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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.

In this first episode Mello Gold:

In 1967, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera approached the Krofft Brothers to design costumes for a television show which would feature animated and live-action segments, with the whole show hosted by a bubblegum pop group of anthropomorphic characters, played by actors in fleecy costumes similar to later Sid and Marty Krofft characters such as H.R. Pufnstuf.
The Banana Splits Adventure Hour premiered on NBC on September 7, 1968.

Each show represented a meeting of the Banana Splits Club, and the wraparounds featured the adventures of the club members, who doubled as a musical quartet, meant to be reminiscent of the Beatles and the Monkees.
Unlike their human predecessors, however, the Banana Splits were bizarre, anthropomorphic animals: rhythm guitarist Drooper was a lion, lead guitarist Fleegle was a dog, keyboardist Snorky was an elephant, and drummer Bingo was a monkey.

The Banana Splits' bubblegum pop rock 'n' roll was provided by studio professionals, including Joey Levine (I Enjoy Being a Boy, It's a Good Day for a Parade), Al Kooper , Barry White (Doin' the Banana Split),and Jimmy Radcliffe provided his song (I'm Gonna Find a Cave).

Additional material features the Micro Ventures of Professor Carter and his two teenage kids, Mike and Jill, who use a shrinking machine to shrink themselves and their dune buggy to miniature size, to explore and experience the world from the perspective of an insect.
Professor Carter, Mike, and Jill change to micro-size to observe an ant colony ...Groovy!

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.

This episode is a special edition, focussing on the Pacific City Sound Visions label.

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

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

With music by music by Pancake Promises, Keith Seatman, Cowboy Flying Saucer, Captain D.J., Chris Craft, Suspiria, D.N.P, Severed Heads, Simon Heartfield, Solemn Shapes, The Sound, Eyeball, Vice Versa, Maska Genetik, Norah Lorway and Lalo Schifrin.

Produced by Kevin Busby for Phantom Circuit and Resonance Extra.

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

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

Jon Leidecker presents an introduction to the history of sound appropriationism in 20th century composition, popular art and mainstream media, and the convergence of these trends in the present day.

The fifth episode of VARIATIONS explains how as art and industrial practitioners formally map out the discipline, hip-hop's discovery of digital sampling technology in the mid-80's provided a reintroduction to its original roots in block party DJ collage. The international success of the new genre then prompts a legal backlash against the art form, with a rash of lawsuits filed against both commercially successful pop artists like De La Soul, Biz Markie & 2 Live Crew and left-field provocateurs like the KLF, Negativland and John Oswald.

Transcript available here:
http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20110816/05Variationstranscripteng_PDF.pdf

Link to the complete series:
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/variations_tag

For more information on this series and other podcasts, visit Ràdio Web MACBA.

(Originally broadcast Thursday 6pm, repeats Sunday 6am, Tuesday 6am and Wednesday 8am)

This episode focuses on found sounds that connect with us through our minds and bodies, finding moments in music to connect us with the present. Join Kayla for a journey through experimental tracks and immersive soundscapes.

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).

This episode features a mix by Argentinian artist Morita Vargas.

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.

More South Coast experimental music.

The second half of the show features another long form piece by Spirit of Gravity founder and one time Rimbaud Brother Tony Rimbaud as Not By radium.

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 2.

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.

From the most abrasive to the unbelievably sublime, Hope Valley Cement Works attempts to curate a selection of experimental music and sounds, from collected field recordings and sound collages, to serene ambience, impressive drone and the odd deconstructed club track. A series by Kris Cooper.

In this episode, Joe is joined in the studio by writer Rowe Irvin to discuss her debut novel Life Cycle of a Moth (out now), amongst track selections including Karen Dalton, Norma Tanega & The Sugarcubes.

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 hundredth edition is a very special memorial episode. The great and unique D, Dave Watts, D. WattsRiot, KingL Man as well as part of Fun-Da-Mental and a gazillion other collaborations, left us last month and with him a huge void that will never be filled.

DJ, producer, friend, collaborator and eternal connector, many can count themselves lucky to have crossed his path, eternally grateful for all the chats, politic rambles, jams, chicken meals and bichillo grills and most of all his endless energy!

This show is dedicated to his everlasting impression on me as well as everyone who met him. My way of saying goodbye with an hour mix of tracks he produced, featured in, played in his DJ sets or simply tunes we both liked and talked about. Ride high my brother, ride high on a windy day!

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.

Now: Episode #2 - Who's With You? Someone's watching. Squinting out from below a leaf, keeping an eye on the panatrope, the cantina, the wall all around. Silph sees everything.

Missed the show? Catch up on Mixcloud.

A unique audio drama series created by writer/director Neil Cargill and musician/sound designer Simon James featuring an original electronic music score and full cast including Ian McDiarmid, famed for his role as Emperor Palpatine in the Star Wars saga, as Cuttings – the radio ham who picks up a mysterious voice. The voice belongs to a girl (Joy McAvoy, from Ken Loach's The Angels' Share, and Filth) trapped in an abandoned amusement park called Akiha Den Den. Singer Wendy Rae Fowler (featured vocalist with bands such as Queens Of The Stone Age) lends her distinctive Alabama tones to the multi-layered soundscape as it becomes clear there's a whole community there, whose words and music become woven into a mesmerising plea for help. Everything becomes highly charged when one of the trapped inhabitants finds a way into our world – where his impact on us could be as devastating and far-reaching as an unknown, unseen virus.

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Dakotsu Īda’s poem “Under the twilight sky / light shimmering on the pond - / swallows in autumn”.

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.

Exploring sound discovery in the internet era with Robin Buckley AKA rkss.

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.