This Week's Free Lab Radio - INDEPENDANCE

A rare 1986 release of gloomy dance music, for darkened dancefloors.

This cassette edited by INDEPENDANCE and signed by COLLECTIONISM, was a sound project led by Peter Fey, Peter Prochir and Tomas Fey. At once post-industrial and then rhythmic in a fittingly post-punk manner, INDEPENDANCE is considered by some as the most pure form of the Electro Body Music genre of the 80s, that began in Belgium.

"This album sometimes transports you to ethereal moments with textures of vocals in the style of VOX PUPULI ! At other times the music brings back memories to the sound TUXEDOMOON or some musical touches from Curve in the style of the late 70's CABARET VOLTAIRE."

TRACKLIST:

 
A1 Intro 3:32

A2 Traumhautgesicht 5:37

A3 X@ss 5:50

A4 The Side-Effect 6:33

B1 Das Gift 5:03

B2 Sielwolf 6:12

B3 296 BPM 2:34

B4 Clarinet Backwards 8:02

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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SpaceDelica - This Week's Free Lab Radio: DJ Umb

Sometimes, you have to look back, to see the future.

A little background to this mix, by previous Free Lab Radio guest DJ Umb. The mix, originally in two parts, was triggered by a cassette mix tape: "The cassette is important because in a way it liberated me."

With retro cassette culture on the rise and labels that regularly launch on cassette (see our recent cassette-label show) it's apt that DJs and producers like DJ Umb give credit to how much these small recordables influenced our formative years.

Generation Bass blog and label founder DJ Umb explains what's behind his SpaceDelica mix:

My much older cousin who was so into Hi-NRG dance culture, gave me a hot mixtape many years ago on cassette. It was the first mixtape I had ever heard, and it blew my mind musically. Several of the tracks that I have now incorporated in this mix were on that tape cassette. The mix recreates that same vibe for me, listening to it, making it, I have that same euphoric feeling at that time. The feeling has not diminished one bit which is a testament to the timelessness of these tracks and the powerful effect of music on our souls.  

 Broadcasts Saturday Dec 19th 11-midnight GMT, repeats Thursday 2am. Listen on 104.4FM across London on you tranny dial, otherwise online with this handy player.

This Week's Free Lab Radio - Arabic, Turkish and Iranian Pop Cassettes on Resonance104.4FM

DJ K Sets compiles tape cassettes from 80s Middle East and North Africa, arranged here in 3 genres:
"taxi tapes, electro tunes and hippie age". He calls his mixes "selected working class cultures". We've had a long interest in DJ K Sets as his other incarnation DJ Cinnamoon, possibly since 5 years ago. He's superbly underground, you have to chase him!

Turkey, Iran, Iraq and beyond. Long live cassette culture!


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