Independent Music Podcast

We on the move this week, but that doesn't stop us delivering your weekly dose of ten truly astounding pieces of music. From the Indian prog flute experiments of Ramasandiran Somusundaram through to the extreme sampling of Mai Mai Mai, punk from Tough Tits, folk from Meursault and reggae from Strictly Sound, it's your usual mixed bag of goodness

Scottish-infused Philadelphian hiphop kicks us off this week. We have ten tracks exploring Italian library music, soul jazz, Malian folk, and power electronics. We also have a tribute to the late William Onyeabor, who passed away last week.

Our first show of 2017 shows that not all things change with time. Ten tracks of wonderful independent music, from the Bollywood-soaked garage punk of Doctors & Engineers to the experimental electronics of Blanck Mass, stopping off for an exclusive first play from the new Roger Robinson and Disrupt record, new Ty Segall, a new Kiki Hitomi and Dead Fader collaboration and much more.

Our last show of 2016 sees us looking forward and talking about what we're anticipating in 2017. That includes labels who have emerged this year, artists with long-awaited album releases, and albums coming out early in the year that we want to shout about. Thank you for all your support in 2016, see you in 2017

To celebrate the festive season we've got a mix of ten Christmas songs that are either outstanding or silly. Tracklisting: Martin Mill & The Sondra Baskin Glee Club - Santafly Dent May - I’ll Be Stoned for Christmas Venetian Snares - Xmas Song The Beach Boys - Little Saint Nick Cassetteboy - Happy Cliffmas Sam Sweetsinger Bell - Happy Birthday Jesus Louis Armstrong - Zat You Santa Claus Half Man Half Biscuit - It’s Clichéd to be Cynical at Christmas Lee ‘scratch’ Perry - Merry Christmas, Happy Ne

2016 has been a horrible year for all sorts of reasons, but sometimes you do forget that this is the year that we heard some incredible music. Whether it's that random tape from Gainstage back in March, or that Egyptian supergroup the Dwarfs of East Agouza, or whether its the latest from mind-blowing Lewisham grime group The Square, or whether it's one of the other seven tracks we have on this look back at some of our favourites from a year we're all hoping to put to bed soon... Thanks so much for listening

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