← Tuesday 29th April 2025 →

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 begins with an unreleased track entitled My Rok Star ,a sombre, brooding meditation on the perils of fame,
with additional alteration by yours truly , from the samplerdelic trio of Die Trip Computer Die ( Xentos 'Fray' Bentos, ,Ted Barrow, Lepke B ).

https://soundcloud.com/ginger-studio/die-trip-computer-die-my-rok?in=ginger-studio/sets/die-trip-computer-die

Ted Barrow and Xentos have started a compilation of vintage DTCD material via -

https://dietripcomputerdie.bandcamp.com/album/archive-005-mobsters-from-the-id

and hear some new solo work by Ted Barrow at-

https://tedbarrow.bandcamp.com/album/60-x-60

Next is Hullabaloo , an American musical variety series that ran on NBC from January 12, 1965 through August 29, 1966.
Directed by Steve Binder, who went on to direct Elvis Presley's '68 Comeback Special,
Hullabaloo served as a big-budget, quality showcase for the leading pop acts of the day, and was also competition for another
like-minded television showcase, ABC's Shindig!.
A different host presided each week—among these were Sammy Davis, Jr., Petula Clark, Paul Anka, Liza Minnelli, Jack Jones, and
Frankie Avalon—singing a couple of his or her own hits and introducing the different acts.
Chart-topping acts who performed on the show included Dionne Warwick, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Rolling Stones,The Yardbirds, Sonny & Cher, the Supremes, Herman's Hermits, The Animals, and Roy Orbison .

Adopted by The Residents, the apocryphal Bavarian composer and music theorist N. Senada, formulated the "Theory of Obscurity",
while his "Theory of Phonetic Organization" states, "the musician should put the sounds first, building the music up from [them] rather than
developing the music, then working down to the sounds that make it up."
This method is part of the process deployed here on Hullabaloo Show #30 Dec 06 1965- with Host: Frankie Avalon .
Special guests -wildlife recordings of Madagascar from CD Madagascar Soundscapes - www.wildsounds.com

The second sonic release by Die Trip Computer Die , We Are Your Friends, includes the track Fourth Flaw .

https://soundcloud.com/alcohol-label/fourth-flaw?in=alcohol-label/sets/die-trip-computer-die-we-are

Here is some of the source material, and permutations ,from the film Liquid Dreams (1991) , music by American composer Ed Tomney.

N-V is about freedom, freedom from the Flesh.....

Lepke B's blissful disregard for the sacred in life has placed him as one of the testcard knights with a totally unique approach to sound plunderphonics and visual art.

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

This episode features music from Disinformation, Big Pun, Dead Rat Orchestra, Beachers, Gareth JS Thomas, Jovana Backovic and S A R R A M.

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

This episode features music by Right Hand Left Hand, Pete Kelly, Headshock, Redshift, Bloom de Wilde, Oathbreaker, Heavy Water, Carl Matthews, Paul Nagle, Steve Hillage, Nehedar, You're Alive But You Are Dead and Nina Belief.

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

In this episode, Otomo Hava takes over with a mix of Athenian field recordings with Otomo's special music choices. More than 10 years active in the Athenian noise scene Otomo Hava is one of my personal favorite projects from Athens.

He is also the producer on Notes From Chaos, a Podcast series which is focused on electronic, experimental, noise, post industrial and other anti-comformist (or not?) musical genres. Guests From Chaos is a sub-podcast series where noisicians / musicians / artists doing their own mix sets to present their own works / label / tastes

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

Virgilio Oliveira explores the sonic environment in collaboration with Porto's Radio Manabras, presenting an hour of sound art and field recordings.

This episode celebrates the release of new music, including Kayla’s new EP Ambient Owl Core Vol.1. A journey through releases, live tape loop improvisations and soundscapes.

Background music: What is keeping you alive makes me want to kill them for by Kathryn Joseph (Unofficial Jilk Remix).

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, get ready to listen to the weirdest and most mind-blowing covers and drifts of Beat It. There's no order, no lists, only stilted and exclusive material.

High school bands, mashup creators, merengue dancers, midi charmers, humour gangs, … all are welcome in Shuffle 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).

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

Hosted by Stu Buchanan, Out From Under dives deep beneath the surface of the Australian music scene, celebrating experimental and eclectic music from the far end of the world.

Along with the regular selection of sonics from within the orbit of the Spirit of Gravity collective, this month features special contributions from Gagarin's live set at the Stanmer Park's The Ecomusicology Project, and the first of six transmissions from the Omnistitional Culture Research Unit (OCRU).

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

Seven days in June, seven replicated walks, each walked once, on one of seven consecutive days – seven days in June, each in the ‘same place’ - across Beringia, on Iñupiat land. This episode is Movement 4.

You can find out more about the work at here.

embodiment -:- walking human movement -:- place more-less natural -:- distance time over across -:- field recording -:- poetry -:- composition -:- martin p eccles

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.

This episode is dedicated to the first Meloman M-110 music machines in the Soviet Union. Cabinets with music weighing 130 kilograms began to appear in the 60s in places where citizens would rest – cafes and restaurants, sanatoriums and cruise ships. Each jukebox held fifty seven-inch records and accordingly allowed listening to two-hundred songs.

In total, Melodiya issued about two-hundred records for Meloman - they were not sold in ordinary shops, but the music recorded on them was popular among listeners. The cost of listening to one song was only five kopecks, while the price of a seven-inch record at retail was seventy kopecks and more.

Meloman's repertoire included mostly city pop music of the 60s and 70s in the languages of commonwealth countries. However, in this episode I tried to include not the biggest hits of those years. You will hear bubblegum pop from Poland and Japan, psychedelic rock from Azerbaijan, pop chorals from Georgia, foxtrots from the GDR, as well as a lot of jazz and swing from Russia and the Lesser Caucasus.

It is believed that it was through the Meloman's speakers that Soviet citizens first heard the The Beatles' music – not the original recordings, but performed on a Hammond organ. In 1967, Keith Buckingham recorded a medley of three songs by the Liverpool 4 and this was included in the repertoire of the Soviet Jukebox and in this episode (track 11).

It can seem that the repertoire of the Meloman music machine sounds rather utopian: "I walk and sing and the street sings. The traffic light winked: ‘Go ahead!’," – Soviet pop diva Edita Piekha squints with pleasure in her schlager. It seems to have been so! Meloman's popularity waned in the late 70s, when clubs with live ensembles began to appear in big cities, personal vinyl players became available to almost every worker, and soon the rough rock of Perestroika became fashionable.

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.

In this episode, Joe is joined by musical guest otta, who will be performing live songs from her new EP WITH LOVE FROM EVERYWHERE.

Also featuring an interview with Anna and track selections including Steve Kuhn, Nina Simone & William S Fischer.

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.

In this episode, a very special mix by Bardo Todol, aka Pablo Picco coming from Salsipuedes, Argentina. Pablo is at the foreground of tape experimentalism, collaborating with a myriad of local and international artists from his remote rural base in the Argentinian countryside. This is a mix of tape-only releases from his personal collection. You won’t find this on Spotify or any money grabbing streaming "service", enjoy!

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.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

• audio / visual decomposer Lepke B posits the question - "How will we live in the 21st Century?"

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Raymond Cobley’s poem “fog dissolves to rain - / cool breezes clear the vista, / showing cloud-topped hills”.

To have your music featured on the show, participate in the Haiku music challenge.

Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly haiku poem, curated by Marco Alessi of Naviar Records and Naviar's international community of composers.

Offering surreal glimpses of what might be identified as echoes of a post-Republic America, an imagined Middle East, and some other unnamed and unreachable world, Palace chronicles a vivid landscape of crumbling towers and heart-broken animals, eclipses, comets, and lovers in abandoned rooms. Produced by Dominic J. Jaeckle and Milo Thesiger–Meacham.

Kyra Simone is a writer from Los Angeles, now based in Brooklyn. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in a variety of literary journals, including The Baffler, The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, Conjunctions, Fence, The Anthology of Best American Experimental Writing, and elsewhere. She is a member of the publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse, and part of a two-woman team running the editorial office of Zone Books.

"From the stuff we unfold in the morning and throw in the recycling bin at night, Simone coaxes the rhythms of cyclical life, that baseline on which extraordinary events and crises exert their pressure. The world she constructs is recognisable, textured, gently humorous—but also luminously, piercingly exact, possessed of the strangeness of seeing something for the first or the last time".

— Alexandra Kleeman, author of Something New Under the Sun.

"I was hooked by the very first sentence of Kyra Simone’s Palace of Rubble: ‘A breaking wave collapses on the bank before two half-naked women on white Arabian horses.’ The sentence is so precise, down to the use of the erotic “collapses.” Plunged into this direct, clear, and mysterious arrangement of words, I was always left wondering what will happen next. Where will the next sentence take me? I was never disappointed. Simone is able to maintain and shift that propulsive curiosity throughout the book. While dancing with us, each sentence is a journey. Each story is a multi-faceted gem—a ‘beguiling dream of eternal cinema".

— John Yau, author of Genghis Chan on Drums.

"Majestic flights of fancy spun around ravaged landscapes and savage realities, these are remarkable prose poems for the 21st century".

— Chloe Aridjis, author of Sea Monsters.

"Reading Simone’s work is reminiscent of an archaeological excavation. The writing has dug to the past and emerged in the future, passing on its way those civilisations, kingdoms and palaces long since blown away or buried, it is covered in their dust. I can’t help but think, isn’t this madness? Isn’t life beautiful".

— Vanessa Onwuemezi, author of Dark Neighbourhood.

Temporary Palaces is a special triplicate of hour-long broadcasts that serialises an unabridged rendition of Kyra Simone's debut collection, Palace of Rubble (Tenement Press, 2022). Initially inspired by a photograph of one of Saddam Hussein’s demolished palaces, Simone’s Palace of Rubble is a collection of one-page stories composed primarily of single words culled each day from the front pages of the newspaper.

Said the sky to the moon, shall we do a dance? I'll wait for you to make the move but please don't wait until you hear - the sound below the atmosphere. Ceylan Göksel and Sami Fitz reach subliminal heights with genre-busting spoken word, ambient textures, sound sculptures, and a different theme every show. We wish you a good night.