The Quietus Radio

Nov 27 2024 82 ep. 48 mins 12.2k
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The Quietus brings you a variety of new radio every week from co-founders Luke and John, reviews editor Anna Wood, news editor Christian Eede and special guest hosts.

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New Voices Ukraine: Memory Leaks VI – Getting Physical in a Digital World, With Pep Gaffe

Nov 27 2024 57 mins  
The last episode of our series made in collaboration with 20ft Radio explores music trends post-Maidan and being “a rhizomatic thing” during wartime. Why do we need labels nowadays, especially in Ukraine? Especially when the manufacturer pulps most of your vinyl debut release before it’s even left the factory? A good question, answered in part by the guests in the fina

New Voices Ukraine: Memory Leaks V – How a Single Radio Show Shaped Odesa’s Music Scene

Oct 22 2024 54 mins  
In the latest instalment of our collaboration with Kyiv's 20ft Radio we hear tales of taxi drivers horrified by music, “Baroque pop”, paying tribute to Twiggy Pop, and ask what is an Independent label, in Ukraine The fifth Memory Leaks episode is a trip to the south of Ukraine in the 2000s and 2010s. We talk to Dmytro Vekov, a man with a “penchant for pseudonyms” and

New Voices Ukraine: Memory Leaks IV – How The Underground Embraced Dub and Rejected the Mainstream

Sep 22 2024 80 mins  
This is the story of how a small Ukrainian label evolved away from expectations of Ukrainian music as being all about folk music. The fourth episode of the Memory Leaks sees us stepping back into the Ukraine of the 2000s to take a closer look at the phenomenon of small indie labels and how the underground developed in unexpected ways. Our guest is Serhii Dubrowskii aka Dubmasta. Du

New Voices Ukraine: Memory Leaks III – 1990s Ukrainian Underground in Bloom

Aug 19 2024 61 mins  
In the third episode of Memory Leaks, we're moving deeper into the 1990s and the evolution of underground sound from rock to electronic. Our guide this time is Oleksii Dehtiar aka Maket, the frontman of the cult band Ivanov Down, one of the most uncompromising acts of the 1990s Kyiv scene. Oleksii will break down Ivanov Down's many incarnations, reminisce about the first Ukrainian

New Voices Ukraine Memory Leaks II: Nova Moon Rising – The Phenomenon of the Kharkiv Novaya Scena

Jul 24 2024 113 mins  
The second episode of Memory Leaks is dedicated to the Kharkiv-based phenomenon of the Novaya Scena (New Scene). Novaya Scena was an arts community and music production centre that was managed by Serhii Miasoedov. Accompanied by Serhii and Oleksander Klochkov - a music enthusiast, and caretaker of the Novaya Scena archives - we dig into Ukrainian avant-rock and esoteric folk of the

New Voices Ukraine Podcast: 20ft Radio’s Guide to the Ukrainian Underground. Memory Leaks, Part I

Jun 16 2024 61 mins  
In the first podcast from Kiev's 20ft Radio we're taken deep into the otherworldly folk sounds of the Ukrainian underground of the late 80s and early 90s. New Voices Ukraine is a collaboration between The Quietus, 20ft Radio, Neformat, the Ukrainian Institute and the British Council. In an interview with Andrii Strakhov, member of the avant-folk band Верба Хльос (Verba

Nuts & Bolts S4 E1 – Cathy van Eck

Sep 22 2021 33 mins  
Nuts And Bolts Podcast is back with the first episode of Season #4, where host Jessica Sligter interviews composer, sound artist, and researcher Cathy van Eck (1979 Belgium/Netherlands), whose work combines elements from performance art, electronic music, and visual arts. Cathy teaches at the Department for Sound Arts of the University of the Arts in Bern, Switzerland. In 2017

Nuts and Bolts S3 E4 – Jessica Sligter

May 27 2020 35 mins  
The final episode of Season 3 features Nuts & Bolts founder herself, Jessica Sligter. Sligter is a performer, composer and producer based in Berlin, whose practice lies at the meeting point of various experimental expressions, in a 'noir,'conceptual space. Exploring conflict and border-crossing both in her music and text, Sligter has been touring and releasing under the radar for y

Nuts and Bolts S3 E3 – Nadah el Shazly

Apr 23 2020 33 mins  
Our special guest for this episode is Nadah el Shazly, Cairo-based producer, composer and performer. Her work both radically reinvents the popular music of her homeland from the early 20th century and explores new sonic and harmonic frontiers. She released her critically acclaimed debut album Ahwar in November 2017 via Nawa Recordings. We met Nadah in her studio and talked about am

Nuts and Bolts S3 E2 – Jana Winderen

Mar 30 2020 35 mins  
For this new episode, we’re thrilled to meet Jana Winderen, researcher and artist (Goldsmiths, university of London) with a background in mathematics, chemistry and fish ecology from the university of Oslo. Jana focuses her work around audio environments and ecosystems which are hard for humans to access, both physically and aurally. We will discuss her practice, and the envir