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circuitbenders.co.uk @circuitbenders.co.uk · 1d

Fot Halloween this year we'll be sneaking around adding an extra screw to the pile whenever you take anything apart, so that when you put it back together you're left with a sense of existential doubt and have to disassemble it again looking for where its meant to go.

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Rene Kita @renekita.bsky.social · 2d

AI investments and chip sales are in the hands of a few companies. If they crash, will it it hurt the rest of us?

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Rene Kita @renekita.bsky.social · 2d

I have a name for a record that includes its concept, so now I can start working on it:

Kallopeli.

'Kellopeli' is Finnish for 'clockwork' and 'kallo' is 'skull.'
So it'll be wonky clockwork music a bit like this one:
archive.org/details/Meis...

Meisselschieber - Ohikuolija (2010) : Rene Kita : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Ohikuolija by Meisselschieber (Rene Kita and Oorlog Braatö) was first released in 2010 by the legendary 267 Lattajjaa label. Improvisation and collages built...

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Rene Kita @renekita.bsky.social · 6d

I have one truly dedicated fan called 'seeker.' Every now and then they spend the day listening to my Soundcloud. Nice.
It's where I put one-off tracks that don't bloom into full albums, usually because I can't recreate them ten times.
soundcloud.com/rene-kita

Rene Kita

Listen to Rene Kita | SoundCloud is an audio platform that lets you listen to what you love and share the sounds you create.

soundcloud.com

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Rene Kita @renekita.bsky.social · 8d

Horror Every Day.
This might help. Lots of obscure things, but some of them are on Youtube.
www.horrormovie.today

Horror Every Day

A horror movie for every day of the year.

www.horrormovie.today

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Rene Kita @renekita.bsky.social · 13d

The goal of every guitarist is to become so good that the listener enjoys their solos more than they do.

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Rene Kita @renekita.bsky.social · 14d

Here you are. It's also a tour through 20 years of music making, in one second blips. Listen through headphones.
soundcloud.com/rene-kita/re...

Rene_Kita-2025-Attention_Blip

I once joked that I don't have an attention span - I have an attention blip. This is an illustration of it. Listen through headphones. There are two tracks, one for each ear.

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Rene Kita @renekita.bsky.social · 14d

I was bored, so I needed music that changes every second. And, as that wasn't enough, I gave each ear a separate track. Listen through headphones.
soundcloud.com/rene-kita/re...

Rene_Kita-2025-Attention_Blip

I once joked that I don't have an attention span - I have an attention blip. This is an illustration of it. Listen through headphones. There are two tracks, one for each ear.

soundcloud.com

Rene Kita @renekita.bsky.social · 15d

Oh good, I have an idea for a record that will entertain exactly one person: myself.
Currently so bored* with music that changes only gradually. So I'll cut up anything I find on my hard disk into one second bits and arrange them randomly.

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Rene Kita @renekita.bsky.social · 15d

"Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God."
Bokonon in Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle

Bokononism should be a major religion. The world might not be better then, but it would be more amusing.

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Rene Kita @renekita.bsky.social · 16d

I open LMMS, pick presets/samples at random, can't find a good groove.
No problem, I'll just make 100 tracks and pick the best.
Well, the 'best' is definitely not among my first seven tracks. Oh well, onward.
They are still earworms. Bloop bleep bleep bloop bloop...

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Rene Kita @renekita.bsky.social · 16d

Except that you have pound signs in your eyes. Ahem. :)
Bring it on.
Besides, the couch potato witch was great. I've forgotten who wrote it.

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Rene Kita @renekita.bsky.social · 16d

Just how many people with dollar signs in their eyes are writing about witches these days?
At some point, Youtube flooded me with audiobooks about them. I got over it. No more witches as detectives, bakers, vampire killers or witch school dropout, junk food munching TV watchers. Nu-uh.

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Rene Kita @renekita.bsky.social · 16d

Asimov's first law: "A robot may not harm a human."

AI developers scrambling: "Um, define harm. Does that include recommending self harm?"

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Vocal Fry on WFMU @vocalfry.bsky.social · 18d

On the new Vocal Fry episode, Purple Haze & I take a quick trip thru Yma Sumac's records, from early 1940s Argentine sides as "Imma Sumack" to her 1971 rocksploitation comeback. We rounded out the hour w/some sweet yodels & more. Stream upon demand:
www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

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Rene Kita @renekita.bsky.social · 19d

Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination is one of the best SF novels ever.
E. E. Smith is always entertaining.

Rene Kita @renekita.bsky.social · 19d

Classic pulp science fiction audiobook playlist. The reader is pretty good and the stories are fun.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The Alien Encounters Collection - YouTube

Encounters with fantastical beings on strange new worlds (or even our own!) have been a staple of science fiction from its earliest manifestation. #classicsc...

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Rene Kita @renekita.bsky.social · 20d

Nitpick of the day:
"Your money or your life."
There's a logical flaw in this traditional highwayman greeting. It should be:
"Your money or your life *and* your money."
It's not like you'd get to keep your money when they take your life.

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Pareidolia @pareidolia.bsky.social · 21d

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Rene Kita @renekita.bsky.social · 20d

This may be my best music in a long while. It's only 6 minutes, as putting all the notes in was hard work and it says all that is needed. @derekwalmsley.bsky.social
renekita.bandcamp.com/album/hochve...

Hochveredlung, by Rene Kita

3 track album

renekita.bandcamp.com

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Rene Kita @renekita.bsky.social · 22d

Wes Craven's version is entertaining. I like all Swamp Thing things.
There's a cartoon version where they used 'Wild Thing' as their theme tune: "Swamp Thing! You make my heart sing! You make everything groovy."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUUF...

SWAMP THING | Full SUPERHERO Movie HD | Wes Craven

YouTube video by FFF+ | Full Free Films Plus

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 24d

Some really good stuff from @brianphillips.bsky.social as is his custom!

The Age of Corporate Capitulation Won’t Work

Donald Trump came for Jimmy Kimmel. Disney folded immediately. It’s not just bad morals. It’s bad business.

www.theringer.com

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Rene Kita @renekita.bsky.social · 24d

Departure Chandelier is the most random band name I've ever seen. Good job!!!

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Rene Kita @renekita.bsky.social · 24d

If I understood this correctly, Spotify now has the right to use and modify your music in any way they want without paying you anything.
I'm not there anyway. None of my music has reached 1,000 streams, so they wouldn't pay me anything. This is my most popular one:

soundcloud.com/rene-kita/hi...

Hit 'em with vocal samples

Drew Daniels dreamed about a genre in 5/4 meter at 212 bpm. This is my contribution to this exploding phenomenon.

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Rene Kita @renekita.bsky.social · 24d

The planet is pretty small. Walk five miles a day and you'll get from Cape Town to Vladivostok in 8 years. If one of these walkers is very handsome or persuasive, he can sire hundreds of kids along the way. According to DNA analysis Genghis Khan did that. His descendants are everywhere.

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