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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 Museos de la Bomba e Soledad's Revolutionary List (3) Glastonbury 50.

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.

About 60 million people work to make our clothes. 70% are in Asia, 80% are women who often work in unworthy conditions. Human rights violations are accumulating: poverty wages, moral and sexual harassment, trade union repression, child labor, unsustainable work schedules, repeated accidents, exposure to toxic substances, pollution.
The “Rethink your clothes” campaign by Caritas Luxembourg/ Fairtrade Lëtzebuerg asbl is part of this approach to increase corporate and customer responsibility, given the social and environmental impacts of the garment sector around the world.

Rethink your Clothes is also a short docu-fiction made by Charlotte Bruneau (LU) and produced by Caritas Luxembourg in Dhaka city, Bangladesh, in 2018. During the shooting, and as sound operator, I recorded few field recordings in a garment factory and we make also interviews with people working in that insane industry model.

My soundscape contribution gives an idea of how is the sound atmosphere inside garment factories and how terribles conditions become «  almost  » normal for workers.
Regarding the «  Each Morning of the World  » usual subject I decided to forget the time aspect (the morning) because there is no day, there is no night within slavery.

Recorded somewhere in Dhaka City, Bangladesh, in september 2018 and composed in april 2019.

Photo credit © Carole Reckinger, Caritas Luxembourg

François Martig’s work uses a wide range of media, from sculptural and sound installations to radio documentaries and photography, in order to react on the specific social and geographical context in which it is shown. In addition to his visual work, he produces live sound and music performances as well as soundtracks combining soundscapes, field recordings, electro-acoustic and noise music. He's also sound operator for documentary movies.

Stéphane Marin presents a weekly series of fifteen short soundscapes recorded in the mornings at various locations throughout South Asia part of 'Each Morning of the World', which invites sound artists, composers and recordists globally to share their own specific point of listening, either through a raw field recording or original composition.

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

In this episode, Joe and Alex celebrate Sofheso’s ‘Archive’ tape with an exclusive live set from the artist, and a little dip into his previous collaborative work.

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

In this episode, a radiophonic work by Benedict Drew.

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

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

In this episode, a piece of radio theatre about marriage in the Wolof culture. How does tradition intertwine with modernity?

Intergenerational benevolence promotes the advancement and development of other worldviews by integrating the heritage of the past into the present to shape a more open and tolerant future.

In French and Wolof languages.

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

In this episode, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of Bitter Sweet Symphony. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material.

Chip tuners, bardcore (or contemporary medieval stuff), Rolling Winds, karaoke stars, babies, brave bands from Mexico, copyright victims by copyright fanatics, cumbia - Britpop dancers,… 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.

In this episode, acousmatic vibes and musique concréte set pieces. Innovators and new-schoolers massage our eardrums into the deepest recesses of sound mangling. Radiophonic mass pieces, trips to the Italian coast and fears of drowning all make an appearance. Classic avant-garde? More like gourmet music sounds, old and new.

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.

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

In this episode: does music have to be serious? Does music have to be rational? Does music need to conform to the rules? According to contemporary postmodern artists, no.

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.

This episode takes a listen to the shortwave radio improvisations of Michael Snow, with experimental voice works from; - Neil and Elaine mills, Bruce Nauman, Gregory whitehead, Sue Tompkins and Kurt Schwitters.

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

This particular compilation serves as a formal ceremony or ritual, in a broad sense. In this ceremonial gathering, a variety of songs from various genres and eras are brought together, alongside certain web-source documents.

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

For this month’s guest mix, Berlin-based artist Hüma Utku put together a selection of musical pieces dedicated to and inspired by the cycles of life/death/life.

Utku is an electronic music composer and sound artist who combines her musical practice with her academic studies in psychology through her works drawing inspiration from human condition and folklore. With an overall disregard for genres, she utilises melody and sound as tools for storytelling.

Her 2018 EP release ‘’Şeb-i Yelda’’ and the 2019 debut album ‘’Gnosis’’, via Karlrecords, earned Utku recognition for her unique approach to creating sonic story plots by merging concepts with experiments in electronic music.

Her new album ‘’The Psychologist’’ is released in May 2022 via Editions Mego, which has been cited as Utku's most ambitious and complex work yet.

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, Meg Woof plays Tongue In The Mind, Gordan, Weird Weather, Marta Forsberg, Tadleeh, Aidan O'Rourke, Gomid and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

RadioActive – on Water is a six episode podcast series, exploring the interactions between transmission, sound, activism and water. Each episode is created by a different artist/group of artists who engage with water politics and the politics of listening through the medium of radio. This show contains two excerpts from each episode, selected by the series’ curators.

Creators: Blanc Sceol (Stephen Shiell and Hannah White), Lisa Blackmore and Leonel Vásquez, RE-PEAT, Margarida Mendes, Carlos Monleon and Nathaniel Mann, Meira Asher.

The episodes:

An Ear to River ~ counterflows by Blanc Sceol (Stephen Shiell & Hannah White) invites the audience to listen with the Channelsea river, a recovering waterway in East London and home to the city’s largest combined sewage outfall.

River song, singing rivers by Lisa Blackmore and Leonel Vásquez, navigates the Bogotá River in Colombia through a more-than-human song created in collaboration with the living forces that shape the watershed’s ecosystems.

Watered by RE-PEAT collective approaches water justice through imagining the perspective of water nself, by drawing stories and definitions of bodies of water, and n’s entanglement in relation with other bodies, bogs, bugs, sundew, moss and more.

Sonic Traces by Margarida Mendes, is a journey from the deep ocean to the Mississippi river, to expose how traces of pollution, sonic and chemical, travel through watery space impacting communities across ecosystems.

River Breathing by Carlos Monleon and Nathaniel Mann, examines the impact of irrigation systems on human and more-than-human communities through the Ebro river in Spain and its endangered clam population.

Liquidation by Meira Asher interrogates the politically engineered water crisis in the Occupied Palestinian Jordan Valley where Israel deliberately and strategically deprives Palestinian shepherd communities of access to water.

Curated by Meira Asher and Stephen Shiell
Production – Meira Asher, radioart106
Mastering – Daniel Meir
Web design – Laetitiia Boulud
Produced with the support of the Pais council for Culture and Art, Israel
Image by Pablo Sanz from a project along the Manzanares River in Madrid

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.