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motif# 19 BLOOM CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The submission window for the 19th motif show is now open. Details on the motif page.

Tuesday 8th July 7pm UK time 

A new bimonthly mix by Russell's Teapot. Details on the schedule page.

NON-SPECIFIC TEXTURES

A new feature on grey clay radio, changing every week, one of the recent NON-SPECIFIC TEXTURE series releases by This is what I hear when you talk.

Details on the schedule page.

<1NTWRK single arist mix

PESTZONE 

Sunday 6th July 9pm UK time

Repeated Thursdays 1am UK time.

Track list on the schedule page.

motif#18 TRACE

Deeply extraordinary. 

Repeated Tuesdays, 9pm UK time. Saturdays 1am UK time. 

Details on the schedule page.

ANAKRONISM 20

Friday 4th July

7pm UK time

The latest mix from Signalstoerung of tracks from the Adventurous Music label.

Playing 7pm Fridays repeated 5am Mondays (UK time).

See schedule page for track list.

fluxus 5  Through lane it lay...

Saturday 5th July, 7pm UK time. ' A solitary journey through a

treacherous but alluring landscape.' Schwarzer Tag with Niayesh Ebrahimi.

Fridays 11am and Saturdays 7pm, UK time.

Details on the schedule page.

Generative Wastelands 16

Saturday 5th July 2025 11pm UK time. Repeated Mondays 7pm UK time.

Deeper, further, darker: Generative Wastelands Episode 16 by Thomas Park.

Details on the schedule page

MOSS03JUL25 

Somewhat of a classic - MOSS03JUL25 - a two hour show comprising tracks from the last 14 days additions to the schedule.

First playing Saturday 5th July 1pm (UK time) then repeated Mondays 1am and Thursdays 9am(also UK time.)

Timestamped track list on the Schedule Page.

Raffaele Pezzella’s 

The Recognition Test - show #368

9am Sundays repeated 11pm Thursdays [UK time].

Details on the schedule page.

AFTERVOLTER - GHADHAR

Don your kevlar suit and artificial respirator and traverse the concrete sprawl and black flowers of this troubling city...

Playing Thursday 12th June 5am and 12 noon (UK times). 

Repeated weekly.

Details and lore on the schedule page

FEATURED ALBUM: 

Night Logistics

by 

Quatrefoil and Basic Tape Loops. 

Released on arrhythNia Records February 2025

https://arrhythniarecords.bandcamp.com/album/quatrefoil-basic-tape-loops-night-logistics-anr161

7 tracks, 45 mins

Is there an audio equivalent of ‘the gaze’?

If there is then Night Logistics must fall into that nebulous zone. The image here is the nocturnal world of the distribution depot infrastructure. Orchestrated, automated movements, systems and information exchanges, going about their programmed business, unobserved, until now. We are peering into a world with that detached fascination of some deep sea explorer shining a torch into a vast unknown space. We don’t understand it. We’re not really supposed to. We just feel it. Behold it. And absorb an unexpectedly magical atmosphere, explored through 7 discrete listenings. 

The track titles guide you into that place with their quietly precise, almost banal terms. You feel that coding and counting are going on around you. System self-checks with auditory feedback over and over. The sound of electrical relays, dutifully clicking in. Clicking out. Clicking in. Clicking out. As if reciting some ancient chant into the night. System operative. Process normal. Everything is under control.  

It is all some music we were never supposed to hear. A chance assembly of devices and their sounds and no doubt a zillion LEDs eternally flashing out their confirmations in red, green, and yellow.

The use of repeated riffs is so cleverly done. Set next to unobtrusive close up machine noises, they capture that unintended music of servos and switches, hums and alerts, all picked out on distorted guitar in the most clipped and mechanistic way. It draws the imagination in to the detail - you can almost feel the warmth of those circuits on your face.

But things are also going on outside. Distant rumbling of activity behind doors. Darkly swelling chords grow until they become foreground momentarily. 

This is unhurried by anything human, other than their perpetual need for product delivery. 

Track 4, Fiata, brings the insect-like buzz to a halt and instead plays something more mechanical. Rubber drive belts seem to squeak slightly as well oiled nylon cogs smoothly work their teeth through each other. The background motor tone seems to glow in the air as unperceived items of importance pass slowly by on their shrink-wrapped multi-labelled journeys.

Through the more rarified Podšpediter we come to the highly peculiar Warehouse Carousel.  If that was the first track you’d heard, you could be forgiven for thinking you were on the bridge of some alien spaceship - the sounds really escaping all resemblance to any familiar machine tones. But, in its place in the album, it makes sense and as the second shortest track, it suddenly makes way for the longest and final one.

In Perpetual Inventory it is as if we have left the depot floor and are up in the empty control office. Our aural lens now roams over monitors and grey  inscrutable devices going about their inscrutable tasks with a sense of withdrawal from the frenetic mechanisms below. Here one drifts away on the  sustained hypnotic purr until that purr is all that you hear, until it too very slowly winds itself away. 

This is a brilliantly and beautifully constructed album by two artists with a deep and demonstrated appreciation of machine sound in the environment. It is a treat for the senses and the imagination - finding intrigue in a place few have even conceived of.

Quatrefoil is a musician and sound artist from Croatia working in ambient, drone, field recording and experimental music.

https://quatrefoil.bandcamp.com

Basic Tape Loops is a moniker of UK musican/DJ/producer Fencepost (aka  febrile, pestzone, Relay Station among others) and also runs the <1 label.

https://lessthanone.bandcamp.com

T.Čelet June 2025

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The featured album plays daily at 5pm, UK time.

Artist in Residence: 16bard. Playing new work from the Forsyth Sessions every Wednesday at 12:00 and 23:00 UK time.

Adventurous Music

Open Call - ONE WORLD compilation

The state of today’s society can be described as critical. Once again, we are separating from each other instead of working together to create a world that provides a decent life for everyone.

To set an example, we invite you to reach out to a fellow artist from another country or even another continent to collaborate on a sound piece. It doesn’t have to be someone you know. If you make a new friend in this project, even better. After that, please submit your sound piece to us for the ONE WORLD compilation.

This compilation will be on a „pay what you can“ basis and therefore also for free. All possible proceeds will be donated to Amnesty International. All participants will get a download code for this compilation.

Everyone is welcome.

If you have the opportunity, please share this project.


Hard Facts:

- collaborative sound piece by you and an artist from another country/continent
- submit your .wav or .aif file no longer than 10 minutes and ready to be released until August 22nd 2025 to info@adventurousmusic.com
- possible proceeds will be donated to Amnesty International
- all participants will get a download code for this compilation
- if you have any questions please tell us via info@adventurousmusic.com
- release date: Sep 22nd 2025

substak

Motif Tracks 

Released 29th June 2025: the tracks written specifically for the Dogs versus Shadows motif shows on grey clay radio (to date) by Substak.

https://substak.bandcamp.com/album/motif-tracks

Stefan Dowsing 

motif.sessions 1-5 

A release of remastered versions of tracks submitted to the first 5 Dogs versus Shadows motif shows.

https://stefandowsing.bandcamp.com/album/motif-sessions-1-5

EX!Zine EDITION 2

The second edition (print version)of this superb, 100 page experimental arts zine is now available from the Adventurous Music Bandcamp site. 

Featuring:.7ARTCORE, Beware! The Radio, Corina Retzlaff, Gudrun Gut, Guillaume Bourassa, Inner Demons Records, Jóhann Eiriksson, Korf Ar Son, Lilu Fischer, Lucus, Manuel Carbone & Poppy H, Poeji, Quatrefoil & AimyþyhrℵullA, Richard Chartier, Rolando Torres Martin, Tremor Hex, Veronica 'Vern' Avola, Zmijowka and more.

The print version includes a download code for the accompanying digital album.

deep motif.

Selections of past motif show tracks, playing for 2 hours, 3 times a week! See schedule page for more info.

ANALYSIS 6

The new mix by substak for grey clay radio, starting Wednesday 11th June, 7pm [UK time].

See schedule page for track list and further details.