Totallyradio genre: indie

90 minutes of fresh music plucked from many genres. Including two pieces of essential urban synth pop from the new Real Lies album, the soulful French folk of Claire Days, a dancehall depth charge courtesy of The Bug, the majestic melancholic pop of Exit North, deep techno with The Headmaster, ambient soundscapes from Shared Services, and plenty more besides. From out of the vaults come the downtempo nu jazz of The Cinematic Orchestra, the glittering post punk of Magazine, and a true banger from LCD Soundsystem. Meanwhile, both of this week’s soundtrack music selections are taken from Jerry Goldsmith’s score for the classic 1992 thriller ‘Basic Instinct’. Dig in!

This week on the show: Smerz, catbandcat, COIDO, gyrofield, Ehua, Joni Void, Rankine. Splitterzelle. Lippard Arkbro Lindwall. Artificial Go, HAAi, DJ Guaraná Jesus, Onepointwo, Cubzoa. Yetsuby, bergsonist, ZEE, Goon and much more.

Swimming in Sound : Colin Newman & Malka Spigel’s weekly show (1:00 pm on Slack City) - an eclectic mix that cuts across many genres. Live on Slack City, catchup on @totallyradio. For two hours we play music & sound that has grabbed our attention this week & talk about it, be it new or old familiar or obscure. In this week's show we feature Felbm, Alien Nosejob, Bibi Club, Thing, Khalil EPI, The Limiñanas, Artificial Go, Muireann Ní Shé & Macdara Ó Faoláin, Slippers, Marisa Anderson, Thor & Friends, Francis Pig, Ammar 808, Le Volume Courbe, DJ SoFa, 3hattrio & Bob Dylan amongst others. This week we present the second of two shows long on music & short on speech. Consequently no Andy but we do of course include tracks by Wire, Minimal Compact and “something from us” this week another track by Githead, the project in which Robin Rimbaud & Max Franken play alongside us. Please note that for looking up tours by artists we play (including ourselves) – www.songkick.com & www.bandsintown.com are great ways to search. It’s worth looking even if we don’t announce dates! Photo taken in 1985 by Roy T. If you love what we do, please share this post on socials! Wednesdays at 1.00PM // Repeat at 3.00 PM Friday - all times UK - On DAB in Brighton, Manchester, Norwich & Portsmouth www.swimminginsound.com // www.slackcity.org.uk // @slackcity // email - swimming@swimminginsound.com - drop us a line & tell us where you are listening. (and thanks to everyone who has done that!)

Wots for Lunch Mum's April episode keeps it raw and DIY. Featuring Leopardo, 1-800 Mikey, and Anytime Cowboy to name a few. We're showcasing lo-fi underground sounds—messy, unpolished, and straight from the source. No frills, just great music. Tune in and dig in! Om nom nom....

Wots for Lunch Mum's March episode is stacked with raw punk energy! Featuring underground legends The Tubs, Split System, and Spy we’re serving up their latest tracks plus many more tasty morsels from around the world. It's not beans again.....

Wots for Lunch Mum's next episode features Perverts Again, Why Bother?, and Powerplant. Straight-up underground sounds, no nonsense. Tune in for raw energy, DIY spirit, and great music.

This month on The Keep Slack Album Club I'm joined by Megan Bush from crysometimes to talk about her one of her favourite albums, and films, ‘Camp Rock’. This was a new one to me and I had a blast listening to the album and talking to Meg about everything Camp Rock. To find out when Meg first fell in love with music, dream support slots and how to make sure you’re never late for a gig, press play now...

Episode 9 – From psychedelic rock to dark wave, shoegaze, and some very young talents in between, this episode explores a wide range of sounds from the Turkish alternative scene. Noir Horizon explores the moody and evocative soundscapes of Turkish indie, synth-pop, psychedelic pop, rock and new wave. Tune in every second Tuesday for one hour at 9am and enjoy the atmospheric and innovative spirit of Turkey’s contemporary music scene.

90 minutes of the best new music extracted from all points of the sonic compass. Including two pieces of cracking indie from Patients’s debut album, the French synth pop of Eat-Girls, sweet Americana with The Namby Pamby, the African industrial rhythms of Jako Maron, lo-fi psychedelia from Acid Tour Magazine, a sublime composition courtesy of Andrew Liles, and plenty more besides. From out of the vaults come the high energy rhythm and blues of Dr. Feelgood, sly late 70’s Akron pop from Jane Aire and the Belvederes, and the untethered sound of The Birthday Party. Meanwhile, this week’s film soundtrack music selections are Stomu Yamashta and John Williams’s score for the 1972 psychological horror ‘Images’ and John Barry’s music from the 1978 Bruce Lee action movie ‘Game of Death’. Dig in!

Japan Blues serves up a golden hour of Enka. The unique Japanese genre, somehow taking in strands of Country ballad, Fado, Blues and pop, evoking a nostalgia for a time that possibly never was. Often orchestrally backed, plucking at the heart strings with sentimentality, exploring well trodden paths of regret, sadness, lost love, infidelity and heartbreak, easily identified by early listeners who had fled the countryside for work in the growing urban landscape. Best viewed from the melted ice at the bottom of a glass of your favourite poison, while slumped over the counter at a small bar, mulling over life’s blind cruelty. But it doesn’t have to be miserabilist, there is something to be gained from facing one’s pain, to emerge from the precipice and face the world anew. This is the magic we learned from the Blues, transported to the other side of the Pacific. The musical style evolved from the early days of recording, melancholic burusu (blues) ballads, but in the 1960s and 70s it was re-promoted by record companies and absorbed by a younger pop fandom. Singers would be rigorously trained in exacting vocal technique, and stage direction for TV. Often with an expanded vocal range, and emphasis on extending notes with an exaggerated vibrato and ornate vocal styling - sometimes taken to melodramatic extremes. Once established, artists could carve out their own small territory of individual style, but they would be expected to exactly reproduce all their hit song’s elements, and stage moves. Some numbers get down and moody, some playfully incorporate early synths, others slip into a groove. What may seem on the surface as formulaic is merely a starting point, a template, evolved over time, though others remain completely unchanged. The sounds that would be heard blaring out of karaoke bars - before J- & K-pop sidelined them - in the covered shopping arcades scattered across the country. Mostly written in minor scale, strongly emphasising the mood, which radiates so strongly it can cross the boundary of language.

This week on the show: Smerz, Daughter of Swords, Revival Season, Felbm, Wombo, Antony Szmierek, Facta, Nuxx Vomica, Voka Gentle, Proper Monday Number, Yung Acid, Weval, Kilynn Lunsford, M(h)aol, lullahush, Retail Drugs, Tracey and much more.

Swimming in Sound : Colin Newman & Malka Spigel’s weekly show (1:00 pm on Slack City) - an eclectic mix that cuts across many genres. Live on Slack City, catchup on @totallyradio. For two hours we play music & sound that has grabbed our attention this week & talk about it, be it new or old familiar or obscure. In this week's show we feature Tigerblind, katie phelan, Ennio Morricone, Le Pain, AUA, Artificial Go, Erik Hall, Jock, John Beltran, Francis Bebey, Muireann Ní Shé, , Cowboy Sadness, Stevie Wonder, Arooj Aftab & Khruangbin & Pink Floyd amongst others. This week we present the first of two shows long on music & short on speech. Consequently no Andy but we do of course include tracks by Wire, Minimal Compact and “something from us” this week another track by Githead, the project in which Robin Rimbaud & Max Franken play alongside us. Please note that for looking up tours by artists we play (including ourselves) – www.songkick.com & www.bandsintown.com are great ways to search. It’s worth looking even if we don’t announce dates! Photo, with (the legendary) Max Franken taken by (the legendary) Daniel Nathan in Amsterdam. If you love what we do, please share this post on socials! Wednesdays at 1.00PM // Repeat at 3.00 PM Friday - all times UK - On DAB in Brighton, Manchester, Norwich & Portsmouth www.swimminginsound.com // www.slackcity.org.uk // @slackcity // email - swimming@swimminginsound.com - drop us a line & tell us where you are listening. (and thanks to everyone who has done that!)

A look into Shoegaze, Dreampop, Post Rock and all sorts of dreamy sounds from around the world with added ramblings in a weird hybrid accent. In association with https://www.whitelight-whiteheat.com/ [Listen live on Slack City - fortnightly on Sundays at 10pm]

Happy May! New tunes from Erika de Casier, Landokmai, ila, yeule and more!!

The mixed bag of all mixed bags – the may edition of footsteps is gentle yet severe, and somewhat sombre offering. File it under anticipation anxiety for the fast-approaching months of summer

We are joined live in the studio by the super stylish and eloquent Singer / Songwriter Joseph who chats to your hosts all things Star Print Clad.

All around the World from ancient times, the aeons of history to the 21st century. The smoke of CBGBs blows into and around John Lennon airport, then on to Paris via the Luton of the mind. There’s new songs with old bones and those that flowed from the pens of writers now gone, still trapped in the amber of songs that live on in eternity. A.V. and Madonovan celebrate it all. Madonovan is feeling excited about his London debut second gig and plays tracks from the bands he’ll be meeting there. A.V. is in a New York state of mind this time. So much to love, so little time…

Order and disorder, a freeform haze of garbage guitars, shorted electronics, found detritus, collage, linear songs, sounds from strange lands.

Three Dimensional Tanx, NO, Shelton San, Gloin, Hell Beings, Narrow Faint, Parliament, Odonis Odonis, Mirror of Haze, Fontaines D.C., Ian And The Vicars plus a heap of others!

Swimming in Sound : Colin Newman & Malka Spigel’s weekly show (1:00 pm on Slack City) - an eclectic mix that cuts across many genres. Live on Slack City, catchup on @totallyradio. For two hours we play music & sound that has grabbed our attention this week & talk about it, be it new or old familiar or obscure. In this week's show we feature Joseph Shabason & Spencer Zahn, Frankie Cosmos, EVABOY, Cerys Hafana, TRAAMS, Carl Craig, Girl Group, Laura Cannell, Sofia Kourtesis & Daphni, Le Volume Courbe, Jock, Cubzoa, Little Simz, marine eyes, Alien Nosejob, Elkotsh & Pink Floyd amongst others. No Andy this week but we do of course include tracks by Wire (well actually Wir this week), Minimal Compact and “something from us” this week a track by Githead, the project n which Robin Rimbaud & Max Franken play alongside us. Please note that for looking up tours by artists we play (including ourselves) – www.songkick.com & www.bandsintown.com are great ways to search. It’s worth looking even if we don’t announce dates! Photo taken originally in Brighton. If you love what we do, please share this post on socials! Wednesdays at 1.00PM // Repeat at 3.00 PM Friday - all times UK - On DAB in Brighton, Manchester, Norwich & Portsmouth www.swimminginsound.com // www.slackcity.org.uk // @slackcity // email - swimming@swimminginsound.com - drop us a line & tell us where you are listening. (and thanks to everyone who has done that!)