a 24/7 salad of dark electronic and obscure experimental sound

Generative Wastelands 06

Saturday 14th September 2024 11pm and  Monday 16th September 7pm UK time. The latest sonic exploration of potential spaces by Thomas Park.

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motif#9 CIRCUIT. 

The submissions window for motif#9 CIRCUIT is now open. Details on the news page.

<1NTWRK single artist mix

how the night came & febrile

Playing 9pm Sunday 8th September and 1am Thursday 12th September  2024 (UK time)

A beautifully intimate and oddly moving mix from the ever-inspiring <1 label.

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Raffaele Pezzella’s 

The Recognition Test - show #348

9am Sunday 8th September, repeated 11pm Thursday 12th September [UK time] on grey clay radio.

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ANAKRONISM 10

The next lithe and sultry mix by Signalstoerung of recent sounds on the ever-fascinating Adventurous Music label. Playing 7pm Friday 6th September and 5am Monday 9th September (UK time) then repeated same days and times.

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motif#8 SLOW. 

Playing 9pm Tuesday 27th August & 1am Saturday 31st August [UK time]

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ANALYSIS 1

A new bimonthly guest mix by substak on grey clay radio, starting 14th August, 7pm [UK time].

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FEATURED ALBUM: burn the world quietly

by LPF12

1hr 25 mins. 8 tracks

https://lpf12.bandcamp.com

Released July 2024

This album makes me feel lovely. Since receiving it I have lost count of the number of times it has soundtracked my day, and yet I’ve needed to wait a while before featuring it here, mainly I will admit, because I’ve struggled to put into words exactly what it is I would say, apart of course from my first sentence, above, and that can only be a compliment.

Technically and compositionally it is super-accomplished, and in that is completely consistent with Sascha Lemon’s substantial body of work, with masterful control of electronic and other sound sources, brought together with unhurried finesse and class. This is exceptionally demonstrated in the opening track, the mind builds a blue sky.

The album’s track lengths though are a place to start with attempting to portray in words its appeal - they are so hugely varied; the shortest at just under 3 minutes, the longest at 21. And as the longer and shorter tracks are completely intermingled, it is clear that the intent of the artist is this precise traversing of a landscape.

The third track, tick, is such a beautiful, slow, melancholic change from the previous two that your perception finds its self in dramatically different emotional spaces. This is followed by another deeply reflective mood before the energy is increasingly lifted again by the next two tracks before warming down to the more sombre moods of the final (and longest) two tracks on the album.

I can only describe the overall effect of this physically, by comparing it to one of those runs you go on where you deliberately vary your pace up and down over the duration and feel your body compress and stretch to the changes in cadence. As with running, there are places where the mind is drifting off euphorically and others in which you are fully inside the exertion.

As may be apparent, I think a lot about the albums I play and feature on grey clay. Often the inventiveness transcends the sound palette; occasionally just the sound chosen is captivating enough in context. With burn the world quietly, however, it must be the articulation of feeling encoded within and between the succession of tracks that collects you so.

A particularly apt title.

T.Čelet (Aug 24)

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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 BST.

deep motif.

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