Arab Electronica - Levitate!

A selection of more unusual and experimental Arabic and Middle-East inspired music for Saturday night. The show is informed by Fari B's recent trip to Exit festival and a collection of politically charged titles and content.

In the second half of tonight's show, we feature a variety of compositions created on a very unusual optical synthesiser, the ANS. Designed by Evgeny Murzin in 193, the ANS was an early Russian synthesiser that used an optical scanning head to control a bank of sine wave oscillators. The programme features works by Alfred Schnittke, Edward Artemiev taken from the album "Electroshock Presents: Electroacoustic Music"

See http://www.theremin.ru/archive/ans.htm for more information on the ANS.

Exit Festival Special - Podcast

Here we go with our look at what was on at the transglobal festival embedded in an ancient fortress on the banks of the river Danube, in Serbia's 2nd largest town Novi Sad. Exit Festival, check it out. We also hear from one of the festival organisers about Exit's unique NGO status.


We hear music from Bosnia, Romania, Chile, Cuba, Portugal and more....

Exit Special and Chris Weaver Solo

Following on from our visit to Serbia, Free Lab Radio brings you a mix from the best artists that played the Exit festival 2010. We also hear from one of the organisers about the festival's unique NGO status and how it all started.

Christopher Weaver brings more solo sultronics to the airwaves, as he contemplates the empty space of Sunday morning after the arc of Fari B's dance orientated Sat night set.

Look out for Fari at the London Mela on 8th August 2010 in Gunnersbury Park where she is once again commissioned for a mela-special composition with tabla and VJ.