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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, Zu From All Over involuntarily pulls an all-nighter with the best Hardcore, xhardcorex, and Crossover from around the world to muscle through the brain melting summer.

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.

In this episode, Dronica meets Dan Allison, Sam Hailey-Watts and Holst, curators at Whitechapel Gallery Presents, in London.

Sam Hailey-Watts ///
Sam Hailey-watts is the founder of Calling Cards Publishing, a non for profit organisation that channels a specific focus of the intersection between visual and sonic arts, as well as the co-founder of new experimental and electronic label The Florist’s Mum.

Holst ///
Holst is the alias of DJ and producer Sam Williams. As well as co-curating Whitechapel Gallery Presents, he is one of the founders of London based record label B REC and plays in and produces a number of projects including Black Pixels, Kareni and GOMM as well as his own solo material. Interested in warping electronic music outside of genre confines, he regularly explores analogue tape degradation and sub frequencies.

Dan Allison ///
Performer, recording artist and curator, Dan Allison is half of BAG, a sound and spoken word project with partner Jody DeSchutter. He has recorded and released a self-titled album as GOMM recently. Dan has co-curated exhibitions as part of the Deptford X festival and also co-curates Whitechapel Gallery Presents as well as other performance and sound based events.

They present a selection of experimental electronic music.

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

Jonathan Lees of West Yorkshire netlabel hibernate selects internet-based ambient music with contributions from guest artists.

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

In this episode, to celebrate The Rottenslushy Show #50, we have a guest mix from The Maghreban. Massive respect to Big A for providing this killer selection of obscure new wave.

60 minutes of vivid aural excitement mixed by Ian Murphy.

Communiques from Thanet Tape Centre, Hard drive sludge. audio tidal pools. Music sediment. Friends utterances, sea walls of noise, salt marsh drone.

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.

As is well documented, for example in the New York Times (07.03.2025), US President Trump’s government is actively controlling and purging words. His administration has ordered the outright removal of hundreds of words from governmental websites, policy making, school curricula, etc. as well as red flagging documents that might include these words, such as grant applications, contracts, etc.

The New York times calls this a significant shift in the “corpus of language” to be used in government activities and thinking. This erasure of vocabulary enacts the rejection of DEI (Diversity Equality and Inclusion) principles, which it sees as promoting undeserving and unqualified people. This purging and demonising of words inevitably changes what the administration can say and think and therefore do in regards to important issues and the often underrepresented groups that these words describe and give presence to.

While in Europe/UK we are not yet directly affected by this purge of words and the consequent erasure of thoughts and actions, indirectly many European/UK businesses, particularly those with US ties, have been forced to adopt similar censorship and the dismantling of their DEI initiatives.

Furthermore, this cull of words which are vital to enable a nuanced thinking and acting on things such as precarity, climate change, social inclusion, … entrain us, by absence of any other description, in the norm of a white wealthy heteronormative male society based on a complete denial of difference and inequality, or the adverse consequences of neo-liberalism such as climate change, poverty, vulnerability.

It reduces us to a vocabulary that deliberately excludes and disenfranchises anything and anybody not counted within a very narrow bracket, and thus robs us of agency in relation to all the important issues we need to deal with so very urgently at this present moment.
This broadcast streams a live performance of these words, to practice their space and significance.

By anonymous sound artists

This programme features a live mix of the performances of Score for Words Trump Purged, performed across different European cities in front of US institutions.

This inaugural episode features an interview with Anne La Berge. Also: quiet music from Sachiko M, Philip Somervell, Eleanor Cully, Tony Whitehead and more.

Missed the show? Catch up on Mixcloud.

verzcast is a monthly quiet music show, hosted by Phil Maguire of verz imprint. The show will explore 'quiet' music past and present, and what 'quietness' means in the arts today. Expect quiet electronics, contemporary composition, improvisation, and interviews with composers, performers, and writers.

In this episode: pausing for breath at the tunnel's mouth, on the threshold of a threshold. Resonances haunt endlessly, back and forth, echoing around the next bend.

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.

In this episode, another round up of top class music and sound from within and around the orbit of the Spirit of Gravity collective. The second hour features the penultimate contribution from the Omnistitional Cultures Research Unit - Omnistitions 5: Transmissions from The Rehearsal Room.

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

Featuring Otti Albietz (guitar), Matt Armstrong (bass), Ted Barrow (electronics), Kit Bula-Edge (percussion), Toby Bula-Edge (saxophone), Adam Bushell (vibraphone), Fritz Catlin (drums), Helen Helina (voice), Stuart Griffiths (saxophone), Julian Juliano (percussion), Kitty McCarron (voice), Jude Montague (keyboards), Anthony Moore (electronics) and Tullis Rennie (trombone).

Performing: Another Green World (Brian Eno), Nadaam (Eiichi Hayashi), Pretty Fly - from Night Of The Hunter (Walter Schumann), El Derecho De Vivir En Paz (Victor Jara), Left Bank Two (Robert Dale), Bad Samaritan (Robert Storey), Love in Outer Space (Sun Ra) and Now O Now I Needs Must Part (John Dowland).

Statue of Liberty is a new big band devised by Ed Baxter. In this broadcast we hear its inaugural performance, as the finale of both XMTR and Sono-Electro festivals on Sunday 28 September at Electro Studios, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex. Proceeds from this concert will be donated to the Refugee Buddy Project in Hastings - do support it if you like what you hear.

In the late nineteenth century two facts conspired to change the face of music: the collapse of common practice tonality (which overturned the certainties underpinning the world of Art music), and the invention of a revolutionary new form of memory, sound recording (which redefined and greatly empowered the world of popular music). A tidal wave of probes and experiments into new musical resources and new organisational practices ploughed through both disciplines, bringing parts of each onto shared terrain before rolling on to underpin a new aesthetics able to follow sound and its manipulations beyond the narrow confines of ‘music’. Probes tries analytically to trace and explain these developments, and to show how, and why, both musical and post-musical genres take the forms they do.

PROBES #7 examines some of the preparations applied to percussion and voice before beginning to look at the recovery and invention of extended performance techniques; starting with the piano. Between not touching it at all and reducing it to firewood many techniques have been proposed.

Transcript available here:
http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20140305/Probes7_eng.pdf

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

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(Originally broadcast Thursday 7pm, repeats Sunday 7am, Tuesday 7am and Wednesday 9am)(r)

This episode features new music by Costis Drygianakis, Georgy Orlov-Davydovsky, Manuele Frau, Michael Valentine West, J.Aernus & B.Varvohza, Worksite & Workshop, Capricorni Pneumatici, Oubys, and Cognition Delay.

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

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.