Monday 13th May 2024

Midnight BST Monthly / First Tuesday / 8pm

Discrepancies #94

In this episode, back to the free-styling roots that defined this show, records pulled randomly, a bunch of new stuff – not necessarily new releases but recent listenings down at Discrepant HQ.


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.

1am BST

Fae Ma Bit Tae Ur Bit #39


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

3am BST New!

Estuary Magic #20 - Four Acts


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

4am BST Monthly

Radio Picnic #81

In this episode, extemporaneous composition by Alexandre Joly & Johnny Haway. Looper, electric motor, gong, ventilator, sticks, musicbox, strings, voices, organ…


Radio Picnic is a mobile radio art project by zonoff which invites multi-disciplinary artists to create works inspired by the radio medium.

5am BST

Listening Experience #5 - Feedback

In this episode: Feedback.


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

6am BST Monthly

Dronica #15 - Three Day Festival (Day 3)

In this episode, Nicola presents live recordings taken from Day 3 of last 3-Day festival edition in April.


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

8am BST Twice-Monthly, First and Third Thursday at 6pm BST

female:pressure #139 - Slvj

Slvj, hailing from Madrid, Spain, is an accomplished DJ and music creator. Embracing a butch aesthetic, she crafts captivating music that seamlessly blends field recordings, vocals, and electronic beats. Her unique sound has caught the attention of renowned labels such as FuturepastZine, Solar Complex, and Caballito Netlabel, which have featured her tracks.

As a dedicated sound researcher, Slvj fearlessly traverses musical genres, erasing the boundaries that confine them. Her versatility has led her to perform at a diverse array of venues and radio stations, including CA2M Móstoles, Matadero Madrid, Festival Sonoras Valencia, Hafenklang Hamburg, Buka Milano, El Parche Bogotá, and Drift Ashore Radio Berlin, among others.

Slvj passion for inclusivity and representation is evident in her involvement with TeKM, an exclusive party collective in Madrid that welcomes and celebrates women and the LGTBIQA+ community. By actively participating in TeKM, Slvj strives to create an inclusive and empowering space within the music scene.


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.

9am BST

Radia #995 - Standard Sono Magique by Désorceler la Finance

This episode is a contribution by Radio Panic.

Unbewitch Finance (2017) is a self-proclaimed, Brussels-based lab composed of researchers, activists, artists, designers and various allies engaged to reclaim power over parts of our life in society which are owned by the economic and the financial system. Through rituals, speculative writings, radio documentaries, hybrid performances and exhibitions, the lab develops a pragmatical magic meant to unbewitch ourselves from the curse of TINA* and to think of desirable futures.

*There Is No Alternative

Standard Sono Magique is a sound ritual recorded at Recyclart (BXL) during the release party for the a five chapter radio documentary, Glossary of Finance and Sorcery (Glossaire de la Finance et de la Sorcellerie).


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

9:30am BST Monthly on the Third Wednesday at 6pm

Urban Arts Berlin #6 - Female Sounds


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.

10am BST New!

Injazero #40 - Chantal Michelle Guest Mix

This episode features a guest mix by Chantal Michelle.


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

11am BST New!

Kinn Presents #7 - Mark Leckey & Kinn: All of That Which Converges Beneath The Bridge

In this show, Mark Leckey entrusts Kinn with re-contextualising several of the Turner Prize-winning artist’s works from 1999-2021. From his recent commission at the Tate Britain, O’Magic Power of Bleakness (2019) which was released on vinyl by Boomkat earlier this year, to his greatly influential Dream English Kid, 1964 - 1999 AD (2015) and Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999).

Providing Kinn with access to his archive, Kinn began extracting the audio from his films, re-harmonising and sampling moments that possessed “musical potential” or "evocative phrasing" and transforming them into instruments which he then wrote the album with, delving into the contemporary artist’s conceptual framework as inspiration for the music.

The result is Mark Leckey’s career-spanning vision translated into the format of music, his favoured themes of nostalgia, dread and anxiety are exaggerated and punctuated by bold and articulate musical expression, providing an emotionally rich auditory journey which fans of both artist’s works will recognise and love. Resonance Extra premiers this collaborative work as more of an album transmission akin to the early days of John Peel Sessions rather than a radio DJ mix.

Kinn describes the work as “sitting firmly in the middle of my last record (Anamnesis Landscape, released on First Light Records last year) and where I am moving forward with my sound, a schism of classic instrumentation and harmony being enhanced by contemporary sound design, Albini-fan-boy recording techniques and studio wizardry”.

Also features additional instrumentation by Will Langstone (Cello) & Louis Giannamore (Percussion).


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.

Midday BST

Lossless Communication #4


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

1pm BST

Earwitness #8 - Genoa

This episode features a candid story from the Genoa G8 Summit, 2001.

Missed the show? Catch up on Mixcloud.


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

2pm BST New!

First Light's Third Space #7 - Ekin Fil & Yuting Wu

This episode of Third Space was created by Ekin Fil (Istanbul) and Yuting Wu (Beijing).

The first half of the show captures the sounds and music of a daytime in and around Istanbul. Including the areas Kadıköy, Acıbadem, Yenikapı, Eminönü, Sirkeci, Kabataş and Beyoğlu, as well as Darıca where Fil’s family lives on the border of the city.

In the second half of Third Space, Yuting Wu takes us around Beijing from the perspective of an outsider in the city. The first part of the mix emphasises the typical impressions of Beijing: the public transportation, the crowds, the opera, along with a street musician playing saxophone in the park. Beneath these surface impressions, Wu explores the disappointment that accompanies living in such a city as an outsider where dreams and ambitions often go unfulfilled.

Artwork is by Max Howarth.


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.

4pm BST Monthly on the first Tuesday at 7PM New!

Late Works: By Ear #41

In this episode, an hour of recent releases by Late Works collaborators, featuring Bianca Scout, Still House Plants, Kiran Leonard, Cool Quiet, Caius Williams & more.


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.

5pm BST Weekly, Monday, 6pm

Unexplained Sounds #292

This episode features music by NIMH, Helecho Experimentar, David Lee Myers, DBC-Unit, Mario Lino Stancati, The Great Old Ones, Mario Guida and Hans Castrup.


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

6pm BST

The Wire: Adventures In Music and Sound # 9th May 2024

In this episode, Emily Bick plays Shellac, Earth Ball, Tomeka Reid Quartet, Sisso & Maiko, Robyn Rocket, and more.


New music with The Wire Magazine.

7:30pm BST Monthly on the fourth Wednesday at 7.30pm

Littoral Transmissions #18 - Looping Three Mills


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.

8pm BST New!

Sonic Commune #20

This episode features work by Production Unit, Orrest, Poe Sullard aka Megaheadphoneboy, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Illuha & Taylor Deupree, Gramm, Pessimist, DJ Topgear, Convoi Exceptionnel, Donato Dozzy, Kӣr, Tapenoise, Nam June Paik and Arseny Avraamov.


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.

10pm BST Twice Monthly on the Second and Fourth Monday at 10pm New!

Resistance Through Ritual #120


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

Midnight BST Monthly

Tse Tse Fly Middle East # March 2017


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.

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