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A loose drift through misaligned pop, outsider electronics, folk shards, radio ghosts and accidental hymns, presented by Gonçalo F Cardoso. Visit www.discrepant.net/radio for more information.

In this episode, Dylan & Karen are joined by Marija Kovacevic, {AN} EEL, Max Julian Eastman, Anna Peaker, Theo Gowans, Adam Buffington, Yoni Silver, Emanuel Silve, Evyatar Silver, S*Glass, Draamakuu, Simon Whetham, Zhao Ziyi, Jay Howard, Lighten Up Sounds, Witcyst, Bruce Russell, Al Strachan, Ivor Kallin, Euan Currie, F Ampism, Cody Brant, Alex Kera, Jeph Jerman and Shit Creek.

Dylan Nyoukis, Karen Constance and friends beam out an hour of audio collage discombobulation direct from Chocolate Monk HQ. A sonic salve for overstimulated ears.

This special broadcast features full-length audio from The Long Half Day, a 12-hour improvised concert at the IKLECTIK arts lab which took place on Saturday 12 March 2016, featuring Tim Yates, Adam Bushell, Benedict Taylor, Kev Nickells, Chris Parfitt, Diana Policarpo, James O'Sullivan and Dan Powell.

Come On, Come Down! explores adventurous night music for the sleepless. The series covers a broad spectrum of genres, from ambient and noise through to jazz, post-rock and contemporary classical. Each episode is thematically linked and aims to highlight a specific mood, artist or movement. Listen out for the occasional live session.

This episode focuses on the strangest releases from the Soviet major label Melodia, which could be characterised simply as ‘Non-music’. Some records shocked me, some made me cringe — but these tracks seem to form a curious narrative on the verge of a numbing psychedelic journey.

So, within an hour you will hear reconstruction of a concert on mammoth bones, advertisement of the famous Lithuanian hoover ‘Audra’ and car fluids of Soyuzbytkhim factory, field recordings of crickets, toads and even fish singing, pioneers' signals, monologues of parrot Gosha and a patient with nonsense casual relations syndrome, and also hypnotherapy for alcoholics. Happy travelling!

Uzbekistan-based DJ and boss of the experimental TOPOT label Eugenie Galochkin presents rare vinyl rips from the Soviet Melodia label. Melodia has released music from all around the world: from obscure Baltic electronica and free jazz from Siberia; to synth-pop from Tajikistan and academic avant-garde from Ukraine. The series will explore how national and cultural characteristics are embedded in musical language.

This episode features new and recent works by Yzymyr, YUGA, Rapoon, Igor Ballereau, MASAIDEN, Yousef Kawar, Liang YiYuan, and SUTCLIFFE NO MORE.

A selection of new experimental music and sound work from the international underground network Unexplained Sounds, curated by Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst).

This episode features two talks with the Latvian artist Kārlis Tone and the Estonian artist Erik Alalooga, presented in sequence. Interviews are accompanied by sounds captured during the performance of Kārlis Tone's commission at the Skaņu Mežs festival and Erik Alalooga's performance at the joint Baltic Analog Lab and Skaņu mežs residency in Riga, Latvia, in the autumn of 2025 and early spring of 2026.

The interview is conducted by Viestarts Gailītis. The music that one hears is as follows: two fragments from Tone’s composition "Balss lūzums" (eng. - voice fracture), a song “Garu čuksti vados” (eng. - spirit whispers in the cables) by Tone’s band Grab and Erik Alalooga’s songs “Jack the Chopper” and “The Boreal Desert”. Kārlis Tone and Erik Alalooga are experimental musicians and sound artists from Riga and Tallinn, respectively.

Tone is known for his work in the experimental rock band Tesa (est. 2005), the Grab project, and the neo-folk outfit Līgas ph3, as well as for theater music, while Erik Alalooga is a performance, sound, and kinetic art veteran and teacher. He will present his installation at the Skaņu mežs festival in October 2026.

Bi-monthly insights into the activities of the European project tekhnē, which started in 2023. The series showcases a selection of artists who share and discuss their work and listen to recorded material. By putting the focus on the user rather than the developer, this project aims to explore the emancipatory potential of technology in music and sound art. Technology as an art of craft, appropriating and transforming existing tools, to imagine multiple ways of creative misuse. tekhnē is a collaborative project, co-funded by the European Union.

Here they present a recording of The Death of Kodak, live at The Cockpit Theatre for Rough for Opera, 2015.

"Founded by George Eastman in 1892, the renowned photographic film company Eastman Kodak filed for bankruptcy in 2012. The Death of Kodak imaginatively charts this tragic trajectory in terms of the apparent eclipse of analogue technology and the dissolution of identity in the digital era. The graphic score (the length and structure of which is determined by Fibonacci Numbers) is drawn on digital camera flash units, projected on to the retinas of the individual musicians – a technique originally explored by Ed Baxter."

Featuring:

Rodney Earl Clarke: voice (Rochester, New York); Richard Scott: voice (Eastman Kodak); Ed Baxter: text, direction; Louise Goodwin: percussion; Simon King: electric guitar; Elo Masing: amplified violin; Markus Sasse: bass guitar; Milo Thesiger-Meacham: electric guitar; and Chris Weaver: electronics. Voice over: Piers Gibbon.

The Resonance Radio Orchestra is a floating pool of musicians, engineers, sound-effects creators, actors, writers, composers and broadcasters devoted to making live radio-art. It is based in central London as the in-house artistic wing of Resonance104.4fm, under the direction of Ed Baxter.

Certified Tonk showcases improvised music as a shared act of discovery, where meaning appears without being forced, and ego drops away for creativity to take over. This series is an invitation to listen differently, stay present and let the music lead. Andrew Backhouse is an artist and radio geek based in North Yorkshire who has always loved radio and sees it as a place for exploration, not answers.

Ambient, folk, ritual, electronic, dub, free jazz and exploratory works selected by BroodingSideOfMadness.

Investigations of the Brazilian experimental music scene via Rio De Janeiro's Quintavant label in collaboration with Audio Rebel. With live performances and exploratory sounds produced in the context of Brazil's strange political situation, curated by Francisco Mazza, Bernando Oliveira and Pedro Azevedo.