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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 fever takes hold over this episode, but the willpower to continue researching persists. When these two things collide, you can be sure that you're in for one hell of a rollercoaster of ride full of spills and thrills without a moderating pragmatist for miles.

Fever effects are unusual; perceptual loops present themselves, of varying tiresomeness. A loud music event outdoors prompts our poorly breathless narrator to trace the source of the sound.

This gives rise to what may become a recurring theme in Asphyxia: namely, a new genre of music called 'creepbeat'; where, like breakbeat, music is sampled, albeit from an unreasonably long lonely distance away. When banging tunes lose their definition, they thrum.

Originally commissioned in 2022 as part of Radio Art Zone's tapestry of 22-hour radio productions, this project by Daniel R. Wilson is re-presented here in episodic form. Asphyxia hacks the antagonising systems which thwart and forestall projects (its name also acknowledges the asphyxiating atmosphere of long-form radio when made by a single person). It is a damaged would-be radio documentary exploring the Narnia of restricted access material and gatekept employment.

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

Live recordings from Rhgt, Rupert Clervaux, Ayankoko, Clive Henry, kNN, James Osland & Finn Kelvin, LI YILEY, Domiziano Maselli.

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

Music by Eastern Fear Ritual, Panopticon, Elemental Noise, Chubby Wolf, Xqui, Azalia Snail, Neon, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Grimes, Sébastien Wright, Off Land and Jean-Michel Jarre.

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

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

Virgilio Oliveira explores the sonic environment in collaboration with Porto's Radio Manabras, presenting an hour of sound art and field recordings.

This episode focuses on the strangest releases from the Soviet major label Melodia, which could be characterised simply as ‘Non-music’. Some records shocked me, some made me cringe — but these tracks seem to form a curious narrative on the verge of a numbing psychedelic journey.

So, within an hour you will hear reconstruction of a concert on mammoth bones, advertisement of the famous Lithuanian hoover ‘Audra’ and car fluids of Soyuzbytkhim factory, field recordings of crickets, toads and even fish singing, pioneers' signals, monologues of parrot Gosha and a patient with nonsense casual relations syndrome, and also hypnotherapy for alcoholics. Happy travelling!

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 Hello by Adele. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material. Squirrels, electric toothbrushes, reague fanatics, babies, mermaids and newts… all are welcome in Shuffle formula radio mode.

This episode features a special guest, Milo Thesiger–Meacham: Soundcloud // Vimeo // Instagram.

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).

Hosted by Stu Buchanan, Out From Under dives deep beneath the surface of the Australian music scene, celebrating experimental and eclectic music from the far end of the world.

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

embodiment -:- walking human movement -:- place more-less natural -:- distance time over across -:- field recording -:- poetry -:- composition -:- martin p eccles

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.

"a prod on the brain" - a selection of tracks in response to postcards sent in by Otis Blease, Hannah Buckman & Olivia Sterling, featuring Two Ronnies, Amy Sillman, Patti Smith & Charles Amirkhanian.

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 is with Pauline Guiffard.

A walk in the intentions of invisible care through magnetism and hypnosis.Healing through the invisible is a radio creation of the International Institute for Research on Radio and Magic around sensitive healing mechanisms.

The three-episode series is an open reflection on the common goal of protagonists from different backgrounds to live as well as possible, in good health, in a subtle balance that goes beyond the concrete.

Radio Picnic is a mobile radio art project by zonoff which invites multi-disciplinary artists to create works inspired by the radio medium.

This episode is a Seefeel Special show this week. One of my favourite and consistent bands throughout the years. Picking tunes from their catalogue is so easy, so many perfect loops to choose from as well as having the perfect balance between electronics and guitar oriented music. For rainy evenings or sunny mornings.

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.

This episode was made in collaboration with Jo Morrison.

Surrounded by sunlit waters at the Town Hard, where small boats launch into the Walton Mere and then on to the River Twizzle and on once more out to sea or further into the Essex marshes. Sounds drift ghostly in the air as seagulls swirl, and sunken wrecks resurface.

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.

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Kubota Shunko’s poem “cascade sounds / along a mountain path - / the blistering heat”.

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.

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

This episode is hosted by Misha Farrant and features music by Kim Cass, Ghost Dubs, excel dj, Louis Carnell & Okkyung Lee, Munki and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.