Independent Music Podcast

On the podcast this week we tick a lot of the boxes: whether you're into cubist hiphop, epic black metal, Indonesian techno, or avant jazz rap we have you covered. There's also intensely danceable sounds from the Lisbon underground, two Taiwanese ex-pats making forward-thinking sounds, gorgeous folk and lots more experimental goodness. Tracklisting Algiers - Can the Sub_Bass Speak? (Matador Records, UK) Aditya Permana - Raum (Dekadenz Records, Indonesia) Sweet Williams - Stunt Freeze (Gringo Records, UK) L'Orange & Jeremiah Jae - Dead Battery (Mello Music Group, USA) DJ Firmeza - Intenso (Príncipe, Portugal) Stumpf - Start (Edelfaul Recordings, Germany) Cyanching - Shadow of a Shadow (Bezirk, UK) Sabiwa - Enigma (Chinabot, UK) Marcus Hamblett - Lost at Sea (feat. Kate Stables) (Willkommen Records, UK) Sacred Son - Arachnidan Appendage (self-release, UK) Produced and Edited by Nick McCorriston. Hit him up for any and all audio work at nickamc.com and follow him on Twitter @nickamc

We're off this week as Anthony tours the Scottish highlands. In place of the usual show we have a blistering one from last year that still sounds fresh. Not least the mindblowing sounds of Deafkids, Bliss Signal, and D Double E - sounds that are great to hear every week. We'll be back with a fresh episode next Monday. *** Grime veteran D Double E finally has his first LP coming out and it kicks us off in fine style. Elsewhere on the show there’s Brazilian noise from Deafkids, Mumdance’s new metal direction with Bliss Signal – his collaboration with Altar of Plagues’ James Kelly, the latest from hiphop stalwart Jeremiah Jae and more. Tracklisting D Double E – Back Then (Bluku Music, UK) Deafkids – Espiral da Loucura (Neurot Recordings, USA) Snapped Ankles – Tailpipe (The Leaf Label, UK) Kathryn Joseph – From When I Wake the Want Is (Rock Action Records, UK) Bliss Signal – Bliss Signal (Profound Lore Records, Canada) Get The Blessing – If It Can It Will (Kartel Music Group, UK) Tarawangsawelas – Tetap Terbit (M

No soft openings this week, as we kick things off with gabba on the excellent Swedish label Northern Electronics. We have the latest from Chris & Cosey's collaboration with Factory Floor's Nik Void in Carter Tutti Void, more new veteran sounds in the latest from Negativland, abstract hip hop, synthy grime, avant garde jazz and loads more Tracklisting E-Saggila - Aziza (Northern Electronics, Sweden) Uniform & The Body - Not Good Enough (Sacred Bones Records, USA) Likwid Continual Space Motion - Earthbound (Super-Sonic Jazz Records, Netherlands) Kutcha Butcha - Dreams Are Not (Half Baked Bread Records, UK) K, Le Maestro - Sinister (self-release, UK) Carter Tutti Void - t3.5 (Conspiracy International, UK) CZ Wang & Neo Image - Just Off Wave (feat. Separated at Birth) (Mood Hut, Canada) Negativland - Discernment (Seeland Productions, USA) Captain Over - Better With (feat. Manga Saint Hilare) (XVI Records, UK) Afrodeutsche - Make The Call (River Rapid, UK)   Produced and Edited by Nick McCorriston. Hit

This week we have fantastic new music from the peerless Marie Davidson and the unexpected (yet welcome) collaboration between Mark Lanegan and Not Waving. Elsewhere there's new music from the fabulous Richard Dawson, the latest from The Bug and Burial's Flame 2 project, new sounds from France, Australia, Egypt and more. Tracklisting Richard Dawson - Jogging (Weird World Records, UK) Not Waving & Mark Lanegan - Burned Out Babylon (Ecstatic Recordings, UK) Hyperstition Duo - Templexing (Polyphonic Assemblage, UK) Braille Face & Happy Axe - Open Sky (Spirit Level, Australia) Klahrk & Roxas - Influence (Activia Benz, UK) DJ Plead - Battiekh 3 (Phil Battiekh, Switzerland) Hey Colossus - Medal (Alter Records, UK) Marie Davidson - Chasing the Light (Ninja Tune, UK) Flame 2 (The Bug & Burial) - Rain (Pressure, Germany) Twoonky - Aqua Bar (Macadam Mambo, France)   Produced and Edited by Nick McCorriston. Hit him up for any and all audio work at nickamc.com and follow him on Twitter @nickamc  

We return this week with the welcoming noise from the debut Petbrick LP, whose album we've been looking forward to since their blinding EP on Closed Casket last year. Elsewhere we have forward-looking Finnish jazz, kologo power from Ghana Turkish disco edits, Somali-Canadian hiphop, Japanese psych and a whole lot more.  Tracklisting Petbrick - Horse (Rocket Recordings, UK / Closed Casket, USA) King Ayisoba - Batakari Africa - feat. Atongo Zimba, Wiyaala & Big Gad (Makkum Records, Netherlands) Petter Eldh / Koma Saxo - Port Koma (We Jazz Records, Finland) Reece Thomas - Rustling of Reefs on the Sunshine (Alocasia Garden, UK) Arşivplak - Seker Oglan (self-release, UK) Igor Wakhévitch - Materia-Prima (Finders Keepers Records, UK) OBUXUM - Black Girls Flying (URBNET Records, Canada) Floating Spectrum - The Early Green Outburst (Temporary Residence, USA) Moonbow - BNND WDTH (West Friends, UK) Qujaku - In Neutral (So I Buried Records, UK)   Produced and Edited by Nick McCorriston. Hit him up for any and all aud

Straight out of South London is this week's Independent Music Podcast and Lewisham's favourite son Novelist, whose new EP has more than enough bangers to get us going this week. Elsewhere we have cinematic sounds from Israel's Markey Funk and the legendary Pere Ubu, danceable riddims from Portugal, blistering dubstep, and some stunning beautiful music from France. Tracklisting Novelist - Rowdy Riddim (self-release, UK) Markey Funk - The Old City (Som Recordings, Israel) Rien Virgule - Zanne Nel Velluto (Zam Zam Records, France) Von D ft. Blackout Ja - Dancehall Saga (Dub-Stuy, USA) Pere Ubu - The Road Ahead (Cherry Red Records, UK) Alex Figueira - Platanito (Music With Soul, Netherlands) Rui P. Andrade & Aires - Fuchsia Timelines (Colectivo Casa Amarela, Portugal) Odd Nosdam - FBT 14 (Home Assembly Music, UK) Tomaga & Pierre Bastien - Bandiera Di Carta (Other People, USA) Félicia Atkinson- Joan (Shelter Press, France)    Produced and Edited by Nick McCorriston. Hit him up for any and all audio work at

After a few weeks of studio upheaval, our first episode in our new space is here - and it's a bit of an abstract one. With fragmented samples of 78rpm records from a French library to Glaswegian dubstep, via violin experiments and Afghan folk music, we have the whole set of what's good and great in contemporary independent music. Tracklisting Achwghâ Ney Wodei - Malalam Solom (Table Sports, Portugal) Equiknoxx - Corner (Equiknoxx Musiq, Jamaica) Oren Ambarchi, Mark Fell, Will Guthrie, Sam Shalabi - Oglon Day 2 (Thirty Three Thirty Three, UK) Rapture 4D & Ruda - Hubble flow Dub (Scotch Bonnet, UK) Kefaya & Elaha Soroor - Jama Narenji (Bella Union, UK) City of Women - Sergei (Sähkö Recordings, Finland) Stefan Fraunberger - Elegie (Morphine Records, Germany) Ko Shin Moon - L’Offrande (Akuphone Records, France) Laura Cannell & Polly Wright - Help Me to Salt Help Me to Sorrow (Brawl Records, UK) Oh Sees - Henchlock (Castle Face Records, USA)   Produced and Edited by Nick McCorriston. Hit him up for any

We're still away - our internet, and the podcast, will be back next week. We're unashamedly throwing bangers at you on this week’s pod. The brutal, brilliant pop sounds of SOPHIE kick us off, as we travel through stunning sounds from Khalab’s new record, a new Ugandan record label releasing heavy bass sounds, Lewisham grime from Flohio, and Polish experimental music from Edinburgh. Tracklisting SOPHIE – Ponyboy (Transgressive Records, UK) Khalab – Black Noise (feat. Tenesha the Wordsmith) (On the Corner Records, UK) Slows – A Great Big Smile From Venus (excerpt) (Deep Distance, UK) Slikback – Ascenscion (Hakuna Kulala, Uganda) YOB – The Screen (Relapse Records, USA) Andria – So Far (Yes, Serbia) Ekiti Sound – Ife (Crammed Discs, Belgium) Ko Shin Moon – Zaffa (Akuphone Records, France) Flohio – Bands (Alpha, UK) Januszewski – Untitled II (Czaszka (rec.), UK)  

We're away this week, so here's where we were this time last year. We’ve got alternative rock stylings of Birmingham’s Dorcha alongside experimental sounds of Ben Vince. We have legendary techno producer Samuel Kerridge’s new track, mutant jungle from Sophia Loizou, a surprising folk project from Roger Robinson, reggae from Parly B, hiphop, Latvian experimentation and loads more. Tracklisting Dorcha – Bruiser (self-release, UK) Samuel Kerridge – Silent Notes (Downwards, UK) Ben Vince – Assimilation (Where to Now?, UK) Horsedreamer (Roger Robinson & Piers Faccini) – Trigger (Beating Drum, France) Dameetis Brown – I T S M E (self-release, USA) Parly B & The Elementz – Skylark (Reggae Take Over, UK) 1/2H 1/2W – Inbreed (Bezirk, Austria) Sophia Loizou – Memories of Angels (Cosmo Rhythmatic, Germany) Giant Swan – High Waisted (Mannequin Records, Germany) Field Lines Cartographer – Repulsin Engine Test (Concretetapes, UK)  

Gnarly bible stories and more on the podcast this week. Whether it's questionable theology, hot off the press grime or something in between that you're after, this week will deliver for you.  We've got the best new jazz from London and Norway, Japanese experimental music, delightful folk, Reading reggae, Greek gabba and a whole heap more. Tracklisting FFSYTHO - Bop Through Ya Manor (prod. Filthy Gears) (self-release, UK) Collocutor - The Angry One (On the Corner Records, UK) Mountain / Full Edition - ある行為を犯罪と評価するための条件 (Conspiracy) (Natural Sciences, UK) Fire! Orchestra - Blue Crystal Fire (Rune Grammofon, Norway) Service Animal - Core Of Reality (Death of Rave, UK) Mariee Sioux - Black Snakes (Night Bloom Records, USA) Mikado Koko - Fukagawa Bushi (Akuphone, France) The Austerity Program - Isaiah 63:2-6 (Controlled Burn Records, USA) Solo Banton & Macka B - Edutainment (Reality Shock Records, UK) The Utopia Strong - Brainsurgeons 3 (Rocket Recordings, UK)   Produced and Edited by Nick McCorriston. Hit him

Lots of music from Japan gets us going on this week's show, showing a glimpse at the breadth of sounds coming out of the country whether that be bamboo afrobeat, spandex-appropriate rock or abstract electronics. Elsewhere this week we've got dark industrial music from UAE, Welsh rock from mclusky* and Future of the Left leader Falco's Christian Fitness project, and loads more.  Tracklisting Ajate x NY.KO - With Regularity (180g Records, France) Hibushibire - Ecstasy Highwaystar (Riot Season Records, UK) Sun Dawei - 山賊 / 右盼 (Shanshui Records, Japan) Padang Food Tigers - Woody's Alright (Blue Hole Recordings, USA) Christian Fitness - Newly Colonised Moon (Prescriptions Music, UK) Nathan Micay - Join Me Or Die. Can You Do Any Less (LuckyMe, UK) Tomaga - Bluest (self-release, UK) Ben Vince - Our Love (feat. Tom Glencross & Jacob Samuel) (Thirty Three Thirty Three, UK) CORIN - Dissect (Bedouin Records, UAE) Black Shape - London (Hominid Sounds, UK)   Produced and edited by Nick McCorriston. Hit him up for any

  The bizarre collaboration between the legendary pairing of Jean-Claude Vannier and Mike Patton closes us off this week. Before that we have the usual eclectic mix of remixed Brazilian noise, Jamaican poetry, Swedish postpunk, Cuban jazz and loads more. Tracklisting Deafkids - Distopia Permanente (Terror SoundSystem Funx Re-Drum) (Lovers & Lollypops, Portugal) Nazamba & O.B.F. - Run! (Dubquake Records, France) Graham Dunning - Void Worm (Fractal Meat Cuts, UK) Curses - Sordo (Höga Nord Rekords, Sweden) Clinic - Rubber Bullets (Domino Recording Co., UK) Enrique - Eating Plastic (BANK Records NYC, USA) Trash Kit - Horizon (Upset the Rhythm, UK) Greenwood Rhythm Coalition - Jewels Part One (Names You Can Trust, USA) Kevin Richard Martin - Kangaroo Care (Room40, USA) Mike Patton & Jean-Claude Vannier - On Top of the World (Ipecac Recordings, USA)   Produced and edited by Nick McCorriston. Hit him up for any and all audio work at nickamc.com and follow him on Twitter @nickamc  

Terrifying stuff from a Bristol hotbed of experimental sounds whets our appetite for wonderful music this week. We move through noises from Canada, Japan, Scotland, and Italy as we promo some of the best noises coming out of the independent sector. Tracklisting Harrga - Artaud (Avon Terror Corps, UK) RX-101 - Dopamine (Suction Records, Canada) Kool Keith - Zero Fux (feat. B-Real) (Mello Music Group, USA) Enablers - Bill, In Consideration (Exile on Mainstream, Germany | Broken Clover Records, USA | Lancashire and Somerset Records, UK) Nick Klein & Wilted Woman - Café Kotti (Alien Jams, UK) Meursault - Beaten (Common Grounds Records, UK) Nakayubi - Magnetic Radio - 20190501 - 13:26 - TokyoArea FM @ Takeshiba wharf (self-release, Japan) The Pheromoans - The Sixth Bell (Alter Records, UK) Heith - Yoga of Stealth (Saucers Production, Italy) Terminal Cheesecake - Saddle Shower (Box Records, UK) Produced and edited by Nick McCorriston. Hit him up for any and all audio work at nickamc.com and follow him on Twitte

Following our week a way we return overwhelmed with excellent morsels of global experimental independent sound. We start with Sarathy Korwar's outstanding jazz/Indian MC hybrid that is sure to get noticed by discerning listeners, elsewhere we have choral music, twisted abstract hiphop, splendid psych folk, electric acholi music from central Africa and much more. Tracklisting Sarathy Korwar - Mumbay (feat. MC Mawali) / Pravasis (feat. Deepak Unnikrishnan) (The Leaf Label, UK) Leo Pa-Layeng - Kono Wiye Ocung Otara (self-release, Uganda) The Art Ensemble of Chicago - We Are On The Edge (Erased Tapes, UK) Suzi Analogue - Way Live ft. ZenSoFly (Never Normal Records, USA) Flamingods - Koray (Moshi Moshi Records, UK) Sebastian Reynolds with Solo Collective - Ripeness Is All (Nonostar Records, Germany) The Improvisers' Choir - Stem (self-release, UK) Sea Urchin - Mish Hata'ref tesHa? (Bokeh Versions, UK) Viscount - Reverse Engineering (Warecollective, UK) Death and Vanilla - Let’s Never Leave Here (Fire Records, UK)

Some absolutely blistering music this week, ranging from excitable Japanese punk from the brilliant Otoboke Beaver, to intense French black metal, stopping off via Turkish psych, Polish pop, beautiful sun-filled reggae and much more. Tracklisting Dolenz - Pull ft. Guilty Simpson (Exit Records, UK) Otoboke Beaver おとぼけビ～バ～ - 脱·日陰の女 datsu, hikage no onna (Damnably, UK) Ela Orleans - Planet Mars (Night School, UK) Sunn O))) - Troubled Air (Southern Lord, USA) Prince Fatty - Be Thankful for What You Got ft. Earl 16 (Evergreen Recordings, UK) Carla dal Forno - So Much Better (Kallista Records, UK) Embrace Your Punishment - Legacy (feat. Diogo Santana of Analepsy) (Vomit Your Shirt, Portugal) Altın Gün - Süpürgesi Yoncadan (Glitterbeat Records, Germany) Fischerie & Persuasion - Embar (Idioms, Canada) JK Flesh - In Your Pit (Pressure, Germany)   Produced and Edited by Nick McCorriston. Hit him up for any and all audio work at nickamc.com and follow him on Twitter @nickamc  

Some real otherworldly business occurring on this week's podcast. Abstract sounds from Thailand, from Brazil, and Argentina dovetail nicely with fantastic new jazz sounds from South Africa. There's also African reggae via Glasgow, synth duals out of Kampala, punk rock from the UK and a great deal more. Tracklisting Stalawa, Blessed San - Traitor (Scotch Bonnet, UK) HELM - I Knew You Would Respond (PAN, Germany) Hot In Da Club - Futrip (Spooky Shit, Uganda) SPAZA - Sunlight. Glycerine, 2 loose draws (Mushroom Hour Half Hour, South Africa) Space War - Newborn Baby (Moontone Records, Thailand) Witching Waves - Eye 2 Eye (Specialist Subject Records, UK) DJ Haram - Ripe (self-release, USA) Rakta - Falha Comum (Nada Nada Discos, Brazil) Astrosuka - tlalok (self-release, Argentina) Anatolian Weapons - To The Mother of Gods (RVNG Intl., USA)   Produced and Edited by Nick McCorriston. Hit him up for any and all audio work at nickamc.com and follow him on Twitter @nickamc  

The usual blend of abstract noises coming from across the globe this week. There's Lebanese belly dance music punctuated with Polish breakcore, experimentation from the magnificent Amnesia Scanner, amongst pleasant indie rock, video game music, and abrasive noise. Tracklisting Scalping - Satan II (Council Records, UK) Amnesia Scanner & Bill Kouligas - Lexachast VIII (PAN Records, Germany) Jan St. Werner - Glottal Wolpertinger (Thrill Jockey, USA) Lena Raine -Tsukuyomi (Local Action Records, UK) Orchestra of Constant Distress - Discomfort (Riot Season Records, UK) Ziad Rahbani - Taksim Organ & Tabla (Fortuna Records, Israel) Bogdan Raczynski - 318 22t7 (Disciples, UK) Demolition Honey - Relaxin’ At Mayhem Hotel (Ohub Records, Argentina) My Disco - An Intimate Conflict (Downwards, UK) Van Goose - Wildstar (self-release, USA)   Produced and Edited by Nick McCorriston. Hit him up for any and all audio work at nickamc.com and follow him on Twitter @nickamc  

From Japanese Cumbia, mill town hip hop, and Viennese experimental music, there's a whole bunch of goodness to chomp down on through this week's podcast. We have banging house music, droney, beautiful experimentation, punk rock and loads more Tracklisting Mahatma X - RUPT (Home Assembly Music, UK) BIG|BRAVE - Sibling (Southern Lord, USA) Dutch Courage - Sixteen Years in Prison (Bezirk Tapes, UK) Cochemea - All My Relations (Daptone Records, USA) Minyo Crusaders - Kushimoto Bushi (Cumbia) (Mais Um, UK) We Wild Blood - Those Teeth Weren't The Only Thing That I lost (Hominid Sounds, UK) Dan Shake - Freak (self-release, UK) Dylan Henner - I Had To Wash The Shirt I Lost (Phantom Limb, UK) HRNS - White Heron (Warm Winters Ltd, UK) Mirna Ray - Danse Macabre (self-release, UK) Produced and Edited by Nick McCorriston. Hit him up for any and all audio work at nickamc.com and follow him on Twitter @nickamc  

The brilliant Metro Crowd LP on Maple Death Records is a journey in its own right, and its opening track - a dubby, abstract corker - kicks us on our own journey this week. It's a trip that takes in forward-looking techno, French dancehall, twisted LA dubs, Irish jazz, experimental violinists and Russian punk. Tracklisting Metro Crowd - Gas in a Wagon (Maple Death Records, UK) UKAEA - Shivering Dancer (self-release, UK) Polypores - Rapt (Front & Follow, UK) Mr. Zèbre feat. Lisa Dainjah - Tell Myself RUFF MIX1 (Pure Niceness Records, France) Laura Cannell - Untethered (Brawl Records, UK) Sikka Rymes & Duppy Gun Productions - Love Di People (ft. John D) (Bokeh Versions, UK) Fixity - Becoming an Earthworm (Penske Recordings, Ireland) Taupe - Get The Keys (self-release, UK) Gnoomes – Sword in the Stone (Rocket Recordings, UK) Rōnin Arkestra - Redeye Reprisal (Alberts Favourites, UK) Produced and Edited by Nick McCorriston. Hit him up for any and all audio work at nickamc.com and follow him on Twitter @nic

A mix of the unusual and wonderful this week - and that's just the 50-minute cover of 70s power ballad Without You by Nurse With Wound experimentalist Andrew Liles featuring writer and Quietus editor John Doran. We also have a new one from the peerless hiphop producer Madlib, some heavy bass from The Bug, synthpop from Argentina and loads more. Tracklisting Jamakabi & The Bug - Wickedest Dub (Pressure Records, Germany) Oh No & Madlib - Big Whips (All City Records, Ireland) Vanishing Twin - KRK (At Home in Strange Places) (Fire Records, UK) Lauri Fire - Dialectos (Kriptonîa, Argentina) Sly & the Family Drone - Jehovah’s Wetness (Love Love Records, UK) Drahla - Stimulus for Living (Captured Tracks, USA) Andrew Liles - Without You (feat. John Doran) (self-release, UK) Volition Immanent - Whiteboy (MIND Records, Japan) MoE - Sex is a Lie (Conradsound, Norway) 9XMentality - Dog Whistle (Heel.Zone, Italy)