now spinning: nice up the dance
side a · liner notes
the writing
track-by-track essays. scene memory. unmasking in public.
now spinning · the launch selection
featured · unmasking
mattress back king of the blackfeet
the years i mixed records before i learned to mask
2026.09.17·07 min·read →
unmasking · side a
2026.09.17·scene memory·06 min
the box
in which a father who couldn't stay sends everything he loved instead
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2026.09.17·scene memory·09 min
the walking years
one front door, three directions, and a C90 of pure joy
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2026.09.17·scene memory·06 min
capital radio's under 18 disco, in 1983, was the best disco in town
the Lyceum, the snow, and the mental note that started everything
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2026.04.30·scene memory·04 min
horizon radio, october 1981, a girl with a radio under her pillow
a love letter to the pirate airwaves, forty years late
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2026.10.02·track-by-track·10 min
coming soon10 tracks that changed my life
not the best records ever made. the ten that actually rearranged me — one per turning point, in the order they got me.
coming soon →
special feature · pirate radio
horizon pirate radio
the stations, politics and late-night signals that reached a girl listening beneath the covers.
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side b · coming next
the rest of the record
the memoir, drafted in public. these are the segments still on the tape.
act one · the inheritance
- 01the trade
- 02the record shop years
act two · the break
- 011982
- 02brixton
act three · the double life
- 01the warehouse years
- 02the crate
act four · the pilgrimage
- 01the pub in harrow
- 02jamaica
- 03studio one