Resonance104.4fm Fundraiser - Saturday 13th Feb with Resonate Festival

Free Lab Radio, Saturday 13th Feb, 11-midnight. Repeats Tuesday 16th Feb, 4-5am GMT

Podcasts: www.mixcloud.com/fari

Also plays out on Fridays, weekly at 5pm GMT on Resonance Extra in Brighton

https://extra.resonance.fm/

Auction Special - Resonate Festival
Tracks from performers at this year's 6-day Serbian festival and conference including Squarepusher, Omar Souleyman, Hans Joachim Roedelius (Cluster). Two Resonate FULL tickets (Live + Conference). Resonate is a yearly platform for networking, knowledge sharing and education, providing an overview of current happenings in music, visual arts and digital culture. Guest artists, lecturers and participants represent the cutting edge of contemporary creativity across the world. This Belgrade festival offers the opportunity of participating in a forward-looking debate on and experience of the position of technology in art and culture today.

Tickets are worth €249 (nearly £200) each.
www.resonate.io/2016

Confirmed Resonate Conference 2016 Participants  
Nicholas Felton, Moment Factory, Chris Sugrue, Jürg Lehni, Alex Evans (Media Molecule), Romain Tardy, Atau Tanaka, Murat Pak, Memo Akten, Daniel Hirschmann, Phoenix Perry, Rebecca Fiebrink, Artists & Engineers, Ishac Bertran, Bethany Koby (Technology Will Save Us), Joshua Noble, Darran Anderson, Andreas Müller, Karsten Schmidt, Neil Mendoza, Darsha Hewitt, Jonathan Wohl, Random Studio, PeLang,  James Auger, Shane Walter, onedotzero, Jakob Bak (CIID), Dennis P Paul (HfK), Joreg (vvvv), Cathrine Kramer, Domestic Data Streamers, Playmodes, Sophi Kravitz, Refik Anadol, Dan Hett, Gorka Cortazar, Gael Hugo, Bengler + MORE 

Confirmed Resonate Live 2016 Participants

Squarepusher, Omar Souleyman, Hans Joachim Roedelius, Rashad Becker + MANY MORE TBA

Pictures here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/resonateio

Rooms in Belgrade are super-cheap! Check Air BnB. 
https://www.airbnb.com/s/Belgrade--Serbia

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.

Irvine Walsh's 'Ecstasy' & Films About Dance Culture

As films in this line go, there's been some bad ones, some enduring ones (regardless of their quality) and some great ones (It's All Gone Pete Tong, for example). Usually drugs and death are in the mix. Aside from Footloose of course when dancing itself was the sinful vehicle for the 'high'.

We saw Danny Boyle's adaptation of Walsh's book in Trainspotting, it set a bar for pop film style. But what will Irvine Welsh's new film Ecstasy, adapted from The Undefeated, the third novella in Welsh’s book Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance, be setting?

So far reviews are less then even luke warm. No rush 'n high here then.