Independent Music Podcast

Whether it's afrobeat made from Japanese bamboo instruments or a 12-minute disco opus, there's music to get you moving on the show this week. Between those we've got the latest cumbia experimentation from Bogota, exceptionally heavy hiphop from London, explicit sounds of female empowerment and more. Tracklisting Handle - Punctured Time (Absolute Fiction, UK / Upset the Rhythm, UK) Ajate - Uka (180g, France) Teleplasmiste - A Boy Called Conjuror (House of Mythology, UK) Liiek - Waterfall (Adagio 830, Germany) Onoe Capone - Jungle (feat. L-Zee Roselli) (High Focus Records, UK) Romperayo - Uyuyuis (self-release, Colombia) Anna B Savage - Chelsea Hotel #3 (City Slang, Germany) Alxzndr - Lei Shen (Scotch Bonnet Records, UK) Blóm - Be Kind (Box Records, UK) Al Kent - Erotic Queen (GAMM, 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

Some absolutely immense music for you. Not least the first cut from the long-awaited LP from Lunch Money Life. There's also dastardly dubs from Japanese producer Mars89, the latest from legendary Belgium duo Aksak Maboul, music from Israel, South Korea, France, Canada and spoken word from an experimental music champion closes out this week's show. Tracklisting Lunch Money Life - Truth Serum (Scenic Route, UK) Chubby and The Gang - Speed Kills (Static Shock Records, UK) Mars89 - GoodThing (Natural Sciences, UK) Aksak Maboul - Tout a Une Fin (Crammed Discs, Belgium) Baharat - بهارات - The Egyptian (Batov Records, UK) Chicaloyoh - Boli Armenii (Màgia Roja label, Spain) Kim Jinmook - Shivoham (Daehan Electronics, South Korea) Capitol K - Temple (Faith & Industry, UK) Racine - Quelque Chose Tombe II (Danse Noire, Switzerland) Self-Help (Mark Dicker & John Doran) - Exercise Number 1 (Tesla Tapes, 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

After the subdued sounds of last week, this time around it is wall-to-wall bangers on the podcast. Whether it is the shake your booty disco from the ever-strong Toy Tonics label, or the unrelenting 180bpm+ of Spooky-J, whichever dancefloor you frequent is going to have a new favourite from our selection. Subscribe to the podcast wherever you get podcasts. Tracklisting Jackie Lynn - Casino Queen (Drag City, USA) Roman Truth - Magic Jiffy (Toy Tonics, Germany) Perhaps - 7.0 (Riot Season Records, UK) Spooky-J - Rod Cor(Blimey) Fntsy (Spooky Shit, Uganda) Dame Area - La Notte É Oscura (BFE Records, Spain) Project Gemini - Path Through the Forest (Delights, Israel) Horse Lords - Fanfare for Effective Freedom (Northern Spy Records, USA) The Populists - Prehistoric Lemurs (Lumière Noire, France) Ko Shin Moon - Leïla Nova (Akuphone, France) Mads Kjeldgaard - akkorder_191110_161537-root-2-harmonic minor (Ambitious Tapes, Sweden) Produced and edited by Nick McCorriston. Hit him up for any and all audio work at nickamc.com and follow him on Twitter @nickamc

Mispronunciation rules this week's pod. I mean - you try and pronounce 'Davaajargal Tsaschikher' the name of the exceptionally talented Mongolian experimentalist. We have unusual and brilliant music from Ukraine, Niger, and Japan alongside London grime, hiphop and jazz. There's abstract electronic music, industrial dub, and phenomenal psych - it's going to be a good week... Tracklisting Brodinski x Low Jack - Andaman Sea (Editions Gravats, France) Collocutor - Lost and Found (On the Corner Records, UK) Svitlana Nianio & Oleksandr Yurchenko - Untitled 1 (Night School, UK) Beatrice Dillon - Workaround One (PAN, Germany) Hoshina Anniversary - Odoriko (Alien Jams, UK) Sex Swing - Valentine’s Day at the Gym (Rocket Recordings, UK) Davaajargal Tsaschikher - Urgeljid Urgeljleh Urgeljlel (Chinabot, UK) Lloydie Ranks - Street Fighter (Key Changes, UK) The Four Owls - Honour Codes (High Focus Records, UK) Mdou Moctar - Ibitlan (Sahel Sounds, 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

*Note there's an annoying sound glitch on this week's podcast - apologies for that* What's that coming over the hill? It's two people with a podcast and a whole load of exceptional sounds for your ears. From the galloping intro of Sunny Jain through bassy goodness of Gqom Oh boss Nan Kolè and DJ Tess' collaboration, you know you're in for a good week. We also have music recorded on mobile phones in Niger, Japanese jazz, hefty rock and a whole lot more. Tracklisting Sunny Jain - Aye Mere Dil Kahin Aur Chal (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, USA) Nan Kolè, DJ Tess, NyNy - Gimme Any Riddim (self-release, Italy) Lina_Raül Refree - Cuidei Que Tinha Morrido (Glitterbeat Records, Germany) ZOHASTRE - Tarantella (ZamZam Records, France) Twin Sister - Light (God Unknown Records, UK) Etran de L'Aïr - Tilyadene (Sahel Sounds, USA) Dwellings x Locean - Cloudy (Tesla Tapes, UK) Anna Funk Damage – Badass Bitch (LazyTapes, Germany) Primitive World - FMJ 1 (Ecstatic Recordings, UK) Masahiko Sato - Sanae, Ai to Kyofu (Konoha no Fune) (WRWTFWW, Switzerland) Produced and edited by Nick McCorriston. Hit him up for any and all audio work at nickamc.com and follow him on Twitter @nickamc

Winter is truly here in the northern hemisphere, and the music on this week's podcast reflects that. There's dark experimental music from across the globe, including superb quasi-industrial noise from Argentina and obtuse noise from South Africa. There's the new one from Hilary Woods, a touch of boogie from Flamingo Pier, and a whole lot more  Tracklisting Dumama & Kechou - Mother Time (Mushroom Hour Half Hour, Netherlands) Hilary Woods - Tongues of Wild Boar (Sacred Bones Records, USA) Cheating Spouses Caught On Tape - I Miss the Comfort of Being Sad (self-release, Argentina) Flamingo Pier - Boogie Meltdown (Soundway Records, UK) Mattheis - Woodlands (Nous'klaer Audio, Netherlands) Casual Nun - A Light Plague (Hominid Sounds, UK) Villaelvin - Ghot Zilla (Hakuna Kulala, Uganda) Angstkiste - Distant Blinking Lights 6.0 (self-release, Germany) The Leonard Simpson Duo (Guilty Simpson x Leonard Charles) - My Inspiration (Jakarta Records, Germany) Pulled by Magnets - Slow Shrouded Aisle (tak:til, 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

A wonderful array of new music this week, kicking off with Swedish psych from Goat-affiliated Och, we also have multiple, beautiful sound experiments from Canada, UK hip-hop, avant-garde outsider pop, the new one from The Heliocentrics and a cracking new collaboration between Ty Segall and Lightning Bolt. Tracklisting Och - NU:64 (Rocket Recordings, UK) YlangYlang - Limitless (Crash Cymbols, USA) I Know I'm an Alien - Here Come The Customers pt 1 (Crass Lips Records, USA) D. Dan - Mutant Future (Lobster Theremin, UK) Intext - Super Duty Tough Work (self-release, USA) Ramson Badbonez - Sarcophagus (High Focus Records, UK) Katie Gately - Waltz (Houndstooth, UK) Wasted Shirt - Double the Dream (Famous Class Records, USA) Gareth JS Thomas - Hyphen British (Bezirk, UK) The Heliocentrics - Burning Wooden Ship (Madlib Invazion, 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

Some rough, brilliant experimental sounds this week, one highlight being the brilliant rough Kuduro from Angola's Nazar, who follows his brilliant Enclave EP with a first LP for Hyperdub. Also from Africa there's Ghanaian experimentation from Phillipines label Syrphe, we also have punk from Atlanta, psych from Japan, Greek folk, and loads more good stuff. *Please note: this episode was recorded and released before Wiley outed himself as a racist anti-semite. If he had done this before, we would not have aired his music and will not do so in future* Tracklisting Filthy Gears & Wiley - Step Up Two (self-release, UK) Tiña - Dip (Speedy Wunderground, UK) Pö - Laydo (Syrphe, Phillipines) Bruxa Maria - The Void (Hominid Sounds, UK) Vangas - Dog Walker (Chunklet Industries, USA) Gary, Indiana - Berlin (self-release, USA) Nazar - Diverted (Hyperdub, UK) Hatzihristos Apostolos - The Sun Is Setting on the World (Death is Not the End Records, UK) Ans M - Haptic Wetness on Your Waterproof Skin (TT, UK) OOIOO - walk for "345" minutes, while saying "Ah Yeah!" with a "Mountain Book" in one hand, until a shower of light pours down (Thrill Jockey Records, 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

2020 is heating up with some absolutely fantastic music from across the globe. This week we have Romanian experimentation, we have a new one from the ever-prolific Shit & Shine, we've got abstract harp music, funk and soul, Nepalese sound art and a whole lot more. Tracklisting Antibalas - Fight Am Finish (Daptone Records, USA) Siti Muharam - Alaminadura (On the Corner Records, UK) Eartheater & LEYA - Angel Path (PAN Records, Germany) Dolores Mondo Stash - Man Bites Dog (self-release, Romania) Get the Blessing, Marc Gauvin, Robert Wyatt - Ulysses Frigidair (self release, UK) The New Morning - Mi C'Yaan (Emotional Rescue, UK) Shit & Shine - Tecvo Ooh (OOH-Sounds, Italy) P.E. - Top Ticket (Wharf Cat Records, USA) Julianna Barwick - Morning (RVNG Intl., USA) Ritesh Maharjan - Sani (The Nois Society, Nepal) 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 first podcast of the 2020s is kicked off with exceptional hiphop from Atlanta via DJ Bishop. We also have experimental sound art from Japan, South African techno, Russian metal, detective jazz, the latest from Forest Swords and loads more. Tracklisting DJ Bishop - Dolla Sign (feat. Apoc Krysis) (Natural Sciences, UK) Forest Swords - Do Drones Go To Heaven? (Dense Truth, UK) Tryphème - In a Cyber Spiral (Central Processing Unit, UK) Megalith Levitation - Acid Doom Rites ([addicted label], Russia) Suzana's Bauten - Cidade das Estrelas (Brain Ticket Death, USA) Lafawndah - Parallel X Tayhana X Lafawndah Rework (Concordia, Germany) Rose Bonica - It’s Like Winter Without You (Wet Dreams Recordings, South Africa) Bohren & der club of gore - Tief Gesunken (PIAS Recordings, Germany) Yosuke Tokunaga - ,, (Tost, Japan) Ashtray Navigations - A Carbine is a Beautiful White Bird (Memoirs of an Aesthete, 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

Now 2019 is coming to an end, enjoy this 3 hour stitching together of our favourites of 2019 - episodes #243 - #245. 30 phenomenally varied tracks from the year.  We have a special part 4 for our Patrons. Please support the podcast at patreon.com/independentmusicpodcast. Thank you for your support this year, we'll be back in 2020. Tracklisting Big Brave – Sibling (Southern Lord Recordings, USA) Bryte – Ice Cream (R&S Recordings / More Time Records, UK) Sarathy Korwar – Coolie (The Leaf Label, UK) Yao Bobby & Simon Grab – Bjole (LavaLava Records, UK) Negativland – Discernment (Seeland Productions, USA) Lokier – Fighting the Past (Pinkman, Netherlands) Caterina Barbieri – Closest Approach to Your Orbit (Editions Mego, Austria) Quelle Chris – Brain of the Ape (All City Records, Ireland) Fire! Orchestra – (I Am a) Horizon (Rune Grammofon, Norway) Fuji-Yuki – Blood Moon (Akuphone, France) Ammar 808 and Cheb Hassen Tej – Zawali Fitness Club (Glitterbeat Records, Germany) Rainbow Grave – Ten Million Tons of Shit (God Unknown Records, UK) MC Yallah & Debmaster – Kubali (Hakuna Kulala, Uganda) Richard Dawson – Jogging (Domino Recording Co, UK) Ka Baird – Walking (RVNG Intl, USA) Sly & the Family Drone – New Free Spirits Falconry & Horseman Display (Love Love Records, UK) Hot in Da Club – Metalravefun (Spooky Shit, Uganda) Vanishing Twin – Cryonic Suspension May Save Your Life (Fire Records, UK) Hotmood – Wanna be Lost (StarCreature10000000 Records, USA) Kapote – Pump It Edit (Toy Tonics, Germany) Girl Band – Salmon of Knowledge (Rough Trade Records, UK) WaqWaq Kingdom – Itadakimasu (Phantom Limb, UK) SPAZA – Ice Squincies (Waiting for You) (Mushroom Hour Half Hour, Netherlands) FFS Why Though & Filthy Gears – Bop Through Ya Manor (self release, UK) Tunes of Negation – Tundra Erotic (Cosmo Rhythmatic, Germany) Baby Val & Paco Pack – Bloody Skies (FTP, Germany) Deafkids – Alucinações de Comando (Neurot Recordings, USA) Local Artist – Boys Cry (Mood Hut, Canada) Angel Bat Dawid – We Are Starzz (International Anthem, USA) Felicia Atkinson – Moderato Cantabile (Shelter Press, 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  

The final podcast of 2019 sees us exploring more of our favourites from the year. We've been enjoying experimental South African jazz, hallucinatory music from Brazil, Canadian house music, French experimental sounds and loads more - roll on 2020! Tracklisting Girl Band - Salmon of Knowledge (Rough Trade Records, UK) WaqWaq Kingdom - Itadakimasu (Phantom Limb, UK) SPAZA - Ice Squincies (Waiting for You) (Mushroom Hour Half Hour, Netherlands) FFS Why Though & Filthy Gears - Bop Through Ya Manor (self release, UK) Tunes of Negation - Tundra Erotic (Cosmo Rhythmatic, Germany) Baby Val & Paco Pack - Bloody Skies (FTP, Germany) Deafkids - Alucinações de Comando (Neurot Recordings, USA) Local Artist - Boys Cry (Mood Hut, Canada) Angel Bat Dawid - We Are Starzz (International Anthem, USA) Felicia Atkinson - Moderato Cantabile (Shelter Press, 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 continue to celebrate some of our favourites from the year. There's been outstanding Middle Eastern techno, multiple tracks about moving at various pace, blistering Ugandan grime, experimental pop and lots more Tracklisting Ammar 808 and Cheb Hassen Tej - Zawali Fitness Club (Glitterbeat Records, Germany) Rainbow Grave - Ten Million Tons of Shit (God Unknown Records, UK) MC Yallah & Debmaster - Kubali (Hakuna Kulala, Uganda) Richard Dawson - Jogging (Domino Recording Co, UK) Ka Baird - Walking (RVNG Intl, USA) Sly & the Family Drone - New Free Spirits Falconry & Horseman Display (Love Love Records, UK) Hot in Da Club - Metalravefun (Spooky Shit, Uganda) Vanishing Twin - Cryonic Suspension May Save Your Life (Fire Records, UK) Hotmood - Wanna be Lost (StarCreature10000000 Records, USA) Kapote - Pump It Edit (Toy Tonics, 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  

Never mind the decade, 2019 itself has been crammed with incredible that needs shouting about again. We've had a year of South Asian hip hop, Mexican techno, Scandinavian jazz, Japanese experimental music and loads more to celebrate. We've got a bit of that this week, and will spend the rest of December celebrating the rest of it. Tracklisting Big Brave - Sibling (Southern Lord Recordings, USA) Bryte - Ice Cream (R&S Recordings / More Time Records, UK) Sarathy Korwar - Coolie (The Leaf Label, UK) Yao Bobby & Simon Grab - Bjole (LavaLava Records, UK) Negativland - Discernment (Seeland Productions, USA) Lokier - Fighting the Past (Pinkman, Netherlands) Caterina Barbieri - Closest Approach to Your Orbit (Editions Mego, Austria) Quelle Chris - Brain of the Ape (All City Records, Ireland) Fire! Orchestra - (I Am a) Horizon (Rune Grammofon, Norway) Fuji-Yuki - Blood Moon (Akuphone, 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

As everyone else retreats into 'best of' lists, we've got one more hour of tip-top new experimental sounds to fill your ears. There's Ukrainian rap, Chinese doom, Russian punk, Canadian organ music and pretty much everything in between.  We'll fall into line with our favourites of 2019 next week... Tracklisting Ecko Bazz - Kyusa Embela (Hakuna Kulala, Uganda) Gnoomes - Irma (Rocket Recordings, UK) Before the Revival - Irrelevant Filament (WV Sorcerer Productions, France / China) Colossal Squid - Swungert (Square Leg Records, UK) And The - Technologie (AB Records, France) Modern Technology - Queue Jumper (Live) (Exploding Head Sessions, UK) Moreno Ácido + Diogo - Coisa LEVE (Holuzam, Portugal) Alonya Alonya - Не перегоріти (HitWonder Records, Ukraine) Blake Hargreaves - Noël at Lindenkirche, Berlin (Ultra Eczema, Belgium) Squarepusher - Vortrack (Warp Records, 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