Matthew Kay

@MatthewKay@musician.social
239 Followers
390 Following
2.1K Posts
OccupationJack of not enough trades, master of none
Education“I have knowledge, but I am not learned.” - Greentea Peng
Hobbies#guitar player, #Ableton user, #hiking #backpacking #bushcraft #foraging
LifestyleStraight married white guy #genX #vegan #cat lover
#introduction

Hello dark disco, beauty in the darkness sonic comrades and ahoy fedi neighbours. This is my fresh account for my music and art. I am a drummer and independent electronic music and multimedia producer. I make #industrial #ebm, #synthpop, #goth, #dystopian, #horror, #powernoise, #soundtrack, #techno etc sounds.

My catalogue is free in solidarity or donate what you can on my #faircamp at https://music.control.org

I am available for donate what you can #commissions for remixes, sound design, loops, beats, game assets, installations, soundtrack, you name it. While my wheelhouse is dark, organic, heavy, I am very happy to slide more accessible for kindred projects.

I lost a crap load of connections in splitting my accounts but it was needed for agency and to be more regular and compartmentalised in my posting to focus spoons, specifically for art with a number of exciting projects and releases imminent. I'll be announcing some planned regular post features soon.

Any help with a #boost, follow or mention if you've liked any of my recent remixes or live show much appreciated.

In the back-end of this year thanks to some amazing support and friends, I am very much out of hiatus, very much fighting to stay vertical, and very much releasing:
-a covers album of bangers to clangers from the 80s to now, with a slight touch of my darkness, focusing on songs that I like to shout at the top of lungs when I have my safety headphones on. Caveat, I am not a singer.
-a new original control.org album of EBM thumpers
-an EP of remixes for the 25th anniversary of my C2 album "second wave"

Plans after that, universe willing and with your help, include more dirty sound and drum loop collection volumes, an EP of regenerated, revisited, refreshed tracks of mine from ~30 years ago onward, the sixth full-length from my powernoise and dark soundscape project C2, and at least another volume of covers, music videos, plus more live stream concerts!

And if a good ole independent mail list is up your lane https://mail-list.control.org/subscription/form for occasional updates on releases and events.

Shit is grim. Help me to go down dancing. Let's punch upward and stomp together!

Cheers if you made it this far. Keep fighting and stay vertical.

#music #fediMusic #getFediHired #mastoMusic #mastoArt #gameDesign #boostsWelcome
control freak studio / control.org

dark disko, ebm, industrial, synth, powernoise, synthpop, tech, house, noisescapes, dystopia, horror, commissions, sound design, game assets, installation sounds, noises, remixes

control freak studio / control.org
Something interesting is happening to the fedi, I keep running into more accounts of people based in my side of the world, those close to East Africa (I even saw a Shona poem today, from further down south). I know it's not a mass migration but it's a snail spreading the word. Not a cheetah. So I will have a reason to smile today.

#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #Resistance #District of Columbia

If you are just following major media you may not be aware of how hard the DC residents are fighting our occupation. The mayor is NOT the representative of the residents of DC. She betrays us every single day. I'm posting my open letter to the mayor. Its too long to put in a thread, but you can read it here: https://nubiantigerspodcast.com/dc-occupation/
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DC Occupation - Nubian Tigers Podcast

September 2, 2025 Dear Mayor Bowser: Since the end of January we watched you interacting with the Turmp administration. From the very beginning you seemed completely unprepared for what everyone beside you, knew was coming. I was stunned when you said in a press conference, you were surprised Trump ordered troops into DC. How could ... DC Occupation

Nubian Tigers Podcast
Bwahahaha!!
#cazimodocrochet I lost my 16 year old pug to old age two months ago. She had only one eye since a puppy and her name was Winky. I would love to win 😊
Natasha Jay (she/her) 🇪🇺 (@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt)

Attached: 1 image 'Yosemite climbers unfurl transgender pride flag on iconic El Capitan' The group of LGBTQ activist climbers said the flag, which is 55 feet by 35 feet, is the largest ever displayed on the face of the world-famous rock climbing destination. https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/yosemite-climbers-unfurl-transgender-pride-flag-iconic-el-capitan-rcna208069 #trans #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #climbing #rockclimbing

LGBTQIA+ and Tech
#UrbanExploration #Art #StreetArt

📍 historic Five Points neighborhood, Jacksonville, Florida
Mx. Luna Corbden (@corbden@defcon.social)

What excites me about solarpunk, degrowth, and sustainable living, is that we have materials and science today that make simple living far more doable, safe, comfortable, and easy than it was for our ancestors. LRT, we have glass, which can do so many things our tribal ancestors would've thought magic. Like making a solar fruit dryer. We just need to turn our attention to creating these inventions. I've traded my 40hr per week job for a 10hr per week job, in a simple RV in the country where I'm slowly weening myself off of white colonizer culture and the need to constantly buy things, and it's BETTER. I'd rather get my hands dirty and figure out how to keep away deer through my own awkward inventions, than give that labor to some software company so that they can screw me first chance they get. I doubt I could fully feed myself with a subsistence farm, and I still need some kind of speedy transportation way out here, but I can do things myself as much as possible, and I've got STEEL TOOLS to do it with. I can repair my clothes with a steel needle and really nice thread, I've got glass jars and glue and wire mesh and straight-cut lumber with a power drill, and it doesn't take very much of these things to live comfortably. We don't have to go all the way back to the Stone Age to live sustainably. As a society, we just need to focus our inventive powers (currently decided by "capital") on better, more fulfilling ways to do things. I'd rather struggle against nature than against the unnatural leviathans we call corporations. And I find that much of it isn't struggle, it's learning to listen and cooperate. It's healthier and more purposeful. It feels better. #solarpunk #degrowth #rewilding

DEF CON Social
#caturday
My contribution is where last week’s closeup came from.
Charlie (@35millimetre@photog.social)

Thought I'd try adjusting my bicycle gears myself this afternoon (stiff thumb lever so wanted to either make it easier to push or switch to a twist grip), but have only made them worse, now they won't go onto the lowest sprocket at all. Anyone know any good guides for setting up gears from scratch?

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