This Week's Free Lab Radio - Mutant Jukebox

Iranian born Londoner Shervin Shaeri began his career writing music to picture for artists, directors, and photographers. 

The creative director of the creative audio agency Mutant Jukebox, specialising in bespoke music composition, Mutant Jukebox has created this guest mix for Free Lab Radio.

"On being asked to create my first ever mix for Free Lab Radio I instantly felt a little tinge of nostalgia. In the early days of the station - which at that time resided in a tiny studio in Londons tin pan ally - where I applied for a volunteering program through uni, and was kindly taken on by the team. With a some experience in engineering and audio tech I quickly was able to help out. For me, a time of discovery. 

My interest in experimental music started a couple of years earlier with a visit from a cousin of mine and her husband who lived out in LA. I clearly remember the day that I felt my 'sonic awareness' open up. Both had gone off for a couple of days and left me with a file of cds, and so i dived in. With hindsight it was a turning point, so the selection is a nod to that time featuring tracks by Alvo Noto and Ryoji Ikeda of Raster-Noton, Warp artists such as Boards of Canada and Plaid and Skam artists such as Bola and Quinoline Yellow."

Track List:

1. Even Spring - Plaid 

2. Nothing Happens In June - Ulrich Schnauss 

3. Sphere - Funckarma 

4. Tank - Shuttle 358

5. In a Beautiful Place Out In the Country - Boards of Canada

6. Mapa - Murcof 

7. Plotreturn - Quinoline Yellow 

8. Bitstream (Arovane Mix) - Phonem

9. Mdrmx - Brothomstates

10. u_08 - Alvo Noto

11. data_microhelix - Ryoji Ikeda

12. Magnasushi - Bola

13. Talgarth - Quinoline Yellow

14. Monday - Paracetamol - Ulrich Schnauss

15. Between Us and Them - Ulrich Schnauss

BROADCAST TIMES:
Saturday 11-midnight on 104.4fm, digital and online from London.

Repeats Tuesday 4am on Resonance104.4FM

Last chance to hear, the following Saturday midnight-1am on Resonance Extra, digital and online radio in Brighton.

See our Facebook page for more info + mixcloud.com/Fari for our podcasts. 

New Free Lab Radio Podcast: The Weird, Electronic Brokerage of HiPro, Brooklyn

This week: Hi Pro, a duo from Brooklyn, improvise with electronic gear as part of the small, local music collective International Winners, releasing tapes and organising live events around their musical tastes.

Their bespoke mix of performances and noise tracks for Free Lab Radio contains selected and self-produced tracks, unreleased tracks plus selections from a recent tape release collaboration with Sun Castle.

Plus music from other International Winners contributors: Trabajo, Dilian, Mysterious House, Heidi Sabertooth, and Safari Explorer.

For more podcast mixes and original soundscapes, visit freelabradio.blogspot.com or facebook.com/FreeLabRadio for more music posts and news.

Broadcasts Times: 

On air on 104.4FM across London, online and on digital.

Saturdays 11-midnight UK time, (2-3am GST Gulf Standard Time)

Repeats Tuesday 4am UK time (7am GST)

http://player.resonancefm.com/ 

On digital across Brighton and online: 

The following Friday 19:30-20:30 UK time (10:30-11.30pm GST) on Resonance Extra

This Week's Free Lab Radio - Muqata'a مُقاطعَة (Boycott), Palestine

This week's Free Lab Radio features a bespoke mix by Palestine/ USA-based music producer and performer Muqata'a (translates as Boycott). Muqata'a used to be part of Ramallah Underground until he began working solo on at first hip hop and now a more blended mix of hip hop and experimental electronica.

Hear his latest dark electronica track here, below.

We've featured Muqata'a in the past and last November 2015 we travelled to Abu Dhabi's Noise of the Middle East festival where we played the same stage. With a modest array of sound manipulating gear, Muqata'a had the audience swaying to his mesmeric, unhurried sounds, sat on Persian carpets before the stage.

 

Broadcasts Times: 

 

On air on 104.4FM across London, online and on digital on Resonance104.4FM: -

Saturdays 11-midnight UK time, (2-3am GST Gulf Standard Time)

Repeats Tuesday 4am UK time (7am GST)

http://player.resonancefm.com/

 

On digital across Brighton and online: 

On Resonance Extra : - 

The following Friday 19:30-20:30 UK time 

(10:30-11.30pm GST)  

Podcasts: 

Visit www.mixcloud.com/Fari

This Week's Free Lab Radio: /// HiPro \\\ from Brooklyn, NY

Hi Pro, a duo from Brooklyn, NY improvise with electronic gear as part of the local International Winners Collective, a collegiate releasing tapes and organising live events around their musical tastes. This bespoke mix for Free Lab Radio contains selected and self-produced tracks, unreleased tracks and selections from a recent tape release; a collaboration with Sun Castle. 

 

Music also features from other International Winners Collective contributors: Trabajo, Dilian, Mysterious House, Heidi Sabertooth, and Safari Explorer.

Track list: 

Hi Pro - Dough Ground

Dean Blunt - Country

Hi Pro - $7/10

Yves Tumor - Psalm

Slow Roasters - Journey From Limerock 

食品まつり a.k.a Foodman - Fire

Maoupa Mazzocchetti - Mona

Eric Copeland - SXIXO

Trabajo - Lucky Dollar City

12000 Trees - Fukai

Gobby - Taajeloc 11

Gábor Lázár - EP1

Amnesia Scanner - Baltic Rim/Confission

Dilian - Quasi Medium World

Hype Williams -The Attitude Era

Arca - Sad Bitch

Hi Pro + Sun Castle - Jáal ja’

Mysterious House - Beveled Glass Window and Door

Kev Brown - Language Barrier

Bill Nelson - Opium

Li Xiangting - Changmen Yuan (Resentment In Changmen Palace)

Conrad Schnitzler & Gregory Schnitzler - Contra 4

Metal Garden - From 美しい (Utsukushii)

Cities Aviv - ( View 180) Picture Me Gone

Black Dice - Treetops

R. MEXICO - Scrap That (2011 Refix)

Menopausal Hound Dog - Occhi Verso Misteriosi

Milkteeth (Heidi Sabertooth) - Drift On

12000 Trees - Gravitate

Safari Explorer - Ringtonez II

The People Of Burundi - Ubuhuha

Broadcasts Times: 

On air on 104.4FM across London, online and on digital.

Saturdays 11-midnight UK time, (2-3am GST Gulf Standard Time)

Repeats Tuesday 4am UK time (7am GST)

http://player.resonancefm.com/

 

On digital across Brighton and online: 

The following Friday 19:30-20:30 UK time (10:30-11.30pm GST) on Resonance Extra

Podcasts: 

Visit www.mixcloud.com/Fari
 

This Week's Free Lab Radio - Acid Arab Special

A exclusive mix from this French duo who've been producing and mixing tracks to feed their passion for Maghrebi, Egyptian and Middle Eastern tunes for some years now on a mega world tour that in March 2016 included a show in the Israel-controlled Old City in Jerusalem(!) as well as Tunis, Casablanca and Istanbul. Recently we aired a preview of their new release feat. Sofiane Saidi 'La Hafla' on our sister show Six Pillars, now for almost an hour of tunes sent in to us for a special broadcast on Resonance104.4FM.

Broadcasts on air, digital and online: 
11-midnight British Summer Time (02 - 03am Gulf Standard Time)
Repeats Tuesday 04 - 05am BST (07 - 08am GST)

On Resonance Extra digital & online radio in Brighton
Friday 10th June 19:30 - 20:20

For artists in this week's mix see list below, none are by Acid Arab aside from the A-WA remix.

Toni Frangieh & Setrak Sarkissian

Fawez

Rahbani Brothers

Crawling With Tarts

Mariza Koch

Mikis Theodorakis

Nino Nikolaidis

Stalos  סטלוס

A-WA

Mohammed Assaf

Ahmad Abanda

Mohamed Jamal

Sato

Nazem Al Ghazali

Rüdiger Lorenz

Abbud Abdel Aal

Golden Teacher

Saad Lamjarred

Kenzi Bourras

Milen Natchev

Matoub Lounès

Cheikha Djenia

Elias Rahbani

 

The Acid Arab team are: Guido Minisky, Hervé Carvalho, Pierrot Casanova and Nicolas Borne with keyboards: by Kenzy Bourras who has worked with Rachid Taha.

Free Lab Radio Podcast - Disquiet, Afternoon Music for Day or Night

This week: 'afternoon music' that can be listened to at any time: 21 tracks by 13 artists mixed by guest producer Marc Weidenbaum who founded and moderates the music community Disquiet Junto since 2012.

This seasoned selector and music reviewer put thought into this mix, as he is familiar with the Resonance104.4FM audience and has unfathomable archives, created by himself, at his disposal.

"This is mix of afternoon music that can be listened to at any time of the day — the work played here, 21 tracks in all by 13 artists, is generally ambient and electronic in nature, and yet it’s fairly rhythmic at the same time, some of the tracks more explicitly so than others. There are fractal algorithms from Erika Nesse, and refrigerator drones by Nystada. There’s elegantly layered sameness by Marcus Fischer and fourth-world blues by Yasuo Akai. Several of the recordings heard here are drawn from the music community called the Disquiet Junto, which I’ve moderated since 2012. The hour starts off with some brief dank techno miniatures by Vladimir Conch. Conch’s pieces are so brief, between 23 and 38 seconds each, that I’ve chosen to repeat a few of them, turning the five short original tracks into a suite of nine that begins where it ends."

dɪsˈkwʌɪət/

noun

noun: disquiet; plural noun: disquiets

1. 1.

   a feeling of worry or unease.

   
   

   "public disquiet about animal testing"

   
   

   synonyms:

   unease, uneasiness, worry, anxiety, anxiousness, distress, concern; More unrest, disquietude, inquietude; perturbation, consternation, upset, malaise; alarm, anguish, fear, fright, dread, panic, angst; nervousness, agitation, restlessness, fretfulness, jitteriness; foreboding, trepidation "there has been grave disquiet about the state of the prisons"

   antonyms:

   calm

Broadcasts Times: 

On air on 104.4FM across London, online and on digital.

Saturdays 11-midnight UK time, (2-3am GST Gulf Standard Time)

Repeats Tuesday 4am UK time (7am GST)

On digital across Brighton and online:

The following Friday 19:30-20:30 UK time (10:30-11.30pm GST) on Resonance Extra

Podcasts: 

Visit www.mixcloud.com/Fari

This Week's Free Lab Radio - Disquiet, Afternoon Music for Day or Night

 Afternoon Music for Day or Night

This week founder of Disquiet Marc Weidenbaum brings us a special mix for Free Lab Radio. This seasoned selector and music reviewer put thought into this mix, as he is familiar with the Resonance104.4FM audience and has unfathomable archives, created by himself, at his disposal.

"This is mix of afternoon music that can be listened to at any time of the day — the work played here, 21 tracks in all by 13 artists, is generally ambient and electronic in nature, and yet it’s fairly rhythmic at the same time, some of the tracks more explicitly so than others. There are fractal algorithms from Erika Nesse, and refrigerator drones by Nystada. There’s elegantly layered sameness by Marcus Fischer and fourth-world blues by Yasuo Akai. Several of the recordings heard here are drawn from the music community called the Disquiet Junto, which I’ve moderated since 2012. The hour starts off with some brief dank techno miniatures by Vladimir Conch. Conch’s pieces are so brief, between 23 and 38 seconds each, that I’ve chosen to repeat a few of them, turning the five short original tracks into a suite of nine that begins where it ends."

dɪsˈkwʌɪət/

noun

noun: disquiet; plural noun: disquiets

1. 1.

   a feeling of worry or unease.

   
   

   "public disquiet about animal testing"

   
   

   synonyms:

   unease, uneasiness, worry, anxiety, anxiousness, distress, concern; More unrest, disquietude, inquietude; perturbation, consternation, upset, malaise; alarm, anguish, fear, fright, dread, panic, angst; nervousness, agitation, restlessness, fretfulness, jitteriness; foreboding, trepidation "there has been grave disquiet about the state of the prisons"

   antonyms:

   calm

verb

verb: disquiet; 3rd person present: disquiets; past tense: disquieted; past participle: disquieted; gerund or present participle: disquieting

1.

make (someone) worried or uneasy.

"she felt disquieted at the lack of interest the girl had shown"

synonyms:

perturb, agitate, upset, disturb, unnerve, unsettle, discompose, disconcert, ruffle, startle; More

Broadcasts Times: 

On air on 104.4FM across London, online and on digital.

Saturdays 11-midnight UK time, (2-3am GST Gulf Standard Time)

Repeats Tuesday 4am UK time (7am GST)

On digital across Brighton and online:

The following Friday 19:30-20:30 UK time (10:30-11.30pm GST) on Resonance Extra

Podcasts: 

Visit www.mixcloud.com/Fari

New Podcast - Kairo is Koming

 A Free Lab Radio takeover by producer Ismael from Cairo, Egypt of his own and other tracks mostly made in Cairo.  Ismael, an electronic musician from Cairo, Egypt is part of the arts collective Kairo Is Koming (KIK).

For this ambient, electronic radio show, Ismael recorded a mix featuring works from his two EPs Odd On Out, and PreData, with works buy artists from Cairo and the region. Long and rolling, sometimes distorted sounds, with Arabic and Maghrebi tones over ambient industrial and sometimes domestic noise is what you can expect from Ismael. 

The set was made in March 2016, Egypt.

Broadcasts Saturdays 11-midnight GMT, (3-4am GST).
Repeats Tuesday 4am GMT, 8am GST.

Visit www.mixcloud.com/Fari
for Free Lab Radio podcasts.

Also broadcasting on Fridays 19:30-20:30 GMT on ResonanceFM's sister station Resonance Extra, which broadcasts on digital and online only in Brighton, UK.

Track listings below:

1. Intro

2. MSYLMA - العين بالعين

3. Ismael - Same day, backwards.

4. Ismael - III

5. ZULI - 150825Bv2(9.5)

6. Nur - live @ Noizmachin (exceprt)

7. Bosaina - Tokyo 6 LIVE Version

8. ZULI - 150329Bv3

9. MSYLMA - ظل تحت شجرة الزقوم

10. Ismael - Detour (A)

11. ZULI - 150428Cv2(9.5)

12. Ismael - IV

13. transition I

14. Ismael - prdt (2)

15. Nur - Beyond Visuals: An audible exploration of Divine Representations in Islam (excerpt)

16. Ismael - untitled

17. transition II

18. Ismael - untitled

19. transition III

20. Ismael - untitled

Free Lab Takeover - DSM, Iran

Producer and DJ DSM, or Sasan b.1994 in Iran where he lives, returns to the airwaves with a truly fantastic mix that aims to elicit different types of feelings and emotions in the listener. 

 Using traditional Persian music, the sounds of nature sounds and his signature deep-house rhythms, DSM has edited some of the tracks and made this bespoke mix sent from Iran for Free Lab Radio this week.

Check out his last mix for us here. Since then, DSM has gone on a superb tangent into experimental sound. We hope Resonancefm has influenced him in some way!

Broadcasts on air,  on digital and online Saturdays 11:00 - midnight on Resonance104.4FM in London. Repeats Tuesdays 04:00-05:00am GMT.


We are also on Fridays 19:30-20:30 GMT on ResonanceFM's offshoot station Resonance Extra, which broadcasts on digital and online in Brighton, UK.
Podcasts -  www.mixcloud.com/fari

New Podcast - Mind's Medicine Free Lab Takeover

Mind's Medicine presents 'Microtuning Your Health in 2016' a musical healing project in Chico, Butte County, California, USA. 

Mind's Medicine says for this mix 'MicroTuning' for Free Lab Radio:

"All songs in this mix are retuned using .tun files and omnisphere, based on a 432hz tuning of middle A. I have been enjoying the Harmonic Scale recently and all my music is written in it." 

Free Lab broadcasts 11-midnight GMT, Saturday nights on 104.4fm to half a million core listeners across London, online elsewhere, repeating Tuesday 4am.

We are also on Fridays 19:30 GMT on ResonanceFM's offshoot station Resonance Extra, which broadcasts on digital and online in Brighton, UK.
Podcasts -  www.mixcloud.com/fari

Free Lab Radio Takeover - Mind's Medicine on Resonance104.4fm & Resonance Extra by Fari B  

This Week's Free Lab Radio - The David Bowie Mixpiece

Fritz Von Runte's experimental David Bowie mixpiece made on the eve of Bowie's death features abstract sounds, spoken word, remixes, reworkings and lesser known tracks.
 Von Runte, a DJ and Producer in Manchester, UK releases his own material under the anti-war non-profit label Marshall Records and is a remixer of British songwriters.

In 1996 Fritz was just 20, he founded Shalalá Records, an independent record label for electronic music, whose catalogue so far has reached over 80 releases.

BROADCAST:
 Free Lab Radio broadcasts on Resonance104.4fm Saturdays nights 11-midnigh, repeats the following Tuesdays 04:00-05:00am UK time. Pick it up on 104.4FM and digital radio across London, online otherwise. We are also rebroadcast on Resonance Extra, on digital radio in Brighton and on Resonance Extra's online streaming service.

"His work as a DJ was also very successful and prolific – Fritz even played Ibiza (that was when it actually meant something). Then, in 2003 Fritz founded Marshall Records, another independent label, with an explicit agenda: making records against the war, that was then commencing with the Iraq invasion. Marshall Records focuses on bootleg mixes and mash-ups, and its catalogue has achieved over 25 million downloads – most of it propelled by the internet phenomena The Beatles HATE.  Fritz continues to produce remixes, original music and he DJs from time to time.

 Fritz von Runte’s life has always been connected to music, one way or another. His father was a obsessive record collector, Jazz, Big Bands and Orchestras. He gave Fritz his first record player, a monophonic (!) portable one, at the age of 4 (!!). As a boy, Fritz was always the one responsible for directing the music in parties. He didn’t have a video game, never got into sports, basically was more interested in music than anything else. At the age of 15 he became a professional DJ, warming up parties in warehouses for thousands of people. When he was 18 he bought his first drum machine and one year later got a job in a studio, when he began to produce music."

This Week's Free Lab Radio - For All the Sea the Land Remains

For All the Sea the Land Remains is a 44 minute long sound piece from Simon Coates.  The bespoke work for Free Lab Radio features field recordings from Dubai and Fujairah - both in the United Arab Emirates - Istanbul, Bangkok and Vientiane in Laos.

In addition to employing field recordings for this piece, Coates plays harmonica, keyboards and guitar alongside digitally-manufactured acousmatic sounds. For All the Sea the Land Remains samples the songs 'Shagufa' by Geeta Dutt (1953), 'Hum Aur Tum Aur Ye Khushi' by Surendra (from the 1940 film 'Alibaba') and 'Aahen Na Bharin Shikve Na Kiye' by Zeenat (1945). Another film that is samples is Parviz Kimiavi's 1970s film 'Oh, Protector of the Gazelle'. 

The English text at the start is read by UK performance artist Caroline Smith, and was written by Simon Coates.  The Arabic text towards the end is read by Sara Al Haddad and is a line from Jonny Town Mouse by Beatrix Potter...with vocal contributions by Denise Coates.

Free Lab Radio Podcast: Dance is a Neuroscience

Free Lab Podcast - Dance is a Neuroscience, Fari B by Fari B

A mix by Fari B of some of the most sonically intriguing dance tunes in this year's playlist, plus new Nov-Dec releases. Moving through genres and sub-genres from 8-bit to nu-disco to Neurostep, it's a selection to end 2015.

Dance is a marriage of the representational capacity of language and the rhythmicity of music. Even though dance is a fundamental form of human expression, neuroscientists have given it relatively little consideration. The past decade, however, researchers have conducted the first brain-imaging studies of both amateur and professional dancers. These investigations address such questions as:
How do dancers navigate though space?
How do they pace their steps?
How do people learn complex series of patterned movements?

Playlist:  
1.Zedanmer (feat. Eat Static, Ethiopiques) by Invisible System

2.Fuzzy Dancer EP (Move 2) by Craig Sherrad

3.Text Message by Busy Signal

4.Deal with It by Kartek

5.Tha Rugged by Reso

6.King Shit ft Ti (Jauz Remix) by Yo Gotti

7.Flamenco remix by D.Real

8.Sway (Blunt Instrument Bootleg) by Blunt Instrument

9.Ashanti Ton (100) by Na Nguzu

10.Xiang by Howie Lee

11.Transister by Satelliti

12.Syncopate by Siete Catorce

13.What I Might Do (Kilter remix yeah) by Ben Pearce

14.Megan Hamilton & the Bermudas by Save Me From the Rain

15.Stevie Wonder Superstition Remix by C2C

16.Lindstrom by I Feel Space

Streaming online & broadcasting on air on 104.4FM, at 11-midnight GMT (3-4am GST).
Repeats: Tuesday 4-5am GMT (7-8am GST)

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This Week's Free Lab Radio - Dance is a Neuroscience

Complex movement.  Sound generation. Kinesiology. Meaningful gesturing. Rhythmic synchronisation. Wordlessly communication. Brain synchrony. Rehabilitation and therapy. the magic of mutual gaze.

Dance is a Neuroscience

A mix by Fari B of the most sonically intriguing dance tunes in this year's playlist, plus new Nov-Dec releases. Moving through genres and sub-genres from 8-bit to Neurostep, it's a selection to end 2015 with.

Dance is a marriage of the representational capacity of language and the rhythmicity of music. Even though dance is a fundamental form of human expression, neuroscientists have given it relatively little consideration. The past decade, however, researchers have conducted the first brain-imaging studies of both amateur and professional dancers. These investigations address such questions as, How do dancers navigate though space? How do they pace their steps? How do people learn complex series of patterned movements? 1)

Streaming online and broadcasting on air on 104.4FM, at 11-midnight GMT (3-4am GST).
Repeat: Tuesday 4-5am GMT (7-8am GST)  

Podcasts here.
Check out Fari's last mix below.

Free Lab Radio - Mmmix by Fari B on ResonanceFM by Fari B 

1) http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v299/n1/full/scientificamerican0708-78.html

This Week's Free Lab Radio - Mix by Fari B

This week the sounds of the best electronica and experimental music from Fari B's listening rack. Elements of just a peppering of dubstep, epic, hip hop, contemporary classical, neurohop, moombhaton and even a remixed booty anthem.

Intelligent music for today's listener, dance in your bedrooms, dance in your cars, dance on the train with your headphones on, dance with your feet, your hands your head, but don't ignore the beat for that's when we've been reduced to nothing more than a brain carried in a body. Sway yourself into the present.

Free Lab Radio broadcasts Saturdays 11-midnight GMT (3am GST) repeats Tuesday 4am GMT (8am GST)

Listen on air across London on 104.4FM or online otherwise here:
http://radioplayer.resonancefm.com/console/

Find previous Free Lab Radio mixes HERE>

This Week's Free Lab Radio - The Bloodening

 

In the dark, behind a wall on an island in Abu Dhabi, audio visual algorithms skirmish with preconceived ideas of what the Celtic evening of Allhalloweseve and the Allhallowtide festival is...

System Preferences  are Jonny Farrow, Scott Fizgerald and Fari Bradley tonight.

Broadcasts 11-midnight GMT, repeats Thursday 4am. 

Listen on air on 104.4FM across London or online otherwise with this app

This Week's Free Lab Radio - Nesa Azadikhah

A bespoke set of house music, mixed in Iran for Free Lab Radio, by DJ Nesa Azadikhah. 

 "I used different styles of tracks for this mix: house , nu disco, techno, deep house... all tracks were chosen from international music. The mix adapts to changes in mood for the audience. It was mixed in Ableton Live, and I have also edited and overlayed some of the tracks.
The drawing here is a still frame of a video animation which I used last time on Free Lab Radio also as it's a source of inspiration for me. It was a collaboration between my sister and I, using collage as a technique."

 

Tracklist:

1. B12 – Into The Void
2. Willow – Feel Me
3. Gtyn – Kevin Lomax (Nesa R-Edit)
4. Dawn Mok – Like Thoughts Or Moments We’ll Fall (Nesa R-Edit)
5. Nuage – Haunting
6. Pezzner – Protection
7. Romare – Rainbow (Club)
8. Lawrence – Chez Dupont
9. Pawel – All Nearness Pauses (Nesa Remix)
10. Rocco – Saharien Child (Lars Behrenroth Reprise)
    
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    Broadcasts 11-midnight GMT, repeats Tuesday 4am GMT. 
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