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A flood at home nearly ruined some of our records. While saving the collection, we revisited vinyls we hadn't played in years. It was a wonderfully odd mix which includes Ray Conniff, Rachmaninoff, Ferrante & Teicher, and the irresistible Pablo Beltrán Ruíz y Su Orquesta. Surprisingly, disaster makes for a good DJ.

Along with these rescued gems, we're also sharing some new promo love. Check out the latest releases from Phil Struck, Mel Keane, hydra:bad, and more.

Mitamine Lab is a culture laboratory based in Mexico City which blends sound archives with contemporary music and literature.

This episode is a Gagarin & Spectral Transmissions Research Unit special.

Commissioned new work from contemporary sound practitioners and other audio choices from experimental electronic collective The Spirit of Gravity.

"Mister Moonlight, succulent, smooth and gorgeous. Isn't it nice? We're number one and so forth. Isn't it sweet being unique?".

Music by Jane & Barton, Whettman Chelmets, Dub Bred, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, The Velvet Underground, Hypp Fractal, Non Dolet, Annette Hanshaw, Delta 5, Grouper, Mrscientificterms & Bicho Raro, Norah Lorway, Tambay, Azalia Snail and Simon Heartfield.

Phantom Circuit is a show of strange and wonderful sound waves - featuring music that is alien, electronic, exotic, essential.

In this episode we trace the ghosts of the lost Hawkhurst Branch Line, which ran through the Kent countryside from 1892 to 1961. By collating site visits, local research, internet scrapes, experimental compositions and interviews, we resurrect this fading space from memory and archive.

The mostly forgotten sights and sounds of the Hawkhurst Branch Line exist momentarily here in dialogue with a fading legacy, as we dig collaboratively into the post-institutional terrain, following where the residual voices and spaces of the past now forge over time with the beautiful Kentish landscape that was left behind.

Live processing and gathered sounds form the basis of this study as we continue to ponder the nature of archiving shifting terrains and the possibilities for occupying, exploring and collaborating with forgotten or abandoned spaces.

Vague Wanderings is a bi-monthly collaborative live show from the 24-26 cohort of School of the Damned, exploring imagined spaces, temporary autonomous zones, collecting field recordings and the fertile topsoil of vague terrains.

A special broadcast of the 2016 album Grand Oeuvre by mysterious French avant-garde group Le Clan des Exaltés.

This episode features Beachers, d-Thed, A'Bear, Trianglecuts, Harmergeddon, theskyisthinaspaperhere and Ruido.

Nicola Serra, founder of East London's experimental music festival Dronica, presents new and archival material.

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.

The idea that song, and the performance of song have some kind of efficacy or sympathy beyond the realm of living humans is an idea that lives and thrives in places far flung from this cluster of mild islands, but has gotten lost and buried in 21st century Western empiricalness. We hope this opens some windows for you.

Some liberties have been taken with interpretation; melodies swapped out, lyrics changed, structures altered, sounds invented, stories retold, truths averted.

Tracklisting:

• Phalay

Secret Reformation-era Votive Antiphon from Stoke Minster (anon).

• Lichens

Early Renaissance Invisibility Spell from England & Denmark. Adapted from The Grand Grimoire (misc., anon.)

• Evergreen

Setting of HeartKickUKTM defibrillator manual text, accompanied by vaguely traditional leaf-blowing techniques.

• Oh Great Goat

Animal Husbandry Song, (anon. Yak Herders), circa Ambleside.

• Janey Has A Friend

Folk song from the 1980s about The Enfield Poltergeist, sung to the tune of “The Bow Gallows”. The story concerns a case of a notorious poltergeist haunting in a small residential house in Enfield between 1977-1979.

A family including two young daughters (Janet was one of them) were tormented by flying objects, toppled furniture, levitations, loud banging. The ghost, who introduced himself as “Bill” spoke through Janet’s own vocal cords in a gruff, low register.

Recorded at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany, and live at Cafe Oto, London, UK. Recorded, mixed, edited by Neil Luck. Cafe Oto live recordings made by kyle acab. Cover illustration by Monika Czyzyk.

Five English Folk Songs by Neil Luck & Mimi Doulton is a collection of marginal traditional singing techniques and songs dug out by Neil and Mimi. These five songs all explore magical forms of communication with non-human energies; Flora, Fauna, Deities, The Dead, and the Quasi-Dead.

Injazero Records founder Siné Buyuka plays a selection of electronic, experimental, ambient and contemporary classical tracks.

Louis Grace presents Teaching Computers to Love. This is a collaborative platform for artists to develop an episode sonically with a 10-20 minute body of work.

In this episode, Joe is joined in the studio by Josh Barfoot (Shovel Dance Collective, Gentle Stranger) for a live set on the hammered dulcimer, with an interview and track selections including Eric Chenaux, Annette Peacock & Robert Wyatt.

The radio counterpart to live intermedia event series Late Works, hosted by founder Joseph Bradley Hill. Each week a new guest joins Joe in the studio to discuss and perform their work. Expect in-depth interviews, live performances, conversations and new event experiments.

This episode steams gently from the inside — towels on the floor, tiles sweating, something between a ritual and a very long shower. Dip in or out...

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 first episode, they are joined by WA Davidson, Carl Krueger, Andy Heck Boyd, Seymour Glass, Pratap Singh, Dylan Burchett, Michael Barthel, Terry Townsend, Fletcher Wright, AN EEL, Kasper Melted, Adam Buffington, Hari Hardman, Julian Bradley, Brandstifter, Ypsmael, Cristano Carosi, Slow Listener, Chik White, Eric Demastes, Joe Davin & Hardworking Families

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.

As a guardian of the Slice, Stephen Shiell is exploring and understanding the site as both a public sculpture and a private environment that sits beyond the boundaries of the usual. These radio shows are recordings of live events, happenings to explore the tensions that exist between the public and private.

Curating the series around his own love for experimental electronics and improvisation is a way for me to bring communities into this setting, a chance to celebrate an underground London culture in a place that hasn’t been commercialised or capitalised, even though it lies in the heart of these very environments.

‘Naus’ refers to the Ancient Greek word for ship, and also recalls the word nausea, a ‘ship- sickness’, that reflects the artist’s feelings towards the neo-liberalist landscape surrounding the ship. The sounds created here are a form of electronic improvised noise resistance.

This episode features Anina Hug, Andrej Bako, Lucia H Chung, 4046 Group (Matt Atkins, Regan Bowering, Lucia H Chung, John Macedo, Flynn McHardy, James Shearman, Stephen Shiell, Vicky Sparrow, Paul Watson, Tom White, Angharad Davies).

Stephen Shiell is a London-based sound artist, composer and improviser working across experimental music, radiophonic art and site-responsive process. His work explores listening as a social, ecological and political act, engaging sound as a way of understanding place, environment and human presence.

A show of improvised electronics recorded live on board A Slice of Reality – a vertical section of an ocean going sand dredger that stands on the foreshore of the Thames at North Greenwich in London, since its placement there 25 years ago. Originally conceived of as a sound bite of lost industry to mark the turning of a millennium, the realities the ship witnesses are now very different - the high octane leisure industries of the Millennium dome and the docks, and the global finance district at Canary Wharf.

Floating Listens by Radio Grenouille-Euphonia, created by Julie Rousse, Aurélie Darbouret, and Jean-Baptiste Imbert. A sound geography of the Calanques National Park, mixing sensitive knowledge, empirical and scientific. Sound creation resulting from a workshop of listening and recording underwater sounds co-created with people concerned by psychiatry.

With the participants of Radiolà: Fanny Ausseil, Yves Seksek, Anita Lindskog, Sylvain Vicarini, Yacine Djemli. Aurélie Darbouret, anthropologist researcher. Underwater recordings: Julie Rousse, sound artist. Recordings & Production: Jean-Baptiste Imbert.

A creation with the phonograph artist Julie Rousse, anthropologist researcher Aurélie Darbouret and sound director Jean-Baptiste Imbert. Floating Listens, a project proposed by Radio Grenouille-Euphonia and supported by the Calanques National Park as part of its call for ‘Culture’ projects for the Autumn of the Calanques 2025 and labeled La Mer en Commun.

Members of Radia, the international group of independent cultural radio stations, explore new and forgotten ways of making radio.

This episode opens with a special introduction by Finnish AV duo Vongoiva where they discuss the inspiration and process behind their new album Jatuli Observatory. We also listen in full to Hadi Bastani and Maryam Sirvan's trans.placed and take a first listen to three upcoming releases which are all inspired by errors.

Greek composer Savvas Metaxas, Iran's Kamran Arashnia and London-based Jonathan Higgins all offer up their unique takes on the possibilities of mistakes. Madeleine Cocolas' new one gets a spin and the show closes with an edit of Rubbish Music's live set earlier this month at Cafe Oto.

This is the Flaming Pines radio show featuring new releases, mixes and experiments in field recording, sound art and experimental music, hosted by Kate Carr and guests.

In this episode, get ready to listen to the weirdest and mind-blowing covers and drifts of I Want to Hold Your Hand by The Beatles. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material.

Vampires, peaceful soldiers, trumpeters, huge packs of dogs, plastic bands, people wearing toupees... all are welcome in Shuffle formula radio mode.

Shuffle by Agnès Pe is a formula radio programme taken to the extreme: repetitive, obscure and humorous. Each episode presents obscure covers of a single song. “Anything that spreads by imitation or spreads by bodily reproduction, like genes, or by viral infection is a meme” - (Richard Dawkins, 2013).

Derek Jarman was always an inspirational Renaissance figure, whose solidarity and commitment grounded his intense imagination. Here we can see for the first time how this remarkable conjunction of forces was present in his earliest work, and in a medium we did not associate with him—until now. – John Akomfrah

Written in 1971, Jarman’s Billboard is a surreal, fabular, lyrical work—a literary fairy-tale, acid-trip, road movie hybrid—the energies and details of which influenced much of his later work across media. The story serves as a foundational text, laying out many of the themes, images, and styling of his work in painting, film and design whilst also being haunted by the then emerging ecological crisis in its juxtaposition of the beauty of nature with the reckless consumption of modernity.

The House Sparrow Press edition features facsimile images of the story’s handwritten drafts from Jarman’s archive and is comprehensively informed by a vivid foreword from Philip Hoare, a deeply researched afterword by Jarman scholar Declan Wiffen, and a warm memoir by artist Michael Ginsborg, a close friend of Jarman’s throughout the period of the story’s writing.

In this blown-away piece of Jarman magic, a fantasy / fable about how to see differently and a cornucopic visual version of the psyche, Derek Jarman casually reconstructs notions of empire, the road trip, and the mid-twentieth century journey of the soul. Trippy, light, fantastic. – Ali Smith

The Resonance broadcast is introduced by a collage of comments from the publication’s launch at the London Review Bookshop (03.11.22), with contributions from (in order of appearance) Gareth Evans, Declan Wiffen and So Mayer, alongside excerpts from Benedict Drew’s Music for Bookshops. Listen to the launch event in full here (with thanks to Claire Williams and all at the Shop).

Derek Jarman (1942-1994) is one of the most influential figures in 20th century British culture. Best known as an iconoclastic filmmaker and polemical gay activist who channeled unparalleled energy into painting, writing, gardening and all manner of cultural activity, he was one of the primary catalysts for a generation of artists and filmmakers whose work is only now being fully recognised for its dark, subversive imagination and fluidity across media. Amongst his films, Jarman is particularly recognised for Jubilee (1977), arguably the first punk movie, Caravaggio (1986), and Blue (1993), a moving memoir about his degeneration from AIDS.

Formed in 2016 to publish A Sparrow’s Journey: John Berger reads Andrey Platonov, House Sparrow Press—an imprint of Prototype Publishing—is, in the best and multiple senses of the word (it is hoped) an ‘occasional’ venture. Based in Hackney, London, it seeks to publish creatively committed, collaborative works both at a time that is relevant and for reasons that feel compelling. It is drawn to manuscripts of hybridity, titles that might elude conventional publication over concerns of form or scale. It also believes in a modesty of style (but never of ambition) and a fecundity of ideas. Its moniker (drawn from its first venture) celebrates a creature that was once ubiquitous and yet is now threatened. The idea of a bird inhabiting and inspiring a place of residence also feels resonant. This is what the best books do too. There are wings at work here. In short, Emily Dickinson was right (again) when she observed that ‘hope is the thing with feathers.’ House Sparrow Press comprises publisher Jess Chandler and editor Gareth Evans.

Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping broadcasts on Resonance Extra and Resonance 104.4FM as a part of a collaborative series of radio works from Tenement Press and Prototype Publishing, Railroad Flat Radio. Thanks to Milo Thesiger-Meacham.

An archival reading of Derek Jarman’s sole work of narrative fiction, Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping (Prototype Publishing / House Sparrow Press) — as read by the author — in a special broadcast to mark the 30th anniversary of Jarman’s death.

I try to upkeep a daily studio practice, even if it’s spending half an hour playing guitar after slogging it through work all day. Most of this becomes documented in folders of audio to be used for later projects.

However, with such a clear and singular vision for what I want to achieve with Kinn and my other aliases, the majority of these sonic experiments never find an appropriate home.

This show is a means to share these raw & textured sounds in short 10-30 second bursts of my personal recordings (2016-2021), from modular synth noodling, jams with friends, outtakes & studio recordings from the next album and more.

The resulting experience is familiar to any sound enthusiast, from the favoured form of procrastinating via blearily scrolling through social media; listening through snippets of new releases on Boomkat; to preparing to begin a new project by rifling through the killer euclidean rhythms you got really excited about after a bottle of bargain barrel wine but now you’re wondering if the world needs another AFX knockoff.

For those into sound and who hate music.

Channelling an array of fervent interests in many genres through different mediums (Film, Music, Sound Art and more), Kinn - the brooding-electronics project of London based artist Freddy Lomas - and his guests use original soundscapes and compositions to weave together an original concept for each month's show.

Lepke B's blissful disregard for the sacred in life has placed him as one of the testcard knights with a totally unique approach to sound plunderphonics and visual art.

Btech and Eman Resu of Superfluid present sound, music, noise along with all their sources via talk, fiction and truth.

William Fields explores the potential of algorithmic music through the process of recreating (and inventing?) genres with his musical operating system.