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In this episode, Brandi plays the top of the charts from today and yesterday.

Maximum Rocknroll Radio is a weekly radio show and podcast featuring DIY punk, garage rock, hardcore, and more from around the world. A rotating cast of DJs pick the best of the best from MRR's astounding, ever-growing vinyl archive. You can find MRR Radio archives, specials and more on their website.

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Raymond Cobley’s poem “sudden dazzling glare - / the low sun briefly pierces / a veil of dark cloud”.

To have your music featured on the show, participate in the Haiku music challenge.

Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly haiku poem, curated by Marco Alessi of Naviar Records and Naviar's international community of composers.

This month, the first half of Third Space features renowned Iranian musician, producer and promoter, Pouya Ehsaei. Subtle field recordings taken from across London are carefully placed and processed within a half hour of original music composed for the show, showcasing Pouya's ability to translate the labyrinthine city's diverse rhythms and sonic intricacies into modular synthesis.

Comprised of Farbod Maeen and Deniz Tafaghodi, Zerone Duo explore the sounds of their and Pouya's hometown, Tehran, in the second portion of the show. At times peaceful and at other times unnerving, synthesised sounds are masterfully woven into a tapestry of air brakes, announcements and indistinct conversations to interrogate the stirring emotions of a bustling city.

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.

Artistic rattles, crunches and drones open portals to the otherworldly dimensions. The noises of old magnetic tapes and piercing frequencies of modern electronics are intertwined with lyrics and melodic harmonies. The point of equilibrium has been already passed, but the awakening from sleep doesn’t come immediately…

An array of experimental and post-industrial underground music from the vaults of Russian label and distributor ZHELEZOBETON, selected by DJ Kryptogen from his St. Petersburg studio.

Renowned Australian soundtrack theorist Philip Brophy presents 90 minutes of loud and luscious soundtrack dynamite! Across 13 episodes, he covers five strains of film music: Electronic Soundscapes; Big Beat Jive; Hard Rock Freak-Out; Funked-Up Grooves; and Atomic Atonality. In all cases, great tracks that speak for themselves!

From 1984 until 1992 five National Garden Festivals were held in the UK. One of them was in Gateshead in the North East of England in 1990. It lasted 157 days across that summer and received over three million visitors.

The Garden Festivals were the idea of UK Conservative environment secretary Michael Heseltine in 1980. They were based on the German post-war Bundesgartenschau concept for reclaiming large areas of derelict land in cities.

All the festivals were held in designated areas — reclaimed land that had become derelict and poisonous in the wake of industrial decline. Other festivals were held in Liverpool, Stoke and Glasgow. They each cost between £25 — £70 million.

Michael McHugh is joined by artists and mytho-geosonic experts Tim Shaw and John Bowers for an exhaustive journey along the River Team and through the landscape and footpaths of the former festival on the eve of this years vernal equinox.

It's very different to how it was in 1990 and if you look closely, in amongst the empty bottles of white cider, 30 years of lager cans, discarded laptops, torn suitcases, condoms and nitrous oxide bulbs you’ll find remnants of the festival’s sculptures, landscaping and foundations.

It's an eerie interzone and that makes the aspiration and ambition of the 1990 festival feel somewhat unreal.

The Tyneside Sounds Society is a monthly broadcast dedicated to the recording and reinterpretation of the sonic environment and sound heritage of Tyneside in the North East of England.

In this episode, we celebrate the launch of Dychwelyd the new album from Welsh ambient experimental drone-folk duo Peiriant. The first half of the show contains a live performance from a recent gig at The Globe in Hay on Wye. The performance contains some improvised pieces, extracts from Dychwelyd, as well as a collection of older tunes.

The second half of the show contains Dychwelyd played from start to finish. This new release from Peiriant is due 5th July 2024. A first single **Taflu Dŵr* is released this Friday 7th June.

Peiriant are a duo of violin and electric guitar, who play with melody and tonality to create atmosphere and soundscape. Electronic equipment, samples and found objects also add to their semi-improvised pieces, which are spun from grounded ideas.

Peiriant draw from their foundation in folk and classical in addition to post-rock, minimalism and sound art to weave experimental music that is anchored in the Welsh landscape. They play with layers of drone and dissonance, contrasting with songs and pure tones to give a rich and sonorous auditory experience.

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

Amsterdam's Shimmering Moods Records explores the many sides of experimental ambient music, into the far reaches of the imagination.

Investigations of the Brazilian experimental music scene via Rio De Janeiro's Quintavant label in collaboration with Audio Rebel. With live performances and exploratory sounds produced in the context of Brazil's strange political situation, curated by Francisco Mazza, Bernando Oliveira and Pedro Azevedo.

This episode features new music by Somnoroase Păsărele, AFTERVOLTER, Daniele Ciullini, Noise For No One, Sanctuary, phoanøgramma & Luca Ferro, Esa Ruoho and Kathodos.

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

Where the Dead Voices Gather is an indeterminate process driven radio experiment that uses the book 'Where The Dead Voices Gather' by Nick Tosches as its starting point.

Songs are chosen from a series of libraries based on the structure of a haiku. Each show has 17 songs / sounds therefore each show represents a sonic haiku.

Where the Dead voices gather is exploring the sonic potentials of written text and the indeterminate.

Glasgow-based Bobby Jewell presents a series of ambient mixes for Resonance Extra with guest features by musicians and artists.

60 minutes of vivid aural excitement mixed by Ian Murphy.

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

Frenetic lullabies in a session by Whettman Chelmets plus music by AEM, Airboy Express, Rovi, The Gloss on Blood, Taxxess, Forseti, RW Able, Eko Fisk, Static Movement, Boards of Canada & Die Doraus und die Marinas.

Phantom Circuit is a show of strange and wonderful sound waves - featuring music that is alien, electronic, exotic, essential.

This month: field recordings of the S42 Ringbahn train, which loops in a ring around Berlin connecting with other inner-city transit systems, made by Matt Burnett shortly after his relocation to Berlin in 2014.

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

In this episode, Specimens takes us on a deep dive of his influences & favourites over the last year or so, many of which helped inspire his new album In The Dust of Idols released via SVS Records in collaboration with First Terrace.

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

Prague-based artist Gertie Adelaido opens this episode with her special multilayered collage, starting with total trash to sophisticated avant-garde. Then Drone Operatør continue in the same vein of brutal handmade bangers and atmospheric electronic tones. Jazz is not a genre – jazz is a mental st4te. Make it worse!!!

Monthly experimen†al kleptomaniac post digital free jazz spam channel operated by artists Tilman Hornig and Paul Barsch aka DRONE OPERATØR.

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