Free Lab Radio Podcast- New Electronica

This week's mix is by Fari B, a selection of new releases and enduring experimental tracks.

Tracks include: Enlacing by Infinite Body, Fighting to Dance by Paul White, High Order Ambisonics by Center of the Universe, We Got This by The Kleenrz, The Main Thing (Ext. Remix) Roxy Music, My Brand by Sole and DJ Pain 1, Middle East by Fuewa, Organic (original mix) Jet Airess, Hum Dard Persian Enlacing by Infinite Body, Souvenir by JazzOil in Tunisia, Million Minds (Original Mix) by VNDMG.

BROADCASTS: Saturdays 11-midnight on 104.4fm

Repeats Tuesdays 4am on Resonance104.4FM On air on digital + online (London).

Repeats: in Brighton, only on digital and online - last chance to hear, the following Saturday midnight-1am @ Resonance Extra

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 PODCASTS: www.mixcloud.com/Fari

Trump this Horror Show - New Release by Birds of Hell

Norwich-based Birds of Hell's lyrics are an expulsion of desperate anger, in a world where click-bait is juxtaposed with horror stories and 'stupid questions asked to the internet'.

"Played live, Let's Have The Windows Open digresses into semi-improvised lyrics and over the last few months Donald Trump has been the focus of these ad-libs."

This Week's Free Lab Radio - New Music Mix

This week's mix is by Fari B, a selection of new releases and enduring experimental tracks.

Tracks include: Enlacing by Infinite Body, Fighting to Dance by Paul White, High Order Ambisonics by Center of the Universe, We Got This by The Kleenrz, The Main Thing (Ext. Remix) Roxy Music, My Brand by Sole & DJ Pain 1, Middle East by Fuewa, Organic (original mix) Jet Airess, Hum Dard Persian Enlacing by Infinite Body, Souvenir by JazzOil in Tunisia, Million Minds (Original Mix) by VNDMG.

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

New Free Lab Radio Podcast - 'Electro Congo' on ResonanceFM

This week to mark an important new release, we feature contemporary Congolese dance music on Electro Congo, a Free Lab Radio special.

Selected electro-Congolese tracks alongside derivatives of Congolese drum 'n bass and other forms of apt-sounding electronica, pepper an almost album-length listen to a new release by legendary Grammy award winning band Konono formed 1966, Kinshasa, DRC.

"Konono No1 Meet Batida" released this April 2016. For the album Konono who use instruments made with found objects, worked with acclaimed Angolan/ Portuguese artist Batida, in Batida’s garage-cum-studio in Lisbon, reflecting the city’s vibrant, cosmopolitan music life. Also featured this week are derivatives of Congolese drum 'n bass and other forms of apt-sounding electronica.

Konono No1 and Batida in Lisbon

Tracks by Konono No.1 and Batida, DRC Music, Anchorsong (the new release on Tru Thoughts), Manu Delago, Petrona Martinez, Ba-Benzélé and Miriam Makeba.

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

Free Lab Radio also broadcasts on digital radio in Brighton, Fridays 19:30-20:30 GMT on Resonance Extra, ResonanceFM's offshoot station, on digital and online in Brighton, UK

Find our podcasts on http://www.mixcloud.com/fari

This Week's Free Lab Radio - Electro-Congo

Konono No1 Meet Batida

This week to mark a new release, we are broadcasting a contemporary congolese dance music Free Lab Radio special.

Selected new electro-Congoloese alongside tracks by legendary band Konono (formed 1966) from Kinshasa, DRC who released "Konono No1 Meet Batida" this month. For the album Konono joined forces with acclaimed Angolan/ Portuguese artist Batida for the album. "Konono No1 Meet Batida" released on April 1, 2016 and was recorded in Batida’s garage-cum-studio in Lisbon, and reflects the city’s vibrant, cosmopolitan music life. Also featured this week are Congolose drum 'n bass and other forms of right-sounding electronica.

"At the African Club, there are no bad tracks." Fari Bradley, 2016.

About Konono No.1 The grammy award winning trio combine three electric likembé (a traditional instrument similar to the thumb piano or mbira) with voices, dancers, and percussion instruments  made out of items salvaged from a junkyard (this is something close to our heart). For some reason they also distinguish themselves by using a microphone carved out of wood fitted with a magnet from an automobile  and a gigantic horn-shaped amplifier! 



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

Strange Music Podcast - Free Lab Radio

First broadcast 9th April 2016

New releases merge with hidden gems of different fringe dance genres in a mix by Fari B.

Feat:  

• Outlines and Celebrity Skin both tracks from the new Broshuda eponymous release
• Taisun - Senorita Remix (Perfect Driver Music) 2016
• Zomboy - Like a B**ch (Atik Remix) 2016
• DeBoer with the original mix of Coming for Ya 
• Anchorsong's track Expo from his latest album released January 2016
• Marv-Kay with the brilliantly strange What Can I Do for You 
• Talented piano singer song-writer Mitski with her track Liquid Smooth (released 2015 by AudioTree)
• The title track from No BS! Brass Band from their album Brass Scene Kids 
• Mana by MalLabel's new album 'Ohana' and an Asagaya remix
• Clexxs' Road released on March 2016 on Mutant Youth
• Joy Corporation's smooth Funky Fat Bleed which is only one day old at the time of recording. 
• Manu Delago - Disgustingly Beautiful out March 2016

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

Repeats Tuesday 4am GMT, 8am GST.

Visit www.mixcloud.com/Fari

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

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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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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This Week's Free Lab Radio Show: Tipping into Summer

To mark mid-May, Fari Bradley brings us a new releases - some on cassette - from Vinny Villbass (Norway), Bamboo (UK), Toy Light (Los Angeles), Kamasi Washington, Manican Party (New York) and more. 

Broadcasts 11pm-midnight Saturdays, repeating Thursdays 2am

Listen on 104.4FM in London

or online:

http://radioplayer.resonancefm.com/console/

Free Lab Radio - Tipping Into Summer, Fari B by Fari B 

Looping On....Mieux - Video for New Release 'Rush'

Ahead of their forthcoming album Are You Happy, ? - Mieux are happy looping away in this latest vid. The credits reveal a lot of it is the brainchild of one person. Props to him.  Of course the answer is that a lot of us aren't happy because we don't know how to make others happy, the first foundation stone of being happy at all.

So the next Q is: does making this album make Viennese band Mieux happy?  The answer lies in what effect is has on you.
Check out their older stuff. You may've heard Fishing before if you're an intelligent listener.

Free Lab Radio Podcast - Booman vs. Iraq

Is there a place where naive fine art and home studio production meet...?

Tonight we sample an entire album by Bambooman, UK who has his latest release 'Dulcet' on Sonic Router. As a tangent, we end with two Iraqi folk songs to mark the first ever UK exhibition of Welcome to Iraq, the Iraq Pavillion contribution to the last Venice Biennial. It is the first ever show at Venice to feature artists from inside Iraq since 1976.

The work in Welcome to Iraq, currently on show at South London Gallery, is mostly all made from found objects and materials, as formal art education in Iraq still has not recovered since the foreign invasion and artists are generally self taught. From cardboard to recycled tires the sculptures are effectively parallel to the sampling and re-appropriated field recordings of young Bambooman.  Like these Iraqi artists Bambooman uses a colloquial audio palette to create some of the most interesting beats we've heard in a while.

Free Lab Radio - Bambooman vs Iraq by Fari

tUnE-yArDs - Nikki Nack out May 6th.

Here's a cut up preview from one of our favourite bands of this century. Faithful to their original sounds of African influence, looping and strong vocals, this sounds supremely promising. Plus they're on tour and coming to London!

For Today - 'I'm Gonna Throw Up!'