Fat Roland

I'm fatroland on Bluesky, and I'm fat_roland on Threads. The underscore is annoying. Think if it as a little thread connecting my fat and my roland.

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW! This month’s cover stars are DOUBLESPEAK – VINCE CLARKE, NEIL ARTHUR and BENGE – and we’re bundling the magazine with a purple vinyl seven-inch featuring two terrific tracks by this exciting new synthpop supergroup. Order now at electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/magazine

#WoWFEST26 presents @commapress ft. Ra Page & writers Ian Carrington, Kiare Ladner & Sarah Schofield for The Monster, Capital - a dark, imaginative dive into capitalism as something monstrous, uncanny, and all too real. Wednesday May 6, 7pm £5 @BlackEnt13 writingonthewall.org.uk/myevents/comma…

MONSTER CAPITAL LAUNCH! 🎉📚 📅 May 6 at 7pm 📌 The Black-E, L1 5EW 🎟️writingonthewall.org.uk/myevents/comma… Join us as part of @wowfest for readings & discussion w/ Ra Page, Kiare Ladner, Ian Carrington @fatroland & @saraheschofield.

Thanks to all who came out last week & thanks to @CPXMCR for hosting such a wonderful evening celebrating #MarkFisher with 'We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher' & 'Monster Capital' ft. @BronteSchiltz & Ian Carrington @FatRoland 📚🎬 📘 commapress.co.uk/books/monster-…

🧟‍♂️ The Monster, Capital @CommaPress presents a gothic reckoning with late capitalism. With @fatroland, Kiare Ladner & Sarah Schofield, chaired by Ra Page. 📅 6 May | 7pm 📍 The Black-E, Liverpool 🎟️ £5 #WoWFEST26 #TheoryHorror

It’s the first weekend in UK shops for the new Electronic Sound, with sonic polymath HANNAH PEEL on the cover. You can also buy the mag with an orange vinyl seven-inch featuring two tracks Hannah recorded with percussionist Beibei Wang direct from us at electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/magazine

Bin Grok. Bin it. Drag it kicking and screaming from this app and chuck it in the chuffing bin.

“Destruction never sounded so good.” Thank you to @ElectronicMagUK for featuring Chronicles of the Residuum in the Pulse section — and to @FatRoland for the write-up. Grateful for the support. #electronicsoundmagazine #chroniclesoftheresiduum #theageofdestruction

▶️ Lapalux: DPO Melt. Crackling, tumble-down hardware-made IDM that sounds like it has fallen down into the dusty vinyl grooves of itself. From his recent On The Grid EP. lapalux.bandcamp.com/track/dpo-melt…

Currently playing on Orbital Radio 📻 Full Spotify playlist (based on what you've been listening to): open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9d…

▶️ John Tejada & Plaid: Bittersweet. A perfect marriage of sprightly 4-4 rhythms, Tejada's unbounded optimism, and the dripping electronic timepiece of the gorgeous Plaid. johntejada.bandcamp.com/track/bittersw…

▶️ I can never buy jelly. The shops are always out of jelly. Who's been buying all the jelly?! Anyway, here is the video for Clark's Civilians. youtube.com/watch?v=m2zv4t…

Hello 2026. I'm glad we made it. Welcome to the future. youtube.com/watch?v=LbAfqr…

I love how much of a palate cleanser Spicy is in this set.

40 albums reviewed so far, and 40+ more to go. For the thousands of you asking, the best words written so far that begin with H are: horses, hardcore, haddock, hotdogs, hypnotise and Hargreaves (Roger). fatroland.blogspot.com

"Going out of the house naked, flying naked through the air, fighting naked ninjas while naked..." I'm blogging my favourite electronic music albums of 2025. Thirty blog posts over five days. Go here: fatroland.blogspot.com

I will be blogging my albums of the year between now and Saturday. Lots of bleepy 2025 goodness. Pop over to my blog, and keep popping back because I have dozens of albums to write about. One of them has the word "clown" in the title, dontcha know. fatroland.blogspot.com

It really made me want duck feet.

It’s the first weekend in UK shops for the new Electronic Sound, which celebrates 50 years of KRAFTWERK’s ‘Radio-Activity’. You can also buy the mag direct from us, bundled with a seven-inch of THE DIVINE COMEDY’s dazzling cover of the album’s title track. electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/magazine