Independent Music Podcast

Our second to last podcast before we delve into our review of 2019 shows that the year's slew of quality new music isn't slowing down just yet. Just breathe in the sheer immensity of that Flying Luttenbachers track, or the long-awaited new material from Detroit's Andres. We're also increasingly looking forward to 2020, with the first taste of Katie Gately's record on Houndstooth whetting the appetite. Elsewhere there's Korean and Iranian experimentation, Gameboy chiptune, French new wave and a whole lot more. Tracklisting Dame Area - Zaman çabuk geçiyor (Kess Kill, Sweden) Baston - Primates (Howlin’ Banana Records, France) Katie Gately - Bracer (Houndstooth Records, UK) Andres - What’s UR Name Again (Mahogani Music, USA) Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Our Quiet Whisper (Castle Face Records, USA) Tehransmission - Leaving the Planet (Unexplained Sounds Group, Italy) David Thomas Broughton & ITTA - Trembling Flower Extract 1 (Bloxham Tapes, UK) Robot Riddims - Perfect Score (self-release, UK) The Flying Luttenbachers - Praalude (ugEXPLODE Records, USA) Miquela - I A De Sers (Finders Keepers 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  

Over 250 episodes, the Independent Music Podcast has promoted 3,200 independent artists and record labels. On episode 250, we're doing nothing more than continuing to promote the most interesting artists from across the globe. We start off with one of our favourite new labels out of Germany - Edelfaul - who have twisted krautrocky experimentation for us, we move swiftly through the gears, with drone jazz, abstract footwork, dark neoclassical, cumbia, plunderphonics and a whole lot more. Tracklisting Atomvulkan Britz - Britzkrieg Bop (Edelfaul Recordings, Germany) Pulled By Magnets - Invite Them In (Tak:til, Germany) Baby Val & Paco Pack - Bloody Skies (FTP Records, Germany) Scorn - Never Let It Be Said (Ohm Resistance, USA) Elizabeth Joan Kelly - Baleen Executioner (self-release, USA) Luminous Bodies - Choices (Box Records, UK) The Mauskovic Dance Band - Take The Money (Octopus Version) (Les Disques Bongo Joe, Switzerland) Nnja Riot - Mefiti Beats (self-release, UK) C&LG - That One Dude Who Decided That His Post-Hardcore Band Will Really Prosper From Experimenting With Their Sound Is Really Gay (Pole Younger, Russia) Liturgy - HAJJ (YLYLCYN, 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  

Musical interval training is the feel of this week's podcast, as we take sharp, sudden shifts from extraordinarily uptempo high-NRG tunes to extraordinarily low-NRG stunners. We've got Korean future funk, abstract electronics from one half of Sleaford Mods, New Zealand dancehall and loads more. Tracklisting Sign Libra - Sea of Islands (RVNG Intl, USA) Night Tempo - Dystopia (self-release, South Korea) Rachael Dadd - Animal (Memphis Industries, UK) Brother Ali - Situated (feat. Pharoahe Monch) (Rhymesayers Entertainment, USA) Extnddntwrk - Gnome (Fourth Dimension, UK) Tippa Lee & Naram - Down in the Ghetto (Red Robin Records, New Zealand) Neumes - Kali (self-release, UK) The Nag's Head - Cusp (Kit Records, UK) Craven Faults - Deipkier (The Leaf Label, UK) Bayview Acid Squirrels - Love is the Slug (Squirrels on Film, 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  

Kick your weekend off with music from a Thai folk dance before taking in our hour of hefty noise, dub experimentation from Portland, Chinese techno, tip top contemporary bass music and loads more. Tracklisting Sebastian Reynolds - Cherd (performed by The Jongkraben Ensemble) (PinDrop Records, UK) Mike Neaves - Shovelwave (self-release, UK) HXXS - Double Down (Captured Tracks, USA) SVB - Kick Up the Mud (Samarbeta, UK) Heavens Blade - Concrete Rope (self-release, USA) Iona Fortune - Tóng Rén 同人 (Ecstatic Recordings, UK) Dissemblance - Capture (Mannequin Records, Germany) Lightning Bolt - Hüsker Dön't (Thrill Jockey, USA) Palace Lido - Used Car (Czaszka (rec.), UK) Ahadadream - Melty (More Time, UK / R&S 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

A bit woozy this week after some blistering music on podcast #246. There are film noir vibes from Germany, rare Obokano music from Kenya, synthpop from Spain, roots reggae from a trio of legendary producers, and loads more. Tracklisting Scalping - Ruptured (Council Records, UK) Crème de Hassan - Song of Dawn (Inversions, UK) Keeley Forsyth - Debris (The Leaf Label, UK) BBC (Dennis Bovell, Jimmy Brown & Steve Cobby) - Quality Weed (Déclassé Records, UK) Grandmaster Masese - Orogena Rwa Baba (Dagortti Records, USA) Myōboku - Cosaguapa (Foehn Records, Spain) Bohren & der Club of Gore - Sollen es doch Alle wissen (PIAS, UK) Jay Glass Dubs - An Ambivalent Path (Berceuse Heroique, UK) ZONAL - In A Cage (feat. Moor Mother) (Relapse Records, USA) Danny T & Tradesman - Crazy ft Warrior Queen (Samurai Breaks Remix) (Scotch Bonnet, 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    

Heading for the usual extremities this week, flicking between Mexican disco, Chicago jazz, and extreme metal in the first handful of tracks before heading into the deeper realms of sharp Russian punk, off-kilter synth pop, techno, and middle eastern acid. Tracklisting Hotmood - Esta Noche (Star Creature Universal Vibrations, USA) Angel Bat Dawid - Black Family (International Anthem, USA) Creeping Death - Bloodlust Contamination (eOne Heavy, USA) Sereias - Primeiro Ministro (Lovers & Lollypops, Portugal) Throwing Snow - Nought to Gain (Houndstooth, UK) Acid Arab - Électrique Yarghol (feat. Hasan Minawi) (Crammed Discs, Belgium) Jahdan Blakkamoore - Liberation Over Liberace (Dub-Stuy, USA) Злурад - Карусель ([addicted label], Russia) Teplice - I Used to Wait (Pastel Prism, UK) Sun Ra Arkestra - Children of the Sun (Lanquidity 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

Some of the best tunes of the year in this week's show, not least the absolute dancefloor smasher from Kenya-based MC Yallah. Elsewhere there hefty industrial sounds from Israel, the latest from the brilliant Clipping, Australian finger-picking folk, noise from Shit & Shine and a whole lot more. Tracklisting I'm Being Good - Furniture With Feet (Infintite Chug Records, UK) MC Yallah & Debmaster - Kubali (Hakuna Kulala, Uganca) Stefan Fraunberger - Elegie (Morphine Music, Germany) Black Chama - Voodoo Rabbit (Raash Records, Israel) Clipping - Blood of the Fang (Sub Pop Records, USA) D.C Cross - Presslufthammer Catfight (self-release, Australia) Torpor - Two Heads on Gold (Truthseeker Music, UK / Sludgelord Records, UK / Moment of Collapse, Germany / Smithsfoodgroup DIY, Netherlands / Medusa Crush Recordings, Canada) Shit and Shine - Salty Tomato (Riot Season Records, UK) Disrupt - The Souls Formula (Zonedog, Germany) Roger Robinson - Stay (NoCorner 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

Bristol sounds are high on the agenda for this week's Independent Music Podcast from the brutal sounds of the new Pinch EP on Berceruse Heroique to the latest from the wonderful Avon Terror Corps project. Elsewhere we have abstract hiphop from Ghana, Hawaiian leftfield music, Finnish krautrock, Argentinian dance music about dinosaurs and loads more. Tracklisting Pinch - Fortune Tellers (Berceruse Heroique, UK) Haircuts for Men - Cマイナーに嘆きます (Haircuts for Men, USA) Los Siquicos Litoraleños - La Danza Del Brontosaurio (Hive Mind Records, UK) Pharaoh Overlord - Abscission (Ektro Records, Finland) Anne Müller - Nummer 2 (Erased Tapes, UK) Friedman & Pais - untitled (Nonplace, Germany) Ekoplekz - Volcanik (Avon Terror Corps, UK) Klein - For What Worth ft. Matana Roberts (ijn inc, USA) Wanlov the Kubolor - Dis Be Ghana (self-release, Ghana) Fahmi Mursyid - Hening (Saron) (One Instrument Records, 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  

On the show this week we have the new collaboration between podcast favourites Charles Hayward Laura Cannell, Andre Bosman and Ex Easter Island Head. We have abstract madness from Brazil, punk from Ukraine, the latest from Poland's Trupa Trupa and a lot more. Tracklisting Bonnacons of Doom - ESUS (Rocket Recordings, UK) Satanique Samba Trio - Badtriptronics #09 (Rebel Up! Records, Belgium) Whistling Arrow - Forking Paths (feat. Charles Hayward Laura Cannell, Andre Bosman, Ex Easter Island Head) (God Unknown Records, UK) Gut Fauna - Crisis Actor (Ingrown Records, USA) Yao Bobby & Simon Grab - Diamonds (Lava Lava Records, UK) Pletnev - Hope They Won't Come Back (Lion's Drums Remix) (Le Temps Perdu, Germany) Trupa Trupa - Mangle (Glitterbeat Records, Germany) Chillera - Pro Fun (Muscut, Ukraine) Ben Vince & Jacob Samuel - Fig 3 (First Terrace Records, UK) Diarmuid J Kennedy - The Brokenheart (self-release, Ireland)   Produced and Edited by Nick McCorriston. Hit him up for any and all audio work at nickamc.com and follow him on Twitter @nickamc    

Thank you for continuing to listen and share the podcast, every week we love bringing new music to your ears and this week is no different. We have music from Yemen, avant garde jazz from Russia, Thai funk from the Netherlands, filthy dubstep and a load more...   Tracklisting El Khat (القات) - Ya Raiyat (يا راعيات) (Batov Records, UK) Rainbow Grave - Ten Million Tons of Shit (God Unknown Records, UK) YĪN YĪN - One Inch Punch (Les Disques Bongo Joe, Switzerland) Pan•american - Memphis Helena (Kranky, USA) French Mount Ultra - Obelisk (#Feelings, USA) Innercity Ensemble - The Great Meadow (Instant Classic, Poland) Mirrored Lips - Стамбульское радио (self-release, Russia) Head & Leg - Softyhead (Slovenly Recordings, USA) Somah & Nova - Heart Sprint (Scrub a Dub, UK) I Know I'm An Alien - My Mind Wants to Kill Me (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  

Panamanian soul, Indonesian experimentation, Colombian acid cumbia, Kenyan industrial, Lewisham grime and a whole lot more, it's just a standard week of the Independent Music Podcast. We're also exploring the latest sounds from China, Australia, and France.   Tracklisting Electric Capablanca - Karpov Counter (Kit Records, UK) WaqWaq Kingdom - Doggy Bag (Phantom Limb, UK) Flohio - Way2 (Alpha, UK) Los Pirañas - Puerta del Sol (Glitterbeat Records, Germany) Dead Already - White Foam (self-release, Australia) Wahono - 3’20 (Divisi62, Indonesia) Jaimie Branch - Prayer for Amerikkka pt 1 & 2 (International Anthem, USA) Slikback & Hyph11E - ISHU (SVBKVLT, China) Jeanot Lou Paysan - Eurodance (self-release, France) Ralph Weeks & Combo Lulo - Algo Muy Profundo (Names You Can Trust, 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  

Showcasing the best independent music around right now, this week's pod takes us from DR Congo via Uganda, to a Brighton beach, through Italian dancehall, German filth house, abstract folk and into all reaches of experimental and forward-thinking music in between. Tracklisting Rey Sapienz - Dancehall Pigmé (Hakuna Kulala, Uganda) Merlin Nova - Just Calling (self-release, UK) CMPND - E.W.A. (High Focus Records, UK) Ka Baird - Symanimagenic (RVNG Intl., USA) Otang - Rot Yr Brain (Ware Collective, UK) Giant Swan - 55 Year Old Daughter (KECK, UK) Kapote - Delirio Italiano (Dub) (Toy Tonics, Germany) HTRK - Venus in Leo (Ghostly International, USA) Tiberias Towa & Tom Spirals - Flex Like Water (Pure Niceness Records, France) Alice Hubble - Atlantis Palm (Happy Robots, 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   

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 (Morphine Records, Germany) Jeremiah Jae – All Me (ft Karenbe) (Hit + Run, USA) Norvis Junior – Not Normal (New Math Records, USA)  

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 him up for any and all audio work at nickamc.com and follow him on Twitter @nickamc