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Running weekly, the series will broadcast the entire catalogue so far in chronological order, continuing here with Alukah in Avalon by Maggie Nicols, Sue Lynch & Crystabel Riley, Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, Vindicatrix feat. New Noveta.

Recorded live at Avalon Cafe in London for the launch of Room Sound by VINDICATRIX X NEW NOVETA (purrrrrj011), this cassette includes live performances by MAGGIE NICOLS, SUE LYNCH & CRYSTABEL RILEY, SOPHIE SLEIGH-JOHNSON and VINDICATRIX featuring NEW NOVETA.

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.

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.

Yard Side - Side 1 - 22 minutes

Garden Side - Side 2 - 22 minutes

This work by artist Raymond Watson contains a variety of sounds ranging from the rhythmic noise of the keys of Crumlin Road Prison, Belfast, identity tags, heartbeat, an original prisoner-made grappling hook thrown at and colliding with the Belfast Peace Wall, metal prison food trays, grills and locks and sections of music on Irish flute and harp. A collaboration between artist Raymond and his daughters, Toraigh and Dara.

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

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.

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

This episode is dedicated to the folk music of the indigenous peoples of Russia. On the territory of the Russian Federation, according to the latest data, there are 193 peoples who speak 277 languages and dialects. In its time, the Soviet major label Melodiya did a huge amount of work trying to record the traditional music of many regions, travelling thousands of kilometres on ethnographic expeditions.

Many records released in the wake of those trips are now rare artefacts. I can say the same about digitised copies - there are not many music files on the web, which somewhat limits the breadth of modern research.

Even so, an hour-long episode cannot contain even a tenth of the folklore music that was released on Melodiya. I worked with broad strokes, showing the music of only 20 indigenous peoples of the country – including the Pooziorets of Vitebsk. We hear traditional tunes from the westernmost region - Karelia. Then, we listen to the cheerful sunny melodies of the peoples of the Volga region, the free music of Kalmykia and the North Caucasus, and delve into the cold shamanic rhythms of the Far North.

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 and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of All Star by the American band Smash Mouth. There's no order, no lists, just exclusive, overwrought fandom material. Noise theorists, Youtube star, Coldplay fans, banh mi verlag chief conductor, melon lovers, pianists, smashup creators... all are welcome in Shuffle mode.

This episode features two guests: Jack Callahan and Mattin.

Jack Callahan introduces us to the work All Star Mixtape released on his own label, Bánh Mì Verlag, and Mattin gives us an insight into the ideology behind the music video, as well as offering us a cover of the song.

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.

Take this 2021! (and 2020!), here’s a selection of (mostly) non discrepant music enjoyed at Discrepant HQ over 2021. A rag tag assemblage of artists making highly original and personal music, setting the mark off the mono culture world of today’s techs algorithm of doom. This is old and new and future and … Nappy Nappy years!

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.

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

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

This mix was initially titled "vultus tela vibrat" (translating as “thy countenance shakes spears”, a sentence Gabriel Harvey used to describe Edward de Vere). But then I changed it to "You and I, We Are the Two Greatest Musicians Ever Lived", which someone I knew said to me while they lay on a hospital bed...

Dedicated to Edward.

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.

Neil Luck is a musician based in the UK. His work takes a range of forms from music-theatre, to concert works, radio, public projects and recordings, and is the founder and director of the experimental music ensemble ARCO.

Eden Box is an album of songs, dances and vérité recordings written and produced largely on the edge of a South German forest. They all play with the process of mediating, editing, and reframing raw acoustic materials, many of which were captured outside and on the hoof. The album title is a reference to the 20th century British artist of the same name (well, their pseudonym) whose naive style brought together ideas of nature, man’s place with it, and christian iconography into strange symbolist compositions.

Additional performers and collaborators:
Binghi (Isheja Cheryl), Adam de la Cour, Monika Czyżyk, Margaret Luck, Chihiro Ono, Benedict Taylor, Athina Vahla.

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Written, recorded, and produced by Neil Luck. Mastered by Simon Davey at The Exchange. CD artwork Kapha by Monika Czyżyk. Book and case design by Joseph Kohlmaier at Cours de Poétique. Recorded and produced at Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart, EMS Stockholm, Colourscape Clapham, at home in London, and in the woods of Tonbridge.

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Sensible Activities is an essay, and an illustrated book of musical-sensory exercises to be enacted alone or in groups, outdoors. They all relate to an ongoing live project of Neil’s that has manifested as a series of walks and excursions with willing participants and musicians in various countries around the world.

Several of these activities link directly with particular tracks on Eden Box; track 2 features a prototype activity offered by Athina Vahla during a nighttime walk just outside Stuttgart. Track 3 is a demonstration of leaf blowing (p. 34), and track 6 is an encrusted recording of Neil’s ensemble ARCO testing "Internal Snore Monologue" (p. 20). There are many more indirect and abstract connections, and we consider this CD and book part of the same body of work. It is all, in the end, music.

​Produced and published by Cours de Poétique, whose Extended Scores series responds to the embodied, interdisciplinary, and discursive nature of contemporary music and performance practice by combining essays, documentary material, sound, and moving image with working scores in print and online.

Each copy of Sensible Activities includes access to documentation of the original performances, audio and video content, drawings, and bonus material, and a digital copy of Eden Box.

Eden Box / Sensible Activities is an album and book co-publication by Neil Luck. It is released by and produced in collaboration with Accidental Records and Cours de Poétique. It brings together a body of work from the last two years, broadly exploring contemporary, personal, and mediated ideas around the “pastoral” and the “folkloric”, that has manifested in music, performance, writings, radio, and images. It is then an album, a score, a document, an essay, an archive, an object.

Exploration #1 for Two Radios by Kit Beaufoy is the discovery of a beast. A beast that lurks in the electromagnetic waters. A creature formed from the familiar sounds of analogue radio that is awoken by the turning of a dial sending ripples across the radio waves.

Over the course of the piece, the listener is hunted down through the radio, chased by a beast that is not confined to a single frequency and exists all around, silently stalking, watching, waiting until it is illumined by your receiver.

Kit Beaufoy is a London-based artist who works with a series of transmitters and receivers, composing within the radio, in an attempt to reanimate and reframe analogue radio listening in the 21st century.

His work proposes an alternative use for the radio spectrum - as a compositional device that is considered a whole rather than individual monolithic stations separated by static.

Occasional radiophonic works by students of the BA and MA Sound Arts and Design courses at the London College of Communication, UAL.

Lament for the Old Clock by Harvey Young tells the story of an 18th-century agricultural worker plunged into the vicious new frontier of industrial capitalism who must leave his simple agrarian existence behind and submit to the callous and dehumanising demands of the factory floor.

The piece documents the change in temporality from the feudal notion of cyclical, reverential time to the concept of future-oriented progress that defined the beginning of the industrial revolution. Through extended vocal techniques, found instruments and granulation, Lament for the Old Clock explores this transient yet profound period of temporal and spiritual upheaval.

Harvey Young is a composer, sound artist and writer whose practice centres on temporality, psychogeography and transient structures of political economy. He uses extended vocal techniques, field recordings and found instruments to create acousmatic and electroacoustic works.

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Occasional radiophonic works by students of the BA and MA Sound Arts and Design courses at the London College of Communication, UAL.

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 episode explores the year through the seasons in a unique improvised recording. This journey travels through radio waves, tape players and field recorders; an analogue experience.

Each season features field recordings captured during that time. Join Kayla for a continuous hour of music and sound moving through life as the seasons change.

A monthly show exploring our innate connection to sound, and how we express that through music, showcasing work that connects to our body and minds through rich compositional choices, through intricate processes in the studio, or music that is inspired by the way we interact with the outside world. Connections to Sound journeys through downtempo, electronic, ambient and beat driven music, featuring tracks from artists all around the world. Presented by Kayla Painter.

In this episode, Shane Woolman hosts a guest mix from Montreal-based Lebanese musician, producer and DJ Liliane Chlela as well as playing a selection of new and recent releases and reissues.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

This episode is a contribution by Radio Grenouille.

Sound arts in the garden.

An action of collective practices with the Mutual Assistance Group bringing together people concerned by psychiatry (Léo, Parenthèses, Gem Marseille and Sentinelles-equality), with whom we have experienced many ways to take sound and listen in several gardens of Marseille.

The sound library made with several hands was staged and sound during a public restitution in the garden of the convent Levat by Julie Rousse, JB Imbert and Nelly Flecher.

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.