Independent Music Podcast

This week we're covering the usual number of miles and sounds, whether it's electronics from Uganda, dub from Romania, or indie music from Leeds. We have the new one from podcast favourite Surgeon, we also have new tracks from Twenty-three Hanging Trees, Jun Kamoda, Mary Epworth, Drahla, The Cosmic Dead, and Siobhan Wilson

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 McPhee, less de

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.