My latest tune is written in the vein of a bit of an anthemic call to arms for the dispossessed. I didn't want it sound overtly political, just nice and angry 🙂

Wow!! love this. Sounds more like The Seeds than Stooges.

Mix for Modulations podcast, really brilliant channel championing various styles of electronica... https://soundcloud.com/agent808

Tracklist:
MOY & Zodiac Childs - Sixth Sense [Nebulae]
Reginald and Steve Darko - You Are [My Techno Weighs a Ton]
Trudge - Bangkok Radio [Lobster Theremin]
London Modular Alliance - Fallow [Applied Rhythmic Technology]
Voiron - Ninja Voiron [Human Disease Network]
James Shinra - Orbit (2019 version) [Further Electronix]
Mariska Neerman - Twin [We're Going Deep] 
Arctor - Pahos [Tremors]
Metropolitan Soul Museum - Idyllic Metropolis [Polymath]
Client_03 - Default Mode Network [Tronic]
Reptant - Illusory [Salt Mines]
BufoBufo - Scrying Mirror [Emotech]
Sound Synthsesis - Necessary Order [We're Going Deep] 
Ksky - Ethereal [ETM]
BufoBufo - Blue Demoiselle [Kouncil Kuts]
L. T. - Sputnik (BSS) [X-Kalay]
Hiver - Sequential Circuits [Polifonic]
Brother Nebula - The Big If [Legwork Records]
Inkipak - Temporal Narcosis [Mighty Force]
LA-4A - Creased [Central Processing Unit]
Sound Synthesis - Nanotales [Wirebox]
Sven Kossler - Love in Sanity [Mighty Force]
Eedl - Tone Clutter Mix [Lapsus]
DJ. Wav - Wish You Were Here [Too Tough 4 Radio]

Modulations 4

In 1990, the Berlin Wall came down and the experiment of communist East Germany came to an end. Yet for a time it was a successful project, raising living standards against massive odds and providing stability for the first time in half a century. So is it time to reassess Europe’s most wealthy, and advanced communist country, the DDR? Aaron Bastani speaks to author and historian Katja Hoyer, author of Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990.

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Downstream: The Country Where Communism Almost Worked w/ Katja Hoyer

What’s the point of comedy? Stand-ups were at the forefront of the cultural backlash against Thatcherism, but today’s meme-driven lols are rarely in the service of left-wing politics. Meanwhile, the world’s most powerful people seem intent on having a laugh, from podcasting politicians to presidential comedians.

In this Trip, Jeremy Gilbert, Nadia Idle and Keir Milburn put together an ACFM theory of humour. Does satire make us more cynical? Is there such a thing as a national sense of humour? Are men funnier than women? Where did all the comedy songs go?

The gang consider theories of laughter from Lauren Berlant, Freud and Bergson and the efforts of jokemongers like Phyllis Diller, Larry David and Alexei Sayle. Brace yourself for musical humour from The Wurzels, Afroman and Half Man Half Biscuit.

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Books & articles: Juvenal – The Satires / Lauren Berlant and Sianne Ngai – Comedy Has Issues / Christopher Hitchens – Why Women Aren’t Funny / Henri Bergson – Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic / Sigmund Freud – Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious / Thomas Hobbes - Human Nature / Alenka Zupančič – The Odd One In: On Comedy / Todd McGowan – Only a Joke Can Save Us

Music: Benny Hill – Ernie / The Wurzels – The Combine Harvester (Brand New Key) / The Commentators – N-N-Nineteen Not Out / The Tiger Lillies – Gin / Spinal Tap – Big Bottom / Calimar White – Never Do S#!t At Work / Chumbawamba – Bigmouth Strikes Again / Half Man Half Biscuit – Joy Division Oven Gloves / Bob Dylan – Lenny Bruce Is Dead / Afroman – Because I Got High / The Beat – Tears of a Clown / Monty Python – Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

TV & film: The Thick of It / Brass Eye / Have I Got News For You / Spinal Tap / 30 Rock / Curb Your Enthusiasm

Produced and edited by Matt Huxley and Chal Ravens. PRS Licence Number: LE-0016481

ACFM Trip 33: Comedy

As the longest day arrives in the northern hemisphere, Jeremy, Nadia and Keir ponder our obsession with the great outdoors. How did parks become political? Why do we seek out the strenuous discomforts of hiking, camping and cold water? And what does Jem have against music festivals?

They look back on a century of changing attitudes to the outdoors, from radical Edwardian cyclists and the woo-woo ways of the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift to the modern obsession with lidos and wild swimming. Plus, pastoral music from Peter Gabriel, Arthur Russell and Bow Wow Wow.

Books: Robert Blatchford - Merrie England / Richard King - The Lark Ascending

Music: Shonen Knife – ‘Cycling Is Fun’ / Ewan McColl – ‘The Manchester Rambler’ / Peter Gabriel – ‘Solsbury Hill’ / Kate Bush – ‘Running Up That Hill’ / Vaughan Williams – ‘The Lark Ascending’ / Muckers – ‘Out Of County’ / Bow Wow Wow – ‘Wild In The Country’ / Blur – ‘Parklife’ / The Small Faces – ‘Itchycoo Park’ / Pink Floyd – ‘Grantchester Meadows’ / Arthur Russell – ‘Let’s Go Swimming’ / Mark Stewart & Maffia – ‘Jerusalem’

Produced by Matt Huxley and Chal Ravens. PRS Licence Number: LE-0016481

ACFM Trip 34: The Outdoors

Several years ago, Jon Moses realised that the stunning nature he could see from his house in rural Herefordshire was inaccessible to him. From the nearby riverbanks to the local oak woodlands, the countryside revealed itself to be a private fortress.

Now, as an organiser of the Right To Roam campaign, he's leading the call for free and fair access to land and water throughout England, via political advocacy and planned trespasses on private estates.

Jon tells Eleanor Penny about the traumatic history that separated commoners from the land, the dangers of a rural monoculture, and why the left needs to get comfortable with ideas about place and belonging.

Novara FM: Revenge of the Commoners w/ Jon Moses

Millions have protested against the bombing of Gaza by taking part in marches, boycotts, sit-ins and other demonstrations. But what difference does it make, either to the world or to ourselves?

The gang confront a contentious topic in this Trip. Do "A to B" marches ever achieve anything? What about joining hands around an RAF base? Digging up roads? Refusing to pay your taxes? Is squatting a form of direct action?

They discuss Irish hunger strikers, Montgomery bus boycotters, Greenham Common women and the people that Suella Braverman calls "hate marchers", with music from Lowkey, the Plastic Ono Band, Steel Pulse and more.

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Music: Rolling Stones - Street Fighting Man / Dylan - Masters of War / Samba extract / Public Enemy - 911 is a Joke / Lowkey - Ghosts of Grenfell / Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution / The Plastic Ono Band - Give Peace A Chance / John Lennon - Working Class Hero

Book: Charles Tilly – Social Movements: 1768-2004

Produced and edited by Matt Huxley and Chal Ravens. PRS licence number: LE-0016481

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ACFM Trip 39: Protest

Music has the uncanny power to stir up big feelings, which makes it an obvious vehicle for political statements of hope, anger, despair, or how to cast your vote. In this Microdose episode to accompany ACFM's Trip on Protest, Jem takes us through 60 years of plugged-in protest music – no strumming folkies or broadside ballads this time. 

From hip-hop campaign boosters to new wave takes on British imperialism, from anti-landlord lyrics to a requiem for the post-war dream, it's a narrated playlist revealing the manifold methods of musical persuasion.

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Music: Marlena Shaw - Woman of the Ghetto (1969) / Iggy and the Stooges - Ballad of Hollis Brown (1973) / Max Romeo - Rent Crisis (1974) / Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster (1978) / Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Oliver’s Army (1979) / Pink Floyd - The Gunner’s Dream (1983) / Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy (1984) / Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel - Jesse (1984) / Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning (1987) / Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Television, The Drug of the Nation (1991) / Asian Dub Foundation - Jericho (1995) / Le Tigre - My My Metrocard (1999) / Ms. Dynamite - It Takes More (2002) / Gina Birch - Feminist Song (2021) / The Coup - The Guillotine (2015)

Produced and edited by Matt Huxley and Chal Ravens. PRS licence number: LE-0016481

ACFM Microdose: Plugged-In Protest w/ Jeremy Gilbert

Why should the left care about the existence of aliens? The ACFM gang explore the impact of the paranormal on politics in this Trip episode featuring music from Sun Ra, The Carpenters and true believers Blink 182.

What are the connections between UFO conspiracies and right-wing thought? Why do some communists think aliens will bring about world revolution? Does Fermi's paradox mean we're not alone? And can Keir and Jem convince Nadia to give a crap about ufology?

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Books: Mark Pilkington - Mirage Men / Susan Lepselter - The Resonance of Unseen Things / Carl Jung - Flying Saucers / Erich von Däniken - Chariot of the Gods / H. G. Wells - The War of the Worlds / A. M. Gittlitz - I Want to Believe / Kim Stanley Robinson - Aurora

Music:  Blink 182 - Aliens Exist / Sheb Wooley - The Purple People Eater / Sun Ra - Interplanetary Music / The Carpenters - Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Space / Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive / Flying Saucer Attack - The Season is Ours / Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien / The Byrds - Hey Mr. Space Man / Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien

Produced and edited by Matt Huxley and Chal Ravens. PRS licence number: LE-0016481

ACFM Trip 40: UFOs

Based in Brussels and Paris, moli del tro is a label that explores a range of genres, from experimental music to pop and sound art. It is also the dj name of the duo of its founders, Laurence Creyf and Gilles Vanneste.


moli del tro @ Kiosk Radio 15.02.2024

TRACKLIST

1. Aphex Twin – Aisatsana [2014]
2. Aphex Twin – Hexagon [1994]
3. AFX – Sloth [1994]
4. Polygon Window - If It Really Is Me [1993]
5. Aphex Twin – Fingerbib [1996]
6. AFX – 215061 [1992]
7. Aphex Twin – On [1993]
8. AFX - Analogue Bubblebath [1991]
9. Aphex Twin – Heliosphan [1992]
10. Polygon Window – UT1-Dot [1993]
11. AFX -  000890569 [1992]
12. Caustic Window – Mumbly [1994]
13. user48736353001 - Fork Rave [2015]
14. Aphex Twin – Polynomial-C [1992]
15. AFX – Cilonen [2005]
16. AFX – VBS.Redlof.B [2005]
17. AFX - Laughable Butane Bob [1995]
18. 808 State - Flow Coma (Remix by AFX) [2001] 
19. DJ Pierre - Box Energy (Remix by AFX) [2001] 
20. Aphex Twin - Rome 2002 (live) (unreleased)

A Tribute to APHEX TWIN by Quazatron & Mister P

What exactly is cool? Well, if it was that easy to describe, it wouldn't be cool at all. In this Trip, Keir, Jem and Nadia wonder if cool comes from within, if cool can ever be politically useful, and what happens when cool is used as a disciplining force.

With ideas from Pierre Bourdieu, Norman Mailer and Paul Gilroy, and music from OutKast, Gwen Stefani and Miles Davis, the gang adopt a blank expression to explore the mysterious rules of this singular modern concept.

Books:  Dick Pountain & David Robins - Cool Rules: Anatomy of an Attitude / Pierre Bourdieu - Distinction: A Sociology of the Judgement of Taste / Sarah Thornton - Club Cultures: Music, Media and Subcultural Capital / Norman Mailer - The White Negro / Georg Simmel - The Metropolis and Mental Life / Paul Gilroy - The Black Atlantic / The New Spirit of Capitalism / Thomas Frank - The Conquest of Cool / Jean Genet - Prisoner of Love

Music:  Gwen Stefani - Cool / Dua Lipa - Cool / OutKast - Take Off Your Cool / The Stooges - Real Cool Time / Miles Davis - Jeru / Ricardo Villalobos - Hireklon / New Order - Blue Monday

Produced and edited by Matt Huxley and Chal Ravens. PRS licence number: LE-0016481

ACFM Microdose: Plugged-In Protest w/ Jeremy Gilbert

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