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Running weekly, the series will broadcast the entire catalogue so far in chronological order, continuing here with Frans Zwartjes.

Frans Zwartjes’ studio remains untouched since his passing in 2017. In early 2023, we returned to the studio and discovered a trunk of unlabelled 3/4 inch tapes, containing completely unheard music by Zwartjes. These works, largely synthesiser-based improvisations for films either unmade or unfinished, were played and recorded by Zwartjes between the late 1960s, through his most fertile filmmaking period in the 1970s, and continuing in to the early 1980s.

Unlike his previous releases, these recordings have been transferred directly from the original source tapes, newly mastered and available to hear for the first time as a double LP release. A comprehensive new interview with TRIX Zwartjes, the life-partner and collaborator of FRANS is included in a booklet accompanying every copy of the record.

numbered + handmade in an edition of 300 copies only; 180gr 2xLP 12” vinyl in custom-made screen-printed outer (sealed), with an eight-page xerox-printed booklet containing an interview with Trix Zwartjes and lots of previously unseen photographs from the Zwartjes family albums; no digital - special edition of 5 copies only

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.

A selection of the most vibrant and exciting new sounds of Latin America's emerging talents.

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 welcome Maxwell Sterling to the show, who provides a sumptuous mix of fluid & future facing electronics to mark the release of his new album 'Laced With Rumour: Loud-Speaker Of Truth' on Ecstatic Records.

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.

In the first hour, Gravity Waves: as preparation for her new album, some long overdue tracks from I Am Fya, some tracks from the new Xylitol & Alien Alarms albums, a couple of remixes from Nil by Noses new trains based album, and some pieces by friends of the Spirit of Gravity.

In the second hour, Spectral Transmissions: Midnight in the Haunted Karaoke. It is nighttime in the city. Tatty terraces and scattered concrete tower blocks, the detritus of a vast up-turned wheelie bin bathed in orange twilight. Around this time of year strange things happen. The ether is populated with unruly beasts.

Pipes can be heard tapping in the darkness, lightbulbs flicker, music plays on an unplugged jukebox and faint calls of distant laughter can be heard echoing in the subway. An empty karaoke booth crackles into life and the soft crooning lament drifts through the still corridors, someone has entered the building.

Contains fragments of: Stomu Yamash'ta's Red Buddha Theatre; What a way to live in modern times

With thanks to: Stephen Mallinder and antivoid alliance.

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

In this episode, an hour long dive in the DIY cassette culture of Brussels, sometimes even crossing its border, to discover some shiny pearls on the muddy bottom, grabbed by mechanical octopi tentacles and bitten by harsh noisy teeth on the way back up.

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 mind-blowing covers and drifts of “Complicated”. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material. Featuring special guest Bella Paloma.

Pizza lovers, skateboarders, broken hearts, liver cooks, complicated people, hyperpop fans… 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.

This episode is full of upcoming exclusives on main label as well as associated artists. Featuring Tasos Stamou’s new synth folk precious album, Mike Cooper’s track on the upcoming Aquapelago Anthology as well as an exclusive Marc Codsi tune, also coming soon on Discrepant.

Closing the session with Jerry Blue’s unique brand of twisted pop (out on Sucata Tapes) and a special track from Ondness upcoming new album Oeste A.D.

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 week: 'Athens Inner City Broadcast: Pilot Episode' explores sounds from various fields of music from the city, with an addition of field recordings from within the Athenian metro system tunnels. Athens Inner City Broadcast aims to create a lucid state between being alert and dreaming, based on the notion of a Site specific transmission.

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

They’re healthy, they’re good: We’re cooking our sonic adventure with grains and jam today.
Download Soundgrain here

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

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

According to the show's creator, some broadcasters choose to distort the voices of unfavourable participants in political panel shows to discredit their arguments. Chunk fifteen of Asphyxia begins with a sonic rumination on this legend.

Creepbeat continues to be deployed apace, and a return to the bookshop heralds preparation for the imminent Saatchi Gallery bookfair which has as its theme 'banned books' - a possible ruse to draw dangerous rarities out the woodwork for later destruction, or a scheme to blackmail bookdealers too-versed-in-secrets with the threat of 'cancellation', as they unwittingly platform edgelords and fin de siècle Parisian filth(?).

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.

In this episode, MitamineLab present a selection of current favourites, including some poems taken from “Terres mutilées”, an exhibition based on a montage of texts by René Char, presented by Hélène Martin at the Festival d'Avignon in 1966. This selection also includes Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks, a potent philosophical, clinical, literary and political analysis of the deep effects of racism and colonialism on the experiences, lives, minds and relationships of black people and people of colour.

Mitamine Lab is a culture laboratory based in Mexico City which blends sound archives with contemporary music and literature.

In this episode, a guest mix by Ian Preece, author of Listening to the Wind: Encounters with 21st Century Independent Record Labels on Omnibus Press.

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

This episode showcases music with a distinctive atmospheric feel, music that evokes a sense of times long gone, or times to come.

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, join Shane Woolman on the dark side for an exclusive Halloween guest mix by Diamanda Galás plus a slew of forthcoming, recent and archive releases including Masma Dream World, The Hempolics, Caïn و Muchi, The Bug, Sandy Chamoun/Anthony Sahyoun/Jad Atoui, 25 Cents, and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

This episode is a contribution by Radio WORM.

This new radio piece, recorded in the WORM studio over February and March 2024 by Palestinian sound artist Dirar Kalash, is made entirely out of sounds collected from Palestine, and is composed using field recordings of protests, nature, markets, city streets, all from different locations across Palestine.

These sounds were then heavily processed and composed, as an analogical approach to the political realities of Palestine, and the spatial and temporal transformation of both the land and the people – their movements, their lives, and their deaths.

Dirar Kalash (b. 1982) is a musician and sound artist whose work spans a wide range of musical and sonic practices within a variety of instrumental, compositional and improvisational contexts. Kalash also extends his practice into inter-disciplinary theoretical research. He has produced several solo and collaborative music albums and is active as an improvising musician.

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.