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This series for Resonance Extra is the first time much of the label's catalogue has been available to hear outside of its material form. It accepts the invitation by Resonance on the basis that none of these sounds are stored. If you want to hear it you need to be able to access the radio at midnight BST every Thursday.

Running weekly, the series will broadcast the entire catalogue so far in chronological order, continuing here with Takashi Inagaki's Music for the Films of Takashi Ito.

purge.xxx releases music. It has been celebrated by The Wire magazine for its ‘disregard for the music industry, self-promotion and prevailing cultural norms,’ and an ‘ability to elevate distinct works and the obscure artists behind them.’ purge.xxx only releases music physically, unless a digital alternative has specifically been requested by a collaborating artist. It considers even the recording a compromise, but advocates things.

The Resonance Radio Orchestra is a floating pool of musicians, engineers, sound-effects creators, actors, writers, composers and broadcasters devoted to making live radio-art. It is based in central London as the in-house artistic wing of Resonance104.4fm, under the direction of Ed Baxter.

Btech and Eman Resu of Superfluid present sound, music, noise along with all their sources via talk, fiction and truth.

This episode was inspired by Pierre Bastien, and takes a look into a few examples of mechanical and self playing instruments and other automatic music. Selections from Pierre’s back catalogue in hour two.

A selection of experimental frequencies, interviews and sessions plus cuts from the First Terrace label by Alex Ives (Specimens) and Joe Summers.

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

This episode is a Gagarin & Spectral Transmissions Research Unit special.

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

We continue to listen to rare records released on the Soviet major label Melodia. This time – and not for the last time – the episode is dedicated to jazz in all its manifestations.

We'll start with the first jazz composition in the history of the USSR (the Uzbek band under Pavel Chaplevsky made this recording in 1935), listen to balearic improvisations from Ukraine, electro-boogie from Kazakhstan, jazz-mughams from Azerbaijan and then dive headfirst into free jazz from the Baltic States and faraway places in Russia. Let jazz be free!

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.

In this episode, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of One of Us by Joan Osborne. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material.

Gregorian monks, electrocombia lovers, metal minds, hardstyle dancers, satanics followers of Anton Lavey, sexy sax… all are welcome in Shuffle formula radio mode.

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).

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.

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.

In this episode, come with us on a hypnotic journey that will take you back in the times of the goat god Dionysus, when people danced and celebrated, drunk whine and scared death away. Traditional music recorded on the streets of various Greek villages during pagan ''dromena''. Masked ''bouloukia'' goat headed masks, monsters and huge vaginas and dicks against death.

Explorations of the inner city sounds of Athens and surrounding areas through lucid soundscapes and site-specific transmissions.

Postnew is a modular theory, describing the fluid development of aesthetics. Every movement has a post-movement, every end is a beginning, every post-aesthetic will be followed by a post-post-aesthetic. Join the mailing list here.

Cosmic, transcendent sounds and exploratory electronics with f.ampism.

Now: recordings from Chris Watson and Etant Donnes plus 'resonant rock' compositions from Pauline Oliveros and Henning Christiansen.

Theatre of the Ears is a programme exploring radio and transmission art, hosted by Andrew Jarvis.

Wicked and brutal, Mitamine presents an ars poetica discourse on the meaning of power.

Mitamine Lab is a culture laboratory based in Mexico City which blends sound archives with contemporary music and literature.

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

60 minutes of vivid aural excitement mixed by Ian Murphy.

In this episode, new music by FINAL, Rama Parwata, NikNak, Sun Kit, Il Sogno del Marinaio, and others.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

This is a montage created from the Radio as a Space and a Material community workshop with Diffusion FM 91.9 held at 107 Redfern. For this event we invited the community to contemplate alternative radio space.

We also invited the wonderful Hethre Contant to participate which inevitably included an appearance of The Weekly Dream Report. Also big thanks to Ryan Morris for sharing his other consciousness with us.

Here are the results of workshop participants enjoying performative experiments. During these “jams” the usual suspects were utilised – extremely low-powered terrestrial radio wave technologies, other electromagnetic and time-based sensing tools, telephones, walkie-talkies, computers, deep sea cables, whatever paraphernalia came to hand and August Black’s telematic browser app Mezcal.

Most of the material was recorded using a very old H1 ZOOM with only one functioning microphone and mobile phones. The results are delightfully LoFi and in glorious mono!

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

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.