A record label for the songs and music created by Mixup and his mates. The weird, the wonderful, and those who just don't know how good they are.

Latest releases:
Sept 2025: The Blackmarket Sound - Business
Sept 2025: RattKing - Duodenum
Sept 2025: Cycling Envelope - Astral Xenolithic Chorus (Live at Gainsborough XC4)
April 2025: Stevie Steve and the Spanners- Lady Bay
April 2025: RattKing - Minotaur's Chase
March 2025: Cycling Envelope -Unknown Destination Explorations
November 2024: Sharp Thorns - Finally Laid To Rest
November 2024: RattKing - Hexen
August 2024: RattKing - Sorcerer
August 2024: Sharp Thorns - Dreams of the Forest
August

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Sharp Thorns

Musician, Producer, Arranger

Rattking

Musician, Producer, Arranger

Tripazoid

VCS3 Collaboration

The Blackmarket Sound

Trapezoid

Improvised electronic soundscapes using old EMS VCS3 synthesizers

Instant Whip

Howard Foster Esquire

Stevie Steve and the Spanners

Roots folk with electronics and beats

Cycling Envelope

Unknown destination explorers

Using two Minifreaks and effects Jez and Steve create improvised soundscapes.

Steve Mixup

The Barons Boys

Tunnel Vision

Dark Industrial Ambience

Fez

Space rock

New Science

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2025. The Blackmarket Sound provide the music for a strange story about wizards.

Sharp Thorns live in June 2024.

Here is a Sharp Thorns video with a track called "Flashflood".

Sharp Thorns. Here is a song called Superglue when the working title for the group was "Fake News".

A Film from 1990 by The Fribblers Frank who are Mixup and Tony Thomas. Soundtrack by Mixup, Tony Thomas and Neil Deakin.

Mixup has been creating art and music since the late 1970's. He joined the "Weekend Lunatics" in the late 70's and was in the band "Steamroller Gloves" in the early 80's. A flavour of his artistic output from 2000 to 2010 can be seen at the ram shackled antique Mixup's old website.

A song writer, singer and keyboard player, he uses digital and analogue synths. His favourite analogue synth is the classic VCS3.

He set up Whisk Records as a platform to release some of his own eclectic musings and those musicians he collaborates with.

Mixup is a vinyl DJ going under the banner of "The Baron". With an 5,000 plus vinyl selection to choose from he has no problem moving from genre to genre but currently specialises in, fuzz soul groover's, funk rock movers, mod psych dancers and bespoke pop chancers.

Mixup is a photobooth artist, starting way back in the late 1970's. He organised the first International Photobooth Convention in 1999 and has been a catalyst for many events worldwide working not only as a street artist but also bringing those idea's to a workshop environment including the Victoria & Albert museum.

Mixup is also a music historian specialising in the history of music from the Nottinghamshire region from the 1950's to the 1980's. Visit the nottsmusicarchive.

My YouTube channel

Recent Whisk Discography (All uploaded to streaming platforms)
Sept 2025: The Blackmarket Sound - Business
Sept 2025: RattKing - Duodenum
Sept 2025: Cycling Envelope - Astral Xenolithic Chorus (Live at Gainsborough XC4)
April 2025: Stevie Steve and the Spanners- Lady Bay
April 2025: RattKing - Minotaur's Chase
March 2025: Cycling Envelope - Unknown Destination Explorations
November 2024: Sharp Thorns - Finally Laid To Rest
November 2024: RattKing - Hexen
August 2024: RattKing - Sorcerer
Aug 2024: Sharp Thorns - Dreams of the Forest
Aug 2024: Sharp Thorns - Live at Church Of Sound *91
May 2024: The Blackmarket Sound - Travel Companion
May 2024: The Blackmarket Sound - Goonsteppa
May 2024: The Blackmarket Sound - Primitive Man
Aug 2023: Instant Whip - No Escape
Dec 2022: Sharp Thorns - Sharp Thorns
Oct 2021: Stevie Steve and the Spanners - Call me Old Fashioned but ....
Jan 2021: Instant Whip - Midlife Crisis
July 2020: Howard Foster Esquire - A Quirk Of Nature (Vinyl album)
Jan 2019: Tunnel Vision - Tunnel Vision
Aug 2017: The Barons Boys - Self Fulfilling Prophecy
Aug 2013: Steve Mixup - Small Talk (Vinyl album)
Feb 2013: Steve Mixup - I Think That's What She Said (4 Tracks) (Two 7" vinyl singles)