Independent Music Podcast

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 from Kahn &

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 yourself an immens

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 Records, UK

Fun times on the show this week, with downbeat music from legends punctuating an onslaught of exciting contemporary experimental music. We have a chunk of instrumental dubstep, a smattering of grime and footwork, plenty of experimental electronics, library tunes, alternative pop and heavy rock.

Exceptional grime and funk from two podcast favourites Swindle and D Double E is just one of the new tracks on this week's show. We've got new music from Fufanu, jazz and hip hop from Steve Lehman, Off World, Kuro, Adrian Younge, William Tyler, Pangaea, and Yussef Kamaal.

An exclusive first play from the new Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band record is just one highlight from an hour of new, experimental, and exciting independent music. We've got new Japanese digidub from Jahtari's Kiki Hitomi, dub legend Dennis Bovell-produced new music from industrial rock band The Pop Group, French/Belgian jazz from Unik Ubik, the long-awaited vinyl release of the OST for Megadrive classic Golden Axe, industrial techno from Yorkshire's G.H., experimental electronics from rkss via

Epic deep house opener this week followed by a multitude of good tidings. From the heavy sounds of Taman Shud the the brutal experimentation of Merzbow let loose with a bucketful of Sun Ra samples. We've also got Turkish dub music from Abu Ama, Canadian throat singing from the extraordinary Tanya Tagaq, pysch from Denmark's The Wands, funk from Melbourne's Ross McHenry, and extreme dubstep from the brilliant Joker.

There's a mix of legendary, soon to be legendary, and utterly new artists on this week's show. The likes of Scott Walker and Terminal Cheesecake are amongst the finest ever in their particular genres, whilst artists such as L'Orange and Ex-Easter Island Head are beginning to create consistently excellent bodies of work. We've also got an incredibly exciting release from Susso - first promoted on a podcast back in July 2015 - that is set to be huge, whilst LA funk producer Yung Bae gives us another reason to

We may kick off this week's show with the delicate stylings of the ever-excellent Gruff Rhys and his new record, but we soon crack on with playing exceptional experimental contemporary electronics - from the sublime Gaika to Jamaican avant-dancehall specialists Equiknoxx. On this week's journey we stop off to take in Wrongtom's mindblowing remix of General Levy, experimental italo disco from Jolly Mare, Dutch-African punk from The Ex, new music from Leo Abrahams, Hieroglyphic Being, Jonny Sender, and some r

We don't care about the Mercury Prize at the Independent Music Podcast, but we will celebrate any increased exposure to great music. The Comet is Coming's nomination comes at a time when their other incarnation as Soccer96 get started on the promotional trail for their exceptional new album. We have a track from that, alongside new music from The Wharves, Italian metallers MoRkObOt, French label dub from Blackout JA, more deep experimental music via House of Mythology in the shape of The Stargazer's Assista

We may have missed a week, but we're back with an exclusive first play of a track from the new Silver Apples record. We've also got new downbeat tracks from Dean McPhee and Meursault contrasted with Soviet-era disco, French experimental pop from Léonore Boulanger, and Islam Chipsy. Elsewhere we have more Lewisham grime from The Square, Brazilian flavours from Swindle, and the inimitable sounds of Islam Chipsy.

After last week's two hour party, this week we're more focused on new experimental music. As well as an exclusive first play of the Hypnopazüzu track, we have exceptional samba experimentation from Elza Soares, modern dancehall from veteran Asher Senator, UK hip-hop from Ed Scissor & Lamplighter, and much more.