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This Week's Free Lab Radio - Endurance City

This week we explore minimal house, tech and synth-pop tracks tracks with reliably repetitive forms, and how these give people clubbers the confidence (and therefore the freedom) to dance?

Their mesmeric beats, by their very repetition become a kind of meditation, a small box in which the dancer moves shoulder to shoulder to a driving, seamless mix along with everyone else in a kind of flamboyantly stylish step class, where endurance rather than variety is part of the experience. Think of Techno Viking if he'd been an international corporate head hunter living in Dubai.

Here in Dubai, the dance scene is varied, but only within the parameters allowed by the brackets in which different social groups operate. The Ethiopians have their club, the Indians theirs, the Russians, the Singaporeans have theirs. The expat Europeans, Australians, South Africans and Americans mostly dance to chic, boutique music. That's the best way to encapsulate the genres that we're thinking of - clean, reliable, at first hearing possibly featureless, but after a while, a freedom appears within the framework.

New #Podcast - MidTempo on @ResonanceFM




Versatile bass music for today.


Playlist (in this order):

Caravan (instrumental) by Flechette.
Dugong - My Heart is Broken
Shamanic Technology - Homeostasis
Zebbler Encanti Experience - Follow the Bubbles (SugarBeats Remix)
AMB - By Myself
Katana - Datsik (Stowey Remix) Sutured
Eden - XO
Michel Herrera - Silhouette
Space Jesus & Esseks - Dream Whirled (Zebbler Encanti Experience Remix)
Star Chiller - Equinox
Soysauce - Broken Record ft Joni Fatora (Louis The Child Remix)

Broadcasts on Resonance104.4FM 11-midnight on www.resonancefm.com
Repeats Thursday 2am
Produced by Fari Bradley
ResonanceFM is UK's art-music radio station.

This Week's Free Lab Radio - Vaporwave

Vaporwave, a mushy, so-cheesey-they-are-cool series of adapted samples of '80s & '90s TV infomercial and corporate muzak, made today. On this week's show we play both good old fashioned, hi-fidelity vaporwave and progressive (adapted and made on new hard and software) vaporwave.

Samples are might be pitch or tempo shifted but they are still recognisable. Reimagined 80s Microsoft advert with a whole load of obsessive compression and reverb, tracks are often very short...Vaporwave examines the vapidity of mass mainstream media and its promises, the short-sightedness of libidinous 90s yuppie culture and celebrates the perennial nature of advertising most of its producers suffered growing up....

Other similar genres are chillwave, grave-wave,
sea-punk, witch-house and of course one that the ResonanceFM performing collective explored quite a bit in the 2013-14 hauntology.... Vaporwave often crosses into genre we've looked at before on Free Lab Radio, such as Chiptune and Brostep.

Featured this week are: 
Shisa and Choongum (released on cassette)
Oneohtrix Point Never
Fortune 600
REVERB LITE
Greeneyed Meganekko
Space Arabica
VHS Logos and more....




Free Lab Radio - Live, with Tapes


As we met young producer Tapes this month, we've invited him to ResonanceFM studios to do a live thing...it might be tapes it might be vinyl. But it will be Tapes.

His new release is on vinyl with EM Records "No Broken Hearts on This Factory Floor", as marketed by Boomkat. Here are his previous ones, the first of which was in 2009 in which the tracks were transferred to tape, and back again for effect.

The record "No Broken Hearts..." comes with a printed 12" x 12" double-sided insert, a compendium of what Boomkat call Tapes' "frayed and wayward dub exploits on Japan's always wonderful EM Records ahead of his full debut LP with Honest Jon's."

We're just looking forward to hearing his version of Olivia Newton John in 'Phyzikal Dub', because I'm addicted to a very cool remix of that song ourselves....

 Broadcasts Saturday 11-mdnight on 104.4FM across London and online...Repeats Thursday 2am

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This Week's Free Lab Radio - Mid Tempo

Versatile bass music for today.

Playlist (in this order)
Caravan (instrumental) by Flechette.
Dugong - My Heart is Broken
Shamanic Technology - Homeostasis
Zebbler Encanti Experience - Follow the Bubbles (SugarBeats Remix)
AMB - By Myself
Katana - Datsik (Stowey Remix) Sutured
Eden - XO
Michel Herrera - Silhouette
Space Jesus & Esseks -  Dream Whirled (Zebbler Encanti Experience Remix)
Star Chiller - Equinox
Soysauce - Broken Record ft Joni Fatora (Louis The Child Remix)

Broadcasts on Resonance104.4FM 11-midnight on www.resonancefm.com
Repeats Thursday 2am

Produced by Fari Bradley