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In this episode, Dronica meets the experimental duo Vādin, who have created a mix which journeys into obscure experimental, techno, drone, tribal and drone.

Vādin is a shapeshifter formed through sound, a seismic energy made up of sound artists Christian Duka and Lucie Štěpánková.

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

Full Programme (GMT):

• Shakeeb Abu Hamdan (11:23am - 12pm)

• RÆ (12 - 12:45pm

• Mabàh (12:45 - 1:30pm)

• Ponge (1:30 - 3:15pm)

• Undae (3:15 - 4pm)

• Emma Kerssenbrock (4 - 4:45pm)

• Moineau Ecarlate (4:45 - 5:30pm)

• The Dead Mauriacs (5:30 - 6:15pm)

• DJ Chouf (6:15 - 7:20pm)

• Julien Boudart (7:20 - 8:30pm)

• Tasks (8:30 - 9:30pm)

• Tzii (9:30 - 10:12pm)

Over ten hours of live experimental music, performance art and spoken word, broadcast from Les Instants Chavirés on the 17th December 2022. Hosted by Instants Chavirés, Sonic Protest and Collectif Coax. Featuring Moineau Ecarlate, Tzii, Rae, Ponge, Undae and many more.

Andy Backhouse presents a two hour show of new and unusual music and sounds - playing everything from Free Jazz to Field Recordings. This is an open-format show with a difference.

A selection of the most vibrant and exciting new sounds of Latin America's emerging talents.

This episode features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by Louise Hastings’ poem “Open road… / the distant clouds / stepping stones”.

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.

An interview with Flaming Pines and a selection of pieces for the guitar.

Thematic mixes and reflections, captured along the Dorset coastline by ATTN:Magazine's Jack Chuter.

In this episode, Rob gets down with label highlights on Iron Lung Records and To Live A Lie Records and lots of brutal hardcore punk in between the chaos.

Maximum Rocknroll Radio is a weekly radio show and podcast featuring DIY punk, garage rock, hardcore, and more from around the world. A rotating cast of DJs pick the best of the best from MRR's astounding, ever-growing vinyl archive. You can find MRR Radio archives, specials and more on their website.

In this episode: an audio essay with Arianne Churchman exploring her ongoing research into the folklore of horses and practices of horse magic.

Chalk horses run across the landscape with the sun, and birth foals with magic in their mouths. Under the moonlight the frog's bone glimmers in the stream, waiting to be presented to the horse and set forth new forms of communication. We join the horse cult, sinking deeply in, and open our escape with them through a dream.

Communiques from Thanet Tape Centre, Hard drive sludge. audio tidal pools. Music sediment. Friends utterances, sea walls of noise, salt marsh drone.

Grab a warm glass of sherry and settle in for an Xmas special. A midwinter mix of contributions to the recent Radiant Heretic Potlatch winter solstice event at the Rossi Bar, Brighton - featuring: Othermen, Sirius, and Their Majesties Lüdd Puka .

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

Examining experimental compositions past and present.

Summer 2022’s monumental Radio Art Zone allowed me the opportunity to work with the best actor of his generation, Steffan Cennydd, who I’d seen on the tv a few times and who luckily was free for a day to record a whole bunch of pieces. These are presented in a sequence here, four in English and one in his native Welsh. The idea in each is not to attempt a traditional radio play nor to produce a classic dramatic monologue. Rather each of these pieces tries to create a psychological object. They are all deliberately elliptical, fragmentary, allusive, but share some underlying themes (obsessions perhaps) and, inevitably, language. Ultimately it’s the actor’s voice that makes them work - you’ll hear that, I think. - Ed Baxter

• The Deserter (27.43)

Commissioned by Radio Art Zone as part of Esch2022 European Capital of Culture.

• Butch Cassidy in Paris (Heart like a Duck, part 3) (27.20)

Commissioned by Hearsay International Audio Festival. Second voice: Willie Carr. Additional recording by Diarmuid McIntyre.

• Ar y Mynydd (On the Mountain) (19.51)

Text commissioned by Benedict Drew. Welsh translation: Ffion Emyr. Guitar loop sampled from a performance by Alasdair Roberts.

• Birdbrain (25.29)

Commissioned by Radio Art Zone as part of Esch2022 European Capital of Culture. Baby’s voice: Ivor Forsyth-Lanceley. Additional recording by Peter Lanceley.

• My Life as Doug Yule (25.39)

Commissioned by Radio Art Zone as part of Esch2022 European Capital of Culture. Additional recording by Trilby Baxter.

Thanks to all involved in these collaborations; to Knut, Sarah, Mathilde and Necef at RAZ; to Daniela Gargiulo; and, for their encouragement, Kersten Glandien, Anthony Moore, Milo Thesiger-Meacham and Jim Whelton.

Five Folk Tales for Radio (featuring Steffan Cennydd). Voice: Steffan Cennydd. Concept, text, sound design, montage by Ed Baxter. Recording engineer: Michael Umney.