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QKThr, an obscure cut from Aphex Twin’s 2001 album, Drukqs, sounds like an ambient experiment recorded on a historic pirate ship. Shaky fingers caress the keys of an accordion to create an uncanny tone; clustered chords cry out, subdued but mighty, before scuttling back into dreamy nothingness. This 88-second elegy has always been overshadowed by another song on Drukqs, the Disklavier instrumental Avril 14th, which alongside Windowlicker is the Cornish producer’s best-known track. But QKThr has become a weird breakaway success, featuring on nearly 8m TikTok posts, adorning everything from cute panda videos to lightly memed US presidential debates, and a fail video trend dubbed “subtle foreshadowing”. Aphex Twin has even overtaken Taylor Swift in monthly YouTube Music listeners, with 448 million to her 399 million. Electronic music DJ and producer RamonPang noticed the milestone last week, and credits the uptick to QKThr. “It really puts in perspective how popular Aphex Twin’s music is in short-form content,” he tells me. “It’s not like there was a cultural shift and everyone’s suddenly listening to ambient techno …
EnBW He Dreiht offshore wind farm (Photographer: Rolf Otzipka) Europe’s power mix hit a tipping point in 2025. Wind and solar generated more electricity across the European Union than fossil fuels for the first time last year, according to Ember’s newly released European Electricity Review. Wind and solar supplied a record 30% of EU power, edging past fossil fuels at 29%. “This milestone moment shows just how rapidly the EU is moving toward a power system backed by wind and solar,” said report author Dr. Beatrice Petrovich. “As fossil fuel dependencies feed instability on the global stage, the stakes of transitioning to clean energy are clearer than ever.” The report offers a full-year look at electricity generation and demand across all 27 EU countries in 2025, tracking how the region’s power mix is shifting away from fossil fuels and toward clean energy. Solar did most of the heavy lifting The big reason wind and solar pulled ahead last year was solar’s continued surge. Solar generation jumped 20.1% in 2025, marking its fourth straight year of …
Photo: Ampion Solar continues to dominate new capacity additions and has held the lead among all energy sources for 26 consecutive months. As a result, installed utility-scale solar capacity now exceeds wind capacity for the first time, according to data released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and reviewed by the SUN DAY Campaign. Solar accounted for 72% of US electrical generating capacity added during the first 10 months of 2025. Further, FERC foresees solar adding another 90 gigawatts (GW) over the next three years, by which time solar capacity will exceed either nuclear power or coal. Solar was 60% of new generating capacity in October In its latest monthly “Energy Infrastructure Update” report released (three weeks late) on January 20 (with data through October 31, 2025), FERC says 66 “units” of solar totaling 1,082 megawatts (MW) were placed into service in October, accounting for 59.8% of all new generating capacity added during the month. Natural gas (727 MW) plus 1 MW of new oil capacity provided the balance. The 649 utility-scale (>1 MW) …
SINGAPORE: A driver who overtook a lorry from its left side in a contravention of the Highway Code hit a motorcycle in a fatal accident. Chua Eng Keong, a 59-year-old Singaporean, was sentenced on Monday (Jan 5) to 18 months’ jail and a driving ban of eight years. He pleaded guilty to one count of driving without due care and attention, causing death. The court heard that Chua was driving a car along Anak Bukit Flyover on the Pan Island Expressway (PIE) at about 8am on Nov 20, 2023. He was on Lane 3 of the four-lane road, with a lorry on Lane 2 and a motorcycle on Lane 1. Lane 1 is the right-most lane on the expressway. To overtake the lorry, Chua accelerated and drove past it on its left, before filtering into Lane 2 without keeping a proper lookout. At about the same time, the motorcycle had changed lanes from Lane 1 to Lane 2 and was fully on Lane 2 when Chua’s car collided with it. The motorcyclist, 35-year-old Muhammad Dzulhilmi …
