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Aka LA based experimental circuit bender, Chris Holland, one of the few people I know perfectly placed to listen to the show when it goes out live on a Saturday evening in California. I was chatting to him recently about if he'd fancy becoming a regular crewmember on the show (as well as please could he un-spam my posts in several Facebook groups he's an admin for coz The Zuckerberg keeps picking on me and a million and one other independent fringe musicians), Dr. Amokian being mentioned as the inventor of the Kawaquad Amokabot. Sadly, he politely declined, so I found a computer generated replacement with a really creepy voice to do the job instead. And then he gave me a nice surprise by sending a couple of jingles in for the show. Okay, they both mention the old title of "Dr. Magic's Audio Lab", but how was he to know? Appreciated, Chris, thanks. Offer's still open... https://igoramokian.bandcamp.com/music
Been a while since we had Finland's other space rock legend (the other one is Juba, pay attention, there may be a pop quiz afterwards) on the show, but then we were off the air for three months. This is the highly prolific Santtu Laakso, ex of the mighty Dark Sun. I mean, these two pieces come from the album 'Dance Of Destiny', it was only released in March and there have been another eight Astral Magic releases since. I could play a whole album on each show and still not keep up. But it would be great fun trying! You certainly won't have to wait seven months for your next dose, promise. Meanwhile, their daily expanding Bandcamp awaits the application of your aural receptors... https://astralmagic.bandcamp.com
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07. Christian Wittman - Radio Source (5:52) One of the founding members of French electronic group Lightwave, Christian remains very active in the ambient fields of sound exploration. The featured track comes from 'Cassiopeia', his first album of 2025, though looking at his Bandcamp, I see there have been another three releases since. With this album, he explained that he'd long been planning (I'm quite familiar with that phrase, if I'm honest) an 'experimental and abstract space album' (he knows what we want) for some time, something of a Lightwave revival and riffing on the early life of Tangerine Dream. This is most certainly it. His latest album, as of August, is called 'Acheron', expect some of that on the show in the not too distant future. Until then... https://christianwittman.bandcamp.com https://lightwave-musique.bandcamp.com 08. Kathodos - Hanging Tree (radio edit - 2:10)
https://youtu.be/Z2tYvYekTnw?si=CBTx0TA9NA7IQveW
Extra Special Guest: Lavinia Mari Reprising her role as High Priestess of The Kathodos, those magical aliens who gave our beloved WSS Boobyprise a major league upgrade back in episode 17: 'The Good, The Bad & The Upgrade'. And she'll be back in the next one too (which she'll be finding out just about now), probably along with another nice piece from that excellent album she did with Olik Nesnah, 'Chasing Shadows Of Another World'. Rarely does one come across a young lady that can not only make cool fringe music, but also does groovy dancing and artfully delivers lines like "Of course you have, sausage." And they say you can't get the staff these days... https://slitheringblackrecords.bandcamp.com/album/chasing-shadows-of-another-world
Press release, very professional, let's make use of it and give myself a coffee break; "Back in time, it was 2015 when Muff Dada & Know.Høw met each other, as they needed to toast thousands of sandwiches at the hottest spot in town. It didn't take long for them to realize that music was their shared passion. The Sofa Workers project took immediate shape and flesh. A live jam synth session from the couch... which many other artists joined & loved, and still do today, as time has brought 'Stereo Junkies', their masterpiece of collaboration over the years. A groovy, dark, and explosive musical mix of break beats combined with live vocal samples that flirt with the mainstream music scene while digging underground." I've already used one track from this wonderful EP, which you can listen to on Bandcamp or You Tube as you prefer, got my eyes on more yet too. Ostensibly trip-hoppers, Muff Dada drop easily into other realms too, through jazz, post punk et al. Collaboration certainly brings out the creative in them. More to come, but don't miss this while you're waiting... https://sevenbeatsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/stereo-junkies
10. Deborah Fialkiewicz - Worm (2:15) Off to the other side of The Pennines for this one, as far as you can go without falling into the sea the other side of the country, to Hull, which must be nice, people are always telling me to go there. Deborah describes herself as an 'avant garde artist' and a 'composer of classical and electronic ambient music', and I would add transsexual warrior to that, coz why not take a hard stand for your inalienable right to be who and what you are? And she does just that, definitely not a Harry Potter fan. Wasn't this the very ethos the cassette culture underground of the 80s and 90s was built on? Not the dislike of boy wizards, I meant working together based on what we have in common, rather than bickering about how we differ. And what we do have in common is a love of fringe music; create and survive! The featured track is from the album 'Genetic Radio i.d.' (I keep wanting to correct those to capital letters, the joys of Asperger's, eh?), which is what Number One often calls Skit, so it fitted the show perfectly. Go, girl... |
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09. Muff Dada & Know.Høw - Mini.Sofa (5:08)