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🎹worker of mellotrons, from edinburgh, 🎼composer and musician, 📐mathematician, 🐈cat wrangler, 🏎️F1, ⛪ordained archbishop, reaper user, Bach, King Crimson and Arvo Part acolyte. www.mikedickson.org.uk mikedickson.bandcamp.com

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · Nov 27

As a slight diversion from the norm, and in deference to this being my #100th album, I have decided that this release will instead be a look back at some of the music that I have made in that whole period, in a couple of cases reaching right back

mikedickson.bandcamp.com/album/mellot...

mellotronworks 100 (2007-2024), by Mike Dickson

24 track album

mikedickson.bandcamp.com

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 12h

One day I will go through the back issues of Elephant Talk and find the article quoting Fripp as saying that there is no King Crimson archive, anywhere...

mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 12h

This needs to be shouted out loud and written in letters 20 feet tall. @bearlypolitics.co.uk

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 12h

In 1972, Idi Amin expelled Uganda’s Asian community in the name of culture.

In 2025, a British MP is using the same language to justify removing lawful residents.

Don’t say it can’t happen here.

"They Will Also Need to Go Home"

A sitting Conservative MP has introduced a bill that would make lawful residents deportable for earning under £38,700 - and Britain’s political class is barely blinking.

www.bearlypolitics.co.uk

mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 12h

Is this the 50th anniversary reissues?

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 12h

One of the four albums that completely changed my view on music and how it should be made.

mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 16h

The only vaguely interesting thing I know about Boney M is that Bobby Farrell died 94 years to the day and in the same city as Rasputin.

mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 16h

That's the one!

mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 16h

I'm more of a THRaKaTTaK type, myself. 😀

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A Funny Old Game @sidlambert.bsky.social · 19h

On Arsene Wenger’s birthday, a reminder of his epic confrontations with his arch-nemesis over the years.

We’re not talking Sir Alex. Or Jose.

But that bastard zip on his big winter coat…

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 16h

I am certain that, had he lived longer, we would see him winning Spa by 15 minutes on a unicycle. With a puncture.
#GOAT

mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 16h

I saw Laurie Anderson doing the same thing a few years ago (kind of) with a bow and a violin with a tape head on the bridge. Still pretty impressive.
#TapeHeadsUnite

Tape Bowing Ensemble - Open Reel Ensemble

YouTube video by Open Reel Ensemble

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caffeine anxiety literal death @mxdshipwreck.bsky.social · 2d

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 2d

I kind of imagined there would be something like that underneath.

mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 2d

OK. I am going to ask 'why?'

mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 2d

Or, alternatively, take a Luger and a bottle of whisky to a quiet room.

mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 2d

Well, the photographic evidence seems to agree with him...
#PeaceInOurTime

mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 3d

*The fuck* is wrong with humanity?

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 3d

To some, the word of the bible is the word of god.
To others, it's a Woolies pick and mix.
To others, it's arsepaper from an uneducated time.

mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 3d

Yep. Deeply dull.

I liked the musical numbers and the times when Ronnie Barker would start a monologue with 'Good evening....'

mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 3d

That's a distressing image

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 3d

Staggering that he still holds records. #JimClark #GOAT

mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 3d

I cannot find a gap between it and Phaedra, other than this one feels more 'pleasingly relentless'. There really wasn't anything like them at the time at all. These records belong to another law of physics.

Fun fact: I destroyed a great set of speakers thanks to Rubycon.

mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 3d

Bookmarked? I have it tattooed on my arm now, mate. 😀

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 3d

I watched the highlights. Celtic were properly hopeless. Hilariously so.

A clear five points in it now. Which means that we will detonate somehow. #Burley

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mellotronworker @mellotronworker.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, but I believe in redemption.