photo – Alex Delfont

Nature . . . . . #greenery #plantlife #contrastedc

Nature
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#greenery
#plantlife
#contrastedcolours
#contrastcolour
#colourcontrast
#greenplants

A red house in dappled light on Copenhagen in 2018

A red house in dappled light on Copenhagen in 2018
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#dappledlight
#copenhagenlife
#denmarklife
#beautifullight
#redhouse

Some photos for a shoot for New Life Portugal. Sho

Some photos for a shoot for New Life Portugal. Shot at Karuna in Devon on a very cold January day! The whole of Dartmoor was covered in snow the day after
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#newlifefoundationthailand
#newlifefoundation
#portraits
#lookingoutthewindow
#devonlife

Ah the memories. Many of these are from a year or

Ah the memories. Many of these are from a year or two ago, such a good group we had back then...missing everyone!

Also missing my local little Thai restaurant in Wiang Chai, a village in the middle of nowhere. 60p for an amazing meal. I pretty much ate the same thing every day for years...Pad Pongari, so tasty. Followed by a fresh mango shake and then a 2 hour massage for £10. Paradise 🌞
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#thailand
#northernthailand
#chiangrai
#wiangchai
#norththailand

Some more memories from Thailand. Lots of me and m

Some more memories from Thailand. Lots of me and my Motorbike chess partner Mark, the first person I met as I walked through the door at @newlifefoundation.thailand and we became life long friends!

Main photo is dawn at Phu Chi Fah
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#phuchifa
#northernthailand
#thailandphotos
#newlifefoundation
#southeastasia
#commmunityliving

Sorting through old photos. These are mostly from

Sorting through old photos. These are mostly from my first couple of years at @newlifefoundation.thailand near Chiang Rai.

I went to this place a complete mess, so anxious and worried about all the people and groups. I also was scared it might be full of new age mega hippies, one of my greatest fears! But luckily I was wrong 🙂

I owe my life to this place in many ways. The progress I made there was more than I'd made in 20 years before. I met such amazing friends who I'm still so close with. Friends who I could joke and have fun with, but more importantly who knew how to support each other and how to be then when the other fell apart. I hadn't experienced anything quite like that before. Very grateful to still be in contact with you all

I have so many beautiful memories of my first few years there starting in 2013, I really felt I was just in the right place at the right time, it was euphoric...and without drugs! I feel a little melancholy when I look back on that time, as nothing quite compares now 🙂

Big love to all my new life friends from all over the world, missing you all, and to the many who sadly passed away. 🙏
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#thailand
#communityliving
#norththailand
#newlifefoundation
#memories
#nostalgia
#chiangrai
#northernthailand

Some photos from my early years at @newlifefoundat

Some photos from my early years at @newlifefoundation.thailand

- Peter asleep in a cart with his coke. Love this photo

- cat on a motorbike!

- Planning our motorbike trip in the woods

- Thai lady picking her crops!
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#newlifefoundationthailand
#thailand
#chiangrai
#norththailand
#northernthailand
#thaistyle
#cocacola

I can't remember why these kids were dressed like

I can't remember why these kids were dressed like this on the way up to Phu Chi Pha in Thailand, but it was that pink in real life!

They look super serious
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#phuchifa
#northernthailand
#thailand
#thaidress
#thaioutfit
#traditionalthai
#chiangrai
#northernthailandtrip

A Buddhist monk smoking a cigarette at Hua Lamphon

A Buddhist monk smoking a cigarette at Hua Lamphong station in Bangkok
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#buddhistmonk
#bangkok
#thailand
#orangerobes
#thailandbangkok
#bangkokthailand
#bangkokstuff
#monks
#buddhist

A couple of photos of working meditation at @newli

A couple of photos of working meditation at @newlifefoundation.thailand from a while back. I'm going through loads of old photos at the moment 🙂
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#newlifefoundationthailand
#workingmeditation
#community
#workingtogether
#thailand
#norththailand
#chiangrai
#wiangchai

A couple of portraits of Marjolein at @newlifefoun

A couple of portraits of Marjolein at @newlifefoundation.thailand last year before the pandemic. Shot on a Panasonic GH5 with Lumix Nocticron 42.5mm 1.2
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#portraitsphoto
#portraitphoto
#portraitofalady
#northernthailand
#asiaportrait
#folkvibes
#portraits_ig

Some photos of @alicedst23 and @_elisadst_ from l

Some photos of @alicedst23 and @_elisadst_ from last year at @newlifefoundation.thailand

Still can't believe it was over a year ago! The first one is from Loi Krathong, a festival in Thailand, to honour ancestors and ask for in return. Everyone makes little floats with candles on and send them off on the water.

The other two photos were for the website...very photogenic Italian sisters!
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#loikrathong
#portraitsphoto
#portraits
#nightportrait
#portraiture
#portraits
#sisters

Bluebells at Emsworthy mire on Dartmoor during loc

Bluebells at Emsworthy mire on Dartmoor during lockdown last spring. I can't believe it's been a year, just went back the other day and the bluebells weren't as impressive, but we did see some baby birds squawking from a hole in the oak tree in the photo.

I make sure I never miss the blue bells, I can't help thinking that I've only got 50 more chances to see them if I'm lucky and live to my eighties! Doesn't seem like long 🙂
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#bluebells
#bluebell
#dartmoorbluebells
#bluebellseason
#bluebellphotoshoot
#dartmoornationalpark
#springtimedevon
#devon

My mother at Buckland Beacon, shooting a 1 minute

My mother at Buckland Beacon, shooting a 1 minute short for @newlifefoundation.thailand during lockdown. One of my favourite views of Dartmoor from on top of that rock
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#dartmoor
#bucklandbeacon
#devon
#dartmoornationalpark
#sillouette
#pinksky
#wanderlustvibes
#folkvibes

A couple of phone photos from last summer. The fir

A couple of phone photos from last summer. The first is looking down on the river dart snaking through the valley near Bel tor in Devon. The second is Clifton Suspension bridge in Bristol.
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#samsungs8
#s8photos
#bristol
#cliftonsuspensionbridge
#beltor
#riverdart
#devon
#dartmoor

Riding through beautiful snaking roads in North Ea

Riding through beautiful snaking roads in North East Thailand. Take me back 🏍️
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#northernthailand
#nanthailand
#motorbiketripthailand
#thaibiketrip
#snakingroads
#motorbikeroads

Some random photos and memories from Thailand I ha

Some random photos and memories from Thailand I had lying about.

I always thought this main photo was funny. Thanks to @abiellahimsa for taking it, you sneaky voyeur! This was our toilet under our hut on stilts on Koh Phayam, Thailand in 2016. Not much privacy!
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#kohphayam
#toiletshots
#onthetoilet
#thailandislands
#thailande
#thaiislands
#voyeur

Exploring on motorbikes around Chiang Rai with @aa

Exploring on motorbikes around Chiang Rai with @aaalessandropapaaa and ol' Tommy Doyle. Good times!

Taken on my phone
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#phonelandscape
#northernthailand
#thailandscape
#rollinghills
#motorbikeadventure
#mototrip
#chiangrai

2019 - Mornings at @newlifefoundation.thailand .

2019 - Mornings at @newlifefoundation.thailand
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#newlifefoundationthailand
#communitylife
#sharingcircle
#communitylove
#thailand
#chiangrai
#wiangchai

Teachers - thank you to these people without whom

Teachers - thank you to these people without whom I'd still be struggling, or quite likely not even here.

At 18 I had terrible panic attacks and a nervous breakdown after years of smoking weed and repressing everything I felt. I then spent my 20s doing a lot of drugs and partying until that caught up with me and led to a second nervous breakdown at 27. These breakdowns went on for months and I was incapacitated, unable to function whilst being tortured by my mind and nervous system. It was hell.

My life since that second breakdown has led me to many weird and wonderful places all over the world. I spent years living in Chiang Rai, northern Thailand at @newlifefoundation.thailand , various other trips around Asia and Europe, meditation retreats, trips to Peru to drink Ayahuasca and other plant medicines, all in the quest to heal the inner turmoil that seemed to be bubbling under the surface for as long as I can remember.

These pictures are of counsellors and teachers who guided me through some of the most difficult times. Many of them feel like parents to me, but mostly guides, and now friends.

I'd seen quite a few therapists in my life, and struggled with many of them, feeling they were too soft, didn't understand me, were deluded or just clearly not cut out for the job!

The people in these photos didn't let me delude myself, and would give me a proverbial slap in the face when I needed it...which was regularly! I needed someone to show me where I was fooling myself - where I was blind.

They didn't let me get stuck and showed me unconditional acceptance and love.

I can't thank these people enough for helping me get through all that darkness to where I am now. I've been incredibly lucky to find and still be in contact with such wise elders and teachers ❤️

In photo order : John Littlewood, John Morecock, Ani Konchog, Joern Stoback, Don Howard Lawler (RIP), Josh Korda, Lidia and Raul, Marianna and Lisa, Dave Smith
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#teachers
#wisdom
#counsellors
#wiseteachers
#buddhistnun
#buddhism
#findingyourway

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

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