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Running weekly, the series will broadcast the entire catalogue so far in chronological order, continuing here with Prisoner of Love: The Dead Dance read by Takashi Inagaki.

Takashi Inagaki’s original soundtrack score for filmmaker Takashi Ito’s Japanese-language stage adaptation of Jean Genet’s ‘Prisoner of Love’, and its parallel video installation, The Dead Dance.

Genet’s final literary work recounts the two years he spent in Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Prisoner of Love, ‘written some ten years later, when many of the men Genet had known had been killed, and he himself was dying, is a beautifully observed description of that time and those men as well as a reaffirmation of the author's commitment not only to the Palestinian revolution but to rebellion itself.’

numbered + handmade in an edition of 200 copies only; 180gr vinyl in custom-made outer (sealed), containing extensive booklet with images from performance + installation + newly commissioned essay by AKIHITO YASUMI (Japanese original + English translation); no digital

There are two payment options for this record, one of which includes a donation to Medical Aid for Palestinians, considering the ongoing situation today. If you wish to select this option please order direct from our website: purge.xxx/purrrrrj034

Special edition of 10 copies only.

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 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.

A Sonorous Expedition presents a sound and visual, ecological and social research journey in Panama as a transformation to the environment of the Maxilla Space in London. In Panama, Ana Carolina was based in the indigenous community of Guna Yala, which encompasses rainforest and covers much of Panama’s eastern Caribbean coast; the aim was to learn from the indigenous community ecological and sustainable ways of living.

Online music publication Stray Landings invites guests from across the electronic music spectrum to discuss themes and innovations.

Tracks from across the spectrum of electronic and computer music, with Calum Gunn of Conditional.

In this episode, one hour of music by Benedict Drew.

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 of this midwinter episode, Gravity Waves: tracks from the newest member of the Spirit of Gravity Ascsoms. From his new album Featherteeth, two tracks from a new album by Ghost Flight and finally a lengthy improvisation from Hassni Malik and Nicholas Langley’s digitally re-issued cassette from 10 years ago.

In the second hour, Spectral Transmissions: Rare and Popular Rhymes, Proverbs, Sayings, Prophecies, Slogans and Gathering Cries of the North of England.

In these northern climes midwinter is a time of Inversion and strange magic. It is a time of opposites and anarchies, bright fires and feasts in the darkness and cold. A time of fortunes won and lost, visions seen, prophecies made and battles between elemental forces waged. Day turns to night and The Holly and Oak Kings, once again trade places . Spectral beings prowl the land and the Fool is made King. Midwinter, is the time of the Lord of Misrule, and the Wild Hunt. Some might think these as rude, Rough and Rusty relics of a former age.If they come, they come not: If they come not, they come.

With elements of Being & Doing 1985 by Stuart Brisley and Ken McMullen and original material by Jon Collyer.

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

This episode is a documentary about the importance of the "verb", which has a mysterious power because words create things.

The immensity of the orality is one of its fundamental attributes, at least this is the attitude that prevails in most African civilizations.

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 episode, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of Don’t You Want Me by The Human League. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material.

Mariachis, Pets, mass choirs, rumba dancers, plastic chickens, bla …bla bla… 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.

After last month's episode showcasing Discrepant-only releases from 2022, here is a show featuring the ever reliable Keroxen label – the newest and freshest sister label here in the warm tropical shores of the Canary Islands.

Established as a festival in 2009, Keroxen is the record label born out of the 13-year old multidisciplinary arts festival of the same name based in Tenerife. Like its homonymous annual festival, the label’s aim is to serve as a platform for local experimentation by working with the most genre defying local artists as well as supporting collaborations with well established, like-minded international acts.

This is a wild journey of rock, free jazz, electronica, field recordings and everything else in between.

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.

This episode features music by Francesca Heart, Kraus, Suzanna Ciani, Tomuttontu, and more.

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

In this edition, Edwina Attlee’s Book of Days.

“Garlands for the working conditions that underpin everything.”

A weathervane for New Year’s Day, a reading of the opening chapter from Edwina Attlee’s debut collection—A great shaking (Tenement Press, 2024)—as read by the poet. A suite of twelve poems written to (and from) the months of a year.

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A table can be overturned and a window can be smashed. However, those who believe that the state is also a thing or a fetish that can be overturned or smashed are sophists and believers in the Word. The state is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; i.e., by people relating to one another differently.

Gustav Landauer

Attlee’s debut collection, a great shaking, is a triptych of works—a gathering of songs, days, and hours—that detail the ways in which ‘a table can be overturned,’ an idea can be tilled, an hour can turn from something germinal to a quiet object of attention, an oblique artifact, a talisman for change. 

Gustav Landauer wrote that ‘the State is not something which can be destroyed by a revolution, but is a condition’—something impacted by the weather of our moods, by the small winds of our behaviour, by way of human contact and a romance of interrelation. In these poems, Attlee antagonises our consent to be governed, our will to be moved (in terms either emotive, temporal, or meteorological) to consider our ‘condition.’ ‘I want to tell you about the time conversations started to happen / and how it was the beginning of the room,’ Attlee writes.

Caught within an architecture wherein chance and design go bet on the horses, where we lose step with the gamble of a metaphor, Attlee segues her way through these collated hours and days to distil a poetry that is not about (or of) revolution, but about conditions. Hers is a poetry about steam; about diction; about how, to depict ‘the beginning of the room,’ you need question the porousness of its boundaries.

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Attlee’s Book of Days was recorded and produced for radio by Tenement’s Dominic J. Jaeckle and Resonance’s Milo Thesiger-Meacham.

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This profoundly exciting debut explores the complicated embodiments, politics and emotions of domestic life through the prism of the turning year. Attlee draws subtly luminous images from mundane, ordinary life—“I pat her gloves with apricot foam / blow bubbles in the dusk / with liquid from the pound shop”—allowing us to see the vivid, electric power of moments to which familiarity usually blinds us. At the same time, she is always aware of the vexed inequalities of family, time, class and gender—“joy unfurls from coupledom and a shared bank account / watch out or the big horse trudges on your head.” Her writing about childrearing is painfully tender yet radical: “they pack him differently at the nursery … am I letting them snuff it out / the little yellow flame.” In this beautiful, funny and innovative book, an important new poetic voice has emerged.

Rebecca Tamás, The Guardian

Echoing the tales and mysteries that were once our way of apprehending the world, Attlee's a great shaking allows one to feel close to the earth and the rhythms that govern it. It envelops you in its world with the steady confidence of a poet in full use of her powers. Both intimate and vast, A great shaking is like a skyline touched only by trees, land, and the stillness of forgotten time.

Vanessa Onwuemezi

A great shaking is such a rich gathering: endlessly surprising, bold and inventive. ‘Book of Days’ offers a fascinating riddle and rhyme of the seasons; the ‘Nursery Songs’ are full of secrets and vibrant flashes; while the ‘Archive Songs’ are curiously alluring. All together, they show undoubtable imagination and skill.

Lavinia Singer

In mediaeval manuscripts, engravings of the steps of life from birth to death often omitted women completely. In this fascinating collection, Attlee talks to them directly, making them entirely visible as she explores the legacies of indentured labour, the toils of women and the mythologies of motherhood, all in real time: “the crows eat up the corn / the baby is back / and the women open their legs to the stove / pushing soft porridge into his mouth / like companionable silence.” This empathy and companionship are the backdrop to her own negotiations of work, family and political activity, and expose how impossibly intermingled these are.

She weighs the magical thinking of folktale and childhood against the real world to expose the gap between there and here, while continuing the ancient task of trying to find a way to make it all work. Her language is present and exact, and razor sharp: “my mother is here / laughing like a broken plate.” Throughout, there is love and wry humour: “You are the word I will use to call the cows home at night” (‘Old English love song, Traditional’). This is a deeply affecting collection; these poems come from a very genuine sense of communion with all those semi-visible individuals who labour and have always laboured for love, family and fairness. “Forgive us this standing. Forgive us in strength. / Unforgive if forgiving undoes sorrow. Do not unstep your step.

Lesley Harrison

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Edwina Attlee is the author of two pamphlets, Roasting Baby (if a leaf falls press, 2016) and the cream (Clinic, 2016). She teaches history to students of architecture in London.

A roving, ongoing & growing catalogue of works for the radio from the Tenement Press wheelhouse, in collaboration with Prototype Publishing. Recorded and produced for radio by Tenement’s Dominic J. Jaeckle and Resonance’s Milo Thesiger-Meacham.

Nova Waves presents Passers-by - the first episode of the series 'Strange Morals'. In the middle of a busy public space our main character stands listening to the snippets of passers-by desperately seeking the relevance and meaning of strangers words.'

Three short stories exploring life moments and exchanges between people, brought to you by Nova Waves.

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

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, Shane Woolman takes to the airwaves with a guest mix by Lebanese musician, producer and sound engineer Fadi Tabbal plus a selection of current and forthcoming releases including Grup Ses & Gökalp K, Sansouni, King Jammy, The Exu and David Beast.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

This episode is a contribution by Diffusion.

At Diffusion, one of our favourite activities is introducing people who’ve never worked with audio before to the wonderful world of sonic arts and composition! This time, we had the pleasure of bringing Richard into the fold.

Richard was planning a trip to the stunning Northern Rivers region of NSW, Australia, so I handed him a ZOOM recorder and encouraged him to give it a go. His reaction? “What do I do with this?” But since he’s got a knack for snapping gorgeous photos on his iPhone, I told him to think of it the same way—just capturing beautiful snaps, but with sound.

When he returned, we sat down, set up Audacity on his laptop, and I guided him through some basic editing and listened to his piece come to life. Now, why not join Richard on his journey? It starts at the Brunswick Heads breakwater, heads up river towards Mullumbimby, then meanders around the High Street and Market at the Showgrounds.

From there, we head up Left Bank Road towards Mullumbimby Creek, stop by to visit Barry Reeves at his place, “Brushbox Mountain”, and enjoy drinks on the balcony during a tropical downpour.

We wrap up by wandering through the bush and garden, and finally ending our adventure at the beautiful beach of Byron Bay.

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.