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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.

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

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

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.

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

In this episode, Dronica meets Ellen Southern for our monthly guest mix.

Singer and interdisciplinary artist, Ellen Southern, has woven together a special selection of audio spanning years of her practice, including unreleased live material from the dark-neoclassical group Dead Space Chamber Music, new collaborations and an exclusive long-form premiere, and raw vocal field recordings from her experimental solo work. The result is an intrepid journey through an audio-landscape of varying textures, dynamics and atmospheres.

Ellen Southern is a singer and visual artist from the UK, working with voice, sound and site. Southern is the vocalist in the dark neoclassical quartet Dead Space Chamber Music, also contributing visual art and experimental percussion / found sound. They released their second album, The Black Hours, in December 2021, co-releasing the vinyl with experimental independent label Avon Terror Corps in April 2022.

Southern also co-curates the independent Dark Alchemy event series, often held in unique spaces including crypts and churches, immersing audiences in the acoustics, aesthetic and atmosphere of each unique sacred space.

She has contributed to a variety of acclaimed collaborative projects, including a tour and release with Bristol noise/drone artist BURL (“a meditative séance for increasingly dark times” - Crack Magazine), appearances as part of The SeeR immersive performance collective (Dronica Festival, London, The Woodland Gathering, Cumbria, and Supersonic Festival, Birmingham), and as soloist for the acclaimed ceremonial electronic / AV work Kistvaen by Roly Porter and MFO (Mira Festival, Barcelona, and Les Garages Numériques Festival, Brussels).

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

Thought Criminal is a multi-genre DJ from Aberdeen in Scotland, best known for high-energy vinyl mixes of hard, bouncy rave, industrial, acid, and old school techno. She plays at clubs and parties in Scotland and has featured on live-streams, podcasts and radio shows for collectives all over the world.

Thought Criminal is resident and co-founder of Aberdeen’s Fierce Collective, a group who support and promote fellow womxn/nb DJs, producers and artists and provide DJ skills workshops.

She hosts the two Fierce Collective radio shows, which feature womxn and nb DJs and producers; and organizes the Fierce club nights in Aberdeen, which combine womxn and nb DJs with live art. She is also a resident at Binary School/Binary Trax, a club night and label showcasing local electronic music producers; and Aphrodite, Aberdeen's queer dance party. She is proud to be a member of the international female:pressure community.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

This episode features music by Aponeuron, Corp Cruid I, Expander Des Fortschritts, Pik Duzfuß and more.

Socialist Realness a mix series by GAJEK focusing on avant-garde and electronic music produced in the GDR and shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Music by Baradit, The Hardy Tree, Chelidon Frame, Tess Conway, Fellirium, Leegajus, Giampiero Boneschi, Circus of Mind, Pancy Lau, EUS/Postdrome/Saåad, Abdulla Rashim, Giovanni Tommaso, Dissolved and Repeated Viewing.

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

Colliding Lines present live sessions, cross-genre collaborations and left-field recordings drawn from the London, UK and international experimental scenes; a long-form love letter to recorded audio as soundtrack, as sound art and as storyteller.

A preparations special. Joe selects a slew of prepared piano tracks ahead of Late Works: Preparations on 20th September at Café Oto. Featuring John Cage, Aphex Twin, Hauschka & Kelly Moran, as well as pieces from the pianists who will be performing (Finlay Clark, Aga Ujma & Max Syedtollan).

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.

This episode features new music by Les Antonymes, Bruno Varvohza, Richard Bégin, David Kovacs, Clinker, Kaunsel, Mark Hjorthoy and M.B. & Sonologyst.

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

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.

In this episode, Theo Sayers plays an eclectic selection of vintage pop, electronic and ambient music. Featuring tracks by Roedelius, Jimmy “Preacher” Ellis and Pulp.

Electronic musician Theo Sayers transports listeners with a mix of electronic, ambient, spiritual and new age music.

This episode features a guest mix by George Coggan. Entitled Larger, the mix explores vastness and vacuity, everything and nothing, playing with ideas of media consumption, human experience and, at times, deep listening; constructing then engulfing itself into a narrative devoid of beginning, middle and end.

Worthwhile Unions is a radio series by Anna Clegg with a focus on meeting points. Often collaborative and pulling heavily from online sources, the series works to extract a kind of cinema of feeling, contradicting and evasive, from dense combinations of music, sound and samples.

In this episode, Dan Linn-Pearl has produced a montage and homage to the river Wye which flows near his home in the border town of Hay. Field recordings, hydrophone capture and improvised synthesiser sketches are broken up with audio from a film made by Friends of the Upper Wye.

This collective has organised a citizen science project to test water pollution levels and seek out solutions to reverse the decline of the river and its wildlife. In recent years, a build up of algae is threatening the ecosystem of the river. Evidence shows an increased amount of nitrates and phosphates in the water.

These are often a waste product of farming and in particular the 'run-off' from the intensive chicken farming which takes place throughout the area. Other potential causes are the increasingly inadequate sewage systems and the 'government policy' which allows raw sewage to be distributed directly into the river. For more information visit: www.fouw.org.uk.

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

Moods and preoccupations in a nonlinear narrative in and out of the club with COSI and The Source of Some Certainty - created by Corinna Triantafyllidis and Henry Rodrick.

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.