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Tse Tse Fly Middle East was a nonprofit arts and activist organisation that existed from 2015 until 2023. Throughout that time, it presented a monthly two-hour radio programme showcasing sound art and experimental music from the Middle East, India and North Africa.

A nine-part retrospective of the first five seasons of the Radia network’s epochal (and on-going) radio art series. Assembled by Lee Stapleford.

This episode features Umami Set by heavymeta.4pl:

"Umami means a strong taste that is not sweet, sour, salty, or bitter and that is often referred to as the fifth taste. In Russian, "umami" sounds like "у мамы" that means at mom's house. And for me and many people it`s a real the fifth taste.

It is a mix of different feelings, memories, the present with the past, the past with not your future, your present with a stranger, school hooligans, your favorite childhood series that still plays at your mother's kitchen, first love and all sorts of nostalgia.

This set is based on jingles from cringey Russian TV, mixing various music and speeches that are common in every hood."

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Guest mixes selected by Ian Bruner.

The parking garage is a the "inferno of the same" (the agony of eros). It is a labyrinth in which the ceiling is often the floor, a schizophrenic environment that does not allow the face to be recognized. The(se) structures or modern functional ruins are a global phenomenon and in most cases duplicate a common design. In this way the parking garage can act as a portal, an access point into multi-linear spaces (this way amd/or that). All parking garages comprise a kind of universal parking garage, when we are in one parking garage we are in all parking garages.
The global effects of the internet have displaced direction and have effectually erased all horizons. The rhizomatic connections of the internet, a(nother) decentralized and/or multicentered domain.

In this episode, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of Shape of you by Ed Sheeran. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material.

Users of google translate, notes alterers, carnatic indians contemporary, cumbia lovers, chemists and physicists, flute duets… all are welcome in Shuffle formula radio mode.

This episode features a special guest, Malinda K. Reese, with her project Twisted Translations.

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).

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

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

Welcome to walkplacedistancetime.

Walking, movement in place, in air, distance through time.

In this episode: Iceland ... every three hours for 24 hours ... eight times ... daag einn I juni ... I stand and look east across the fell to the obelisk. Beyond it the northern shoulder of Burfell rises then slips away off its hog’s back summit.

Stand and listen to the plaintive pipe of the Golden Plover and the croak of the Snipe.

Stand … then move off ... down the slope; through the Marsh Marigolds; over the stream; cross two fences; cross the horse paddock to the leaning post; along the horse path; around to the fence to the left; over the fence; cross four streams; pass the waterfall; cross the marsh; cross the stream on stones; up the slope to gap in ridge; up the slope to the lip; around the obilisk; pause; retrace my steps ... eight walks ... eight sections ... split ... re-built ... into a day at random ... eight movements ... this is movement 4.

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

In this episode:

Adopted by masked avant-rock multimedia art collective The Residents, mysterious Bavarian composer and music theorist N. Senada, formulated the "Theory of Phonetic Organization", which states "the musician should put the sounds first, building the music up from them rather than developing the music, then working down to the sounds that make it up."

Extracting music from two albums, Intruders (2018), produced by Eric Drew Feldman and The Residents, then their album God In Three Persons (1988), the "Theor " accumulates extraneous sonic debris, with a deliberated juxtaposition of sounds.

Morlock Pie

Special Guest vocals are from Tiny Tim, from his debut album God Bless Tiny Tim (1968). Tiny Tim was an American singer, ukulele player, and musical archivist. With his astonishing vocal range and vast repertoire of turn-of-the-century Tin Pan Alley songs, he is best remembered for his cover hit Tiptoe Through the Tulips, sung in a falsetto voice.

Next, we meet The Cowsills,an American singing group from Newport, Rhode Island, six siblings noted for performing professionally and singing harmonies at an early age, later with their mother.

When the group expanded to its full family membership by 1967, the six siblings ranged in age from 8 to 19. Joined by their mother, Barbara Cowsill, the squeaky-clean family group image inspired the 1970s television show The Partridge Family.

Additional material is from their own television special, called A Family Thing, in November 1968 on NBC television,
and Playboy After Dark, an American television show hosted by Hugh Hefner!

Special incongruous guest stars include American mezzo-soprano Cathy Berberian from Luciano Berio's Visage (1961),
Emil Beaulieau: America’s Greatest Living Noise Artist, and Liberace.

As a hideous bonus, the "Theory of Phonetic Organization" is applied to the chance encounter of Sigue Sigue Sputnik and The Patsy (1964) voice coaching lessons.

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.

In this episode, Shane Woolman plays tracks by Amy Cutler, SANAM, Carl Stone, and Sabreen, plus a special guest mix by Deena Abdelwahed.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

In this episode, three settings of the River Lea, featuring processed field recordings alongside modular synthesiser and percussion improvisations.

Littoral Transmissions meander through the sonic landscape of the River Lea from Stonebridge Lock to Leamouth. Recordings from the field converge with layers of sound to create an aural impression of the navigation.

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

This episode features music by sevensy, Les Antonymes, Rafael Diogo, Michael Bonaventure & Loo(p)cy, Lars Bröndum, The Washing Planck, Sonologyst, Triswara and Joel Gilardini.

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

Camilo Franco presents new and emerging sounds from Latin America.

In this episode, Theo Sayers and his brother, musician Miles Courtney, play an eclectic selection of music. Featuring songs by Sign Libra, Howe Gelb and Yellow Magic Orchestra.

Electronic musician Theo Sayers transports listeners with a mix of electronic, ambient, spiritual and new age music.

This episode features a guest mix by Nicole13.

Worthwhile Unions is a radio series by Anna Clegg with a focus on meeting points. Often collaborative and pulling heavily from online sources, the series works to extract a kind of cinema of feeling, contradicting and evasive, from dense combinations of music, sound and samples.

For the final episode of 2023, we're wrapping up the year with our long running, irregular feature, Tedious Field Recording Of The Year. Tune in to find out who will be crowned this year’s champion!

Gwaith Swn's Sonic Darts is a London-based sound art collective presenting new sound works, performances and discussions.

Tracks from across the spectrum of electronic and computer music, with Calum Gunn of Conditional.