Faex Optim
@faexoptim.bsky.social
Post-electronic music. Beats and melodies.
Solar Drift out now - https://touched.bandcamp.com/album/solar-drift
bookings - [email protected]
Solar Drift out now - https://touched.bandcamp.com/album/solar-drift
bookings - [email protected]
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Solar Drift, by Faex Optim
10 track album
touched.bandcamp.com
'Solar Drift' now on sale via Touched Music Bandcamp. Featuring remixes by Sevendeaths, Concretism, Heogen, and Yunx. Available on Vinyl, CD, and Digital formats -
touched.bandcamp.com/album/solar-...
touched.bandcamp.com/album/solar-...
Faex Optim - Monomial (Touched Music)
YouTube video by Touched Music
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
The CD run sold out in 1 day!
Still some vinyl remaining if you're quick.
Still some vinyl remaining if you're quick.
November 23, 2025 at 11:34 AM
The CD run sold out in 1 day!
Still some vinyl remaining if you're quick.
Still some vinyl remaining if you're quick.
Massive props to everyone who bought a copy within the first few hours of release last night. You've already made this one of Bandcamp's best selling electronic albums currently.
Down to last few CDs. Still some vinyl left but selling quickly.
Right, enough album stuff...I'm going to the pub.
Down to last few CDs. Still some vinyl left but selling quickly.
Right, enough album stuff...I'm going to the pub.
November 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Massive props to everyone who bought a copy within the first few hours of release last night. You've already made this one of Bandcamp's best selling electronic albums currently.
Down to last few CDs. Still some vinyl left but selling quickly.
Right, enough album stuff...I'm going to the pub.
Down to last few CDs. Still some vinyl left but selling quickly.
Right, enough album stuff...I'm going to the pub.
"...an album that balances airiness with depth, uplift with introspection. It’s a radiant, assured step forward for an artist who continues to refine his voice..."
choonreview.com/faex-optim-s...
choonreview.com/faex-optim-s...
Faex Optim ⋄ Solar Drift (Touched Music) Pre-Release Review - choonreview.com
Where his earlier work leaned heavily into woozy, detuned synths and dust-flecked nostalgia of analog memories often compared to the gauzy atmospherics of educational reels and retro soundtracks, this...
choonreview.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:52 AM
"...an album that balances airiness with depth, uplift with introspection. It’s a radiant, assured step forward for an artist who continues to refine his voice..."
choonreview.com/faex-optim-s...
choonreview.com/faex-optim-s...
'Solar Drift' now on sale via Touched Music Bandcamp. Featuring remixes by Sevendeaths, Concretism, Heogen, and Yunx. Available on Vinyl, CD, and Digital formats -
touched.bandcamp.com/album/solar-...
touched.bandcamp.com/album/solar-...
Solar Drift, by Faex Optim
10 track album
touched.bandcamp.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
'Solar Drift' now on sale via Touched Music Bandcamp. Featuring remixes by Sevendeaths, Concretism, Heogen, and Yunx. Available on Vinyl, CD, and Digital formats -
touched.bandcamp.com/album/solar-...
touched.bandcamp.com/album/solar-...
Remix swaps are to 2025 what gig swaps were to 2005.
November 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Remix swaps are to 2025 what gig swaps were to 2005.
Silly artist monikers are in. My time has finally come.
Six emerging artists you need to hear: November 2025 🫧
From radiant house and techno to hyperactive club experiments, futuristic baile funk and beyond, from Mohajer, Lu.Re, Small Crab, DAZLBØY, feeo, and Ship Sket ▶️
djmag.com/features/six...
From radiant house and techno to hyperactive club experiments, futuristic baile funk and beyond, from Mohajer, Lu.Re, Small Crab, DAZLBØY, feeo, and Ship Sket ▶️
djmag.com/features/six...
Six emerging artists you need to hear: November 2025
The latest and greatest DJs and producers rising to the top this month. From radiant house and techno to hyperactive club experiments, futuristic baile funk and beyond, here’s November 2025’s list of…
buff.ly
November 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Silly artist monikers are in. My time has finally come.
If Scotland want a kind of IDM world cup song then I could probably free up my schedule to knock something up. You might not win the tournament, but you'll have the best beats.
November 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM
If Scotland want a kind of IDM world cup song then I could probably free up my schedule to knock something up. You might not win the tournament, but you'll have the best beats.
That game took years off me.
November 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
That game took years off me.
This Friday, my next LP 'Solar Drift' will be released by Touched Music. Join us at 7.30pm for a Mixlr release event featuring a guest mix by me followed by a play-through of the album.
touched-music.mixlr.com/events/46687...
touched-music.mixlr.com/events/46687...
Touched_Music | Faex Optim -Solar Drift Album Launch And Pre Mix
Turn up the lights and drop into orbit: join us for an exclusive preview listening party for Faex Optim’s stunning new album, Solar Drift, out now on forward-thinking Touched Music. Hear the full reco...
touched-music.mixlr.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM
This Friday, my next LP 'Solar Drift' will be released by Touched Music. Join us at 7.30pm for a Mixlr release event featuring a guest mix by me followed by a play-through of the album.
touched-music.mixlr.com/events/46687...
touched-music.mixlr.com/events/46687...
Reposted by Faex Optim
Beerdrunk Souls, taken from upcoming LP 'Solar Drift'. Releasing on Touched Music, Fri 21st Nov.
youtu.be/FfFt1tyPD8Q?...
youtu.be/FfFt1tyPD8Q?...
Faex Optim - Beerdrunk Souls (Touched Music)
YouTube video by Touched Music
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Beerdrunk Souls, taken from upcoming LP 'Solar Drift'. Releasing on Touched Music, Fri 21st Nov.
youtu.be/FfFt1tyPD8Q?...
youtu.be/FfFt1tyPD8Q?...
Beerdrunk Souls, taken from upcoming LP 'Solar Drift'. Releasing on Touched Music, Fri 21st Nov.
youtu.be/FfFt1tyPD8Q?...
youtu.be/FfFt1tyPD8Q?...
Faex Optim - Beerdrunk Souls (Touched Music)
YouTube video by Touched Music
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Beerdrunk Souls, taken from upcoming LP 'Solar Drift'. Releasing on Touched Music, Fri 21st Nov.
youtu.be/FfFt1tyPD8Q?...
youtu.be/FfFt1tyPD8Q?...
Konx-om-Pax w/ Faex Optim & Everyday Dust, Friday 13th February 2026, Old Hairdressers Glasgow.
Early bird ticket offer until 31st December.
Special thanks to Kitty Hunter for poster/flyer design.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/konx-om-pa...
Early bird ticket offer until 31st December.
Special thanks to Kitty Hunter for poster/flyer design.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/konx-om-pa...
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Konx-om-Pax w/ Faex Optim & Everyday Dust, Friday 13th February 2026, Old Hairdressers Glasgow.
Early bird ticket offer until 31st December.
Special thanks to Kitty Hunter for poster/flyer design.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/konx-om-pa...
Early bird ticket offer until 31st December.
Special thanks to Kitty Hunter for poster/flyer design.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/konx-om-pa...
Reposted by Faex Optim
Your annual reminder Halloween is pronounced "sah-win", trick-or-treat is pronounced "guy-zing", and pumpkin is pronounced "tum-shi".
Always here to help ;)
Always here to help ;)
October 31, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Your annual reminder Halloween is pronounced "sah-win", trick-or-treat is pronounced "guy-zing", and pumpkin is pronounced "tum-shi".
Always here to help ;)
Always here to help ;)
Limmy called this ages ago.
Without "fast changes" the UK could run out of drinking water in the future warns Hannah Cloke, professor of hydrology from Reading University, on Sky News.
Environment Agency report first 7 months of 2025 were driest since 1976 & England reservoirs only 56.1% full on average.
Environment Agency report first 7 months of 2025 were driest since 1976 & England reservoirs only 56.1% full on average.
Rethinking water: how to weather the dry years ahead
As drought grips England, communities must adapt by saving water, changing habits and working towards a resilient future
eastangliabylines.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Limmy called this ages ago.
2 weeks from tomorrow, I'll be performing at Switched On alongside some great electronic music artists.
Tickets:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/switched-o...
Tickets:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/switched-o...
October 23, 2025 at 9:17 AM
2 weeks from tomorrow, I'll be performing at Switched On alongside some great electronic music artists.
Tickets:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/switched-o...
Tickets:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/switched-o...
It doesn't matter whether you think trolling people is fun or not, this is a lack of class and professionalism aimed at entertaining morons.
October 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
It doesn't matter whether you think trolling people is fun or not, this is a lack of class and professionalism aimed at entertaining morons.
Reposted by Faex Optim
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...
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...
October 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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...
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...
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...
(Deliberate Mark Corrigan vibes)
Cheers to 20 Seconds Magazine for featuring the track...
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
soundcloud.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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...
(Deliberate Mark Corrigan vibes)
Cheers to 20 Seconds Magazine for featuring the track...
Due to scheduling changes, Touched are releasing this two weeks later than originally planned on 21st November.
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.
More to follow.
October 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Due to scheduling changes, Touched are releasing this two weeks later than originally planned on 21st November.
There's a reason the Trainspotting line "it's shite being Scottish" resonated so much up here.
Half-time in Scotland v Belarus. A land of questionable autonomy with a massively underperforming football team, versus…
October 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
There's a reason the Trainspotting line "it's shite being Scottish" resonated so much up here.
Get in in this listening party. Myself and a plethora of other great artists contributed in different guises to the soundtrack and reworks.
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
Elemental Studies Listening Party!
carpesonum.bandcamp.com/album/elemental-studies
October 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Get in in this listening party. Myself and a plethora of other great artists contributed in different guises to the soundtrack and reworks.