Independent Music Podcast

For our 100th episode we’ve got a double length special episode for you. 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) Novelist - War (self-release, U

Stunning electronic pop music from Ela Orleans and Alessi are two highlights from this week’s podcast. New tracks also from The Invisible, Endgame, SeekersInternational, KETEV, Hedge Maze and Swans make this a very packed new music podcast

What a week for incredible tunes this week is. We get off to a weird start with 食品まつり (Foodman) but take in stops across the spectrum of independent music - from remixed Finnish jazz funk, to the gorgeous sounds of Marissa Nadler, to random electronic releases recorded across the internet from WWWINGS. We have other new tracks from Interrupt & Tenor Youtman, Bruxo Maria, Apple Rabbits, Les Halles, and we celebrate the life of the brilliant Tenor Fly. We also have an exclusive 28-minute reggae mix

Gareth’s flying solo this week, but what a week for amazing independent releases - we’ve got the incredible modern jazz of London’s Moses Boyd to kick us off, and then we’re taken on a journey that takes in experimental, abstract electronics, German fun, driving electro and IDM, atmospheric soul music, desert rock, piano hip hop, and psychedlia

Back on usual business this week with a wide mix of cracking new independent releases. We have two submissions, one cut of ambient disco from ZuZed, and another slice of psychedelia from Melody Fields. Elsewhere we kick off with a blistering track off the forthcoming Thee Oh Sees record, we also have a long-awaited new track from Factory Floor, Japanese rock from Qujaku, reissued Ethiopian goodness from Hailu Mergia, the latest single from Flamingods, and more old reissued music from Sofrito and remixes fro

Field Day festival returns for its tenth birthday this year at Victoria Park in London. Gareth and Anthony run through ten of the artists they’re most excited about seeing, including some big hitters like Roots Manuva, The Avalanches, and Skepta, as well as some artists from elsewhere on the bill, including Ata Kat, The Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band, and Psychemagik. Tracklisting Ata Kak - Obaa Sima (Awesome Tapes From Africa, USA) The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist (XL Recordings, UK) Sk

Norwegian disco and psych rock is the order of this week’s show, with a Todd Terje remix of Beranek kicking things off and Hedvig Mollestad Trio edging us towards the close. Elsewhere we’ve got new tracks from London’s Witching Waves, Kaiju, David Coulter & Seb Rochford, Happy Meals, Tobacco, JK Flesh and Super Furry Animals, with a listener’s recommendation with outstanding US hiphop chap Nox.

Our featured released from Turkey's Arşivplak is just one of many highlights on this week's podcast. We've also got new tracks from Hyperdub's latest Jessy Lanza, France surfers Juniore, Colombian electronics from Titanik, Balam Acab, the brutal sounds of Spectre, and another one from the mind-bending I Know I'm An Alien. We also have a recent one from loud Japanese band Otoboke Beaver, and older sounds from Camberwell Now

The festival season is here, so the Independent Music Podcast is kicking off its annual series of festival specials. This week, all our tracks are from bands playing Raw Power Festival. It’s in London 27-29 May, and headlined by noisy Japanese two-piece Melt-Banana and industrial London band Test Dept - both of who appear on this episode. Tracklisting Melt-Banana - Shield for Your Eyes, A Beast in the Well on Your Hand (A-Zap, Japan) Part Chimp - Hello Bastards (Rock Action Records, UK) Orchestra of Sp

There's nothing like completely transforming an Abba track for your first music in six years, but that's what Portishead have done with SOS. We've also got self-released sounds from Map71 and GAIKA, alongside two new ones being released by the on-form Soundway Records - the mesmerising Family Atlantica and the acid folk of Vanishing Twin. Elsewhere we have new jazz from Sarathy Korwar through Ninja Tune, Belgian duo Tav Exotic via Vlek, DVA on Hyperdub, Brandt Brauer Frick on !K7, and Newcastle's phonetic s

It’s a week of lengthy musical explorations with a podcast clocking in at 80 minutes. We kick off with some great modern reggae sounds from Adam Prescott, and we’ve got new ones from Pye Corner Audio, Dog Chocolate, Necro Deathmort, Casual Nun, Gemma Ray, and a mammoth 14-minuter from Laniakea. There’s also a new one from Trost Records, rare 80s reggae from Groundation and a tribute to the late, beyond great Prince.

We haven’t got far through the alphabet this week, with new tracks from Adrena Adrena, Ash Walker, and Asher Levitas, whilst highlighting a new vinyl release of Alexander Robotnick with Ludus Pinsky, and a rare Basque record from Akauzazte. Absolutely all artists aren’t ‘A’s though, we’ve also got a new track from The Comet is Coming, some house from Belfast’s Jordan, Sweden’s Josefin Öhrn, and the return of exceptional Italian electronic maestro Husband. Tracklisting Husband - Undone Josefi

An exclusive first play of a new Hey Colossus track is just one highlight in this week’s podcast. There are absolute storming tracks from the ever reliable crate diggers at Finders Keepers Records and Africa Seven, we also have new tracks from the legendary alto saxophonist Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids, New Zealand jazz rockists Orchestra of Spheres, podcast favourites Fumaça Preta, Tim Hecker, and The Dwarfs of East Agouza. Tracklisting Fumaca Preta - Decimo Andar The Dwarfs of East Agouza - Baka of

Anthony is back this week and he has some great music with him, including new ones from Diminished Men and Colin Stetson. Gareth adds new ones from grime maestro Novelist and French odd-pop oddballs Gablé. There’s also new tunes from Japenese art collective Maher Shalal Hash Baz, gnarly techno enthusiasts IXTAB, Bitchin Bajas & Bonnie Prince Billy, Australian producer Swell, heavy rockers Black Mountain, and Tel-Aviv producers Calo Wood

This week’s podcast may clock in under an hour, but we still have the usual ten tracks of weird and wonderful independent music for you. We’ve got an exclusive first play of the new Booze track from their second album. We also have new ones from London/Bahrain’s Flamingods, UK hip hop from Joker Starr, beautiful acoustic guitar music from Seabuckthorn, odd library electronics from Sheffield’s I Monster, African experimentation from Billy Bao, dubstep from Memotone and pop rock from Witching Waves. T

This week we have the exclusive first play of former Jaga Jazzist member Norwegian experimental guitarist Stian Westerhus’ new track. We’ve also got two from Japan with the insatiable techno-esque sounds of Japanese trio Nisennenmondai and the experimental work from Keiji Haino. Two too from Canada with Venetian Snares and Poirier. There’s Cameroonian disco from Pasteur Lappé, experimental Italian jazz from Piero Umiliani, and modern soul from Adrian Younge

Some exceptional swearing and even better techno and everything in between on this week’s show. We’ve got Hungarian experimentations from 12z, more experimentation from Fatima Al Qadiri, garage pop music from LA’s Feels, and a nice chunk of funk and disco. We’ve got the latest from PJ Harvey and close off with something rather rude from Scottish troubadour Aidan Moffat. Tracklisting Mission of Burma - Secrets Feels - Close my Eyes Fatima Al Qadiri - Battery 12z - Names or Labels Suuns - Translate F

After an electronics heavy podcast last week, you don’t get many more fantastic guitar acts than those that feature on this week’s Independent Music Podcast. From new tracks from San Francisco friends Thee Oh Sees and Ty Segall, to Manchester’s ever magnificent Gnod and the immense sounds of Sheffield’s Blood Sport. We also have odd electronics from Basic Rhythm, techno from Route 8, Kora-gorgeousness from Stranded Horse, light-touch Finnish hip hop from Tomppabeats, heavier-touch hip hop from Golde

Some extraordinary electronic music on this week's show. JahYu's rootsy dub with throat singing and bird noises ticks all our boxes, we've got two future British masters in Commodo and Rocks FOE combining, and another one in Gaika. It's a real showcase of wonderful British electronics, with Not Waving, Champion, and Four Tet also appearing. Away from that we have the legendary Iggy Pop kicking things off, brilliant electronic pop with Montreal's She-Devils, Italian drone from Fulkanelli and Ethiopian elect

Polish dub from Dreadsquad kicks off a podcast crossing across the genres, with new music from Brooklyn's Prince Rama, Yorkshire's moog master Matthew Bourne, and Haiku No Ku. We've also got covers performed by Scotland's Supermoon and Kay Dennis, as well as a tribute to the late, great Clarence Reid AKA Blowfly.