THE ORACLE SPEAKS IN HALVES: TWO TRACKS FROM DIMIDIUM ORACULI IN GRAHAM DUFF’S MIXTAPE
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Graham Duff has chosen two tracks from Dimidium Oraculi for the 11 November edition of his Mixtape on Totally Radio.
They are Delphic Response, in the Lower Drop mix that David Lewin — The White Whale — takes down into industrial techno, and Future Cartography Re-Mapped, which Adi Newton turns atmospheric and abstract, and yet tactile. He did not place them side by side: they open the first half of the show and the second, in ninety minutes that begin with Iggy Pop and pass through Protomartyr, The Durutti Column, Sylvan Esso and Tim Hecker’s score for Infinity Pool.
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WHO GRAHAM DUFF IS
Born in Blackburn and a graduate of the University of Brighton, Duff is a writer for television and radio before he is a man of music. He created and wrote all fifty-three episodes of Ideal for the BBC, broadcast from 2005 to 2011, wrote the science-fiction sitcom Nebulous for BBC Radio 4, and devised The Nightmare Worlds of H. G. Wells for Sky Arts.
Music runs through all of it. He chose the music for seven series of Ideal himself; he is the author of Foreground Music: A Life in 15 Gigs, an autobiography told through fifteen concerts, and of The Future’s Here To Stay, a study of the singles of The Fall. In 2021 he founded Heaven’s Lathe, an English label that releases nothing but seven-inch lathe cuts in tiny runs — records cut one at a time on a lathe rather than pressed.
Before the Mixtape he presented Totally Wired on Brighton’s Juice 107.2 in the late nineties, and he has been a regular voice on BBC Radio 4’s Loose Ends. Totally Radio, the station that carries his programme today, is an independent online station based in Brighton.
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THE RECORD
Dimidium Oraculi, by Adi Newton & Michael Somerset Ward, is the dark twin of No Ordinary Raconteur: four pieces that take the album’s materials apart and turn them over — an industrial techno remix by David Lewin, a rewriting for piano and clarinet, two reworkings by Adi Newton. It is not in distribution, and it is available only together with the album, from the Rizosfera and Rizosfera America sites.
Our thanks to Graham Duff for listening, and for choosing.
The 11 November edition: https://totallyradio.com/shows/mixtape
DIMIDIUM ORACULI — Adi Newton & Michael Somerset Ward
Armcomm Europe ARMEUV010 (Open Edition) / ARMEUV010SE (Special Edition)
12″ mini-LP, vinyl, 33rpm · 4 tracks, 27 minutes
Publishing: Mute Song Limited / BMG Management Rights
© + ℗ 2026 Adi Newton & Michael Somerset Ward under exclusive licence to Armcomm Europe / Rizosfera
Side A
A1 Delphic Response (Lower Drop Mix)
A2 Last Signal (Somerset Reimagined)
Side B
B1 Future Cartography Re-Mapped
B2 Half-Life Extended
Rizostream only
05 Last Signal (Rizostream Version)
06 Future Cartography Re-Formed (Rizostream Version)
Rizostream: 6 tracks
Publishing: Mute Song Limited / BMG Management Rights
© + ℗ 2026 Adi Newton & Michael Somerset Ward under exclusive licence to Armcomm Europe / Rizosfera
Dimidium Oraculi, build your bundle: https://rizosfera.org/en/shop/armeu010/
No Ordinary Raconteur: https://rizosfera.org/en/shop/armeu009/
Adi Newton at Rizosfera: https://go.rizosfera.org/en/adi-newton-tagc-clockdva
