Derek Walmsley
@derekwalmsley.bsky.social
I'm almost always trying to make the text flow better or reduce the number of words. Music writing in The Wire, Electronic Sound, The Quietus, LRB, elsewhere. slowmotion.blog
AI hallucinating “no-debate examples" 🤔
February 4, 2026 at 3:31 PM
AI hallucinating “no-debate examples" 🤔
Big bunch of stuff in the new @thewiremagazine.bsky.social including hardcore hiphop bringing the noise in articles by Joe and Rob, plus me on Autechre guitar, Glasgow improvisers and brief histories of sound recording
February 3, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Big bunch of stuff in the new @thewiremagazine.bsky.social including hardcore hiphop bringing the noise in articles by Joe and Rob, plus me on Autechre guitar, Glasgow improvisers and brief histories of sound recording
And for @electronicsound.bsky.social I had a blast shooting the breeze with Oneohtrix/Daniel Lopatin swapping a couple of sample library CD tips and talking anything and everything re: his great new Tranquilizer album
January 22, 2026 at 9:39 AM
And for @electronicsound.bsky.social I had a blast shooting the breeze with Oneohtrix/Daniel Lopatin swapping a couple of sample library CD tips and talking anything and everything re: his great new Tranquilizer album
If you are canny you can still access sleevenotes of the first 30 or so Blood & Fire compilations on a version of their website on the Wayback Machine. Years or more accurately decades of reggae music scholarship
January 4, 2026 at 11:13 AM
If you are canny you can still access sleevenotes of the first 30 or so Blood & Fire compilations on a version of their website on the Wayback Machine. Years or more accurately decades of reggae music scholarship
What was I thinking with that screenshot. This one.
December 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
What was I thinking with that screenshot. This one.
Always happy to see Dana Andrews on my screen
December 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Always happy to see Dana Andrews on my screen
This is beer of the holiday
December 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This is beer of the holiday
some serious heat on iPlayer films section for your noir xmas
December 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
some serious heat on iPlayer films section for your noir xmas
It feels like Photobucket is stalking me.
December 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
It feels like Photobucket is stalking me.
Couple of reallly great things happening this weekend if you can make it. The briliiant Ricardo Dias Gomes is playing with Jeremy Gustin at TRC on Saturday via @hivemindrecords.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Couple of reallly great things happening this weekend if you can make it. The briliiant Ricardo Dias Gomes is playing with Jeremy Gustin at TRC on Saturday via @hivemindrecords.bandcamp.com
very sad to hear of the death of Jimmy Cliff. We got down to the recent Harder They Come musical in Stratford a month or two back, and it was a pure joy. Beg, borrow or steal a ticket if if comes again.
November 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
very sad to hear of the death of Jimmy Cliff. We got down to the recent Harder They Come musical in Stratford a month or two back, and it was a pure joy. Beg, borrow or steal a ticket if if comes again.
@scottygb.bsky.social on BBC London lunchtime news: “now, I’ve just realised I’ve dressed like Pudsey Bear”
November 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
@scottygb.bsky.social on BBC London lunchtime news: “now, I’ve just realised I’ve dressed like Pudsey Bear”
RIP Adrian Maben! Very glad I got the chance to upgrade from teenage VHS to IMAX this year
November 6, 2025 at 7:44 AM
RIP Adrian Maben! Very glad I got the chance to upgrade from teenage VHS to IMAX this year
Awesome new issue of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social, with amazing Francis Gooding interview going deep into the scales of Ethrio jazz, even wilder Griot Galaxy story, plus my review of @ucpress.bsky.social book by Theodore Gordon rethinking the synthesizer utopia
November 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Awesome new issue of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social, with amazing Francis Gooding interview going deep into the scales of Ethrio jazz, even wilder Griot Galaxy story, plus my review of @ucpress.bsky.social book by Theodore Gordon rethinking the synthesizer utopia
A rare piece of Wikipedia shade
October 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
A rare piece of Wikipedia shade
Among all the good shit in the new issue of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social I got to write about the original don Horace Silver and his killer left hand
October 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Among all the good shit in the new issue of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social I got to write about the original don Horace Silver and his killer left hand
Sorry for the tired photo. Had to get up multiple times in the night to reassure him I was not dead.
October 1, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Sorry for the tired photo. Had to get up multiple times in the night to reassure him I was not dead.
Love this little note on the bottom of a rave blurb for the reissue of Goldie’s Timeless on the @boomkat.com site (and still not on Spotify)
September 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Love this little note on the bottom of a rave blurb for the reissue of Goldie’s Timeless on the @boomkat.com site (and still not on Spotify)
Luciano Berio in his Wikipedia image looks like a comedian being lined up for Taskmaster series 21.
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September 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Luciano Berio in his Wikipedia image looks like a comedian being lined up for Taskmaster series 21.
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Oh no! I can’t have been the only young kid to have seen this and thought ‘OK, cinema can do THIS’
September 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Oh no! I can’t have been the only young kid to have seen this and thought ‘OK, cinema can do THIS’
Loved talking to Lucretia Dalt for @electronicsound.bsky.social magazine, in their brand new issue (wooden instrument made in workshop for scale)
September 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Loved talking to Lucretia Dalt for @electronicsound.bsky.social magazine, in their brand new issue (wooden instrument made in workshop for scale)
Loved this tiny John Berger book which uses the memory of his travelling uncle to travel to Bologna and its architecture and fabrics, something like Walter Benjamin’s Arcades crossed with David Toop
August 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Loved this tiny John Berger book which uses the memory of his travelling uncle to travel to Bologna and its architecture and fabrics, something like Walter Benjamin’s Arcades crossed with David Toop
Shout out to a couple of tremendous Wire pieces I didn't get as much time with as I'd have wanted, but great to return to them now.
August 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Shout out to a couple of tremendous Wire pieces I didn't get as much time with as I'd have wanted, but great to return to them now.
I realise Bender is not the answer to your question, but, Bender.
August 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I realise Bender is not the answer to your question, but, Bender.