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
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.
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.
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...
No one wants to mow the lawn.
January 17, 2026 at 7:15 AM
No one wants to mow the lawn.
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.
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.
And just realised that the star is the fantastic Maruschka Detmers who was also in the controversial & psychosexually demented love triangle terrorist thriller Devil in the Flesh (1986) - love her!
January 9, 2026 at 10:13 PM
And just realised that the star is the fantastic Maruschka Detmers who was also in the controversial & psychosexually demented love triangle terrorist thriller Devil in the Flesh (1986) - love her!
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.
Not sure about the philology, scholarship, academic credibility etc etc but been dipping into this for reasons & it’s a wild ride that you just want to be true… John M. Allegro’s The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross.
December 29, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Not sure about the philology, scholarship, academic credibility etc etc but been dipping into this for reasons & it’s a wild ride that you just want to be true… John M. Allegro’s The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross.
I think someone already did Soylent Green, didn’t they?
December 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I think someone already did Soylent Green, didn’t they?
Definitely trying to make CDs cool again: Decius, Agriculture, Rattle & Swans
December 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Definitely trying to make CDs cool again: Decius, Agriculture, Rattle & Swans
Very grateful for all my gifts this year but my sentimental old soul is particularly pleased with the Close Encounters of the Third Kind fotonovel which I had but lost on a bus circa 1979.
December 26, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Very grateful for all my gifts this year but my sentimental old soul is particularly pleased with the Close Encounters of the Third Kind fotonovel which I had but lost on a bus circa 1979.
Giving myself a break from climate-change horror by reading Robert McCammon’s nuclear apocalypse horror Swan Song
December 2, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Giving myself a break from climate-change horror by reading Robert McCammon’s nuclear apocalypse horror Swan Song
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
November 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
I realise that my teenage self probably didn’t altogether understand or comprehend the complexities of what Dennis Potter was attempting to do with objectification and the male gaze and probably Sartre’s ‘The Look’ but I think I got SOMETHING out of watching Blackeyes in 1989…
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I realise that my teenage self probably didn’t altogether understand or comprehend the complexities of what Dennis Potter was attempting to do with objectification and the male gaze and probably Sartre’s ‘The Look’ but I think I got SOMETHING out of watching Blackeyes in 1989…
Can still really remember how electrifyingly excited very little me was when I realised there was going to be a TV show based on The Book Tower where Doctor Who would review kids books… #DoctorWho #books
November 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Can still really remember how electrifyingly excited very little me was when I realised there was going to be a TV show based on The Book Tower where Doctor Who would review kids books… #DoctorWho #books
And continuing the climate-change near-future sci-fi / horror… onto this one now, Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry For The Future
November 15, 2025 at 8:25 AM
And continuing the climate-change near-future sci-fi / horror… onto this one now, Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry For The Future
REEL play the Hits of Hauntology. m.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Nc...
November 14, 2025 at 8:28 AM
REEL play the Hits of Hauntology. m.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Nc...
Just saying
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Just saying
Watched Michael Haneke’s The Seventh Continent this morning at 5am (long, dull story). Crikey. Thought I’d already watched it - had the box set for years - but, unless my traumatised mind has repressed it, it turns out I haven’t. By all accounts Haneke is actually a bit of a laugh.
November 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Watched Michael Haneke’s The Seventh Continent this morning at 5am (long, dull story). Crikey. Thought I’d already watched it - had the box set for years - but, unless my traumatised mind has repressed it, it turns out I haven’t. By all accounts Haneke is actually a bit of a laugh.
Only saw 30 mins of the Cremaster Cycle in a gallery in Paris 20 years ago but I do think of it now and then. I guess one day I’ll see the whole thing
November 7, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Only saw 30 mins of the Cremaster Cycle in a gallery in Paris 20 years ago but I do think of it now and then. I guess one day I’ll see the whole thing