Distraction Therapy

This episode of Distraction Therapy moves through a vivid field of contemporary Japanese pop, rock, hip-hop and electronic songcraft. The mix is bright, precise and [...] Source

This episode of Distraction Therapy moves through music that seems to arrive from elsewhere. Some of it feels as if it has been transmitted across [...] Source

This edition of Distraction Therapy moves through a contemporary Japanese and Japan-adjacent soundworld shaped by electronic minimalism, platform pop, balladry, actor-singer performance, soundtrack atmosphere, urban [...] Source

This  edition of Distraction Therapy follows a mix that moves through release, uncertainty, warmth, memory and late-night abstraction. It is not a mix built around [...] Source

This edition of Distraction Therapy moves through Japanese soundtrack music, technopop, electronic minimalism, guitar rock, singer-songwriter balladry and contemporary pop. What connects the tracks is [...] Source

There is a peculiar paradox at the heart of contemporary life. We have unprecedented access to information, techniques, systems and processes, yet many people struggle [...] Source

This edition of Distraction Therapy is arranged around the idea of cultural emergence. That phrase can sound abstract, but the experience itself is familiar. A [...] Source

What happens when art leaves the gallery and returns to the places where people live? That question sat quietly in the background as I visited [...] Source

What happens when a mix begins with the feeling of being named, tagged, measured and watched? Part Two of Distraction Therapy moves through a more [...] Source

What kind of feeling does a mix create before we can explain it? This first hour of Distraction Therapy begins with Brian Eno’s “An Ending [...] Source

Distraction Therapy with Rob Watson now goes out on Soar Sound, community radio from Leicester and across the East Midlands, on Wednesdays from nine to [...] Source

Distraction Therapy is broadcast on Soar Sound on Wednesdays, 9pm to 11pm. This episode of Distraction Therapy includes a short edited feature recorded at a [...] Source

What is a mixtape for? Not only to collect songs. Not only to show taste. Not only to keep a record of what was listened to [...] Source

What is a mixtape for? Is it a map, a diary, a spell, a sequence of rooms, or a way of quietly rearranging the furniture inside [...] Source

This edition of Distraction Therapy gathers music that seems to hover at the point where private feeling becomes audible, but before it has hardened into [...] Source

This episode of Distraction Therapy sits in a productive tension. On one side, it draws from recognisable strands of Japanese alternative rock, pop, remix culture [...] Source

This Distraction Therapy mix moves through Japanese indie, rock, alternative pop and electronic-adjacent music as a sequence of thresholds. It is not a strict genre [...] Source

This music mix episode of Distraction Therapy unfolds less as a sequence of songs than as a slow passage through altered emotional weather. The tracks [...] Source

This episode is a reflective mixtape journey through Japanese ambient pop, technopop, cinematic melancholy, and electronic modernism. Featuring music by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Susumu Hirasawa, Kenshi Yonezu, and more, exploring memory, liminality, urban solitude, and unfinished futures.

There are conversations that move in straight lines, and there are conversations that circle, return, and deepen. This discussion between Rob Watson and Dr Bret [...] Source

This episode of Distraction Therapy unfolds as a winter conversation, shaped as much by mood as by argument. Recorded in mid-January, it opens in that [...] Source

This week’s recording was shaped by the steady rain outside and the slow process of returning to everyday routines after two weeks in Japan. The [...] Source

As I recorded today’s Distraction Therapy podcast, I found myself once again at Leicester Cathedral, shaded from the intense summer heat, contemplating the disorientation and [...] Source

It’s a warm, blustery Monday afternoon in Leicester, and I’m sitting in the cathedral gardens with a notebook and a recorder. After some time away [...] Source

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