Tom Kell

Working on @Sleevenote, for committed music fans

@jakewoolf My observation is the loafers look too small, vans bookend the pants nicely. Maybe another turn up and light socks with the loafers but only because I like a bit of ankle.

My shirt and pants are comically wrinkled but I’m planning my fit for tmrw and leaving the shoe choice to you Nothing particularly special going on tmrw not an event Vans or Morjas loafers

I'm @bopping_to Together (feat. Nikki Nair, Jessy Lanza ... by @theavalanches Prophecy At 1420 MHz by @boctransmission Switch Up by Mike D

@hiattb Isn’t Nirvana a clothing brand? 😜😜😜

It’s a sign of Gen-X’s failure to establish any kind of cultural hegemony that no one has ever had to pretend to hate Nirvana or the Notorious B.I.G. to seem cool

@eli1ah @getpeid MPC, 808

@getpeid 1210

name a tech product that has real taste not expensive, not minimal, not pretty actual taste

@getpeid Not talking about taste in how it looks, you’re talking about taste in what it does? Integrity?

Albums are just as good as they’ve always been. We just don’t form as strong a bond with them. @Sleevenote

@rsa @TIDAL Is there a direct link for a digital downloads only TIDAL store? We’ve got something cooking for @Sleevenote

Something new we are trying at Tidal: exclusive, paid pre-releases!

@tfadell Totally agree Tony, designing tech needs more discipline than ever. Music in particular needs extra layers of care and respect, and we know there's (still) a huge opportunity to do something great for music. x.com/Sleevenote/sta…

Spotted in the NYC subway. “Zero screen time.” An iPod Shuffle ad in 2026. When we built the iPod, the goal was the technology disappeared and you could have your music wherever you were. 1,000 songs in your pocket. Now we’re living through a moment where people are actively looking for ways to disconnect from the infinite feed, algos, and constant notifications. That doesn’t mean technology is bad. It means the best technology understands when to step back. Not every problem needs another screen, another menu, or another layer of complexity. Constraints create freedom (read: @DavidEpstein new book Inside the Box). And often removing features creates a better product than adding them. The future of technology shouldn’t just be more engagement. It should help us be more human.

@Plastician Yo, you might be interested @Sleevenote, we're building our own transfer software supporting loads of stores too. Limited run at first. x.com/Sleevenote/sta…

I've been looking into stuff like this for my kids. Are these still compatible with current operating systems / software on PC & Mac?

I'm freaking out

Listening to full releases you own on shuffle is such a vibe

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I'm @bopping_to Always Cosmic by @photayy K2 Central by @squarepusher Punching the Flowers by @dcfc

@WesMcQ @HermanMiller Amazing

I miss the bonkers ad work of the 80s/90s. Sound on for [probably] an uncredited Mark Mothersbaugh soundtrack Agency: Robert Abel & Associates Credit to @HermanMiller that what reads now as "generic office chair" was actually state of the art design. They invented an archetype.

Hard to find the time to get big-picture thoughts down for what we're doing, but glad I did, so excited rn

Albums in full

@Sleevenote For the crazy ones

Sleevenote is for those crazy about music

I'll do this all day

@thobbsjourno Ah man, the minidisc player size is great, we reference it for our upcoming @Sleevenote player. The reality of physical media is it comes with the same costs and risk (not selling them all), which is why we're keen to push a solution that's a physical enjoyment of digital music

New piece I commissioned. A great read on why the Mini Disc Player remains sought after in 2026. This one for the Mini Disc lovers backmarket.com/en-us/c/tech-e…