Free Lab Radio Podcast - Disquiet, Afternoon Music for Day or Night

This week: 'afternoon music' that can be listened to at any time: 21 tracks by 13 artists mixed by guest producer Marc Weidenbaum who founded and moderates the music community Disquiet Junto since 2012.

This seasoned selector and music reviewer put thought into this mix, as he is familiar with the Resonance104.4FM audience and has unfathomable archives, created by himself, at his disposal.

"This is mix of afternoon music that can be listened to at any time of the day — the work played here, 21 tracks in all by 13 artists, is generally ambient and electronic in nature, and yet it’s fairly rhythmic at the same time, some of the tracks more explicitly so than others. There are fractal algorithms from Erika Nesse, and refrigerator drones by Nystada. There’s elegantly layered sameness by Marcus Fischer and fourth-world blues by Yasuo Akai. Several of the recordings heard here are drawn from the music community called the Disquiet Junto, which I’ve moderated since 2012. The hour starts off with some brief dank techno miniatures by Vladimir Conch. Conch’s pieces are so brief, between 23 and 38 seconds each, that I’ve chosen to repeat a few of them, turning the five short original tracks into a suite of nine that begins where it ends."

dɪsˈkwʌɪət/

noun

noun: disquiet; plural noun: disquiets

1. 1.

   a feeling of worry or unease.

   
   

   "public disquiet about animal testing"

   
   

   synonyms:

   unease, uneasiness, worry, anxiety, anxiousness, distress, concern; More unrest, disquietude, inquietude; perturbation, consternation, upset, malaise; alarm, anguish, fear, fright, dread, panic, angst; nervousness, agitation, restlessness, fretfulness, jitteriness; foreboding, trepidation "there has been grave disquiet about the state of the prisons"

   antonyms:

   calm

Broadcasts Times: 

On air on 104.4FM across London, online and on digital.

Saturdays 11-midnight UK time, (2-3am GST Gulf Standard Time)

Repeats Tuesday 4am UK time (7am GST)

On digital across Brighton and online:

The following Friday 19:30-20:30 UK time (10:30-11.30pm GST) on Resonance Extra

Podcasts: 

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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
 

New Podcast - East Asia Go!

Free Lab Radio - East Asia, Go! by Fari B

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, including Mongolia and Taiwan.

A Free Lab Radio mix hosted by 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.
http://freelabradio.blogspot.com and www.resonancefm.com

xxxxMixxx - New Podcast Up #FreeLabRadio

Free Lab Radio - xxxxMixxx by Fari 

Featuring The Impossible Girl, Alesia, Filet Mignon, Vesper Town, G. Jones, Grace Jones, De Hofnar and Sam Feldt, Haywyre, Brigitte Fontaine, Sander van Doorn and more. First broadcast in July 2014 on UK's art-music radio station Resonance104.4FM. 

MIA Latest Video - 3d Gun Prints, Drones and 1984

World's Smallest Drone, So Far The Bugbot Nano

And the video was banned, MIA's label wouldn't upload it. But before we get too excited, MIA is just doing what she does best, hunting out what's cool and edgy in subcultures so that she can play off that. Parrots, neon, dogs, monkeys, MIA and the Party Squad make a tropical zoo out of estate life. The video  here - aside from the musical reference below; Shampoo Trouble - an Orwellian Dystopia in which we are monitored from the sky and online, and kids printing guns are either prepping for war or to burn out in schemes of their own doing.

 Much like the Shampoo rebels below thrown
out of the O Bar last century (the bar's still standing by the way) these kids are spirited, the best bit is the girls in burqas with the faces of other women printed on them, many of the kids are twins (a reference to the increased use of fertility drugs or cloning). What's weird is not the retro nature of the video, so many producers are into retro right now (check Casiokids) or the retro beat (TIME magazine mistakenly call it dubstep-inspired, but really it's a mash up of styles and works well that way) it's the way the kids behave, there are no adults present (aside from Mamma-MIA) plus the fact that she uses auto-tune and no one minds. These kids don't rate each other on their guns, the DIY guns look like toys, and they hang out in prison regulation sweatpants under the UFO-like drones. Nevermind that drones now can be as small as a bug.

"This sounds like science fiction, but to some it's not so far fetched..."
This isn't what we expected to hearing about MIA right now. For example, how's she managing that   $16.6 million lawsuit from the NFL for flipping the bird at the Superbowl?

About Time - Gary Newman Back in the Spotlight with Superb Retro Video

Logan Owlbeemoth's video for this song by Numan features effects by artist/musician Omebi Velouria. Superbly, this video comes with an explanation of how it was made, the nod to the Numan's roots in the analogue age: it was made with a Tachyons + video glitch synth effected live via a HI-8 camera and a CRT television "to create triply, blurry, VHS-style images of Gary Numan as he sings the song." No computer-based post-production was used at all. Fab!
Numan's recent-ish album - his 17th studio album -, Splinter (Songs From A Broken Mind) released worldwide in October 2013. It was his first album to reach UK Top 20, since the early 1980s. Numan announced that there will be a special one-off live show in London in his birthplace of Hammersmith, November 2014 at the Hammersmith Apollo. Where has been all this time? In USA with his family, he married a member of his fan club from Sidcup and they named their seocnd daughter Persia. Sounds right! If you're only a teenager now or not from UK you might not have heard of him, he was really just a shy kid with a lot of spots who became known for wearing a lot of white makeup (only administered to cover said spots apparently) and for the excellent song and what was to become his trademark almost robotic performance below - ARE FRIENDS ELECTRIC?

#FreeLabRadio Podcast - Deep White Sound

Free Lab Radio - Deep White Sound by Fari

deepwhitesound (DWS) an international online label of free experimental music, sent us the best and the breadth of their collective works for this week's show.

DWS promotes more challenging work available for free download than most sites at the moment. A community of artists working at the fringe of art, technology and society - their practices range from interdisciplinary work in new media, installation and performance to generative and web-based mediums that "expand the possibilities of how sound-based art is experienced, distributed and discussed." This way they do this is not just apparent in the audio, but many works are accompanied by imagery or feature as part of longer listening experiences, or are live takes from performances.

DWS mission statement: Female, queer and ethnic minority experimental artists comprise a woefully under-represented and under-supported demographic and thus are also of particular interest to DWS. That stated, DWS seeks and supports work from all people, everywhere, who wish to broaden the scope of what is possible.

Thanks to DB Amorin for the selection. Amorin is founder of deepwhitesound, born in Honolulu, HI USA and currently lived in Portland, OR USA. An experimental artist himself he supports a small, but evergrowing international community and, in an age when many working with digital distribution fight for copyrights Amorin works to "propagate the ideology that art should be free to access and share". 

He currently works for ProjectGrow, an art studio and urban farm for adults with developmental disabilities and The Creative Music Guild, an all-volunteer non-profit organization facilitating creatively experimental performance in Portland, OR. As a visual and sound artist, his work typically deals with perception, identity and representation, using cheap reproduction methods and DIY techniques to explore malfunction and abstraction in form. For information visit www.dbamorin.com

Playlist 

Pregnant Spore (Chicago, IL USA) is the noise/audio collage/electronics project of Justin Marc Lloyd.

Yacob (Oakland, CA USA) is the solo project of punk / noise musician and multi-instrumentalist Jacob McCann.

Talk Midway (New York, NY USA) is the tape-loop / ambient project of musician Patrick Nylen.

Dreamboat Crusaderz (New York, NY USA) is the vocal loop project of queer composer Jesse

Matthias Boss (Biel, Switzerland) is an improvisational violin and viola player.

Marcello Magliocchi (Italy) is a percussionist using non-traditional objects and surfaces, such as bronze sound sculptures.

Lomz (Belgrade, Serbia) is the solo electronic project of Vukasin Stancevic utilizing digital processing and handmade instruments.

Lezet (Pozega, Serbia) is a one-man experimental music project ranging from processed piano to purely electronic compositions.

Idol Eyes (Phoeniz, AZ USA) is the experimental sonic awareness project of Andrew Craze.

Tomas Tello (Lima, Peru) is a DIY electronic performer and composer utilizing cassettes, radios and altered electronic devices.

New Fast (Oakland, CA USA) is a solo ambient / drone / r&b / tape music influenced project.

George Christian (Bahia, Brazil) is a self-taught guitarist and composer of works that push the boundaries of form and textures.

Colon Apostrophe Semicolon is a DIY sound artist experimenting in home-recorded loops for tape and electronics.

City Dragon (Paris, France) is the solo electronic noise project of Max Kaario.

Andrew and the TV Cowboys (Boston, MA USA) is the solo home recording project of Andrew Cosentino using field recordings and live instrumentations.

DAITSE (Antwerp, Belgium) is the moniker of self-taught pianist and generative sound artist Pieter Van de Walle.

Portland Bike Ensemble (Portland OR USA) is a decade-old loose collective of improvisational musicians using their bicycles as instruments.

Consumer (Portland, OR USA) is the moniker of Matt Palenske who creates abrasive, lo-fi, improvisational beats using his voice and DIY electronics.

Mason Butler (Minneapolis, MN USA) is a multi-instrumentalist and all-over experimental musician using found sound, electronics, lo-fi recording and non-traditional media for musical exploration.

The Music Video and Art

Labor45 - Electronic Toys

We're loving German experimental artists Labor45, who collaborate here with Spenza to create this u:ber video to Take Me To Your Leader. As nostalgically 80s and so German as it is, flashing influences of the visual aesthetic of Kraftwerk and sounding like something you couldn't quite put in a box. Following is their video and a little about them but first here are some thoughts their video has raised:

With new media art moving in a wider, yet more confluent direction and with viewing platforms diversifying all the time, the rise of MTV in the late 80s and capitalists like Lady Gaga who claim to create "art" in their music and videos has done little to influence the genre. Instead the area in which video art and the music video have blurred is one which was touched by enduring acts such as Kraftwerk and in the art world, and by the work of Nam June Paik of Fluxus in the art world who was part of a movement challenging conventions of art and music in public space. Didn't John Cage say that one way to write music was to study Duchamp? While the music video generally tends to allude to or add to the narrative, it can also transpose a music video from the realm of 'music' to 'art', and vice versa while contributing to a growing pool of work that celebrates and aesthetic driven by current trends in technology (going right back to Channel 4's The Chart Show, 1986 where videos were linked by their then state of the art computer graphics).

As the conventions of viewing video art change, moving out of the gallery online to anywhere one can fix a screen (recent 'public art' projects for London regeneration saw our own video streamed on loop in a run down estate in North London), the language of video art also changes. Yet is has never quite broken away from convention or explored the possible enough. Only new developments in technology and the occasionally brilliant directive (see Michel Gondry's video for Bjork's Declare Independence - which we post on here some years ago, who also plan to screen their new 40 minute 3D film in museums rather than any other kind of venue) push the medium of music video into the realm of art. Still, it is a blurred line that is as yet unexplored in any conclusive manner.

Labor45 are Barbara Herold, Katrin Petroschkat, both living in Munich . Their work is often about music, the reception and production of as well as where new date formats and digital advancements are heading:
"LABOR 45 is about artistic research on today's technical features and aims to find new possibilities for usage and expression from within the medium."

Spenza on the other hand are interested in sound, with limited but early work in visuals seemingly led by algorhythmic pulsing and basic visual programme coding, going back to 2010: