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In this episode, a hearty round of experimental sounds and music, and an extra-special guest mix from Berlin-based Nancy Drone.

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

London-based art, music and architecture writer Bobby Jewell plays a selection of ambient, jazz and classical music over two hours.

In this episode, Jennifer plays lots of new releases.

Maximum Rocknroll Radio is a weekly radio show and podcast featuring DIY punk, garage rock, hardcore, and more from around the world. A rotating cast of DJs pick the best of the best from MRR's astounding, ever-growing vinyl archive. You can find MRR Radio archives, specials and more on their website.

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

ID Spectral is a multi-disciplinary record label and arts collective, showcasing the spectrum of innovative creative identities worldwide.

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

60 minutes of vivid aural excitement mixed by Ian Murphy.

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.

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.

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.

Encircled by trees we let our sonic roots delve into the topsoil and hear rustlings all around us. Combined binaural & stereo recording – works well with headphones.

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.

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

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

This episode is brought to you by two local compilations, Patchworks The Missing and The Spirit of Gravity’s Capture the Moment. Both are available on Bandcamp. These are followed in the second hour by the latest broadcast in a series of six shows put together by the OCRU – Omnistitions 3: Transmissions from the Wellness Room.

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

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.

We encounter the establishment of sound libraries, collections explicitly curated for further use: sound objects presented as authorless, unfinished ingredients. Though some libraries contain newly commissioned generic sounds, specifically designed for maximum flexibility, the most widely used sounds are often sourced from commercial recordings, freed from their original context to propagate across dozens to hundreds of songs. From presets for digital samplers to data CD ROMs to hip-hop battle records, sounds increasingly detach from their sources, used less as references to any original moment, and more as objects in a continuous public domain.

As hip-hop undergoes a conservative retrenchment in the wake of the early 90's sampling lawsuits, a widening variety of composers and groups expand the practice of appropriative audio collage as a formal discipline. The aesthetic of the sound libraries gives rise to recombinant genres like drum and bass, the use of sampling as romanticized representation leads to the first quadruple platinum World Music collage, and we encounter a novelty single that quietly heralds a musical form that would soon become known as the mashup.

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

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This episode features music by Distant Fires Burning, David Strother, IDFT & Setareh Ahmadi, Michael Valentine West, Pierre-Emmanuel Maréchal, Surabhi Saraf, Clarence Barlow, Nàresh Ran, Mario Lino Stancati and Kloob.

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

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!

A loose drift through misaligned pop, outsider electronics, folk shards, radio ghosts and accidental hymns, presented by Gonçalo F Cardoso. Visit www.discrepant.net/radio for more information.