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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.

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

Communiques from Thanet Tape Centre, Hard drive sludge. audio tidal pools. Music sediment. Friends utterances, sea walls of noise, salt marsh drone.

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.

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

Dronica meets event curators, creative directors and labels owners in 2021.

In this episode, Dronica meets Niya B, founder and curator of Translucent, London.

Translucent is an artist-led platform for performance work from trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming artists as well as artists whose work defies gender.

The show was produced by Niya B and Gisou Golshani with 32 contributions by 24 artists.

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

Kleine Pía is the alias of Pía Sotomayor, who debuted in 2003 under the alias of DJ Ruina. With a style that crosses without prejudice between techno, electro, house, breakbeat, experimental and contemporary club, she has had the opportunity to present herself on many radio stations, and in clubs, parties and festivals in Chile and around the world.

For some years now she has been experimenting with machines, editing singles for various labels such as Panal and Halcxn. In November 2022, she released her first EP Multi Level Void on the Chilean-Mexican label Filiae, an EP of 6 tracks, three originals and three remixes, by Valesuchi, Tomás Urquieta and Ron Morelli, mastered by AtomTM.

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 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.

Going softly soporific ...

An Infinite Number of Monkeys

• 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.

Night Trippin' unearths alternative sounds from around the world, one country at a time.

Music by Otto Dix, MEZ, Fa le Brou, Paul Nagle, Phono Ghosts, Inge K, Brunald, Klinik, Zanye East, Bonzo Dog Band, La Femme, Jean Jacques Perrey and Mama Cass Elliott.

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

This show was created by Sunna Margrét (Lausanne) and multimedia artist, Anna Clegg (London).

Margrét’s half of the show, “Lullabies of Lac Léman”, brings together intimate sound recordings and music written by friends and musicians from her neighbourhood in Lausanne. The resulting mix is a captivating glimpse into a thriving art community that has been built on the banks of Lac Léman.

In the second half of the show, Clegg weaves together a personal archive of material spanning from late 2017 to the present day recorded in galleries, cinemas, clubs, bedrooms and buses throughout London.

In her own words: “Seldom used to record directly, my recording device was held outside windows, behind doors or at the back of the room as a DJ played at the front. Caught somewhere between fantasy, impression and occasional embodied reality (there are multiple interferences in the form of my own nervous laugh), the recordings attempt to present a version of time that is malleable, elastic.”

Each month, First Light Records invites two artists to take an unplanned journey with a microphone around their city to curate an hour-long mix. Each show captures the unique atmosphere of a city from each artist's perspective, through music and found sound.

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 week a new guest joins Joe in the studio to discuss and perform their work. Expect in-depth interviews, live performances, conversations and new event experiments.

This episode features music by Mathias Grassow, gintas k, Vesica Piscis, FX666, Untermensch, Lars Bröndum and Claus Poulsen Jarl.

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 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.

In this episode: a kaleidoscopic collage of treated field recordings made in and around Walthamstow Wetlands.

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, music and sounds by N:Mare / Datassette / Pessimist & Karim Maas / Dentistry / Batu / Martha Skye Murphy / Miles Tilmann / Ruaridh Law, Debbie Armour, James Papademetrie & Orphax / Max Roach / Disinformation / TVO / Tengui / Section 25 / Sex Worker / Mika Vainio / Goldie & Justina Curtis / Noam Chomsky vs Andrew Marr / AOTCI vs Production Unit / Alban Berg/Emanuele Arciuli / Hiroshi Yoshimura / Convoi Exceptionnel / Area / Akim Drml.

An immersive psychosonic space, where sounds converse, collide and converge, featuring works, selections, edits, experiments, new music, non-music, archival objects, abstract artefacts, sound(system) and A/V art, pop, trash, noise, voice, and the associated mediums, processes and techniques that make up the ongoing audial investigations of Agents of the Culture Industry & OVT, all presented for art not profit.

Ambient, folk, ritual, electronic, dub, free jazz and exploratory works selected by BroodingSideOfMadness.

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.