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:
Dec 2025: Cycling Envelope - No Signal From The Angels (Live at The Chapel 3rd Oct 2025)
Dec 2025: RattKing - The Last 120 Days
Dec 2025: The Barons Boys - Means More
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 BayApril 2025: RattKing - Minotaur's Chase
March 2025: Cycling Envelope -Unknown Destination Exploratio



Sharp Thorns

Musician, Producer, Arranger

Rattking

Musician, Producer, Arranger

Cycling Envelope

Unknown destination explorers

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

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The Blackmarket Sound

Tripazoid

VCS3 Collaboration

Stevie Steve and the Spanners

Roots folk with electronics and beats

Trapezoid

Improvised electronic soundscapes using old EMS VCS3 synthesizers

Instant Whip

Howard Foster Esquire

Steve Mixup

The Barons Boys

Tunnel Vision

Dark Industrial Ambience

Fez

Space rock

New Science



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.



Biography imageBiography image
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 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.

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Recent Whisk Discography (All uploaded to streaming platforms)
Dec 2025: Cycling Envelope - No Signal From The Angels (Live at The Chapel 3rd Oct 2025)
Dec 2025: RattKing - The Last 120 Days
Dec 2025: The Barons Boys - Means More

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

Mar 2025: Cycling Envelope - Unknown Destination Explorations

Nov 2024: Sharp Thorns - Finally Laid To Rest
Nov 2024: RattKing - Hexen

Aug 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)


  • Nottingham, England, United Kingdom


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    Howard Foster Esquire - A Quirk of Nature - Vinyl album 2020
    Steve Mixup - Small Talk - Vinyl album 2013

    Steve Mixup - Maisie / Dominoes - 7" vinyl 2013