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Getting close to the 100th iteration of the show, episode 1 is now more than 7 years ago, back in January 2016, and it's been a wild monthly ride ever since.

This episode features a bunch of discrepancies, opening with the new album by Marc Codsi, a track by yours truly and a beautifully discordant composition by Babau, from a tape we will release very very soon!

For now, enjoy the wild random rides to shores you should know by now.

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.

Merrie Melodias is back with a new series and new rubrics! And that means new digger discoveries are waiting for you from the bottomless catalogue of the Soviet major label Melodia. As is good tradition, we start with an episode about folk music. This episode features melodies from Central Asia, the Lesser Caucasus, the Baltic States, Africa and South America and other countries of the world.

This episode highlights the intersection of the sound of the world's three main musical instruments - the lute, the lyre and the reed pipe - with each country having its own modification and name. This is the story of how the sound of a Burundian funk band's electric guitar transforms into the trill of an Uzbek dutar, the sigh of an Azerbaijani zurna turns into the moan of an Armenian duduk, and the tinkling strings of a Paraguayan harp turn into the dreamy chords of a Madagascar valiha.

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.

This month: Chorus.

Moods and preoccupations in a nonlinear narrative in and out of the club with COSI and The Source of Some Certainty - created by Corinna Triantafyllidis and Henry Rodrick.

In this episode, Dronica meets Cerpintxt.

Cerpintxt is an electroacoustic progress report from the cosmic madhouse, through the medium of voice, auto-destruction, wind-guided experiments in protoconversation. Her work is concerned with generating an invented language of a particular strain of softness through phonetic entropy and augmented instrumentation.

The hauntological element of her work explores a form of sonic activism against the weaponization of love in Egypt. She curates the London-based event Boundary Condition. A durational sonic immersion for the rabidly sentimental: investigating the parallelization between dark-jazz, hauntology, and music concrete as nostalgia-centric practices trickling from the persistence and antagonistic fragmentation of certain memories.

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

Ansonica is an Italian DJ who worked for years as host at Ribbon Club Culture in central Italy until she moved to Berlin in 2015. It was then that Ansonica made the decision to not just stay in the background and began to create her own unique, colorful and authentic style of music.

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 is contribution by Usmaradio.

Nostalgia for the Androgynous unfolds an ethereal-telluric space for voices and concrete sound, generative drones creating arcane sounds, lo-fi recordings, lyrical witchcraft, high-hovering voices, dazed and processed in glossolalic harmonies progressively embodied in organic and mineral scenarios. Occult soundscapes melt alternative listening paths in a cathartic collision, haunting and refreshing at a time, an atmosphere of ascent and intimacy, ambiguous, nostalgic, and visceral.

Serena Dibiase is an experimental vocalist, sound artist, performer, poet. She identifies her artistic and sound productions with the androgynous name Kratu. She carries out her artistic investigation starting from intense physical/respiratory practices and through analogue and not-analogue devices, to listen to radical phonic geographies, choral happenings, interventions on biophonies and geophonies extracted from explorations in abandoned, wild, industrial spaces, in a horizontal treatment of the sources.

She collaborates as a sound dramaturg and performer with independent theatre companies, and also working for Biennale Teatro ’22-’23 and disseminating her research in Italian and international festivals. She collaborates as artistic consultant in contexts of social hardship (jale, community outreach centre for addicts), considering these incursions into her broader spectrum of anthro-poetic research. He has been leading Mouth of the landscape, a transversal vocal training and listening workshop. Her EP Nostalgia for the Androgynous released by Oceani Label.

Members of Radia, the international group of independent cultural radio stations, explore new and forgotten ways of making radio.

• 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.

This episode: music by Go Ask Alice, Download, Blastcraft, α Ori & Filmy Ghost, Phono Ghosts, Negative Neutron, Djamain Sisters, Carl Matthews, Daphne Oram, Helen Kane, Dissolved, Mister Keys, Illl, Tangerine Dream and Vic Mars.

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

In honour of Helicotrema’s 10th recorded audio festival, coming up September 29th, this episode revisits a playlist previously curated for broadcast by the festival’s organisers (the collective Blauer Hase). Inspired by the first decades of radio, Helicotrema is set up like a screenless film festival.

Gathering in-person in venues which vary year-to-year, audiences are invited to immerse themselves in radio plays, narrative sound works, audio documentaries and poetry. Colliding Lines are delighted to contribute material to this year’s festival - more on this soon. This month we are also delighted to feature works from Stephan Barrett, Sylvia Hallett and Nichola Scrutton.

Colliding Lines present live sessions, cross-genre collaborations and left-field recordings drawn from the London, UK and international experimental scenes; a long-form love letter to recorded audio as soundtrack, as sound art and as storyteller.

In this episode, tracks selected in response to postcards sent in by Patrick Thomas, as well as excerpts from the plates (x5) launch of Alphabetical Processions Laid Him on The Green Vol.1..

Featuring Caius Williams & feeo, M. NourbeSe Philip, Oneohtrix Point Never & Elizabeth Fraser, DUNCE and Matana Roberts.

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 new music by X-NAVI-ET - R. IWANSKI, Pentameth Demon, John Oliver, PureH, Antonin De Bemels, VIRUS2020, Bjørn Jenkins, Nerthus, Anda Volley and While.

A selection of new experimental music and sound work from the international underground network Unexplained Sounds, curated by Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst).

In this episode, Lucy Thraves pays tribute to David Lynch, alongside new releases and rereleases by Circuit Des Yeux, Infinity Knives, John Wall, Annette Peacock and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

This month: presenter Theo Sayers plays a psychedelic selection of left field pop, trip hop and electronic music, including songs by Prince, The Sugarcubes and Panda Bear.

Electronic musician Theo Sayers transports listeners with a mix of electronic, ambient, spiritual and new age music.

Worthwhile Unions is a radio series by Anna Clegg with a focus on meeting points. Often collaborative and pulling heavily from online sources, the series works to extract a kind of cinema of feeling, contradicting and evasive, from dense combinations of music, sound and samples.

This episode presents sound works on the theme of collage and bricolage; pieces that take a mixed media approach, assembled from different elements of sonic and aural practices utilising scrapbooks of sound to create forms more cohesive and interesting than their constituent parts.

Featuring work by FFRWD, Ben Eyes, Robert Gillespie, Amanni Hassan Hollands, Hui-Chun Yang, Margarita Novikova, Leon Clowes, Italowsky and Nikoleta Radulovic.

Gwaith Swn's Sonic Darts is a London-based sound art collective presenting new sound works, performances and discussions.

This month: What Mythical Creature?

Moods and preoccupations in a nonlinear narrative in and out of the club with COSI and The Source of Some Certainty - created by Corinna Triantafyllidis and Henry Rodrick.

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.