Independent Music Podcast

Plenty of exceptional experimental workouts on this week’s Independent Music Podcast, starting off with a wild change of direction from Comité Hypnotisé, whose new record marks a wild change of direction from last year’s Dubs Pour Oh La La – one of our favourites from 2021. The new direction is equally magnificent though, drawing on a wide range of influences to create something great. Across the pod, we have minimal drones from China’s 梁奕源 Liang Yiyuan and an exclusive first play of the superlative OCH release on Rocket Recordings. We also have a healthy dose of acid – with the blistering track from Kharkiv artist Metadata, and the latest from Part Chimp drummer Drumm Chimp. Elsewhere, we have a cracking track from Nick Klein, raising money for the Red Cross in Ukraine, an always-welcome return from Solo Banton, a sublime avant folk masterpiece from Alison Cotton and more. Tracklisting Comité Hypnotisé – The Dragon Rider (Cortizona, Belgium) Better Dance – Backwards Dance (The state51 Conspiracy, UK) Nick Kl

We’re spending significant time in the northern hemisphere this week, starting off with legendary Afghan Ghazal singer Dr. Mohammad Sadiq Fitrat a.k.a. Nashenas, and moving swiftly into contemporary hypnotic Thai sounds from Mogambo. Trips to Sweden, Israel, and the UK follow, including the fabulous new recorder-led record from Laura Cannell, and surf-infused pop music from Armon בשחור לבן. We have more South Asian-influenced sounds from London’s Darama, whose debut EP tips a hat to UK funky and garage as well as Punjabi rhythms. We also have a stunning record from Sweden’s Shida Shahabi. We dip under the equator briefly for a wonderful set of field recordings from Rio de Janeiro’s Verónica Cerrotta. Elsewhere, there’s the cracking spoken word metronomic sounds of Reigns, heavy Canadian noise from BUÑUEL and much more. Tracklisting Nashenas – The Way I Love My Beloved (Strut Records, Germany) Mogambo – Urvi (उर्वी) (Siamese Twins Records, Thailand) Reigns – The Horder (Wrong Speed Records, UK) Verónica C

A real trippy journey on this week’s Independent Music Podcast, where we take you on a wild ride through various interpretations of contemporary psychedelia. From the exquisite vapourware of Naomie Klaus, to the epic metronomic psych experiments of Turkey’s Anadol, via hypnotic ritual chanting from Cobracoral, there’s a whole middle section of this week’s podcast that’ll take you to strange, wonderful places. But we have plenty to shake you out of your stupor though, including Japanese footwork from CDR and riotous Belgian punk from eternal faves Cocaine Piss. We have jazz from Mourning [A] BLKstar, Ugandan grime from Ecko Bazz, lo-fi dance music from A’Bear, and much more. Tracklisting CDR – Footweek (Omoide Label, Japan) Mourning [A] BLKstar – 192.43 (self-release, USA) Naomie Klaus – Can You Tell Me What is Micronet (Bamboo Shows, France) Cobracoral – [Ta-Tu] (Lovers & Lollypops, Portugal) Ecko Bazz – Mmaso (Hakuna Kulala, Uganda) Cocaine Piss – Bad Kid Anadol – Gizli Duygular (Pingipung, Germany) A’Be

From tropicália to punk-fused grime via experimental soundtracks, folk, and abrasive punk rock, we take a real journey on this week’s Independent Music Podcast. We have the debut release from Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs side-project Rubber Oh, a stunning compilation of tracks from Ainu folk artist OKI on the ever-fantastic Mais Um, and the phenomenal new Commodo EP on Black Acre. Tracklisting Monopoly Child Star Searchers – Prince of Parrot Shooters 1 (Discrepant, UK) Commodo – Forester (Black Acre, UK) OKI – Kai Kai As To (Rippling Lake) (Mais Um, UK) Max Cooper – Exotic Contents (Mesh, UK) Erupt – Shinin’ Claymore (Static Shock Records, UK) Lucrecia Dalt – Venutian Offspring (Invada, UK) Eric Chenaux – Say Laura [abridged] (Murailles Music, France / Constellation Records, Canada) Khruangbin & Leon Bridges – B-Side (Dead Oceans, USA) Rubber Oh –  Nothing (Rocket Recordings, UK) Buen Clima – Bau House (Peach Discs, UK) This week’s episode is sponsored by The state51 Conspiracy, a creative hub

Good things come to wait, and we’ve been waiting a long time for the debut LP from the long-standing collaboration between Switzerland’s Simon Grab and Togo’s Yao Bobby, whose new single is an abrasive slice of forward-thinking experimentation. We have another superb collaboration this week with the emergence of Congotronics International, a supergroup from the long-running Congotronics series on Crammed Discs. The new group, including Deerhoof, Juana Molina, Kasai Allstars, Konono No.1, Skeletons, and Wildbirds & Peacedrums, is as good as the sum of its parts. Elsewhere this week we have metal from Cannibal Corpse vocalist Corpsegrinder, goth drum and bass from VHS¥DEATH, a Russian doubleheader of grime from Champion Sound and techno from Wulffluw XCIV, modern classical from Noir et Blanc and much more. Tracklisting Corpsegrinder – On Wings of Carnage (Perseverance Media Group, USA) Congotronics International – Banza Banza (Crammed Discs, Belgium) VHS¥DEATH – Falsehood of Man (Dystopian Mix) (Cruel Natur

A whole lot of stunning, somewhat contemplative music on this week’s Independent Music Podcast, starting with the fabulous new release from former Zun Zun Egui member Yama Warashi, moving through operatic music from London techno label AD 93, and sublime musique concrete from Ukraine’s Nikolaienko. Elsewhere, there’s the semi-concept album from eternal pod favourites Gnod, the latest from the always surprising and mesmerising Lara Jones, grime from the legendary No Hats No Hoods label, elongated metal, elongated disco, and much more. Tracklisting Yama Warashi – Makkuroi Mizu (まっくろい水） (PRAH Recordings, UK) Gnod – Bad Apple (Rocket Recordings, UK) Wojciech Rusin – Speculum Veritatis feat. Eden Girma (AD 93, UK) Boëthius – 4Loko (Wannamarchi Club, UK) Lara Jones – Pillow (rework) (self-release, UK) Nikolaienko – Muzak For Mesozoic Showreel (feat. Arthur Mine) (Muscut, Ukraine) Absent in Body – The Acres/The Ache (Relapse Records, USA) Durrty Goodz – Barcode 9 Trainers (No Hats No Hoods, UK) Dälek – Decimation (D

Maximum riffage bookending this week’s Independent Music Podcast with thrashing Esperanto-singing Tokyo punks Socio La Difekta getting us started and the epic Wild Rocket release on Riot Season closing us out. The filling in the riff sandwich is a wild journey of noise, from the hip-thrusting power of Nihiloxica-affiliated Hot in da Club to italo-disco delights of Bézier, through the cinematic epics of Portuguese duo Bezbog and folk sounds of Bella Union’s Modern Nature. We also have twisted takes on Lunar New Year music, Korean-mythology influenced jazz, Kenyan modern classical, and more. Tracklisting Socio La Difekta – Nur Unu Ekzisto (Beach Impediment Records, USA) Za! – Somos Todos (Gandula, Spain) Hot in da Club – Scary Synth (Spooky Shit, UK) Nyokabi Kariuki – Equator Song (SA Recordings, UK) Scrabbel – The Mischievous Dokkaebi (wiaiwya, UK) Bézier – Valencia (Dark Entries, USA) Bezbog – Salamandra (Favela Discos, Portugal) Modern Nature – Dunes (Bella Union, UK) Yip Yiu Kwan – 李白和你Rave (FINGERGAP, Hong

Exclusively exciting new music on this week’s podcast, with debut releases from Hidden Horse, Zyggurat and The Web of Lies all proving to be highlights. Even the olden sounds of Angkor in Cambodia have a contemporary freshness to them, as does the first long-player from the irrepressible Nik Colk Void. Elsewhere we have blistering electronics from Oyubi, a dub-infused new Lay Llamas record, and the first taste of the 2022 vintage of Swedish label Höga Nord’s singles club. Tracklisting Zyggurat – Nebula (self-release, UK) Oyubi – Report a Crash (Trekkie Trax, Japan) Hidden Horse – Túnel de Iniciação Sideral (Holuzam, Portugal) Angel-Ho – Traction (self-release, South Africa) The Web of Lies – Receiver (Wrong Speed Records, UK) Jesse Paul Miller – Buddhist Wat Call (Angkor) (self-release, USA) Lay Llamas – Circular Time (Black Sweat, Italy) Soft-Bodied Humans x Swordman Kitala – Bagan (Phantom Limb, UK) Nik Colk Void – Interruption is Good (Editions Mego, Austria) Crash Override – Tukan (Höga Nord Rekords, Swed

We're off for a couple of weeks, so we're delving into our archives for you. This week we've got this cracker of a favourites compilation from 2018. Even though we sit here having played music from 390 releases this year, we feel a bit uneasy producing a ‘best of’ 2018 when there’s still so much great music we haven’t heard. But from what we have heard there are so many highlights to cram into three shows of favourites. This first one gets us going with the blistering track from Sophie’s phenomenal Oil of Every Pearl’s Uninsides LP on Transgressive. Across the first ten tracks we take in a third play from the 700 Bliss cassette, Anna von Hausswolff’s sublime LP, middle eastern techno, Kenya glitches, a track from a ballet and a lot more. More great highlights coming next week… just don’t call it a best of. Tracklisting Sophie – Ponyboy (Transgressive Records, UK) 700 Bliss – Cosmic Slop (Halcyon Veil, USA / Don Giovanni Records, USA) Colin Stetson – Fallout (Anacapamusic, USA) Jlin – The Abyss of Doubt (Plane

We're off for a couple of weeks, so we're delving into our archives for you. This week we've got this cracker of a favourites compilation from 2017.  The first of our three part ‘best of 2017’ showcases some of our favourite tunes from the year. This week we have the 7″ stunner from Idris Ackamoor, the digital dubs of Roger Robinson and Disrupt, hip hop from Ill Camille, the best track from Gnod’s mouthful of an LP – JUST SAY NO TO THE PSYCHO RIGHT​-​WING CAPITALIST FASCIST INDUSTRIAL DEATH MACHINE – Russian punks Mirrored Lips and a load more Tracklisting Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids – Tinoge Ya Ta’a Ba, Pt. 1 & 2 (feat Guy One) (Philophon Records, Germany) Ill Camille – Black Gold (Jakarta Records, Germany) Gnod – Real Man (Rocket Recordings, UK) Group Doueh & Cheveu – Bord de Mer (Born Bad Records, France) Roger Robinson & Disrupt – Bun Bun Bun (Jahtari Records, Germany) Pessimist – Peter Hitchens (Blackest Ever Black, UK) Mirrored Lips – Дорогой Хороший (Alakir, Israel) Mahatma X – M

Our second part of our favourite records from 2021 is a eclectic trip around the globe, taking in gqom out of Mexico, hip-hop from the Philippines, jazz from Chicago, dub from Belgium, amongst others. We have baroque pop, digital dancehall, and a whole lot more. Get tickets to our live show: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/independent-music-podcast-live-2021-in-review-tickets-225352935697 Tracklisting N0V3L – Group Disease (TAR / MM / UOH, UK) Manuka Honey – Pestañas (N.A.A.F.I., Mexico) Smote – Poleyn (Rocket Recordings, UK) Comité Hypnotisé – I Am Boogie (Cortizona, Belgium) Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt – The Blob (Hanson Records, USA) Mr Williamz – My Heavenz (Scotch Bonnet, UK) Circuit des Yeux – Vanishing (Matador Records, USA) ビクター ＭＫＩＩ- Stay Here With U (感傷唱片行 Kind of Blue Records, Taiwan) Ben LaMar Gay – Aunt Lola and the Quail (International Anthem, USA) Aya – what if i should fall asleep and slip under (Hyperdub, UK) Produced and edited by Nick McCorriston. This week’s episode is sponsored by The

What a year it’s been. Terrible for many people in many ways, but the music has been absolutely sublime. This is the first episode of us revealing our favourite records of the year. We start with ferocious political afrobeat and move between free jazz, field recordings, psych, techno, and more. Thank you to all the amazing artists and labels who have made this year better, and for all of you for listening to the podcast. Tracklisting Etuk Ubong – I Waka Dey Go (self-release, Nigeria) Tomaga – The King of Naples (Hands in the Dark, France) Numa Gama – Mestre Jandaraí (self-release, Brazil) Part Chimp – It’s True Man (Wrong Speed Records, UK) De Schuurman – Pier Je Bill! (Nyege Nyege Tapes, Uganda) HTRK – Kiss Kiss and Rhinestones (N&J Blueberries, Australia) Juçara Marçal – Crash (Mais Um, UK) BLYTH – Ghosts (self-release, UK) Blawan – Under Belly (XL Recordings, UK) Scotch Rolex – Lapis Lazuli (ft. Lord Spikeheart) (Hakuna Kulala, Uganda) Produced and edited by Nick McCorriston. This week’s episode is spo

We clock up 350 episodes of the Independent Music Podcast with the last conventional podcast of 2021, proving that there’s still time for a new favourite artist of the year to emerge. There are plenty of options here for you, from the long-awaited return of Black Dice to the truly exceptional emergence of Princess Diana of Wales – the project of London-based Laila Sakini. We also have the latest from podcast favourite Pye Corner Audio, the debut release from Hard Fist co-director Tushen Raï, the new one from the always-unpredictable Japanese psych rockers Boris, and more. Tracklisting Pye Corner Audio – Symbiosis (Ghost Box, UK) Gooooose – Arp Kicks (Skyshaker Novox) (SVBKVLT, China) Plastiq + 13 Year Cicada – Crackles on C4D4 (Gandula, Spain) Tushen Raï  – East-Balearism (Cracki Records, France) Boris – Drowning by Numbers (Sacred Bones, USA) Angels of Pompeii – So High (Avidya, UK) Black Dice – White Sugar (FourFour Records, USA) Princess Diana of Wales – Fragments of Blue (A Colourful Storm, Australia

The spiritual woozy psychedelia of Milan’s Al Doum and the Faryds gets us underway this week as we welcome longer nights with exceptional atmospheric music from all corners. No track encompasses that greater than the wonderful new Jessica Moss track on Constellation – it’s one to put the headphones on for, as is the stunner from Canadian compatriot Tanya Tagaq, whose line in award-winning throat singing never fails to mesmerise and entrance in equal measure. Elsewhere this week, there’s hyper atmospheric music from Tristan Arp and Futoshi Moriyama 森山ふと contrasting with experimental club bangers from Klahrk and Grove, with Uruguayan folk, and a welcome return to Gorge music rounding off some of this show’s highlights. Tracklisting Al Doum and the Faryds – One With Nature (Black Sweat Records, Italy) Tanya Tagaq – Colonizer (Six Shooter Records, Canada) Tristan Arp – Foraging Music (Wisdom Teeth, UK) Jessica Moss – Distortion Harbour (Constellation Records, Canada) Y.a.M.A – RED 2 (GORGE.IN, Japan) Klahrk – Sen

London label Mais Um’s ear for extraordinary music from Brazil continues unabated with the exceptional track that opens this week’s Independent Music Podcast. The music of Juçara Marçal is relatively new to us, but the first few bars of her astonishing track ‘Crash’ sink their hooks into you very quickly. It’s a stunning way to get going. What follows is an otherworldly journey through genres, with a little more guitar than usual this time around. We have the debut EP from Irish indie punks M(h)aol, experimental trombone folk from Yorkshire’s Sophie Cooper, dub techno workouts from Autumns just to name a few. We also have the blistering collaboration between Sepultura co-founder Iggor Cavalera, Venezuelan electronic producer Cardopusher, and Dwid Hellion, founder of early hardcore trailblazers Integrity, coming together as Corroded Spiral on pod favourites Phantom Limb. If that’s not enough. We throw in some Greek electronics, modern classical, Polish punk, and a little bit more for good measure. Tracklisting

We keep reading about the new Blawan release “shedding the ‘techno’ box he has so often been put in” but his new, exceptional record on XL shows us a consistently innovative artist continuing a journey we’ve enjoyed since ‘Getting Me Down’ back in 2011. It’s a must-listen and a probably must-buy for those who like your electronics a little off-kilter. But that’s a common reason for listening to this pod, as is the consistently extraordinary dark music from across the genres. This week we have the latest in a rapid-fire release schedule of dark ambient music being put out by Leeds’ Hawthonn, we have tasty experimental metal from EXSUL, a remarkable traditional dance/distinctly non-traditional record from Indonesian duo Raja Kirik to fall in love with. The best psych rock of the year (as far as we’ve heard) from The Oscillation, jungle-cum-ragga from Seekersinternational, synth pop from The Organizing Committee, and an afro-caribbean-fused club banger from newcomer Obeka are just some of the delights to get stu

There’s nothing that’ll kickstart your body quite like a funky slice of Algerian-born Amazigh music. The lead track from Habibi Funk’s Majid Soula compilation is a real hip-shaker, and just the tonic for whatever ales you this week. There’s a lot more than that to get stuck into as well – from clattering percussive electronics from the new Jerusalem in My Heart LP, to exceptional experimental folk from Maria Elena Silva, via boogielicious reggae thanks to Kalita Records raiding the expensive section of your long-lost music store. Elsewhere, we never tire of celebrating the new Aya record on Hyperdub – a truly forward-looking masterpiece – nor the extent of sounds that Mario Batkovic can squeeze out of an accordion. On this track he’s collaborating with James Holden, and the results are fantastic. And that’s not all: jazz, Indian classical fused with industrial sounds, the latest wonderful record from Shackleton, and the ambient atmospheric sounds of Christina Vantzou make this week’s show a pleasure from star

Two sublime reissues bookend this week’s Independent Music Podcast. We open with the gospel soul from Pastor T.L. Barrett and close with the gorgeous avant-folk from Japan courtesy of Reiko and Tori Kudo. Between those, we go on a wild journey, including the mutant techno of Jlin, detective jazz of Aging alongside Land Trance, South American psychedelic electronics from Argentina’s Balam and lots more. Tracklisting Pastor T.L. Barrett & The Youth For Christ Choir – Nobody Knows (Numero Group, USA) Jlin – Embryo (Planet Mu, UK) Aging & Land Trance – Shattered Rooms (Tombed Visions, UK) Simo Cell – YES.DJ (TEMƎT Music, France) Helm – Moskito (Dais Records, UK) Balam – Yagé (Hard Fist, France) Elori Saxl – Moss II (touchtheplants, USA) OCD – Nature Abhors A Vacuum (Gegen Records, Germany) Rival Consoles – Monster (Erased Tapes, UK) Reiko and Tori Kudo – We May Be (A Colourful Storm, Australia) Produced and edited by Nick McCorriston.

After our week away last week, we have a truly sublime selection this week. There’s a real record of the year contender out of left field from Chinese artist Yikii, who blends classical music with post-industrial haunted Chinese nursery rhymes, there’s the last recording from Finnish experimental pioneer Pekka Airaksinen, and the latest ace new record on Wrong Speed from Nape Neck drummer Mia La Metta. Elsewhere we have trip hop jazz fusion from Tara Clerkin Trio, the first taste of Warmduscher on Bella Union, percussive experimentation from podcast favourite Ilia Gorovitz and lots more. Tracklisting Ka Baird & Pekka Airaksinen – Syzygy (For Pekka) (RVNG Intl., USA) Ilia Gorovitz – Endless Spiral (Hinterland Recordings, Germany) Deemas J – Drive Faster! (Interrupt & Sagete remix) (Sagete Records, Italy) Marta Del Grandi – Shy Heart (Fire Records, UK) Yikii – Afterimage in Ruin 廢墟残像 (Danse Noir, Switzerland) Mia La Metta – Squashed Oranges (Wrong Speed Records, UK) G36 – Sulfer (Pressure, Belgium) Tara

We are off this week so we decided to revisit this extraordinary selection of tracks from 2018. Including some people with new records on the horizon including 700 Bliss, Ko Shin Moon, and Colin Stetson... back next week. Even though we sit here having played music from 390 releases this year, we feel a bit uneasy producing a ‘best of’ 2018 when there’s still so much great music we haven’t heard. But from what we have heard there are so many highlights to cram into three shows of favourites. This first one gets us going with the blistering track from Sophie’s phenomenal Oil of Every Pearl’s Uninsides LP on Transgressive. Across the first ten tracks we take in a third play from the 700 Bliss cassette, Anna von Hausswolff’s sublime LP, middle eastern techno, Kenya glitches, a track from a ballet and a lot more. Tracklisting Sophie – Ponyboy (Transgressive Records, UK) 700 Bliss – Cosmic Slop (Halcyon Veil, USA / Don Giovanni Records, USA) Colin Stetson – Fallout (Anacapamusic, USA) Jlin – The Abyss of Doubt (Pl