photo – Alex Delfont

Mud building at @newlifefoundation.thailand in 201

Mud building at @newlifefoundation.thailand in 2014. A bit of a logistical nightmare getting a whole community of people to build anything, but also amazing how quickly things come together.

And the houses are all still standing luckily 😊
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#newlifefoundationthailand
#thailand
#northernthailand
#mudbuilding
#adobehouses
#chiangrai
#wiangchai
#thaihouse
#beautifultones

The last trip down memory lane with a final galler

The last trip down memory lane with a final gallery of Delfy Creations.

It's been interesting going through all my old projects, and realising I got into some weird stuff, but loved it all! I miss those days of being young, naive and curious. Time to find some new wormhole to get lost in 🤖
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#circuitbending
#synths
#synthesizer
#synthmaker
#electronics
#circuitbent
#creating
#diyprojects
#chiptune
#bitpop
#8bit

Some more Delfy Creations videos and photos from b

Some more Delfy Creations videos and photos from back in the day. This video shows some of the noisy contraptions in action...as I said it's an acquired taste! @studiolockdown
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#circuitbending
#circuitbent
#circuitbend
#delfycreations
#synthesizer
#synth
#synthporn
#synthmaker
#squarewaves
#electronicmusic
#noise
#experimental

Sound on! 🤖 Delfy Creations (2005) Video and ph

Sound on! 🤖 Delfy Creations (2005)
Video and photos

In my late teens and early 20s I got into something called circuit bending; the process of short circuiting electronic instruments and toys to get weird noises out of them. Then often re housing them in interesting boxes and having switches and knobs to adjust all the weird and wonderful modifications.

It started as a hobby but when I had too many cluttering up my room I sold some on eBay and Myspace, and soon after it became a business - Delfy Creations. I'd obsess over the website and making ridiculous promo videos as you see here. I joined up with my friend Shaun at @studiolockdown and we created a range of original products. These were created from scratch using using simple square wave oscillators to create the kind of 8-bit sounds we loved.

The SS-1 was our most popular synth, a tiny thing with only two knobs and a couple of big metal contacts that you squeezed, and the more contact you made the higher the pitch went. You complete the circuit through your body. It was even featured in @wireduk magazine!

We sold these and gave them away to various musicians and producers such as @fartooloud @teedinosaurs @opiuo @hedflux slagsmalsklubben and more.

Many people hear the sounds these things make and look very confused! It's an acquired taste!

I'll be posting a few more sets of photos on here, as there were so many contraptions! Also the website is archived on my website if you want to look, or search Delfy Creations on YouTube

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#delfycreations
#circuitbending
#synthesizers
#synths
#synth
#circuitbend
#slagsmål
#electronica

Sound on 🔮 Trip down memory lane! In my early

Sound on 🔮 Trip down memory lane!

In my early 20s me and my cousin Tom wanted to start a collective for musicians and artists to release their work. This ended up morphing into a big group of friends putting on events and parties.

We put a ridiculous amount of time and effort into everything we did, obsessing over tiny details for months. Of course we never made any money, but we spent a lot! We wanted to create the kind of parties we would've loved to go to.

We lost a lot of sleep, took a lot of drugs, worked very hard and had a lot of fun! There were too many people involved to name here, but you can see most of them in the videos and photos. I wish Instagram would let me upload more photos for a post!

It feels like a different life looking back, but so many fond memories and bittersweet nostalgia for that time. I had to accept my little brain and nervous system isn't cut out for that life style and now I'm more into Chamomile tea and an early night 🤦🏻‍♂️

Big love to the Box Collective family ❤️

The song in the video is a remix I made in 2010 of Salt n Pepa's 'Shoop'. It's free to download on SoundCloud

The photo at the start of the video was taken by @amybehrensclark
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#theboxcollective
#devon
#party
#dancefestival
#rave
#raveparty
#partytime
#dancemusicevent
#freeparty
#function1
#soundsystem
#saltnpepa
#shoop

Turn your sound on! 👾 I got a Gameboy in 1989

Turn your sound on! 👾

I got a Gameboy in 1989 when it came out. I was 4 years old and life wasn't the same again! I was obsessed, mostly with Super Mario Land and Tetris. It was only when I got a SNES a few years later that the gameboy took a back seat. The two best consoles ever made.

Then in my late teens and 20s I got into chiptune : music created on old consoles. I bought LSDJ, a home made cart which allowed you to program music using the 4 sound channels on the Gameboy chip. It was a laborious process, inputting hexadecimal numbers, pressing start, listening and then changing something. It took forever! I made two albums this way, about 13 years ago! You can find them on my website under 'old music' if you dare.

I remember everyone was into 'real' dance music, but we put on parties and played what we liked, chiptune and bitpop. Many people hated it, but those who loved it really loved it. It was pure euphoria for me, hearing those childhood sounds out of a massive sound system whilst super high! It was much more popular in Scandinavia, and I remember turning up to a festival in Sweden and seeing a huge crowd going crazy to a guy on stage with a Gameboy 😊

I also got obsessed with modifying them, and broke so many! The photo is of a 6 way sync box I made for someone so you could have an orchestra of Gameboys and LSDJ! We used to make pc keyboards that you could play the Gameboy with too. Lots of fun

If you didn't grow up with these games you probably won't like any of it. You're missing out! Most people look bemused when they hear it, although 8-bit stuff is having a bit of a resurgence in the last years.

I've put some snippets of tracks here, from my 2008 album Akimbo. Yes that second one is a cover of Blackbird by The Beatles. It still makes me happy, that's what matters! 🤖
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#gameboy
#originalgameboy
#gameboymusic
#lsdj
#chiptune
#bitpop
#delfycreations
#gameboys
#80stoys

Mine and Steve aka @hedflux 's album KIN came out

Mine and Steve aka @hedflux 's album KIN came out in 2018, which feels like a lifetime ago!

We felt we were creating something quite special and unique, our different styles and skills complimenting each other. It wasn't always easy, but we got there in the end and have had an amazing response.

Steve has played it to big crowds around the world including Boom festival. It seems to have served its purpose, as we wanted something you could listen to at home while relaxing, but that would also work on the dance floor. We wanted it to be deep!

Just looking at reviews on bandcamp one person said 'Outrageously beautiful and nuanced. The last few tracks make me cry on the regular. Incredible stuff'

We always hoped some of it would make someone cry...in a good way of course 😊

Find it on streaming sites or buy it from bandcamp
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#kin
#hedflux
#electronica
#dancemusic
#psychill
#psychedelicmusic
#downtempomusic
#electronicmusicproducer
#luminusrecords

A lovely dawn walk with some of my favourite peopl

A lovely dawn walk with some of my favourite people last year
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Shot on film - Canon A1 with FD 50mm 1.4 lens, Tri x
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#canona1
#shotonfilm
#trix
#trixfilm
#dartmoor
#devon
#blackandwhite

Shot on film - Canon A1 with FD 50mm 1.4 lens, Tri

Shot on film - Canon A1 with FD 50mm 1.4 lens, Tri x
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#canona1
#shotonfilm
#trix
#trixfilm
#dartmoor
#devon
#blackandwhite

A snippet of a half finished song I wrote last sum

A snippet of a half finished song I wrote last summer. It's a sad one, and a work in progress like most of my music now...hopefully one day I'll finish it!
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#pianosoftsong
#pianoballad
#ballads
#melancholymusic
#melancholymood
#gameoftones10k
#dartmoor
#grainyfilm

My mum hiding from the snow storm but probably mor

My mum hiding from the snow storm but probably more the camera
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#snowdartmoor
#dartmoorsnow
#haytorsnow
#snowydevon

This little beauty was right in his element in the

This little beauty was right in his element in the snow, although I don't think he'd ever seen it before. Hypnotising eyes 👁️
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#snowydog
#dartmoor
#snow
#huskylove
#wolfdog
#snowdogsofinstagram

Found some snowy pics from January. Shame I couldn

Found some snowy pics from January. Shame I couldn't find any willing tobogganing partners! Adults are boring
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#snowydevon
#dartmoorsnow
#devon
#dartmoornationalpark
#toboggan

A few more photos of my grandpa and grandma, and s

A few more photos of my grandpa and grandma, and some cartoons from the papers
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#delfont
#bernarddelfont
#lorddelfont
#blackandwhitephotos
#blackandwhitefilmphotography
#50sand60s
#50sfashion
#40sstyle
#40sfashion

Some more photos of my grandad. This main one is m

Some more photos of my grandad. This main one is my favourite, I love all the telephones in the foreground, and just the whole feel and tone of the photo.
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There are some posters from shows and a letter from the royal family after one of the royal variety performances
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#delfont
#bernarddelfont
#lorddelfont
#delfontmackintosh
#impresario
#entrepeneurship
#royalvariety
#royalvarietyperformance
#blackandwhitephotos

There's too much to say about my Grandad to squeez

There's too much to say about my Grandad to squeeze in here, so I'll only write a little. He was born Boris Winogradsky in Russia in 1909, before coming to the UK. He began life in London as a dancer before becoming an impresario and changed his name to Delfont. Him and his brothers Lew and Leslie Grade were all extremely successful in the entertainment industry from the 50s on. He produced shows and films, started the royal variety show, put on acts such as Laurel and Hardy, Tommy Cooper, Shirley Bassey, Frank Sinatra, to name a few. He even got asked to manage the Beatles, but said no! Big mistake!
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When we were young we went to the Royal Variety show in London, and I remember feeling really uncomfortable all suited up and around all these celebrities and the royal family! But it was exciting too. I used to get embarrassed as a child as kids would tease me and call my 'little lord Delfont'! Bastards. As I've got older, and thought more about what he achieved and read his autobiography I feel really proud. He came over here with almost nothing and changed the entertainment industry, had such an amazing and eventful life and gave us all so much.
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I only knew him when I was quite young. I have such fond memories of being at the house in Sussex and would have loved to had a chance to know him more as an adult.
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There are so many great photos, and I often look at them and imagine what it must have been like to be alive at that time, and to achieve what he did. Last but not least he looks like a Mafia boss in so many photos, which I love. Surrounded by telephones, always smoking a cigar, getting shit done!

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#delfont
#lorddelfont
#royalvariety
#royalvarietyperformance
#royalfamily
#50sand60s
#oldblackandwhitephotos

Some classics of me and my brother growing up . .

Some classics of me and my brother growing up
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#oldfilmphotos
#brothersinarms
#dartmoor
#dartmoornationalpark
#devonlife
#devonscenery

A very old photo of my parents, one of my dad when

A very old photo of my parents, one of my dad when he was younger looking very cool, and one of him with my brother Joe on a tractor in Devon where we grew up
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#blackandwhiteportrait
#blackandwhitefilmphotography
#blackandwhitephoto
#blackandwhite
#oldfilm
#analoguecamera
#filmphoto

I've been going through all the old family photos

I've been going through all the old family photos and there are too many great ones not to share.
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This is my grandma Carole Lynne, later Carole Delfont when she married my grandad. She was an actress in the 40s and 50s, and these are some photos from that time...a long time before I was alive!
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#40sfashion
#40sstyle
#50sstyle
#50sfashion
#headshotsonly
#50sactress
#bernarddelfont

More waterfall memories! . . . . . #waterfalls #w

More waterfall memories!
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#waterfalls
#waterfallsofinstagram
#waterfallsfordays
#asiawaterfalls
#asiaphotography

Just over a year ago at Khun Korn waterfall near C

Just over a year ago at Khun Korn waterfall near Chiang Rai. Such a beautiful huge waterfall deep in the jungle
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Getting a bit too nostalgic about Thailand recently, seeking my little pot of tiger balm by my laptop and teleporting temporarily!
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#northernthailand
#chiangrai
#norththailand
#waterfall
#portrait
#portraitphoto
#asiaportrait
#wilderness

Found this footage from a motorbike trip I did in

Found this footage from a motorbike trip I did in 2018! Me and my good friend Mark explored the north east of Thailand, and rode through Doi Phu Kha national park. It's my favourite part of the country, the landscapes, the people, the food.
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Not much effort went into putting this video together! But seemed a shame to waste it. You can watch the full version on my Vimeo/YouTube channels
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Music by Hedflux and Alex Delfont, on Spotify if you want the whole album.
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Filmed on a GH5
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#thailandnorth
#northernthailand
#motorbiketrip
#motorbikesthailand
#chiangrai
#doiphukha
#nanthailand
#shortfilm
#montage
#travelmontage
#euphoricdancemusic
#electronica
#gh5film

Shot on a canon FD 50mm 1.4 You can buy these lens

Shot on a canon FD 50mm 1.4
You can buy these lenses super cheap, made in the 70s, built like tanks, and I think much more pleasing than so many modern super sharp lenses. Vintage always wins! Well unless you need autofocus
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#blackandwhiteportraitphotography
#blackandwhiteportrait
#moodyfilm
#blackandwhiteportraits
#canonfd50mm
#canonfd
#canonfd50mmf1_4

A still from 'Keeping quiet,' which you can watch

A still from 'Keeping quiet,' which you can watch in full quality on my website or Vimeo/YouTube.
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This is me precariously trying to film myself whilst swimming, and looking extremely unhappy about something. Probably that nothing was working properly!
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#wildswimming
#filmstill
#moodyvibes
#moodyvsco
#vscoportraits
#filmstockphoto
#grainyfilm
#folkvibes
#haytorquarry
#dartmoornationalpark

Finally uploading photos I've had sitting on my co

Finally uploading photos I've had sitting on my computer for months. Probably also because I'm reluctant to post portraits of moi!

Shot on a Sony A7ii with Canon FD 85mm 1.8
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#blackandwhiteportrait
#portraiture
#bandwphotography
#bandwportraits
#moodyportrait
#intensestare
#moodyvibes
#canonfd85

Portraits of @Chrystaline using my new Sony FE 85m

Portraits of @Chrystaline using my new Sony FE 85mm 1.8. I can't believe I used micro four thirds for so many years, I don't think I could go back from full frame now! Although my bmpcc4k is still MFT mount and I love it for video 🙂
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#portraitstreak
#sonyfe85mmf18
#sonyfe85
#sony85mm18
#sonya7ii
#sonyportraits
#folkportraits
#vscoportraits
#portraitsofinstagram

Some more photos of @Chrystaline from last summer

Some more photos of @Chrystaline from last summer
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#wildernesstones
#portraitsofinstagram
#softportraits
#vscoedits
#vscoportraits
#gameoftones10k
#bristollockdown
#lockdownphotoa
#portraiture

Some portraits of Chrystaline last summer in the m

Some portraits of Chrystaline last summer in the morning light
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#portraitsofinstagram
#morninglight
#canona1
#shadowsandlight
#folkvibe
#shadowsonthewall
#folkvibes
#vscoedits
#vsxoedit

Sorry for the half naked photo! I'm looking forwar

Sorry for the half naked photo! I'm looking forward to spring when I can live in shorts again... life is better with less clothes on
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This was almost a year ago when I started renovating my house in Bristol, naively thinking I could do it in a few months with almost no experience. It's been a year and I'm still not done, but I'm close. I learnt everything from YouTube and forums and a healthy dose of obsession. New kitchen, new bathroom, fixing, changing and decorating every inch of the house, inside and out. It's been a labour of love but also a great project for the never ending lockdown. It feels good to finally have moved in, with my old friend and rap partner in crime @jackguitarduff who I was just complaining to yesterday about people posting vain selfies on Instagram, and look and me now! It's a one off.
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Also really enjoying St Werburghs, the community, the food, the people, gotta love the Werbs
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These photos are some of the worst points when I was smashing things not knowing what would happen next! When it's done I'll post the nice ones 🙂
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And that's dust on my nose in case you're wondering! 😊
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#renovationproject
#renovatingonabudget
#diyhomeimprovement
#renovationdiy
#diyrenovation
#renovationlife
#renovationjourney
#victorianhouse
#blackandwhiteportrait
#blackandwhiteportraits
#stwerburghs

Highland cows on Dartmoor in winter, beautiful cre

Highland cows on Dartmoor in winter, beautiful creatures.

Shot on film - canon A1. Hp5
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#highlandcows
#highlandcowsofinstagram
#highlandcows🐮
#dartmoornationalpark
#shotonfilm
#canona1
#hp5film
#blackandwhitephotography
#bandwphotography

Happy Mothers day to my lovely mum who hasn't had

Happy Mothers day to my lovely mum who hasn't had the easiest sons to bring up! Thank you for the endless support and love x

shot on film - Canon A1 + Ilford HP5
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#mothersday
#mothersday2021
#canona1
#hp5film
#shotonfilm
#filmportrait

A short for 'The Moon Made me do it' with @chrysta

A short for 'The Moon Made me do it' with @chrystaline
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The music is an unfinished classical piece I'm working on. Filmed on BMPCC4K with canon FD lenses
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#moonvideo
#yogaclassesonline
#moodyedits
#blackandwhitevideo
#blackandwhitefilm
#moodyfilm
#canonfd
#bmpcc4k
#rituals

A short film and music I made for Pippa Bondy at A

A short film and music I made for Pippa Bondy at Ancient Healing Ways in Snowdonia, north Wales.
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Watch full quality on my YouTube channel
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Filmed on bmpcc4k, with canon FD lenses. And Mavic mini
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#ancienthealingways
#snowdonia
#snowdonianationalpark
#snowdoniagram
#dartmoornationalpark
#globeshotz
#folkvibes
#adventurewaits
#depthobsessed
#folksouls
#council

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