Strictly Kev

Sorry Elif, just saw this, I'm not really on Bluesky that much these days, you can find me on Insta a bit more

New Moon Letter 1 On Counterculture

Logging into BlueSky to post this great piece by @johnhiggs.bsky.social about the counterculture and getting off social media
open.substack.com/pub/johnhigg...

Coming soon: Rian Hughes: Typeractive Thirty Years of Device Fonts

Font freaks and Type addicts, @rianhughes.bsky.social has a new book of 30 years of his Device typefaces coming to Kickstarter soon!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ria...

Bleep Mix #308 - DJ Food Bleep - We specialise in independent and innovative music regardless of genre or format. Working with labels and artists around the globe, we bring you a hand-picked selection of music for your ears a...

Start your week off with my new O Is For Orange mix for @bleep.com that celebrates Boards of Canada and their influences - includes full video version if you have a spare hour.
bleep.com/bleep-mix-30...

not normally one for nostalgia, but this will take me back. Sat in the far frozen north I never got down to London to TF,but we kind of did our own micro version of this regularly in student digs & basements after hours.
Nice one @djfood.org et al - you were all a huge inspiration 🙏🏻

There's a fair bit of difference but also some videos are reworked/upscaled or have footage replaced.

O Is For Orange 2025 (version 3) YouTube video by Kevin Foakes

I made a mix for @bleep.com (see previous post) and while I was at it, made a video version too.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN-1...

To celebrate the release of the Telepathic Fish compilation , we have a special ‘O Is For Orange 2025’ Bleep Mix from 
@djfood.org 
 
https://bleep.com/bleep-mix-309-dj-food

Be sure to also check out the full length video made to accompany the mix in it's entirety!

Propably not unless someone specifically asks, one of my first ever exhibitions was in Amsterdam though, back in 2000, love the city.

Tales From A Disappearing City - Episode 31 - special guest - Kevin Foakes YouTube video by ControlledWeirdness

I had a hugely enjoyable chat with my friend Neil Keating aka Controlled Weirdness about my formative years in music.

Early musical influences, record buying, London clubbing, graffiti and a fair bit about the Telepathic Fish parties is touched on over the 2hrs.

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A special Telepathic Fish launch event takes place in Brixton on August 31st to celebrate the LP release on Fundamental Frequencies.

@mixmastermorris.bsky.social , Doug Shipton, KiF Prod. (screening their STiLL OUT film), & myself will DJ w. visuals from Matt Black.

Tickets:
ra.co/events/2218194

S5E4 with Budgie (Siouxsie and The Banshees) Podcast Episode · What Goes Around? · 09/07/2025 · 1h 41m

Great new What Goes Around podcast featuring Budgie!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

Out Today!

When that fuzz bass kicks in...

Spinning in Folkestone tomorrow at Cabron Croove Bar with the last day to see my Openmind exhibition at the same venue (open from 2pm - free).
I'll be around in the day at points and then playing later on. Only a handful of tickets left apparently for the gig.
dice.fm/event/bbwxrm...

I agree with these sentiments 100%

Issue 69 / 6 June 2025 Your essential DIY electronic music beano – Track Of The Week: Telepathic Fish 90s ambient compilation + Good Stuff: Hologram Teen, Lake Ruth, Repetition Repetition, zakè double-bill + more

Thanks to Neil Mason for the piece on the Telepathic Fish compilation in this week's Moonbuilding mailout.

Subscribe for free for your weekly dose of release news from the fringes of the electronica world.

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Aphex, Global Communication, Orb and more for comp honouring pivotal 90s Telepathic Fish parties | Juno Daily From house parties to the Roundhouse The Openmind collective's Telepathic Fish parties of the early 90s are to be honoured with a double vinyl compilation of some of its key sounds. The

Me (left) and Richard D. James, Telepathic Fish party, Brixton, 1993. So young.

www.juno.co.uk/junodaily/20...

(slightly late) Buy Music Club recommends for June
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early 90's South London ambient party Telepathic Fish gets its flowers on a deluxe comp featuring rare and lost tracks from Richard D. James' Caustic Window, Tranquility Bass, Spacetime Continuum, Global Communication++

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Big announcment:
I've co-compiled a Telepathic Fish double album for Fundamental Frequencies based around the chill out parties we used to do in the early 90s.

Out 5th Sept - available to pre-oder now with ltd. extra fanzine, mixtape & badge bundle.
fundamentalfrequencies.co.uk/various-arti...

This Thursday at the Corner bar at Tate Modern with @mixmastermorris.bsky.social and Doug Shipton - 7pm-onwards - free!

I should really post about this seeing as it's only a week away. I'm having a small exhibition down in Folkestone from June 3rd @ Cabron Groove Bar.

It will be selections from over 30 years of design work and I've been framing stuff for the last few weeks in anticipation.

Oh maybe it could be phrased; "Asking tech bros to pay for permission would kill the AI industry"

I had no idea that when you subscribe to the Wire magazine you get access to the complete digital archive - £40 a year, that is insanely good value.
The mag is approaching issue 500 and needs help to stay alive.

5 of my personal cheap digs on the 0282 podcast
www.mixcloud.com/0282/0282-ch...

Yes please, mainstream media is going to be all over the place depending on their agenda, I'd rather hear it from two people who have level heads.

try contacting Wow & Flutter in Hastings

Two gigs on the south coast next week supporting @theorblive.bsky.social in Hastings and Folkestone - very much looking forward to this.

I loved his no-nonsense, tell it like it is approach, refreshing to hear someone call idiocy out without tip-toeing around people as if they have an ounce of credibility