The Future Is Not What It Used to Be

Originally broadcast at 8pm on April 9th 2021 on Dublin Digital Radio.

Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Thorn Tree Wind
Brian Eno - New Space Music
Delia Derbyshire -  The Afterlife
Field Recording Woodland Ambience
Bells from Valaam (Russian Orthodox) Monastery
Coil - Fire of the Mind
Shemale - Horned God
A Lion's Baptism - Birthnight
W. B. Yeats - The Second Coming
Psychic TV - Black Moon
Sappho - Poetic Fragments
Aghast - The Darkest Desire
Shemale - Summon the Sea Witch
Death in June - Heilige Leben
Ezra Pound - Reading from Hugh Selwyn Mauberly
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti - Zang Tumb Tumb
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Requiem (Akira Soundtrack)
Yukio Mishima Interview
Delia Derbyshire - The Afterlife
Arvo Pärt - Fratres
Excerpts from Jonestown Massacre Death Tape
Psychic TV - White Nights
Excerpts from Jonestown Massacre Death Tape
Ulf Söderberg - Morgonmåne
Halo Manash - Through the Gate of Horn
Aphex Twin - Radiator
Aphex Twin - Tassels
Dopplereffekt - Hypersurface
John Butler - (Spiritual Unfoldment) Acceptance
Ceephax - Ravenscar
Donkey B - Revenue
Delia Derbyshire - The Afterlife
Cosmo Sheldrake - Dawn Chorus
Delia Derbyshire - Mattachin
Current 93 - When the May Rain Comes
Boards of Canada - Farewell Fire
Nigel Pennick - Excerpt from The Chaldæan Oracles of Zoroaster
Robbie Basho - Blue Crystal Fire
Psychic TV - The Orchids
Patsy Cline - Life is Like a Mountain Railroad
Hermes Trismegistus - Excerpt from the Corpus Hermeticum
John Fahey - Tell Her to Come Back Home
Marty Robbins - Cool Water
Brian Eno - New Space Music
Field Recording Woodland Ambience

The Great Indoors

Forward Progress

A storm blows up from paradise
- Forward progress
Change the channel, roll the dice
- Forward progress
Ships are sailing o'er the main
- Forward progress
Their engines make a sweet refrain
- Forward progress
Tomorrow better than before
- Forward progress
Memory thrown overboard
- Forward progress

I walk this road forever
I walk this road forever
Good road, good road 
- Bad weather

Forward Progress

CPU128

Window Funk

I can't find my own manual (how therefore, am I to restore to my factory settings?)

I Can't Find My Own Manual (How Therefore, Am I To Restore To My Factory Settings?)

Presented here for your pleasure & consideration, a live set recorded in mine homestead on the 20th April 2016.

It's been recorded live in one take, & there are no edits, tidyings up, or nefarious trickery of any sort whatever, as I figured this would be disingenuous cheating of the highest order on my part.

As such (like all of my live sets) it's quite the shambles; & is replete with bum notes, incorrectly triggered patterns that mess everything up, wanton biddly noises that sound awful, accidental chords that are in the wrong key, out of tune foolishness, weak & boring bits, & moments of joy where it all fits together & everything goes invisible & disappears.

The music here then (much like its composer) is an imperfect shambles. However, while replete with error, it is lovingly & wholeheartedly wrought - as should all our efforts be.  Huzzah to it then, & to us likewise.

Onward, onward! Onward, ever upward!

Jonny

April 2016 Live Set

Magherabeg Beach

Unattended Gate Message (Return Control Voltage To Auxiliary Luv Letter)

Here for your perusement, a live set recorded on the 19th of November 2016 at the Triskel Arts Centre in Co. Cork, Ireland, as part of Mick T-Woc's album launch, which was held therein.

This live set, as usual, contains an inordinate amount of error-laden blips and bloops from an obstreperous and cantankerous assembly of barely functioning synthesisers and drum machines. Enjoy, where possible.

Cheers Jay for the photo, Mick Woc for recording and Wicklow massive and general assembly of Cork heads for what was an entirely  pleasant dance party.

Cheerio,

Jonny

November 2016 Live Set

Dublin
London
Paris
Berlin

Image shows 'The Crowd' by Wyndham Lewis; British Modernist, founder of Vorticism and 'lonely old volcano of the Right': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyndham_Lewis

Europe

Sentimentalist's Choice

Praise Brigade

Late in the Afternoon

Downloadable live set recorded at Sleepers party, OHM Berlin, 21 April 2017.
Cheers Sacha et al for a fine wkd ;-D

This 12" out soon: https://soundcloud.com/sleepersound-2/automatic-tasty-a-world-of-moving-and-connected-parts

Automatic Tasty Live - SLEEPERS @OHM Berlin 21 April 2017

http://www.feelmybicep.com/fmb-mixtape-50-automatic-tasty/

A little mixtape I put together at the behest of the Bicep Crew last year.

Was most enjoyable to stitch this wee landscape together, cheers to the heads for invite, therefore.

FEEL MY BICEP » FMB MIXTAPE SERIES

Dreaming While You're Awake

Half hour live set recorded for your pleasure in All City, Dublin. Expect bleeps, bloops and bum notes, as per. Was good craic this, cheers All City for invite.

Live @All City Records Dublin (Record Store Day 2018)

PF02: Automatic Tasty – The Joys Of Departure EP
Format: 12 inch vinyl
Release date: 21 january 2013
Mastered by Alden Tyrell
Distributed by Clone
Artwork by Another Day

A1. Winetavern Street Romance
A2. The Long Road Home
B1. Thinking Out Loud
B2. Living Vicariously Through My Own Body
Released by: Photic Fields
Release/catalogue number: PF02
Release date: Jan 21, 2013 

http://soundcloud.com/photic-fields/pf02-automatic-tasty-the-joys

http://www.photic-fields.com/

PF02 Automatic Tasty - The Joys of Departure EP

'You'll Never Work In This Town Again!' 2 x 12" coming 2020 w/Further Electronix

A1 Thinking of You
A2 Scaldy Fiver
A3 Tarmac Under Ten Tonne Sky
B1 Interesting and Unique Opinion!
B2 Illegal Trousers (Tweed Limit)
B3 Béilín Beo
C1 One of These Days
C2 Sea Cave
C3 Dialup
D1 Walking Distance
D2 Weather Lore (Signs Of Rain)
D3 Suantraí Suaimhneach

You'll Never Work In This Town Again! 2 x 12" LP

Walking Down Your Street

The mini-LP is available for pre-order from the 2nd July via https://wrongisland.bandcamp.com/album/a-farewell-to-reason, with digital available from the 24th July, and vinyl in stores early August.

Automatic Tasty departs slightly from his pastoral acid sound and picks up the microphone for a collection of melancholic pop songs entitled 'A Farewell To Reason' on Wrong Island Communications.

From the side-eyed sarcasm of 'A Happy Town' to the reflective urgency of 'Wake Up Dead', the album traverses landscapes of sorrow and good humour - representing a stoic acceptance of the problems of modern life and a yearning for something different. 'Something special happened with these songs - I've never had a desire to sing or anything, but the words and melodies all kind of fell out of the cosmos fully formed'. While some pieces such as 'Ballad For A Modern Man' convey a certain urban sense of loneliness and isolation, others like 'Onward Forward' are more optimistic. 'These songs are my own attempt at navigating a certain melancholy which was hanging around me at the time I think. They're very dear to me'.

Music, Lyrics, and Production by Jonny Dillon
Mastered by Brendan Zacharias at Cirrus Audio
Photography and artwork by Garry MacLennan
Art direction by Not The Kind

Automatic Tasty

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