New #FreeLabRadio Podcast - Cheh, Beirut

A bespoke mix for Free Lab Radio by Cheh with tracks by Overshift, Ahmet Mecnun, Ahmet Mecnun, Aney F, Exander, Luis Mora, Giacomo De Falco and Hassio (col), Luca Lento and Nukem. Chech favours Techno and some of its derivatives.

 Abdalla Chahine a DJ and producer from Beirut, recently returned to Beirut's music scene after time in Abu Dhabi. He cites his influences as Richie Hawtin, Kruder and Dorfmeister and Trentmoller, Ricardo Villalobos and Steve Lawler amongst others. Cheh performs at Minimal Effort alongside other breakthrough DJs. In 2011, he released on the Lebanese label, VL Records.

Broadcast Times:

On 104.4FM + digital radio across London:
Saturdays 11-midnight UK time (3am GST)
Repeats Tuesdays 4am UK time (8am GST)

Online as above:
http://radioplayer.resonancefm.com/co...

Also on digital in Brighton, and online on Resonance Extra, Fridays 19:30-20:30 UK time
http://radioplayerhosting.com/station...

www.mixcloud.com/Fari

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..."

Free Lab Radio broadcasts weekly on air, DAB (digital radio) and analogue on 104.4fm radio sets in London. We're also on digital and online in Brighton via our smaller sister station Resonance Extra.

Free Lab broadcasts on 104.4fm from 11-midnight GMT, Saturday nights to half a million core listeners across London on air and now digital radio, online elsewhere. The Resonance104.4fm show repeats Tuesdays 4am GMT (8am GST). 

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www.mixcloud.com/fari 

This Week's Free Lab Radio - Love Songs from Lebanon 1980s

DJ Umb from Birmingham, calls himself a "Conceptual" DJ". This particular playlist, features gems from 1980's heyday of Lebanese pop and love ballad, and brings Arabic poetry and melody to more Western classical and European and American forms.

"You do not have to understand the Arabic language to fall in love with a lot of these tunes! Indeed, the Arabic Voice and its music is some of the most beautiful & heart-breaking in the whole world, it’s just that many of you don’t know it, just yet!" Dj Umb


All his mixes are made on LIVE/1Cut on Pioneer 1000's MKII CDJ's & a DJM 600 mixer. The mix also featured in the Guardian Playlist: Middle Eastern and North African section.

Free Lab Radio, experiments in dance music, broadcasts Saturday 11-midnight, repeats Tuesday 4am GMT.  Twitter: #FreeLabRadio
 

This Week's Free Lab Radio - DJ Abaky UAE/ Lebanon

Lebanese DJ Abaky (Nader Abaky) plays live on a boat in Dubai. 


The United Arab Emirates-based DJ is profoundly engaged with progressive house music. 

Visit facebook.com/FreeLabRadio for more information. [Repeated Thursday 2am GMT.] 

https://www.facebook.com/DJABAKY 

Listen in on Resonance104.4FM if in London or via Radioplayer elsewhere.
 

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.

Win Two Tickets to Yasmine Hamdan, London This Week!

Singer Yasmine Hamdan has been nurturing her solo career since disbanding her popular Lebanese duo act Soap Kills, and have made her a recognised force for experimental pop not just in the Arab-speaking world, but beyond.

Hamdan is due to perform at Bush Hall, London this Thursday 14th October 2013. To win yourself two tickets read on!

One iteration of her solo career has been Y.A.S. with Mirwais (of 80s French electronic new wave band Taxi Girl, and producer/co-wroter of several Madonna albums). HAmdan then began working Marc Collin (Nouvelle Vague (band)) writing and producing her self-titled solo debut album, which came out in France and Lebanon in 2012 on Kwaidan Records), and is released internationally (in a revised version with five new tracks) in 2013 by Crammed Discs under the title Ya Nass.
To witness the pop, folk and electronic arrangements with melodies and lyrics inspired by various Middle-Eastern traditions, write in to us and claim your tickets by answering this question:

What was the first album released by Soapkills in 1999 called? 
Answers to info at resonancefm dot com - we'll pick one within 12 hours!

Hamdan is due to appear in Jim Jarmusch's forthcoming film, and is currently writing and recording an original soundtrack for the theatre production Rituel Pour une Métamorphose by Syrian playwright Saadallah Wannous.

Tonight's Free Lab Radio: El Iqaa - نشر

Remains in the Medium of Time
[photo/installation, 2010 -ongoing]

Detroit-Beirut based artist and musician Joe Namy aka El Iqaa explores his Lebanese identity through sound, archive and the word. For this Saturday's Free Lab Radio Show we journey with him on a two album mix, involving some very short snippets of sound that are an audible connection between his magpie-style practice of picking up sounds around him, and his digital work as a music producer. Catch it on air from 11pm-midnight, details below.  Namy's audio work is interesting to us because in his hands, the music plundered becomes a tool for a sonic exploration, ResonanceFM being the representative home of sonic exploration in the UK. WE met Namy at Art Dubai, and interviewed him for our radio project Eavesdropper/ Falgoosh, but tonight the words are only embedded within the sounds.

  Part of Namy's Cazzette Coverz collection✧

#Najwa Karam #Ya Habayeb #1989 #label: relax

 So how does Namy present these explorations? As El Iqaa, Joe Namy works with sampled sounds, documentary / music videos and photography to investigate aspects of identity, memory, power and currents encoded in music. He says his ideas 'often revolve around the space between two technics turntables' - between fading and amplifying.  Namy has produced two albums under the moniker El Iqaa, 'Detroit Beirut' (2007) and 'Circulate'
نشر(2011. Namy explores these issues through quotes and cuts from specific definitive samples (ranging from Abdel Halim Hafez to Pierre Boulez, Amiri Baraka to Trisha Donnelly + much more). The splices in these albums are mixed with original recorded sounds to create a dialogue between the past and the future, in hopes of trying to make sense of the present, and grapple with issues around language and translation, memory, movement, electricity ( as an energy resource) and appropriation.

Namy also hosts a sporadically frequent radio program Electric Kahraba on artonair.org.  You can check more of his sounds and other exploratory projects, often exploring the musical history of his roots, at www.olivetones.com
To listen tune into 104.4FM on your transistor dial if you're one of London's millions of inhabitants, or listen online www.resonancefm.com

☖⚆⚇...≳≲...BEIRU`TRONICA....≳≲...⚆⚇☖

Sampling tracks from our forthcoming live set launching Share Beirut at the Radio Beirut Cafe.

LISTEN IN! 

For a longer set we steam live from 7-9pm BST (9-11pm local time) Fri 5th Oct. on Radio Beirut.

As usual tonight's is an eclectic set, with Middle Eastern references and parallels. There's also some Grim Skunk, Delta 5 and other joys in there.

By the way...did you know that everyone in Lebanon has a cat?

Tonight's Free Lab Radio - 11-1am on 104.4FM

An hour of lo-bit sound in music. Here's a track by Missill an producer who features tonight and one of the few women promoting lo-fi tetris music. We're putting up 'Forward', though it's not snaffu, for all the people of Tunisia, Lebanon, Egypt and Iran today.



From midnight follows an exclusive unreleased live recordings from the 2004 "Feedback: Order From Noise" tour curated by Knut Aufermann, followed by a live electro-acoustic piece by Oscillatorial Binnage. The piece is centred around the use highly amplified springs, captured magnetically and acoustically, and is to be premiered at Cafe Oto on the 22nd of February