Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL)
@rapideyeelectro.bsky.social
REEL formed when three refugees from The Psychedelic Duelling Wars congealed in the psychic wreckage of a Somerset studio to record Wild Garlick electronics, eschatological ambience & brown acid techno on adapted bits of farm machinery & petrol cans
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“The road from the West Country to London is the A303. You think that’s an accident?” #acid #psychedelicduelling #wyrdwildwest
So, are we FOR all these people filming everything all the time or are we AGAINST it? My philosophical systems are coming undone…
January 25, 2026 at 8:34 PM
So, are we FOR all these people filming everything all the time or are we AGAINST it? My philosophical systems are coming undone…
So, are we FOR all these people filming everything all the time or are we AGAINST it? My philosophical systems are coming undone…
January 25, 2026 at 8:34 PM
So, are we FOR all these people filming everything all the time or are we AGAINST it? My philosophical systems are coming undone…
Now playing the first Nurse With Wound record I bought - Automating Volume 2 bought from some record shop under a haberdashery in Clifton, Bristol years ago. A compilation but feels very much like an album.
January 25, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Now playing the first Nurse With Wound record I bought - Automating Volume 2 bought from some record shop under a haberdashery in Clifton, Bristol years ago. A compilation but feels very much like an album.
Found out today that Clare H. Torry, the singer on Pink Floyd’s The Great Gig in the Sky was also the singer of the version of Love Is Like a Buttefly they used as the theme for sitcom Butterflies.
January 25, 2026 at 11:45 AM
Found out today that Clare H. Torry, the singer on Pink Floyd’s The Great Gig in the Sky was also the singer of the version of Love Is Like a Buttefly they used as the theme for sitcom Butterflies.
Well, I’ve probably overplayed it over the past 35 years or so but Big Black’s Kerosene still makes cooking coq au vin more exciting.
January 24, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Well, I’ve probably overplayed it over the past 35 years or so but Big Black’s Kerosene still makes cooking coq au vin more exciting.
‘Gnarly electronic wildness’ is going in our bio
This is killer hands on gnarly electronic wildness. Really excellent. I love it when you sense an off grid (in all senses) feel
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January 24, 2026 at 7:10 AM
‘Gnarly electronic wildness’ is going in our bio
Some REEL-related (well, Glitch & friends from the Hong Kong years) digital jungle glitch from 1997 that’s he’s just uncovered. Old skool innit. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi9v...
Digital Deviants – Urban Jungle {九七 (Gau² Chat¹)}
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January 20, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Some REEL-related (well, Glitch & friends from the Hong Kong years) digital jungle glitch from 1997 that’s he’s just uncovered. Old skool innit. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi9v...
Thought Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey was easily the best version I’d read & now her version of The Iliad is the audiobook on my commute - and it’s probably even better. Stirring stuff.
January 20, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Thought Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey was easily the best version I’d read & now her version of The Iliad is the audiobook on my commute - and it’s probably even better. Stirring stuff.
Never really had any interest in The Smiths despite being almost entirely in the right demographic for them but absolutely love this Hamish Hawk version of Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want so maybe I need to re-evaluate m.youtube.com/watch?v=n650...
Hamish Hawk - Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want (The Smiths - Live for Hidden Door)
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January 20, 2026 at 8:18 AM
Never really had any interest in The Smiths despite being almost entirely in the right demographic for them but absolutely love this Hamish Hawk version of Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want so maybe I need to re-evaluate m.youtube.com/watch?v=n650...
Now reading. Just 100 pages in but so far really liking it.
January 18, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Now reading. Just 100 pages in but so far really liking it.
Make a TV programme rude by completely misunderstanding its title...
January 18, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Make a TV programme rude by completely misunderstanding its title...
Bought a very cheap 6 cd Mahler box set in a charity shop & re-enacting my student days by listening to the first symphony & realising it’s a bit shit.
January 17, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Bought a very cheap 6 cd Mahler box set in a charity shop & re-enacting my student days by listening to the first symphony & realising it’s a bit shit.
No one wants to mow the lawn.
January 17, 2026 at 7:15 AM
No one wants to mow the lawn.
Perhaps a little obvious, but Territorial Pissings … just exemplifies the kindness & the queerness & the community of their music
Name your fav song by Nirvana
January 14, 2026 at 5:55 AM
Perhaps a little obvious, but Territorial Pissings … just exemplifies the kindness & the queerness & the community of their music
We’ve all had days like that
January 13, 2026 at 7:31 AM
We’ve all had days like that
As a school kid who bought this on the day of its release I can still distinctly remember how strangely thrilling it was that Robert Smith waited so long before starting to sing. Sort of exemplified everything I still love about him.
The Cure - The Kiss youtu.be/RtHlzJS61U0?...
The Kiss
YouTube video by The Cure - Topic
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January 12, 2026 at 8:40 PM
As a school kid who bought this on the day of its release I can still distinctly remember how strangely thrilling it was that Robert Smith waited so long before starting to sing. Sort of exemplified everything I still love about him.
I sort of get why some critics disliked The Life of Chuck (2025) - and it would be interesting to see it in a double bill with the same story radically re-edited & re-purposed as a very bleak & paranoid horror movie - but I really liked it. Perhaps you need to like Walt Whitman a bit as well.
January 12, 2026 at 8:15 PM
I sort of get why some critics disliked The Life of Chuck (2025) - and it would be interesting to see it in a double bill with the same story radically re-edited & re-purposed as a very bleak & paranoid horror movie - but I really liked it. Perhaps you need to like Walt Whitman a bit as well.
Now playing. Bought this originally in the 80s because of Swans & Sonic Youth & The Fall (bit of an outlier but they turned up everywhere) - but every track’s great.
January 11, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Now playing. Bought this originally in the 80s because of Swans & Sonic Youth & The Fall (bit of an outlier but they turned up everywhere) - but every track’s great.
I’ve still got an incomplete ‘to do’ list from 2016. And - shit! - one of the things still on it is ‘remember to feed the rabbits’
Guys, can we please not have nostalgia for a year I consider to have been ‘basically the other day’?
Why 2016 nostalgia is taking over social media in 2026
Fidget spinners, filters and feeds that worked. Why are young people pining to go back a decade?
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January 10, 2026 at 3:40 PM
I’ve still got an incomplete ‘to do’ list from 2016. And - shit! - one of the things still on it is ‘remember to feed the rabbits’
Goddamn Eliminative Materialism knocking at my door.
January 10, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Goddamn Eliminative Materialism knocking at my door.
Harsh, but fair.
January 10, 2026 at 6:19 AM
Harsh, but fair.
Tonight’s #film - haven’t watched any Godard in ages & have never seen PRENOM CARMEN. For me at least, senselessly fetishising the 60s & 70s, the early 80s feels like a largely undiscovered era for auteur movies.
January 9, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Tonight’s #film - haven’t watched any Godard in ages & have never seen PRENOM CARMEN. For me at least, senselessly fetishising the 60s & 70s, the early 80s feels like a largely undiscovered era for auteur movies.
Yes, Swans can be a crushingly intense exploration of interpersonal power struggled & nihilism but I think their ability to accurately soundtrack the dread of painting bookshelves is under appreciated.
January 4, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Yes, Swans can be a crushingly intense exploration of interpersonal power struggled & nihilism but I think their ability to accurately soundtrack the dread of painting bookshelves is under appreciated.