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Tonight a long guest mix by Jad Atoui, with his Black Sea Series but not before we sample everything from choral arrangements of Hindi traditional songs to 'experimental' dance tracks made in Romford, Essex. Featured are the Calgary Boys Choir, Vessels - remixing Satteliti, Persian Dubplates and the Juice Vocal Ensemble on the label Non-Classical. Tweet us with the hashtag #FreeLabRadio www.freelabradio.blogspot.com NB - there's a 20 second breather fade at 15'45".

Black Sea Series - Tonight's Free Lab Radio Show

11-midnight 104.4FM in London, on HERE online

Tonight's show is a mini-mix by Fari Bradley and a 35 minute guest piece by Jad Atoui, whose soundscape work occasionally crosses over into music.

Tracks tonight are from Persian Dubplates (UK/Iran), Satelliti (Italy) remixed by Vessels from Leeds, Non-Classical's Juice Vocal Ensemble (UK) and the Calgary Boy's Choir (Canada) singing a reworking of an Indian bhajan.  
::Jad Atoui::  Born in Lebanon, 1993 Jad Atoui is based in NY, where he produces music and experiments with electronic sounds. Jad has been composing audio pieces since 2008. Using his electronic gear, he creates a sound that fits somewhere between ambient, soundscape, garage  and glitch and hashis work has featured in the magnificent Pompidou Center (2012, Paris).
As a performer Jad Atoui has played with renowned artists like John Zorn, Igorrr, Ikue Morie, One man Nation, Tarek Atoui, Erik Friedlander and C-drick Kirdec. 

:: Black Sea Series:: 

 Black Sea Series is a fusion of influences from Beirut of new experiences lived in New York. 
The altered field recordings have been collected since 2011, and they express raw unedited sounds as they appear in nature, focusing on this disruption of perception related to the world surrounding us. The sonic feel in this body of work shifts from oriental to almost purely electronic, harsh yet hypnotizing sounds, which reveals the journey of life blooming, of a change, a voyage.

Purple Hendrix Homage in London

After holding a press confernce in Leytonstone (?!) Prince have two secret gigs last night in Camden's Electric Ballroom, seemingly in key with his stunning new hair.
The three members of 3rd Eye Girl appealed to the audience not to use their devices to record or take photos during the performance. "Friend to friend, we want to ask you one favour: spend the night with us, not behind your phones or cameras."

"Whether it was the increased security, the very real threat of being sued or simply people abiding to his wishes, the lack of technology being thrust into the air made the experience feel all the more timeless." Digital Spy

The band have expressed an interest in playing small venues and possibly Glastonbury, if people continue to enjoy what they're doing, to

series of shows promoting 'Plectrumelectrum', the first album by 3rdeyegirl – his new band.
Read more at http://www.nme.com/news/prince/75291#1zF5gUOSTVB7Bt8y.99

promote his first album with the band Plectrumelectrum, and new tracks like Pretzelbodylogic, which came out unannounced online last week. Why London, why now? Earlier last year we posted about Prince's new formation with the 3rdEyeGirl, but there was not so much an inkling as to the Jimi Hendrix tribute, that seems to be coming out in not just his look and sound, but his choice of venues.

Read more about the gig at NME or the Telegraph review HERE

listen to ‘Listen to Prince's new band @3RDEYEGIRL chat about working with the man himself on his new album 'Plectrum Electrum' ’ on Audioboo

Paul Noble - Free Lab Radio Podcast

Paul Noble. Free Lab Radio Mix. by Fari on Mixcloud

Free Lab Radio broadcasting 11-midnight, Saturday nights on Resonance104.4FM. Fari Bradley’s guest is London-based Paul Noble, an active DJ, radio producer, music consultant and producer. He’s worked on Monocle 24, The White Cube, The Observer, The Green Man Festival and dance floors around the world. His directive tonight is to dig into the depths of his music collection for the truly bizarre.

"Zoukesque" Tonight's Free Lab Radio Show, 11-midnight

Dj Umb's Release Zoukesque II

11-midnight on 104.4FM we broadcast an hour's mix Digital-Zouk by conceptual DJ "DJ Umb" provides an hour of Zoukesque music for Free Lab Radio this week.

The Birmingham producer describes the mix like this:

"As usual, recorded live on semi-ancient machinery: Pioneer CDJ’s 1000 MK2 and Pioneer DJM 600 – 1st cut/ live recording."

Mastered by JSTJR, "Zouk Bass" is a term coined by Portugal's Buraka som Sistema during their infamous Boiler Room session in Feb 2013 to describe updated club sounds of an Angolan dance genre called "Tarraxinha" or "Tarraxo".

See him in action in Roskilde in this rare video below. Listen in on 104.4FM across London, or on this radio player HERE

#Grammys - Most Titanic 80s Synth Jam Ever on Video

Herbie Hancock - Yamaha KX1, Thomas Dolby & Stevie Wonder - Kurzweil 50, Howard Jones - Yamaha KX5.

After seeing some kind of Buffy musical, and the private parts of a 'lady' paraded on the awards this year, we're forced to think back to performances that have contributed to making music the innovative vehicle of expression of human excellence that it can be. Herbie Hancock, Thomas Dolby, Howard Jones and Stevie Wonder all show off together at the Grammy awards 1885, a moment that went down in history for the synthesizer. They play a kind of intense medley of all their own hits and jump from their own onto one another's keyboards (Wonder) atop a three-tiered riser, surrounded by at least fifteen keyboards. The collaboration was made possible with the posting of tapes between performers in preparation for the event.

Thanks to Rolling Stone Magazine for highlighting the event. A small dent in the mountain of hyper sexuality, clothes and exploitation that characterises music as 'entertainment' today.

"You're a DJ? Great. Get on Board" Tedious Space Race Earner Begins

"The First Black African DJ"

And of course the arts play a part in the attempt to make space alluring. After being mind-numbingly persuaded that you can make it back to earth from the edge of the atmosphere with nothing more than a cursory knowledge of Russian and pod controls with Gravity, the race is on to see who owns the moon (China wants to mine it we heard late last year), and Virgin is taking bookings for your "bored of life" flights into space as Virgin Galactic. So, if you're one of many who find it hard to sleep at night, the noise of regular holiday space flights taking off is soon going to be so loud you'd be awake anyway. Lord knows London Airport makes enough of a racket already. And so what if a rocket produces as much pollution as 80 transatlantic flights altogether? There's money to be made, and it's a new earner!

USA's fave action heroine filming the illusion safely on earth

Bullock hangs in space in comfy undies

Not a joke. Mars One is a Dutch corp trying to win contracts on Mars for "homes"

Well it's one way to deal with the much avoided issue of over population on earth. Latest news from BBC, Guardian and the like highlights that "a 25-year-old DJ from a South African township is set to become the first black African to go into space". And this depserate headline is apparently more newsworthy than the weird competition run last year by a corporation attempting to get people to accept one way (yes, one way) tickets to go and live another planet (Mars this time) in a settlement as part of their "experiment". What's that you say? Get Out clause? There's isn't one, now get in line guinea pig! No wonder this stupid idea of theirs didn't take off. Even though reportedly 850 Irish applied via Youtube to end their lives in what will no doubt be a terrible vacuum.

A DJ, rebranded as hero

Official poster for a horrible idea, where Gaga is Cruella and we are the new, pelted dalmations

As a result power-hungry corps like NASA are back to sexing up the idea of space travel as tourism, merely as a stepping stone towards getting us to sign our lives away in these entirely lethal atmospheres, just so they can market us every single part of our existence. Because in space even the air you breath costs you money. As does taking a walk and taking a piss. But don't worry! Even the alien Lady Gaga has been preparing to return to her natural habitat for a very special "first" - the first Virgin-sponsored pop concert in space! As if setting it out there would make it any better. And how has the queen of vapid drama been preparing? By doing special vocal
classes for weightless singing. How ground breaking. It would be far more dramatic, historically ground breaking if she set up an orphanage for some of Afghanistan's million orphans, complete with a nature reserve and an aquarium and a recording studio and staffed it with desperate interns from the fashion and music industry and actually paid them to work and blog from the opium centre of the world with the promise that after five years, they could all take their own goody bag complete with one orphan home.

So here in this interview the sweetly naive 23 year old DJ Mandla Maseko describes winning the one hour orbital trip as better than getting any of the jobs he's been going to interviews for and failing at. He says his mother predicted him winning a chance to become the Space Race's puppet black African DJ by telling him "don't worry something bigger will come your way" each time he was rejected. And what does his music sound like? Well, the article doesn't bother. It's not really about him and his work though is it? In case he's now happy to renounce any Djing he's done in the past, for which there seems to be no record, not even on his twitter feed, and tell the world "I can get a job as an astronaut now"!

Too right mate, space is open for business.