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

Raffaele Pezzella’s 

The Recognition Test - show #365

9am Sunday 18th May, repeated 11pm Thursdays [UK time].

Details on the schedule page.

motif#17 VEIL - Call for Submissions. 

The submissions window is now open. Details and submission rules on the motif page.

AFTERVOLTER - odar

Welcome to 'the Manor'...

Playing Thursday 15th May 5am and 12 noon (UK times). 

Repeated weekly.

Details and lore on the schedule page

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

MOSS08MAY25 

The new mix from recent tracks added to grey clay radio over the past fortnight.

First playing Saturday 10th May 1pm (UK time) then repeated Mondays 1am and Thursdays 9am (also UK time.)

Timestamped track list on the Schedule Page.

<1NTWRK 

reclamation 19 

9pm Sunday 11th May repeated 1am Thursdays (UK time).

It lives!! The next superb reclamation mix from <1.

Track list on the schedule page.

fluxus 3 - Paradise Lost

Saturday 3rd May, 7pm UK time. The third fluxus session from Schwarzer Tag - featuring VERFÜHRERVERGELTER. 

'Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.'

Fridays 11am and Saturdays 7pm, UK time.

Details on the schedule page.

Generative Wastelands 

Episode 14

Saturday 3rd May 2025 11pm UK time. Repeated Mondays 7pm UK time.

Thomas Park continues the exploration this month with an exceptionally, beautifully abstruse sound journey.

Details on the schedule page

ANAKRONISM 18

Playing 7pm Friday 2nd May repeated 5am Mondays (UK time).

A beguiling new mix from Signalstoerung of tracks from the Adventurous Music label in Leipzig, Germany.

See schedule page for track list.

FEATURED ALBUM

In Fondo

by

Manuel Carbone

Released: 28.03.2025 on Dragon’s Eye Recordings

https://manuelcarbone.bandcamp.com/album/in-fondo

10 tracks, 38 minutes

It has been suggested that this album is somewhat of a change in direction for composer, DJ and sound artist, Manuel Carbone, and I fully get that deliberately parting with the use of field recording is deeply significant, but that said, this album is 100% Carbone in my opinion and not only that, it is immaculate.

In each track, in the order and tempo of every part is Carbone’s innate subtleness of touch. Never overstated and yet never quite what it first appears to be. There is a tension in it that makes me feel like I am a fly being held in an entomologist’s tweezers, looking up through compound eyes into a face of benign concern.

And yet this is in many ways a gentle listen, not to be rushed and unless you are laying down in a dark quiet place with decent speakers then it is perfect for staring out of a rainy train or car window with noise-cancelling headphones. The sound palette is neither declamatory or understated but just super-confidently restrained to let the intended mood memory say what it says without distraction. Nowhere in the album is this better exemplified than in the closing two minutes of the track In Fondo (Parte Terza) where Carbone’s love of the quieter production ethic bathes us in an almost inaudible sub bass experience that just gets deeper each time I play it.

He describes the album as “a diary or sparse shreds of a diary,” offering fragments of memory that avoid direct interpretation and as such is an abstract reflection. That certainly feels true, and yet within its scope there is a playfulness here as well. The mood is conveyed in the way the sounds are articulated as much as by their timbre. This control begins with the ever so slowly rotating tones of the opening Da Lontano and the later Poter Ricordare Ancora but then encodes the reflection in the more animated Immateriale and Senza Un Titolo just as effectively.

To eschew field recording then recreate a Mediterranean feeling with synthesisers in Il Mare In Sintesi is a perfect clue to what I think is behind this album and is itself a reflection on the nature of memory. It had to be done like that - it couldn’t be a recording. A memory is recreated each time we remember it - it is literally resynthesised. This is Carbone’s sea.

Manuel Carbone is an Italian sound experimentalist and noise artist from Naples, currently based in Berlin.

https://www.manuelcarbone.com

T.Čelet

April 2025

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

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.

Steven Ray - Gestation

A new retrospective mix of work from 2016-2024, by Steven Ray, Tuesdays 7pm & Sundays 3am (UK time)starting 02.03.2025

More on the schedule page.

deep motif.

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

THA_LAB.

Transmission 06

Starting 9pm Monday 7th April, UK time.

The sultry new drone/dark ambient mix for grey clay by Thierry Arnal. Mondays, 9pm & Fridays 3am, UK time.

Details on the schedule page.