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This last episode of 2024 is a special mix from Félix Blume featuring a collage of field recordings made in Port au Prince early December 2016, Haiti. Some might remember a very special album we released in 2018, Death In Haiti; a vivid sound portrait depicting the way funerals and burials are lived in the Caribbean island of Haiti plunging the listener into a world of pain, loss and solemn celebration as each funeral comprises of its own live jazz band as well as a plethora of characters like the joker (le blaguer) who cracks jokes and tales about the recently deceased.

A beautiful document here expanded with some extra recordings featured on a recently released bonus disc edition condensed into more 43 minutes of brass bands, crying, masses, voices and field-recordings. Check Félix Blume’s Bandcamp for the ‘pay what you want’ bonus disc edition where every cent will go to the musicians struggling during very difficult times in Haiti.

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.

This episode features Shit Creek, Charmaine Lee, Eloine, Posset, CBSM, Kuupuu, Maria Chavez, Alexandra Spence, Maria Estevez and Violent Onsen Geisha.

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.

In this episode, Stanley Welch joins Joe in the studio for a live session on the piano post-Preparations at Cafe OTO on 23rd June. With an interview in-between track selections, including Fiona Apple, David Bowie & Philip Koutev Ensemble.

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: burning down the house, the rite of spring with Bernstein, appreciation, different languages, anti-presidency, sat on a meadow polyrhythmics, WW3, you make me wanna bliss and extasy.

Weekly compositions, sketches and motifs by Anastasia Freygang.

Field recordings, experimental narration, ragamash mixes, big time polyrhythmics including fantasy language and hearsay from IRL and the World Wide Web.

Now: Both Cuttings and Peri realise Monday Man knows something. Perhaps he knows you. Or do you know something he wants?.

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 is created for the June solstice, a time of long light hours in the north, and long darkness in the south, the extremes of day and night enacting their own rhythms and textures on those who inhabit the earth. The piece is curated and produced by Stephen Shiell and composed using original material from From the New School of the Anthropocene scholars.

With contributions from Stephen Shiell, Simon McClelland Morris, Chris de Sel, Clare Whistler, Rhona Eve Clews, Pascal Sleigh, Miles Irvin, Abi Andrews, Michael Timmerman, Cole Pemberton, & Hannah White.

The New School of the Anthropocene is a radical experiment in alternative education, away from marketisation and arcane specialism towards co-sensing systems change through creative practice. This is an ecological transmission of DIY ethics, non-hierarchical structures, radical networks, interconnected sensing through sound, text, voice, spoken word, human and more-than-human collaborative practice, patchwork group thinking, and radio art.

Injazero Records founder Siné Buyuka plays a selection of electronic, experimental, ambient and contemporary classical tracks.

This second episode begins with a short reconstruction of a conversation with former bookshop manager "Cynthia", who gives the programme-maker a list detailing the British Library's Suppressed Safe contents - a list which exceeds anything currently in the public domain.

"Cynthia" deemed it such a hot potato that she requested a voice actor completely re-record her voice. After receiving the list, oddly synchronicitous disturbances (of varying significance) materialise.

Originally commissioned in 2022 as part of Radio Art Zone's tapestry of 22-hour radio productions, this project by Daniel R. Wilson is re-presented here in episodic form. Asphyxia hacks the antagonising systems which thwart and forestall projects (its name also acknowledges the asphyxiating atmosphere of long-form radio when made by a single person). It is a damaged would-be radio documentary exploring the Narnia of restricted access material and gatekept employment.

Low Noise is an eight part study on a quieter side to noise - as a music or simply as its own aesthetic. Taking form as a collage of sound works from an international roster of artists and composers, the eight hour broadcast is interspersed with esoteric field recordings, film extracts & manipulated sound effects.

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

This episode features mixes by Liis Ring (Rapina, Estonia) and Ayami Suzuki (Tokyo).

In the first half of the episode, Liis Ring sketches us a sonic portrait of Räpina - a small town in the South East of Estonia. In among field recordings collected on her walks around the town and original music recorded in her grandmother's shed, Ring shines a light on the musical heritage of the area via folk tunes (sung in the local dialect) and new adaptations of traditional pieces.

The second half sees Ayami Suzuki explore the sounds of life in Tokyo; the hum of train station platforms, the buzz of cicadas in the forest, the summer tradition of the Awa Odori dance. Nestled among these sounds are selections from the city's contemporary experimental music scene.

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.

This episode focuses on the strangest releases from the Soviet major label Melodia, which could be characterised simply as ‘Non-music’. Some records shocked me, some made me cringe — but these tracks seem to form a curious narrative on the verge of a numbing psychedelic journey.

So, within an hour you will hear reconstruction of a concert on mammoth bones, advertisement of the famous Lithuanian hoover ‘Audra’ and car fluids of Soyuzbytkhim factory, field recordings of crickets, toads and even fish singing, pioneers' signals, monologues of parrot Gosha and a patient with nonsense casual relations syndrome, and also hypnotherapy for alcoholics. Happy travelling!

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 episode features new sound and music by Von Helfenstein, Shaun Robert, Jeff Gburek, Rapoon, Bushranger, Browning Mummery, Tescon Pol, Wave Resistance, Nicolussi, and M.B.

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

In this episode, Chris Bohn plays tracks by Blixa Bargeld, Raimund Wong, Matthew Shipp, Lebanese sextet SANAM and more.

New music with The Wire Magazine.

In this episode: layered sounds of Littoral Transmissions’ live performance at Fort Process 2018. Rippling waves of grass and a hint of rain.

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.

This episode features music by The Incidental Crack, Ruaridh Law, Weird MF5, Dane Law, Pub, Nick Rapaciolli, Simon McCorry, Maria W Horn & Vilhelm Bromander, Dusk and Blackdown, Rob Winstone, Wishmountain, Rempit Goddess, Red Wine & Sugar, Cody Brant & Carl Kruger, Posset, Karenn, Alva Noto, Jasss, Rrose, Svreca, Irazu, Material Object and other secret things.

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.