This Week's Free Lab Radio - Turkish Ladies on Records

 

 Polish record collector Kornelia Binicewicz lives in Turkey where she began Ladies on Records, a listening and digitising and uploading project for currently Turkish psychadealica from the 60s and 70s featuring the voices of Turkish women of the time.  The 60-70s saw a massive explosion in music all over the world which gave women the voice and platform with which to become renowned and express themselves not only musically,but also in fashion and the arts.

Binicewicz left her work in festivals in Poland to pursue a life in music in Turkey where she is now based. She was director of MiŚ Documentary Film Festival about Music for 8 years and program manager of the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow for a while. Binicewicz calls her interests “Various cultures and worlds caught in dusty records and blurred memories” and explores Turkish female music through avidly collecting records, interviews, DJing and writing.

See more at
http://ladiesonrecords.strikingly.com

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This Week's Free Lab Radio Show - Persian, Existence is Resistance

This week on Free Lab Radio, an auction special where we sample the latest vinyl releases by past Free Lab guest Persian who has an amazing bundle of records available in the Resonance104.4fm auction, ending tomorrow!. Since we met him scouting for music for Resonance104.4fm on Myspace around 2007, he has since materialised in the studio to do a live Free Lab Radio and kindly gave us some last editions of his many vinyl releases. How many other producers have over 14 tabs of releases on Discogs, which still only represents a fraction of his output. A master at sampling, drum and bass and garage, Persian also has his own label Existence is Resistance.

 Awash with Iranian vocal and cinema classics samples, Persian began producing in the 90s on his Commodore.  Persian is a seasoned producer and DJ creating drum'n'bass on vinyl and experimenting with sampling in production since the early 1990s in London.

Persian's first vinyl release was a hit on London's then-thriving underground Jungle scene, the E.P 'Gorgon Wise' in 1991, and since then he has toured U.K. and Europe, at first producing tracks on the Commodore Amiga that became the staples of many a UK pirate radio station, garage club and underground rave. Persian guested with his mentor 'Mix Master Max' on 'Defection' pirate radio, with whom he often played alongside.

The 1995 smash hit 'Dangerous' blew up on the U.K. garage circuit later released on 'Locked On' plus there's an awesome amount of self-released and label material since then, only 33 of them listed on Discogs. Collaborations have included artists such as M.C.Mello, U.K.Apache and D.J.Texsta. Persian has been live on Resonance104.4FM before and his label Persian Dubplates continues to thrive! 

http://www.discogs.com/artist/214451-Persian
https://soundcloud.com/persian-dubplates

The bundle includes:

1) THE LOST DATS  91 - 95 VOL 1

This is exclusive stuff, only 70 copies were for sale. Pressed early last year the release features Jungle tracks from 1991-95 with Persian as one of his moniker's PERSIAN PRINCE alongside BIZZY B & DJ DLUX, all BIG names from back in the day of London's iconic Drum and Bass history.

2) YOUNG SKYWALKER E.P.
Released later in 2015, there are only a few coies of this E.P still available for purchase.

3) WE SHOULD SHOUT (DRUM&BASS) E.P.
Released in 2013:

4) GET UP STAND UP / DANCE E.P.
A rare jungle E.P from waaay back in the day.
This is from 1993 and it features PERSIAN PRINCE & BUDDA.Q. 

5) WE SHOULD SHOUT (HOUSE) E.P.
Released 2013:

6) MIXIN POTIONS VOL 2

Originally released in 1998/99

This is really rare stuff, Persian had to re-press this another 2 times because people were selling this at really expensive prices so he decided to make it available more affordably. He comes under the moniker of ARTIST FORMALLY KNOWN AS P.P. on these series of e.p.s.

7) PERSIAN PRESENTS:
Release date: 2004

Never released, some prints of this test pressing EP were given away for free.  

 

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This Week's Free Lab Radio - Oriental Slap

Nuts One (Ωu†$ ∅Ω€), a Swiss music producer and mix-maker, decided for this mix to take a vinyl trip to the Middle-East, Levant and North Africa.

Here's a selection of 70's oriental psychedelic tracks from his collection from Turkey, Lebanon, Algeria, Iran, Israel and Egypt.

Nuts One and Someplinghave (France) have also self-released 7" vinyl records, embracing the homemade aesthetic in both appearance and sound.


"No need to explain everything, because music is made to dream and understand our own stories."

Nuts One is part of The Soundtrackers a crates diggers and beatmakers collective form Geneva, Switzerland. Members are: Nuts One, David Chandra, Mr.Riddler and Mr.Fake.

"According Google, we are living 849 kilometres apart...
But we're living the same way.
Loving music, records, dusty samples..."

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Tonight's Free Lab Radio: Sonic Traces From the Arab World

Street Musician in Beirut by Norient

Sonic Traces From the Arab World

This week on Free Lab Radio, we sample a limited vinyl record, full of noises from the Arab World. 

These include propaganda music by political groups and clans, psychedelic Arabic Rock from the late 1960s and 1970s, the noises of bombs and machine guns, the now ubiquitous synthesized Electro-Sha’bi from Cairo, old and rare shellac recordings, Death Metal, Rap, Electro-Acoustic Music, and Musique Concrète.

Collected and mixed by the Norient collective. The release comes via Discrepant in London. Previous broadcasts by us of Norient include Art Dubai 2013, for the radio commission Falgoosh Radio at Art Dubai.

Broadcasts Saturday 25th 11-midnight, repeats the following Thursday 2am GMT. 

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This Week's #FreeLabRadio - Guest DJ Nuff Ced

This Saturday night, an exclusive mix by Cedric 'Nuff Ced' of Dubai DJ crew 'Deep Crates Cartel' - crate-diggers from all around the world who dedicate themselves to an alternative music scene in Dubai. 11- midnight GMT across London on 104.4FM or via the RadioPlayer.

MEANWHILE DON'T FORGET it's the RESONANCEFM AUCTION still... artworks, experiences and collectables all up for grabs at ridiculously low prices, and for a great cause - arts-music station Resonance104.4FM broadcasts on air due to a huge amount of fundraising, and all programme makers are volunteers.

Cedric  "Nuff Ced" a Parisian record collector and selector with Dubai DJ crew Deep Crates Cartel. Deep Crates gather crate-diggers from the world over as far afield as Lebanon, Spain, UK, Poland, Egypt and so on, who share the same mindset and quest for rare groove. DCC dedicated themselves to provide what they felt was missing in Dubai, an alternative to the mainstream & commercial music scene. 

"We clearly have a common vibe, yet with each his own specialities, one is a wicked reggae selector, another a highly-skilled turntablist... I'm into soul jazz funk, with a soft spot for Brazilian music and have been accumulating records and musical knowledge for more than 20 years now. A true consuming passion that I'm always glad to share.

So, at your request, I put together a little musical journey crossing borders and pushing boundaries.

You'll hear some Turkish, Indian, Ethiopian, Lebanese, Indonesian, Swedish stuff and a few 60s-70s american soul and jazz avant-garde."

This Week's Free Lab Radio Guest Mix - Time to psych.

  Time to psych. The Dandelion Times is a radio experience guest hosted by Sinjin and Julius of UK band The Dandelion Set, for Free Lab Radio this week.            Mixing with "the un-selfconscious freedom of the 70's", a blend of Library music, prog-folk, Krautrock and electronica for 21st Century Beatniks.         Free Lab Radio broadcasts Saturday 11-midnight, repeats Thursday 2am.    Listen on 104.4FM across London or on the RadioPlayer online.

Catch Dandelion's own music here.

1.  Im Staub der Sterne OST- Part Tem 4 Part 2

2.  Peter Thomas -Rocking Computer (ext)

3. William Burroughs - Recalling All Active Agents (EXT)

4. The Pretty Things  - Scene One

5. The Residents  - Guylum Bardot (ext)

6. The Nice- Flower King of Flies

7. The Art Bears - The Bath Of Stars (Ext)

8. Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit (Ext)

9. Tim Perkins - Vienna Pig Race(ext)

10. Brainticket - A Place In The Sun (ext)

11. The Stepkids - Shadows on Behalf

12. Bertrand Burgulat - Aux Cyclades Electroniques

13. Broadcast - In Here The World Begins

14.The Dandelion Set- Cosmic Revariants

This Week's Free Lab Radio - Freedom Fry HiFI

11-midnight on Resonance104.4FM.

Tonight's bespoke mix for Free Lab Radio comes all the way from USA. Originally a Dubliner, now resident in Philly, collector and recorded sound enthusiast, Freedom Fry HiFi is chasing the crackle. From home burnt music to acetates and 78" vinyl, he plays world and 60's electronic compositions, as well as home recordings. Catch more of his shows on the internet.

In this age of quickly generated, pumped up digital files, it's refreshing to have someone willing to freak out on the dancefloor to more distant sounds. There's an undeniable fidelity in these obscure recordings, a pleasure to hear.

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 Mama Didn't Lie - unknown singers taken from vocal booth recording

Singkil -Bayanihan Philippine dance company

Leiyla and the poet - Halim El- Dabh

Hog Bot Song Chunt - Thai group

Poppies - Buffy St.Marie

Lament of a satellite/ Trip to the moon - Margret Brill

Khmer loeu - Phleng Kar ensemble

Take off (for metric transperformer) - John Pfeiffer

El hum hum - Julio Erazo y su conjunto

Korea memorial song -Oglala singers

Don't make me over - unknown singer, camp akiba 1978

Stemning - Egil Storbekken

Gogov Gogov -Tatiana Makharadze and Georgi Bugadze

the snow is dancing (Debussy) - Ruth White

Composition for viola, electric keyboard and percussion - Entourage

Ne beh ah son (harp) - unknown performer recorded in Belize by David Blair Stiffler
Star Engine (excerpt) - Douglas Leedy

Static Gallery at Curfew Tower - Free Lab Radio on Resonance104.4fm

On Saturday night 11-midnight we begin a new season of Free Lab Radio nights with a composite of interviews and music from Bill Drummond's Curfew Tower (Country Antrim, N.Ireland) at a point when Static Gallery (Liverpool) were running the residencies. The Gallery put all the artwork they found hanging on walls from years and years of residencies at the Tower, into the dungeon, and instead put singers and artists in rooms with a Tascam 4 track recorder.

 The results of these unique residencies were sold in limited edition vinyl on Ebay by Liverpool based record label PRODUCT Records (Static's comment on the commercial nature of the art commissions) and a the Tower opened with performances by participants, including a piece with Clinic and another with Bill Drummond on bagpipes.



In this show we chat to Static Gallery's Paul Sullivan, performer Jinx Lennon and chef-for-the-night artist Tracey Moberly. Tracks are, in this order:
Harbinger - Paul Sullivan
Get the Tension Out - Jinx Lennon (Beetroot Spikey Head Face Observatory)
A Curfew Tower for Bill Morrison - Ex-Easter Island Head
Curfew Tower in Spring - CLINIC

Many thanks to Void Derry and the Northern Island Tourist Board for making this show possible.