Exploring the literary figure through music.

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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.

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Novara FM: Revenge of the Commoners w/ Jon Moses

In this bumper Trip, the gang survey the totalising modern phenomenon that is The Internet. Nadia, Keir and Jem dredge up their early interactions with a primitive web and explain how the dream of free and open communication was displaced by closed networks of e-commerce and data harvesting.

Following Keir’s recent Microdose episode with Malcolm Harris, they discuss the connections between self-optimising techies and the pseudo-science of eugenics.

They also talk about digital hygiene, the “Californian ideology”, why the Soviets didn’t invent the internet, and whether psychedelic drugs were the driver of Silicon Valley’s dominance.

Music comes from The Fall, Le Tigre and the very online Lil Pump and Macintosh Plus.

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Music: Knife Party - ‘Internet Friends’ / Le Tigre - ‘Get Off The Internet’ / The Fall - ‘Telephone Thing’ / The Penguin Cafe Orchestra - ‘Telephone and Rubber Band’ / Wiley - ‘Eskimo’ / Hannah Diamond - ‘Hi’ / Grimes - ‘Oblivion’ / Macintosh Plus - ‘リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー' / Lil Pump - ‘Elementary’ / FKA twigs - ‘Ride The Dragon’

Books and articles: Daniel Levitin - The Organised Mind / Alison Winch & Ben Little - The New Patriarchs of Digital Capitalism / Benjamin Peters - How Not to Network a Nation / Richard Barbrook & Andy Cameron - ‘The Californian Ideology’ / Malcolm Harris - Palo Alto / Jeremy Gilbert & Alex Williams – Hegemony Now / Nick Couldry & Ulises Ali Mejias - The Cost of Connection

Novara Audio: Radio for a Different Politics

ACFM Trip 35: The Internet

We’re going back to basics on Novara FM this autumn with a series about the big one: class. What does it mean to look at the world through the lens of class in the 2020s, an era of precarious work, rising inequality and elusive social mobility?

Three classy thinkers join FM to investigate: political researcher Nihal ElAasar, cultural critic Juliet Jacques and writer and Verso editor John Merrick. They begin the series with an introspective session on the meaning of class today, drawing on their very different upbringings in Egypt, the home counties and the north of England.

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Novara FM: What Is Class Now?

Is surrealism a style of art or a mode of living? How can irrationality be a political position? Nadia, Jem and Keir follow a thread of off-kilter expression, from Dadaism and André Breton’s manifesto through to Situationism, punk and Afrosurrealism. 

The gang explore the importance of surrealism to socialist thought and anti-colonial struggle, considering Meret Oppenheim's fur cup, Lenin at the Cabaret Voltaire, surrealist women's art, Freud’s ideas of the subconscious and a canon of surreal songs from Ivor Cutler to Devo.

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Music: Ivor Cutler - 'Life In A Scotch Sitting Room' Vol. 2, Ep. 11 / Anton Giulio Bragaglia - 'Fotodinamismo Futurista' / Eric Satie - 'Gymnopédie No.1' / King Crimson - 'Moonchild' / Devo - 'Jocko Homo' / Prince Fatty & Shniece Mcmenamin - 'Black Rabbit' / Caberet Voltaire - 'Nag Nag Nag' / Prince Paul - 'Introduction to Psychoanalysis (Schizophrenia)' / The Coup - 'Oyahytt 

Books:  Robin D. G. Kelley - Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination / Helena Lewis - Dada Turns Red: The Politics of Surrealism / Freud - The Interpretation of Dreams / Joyce Mansour's poetry / Dorothea Tanning - Chasm: A Weekend / Phosphor magazine / Simon Reynolds - Rip it Up and Start Again

Produced by Matt Huxley and Chal Ravens.

ACFM Trip 37: Surrealism

Dolly Parton was right, as usual, when she revealed that "it costs a lot of money to look this cheap". But who decided rhinestones were tacky in the first place? Style is a matter of taste, yet taste itself is a a matter of money, morality and identity, as the writer and critic Nathalie Olah reveals.

Olah's new book, Bad Taste: The Politics of Ugliness, is an expose of the industries of taste-making in an image-obsessed world, as well as a critique of the impact taste has on our sense of self-image and belonging. In this episode she talks to Eleanor Penny about the allure of minimalism, why posh people don't care about style, the evolving meaning of the hoodie and our right to eat supermarket pizza.

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Novara FM: Why Posh People Have Bad Taste w/ Nathalie Olah

Noirway tracklist:
Boe - Sauls Barrow
Fibo-Trespo - Untitled (Previously unreleased track from 1997)
Fredrik Ness Sevendal - Dog Home Alone 
Der Brief ‎– Red Desert
Continental Fruit - Unter Uns Gesagt 
Vhulhva - Fuelcramp Delirium
Elektro Nova/Electro Nova - T02 XOOO4210112H
Svarte Greiner - The Boat Was My Friend
John Surman - Nestor’s Saga (Recorded in Oslo)
Biosphere - Trasparenza
Arne Nordheim - Solitaire (excerpt)
Andreas Brandal - Lost Sentinel
Deaf Center - White Lake
Mayhem + Conrad Schnitzler - Silvester Anfang
Deathprod - Recording The Jürg Mager Trio: La Luna

Noir Age - Noirway w/ Andreas Brandal

merry xmas!

THREE MONKEYS - Monkey Dance - Takumi Nemoto
PSOR - След 
GEKLAPER - fresh colors of pastels
J. ALBERT MEETS WILL AUGUST PARK - Motion Picture
XTCLVR - clouds (feat INDYDONO)
JULIUS THEORY - Generosity Theater
CHERESHENKAA - moscow
DYNOOO - even drones can fly away and will do so eventually
SCHACKE - Meet Me In A Place Where There Is No Space And Time
YANCITYGURL - Flattery
PÉPE - Act III. "Compact City Dream"
MATT ROBIDOUX - Escalator From Dreamworld
BOD [包家巷] - sign here (all my friends live forever)
M. SAGE - Crick Dynamo
SHINE GROOVES - Sverdlovskaya Sonata
FLATY - Observer
TECH PALMS - rog
MOS FET - delicate hoop
WAVE TEMPLES - Grand Ogyges
TOM WAITS - Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis

red + green mix

Sounds of the Dawn is a monthly two hour session through new age, ambient, environmental, meditation and relaxation cassettes from the seventies to the nineties. Tune in and zone out. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/soundsofthedawn/episodes/soundsofthedawn-30th-december-2023

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Une nouvelle heure de morceaux de musique doux et amers et de morceaux d'histoires amères et douces. Il y a un oiseau, une parente, une forêt, des enfantes et une clairière, ou des personnes s'affèrent.

Douce-Amère 09.01.24 - LYL radio

Bodyvision West is the monthly NYC-based companion to Gavilán Rayna Russom's residency show Bodyvision on Mutant Radio Tbilisi. This month Rayna is joined by Pauli Cakes for a spiritual evocation on the decks to celebrate the Spring Equinox. Bodyvision and Bodyvision West explore the connections between sound, memory, bodies, and knowing..

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ACFM Trip 37: Surrealism

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