New #FreeLabRadio Podcast - Cheh, Beirut

A bespoke mix for Free Lab Radio by Cheh with tracks by Overshift, Ahmet Mecnun, Ahmet Mecnun, Aney F, Exander, Luis Mora, Giacomo De Falco and Hassio (col), Luca Lento and Nukem. Chech favours Techno and some of its derivatives.

 Abdalla Chahine a DJ and producer from Beirut, recently returned to Beirut's music scene after time in Abu Dhabi. He cites his influences as Richie Hawtin, Kruder and Dorfmeister and Trentmoller, Ricardo Villalobos and Steve Lawler amongst others. Cheh performs at Minimal Effort alongside other breakthrough DJs. In 2011, he released on the Lebanese label, VL Records.

Broadcast Times:

On 104.4FM + digital radio across London:
Saturdays 11-midnight UK time (3am GST)
Repeats Tuesdays 4am UK time (8am GST)

Online as above:
http://radioplayer.resonancefm.com/co...

Also on digital in Brighton, and online on Resonance Extra, Fridays 19:30-20:30 UK time
http://radioplayerhosting.com/station...

www.mixcloud.com/Fari

Black Sea Series - Tonight's Free Lab Radio Show

11-midnight 104.4FM in London, on HERE online
Tonight's show is a mini-mix by Fari Bradley and a 35 minute guest piece by Jad Atoui, whose soundscape work occasionally crosses over into music.
Tracks tonight are from Persian Dubplates (UK/Iran), Satelliti (Italy) remixed by Vessels from Leeds, Non-Classical's Juice Vocal Ensemble (UK) and the Calgary Boy's Choir (Canada) singing a reworking of an Indian bhajan. 
 ::Jad Atoui:: Born in Lebanon, 1993 Jad Atoui is based in NY, where he produces music and experiments with electronic sounds. Jad has been composing audio pieces since 2008. Using his electronic gear, he creates a sound that fits somewhere between ambient, soundscape, garage and glitch and hashis work has featured in the magnificent Pompidou Center (2012, Paris). As a performer Jad Atoui has played with renowned artists like John Zorn, Igorrr, Ikue Morie, One man Nation, Tarek Atoui, Erik Friedlander and C-drick Kirdec. 

:: Black Sea Series:: 

 Black Sea Series is a fusion of influences from Beirut of new experiences lived in New York. The altered field recordings have been collected since 2011, and they express raw unedited sounds as they appear in nature, focusing on this disruption of perception related to the world surrounding us. The sonic feel in this body of work shifts from oriental to almost purely electronic, harsh yet hypnotizing sounds, which reveals the journey of life blooming, of a change, a voyage.

Tonight's Free Lab Radio: El Iqaa - نشر

Remains in the Medium of Time
[photo/installation, 2010 -ongoing]

Detroit-Beirut based artist and musician Joe Namy aka El Iqaa explores his Lebanese identity through sound, archive and the word. For this Saturday's Free Lab Radio Show we journey with him on a two album mix, involving some very short snippets of sound that are an audible connection between his magpie-style practice of picking up sounds around him, and his digital work as a music producer. Catch it on air from 11pm-midnight, details below.  Namy's audio work is interesting to us because in his hands, the music plundered becomes a tool for a sonic exploration, ResonanceFM being the representative home of sonic exploration in the UK. WE met Namy at Art Dubai, and interviewed him for our radio project Eavesdropper/ Falgoosh, but tonight the words are only embedded within the sounds.

  Part of Namy's Cazzette Coverz collection✧

#Najwa Karam #Ya Habayeb #1989 #label: relax

 So how does Namy present these explorations? As El Iqaa, Joe Namy works with sampled sounds, documentary / music videos and photography to investigate aspects of identity, memory, power and currents encoded in music. He says his ideas 'often revolve around the space between two technics turntables' - between fading and amplifying.  Namy has produced two albums under the moniker El Iqaa, 'Detroit Beirut' (2007) and 'Circulate'
نشر(2011. Namy explores these issues through quotes and cuts from specific definitive samples (ranging from Abdel Halim Hafez to Pierre Boulez, Amiri Baraka to Trisha Donnelly + much more). The splices in these albums are mixed with original recorded sounds to create a dialogue between the past and the future, in hopes of trying to make sense of the present, and grapple with issues around language and translation, memory, movement, electricity ( as an energy resource) and appropriation.

Namy also hosts a sporadically frequent radio program Electric Kahraba on artonair.org.  You can check more of his sounds and other exploratory projects, often exploring the musical history of his roots, at www.olivetones.com
To listen tune into 104.4FM on your transistor dial if you're one of London's millions of inhabitants, or listen online www.resonancefm.com

☖⚆⚇...≳≲...BEIRU`TRONICA....≳≲...⚆⚇☖

Sampling tracks from our forthcoming live set launching Share Beirut at the Radio Beirut Cafe.

LISTEN IN! 

For a longer set we steam live from 7-9pm BST (9-11pm local time) Fri 5th Oct. on Radio Beirut.

As usual tonight's is an eclectic set, with Middle Eastern references and parallels. There's also some Grim Skunk, Delta 5 and other joys in there.

By the way...did you know that everyone in Lebanon has a cat?