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As part of this year's XMTR Festival, Ed Baxter hosts a pop-up radio studio broadcasting live from DayGlo Studios in Silchester Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex. Featuring a wide range of local and international guests, live music, radio art and free-form broadcast events and what Ed describes as “audible psychological objects.” If in the area - come in and join us! Five minutes from St Leonards Warrior Square station - and the whole extraordinary Festival unfolds within walking distance.

Sonoro is a series showcasing Mexican contemporary sound and radio artists. The pieces featured here are albums, collages and multivoice essays that lean towards analogous logics of sound capturing, slow listening, interspecies dialoguing and sonorous contemplation. Curated by Ana Martínez de Buen, these works present almost two decades of soundscapes and sound productions that offer a small sonic window into Mexican radio and sound art.

This environmental audio stream is broadcasting live from the 'End of the World' glacier in Northern Italy's Stelvio National Park. The solar-powered listening station is continuously transmitting since July 2025 from ca. 2.700 metres above sea level in the Italian Alps. We tune in daily to the glacier's cyclical sonic material life, allowing us to witness meltwater rhythms, sediment flows, avalanches, landslides, animal life and the seasonal impacts of weather and tourism entering the microphones, in real time. Elemental Foley by Lia Mazzari will be on show as a solo exhibition at Microscope Gallery in Dalston, London from 10 - 26 September 2026.

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

In this episode, Vague Wanderings takes you underground in the Greenwich Park Reservoir. The reservoir closed 150 years ago and it is completely sealed from the public except for 5 vent holes that are big enough for microphones, speakers and certain instruments.

We're broadcasting live with performances from Christos Stylianides, David Sappa, Lorena Shapiro, and Titus Barker above ground and recording with a microphone 2 meters underground.

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.

Seven days in June, seven replicated walks, each walked once, on one of seven consecutive days – seven days in June, each in the ‘same place’ - across Beringia, on Iñupiat land. This episode is Movement 1.

embodiment -:- walking human movement -:- place more-less natural -:- distance time over across -:- field recording -:- poetry -:- composition -:- martin p eccles

The barely present cult Canadian stand-up comedian Baconface plays lengthy and mainly uninterrupted selections from his late brother's extensive record collection of '60s and '70s psychedelia, progressive rock, free jazz, folk, acid folk, folk rock, acid rock, electronic music, and ethnoforgeries. In association with the Chilliwack Office of Leisure.

This episode is dedicated to the first Meloman M-110 music machines in the Soviet Union. Cabinets with music weighing 130 kilograms began to appear in the 60s in places where citizens would rest – cafes and restaurants, sanatoriums and cruise ships. Each jukebox held fifty seven-inch records and accordingly allowed listening to two-hundred songs.

In total, Melodiya issued about two-hundred records for Meloman - they were not sold in ordinary shops, but the music recorded on them was popular among listeners. The cost of listening to one song was only five kopecks, while the price of a seven-inch record at retail was seventy kopecks and more.

Meloman's repertoire included mostly city pop music of the 60s and 70s in the languages of commonwealth countries. However, in this episode I tried to include not the biggest hits of those years. You will hear bubblegum pop from Poland and Japan, psychedelic rock from Azerbaijan, pop chorals from Georgia, foxtrots from the GDR, as well as a lot of jazz and swing from Russia and the Lesser Caucasus.

It is believed that it was through the Meloman's speakers that Soviet citizens first heard the The Beatles' music – not the original recordings, but performed on a Hammond organ. In 1967, Keith Buckingham recorded a medley of three songs by the Liverpool 4 and this was included in the repertoire of the Soviet Jukebox and in this episode (track 11).

It can seem that the repertoire of the Meloman music machine sounds rather utopian: "I walk and sing and the street sings. The traffic light winked: ‘Go ahead!’," – Soviet pop diva Edita Piekha squints with pleasure in her schlager. It seems to have been so! Meloman's popularity waned in the late 70s, when clubs with live ensembles began to appear in big cities, personal vinyl players became available to almost every worker, and soon the rough rock of Perestroika became fashionable.

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.

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.

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.

Ensemble x.y is a contemporary ensemble that commissions and performs new music in a flexible and ever-changing lineup. Run without traditional roles or hierarchies, Ensemble x.y develops its thematically-charged programmes according to the taste and interest of its core players, as well as the developing working relationships between resident composers and instrumentalists.

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Kobayashi Issa's poem “shrine fence — / on a white flower / a white butterfly”.

To have your music featured on the show, participate in the Haiku music challenge.

Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly haiku poem, curated by Marco Alessi of Naviar Records and Naviar's international community of composers.

In this episode, to celebrate The Rottenslushy Show #50, we have a guest mix from The Maghreban. Massive respect to Big A for providing this killer selection of obscure new wave.

60 minutes of vivid aural excitement mixed by Ian Murphy.

As part of this year's XMTR Festival, Ed Baxter hosts a pop-up radio studio broadcasting live from DayGlo Studios in Silchester Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex. Featuring a wide range of local and international guests, live music, radio art and free-form broadcast events and what Ed describes as “audible psychological objects.” If in the area - come in and join us! Five minutes from St Leonards Warrior Square station - and the whole extraordinary Festival unfolds within walking distance.