Independent Music Podcast

As we get towards the end of 2020, the exceptional music just keeps on coming. Looking towards 2021, Phantom Limb have brand new music from Indonesian experimental pioneers Senyawa coming out that we preview this week. Looking even further afield - to 2022 - mclusky have their first LP in nearly 20 years coming out, and we have the first taste of that via Andy Falkous' one-man-band Christian Fitness. We also have delicious music from right now: we have the krautrock-infused sounds of Croydon's The Carbonators, we have Swedish jazz from The End, wonky polyrhythms from Air Max '97, stunning modern classical from David Allred and loads more. Tracklisting Christian Fitness - Stop Feeding the Houseplants (mclusky d/d/demo) (self-release, UK) Mark Dicker - Coarse & Fine Aggregates (Tesla Tapes, UK) The End (Sofia Jernberg, Mats Gustafsson, Kjetil Møster, Anders Hana, Børge Fjordheim) - Allt Är Intet (RareNoise Records, UK) The Carbonators  - Oh Ship (St. Clements Records, UK) Senyawa - Istana (Phantom Limb

Bookended by two contrasting releases from Portugal, the podcast takes us from brutal death metal to disco, from drum n bass to Vietnamese ambient techno. Even by our usual standards, this episode is eclectic. Tracklisting Human Vivisection - Salvation (Vomit Your Shirt, Portugal) Krust - Keter the Heavenly (Crosstown Rebels, UK) Jung Buffalo - Oh Darling! (Rắn Cạp Đuôi Collective, Vietnam) Ela Minus - Acts of Rebellion (Domino Recording Co, UK) The Patchouli Brothers - Body Party (Star Creature Universal Vibrations, USA) Gwenifer Raymond - Hell for Certain (Tompkins Square, USA) Sabreen - Hurly Burly (Akuphone, France) METAL - Point Vacancies (ESP Institute, UK) Lorenzo Morresi & Tenderlonious - Cosmica Italiana (22a, UK) Ece Canlı -Animancia (Lovers & Lollypops, Portugal) Produced and edited by Nick McCorriston.

Over 299 episodes, the Independent Music Podcast has featured 3,807 unique independent artists and record labels and has reached nearly one million ears in 131 countries. For our 300th episode, we decided to ask our listeners to vote on their favourite tracks that we played between episodes 201-298. We received more than 400 votes, and have pulled the top 20 for you, split into two separate shows of ten tracks each. In the third podcast, Anthony and Gareth have picked their favourite five each. This is the first part of the listener favourites - unranked. Tracklisting Clipping – Say the Name (Sub Pop, USA) MC Yallah & Debmaster – Kubali (Hakuna Kulala, Uganda) Angel Bat Dawid – Black Family (International Anthem, USA) Giant Swan – 55 Year Old Daughter (KECK, UK) Arab Strap – The Turning of Our Bones (Rock Action Records, UK) Gum Takes Tooth – Borrowed Lies (Rocket Recordings, UK) Pye Corner Audio – Hollow Earth (Ghost Box, UK) We Wild Blood – Drinking on Trains (Hot Fools, UK) Acadjmia - A Gate Beyond (Ne

Over 299 episodes, the Independent Music Podcast has featured 3,807 unique independent artists and record labels and has reached nearly one million ears in 131 countries. For our 300th episode, we decided to ask our listeners to vote on their favourite tracks that we played between episodes 201-298. We received more than 400 votes, and have pulled the top 20 for you, split into two separate shows of ten tracks each. In this third podcast, Anthony and Gareth have picked their favourite five each. Tracklisting Swordman Kitala, K​-​Lone - Malanga Ja (Blip Discs, UK) Faten Kanaan - Wildflowers (Fire Records, UK) Marie Davidson - Work It (Ninja Tune, UK) Tomaga & Pierre Bastien – Bandiera Di Carta (Other People, USA) Kapote - Delirio Italiano - Dub (Toy Tonics, Germany) USA/Mexico - Matamoros (12XU Records, USA / Riot Season Records, UK) Tecnología Para Ser Libres – Nguillatun (self-release, Chile) Flohio - Way2 (Alpha, UK) AYA - Delishus (YCO, UK) OOIOO – walk for “345” minutes, while saying “Ah Yeah!” with a

On this week's pod the mood is a little more downtempo as we explore new releases that cut across musique concrète, spiritual jazz, and drone. It's not all abstract and down though, we also have a fantastic unreleased track from the sadly split Taman Shud, we have a phenomenal club banger from Ziyiz, the latest tropical sounds from Conjunto Papa Upa, Iranian-American experimentation from Maral and loads more. Tracklisting Calum Gunn - Assumption (OOH-Sounds, Italy) Maral - Dashti (Leaving Records, USA) Conjunto Papa Upa - Todo Parao - Parte 2 (Music With Soul, Netherlands) Jahari Massamba Unit - Les Jardins Esméraldins (Pour Caillard) (Madlib Invazion, USA) Taman Shud - Psalmody of Verdure (Baba Yaga’s Hut, UK) Ziyiz - War Nah (Failed Units, UK) Dekalb Works - A Play (Where To Now? Records, UK) Günter Schlienz - Kerberus (Moon Glyph, USA) William Basinski - The Wheel of Fortune (Temporary Residence Ltd, USA) Left Hand Cuts Off The Right - I Can Wait 4 (Oaken Palace Records, UK) Produced and edited by Nic

A really dark, fascinating start to the podcast, ideal for the time of the year we’re in in the northern hemisphere. First up, we have the scratchy, creepy experimental of Maths Balance Volumes, followed by the doom-laden electronics of The Body. But it's not all darkness on this week's pod, we have phenomenal psych rock from China's Dolphy Kick Bebop, podcast favourite Mdou Moctar and his Tuareg shredding, we have a first play of the excellent new Mary Hampton, Dutch dungeon synth, violin experimental, conscious hip hop and a whole lot more. Tracklisting Maths Balance Volumes - Dark Sky (Penultimate Press, UK) The Body - A Lament (Thrill Jockey Records, USA) Cuban Chamber of Commerce - Goofing Off (Low Income $quad, Croatia) Új Látásmód Fúzió - Legyőzzük az időt (Kaluara Records, Albania) Pink Siifu & Fly Anakin - Mind Right feat. Liv.e (prod. Jay Versace) (Lex Records, UK) Mary Hampton - A Butterfly (Baba Yaga’s Hut, UK) Mytron - Navigator (XXX, Netherlands) Mdou Moctar - Chismiten (Matador Records, USA

A heavy Melbourne influence on this week’s show, with stunning esoteric electronics from Bridget Chappell, crushing doom from Divide and Dissolve, and dancehall from Monkey Marc. Elsewhere we have psychedelic pop from Jane Weaver, club electronics from Sonia Calico, big-band funk from The Yorkshire Film & Television Orchestra, the latest from The Bug on Hyperdub and a lot more. Tracklisting Jane Weaver – The Revolution Of Super Visions (Fire Records, UK) Bridget Chappell – Freshwater Falls (Heavy Machinery Records, Australia) Divide and Dissolve – We Are Really Worried About You (Invada, UK) Sonia Calico – Mukbang Roller (More Time, UK) C_G – Systemic Failure (Edelfaul Recordings, Germany) Monkey Marc feat. Dre Island – Yaad N Abraad (Digikillaz, Australia / DubShot, USA) The Bug feat. Dis Fig – You (Hyperdub, UK) Emanative & Bex Burch – Disrupt #4 (Shapes of Rhythm, UK) Craven Faults – Doubler Stones (The Leaf Label, UK) The Yorkshire Film & Television Orchestra (Feat. Martin Connor) – Somebody S

Short(ish) nuggets of exceptional experimental music across this week's podcast - plus a 19-minute opus from Liverpool's Ex-Easter Island Head, who said goodbye to their own studio with this week's spectacular closer. Elsewhere, we have political hiphop from JUU4E - Thailand's answer to D Double E, we have abstract electronics from Korea's Arexibo, there's "'orrible noise" from Medical Negligence, ambient music utilising field recordings from the sea from Niholoxica's pq, the first record from Shopping, Sacred Paws, and Trash Kit guitarist R.AGGS and loads more. Tracklisting JUU4E - Who is Drunk? 酔ってるのは誰？(EM Records, Japan) Cower - Enough (Human Worth, UK) ΠΕΡΑ ΣΤΑ ΟΡΗ -187' LDL (Brokntoys, UK) Om Unit & Seekers International - Krnch (Berceuse Heroique, UK) pq - Debt Bondage (The Outlaw Ocean Music Project) R.AGGS - Welcoming the Waves (self-release, UK) Laura Luna Castillo - Expression Distillation (Whited Sepulchre Records, USA) Medical Negligence - Esoph (Vacant Fulfilment, UK) Arexibo - 교각 Bent (China

This podcast explores all reaches of musical experimentation, some weeks you might hear disco, other weeks you may hear metal. So when Finnish faves Pharaoh Overload combined the two on their new record for Rocket Recordings, we had to sit up and listen. Thankfully it’s phenomenal. Elsewhere on this show we have pseudo gabba from Maciej Maciągowski, extreme death metal from Indonesia’s Kropos, jazz from Moor Mother, hip hop, modern classical and a lot more Tracklisting Pharaoh Overlord – Without Song All Will Perish (Rocket Recordings, UK) Maciej Maciągowski – GNOMIE (Glamour Label, Poland) Stef Kett – Grimes / Cargill (Bar Marfil Records / Romac Puncture Repairs, UK) Kropos – Social Contraception (Vomit Your Shirt, Portugal) Sam Barton – Presbyterians! (self-release, UK) Keeley Forsyth – Photograph (The Leaf Label, UK) Moor Mother – Act 1 – Working Machine (Don Giovanni Records, USA) UKAEA – Vampire Moth (Hominid Sounds, UK) drwg – I’m Dressed in Ghost Meat (Snapping Like Crab Legs) (Deathbomb Arc, USA) Mach

On this week's Independent Music Podcast we're bringing you the usual unusual and adventurous sounds from across the globe. We start in London with the wild new Reckonwrong record on Queeste, and move swiftly through South Africa with Angel-Ho's second record for Hyperdub, Argentinan traditional infused electronics from Berenice Llorens on Kriptonîa, and French dancehall from Stalawa. Elsewhere we've got the latest grime from long-time favourite of the podcast Flohio, hefty noise rock from KLÄMP, reissued Jazz via Canada's We Are Busy Bodies and a lot more. Tracklisting Reckonwrong - Lost Time (Queeste, Netherlands) Angel-Ho - Juice (Hyperdub, UK) The Heshoo Beshoo Group - Armitage Road (We Are Busy Bodies, Canada) Berenice Llorens - La Montaña (Kriptonîa, Argentina) KLÄMP - Arise (God Unknown Records, UK) Stalawa - Trod On ft. Junior Demus (Foreign Mind Records, France) Mermaid Chunky — Gemini Girls (Faith and Industry, UK) Fliptrix - Problem, Reaction, Solution (High Focus Records, UK) Flohio - Unveiled (Al

For a globally-focused podcast we're keeping it mostly local this week. But before the onslaught of excellent UK music, we kick things off with the industrial psy-pop of Ukranian trio Tvii Son whose debut album is a true highlight of the year so far. We also welcome back Faten Kanaan with her debut for Fire Records, Black Acre's Commodo, and Sophia Loizou on Houndstooth. Elsewhere we have Afghan disco from Les Disque Bongo Joe, YCO founder BFTT on Polity, Good Sad Happy Bad (FKA Micachu & The Shapes) and much more. Tracklisting Tvii Son - Am I (Music Inspires Change, UK) Faten Kanaan - Night Tide / Anteros (Fire Records, UK) BFTT - Lokt (Polity Records, UK) Ben Colhoun - Exceptional Moments (Hot Fools, UK) Polyhymns - JK (Thissen Records, UK) Rüstəm Quliyev - İran Təranələri (Les Disque Bongo Joe, Switzerland) Sophia Loizou - Anima (Houndstooth, UK) Ana Roxanne - Suite Pour L’invisible (Kranky, USA) Commodo - Stakeout (Black Acre, UK) Good Sad Happy Bad - Shades (Textile Records, France) Produced and edit

Dancefloor smashers, bleak noises, and a long-overdue new single from Arab Strap are amongst this week's highlights. We have percussive transcendental psychedelia from Brazil and from Forest Hill, we've got a bonkers-yet-brilliant track from Misty's Big Adventure's Grandmaster Gareth, driving Swiss Krautrock from Cyril Cyril, experimental folk from Iceland's MSEA and a whole lot more... Tracklisting Sarine - (E) Volante (Lovers & Lollypops, Portugal) Grandmaster Gareth - Garethcetamol (self-release, UK) Hey Colossus - The Mirror (feat. Mark Lanegan) (Wrong Speed, UK) Cyril Cyril - Les Gens (Les Disque Bongo Joe, Switzerland / Born Bad Records, France) Holy Scum - Kill Each Other (self-release, UK) Arab Strap - The Turning of Our Bones (Rock Action Records, UK) Mera Bhai - Mañana Groove (Moshi Moshi Music, UK) Saucy Lady - A Shooting Star (Star Creature Universal Vibrations, USA) Lucidvox - My Little Star (Звездочка) (Glitterbeat Records, Germany) MSEA - Flesh Tone (MYRKFÆLNI, Iceland) Produced and edited

Back together in the same place again this week, and what a selection we've got for you. Kicking off with the ace new single from Lotic, whose move to Houndstooth hopefully yields more than the two singles we've had from her so far. We have Iranian experimentalism from Saint Abdullah, two wonderful Indonesian projects - one from Divisi62 and Senyawa's collaboration with Sunn O)))'s Stephen O'Malley - Argentinian dancefloor thumpers from Balam, North Eastern pop music from Hen Ogledd and loads more. Tracklisting Lotic - Cocky (Houndstooth, UK) Ammar 808 - Marivere Gati (featuring Susha) (Glitterbeat Records, Germany) Saint Abdullah - Dialogue Between Wind and Tin (Psychic Liberation, The Netherlands) Clipping - Say the Name (Sub Pop, USA) RMP and Wahono - Kompos 3 (Divisi62, Indonesia) Senyawa & Stephen O'Malley - Bintang Gemintang (iDEAL Recordings, Sweden) Balam - Wakax (Hard Fist, France) Merlin Nova - Fleshy Fodder (Warning Bells) (self-release, UK) Hen Ogledd - Trouble (Domino Recording Co, UK) Produ

We are exploring a whole range of sounds on this week's show, kicking off with the opening track from Albertine Sarges' sublime debut LP on Moshi Moshi, we move swiftly through phenomenal jazz via the newsish spiritual jazz label Spiritmuse, bewitching electronics from Belbury Poly, a humongous John Dwyer-led ensemble cast for experimental psych, Saudi Arabian metal from Al-Namrood, a lot more guitars than usual and a whole lot more. Tracklisting Albertine Sarges - Free Today (Moshi Moshi Music, UK) Cosmic Vibrations ft. Dwight Trible - Nature's Vision (Spiritmuse Records, UK) Josiah Steinbrick - Full Bloom (Hands in the Dark, France) Raikes Parade - Take A Nibble (Ruff Kutz, UK) John Dwyer, Ryan Sawyer, Peter Kerlin, Tom Dolas, Brad Caulkins, Kyp Malone & Marcos Rodriguez - Misanthrope Gets Lunch (Castle Face Records, USA) Al-Namrood - Sahara Yaesa (Shaytan Productions, Canada) Wendy Eisenberg - Futures (Ba Da Bing, USA) Figueroa - Weather Girl (Nomark, USA) Belbury Poly - Copse (Ghost Box Records, UK) J

Japanese artists by way of Kampala, Tel Aviv, and Berlin dominate this week's show, as DJ Die Soon produced the mesmerising Sekelembele release on Hakuna Kulala, Yurika vocalises the middle eastern funk of Sababa 5 on London's Batov label and the inimitable WaqWaq Kingdom return with their exceptional new EP on Phantom Limb. Elsewhere, there's jazz-infused hiphop from Detroit's Boldy James and Sterling Toles, the latest from Luke Abbott, a cut from the phenomenal compilation on Morphine Records in aid of Lebanese charities in the wake of the Beirut explosion, the new one from the brilliant Marie Davidson and much more. Tracklisting Boldy James / Sterling Toles - Detroit River Rock (Sector 7-G Recordings, USA) Sekelembele (Produced by Dj Die Soon) - Moto Nyama (Hakuna Kulala, Uganda) Luke Abbott - Kagen Sound (Border Community, UK) Sababa 5 (feat. Yurika) - Tokyo Midnight - 東京ミッドナイト (Batov Records, UK) Irena and Vojtech Havlovi – Radek 2 (Morphine Records, Germany) Mezzanine Swimmers - Kneelin' on a Knife (Alr

This is our first show in a long time where we've recorded in the same room, and it's all the better for it. Here in the UK we specialise in warm beer, but the Hot Beer of Nazamba that opens this podcast puts us in a much better place than the curiosities of post-lockdown Britain. We also welcome in the new sounds from the mesmerising Hekla, Ugandan grime, South Yorkshire Singeli, Jamaican Kumina and a whole lot of other treats. Tracklisting O.B.F & Nazamba - Hot Beer (OBF-Dubquake Records, France) Hekla - Tvö Þrjú Slit (Phantom Limb, UK) Blaq Bandana - Motoka Yange (East African Records, Uganda) Neptunian Maximalism - To The Earth: Daiitoku-Myōō no ŌDAIKO 大威徳明王 鼓童 - L'Impact De Théia durant l’Éon Hadéen (I, Voidhanger Records, Italy) Holy Tongue - Emet (Amidah Records, UK) Rian Treanor - Hypnic Jerks (Planet Mu, UK) Shanique Marie - Freak (Equiknoxx Music, Jamaica) Combat Pretty - Silence the Room (self-release, UK) Contours & Yadava - Udu (ANMA Records / Flumo Recordings, UK) Dona feat. Aloth - C

*There seems to be an issue with uploading this week's episode, this is an identical copy that will hopefully make it into your feed* We're pretty confident that you'll find something to fall in love with on this week's podcast. The quality is so high and the musical explorations so varied, there's nearly something for everyone. Whether it's the sample-laden bewitching sounds from Estonia from Man Rei, or the dub-laced psych from... err... Estonia in the shape of Huerequeque. We have experimental bebop (if that's actually possible), Cameroonian house, hefty rock, and possibly the first DJ Scotch Egg-branded LP in 12 years - it's a cracker. Tracklisting Nkom Bivoué - From the Space (self-release, Cameroon) Man Rei - Itch Itch (Crash Symbols, USA) Huerequeque - Phinnuks Silmas (Trash Can Dance, Estonia) Neinzer - Nabi (Where to Now? Records, UK) We Wild Blood - Drinking on Trains (Hot Fools, UK) Gooooose & DJ Scotch Egg - JAC (Svbkvlt, China) Acadjmia - A Gate Beyond (feat. Hibotep) (self-release, USA) Nico

We're pretty confident that you'll find something to fall in love with on this week's podcast. The quality is so high and the musical explorations so varied, there's nearly something for everyone. Whether it's the sample-laden bewitching sounds from Estonia from Man Rei, or the dub-laced psych from... err... Estonia in the shape of Huerequeque. We have experimental bebop (if that's actually possible), Cameroonian house, hefty rock, and possibly the first DJ Scotch Egg-branded LP in 12 years - it's a cracker. Tracklisting Nkom Bivoué - From the Space (self-release, Cameroon) Man Rei - Itch Itch (Crash Symbols, USA) Huerequeque - Phinnuks Silmas (Trash Can Dance, Estonia) Neinzer - Nabi (Where to Now? Records, UK) We Wild Blood - Drinking on Trains (Hot Fools, UK) Gooooose & DJ Scotch Egg - JAC (Svbkvlt, China) Acadjmia - A Gate Beyond (feat. Hibotep) (self-release, USA) Nicole McCabe and Logan Kane - Wormy (Fantastic Voyage, USA) Foonyap - Free and Easy Wandering (Song, by Toad, UK) Mungo's Hi Fi x Marina

A great batch of sounds on this week's podcast. Kicking off with the fabulous first cut from the new LP from Montevideo's Lila Tirando a Violeta, we've got field recordings from Nairobi's KMRU, modern classical from Silvia Tarozzi, a fake Italo disco soundtrack, avant garde studio improvisations from HXXS and loads more. Tracklisting Lila Tirando a Violeta & Lighght - Dry Season (N.A.A.F.I, Mexico) Experimental Sonic Machines - Being Chased by Polar Bears (self-release, UK) Amani x King Vision Ultra - Guillotine (PTP, USA) KMRU - Opaque (Dagoretti Records, USA) HXXS - How Much Did You See? (self-release, USA) J. Zunz - Four Women And Darkness (Rocket Recordings, UK) Silvia Tarozzi - Al Cancello (Unseen Worlds, USA) Jay Glass Dubs - Wagon Prophet (Berceuse Heroique, UK) RILLA - First Drop (Set Fire To Me, Japan) Adderall Canyonly - Soldier Drunk With Anger (Lighten Up Sounds, USA) Produced and edited by Nick McCorriston.

Music to stretch your ears to on the show this week, with lots of wonderful mammoth tunes, including the sublime new track from Matmos, which clocks in just shy of ten minutes. We're also honoured to have a premiere of the fabulous new Planet Battagon track on the On the Corner Records dancefloor sampler, which is out later this month. Sticking with the dancefloor, there's experimental cuts from AYA, mysterious French artist Floco Floco, and the brilliant Reece Cox. There's the latest from Japanese sludgelords Boris and a whole lot more. Tracklisting Reece Cox - Clan 2 (iDEAL Recordings, Sweden) Cop Funeral - Time Enough At Last (Dead Already Tapes, USA) Boris - Loveless (Fangs Anal Satan, Japan) AYA - delishus (YCO, UK) UKAEA - Side 1 (Where the Tide Broke) (Bunkland, UK) Planet Battagon - Endeavour Tugg Luke (On the Corner, UK) Divide and Dissolve - RVR (Saddle Creek, USA) Floco Floco - On m’a dit (Full Length Mix) (Versatile Records, France) Matmos - No Concept (Thrill Jockey, USA) Mimi Zulu - For Your Fli