Back on Spacehey - What I've been up to

Hi, I'm back on SpaceHey after what somehow turned into a 2.5 year break. I'm having a look through the profiles I'm following to see how you're all doing, but please leave a comment if you're still active to help me find you.

I had a pretty rough 2023/2024 and didn't make much music, but 2025 is shaping up to be my comeback year, both personally and musicially. It feels great to have creative momentum again.

In case you want to catch up, here's a list of the tracks I put out during my SpaceHey hiatus (with some notes in case you really want to catch up):

Notes from the Crater (2023)

Inspired by some of the music I was into when I first started making music in the late 00s: Skweee (eg. releases on the label Harmönia), braindance musician Global Goon and boisterous lo-fi UK party music by artists like A1 Bassline. Companion track to On the question of motes... (2022), another attempt to create the music I dreamed of making when I was starting out.

Music For Not Giving Up (2024)

Short lofi instrumental on the 2nd compilation from the semi-anonymous (apologies for giving the game away here) Address collective, released by 110100100.global. I actually made this in 2022, before hitting my unmusical patch. There's also a track of mine on the first (2022), compilation - can you guess which?

78 Megabyte Incantation (2025)

Trying to capture the feeling of a deep-seated memory from 2007, playing Animal Crossing: Wild World on the Nintendo DS late at night while staying with a relative during a school holiday. Cosiness + Loneliness + a complicated feeling from thoughts about how my adult life might turn out + my feelings as the adult I actually turned out to be thinking back on this.

Alchemical Codecs (2025)

Compilation track for Sounds Cryptic, a new label in my city (Norwich, UK). Medieval-themed rave music made using stones, a barely-working old keyboard, a recording of a thunderstorm etc.

Legal Experts - Typewriter Nights (2025)

Legal Experts is a collaboration between me and This Town's Finished!, who you might remember from my Distorted Glove EP (2021). We took turns working on the track and ended up with some kind of shoegaze-influenced glitchy lofi psychedelic electronica.

While I wasn't making so much music, I did get more into photography, some of which I've been posting on Flickr. When I go through photography phases, I love how it activates my visual sense and I find myself seeing things I'd normally overlook. Lately I've been enjoying using low-megapixel digital cameras from the 00s - the best/worst camera in my collection takes 0.1 megapixel images.

All the best,

DJJN

P.S. Shout-out to Tirful, who introduced me to SpaceHey and who makes amazing songs and videos.