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.

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. 

Listen on air in London on 104.4FM or online elsewhere with this handy Radioplayer. 
 

This Week's Free Lab Radio - East Asian Electronica with Fari B

Wang Ningde (b.1972, China), Some Days No. 3, 2002, photograph

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
Neruda

This Saturday night we sample electronica tracks from and evoking East Asia.

With Free Lab Radio host Fari B.

Going out 11-midnight GMT on 104.4FM if you are one of London's 7 million Londoners, or online elsewhere, use this handy Radioplayer. 

 Repeats Thursday 2am.

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Sexy Mother Fakir Mix - This Week's Free Lab Radio on @resonancefm

From Thessalonki, Greece come DISCOTECA INTERNACIONAL who are PALE PENGUIN and 246DESIGN. Although the playlist sounds like a load of musical buzz-genres repeated after a dozen other labels have made similar moves towards retrobilia, in fact Discoteca Internacional's choices are subtle and better blended than most. Old is Gold- then for the mixers it should be: Seasoned is Pleasing.

Such good sounds! Another thing in their favour it would seem is that the duo behind the name are older and more experienced. When it comes to selection, if the maxim for the content is

Tonight on Free Lab Radio SEXY MOTHER FAKIR MIX from 11-midnight on arts-music radio station Resonance104.4FM

"Blending music and influences from the five continents the event will take place in selected Clubs/Bars/Venues worlwide. Quality and distinct design, free compilation CDs, awesome posters and flyers, Afro-Beat, Afro-Funk, Boogaloo, Carribbean calypso, Pakistani Pop, Indian Vibes, Cumbia, Bossa Nova, Nu-tango, Tijuana Electronica and many more sounds for the body and mind pleasure...."

Also DISCOTECA INTERNATIONAL have just launched a new label called SHANGO RECORDS with plans to release high quality Afrotropical, Indian-Vibes, Arab-Tek, Ghetto-Cumbia electronic stuff for the dancefloor....first releases are in the pipeline....
soundcloud.com/shango-records

This Week's Free Lab Radio - Bollywood Times

Bollywood Times

How cinema has shaped the musical landscape of India cannot be overestimated. The unrequited love of devotee to the divine gives over to more earthly romance.

Broadcasts UK time 11-midnight Saturday 14th March, repeats Thursday 2am - listen on 104.4FM across London or online elswhere
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This Week's Free Lab Radio - Electro Posé.

Tonight! The French 'music diffuser', normally 'broadcasting' online since 2013, has had their station go offline this month. The beauty of on demand though means the mixes are online for years afterwards.

Tonight one hour of "Deep, Deep/House, Tech/House, Chill, Minimal. Pop/electro" from France mixed by Electro Posé. His mixes are characterised by a love of fuzzing up the sound only to make it clear again once your mind has wandered. These mixes are made for internet listening, while we type, on computer speakers.
>Check out his mixes here.

Free Lab Radio broadcasts Saturday nights 11-midnight repeats Thursdays 2-3am on arts-music radio station Resonance104.4FM.

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This Week's #FreeLabRadio - Jellica Chip Tunes

An hour of dancey wobble tracks made using cold computers and consoles by Jellica, with that demo-scene style that defines this kind of chip-tune music. A peer of artist Chris Weaver's since the mid 90s, Jellica joined a C64 demo group and started making C64 music that can only be played back on modified hardware that he doesn’t even own. Such scene. Picture Raquel Meyers - made using an old Commodore64.

Jellica Chipmusic 8bit Resonance FM mixtape Some dancey, funky, weird and cheesy music made using old computers and consoles.

Jellica Chipmusic 8bit Resonance FM mixtape

Some dancey, funky, weird and cheesy music made using old computers and consoles.

PLAYLIST

PETSCII snake art by Raquel Meyers

01 Stu - Atari Underground Chiptune Resistance (Atari ST

02 AY Riders - Madonna - Hung Up (ZX Spectrum)

03 Fanta - Fanta In Space (Commodore 64)

04 Fitts For Fight - Fuck Off And Die (Atari ST)

05 Glenn Rune Gallefoss - Huffa Meg (Commodore 64)

06 Mister Beep - Digital World (ZX Spectrum)

07 Jammer - Not A Jazz (Commodore 64)

08 Logicbomb - Older Girls (Nintendo Gameboy)

09 Tim Follin - Ghouls n Ghosts level 1 (Commodore 64)

10 Rico Z - Interplanetary Lover (Some PC tracker?)

11 gwEm - Disco Snax (Atari ST)

12 Joss Manley - Sosmix (Commodore 64)

13 Bodenstandig 2000 - In Rock 16 Bit (Some PC tracker?)

14 Lo-Bat - Spoiler In My Neck (Nintendo Gameboy)

15 Uoki-Toki - Out Of Space (Nintendo Gameboy)

16 Raveguru - ASSID (Commodore 64)