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Running weekly, the series will broadcast the entire catalogue so far in chronological order, continuing here with Chaos Lure Us: Films by Susu Laroche (2010​–​2021) by Susu Laroche.

Films made by Susu Laroche between 2010 and 2021 remastered and collected together for the first time. These films include original music by Laroche and Schtinter and performances from Blackhaine, Adam Christensen, New Noveta and many others.

numbered + handmade in an edition of 33 copies only; 16-pp+ xerox-printed booklet containing original contributions from subjects, collaborators and bystanders: Joe Brace, Reba Maybury, Shola von Reinhold, Stanley Schtinter; no digital.

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.

In this extract from the day, a live performance by Sister Punch.

Sister Punch is a music duo founded by artists Giulio Dal Lago and Gianna T.

Archival recordings of a 7-hour radio event broadcast live from the Resonance Extra studios on the 29th January 2023, featuring live performances and new and exclusive audio works.

In this episode, tracks selected in response to a postcard sent in by Archie Fooks-Smith, as well as an introduction to new Late Works offshoot plates plates plates plates - featuring Yoko Ono, Jackson Mac Low, Ryoji Ikeda, Cocteau Twins & Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.

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.

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

In this episode, Joe & Alex spin some recent favourites, including tracks from Space Afrika, Loraine James, Cõvco, Speaker Music and many more.

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 comes live from L'Usine, Geneva, with a performance by Blanktapes.

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

In this edition of Shuffle, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mindblowing covers and drifts of Numb by Linkin Park. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material.

A capella demons or angels, 80s dancers, emo gangs, followers of the missing beats, throat singers… all are welcome in Shuffle formula radio 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 spiritual continuation to last month’s gateways show (ep 71). This one a more freeflowing affair replaying some artists but going more random between worlds. Up and down beat, home taped music, the future happened a long time ago!

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 features Alexis Bathory. 'Carefree, mixed for the difficult days "or something like that" because... I wish people that are having a hard time to become a little more happy.'

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

Vita brevis breviter in brevi finietur,
Mors venit velociter quae neminem veretur,
Omnia mors perimit et nulli miseretur.
Ad mortem festinamus peccare desistamus.

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

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

Intertwining themes of motivations and justifications form the central nervous ganglia of this instalment.

Loosen your tolerance threshold and listen in, as some of the loose ends regarding the new genre 'creepbeat' (introduced previously) are tied up, followed by rantings at the TV, then a phone call of dubious audio quality is received from a friend who formerly worked at Oxford Street's HMV where a strange diary was discovered inside an abandoned bungalow on the roof of the iconic music store.

If the aforementioned has not whetted appetites, meat is provided in the form of reports of Pure Volunteering workplace trespass incidents. Pure Volunteering is a mode of work which mocks the divide between the employed and unemployed, causing untold fuss.

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.

This episode features S*Glass, Maryanne Amacher, Shadow Pattern, Matt Atkins, Food People, Dang, Panic Boner, Eddie Gale, the Shadow Ring and more.

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

This episode features live recordings from the Fractures album launch at Cafe Kino, Bristol on the 10th October 2024.

Fractures is the debut album from Kayla Painter, written about the NASA mission to Jupiter’s frozen moon, Europa.

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, Joseph Stannard plays new releases and reissues from the likes of Alan Lamb, AR Kane, Pat Thomas, Magazine, Red Brut, and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

Against the backdrop of Slovakia’s terrifying socio-political turmoil, this documentary radio piece explores Bratislava’s vibrant and courageous independent music and cultural scene and some of the community spaces in which it develops. Now they are facing their biggest challenge, to keep it alive and kicking.

We’ve been there (for the bad parts mostly), and we are still stuck there.

From Skopje to Bratislava, with love.

Recorded and edited by Gjorgji Janevski (summer 2024)
Additional interviews and recordings by Vid Bešter (Radio Študent)

Voices: Jonáš Gruska, Matúš Kobolka, Adela Mede, Poli, Daniel Vadas, Janneke Van Der Putten, Oliver from the garages, Olja Triaška Stefanović, Rozalia Vlaskova, Tomaš Hučko.

Music excerpts from Adela Mede, Bolka, Jonáš Gruska, Fissures, Patrick Balthrop, Rrrr

The publication of this article is part of PERSPECTIVES – the new label for independent, constructive, multiperspective journalism. The project PERSPECTIVES is being implemented by seven editorial teams from Central Eastern Europe under the leadership of the Goethe-Institut. The author of this article participated in the PERSPECTIVES Journalists-in-Residence Programme at the Goethe-Institut Bratislava.

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.