Independent Music Podcast

Every week the Independent Music Podcast brings you new music for your adventurous ears. To support the podcast and get bonus episodes, please join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/independentmusicpodcast This week's show brings you the unbelievable new collaboration between Jlin and Wayne McGregor's contemporary choreography show 'Autobiography', we also have experimental folk from Germany,...

Congolese power showers, gnarly metal, and beautiful, stunning folk music pepper this week's podcast. In amongst the usual blend of conscious hiphop, abstract and experimental electronics, and avant garde Japanese jazz. We have the latest from long-time favourite Bass Clef as well as new music from across the globe. Tracklisting RP Boo - Earth's Battle Dance (Planet Mu, UK) KOKOKO! - Azo Toke (ICI...

After the chilled week last week, we're unashamedly throwing bangers at you on this week's pod. The brutal, brilliant pop sounds of SOPHIE kick us off, as we travel through stunning sounds from Khalab's new record, a new Ugandan record label releasing heavy bass sounds, Lewisham grime fro Flohio, and Polish experimental music from Edinburgh. Tracklisting SOPHIE - Ponyboy (Transgressive Records, UK...

Back from our Bulgarian excursion we've got a whole load of good stuff waiting for you. We've got alternative rock stylings of Birmingham's Dorcha alongside experimental sounds of Ben Vince. We have legendary techno producer Samuel Kerridge's new track, mutant jungle from Sophia Loizou, a surprising folk project from Roger Robinson, reggae from Parly B, hiphop, Latvian experimentation and loads mo...

With the boys out on a Bulgarian beach celebrating their friends' nuptials, we're taking you back to this time last year when we had jazz from Ireland alongside US psych from Moon Duo, garage from Howlin’ Banana Records’ Dusty Mush, the latest from Uganda’s Nyege Nyege Tapes, the brilliant Stand High Patrol have a new track. We also have drone, electro, indie and a charity repress from Coil Trackl...

After last week's smooth funk openers, let's get a little more brutal shall we? Raw Ambassador's Mental Disorder track is as intense as the artist name and title would suggest, and it takes brave ears to get through that. But persist and (more) rewards are forthcoming - the outstanding collaboration between Aidan Moffat and RM Hubbert for one, and Marlowe - the L'Orange and Solemn Brigham collabor...

This week's podcast starts off of the funky side, with smooth jazz funk from The Comet is Coming-affiliated Soccer96 and Henry Wu's Kamaal Williams. We get as nasty as usual though, with Miss Red and The Bug's latest, giallo disco from Parasols, and the mesmerising Batu record on XL. Elsewhere we have the latest from Brazilian samba legend Elza Soares, gorgeous music from Filho da Mãe, pop hip hop...

Dark, dangerous music on this week's podcast as the guys bring along twisted sounds from thrash punk to industrial techno to epic goth drone. It's almost relieving when we get Streets of Rage invoking Korean electronics of Pal Hwang Dan, the new one from Gazelle Twin, and Pye Corner Audio moniker Head Technician Tracklisting Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids - A Message to my People (Strut, UK) Gazell...

Anthony has been very ill this week (please send flowers, love, and lemsip) so we're going to look back at where we were this time last year. On episode 140 we were very excited by Ugandan dance music, Romanian electronics, and Surgeon. Not much has changed really... Tracklisting Disco Vumbi – Didi at Night (Nyege Nyege Tapes, Uganda) Twenty-three Hanging Trees – II (self-release, UK) Jun Kamoda –...

This week's pod has Gareth and Anthony in fine fettle. Lengthy tracks from Sudanese tambour artist Abu Obaida Hassan, Earth legend Dylan Carlson, and London jazz staple Emanative punctuate a show full of dark doom, Estonian synth pop, blistering Lithuanian techno, crete experimentation, and a whole lot more. Tracklisting Abu Obaida Hassan & His Tambour - Qamar Al Massa (Moon of the Night) (Ostinat...

This week's show kicks out a little harder than last week's, with the exceptional Jamaican grime cut from the ever-excellent No Hats No Hoods label. We have psych from Jerusalem, avant garde industrial jazz from Russia, abstract electronics from Japan and whole host of goodies. Tracklisting Newbaan - Badda than Dem (No Hats No Hoods, UK) Lucrecia Dalt - Tar (RVNG Intl., USA) Сольвычегодск - Фуга л...

You know you're getting the party started when your podcast opens with an abstract 7-minute flute number, but the gorgeous new track from Cara Stacey and Camilo Ángeles demands attention. Elsewhere we have the wonderful new record from Jean Grae and Quelle Chris. Just because we're not done with collaborations, we also have the spectacular Turkey-Swiss collaboration of Derya Yildirim and Grup Şimş...

After our holidays we're back (for good). We've got a whole host of goodies for you, including the collaboration made in heaven between dubstep and grime pioneers The Bug and Burial. We have Indian music from Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, Ugandan sounds from Jora MC and Congo's Kongoloko, more Congolese music from Mushapata, the epic new Gnod track, soundtrack music from New York's Léah Lazonick, a c...

Our last track from the archives starts with the still sounding fresh sounds of Fufanu. It also has Swindle, Dennis Bovell and the brilliant Yussef Kamaal. We'll be back next week with a brand new show Tracklisting Fufanu – Sports (One Little Indian, UK) Steve Lehman – Are You in Peace? (Pi Recordings. USA) Off World – Extraction (Constellation Records, Canada) Dennis Bovell – Heaven (Optimo Music...

We're two weeks into our three week break. This week our archival episode kicks of with the stunning sounds Brazilian legend Elza Soares and her otherworldly album from 2016. Tracklisting Elza Soares – Maria da Vila Matilde (Mais Um Discos, Brazil) Manuela – Cracks in the Concrete (Lost Map Records, UK) Æthenor – Hazel (VHF Records, USA) Asher Senator meets Bony Fly – Tick Tick Boom (Pure Niceness...

We're away for the next three weeks, so every Monday we're picking some podcasts from the archives. In this first one - originally broadcast in May 2016 - we kick off with a crazy Todd Terje edit of some old graphic Norwegian music. It just gets better from there... Tracklisting Beranek – Dra Te Hælvete (Todd Terje acid radio edit) (Olsen Records, Norway) Witching Waves – Twister (Happy Happy Birt...

This week we stretch out into the far reaches of electronic music, including a sublime piece of work from Indonesian artist Uwalmassa, game soundtrack art from Manami Matsumae, and drones from South Carolina's German Army. We also have Romanian psych from Rodion G.A., the best rock record of 2018 from Anthroprophh, acid techno from UKAEA and loads more. Tracklisting Miracle - Light Mind (Relapse R...

Back from our week of flu with a show jammed with the usual blend of wonky sounds and questionable chatter. Highlights this week include a cut from the Brownswood Recordings compilation of the sound of London's jazz scene, ably illustrated by Shabaka Hutchings. We have the comeback of DOOM, featuring on the latest Dabrye record, bonkers French sounds from Zad Kokar, tribal noise from DJ Khalab, su...

Nothing warms up the snowy streets of South London like some hot South African boogie, but wherever you happen to be listening, you're sure to be enjoying the latest from Soundway records. We have lots of decadent music this week - from Italian producer Silvia Kastel's smelting pot of techno influences, Orchestra of Constant Distress's brutal noise rock, Lando Chill's Tucson hiphop, or Dan Shake's...

Old favourites and some new ones this week as Canadian breakcore stalwart Venetian Snares returns with a new record of glitchy beats and elongated track titles. We also have a debut release from Paper Dollhouse and the latest in the monthly series from Moscow avantgarde quintet Сольвычегодск Tracklisting Warmduscher - Big Wilma (The Leaf Label, UK) Chris Carter - Blissters (Mute Records, UK)  Solo...

Gareth from the podcast takes us through his favourite labels for 2017. Taking in ten labels and playing 19 tracks over the two hours. Featuring labels from London, Bristol, Kampala, and elsewhere Tracklisting Sooper Records (Chicago, USA) Nnamdi Ogbonnaya - Let Go Of My Ego Diagonal Records (London, UK) Not Waving - Where Are We  Shit & Shine - Hot Shovel The Leaf Label (Leeds, UK) Snapped Ankles...

The final show of 2017 showcases just how fantastic the year has been for UK labels. Nine of the final ten tracks of our best of are from UK record labels, covering rock, metal, italo-disco, jazz, dub, techno and a whole host of good stuff. We also have Japanese afrobeat just to mix it up. Thank you to all our listeners for a great year, we'll be back early in 2018. Tracklisting Jane Weaver - The...

We continue our selection of favourites from 2017. In part two we cover Egyptian-influenced electronics, industrial music from Portland, the biggest hiphop star on the planet, Israeli dancehall, and a whole lot more. Tracklisting Al Lover & Cairo Liberation Front - Level One (Höga Nord Rekords, Sweden) Kendrick Lamar - Humble (Top Dawg Entertainment, USA) Sea Moss - Diurnal Enuresis (Crash Symbols...

The first of our three part 'best of 2017' showcases some of our favourite tunes from the year. This week we have the 7" stunner from Idris Ackamoor, the digital dubs of Roger Robinson and Disrupt, hip hop from Ill Camille, the best track from Gnod's mouthful of an LP - JUST SAY NO TO THE PSYCHO RIGHT​-​WING CAPITALIST FASCIST INDUSTRIAL DEATH MACHINE - Russian punks Mirrored Lips and a load more....

In the last episode before we start reviewing the year we find independent labels still squeezing out incredible records. We have intense Ugandan drums from Nihiloxica, we have the first record in 15 years form Ethiopian legend Hailu Mergia. We have Christmas music from Ela Orleans, techno from Autumns, tuba drone from ORE, new music from Jane Weaver, and Ben Reimer and loads more. Tracklisting Ni...