Even by the usual standards of the Independent Music Podcast, this show reaches into the more extraordinary reaches of experimental sounds. From chopped up club bangers, through Brazilian field recordings, via techno abstraction and Russian trap/free jazz, this show gives your ears a really solid workout.

#318 - L’Orange & Namir Blade, Rosso Polare, Spooky-J & Ekhe, Numa Gama, Rob St John

Achromatopsia

Bad Tan

DJ Pitch presents the warped world of their TT label every month, with new and exclusive music from the bleeding edges of the internet and beyond: indefinable club mutations, zeitgeist-collapsing pop edits, & sounds as yet undiscovered.

https://www.nts.live/shows/tt/episodes/tt-28th-october-2022

TT w/ Channel Hole 281022

A beautiful journey through challenging compositions. Global and non generic transitioning through experimental sounds.

https://www.instagram.com/channelhole

Listen live: www.threadsradio.com  
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Channel Hole (*LDN x Marseille) - 09-Nov-22

https://cassandramiller.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/large-house/

(photo by Susanna Majuri used here without permission)

When I called this piece “A Large House” it was a title I thought up in a hurry, for no specific reason, and it just seemed to fit. In retrospect, it fits because this piece more than any other made me feel like an architect. I was writing something that was a large space, open, but perhaps with huge pillars holding it up. The piece is stationary, it doesn’t move, it’s grounded in one place, and maybe it even resonates like something with a lofty ceiling. As for any other connection between this piece and a large house, you are welcome to make it as you like.

A Large House

Large House (full) - Janacek Philharmonic, Peter Rundell cond., premiere (2009)

From Another Mother launches a series of unique mixes presenting an idiosyncratic storyline deriving from each guest

The first mix is DJ Marcelle's Secret Recipe - a one hour shimmering of punk attitude, loco drum lines, deep basses and all sorts of tribal vs metallic things banging including opera hints, zips, haunting alarms and rotary phone rings, serving us a taste of her distinctive artfulness in the blending process

DJ Marcelle's Secret Recipe is a part of F.A.M.'s project 'Alloying' http://fromanothermother.xyz

From Another Mother: DJ MARCELLE

Big up:

Aba Shanti I, Disciples, Dubkasm, Mixman, Bush Chemists, Sis Rasheda, Ishan Sound, Gorgon Sound, O.B.F, Henry & Louis. Jonah Dan, Prince Green, Mark Iration, Rootsman and the all dubheads

Ossia "UK Dub Mix" For Berceuse Heroique's Noods residency

“Nostalgia (from nostos – return home, and algia – longing) is a longing for a home that no longer exists or has never existed. Nostalgia is a sentiment of loss and displacement, but it is also a romance with one’s own fantasy. Nostalgic love can only survive in a long-distance relationship. A cinematic image of nostalgia is a double exposure, or a superimposition of two images – of home and abroad, past and present, dream and everyday life. The moment we try to force it into a single image, it breaks the frame or burns the surface.”
- Svetlana Boym, “The Future of Nostalgia”


“I’m not deliberately out to antagonise an audience or spite them or anything like that, but if they adopt the attitude of ‘This isn’t what we expected’, then yippee, I’m gonna wallow in that, because you shouldn’t sit back and expect anything at all.”
- John Lydon, “Anger is an Energy”


Spring time. Three period instruments from the turn of the century: Yamaha CS1X, Korg MonoSynth 2000, MicroKorg Synth Vocoder. Fingers fumble, sounds happen - obnoxious, unapologetic, fragile like a wobbly cassette that you’ve listened to a million times on the Walkman you dropped before you could afford a Discman. I’m not playing the instruments, they are playing themselves, they are playing me and there is no forcing or fighting them. Faded-photograph sunshine sounds of ’90s electronica, caramelised sweetened condensed milk, the beach, rage, DIY chamber music for cats. Then, it stops: the end of nostalgia and the end of the world as you know it. We are getting old and the sounds have lost their innocence.

TR034 - Xenia Pestova Bennett - 'The Future'

'Ray' is Ashley Paul's bright, sensual return to Slip: a lifting, delighting suite of yearning winds, loose beats, and cocooning, humid bass coming together and falling apart as songs. 

The LP airs Paul's new trio, alongside bass clarinettist Yoni Silver and bassist Otto Willberg, who fatten out and shine light on her singularly intimate, multi-instrumental with mystery and grace. 2018's 'Lost In Shadows' wrote into the bewildering ecstasy of recent motherhood with a tingling resolve. On 'Ray' - recorded remotely during lockdown - Paul's deliciously hesitant songcraft is an outpouring and an anchor in freshly tumultuous times. 

Says Ashley:

"Over the past six months I’ve found myself needing music in a new way, a way of coping. I found again albums I had loved in the past, full of melody and humour, to cancel out the barrage of terrible news happening outside. I think this album is a reflection of that need. There is the playfulness of spending my days with our four year old, and the hours spent tending to plants in the garden and examining bugs, and also the pain of missing family and friends. It’s hard for me to fully comprehend the breadth of emotion I've felt recently but maybe this is a small window.
The trio idea had been formulating in my head for months, and then lockdown happened. At first I was very disappointed and thought I'd be waiting forever to finally make it a reality, but time passed. I started working on a new album and could only hear it with these guys. We recorded remotely. I sent material in a variety of ways; written, aurally and verbal ideas/queues, sometimes with just a shell of a track and other times nearly completed. I wanted all our voices to be present, and to allow freedom in the parts for interpretation and improvisation. Maybe because we’ve all worked together in various situations and are friends, I’m not sure, but it came together naturally, magically and quickly."

'Ray' [SLP060] is available from November 2020 on LP and download. Painting by Gayle Paul. Design by Ashley Paul. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. Distributed by Boomkat.

LP/DL

Light Inside My Skin - Ashley Paul

It's the first day of winter and the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. To celebrate the occasion and as a welcome signal to the cold season, cellist Okkyung Lee created a spellbinding mix for us. We caught up with the South Korean artist, whose latest album 'Yeo-Neun' is in our list of the stand-out records of the year, to talk about what 2020 has been like for her. Read the interview here: https://www.electronicbeats.net/okkyung-lees-winter-solstice-mix

Winter Solstice Mix by Okkyung Lee

Now I'm floating away... I don't know when I'm going to land

Adrian Rew @ The Lot Radio 01 - 11 - 2021

As you can imagine we are under huge pressure at the moment and are working flat out to ensure Cafe OTO survives this. The impact of this situation is extremely acute for small venues like ours and we need all the support we can get to pull through. Please donate what you can, if you can. Thank you. 

Cafe OTO opened in April 2008 with the aim of providing a home for creative new music that exists outside of the mainstream. It comprises one large cafe/performance space open during the day serving food and drink with an evening programme of live music almost seven nights a week. 

OTOROKU is part of OTOProjects - a not-for-profit Community Interest Company (CIC) that has been set up to manage the programme at Café Oto. Any profits from OTOROKU are put back into supporting what we do and will help us to continue programming the best musicians and performers from all over the world.

www.cafeoto.co.uk

TR034 - Xenia Pestova Bennett - 'The Future'

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