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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.

William Fields explores the potential of algorithmic music through the process of recreating (and inventing?) genres with his musical operating system.

This month on the First Terrace Records radio show Specimens (Alex Ives) sits down with Anja Ngozi to discuss her recent involvement with the much lauded project & compilation release ‘Untitled’. Anja Ngozi discusses their work with youth groups, artists, Vinyl Factory and the release of the Basquiat inspired LP.

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.

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

This episode focuses on the rare experimental and deviant music that can conceptually be called the "dancefloor destroyer". Its narrative unfolds from early electronic, synthesizer and computer music and we discover that the only Soviet major label without any censorship boldly released music in the genres of EBM and no-wave, sympho-prog, acid-opera and even “post-pop”.

This episode is less about the music of all the countries of the Soviet Union – only focusing on Estonia, Latvia and Russia – but is rather my personal poetic statement, representing the diversity of Soviet experimental music in the late 80s and early 90s. This music sounds extremely modern right now. I chose the neo-romantic twist of Nochnoy Prospeckt's Antidisco Song as the main motif of the release, which opens and closes the show.

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 edition of Shuffle, get ready to listen to the weirdest, mind-blowing covers and drifts of All the Small Things by Blink 182. There's no order, no lists, just exclusive, overwrought fandom material. Guitarists, violinists, babies, acapella squirrels, octopuses, brainwaves, SoundCloud stars, dogs and cats,... all are welcome in Shuffle 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.

A lowkey meditative show in this episode, featuring gems old and new from across the world. Look closely at the image and you can see my cheap but reliable field recorder recording the waterfalls.

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.

A mix using cassettes and field recordings from Jeddah / Arabia found in Athens flea markets.

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

Experiments in exploring humanity with Keno Westhoff of http://klanglabor.ayayay.eu.

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

Musical sketches by ENGLAND'S COUNCIL OF LEGISLATION AND GOVERNING BODY OF HYPER REAL SIMULATIONS AND CONSTRUCTS is a monthly mix of curation, recompilation and pseudepigrapha.

In this episode: by mixing some 2020 favourites with some random gems found on hard discs, Mitamine presents a story inspired by Muriel Barbery’s book The Elegance of the Hedgehog (ref. Mona Achache's movie Le hérisson, 2009) about the ”vacuousness of the bourgeois existence”; a novel I had the opportunity to read during last year’s quarantine - definitely not a must but there are some things I definitely like about it e.g. the play between the two narrators and the constant conversations/self-reflections of the characters. This is also part of a Top 2020 List I did for my lovely friend Julio from Decayed Tapes.

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

This episode features a special guest mix by Jiyeon Kim, a Seoul-based sound artist and 11 is her musical moniker. "11" is a name derived from the shape of 틈(/teum/, meaning a gap), from which she often finds her creative force. She is also a music composer and sound designer for film and tv documentary.

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

This found-sound-symphony uses mathematical proportions to build a musical framework inside which musical and radiophonic elements are seamlessly weaved together. For more information, visit Stace Constantinou's Bandcamp.

Stace's Constantinou's electroacoustic radiophonic work Trainofthoughts explores the claustrophobia experienced when commuting to work inside a small underground carriage.

In this winter holiday special, Chris Bohn and special guest host Anla Li – music and culture writer and Wire contributor, and former manager of B10 Live, Shenzhen – explore pathways into Chinese music opened up since attending the Tomorrow Festival in Shenzhen in 2015.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

This episode is a contribution by Radio Orange 94.0.

Another programme in the Elements series. Previous parts: Earth, water. This time it's about metal.

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.