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Discrepancies is a global showcase of disparate music with a focus on earthly field recordings and international sounds, curated by the Discrepant record label, presented by Gonçalo F Cardoso.

Sound collage, record spinning, havering, ear wonk and general head scratch with Dylan Nyoukis of the Chocolate Monk label.

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

In this first episode we travel to the East – to Transcaucasia and Asia in the 70s–90s: we listen to colourful Korean funk, sunny Azerbaijani jazz, desert Uzbek folk and traditional dance music from Laos and Burma. That's all folks!

I want to dedicate this show to the anniversary of the Melodiya label – it turns 60 years old on the 23rd of April 2024. And the best thing is that the label is still releasing music.

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 second episode is focused on the musical/sonic use of sonance. More about this here.

A monthly collection of audio experiments and listening objects with sound artist Matt Burnett from Berlin.

This time, the second instalment of recordings taken at Day 2 of our eighth edition of the festival last October.

Live recordings from Kassia Flux, Slate pipe banjo draggers & Mowgli Art, Charlotte Wendy Law, Pascal Colman & Chasey Coley, Matawan, DVKA, Vera Spektor, Kate Carr, Ben Vince & Lucinda Chua.

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

krash_cora is a Berlin-based DJ who started playing live during the pandemic. The need for escapism and euphoria that she, like many of us, experienced during that time is reflected in her sets, which are dominated by powerful basslines and thrilling melodies.

Twice-monthly broadcast showcasing electronic music produced by members of the female:pressure international network of female, transgender and non-binary artists practising in the fields of electronic music and digital arts.

This episode is contribution by Jet FM.

Featuring Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Doris Abéla & Annaïck Domergue. With sounds and some music by eauchaude.

Ís (Glace) Jörð (Terre) Eldi (Feu) Vindur (Vent) is an imaginary soundscape based on the fantasma of Iceland, mainly made with a baritone guitar, an oniric and telluric view of this particular country, inspired by impressions from litterature, music, sound, photography. This long time fantasma has reborn by meeting the great Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir few months ago.

The reading is a chapter from the book **Dyralif (La Vérité sur la Lumière)* by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir read by herself (French translation by Eric Boury, reading by Annaïck Domergue).

O2 / Sofðu unga ástin mín is a song by eauchaude.

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

Urban Arts Berlin is a non-profit arts organisation which supports international sound artists. In this series Verónica Mota presents selections of works from the Urban Arts Berlin label.

This episode features a guest mix by Berk Icli.

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

In this episode, Kinn plays some of his favourite music from his formative years and a selection of what has lately inspired his works in progress. Everything from the raging melancholy of Slint & Sonic Youth to the avant of Alvin Lucier, Herbert Huncke and The Dadavistic Orchestra, also includes brand new music from The Electric Womb and Moin as well as an exclusive preview of new music from Kinn to close off the final moments of the show.

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.

Exploring sound discovery in the internet era with Robin Buckley AKA rkss.

This episode features Nevin Domer of Beijing-based Genjing Records.

Missed the show? Catch up on Mixcloud.

Long-form gonzo radio exploration of artists on the outer edge with Eric Boros.

In this episode, Chantal Michelle takes us on a journey around New York in the first portion of this month’s Third Space. Buskers, sirens and footsteps are caught between and across music that captures the frantic and conflicted relationship of the artist and the city.

In the second half of the show, Cucina Povera engages with the broad palette of sounds found around her. This mix focuses largely on sounds rather than composed music, but the musical inspiration that Cucina Povera finds in the city’s droning bells, natural ambiance and repetitive bird song melodies is pronounced.

"An inexplicable draw, a love affair that can’t end, a refusal. Compounded layers, disharmony, the occasional synchronicity that could be mistaken for meaning. Trying to “block it out” but efforts are futile; a bleeding. Pleasure in discord, fear. Joy when looking out the window." – Chantal Michelle

Each month, First Light Records invites two artists to take an unplanned journey with a microphone around their city to curate an hour-long mix. Each show captures the unique atmosphere of a city from each artist's perspective, through music and found sound.

In this episode, more loose association in response to postcards sent in by Oliver Pearce, Jordan Cook, Molly Anne Stocks & Jake Vine, including Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Muhal Richard Abrams. Pink Floyd's alternate soundtrack to John Latham's film "Speak" is also played, with a link below to watch along.

Watch John Latham’s “SPEAK” alongside the show for the final 10 minutes here, to sync up with the Pink Floyd alternate soundtrack.

The radio counterpart to live intermedia event series Late Works, hosted by founder Joseph Bradley Hill. Each month a selection of artists respond to the show on postcards and send them in as inspiration for the next. Running through the shows are a modular stem experiment in which musicians improvise live to original 15 minute compositions.

This episode features music by Baishui, Richard Bégin, Crows Labyrinth, Distant Fires Burning, Jon Doe, One, Stratosphere, Sonologyst, BAD SECTOR, Mario Lino Stancati, Hermetic Brotherhood Of Luxor, Sigillum S, Runes Order and The Great Old Ones.

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

In this episode, Chris Bohn plays music from Xinjiang, Siberia, Tuva, Japan,, Germany, the UK and US, including tracks by Wukir Suryadi, Senyawa, Sunik Kim, Minimum Wage Immanence Unit and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

In this episode, a recording of a recent live trio performance in Newham with Montañera.

Inspired by a magical piano and luminous sets from the Dogs Paw Trio (Ed Shipsey/petals/Jordan Muscatello) and the Tape Transport Bureau (Shona Handley & Andrew Ciccone).

Thank you to Robert Clarke for hosting this show at Arch 1, our favourite London venue! And thanks to Ed Shipsey for the recording.

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.

An immersive psychosonic space, where sounds converse, collide and converge, featuring works, selections, edits, experiments, new music, non-music, archival objects, abstract artefacts, sound(system) and A/V art, pop, trash, noise, voice, and the associated mediums, processes and techniques that make up the ongoing audial investigations of Agents of the Culture Industry & OVT, all presented for art not profit.

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

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.