Happy New Year!

TYFTH had to take December off for many reasons, but things are slowly waking up again this month. The first important announcement is overdue, though I did share something on the FINRG discord – In Praise of Shadows is no longer available on the BigCartel site, and instead Booth is the way to go. It’s a Japanese site but fairly friendly in terms of English support, so placing orders shouldn’t be too much of an ordeal. It goes without saying, but feel free to get in touch via any of the usual places if you have trouble ordering and I’ll do my best to help. Without going into too much detail there are some financial perils looming over TYFTH HQ at the moment, which means that recent orders have genuinely been helping to keep the lights on at the TYFTH SoundCloud, and even the site itself.

What else? I was a bit disappointed by how TYFTH petered out at the end of last year, but even so it was one of my most productive years of mixing for a long time, with two or three sets that I’m still listening to regularly. The plan is to really give Twitch a good go during the rest of this month and next, which’ll mean some improvised sets in between the ultra-planned installments. Whether they’ll get the TYFTH Live tag or not, the hope is to step things up from the semi-monthly situation of last year and make freeform/NRG sets more visible again. In between there’ll be some bigger sets, including the postponed effort for FINRG. Things might even start this coming weekend, when I’m considering a 2024-only stream.

Stand by for some other posts, including some set recommendations that I’ve been sitting on for way too long. There’ll be other huge 2025 announcements as and when (too soon for anything just yet), but that’s enough to be getting on with for now.