Fairly vocal heavy on the Independent Music Podcast this week, with exceptional cuts of Trap, Dancehall and Hiphop colliding against free and future jazz, psych, modern classical, proto punk and all sorts of good stuff.
A packed show this week takes us through African-influenced electronics to legendary Ethiopians, to hard rock and through digital dancehall. It's a standard Independent Music Podcast episode - loads of varied, wonderful tunes, and plenty of questionable chatter
Anthony's back this week and what does he have for you? Oh yeah, a 13-minute long slab of Japanese psych from the mesmerising Qujaku. If you get through that opening we've got gifts galore, including a stunning new concept record from Australia's Tamil Rogeon, 19th century piano music from Latvia, mclusky and Future of the Left frontman Falko's latest as Christian Fitness, Orlando Julius and Gaslamp Killer pals Heliocentrics, ex-Pan Sonic member I-LP-O in Dub, delicate guitar music from Dean McP...
Gareth is on his own this week, but it's the usual ten tracks from across the musical spectrum. We have new ones from Tomaga, Jeremiah Jae, Kutiman, Emanative, and plenty of new house, French chanson, jazz and all sorts.
The last week of the dynamic duo for the next fortnight brings a whole host of new goodies, including a Record Store Day Vanishing Twin release, gospel from the Como Mamas, the latest from the amazing mind of Shit & Shine as well as new slow disco, piano goodness, and dancehall.
We have the usual ten tracks for you this week, and they're absolute stunners. Kicking off with a beaut from Al Lover and Cairo Liberation Front, we also have Gqom Oh! label boss Nan Kolè's solo debut. There are also new ones from Secret Chiefs 3, Russian jazz band Brom, Japanese dub producer Sak Dub I and loads more
So much good music this week that Gareth has tracks in reserve to cope with the fact that both of them picked the immense WaqWaq Kingdom record. Fortunately that means that we get an airing of the new one from podcast favourite Pye Corner Audio. Elsewhere there is Steve Reid Foundation beneficiary Hector Plimmer, Jesca Hoop and loads of other great music.
As we move ever closer to summer, let's kick off this week with some shouty punk from Sweden. Elsewhere we have the usual mix of electronics, hiphop, and general experimentation you'd expect from your weekly dose of exciting independent music.
Simply exquisite sounds coming out this week, kicking off with an absolute banger from Ghana's King Ayisoba. We've also got jazz sounds from London, Japan, and the US alongside contemporary Turkish psych, Tunisian folk and library music. There's loads more to get stuck into as well.
It's almost time for Raw Power Festival - the London festival weekend celebrating the best psych heaviness, space rock, synth craziness, and leftfield electronica. There are lots of podcast favourites this year, and we spend an hour highlighting some of the artists we're most looking forward to, including Faust, Bruxa Maria, Afrirampo, KXP and more. The weekend is 26-29 May and you can buy tickets from https://babayaga.ticketabc.com/promoter/babayaga/
After some hazy sounds last week, we're altogether more upbeat this week. You wouldn't guess so with the opening track from Sax droner Colin Stetson, but with tracks from Miss Red, Moor Mother, Ramson Badbonez, and lost disco cats Teakwood, there's plenty in here to get you going.
Why does Gareth drink skimmed milk? Only the most pertinent questions are getting answered on this week's show. Fortunately we've managed to squeeze in the usual ten tracks of brand new independent goodness, including digidub from Leeds, three different French labels producing exceptional electronic music, UK grown electronics from Not Waving, heavy dubs and a new record from The Comet is Coming
Tapes seem to be the theme this week, whether it's a new release available only on tape from Shevek, Ubek, or Sofia Ozdravovna, or if they are lost tapes of Ahmed Malek pressed to vinyl after 30 years away from the public, there's loads of tape-related sounds this week. We've also got lots of exciting new music from Swedish psych band Flowers Must Die, London's Kelly Lee Owens, and Russian punks Mirrored Lips.
Thanks to everyone sharing last week's show - we got our highest listener figures yet! Hopefully we can follow it up this week, and we're confident you'll find something to love. Whether it's the heavy dubstep electronics of Bristol's Kahn, Saharan sounds of Group Doueh, synth-pop of Design a Wave or Rose Elinor Dougall, or one of the other hits of house, rock, hiphop and dub held within this very tight hour.
We on the move this week, but that doesn't stop us delivering your weekly dose of ten truly astounding pieces of music. From the Indian prog flute experiments of Ramasandiran Somusundaram through to the extreme sampling of Mai Mai Mai, punk from Tough Tits, folk from Meursault and reggae from Strictly Sound, it's your usual mixed bag of goodness
Scottish-infused Philadelphian hiphop kicks us off this week. We have ten tracks exploring Italian library music, soul jazz, Malian folk, and power electronics. We also have a tribute to the late William Onyeabor, who passed away last week.
Our first show of 2017 shows that not all things change with time. Ten tracks of wonderful independent music, from the Bollywood-soaked garage punk of Doctors & Engineers to the experimental electronics of Blanck Mass, stopping off for an exclusive first play from the new Roger Robinson and Disrupt record, new Ty Segall, a new Kiki Hitomi and Dead Fader collaboration and much more.
Our last show of 2016 sees us looking forward and talking about what we're anticipating in 2017. That includes labels who have emerged this year, artists with long-awaited album releases, and albums coming out early in the year that we want to shout about. Thank you for all your support in 2016, see you in 2017
2016 has been a horrible year for all sorts of reasons, but sometimes you do forget that this is the year that we heard some incredible music. Whether it's that random tape from Gainstage back in March, or that Egyptian supergroup the Dwarfs of East Agouza, or whether its the latest from mind-blowing Lewisham grime group The Square, or whether it's one of the other seven tracks we have on this look back at some of our favourites from a year we're all hoping to put to bed soon... Thanks so much f...
We continue our alternative look back at 2016, focusing on some of the artists that have wowed us with live shows throughout the year. It's a diverse bunch, with jazz, grime, hiphop, afrobeat and indie rock amongst the highlights.
As part of our best of 2016 series, we kick off December with Gareth and Anthony discussing and sharing their favourite vinyl purchases from the year just gone. It makes for a somewhat different 'best of the year' show, with records from pre-2016 and a large dose of 12" singles that won't get a look-in elsewhere where LPs reign. It's the usual mix of genres, what else would you expect?
This week Gareth is playing records that are for sale via new IMP-affiliated record store RIYL. It's an hour in familiar territory for podcast regulars, moving seamlessly between heavy riffage rock, through techno, Finnish jazz edits, library music, Gqom and German Christian funk, with new releases from Surgeon, Silkie, The Wharves, and Delia Derbyshire amongst others. RIYL.co.uk
The same ten tracks but squeezed into 50 minutes this week - for some reason there are only two tracks north of five minutes. There's more short, abrasive sounds this time, including the solo project of Mclusky and Future of the Left man Falko under his Christian Fitness moniker, as well as American rockers Pissed Jeans, and Mancunians ILL. There are two batches of Canadian synth-pop with Austra and YlangYlang, as well as Indian nu-disco edits from Breakplus, hiphop from Jeremiah Jae, bass much ...
A surprise new track from The Comet is Coming puts us on the front foot this week. In a week where stuff has truly hit the cooling mechanism in US politics, there are soothing sounds from Germany with LeRoy, from the Maui jungle from Anthony Child AKA Surgeon, and from the USA itself from Marielle V Jakobson. Elsewhere we have Tunisian disco, Italo disco, Colombian samba, and heavy heavy hip hop. Enjoy!
We're mostly between California and Germany this week, with plenty of tracks from artists and labels in either (or both) of those places. The music is typically varied, with abstract hip-hop producer SELA, contemporary afrobeat from the KutiMangoes, Ghanaian gospel from Alogte Oho, and the latest from Brandt Brauer Frick. We also have a decent dose of London artists, including Horrors man Tom Furse, Ninja Tune producer Romare, punk trio Dancehall, and deconstructed dnb producer Pessimist.
After heavy rock of last week, this week sees more in the way of electronic music. All kicking off with the exceptional sounds of Jay Glass Dubs - one of the leaders of the current crop of exciting experimental dancehall artists doing the rounds. Elsewhere, there's a new record to raise money for nightclub Fabric's legal battle here in the UK, the latest compilation of Gqom music from South Africa, and loads more.
Fans of music of a more heavy persuasion will find lots to love this week. From the opening raucousness of Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, through to the explosive riffage of Switzerland's Sudden Infant, there's so much good noisy music. Fans of experimental electronics will get behind the latest from Berlin producer Don't DJ through London's Berceuse Heroique label. We've also got library music, grime tunes, cracking digital reggae and modern classical.
Two tracks from the always magnificent Discrepant Records are amongst the highlights this week. We have brutal electronics from Ziúr, pysch-folk from usually brash Thee Oh Sees, and a whole host of library music, experimental cumbia, noise and Krautrock
After a week in the wilderness, we're back with great unknown artists, cult legends and some incredible collaborations. We kick off with a demo from jazz rockists Blegology and soon mix things up with dystopian electro, flute folk, Brazilian funk, and heavy hitting Soweto. We have collaborations between techno legend Surgeon and Manchester psych rockers Gnod, as well as Portugeses psych band Black Bombain and saxophonist Peter Brötzmann. Throw in some Half Man Half Biscuit and you've got yoursel...
We're on holiday this week, so here's another opportunity for you to enjoy our double-length 100th episode. Twenty tracks that allow us to reminisce on some of the great music we’ve played on the podcast in years gone by, whilst looking at some of the music exciting us today. Over 100 episodes we’ve featured 1,500 independent artists and record labels, here’s to the next 100 episodes! Tracklisting Starkey - OK Luv (Instrumental) (Planet Mu, UK) Kenny Graham & his Satellites - Chant (Trunk Re...
