This Week's Free Lab Radio - Micro-House, a History

Microhouse, a particular blend of house music with minimal techno, originates from the ’80s and ’90s dance scenes of certain cities, including believe it or not ones around Yorkshire, UK.

Microhouse became popular in the early 2000s with its minimalist take on house music, using short samples to replace drum machines with clicks, static, or everyday noises.

Yorkshire bleeps and bass, one of its mainstays, was a short-lived and very localised musical movement centred on the northern English cities of Bradford & Leeds in West Yorkshire and Sheffield in South Yorkshire in 1989-1991. The sound was characterized by harsh minimalism with elements of fink music, enormous sub-bass and future sounds described as electronic bleeps or other such as allowed by then new technologies.

The first record of the genre is generally agreed to be «The Theme» by Bradford Unique in 1989, although Leeds outfit LFO`s «LFO» was being played on white label at the Warehouse in Leeds for several months before being released on Sheffield`s Warp Records in 1990. The label then released the club anthem «Testone» by Sweet Exorcist, recorded with Richard Kirk of Sheffield and avant-garde experimentalists Cabaret Voltaire.

Mix by Fari B.
Broadcasts Saturday 26th March 11-midnight GMT, (3-4am GST).
Repeats Tuesday 4am GMT, 8am GST.
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THIS WEEK'S FREE LAB RADIO - WISHBONE, JOE PETERSEN

SATURDAY 19th March

Sampling tracks made by teens, for example: Joe Petersen is a 17 year old producer from New Orleans signed to Donky Pitch. Influenced by his parents; respected Jazz musicians, we sample Petersen's output so far. Influences are American folk, Cuban rhythms, hardcore and electronic music, with numerous self released mix tapes of original material, he has also released on Black Link Sound.

This six track EP on cassette and digital download is rather wild, a melding of sounds and genres; 'squashed hip hop' and dance floor tracks fuse together with synth melodies, guitars orchestral drones, and dance floor tracks create a 'restless energy' that gives the music a sound that is rather unique.

Tracklist

01 Wishbone

02 Considerate

03 A Lesson Before Dying

04 Brothers

05 Dixie Boy

06 Assault And Battery

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

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

Podcasts -  www.mixcloud.com/fari
 

This Week's Free Lab Radio - Tribal Tech House

This week we explore Afrikan tribal house tracks being produced so far this decade.

Broadcasts on air,  on digital and online on Resonance104.4FM
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 little sister station Resonance Extra, broadcasting on digital and online in Brighton, UK.

Podcasts -  www.mixcloud.com/fari

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