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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.

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 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.

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

In this episode, Dronica meets Lou Barnell.

Lou is an award-winning vocalist, sound and performance artist. She is one of Sound and Music's New Voices 2022 Composers, and Manchester Jazz Festival Hothouse Residents 2023. She was winner of the 2021 Oram Awards, supported by The PRS Foundation and BBC Radiophonic Institute in recognition of innovation in sound and technology.

Lou’s work gives language to her alienating and disorientating experiences of being a neurodivergent woman. It communicates her synaesthetic experience of sound, hyperfocus and sensory overload.

This show is dedicated to Lou's Practice and the focus of her practice led PhD called Live Dreaming. This concept reconsiders her body as a mirror, reflecting and refracting parallel states of dreaming and performance. She emulates this duality in her work by creating scores and live performances with sculpted, shapeshifting, re-useable materials such as ice and thermoplastic. She uses wearable sensors and biorhythmic data to play and score music.

"As a woman growing up with a learning difficulty, the way I experience the world does not align with the way the world experiences me. To make sense of unfathomable surroundings, I use my voice as a material. My voice can be a compass, or a totem, it can be sculpted, broken and reformed.

It is the core of all of my music and production. I use wearable instruments and sculptures to contain, shape and release my body and voice. My aim is to become more than myself, to possess ways of communicating and receiving sound that are true to how I experience my surroundings."

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

seren.a is an electronic sound artist from Düsseldorf, and co-founder and DJ of the all-female collective Get Over It. She pioneers the representation of queer women on stage and behind the decks in NRW.

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 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.

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Danielson - Almost Live from Joyful Noise

• audio / visual decomposer Lepke B posits the question - "How will we live in the 21st Century?"

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 first episode features music by Noria Alias T.N., Jörg Foth, Chor Chor Flame, A.F Moebius and many 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 キラヨシ, Machinefabriek, Kid Mania, John Novak, Neil Scrivin, SiJ, Field Lines Cartographer, Dubstar, Flamengo, Toxic Chicken and Kinsâme.

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

Held in pitch darkness, Glasgow's Lights Out Listening Group is a bi-monthly series of listening sessions, sharing new sound/radio works and a love of creativity in the sonic arts. This month founders Mark Vernon and Monica Brown play selected works from their archives and talk about community, radio, LOLG and upcoming broadcast festival Radiophrenia.

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.

"The dog...?" - A new By Ear recording improvisation by Tara Cunnigham on electric guitar complements a selection of tracks in response to postcards sent in by Lucy Clitheroe, Joe Gamble, Willa Hilditch, Holly Mills & Troy Rosewell.

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 music by David Lee Myers, Deison, Nerthus, Loo(p)cy, Rapoon &Sonologyst, Howlround, Michael Bonaventure and Mitoma & Scald.

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

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.

Sea Mantis has risen again. The Middlesex Filter Beds sonically contains them on a hazy summer evening.

Littoral Transmissions meander through the sonic landscape of the River Lea from Stonebridge Lock to Leamouth. Recordings from the field converge with layers of sound to create an aural impression of the navigation.

In this episode, presenter Theo Sayers is joined by electronic musician/DJ Massive Cat Person for an hour of eclectic music. Featuring songs by Jimi Hendrix, Oscar Peterson Trio and Maria Minerva.

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

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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, we journey to Powys, Mid Wales and talk with Ellis Green to explore the musical genre of Dungeon Synth. We discuss its origins, aesthetics and shed light on Ellis' new DIY cassette-based label Verdant Wisdom.

The conversation is interspersed with a selection of Dungeon synth, Forest Ambient and other like-minded sonic offerings. Featuring tracks from Mortiis, Fåntratt, Lunar Womb, Sunken Grove, USKK, Oaklimb, Winter Seer, Middlewood. Find out more about the Verdant Wisdom label.

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.