Mark Orbiter
@markorbiter.bsky.social
Singer/guitarist for Mpls spacerock combo Dallas Orbiter (and spontaneous composition alter ego group Laser Bats From Mars).
https://dallasorbiter.bandcamp.com/album/spaceman-things-2
Loving husband of an awesome breast cancer survivor. he/him
#MusicSky
https://dallasorbiter.bandcamp.com/album/spaceman-things-2
Loving husband of an awesome breast cancer survivor. he/him
#MusicSky
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Mark Orbiter
@markorbiter.bsky.social
· Sep 13
Spaceman Things, by Dallas Orbiter
12 track album
dallasorbiter.bandcamp.com
Vinyl orders & downloads now available for the new Dallas Orbiter record! Release party at Mortimer's in Mpls tonight! Music starts at 9:30.
Great to see Silkworm back at it
November 15, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Great to see Silkworm back at it
I own all these albums on Bandcamp & can recommend!
Who's looking to hear some weird new music? Visionary ghostwave, haunted wizard synth and dub-splattered hypnogogia perfect for soundtracking intense journeys thru inner space!
etherdiver.bandcamp.com
#musicsky
etherdiver.bandcamp.com
#musicsky
Ether Diver
Instrumental psychedelia for discerning psychonauts.
Need a ship to explore inner space? The Ether Diver will take you where you need to go, and bring you back in one piece.
etherdiver.bandcamp.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I own all these albums on Bandcamp & can recommend!
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I've worked each election since 2008 in polling places from Rochester to the Red Lake rez and they become invariably my proudest, most hopeful moments of the year.
November 5, 2025 at 6:16 AM
I've worked each election since 2008 in polling places from Rochester to the Red Lake rez and they become invariably my proudest, most hopeful moments of the year.
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HAVE IT!
November 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
HAVE IT!
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One of the many reasons I hate this is that it takes advantage of the fact that people won't do the math.
$4,200 is $11.50/day. For a family of four, that's 96¢ per meal.
$4,200 is $11.50/day. For a family of four, that's 96¢ per meal.
Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana blames SNAP recipients for not stockpiling a month's worth of food.
He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
November 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
One of the many reasons I hate this is that it takes advantage of the fact that people won't do the math.
$4,200 is $11.50/day. For a family of four, that's 96¢ per meal.
$4,200 is $11.50/day. For a family of four, that's 96¢ per meal.
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green giant statue (1979), early morning angle view, route 169, blue earth, minnesota, 1988
November 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
green giant statue (1979), early morning angle view, route 169, blue earth, minnesota, 1988
Hell yes. devi makes cool stuff.
i'm back into full production. goal is to get all my small pedals available again in my reverb store. if you have a request for a small two knob pedal you'd like to see sooner than later, feel free to let me know. already got more in stock via my reverb store! new videos coming soon
October 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Hell yes. devi makes cool stuff.
When I was growing up in lily-white Central WI I had like 4 aunt K/Cathys. Only one of them was an actual aunt (through marriage to my mom's brother). I called a bunch of my parents' close friends Uncle _________ or Aunt _________This "controversy" is stupid as hell.
October 28, 2025 at 9:38 PM
When I was growing up in lily-white Central WI I had like 4 aunt K/Cathys. Only one of them was an actual aunt (through marriage to my mom's brother). I called a bunch of my parents' close friends Uncle _________ or Aunt _________This "controversy" is stupid as hell.
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The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.
In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
October 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.
In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
Just finally checked this band out for the first time last weekend, and wow. SO up my alley.
New Natural Information Society LP out soon, more compact & explicitly dubby then recent albums but still very much the best band currently operating
Perseverance Flow, by Natural Information Society
3 track album
eremiterecords.bandcamp.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Just finally checked this band out for the first time last weekend, and wow. SO up my alley.
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Songs included in today's show An Untidy Mind on untidyradio.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Songs included in today's show An Untidy Mind on untidyradio.com
Awesome, awesome record & really good writeup!
"'Deluxe' sits at the midpoint of the avant-meets-rock continuum begun by psychedelia, progressed by prog and completed by post punk, which is absolutely smeared with Harmonia’s fingerpints."
Sometimes Easy, Sometimes Hard — Harmonia’s Deluxe at 50:
Sometimes Easy, Sometimes Hard — Harmonia’s Deluxe at 50:
Sometimes Easy, Sometimes Hard: Harmonia's Deluxe at 50
By 1975, the ornery optimism of the early 70s had declined into a laid-back complacency, with the period’s political stasis paralleled by the mainstream hegemony of unchallenging soft rock. In response, Harmonia’s second album, Deluxe represents a defiant continuation of countercultural impulses – experimentalism, improvisation, communality – while prefiguring the unease and dissatisfaction soon to […]
thequietus.com
August 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Awesome, awesome record & really good writeup!
Dallas Orbiter is stoked to be playing the physical release show for Field Hospitals' 'Ethel Green's EP this Friday at Eagles 34. Extra stoked that the mighty Rank Strangers have just joined the bill! Sadly, Superfloor had to step aside. We're playing first at approximately 8pm. Come say hi!!!
August 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Dallas Orbiter is stoked to be playing the physical release show for Field Hospitals' 'Ethel Green's EP this Friday at Eagles 34. Extra stoked that the mighty Rank Strangers have just joined the bill! Sadly, Superfloor had to step aside. We're playing first at approximately 8pm. Come say hi!!!
Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Gowron, Gorkon, Kahless, Martok, Kurn, Grilka, D'Ghor, Koloth, Mogh, Koloth, Kruge, Dennas.
Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Ebrietas, Sinh, Genichiro Ashina, Ludwig, Isshin, Father Gascoigne, Sister Friede, Maliketh, Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower, Gael, Knight Artorias, Bayle the Dread, Starscourge Radahn, Malenia, Ornstein and Smough.
going to go out on a limb and imagine this guy's not actually very good at conversations
August 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Gowron, Gorkon, Kahless, Martok, Kurn, Grilka, D'Ghor, Koloth, Mogh, Koloth, Kruge, Dennas.
If you, like me, love Miles' band's 'Dark Magus's 3-guitar period, I have a feeling you're gonna love this. It's that lineup playing different tunes (it starts with some "Yesternow') Sounds really good too!
Miles Davis- June 2, 1974 Theatro Municipal, São Paulo, Brazil
YouTube video by Milestones: A Miles Davis Archive
youtu.be
August 16, 2025 at 12:34 AM
If you, like me, love Miles' band's 'Dark Magus's 3-guitar period, I have a feeling you're gonna love this. It's that lineup playing different tunes (it starts with some "Yesternow') Sounds really good too!
Who should I call for tree removal in Minneapolis? Anyone have a recommendation?
August 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Who should I call for tree removal in Minneapolis? Anyone have a recommendation?
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New poem @thearsonista.bsky.social thank you @saint-remus.bsky.social
Part Time Wolf Wife Who Bites Children by Xopher Besinger
” a part time wolf wife who bites children who inspects and weighs for maximum profit.” —excerpt from Xopher Besinger’s poem “Part Time Wolf Wife Who Bites Children”
burninghousepress.com
August 1, 2025 at 11:42 AM
New poem @thearsonista.bsky.social thank you @saint-remus.bsky.social
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Reposting this thread probably because I'm feeling a bit nostalgic while staying in from the wildfire haze on what otherwise would be a gorgeous Saturday morning in MPLS.
In 2011, Dallas Orbiter did a project where we kinda ripped off the Wedding Present's 'Hit Parade' idea of releasing an original single each month with a cover song as the "B-side." Except we did it online-only, & only on our website. The streamers may have existed then, but we had no idea.
August 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Reposting this thread probably because I'm feeling a bit nostalgic while staying in from the wildfire haze on what otherwise would be a gorgeous Saturday morning in MPLS.
This record is really scratching my pissed-off post-punk itch tonight. Great songs, great production choices. Highly recommended!!
hey so, it’s #BandcampFriday and it would mean the world to us if you considered getting a copy of our debut album “pink balloons”
ekkoastral.bandcamp.com/album/pink-b...
ekkoastral.bandcamp.com/album/pink-b...
pink balloons, by Ekko Astral
16 track album
ekkoastral.bandcamp.com
August 2, 2025 at 2:08 AM
This record is really scratching my pissed-off post-punk itch tonight. Great songs, great production choices. Highly recommended!!
Guess I better get on the Bandcamp Friday train! We also just reduced prices for the download and vinyl(!) a week or so ago. Hope you dig.
Spaceman Things, by Dallas Orbiter
12 track album
dallasorbiter.bandcamp.com
August 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Guess I better get on the Bandcamp Friday train! We also just reduced prices for the download and vinyl(!) a week or so ago. Hope you dig.