d

The idea of someone owning a "second home" is frankly ridiculous.

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TJ Norris 📷 🎥 📻 @tjnorrisart.bsky.social · 29d

Gemini wrote a review of #ElementalStudies - Have you ordered your own copy yet? It's available now:

Direct: carpesonum.bandcamp.com/album/elemen...
Soleilmoon: www.soleilmoon.com/shop/various...
Ear-Rational: www.ear-rational.com/product/elem...

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Faex Optim @faexoptim.bsky.social · 28d

Patch cable noodling is so passé

Faex Optim @faexoptim.bsky.social · Sep 11

Step 1) buy 6 bottles of good quality lager from the shop.

More to follow 😀

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Faex Optim @faexoptim.bsky.social · Sep 11

I often get asked about how I write and produce drums (again yesterday), which is odd to me as I generally regard drums as my weaker ability. I have considered doing a wee video on it, but people would be bitterly disappointed with how unsophisticated and disjointed my approach is.

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Faex Optim @faexoptim.bsky.social · Sep 11

Fwiw I am not even that convinced if Trump did anything (in very relatively terms) nefarious. But some people are definitely being protected. Possibly major political donors - incidentally, the US needs to seriously address the extent of those donors. It's undemocratic as fuck.

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Faex Optim @faexoptim.bsky.social · Sep 11

TJ Norris's "Elemental Studies" project, with which I have had a small contribution, is mentioned in Final Cut Magazine:

// @tjnorrisart.bsky.social

www.finalcutmagazine.com/post/element...

Elemental Studies: TJ Norris Unveils a Three-Year Audiovisual Odyssey on Climate, Nature, and the Four Elements

An international collaboration of experimental film and sound explores the fragile balance between humankind and the Earth’s elements.Multidisciplinary artist TJ Norris announces the release of Elemen...

www.finalcutmagazine.com

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Faex Optim @faexoptim.bsky.social · Sep 9

You would if you had owned a Fender Toronado. It was a pile of shit.

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Faex Optim @faexoptim.bsky.social · Sep 9

I briefly owned a Fender Toronado that was gold with a racing stripe. It was a bold statement.

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Faex Optim @faexoptim.bsky.social · Sep 9

I'm very curious about that gold and white headstock. It looks like the Liberace of guitars.

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Faex Optim @faexoptim.bsky.social · Sep 8

This is - so far - a very dreary game of football, exasperated by the empty stadium.

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Faex Optim @faexoptim.bsky.social · Sep 8

There's an awful lot of Trump voting farmers in the US right now asking for government subsidies. Its amazing how people become very socialist when it comes to freeing themselves from the tyranny of laissez-faire capitalism.

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