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

Tuesday 1st April, 9pm UK time. Repeated 1am Saturday 5th April UK time.

  Dogs versus Shadows

motif#15 Passage

Another really brilliant show for you and by you. Just under 2 hours of exceptional creative energy on the theme of Passage.

Details on the schedule page.

Call for Submissions for grey clay's own Drone Day 2025 event. See news page for details

ANAKRONISM 17

An utterly beautiful 2 hour mix of sublime experimental music and sound by Signalstoerung, featuring artists from the Adventurous Music label. Playing 7pm Friday 4th April 2025 and 5am Monday 7th April 2025 (UK time) then repeated same days and times.

See schedule page for track list.

<1NTWRK single artist mix

Lednik Frontier 

9pm Sunday 30th March and 1am Thursday 3rd April (UK time).

2 gorgeous hours of music by this fascinating ambient/drone/dark ambient artist for your Sunday evening bliss.

Lay back and enjoy…

Track list on the schedule page.

MOSS:27MAR25 

The next 'snapshot mix' of new additions to grey clay radio from the past 2 weeks in one spine-tingling 2 hour package.

First playing Saturday 29th March 1pm (UK time) then repeated Mondays 1am and Thursdays 9am (also UK time)

Timestamped Track list on the Schedule Page.

Generative Wastelands 

Episode 13

Saturday 5th April 2025 11pm and  Monday 7th April 7pm UK time. (Repeated same days and times.)

An intriguing and poetic interpretation of seemingly abandoned places by Thomas Park.

Details 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.

Soundtrack from the edge of the world...new show starting soon on grey clay radio...

Raffaele Pezzella’s 

The Recognition Test - show #361

9am Sunday 23rd March, repeated 11pm Thursday 27th March [UK time].

Details on the schedule page.

AFTERVOLTER - The dance of Hagarah

The brand new mix by AFTERVOLTER (aka Irving Paul Pereira) of his new album, The dance of Hagarah.

Playing Thursday 13th March 5am and 12 noon (UK times). Repeated weekly.

Details and lore on the schedule page

Kῦμα Live - Strapped to the Hobby Horse

The next grey clay radio special featuring a long-form live recording by Kῦμα. Playing 11am Tuesdays and Sundays (UK time) commencing 02.03.2025.

https://viridsounds.bandcamp.com/album/k-live-strapped-to-the-hobby-horse

More on the schedule page.

FEATURED ALBUM: Celestial Sewer 

by 

Space Rot

Released June 2024

https://yankeessuck.bandcamp.com/album/--5

6 tracks, 22 minutes

When I hear the expression ‘dark fantasy synth’, various sci-fi films from my youth immediately come to mind such as Blade Runner, Dark Star or Escape From New York, along with a wave of nostalgic affection. Predictably though, the memory distorts your impressions over time. I went back and listened to these old favourites prior to writing this and with the exception of the odd classic flourish or theme motif, it was all pretty basic stuff. True, a movie soundtrack has to work alongside the visual element, but not for the first time was I ever so slightly underwhelmed back here in 2025.

Celestial Sewer seems to carve out its own imagery though, from the very title of it to the initial impression of the cover art style and then the track titles themselves. For those of us who imagine movies in their heads when they hear music anyway, this album is a rich feast, but prompts in my head the question, did anyone ever actually make a sci-fi movie based on an electronic music album?

Oubliette, the opening track, sets the scene with its mood of jaded sentimentality. Abundant analogue synth sounds creating a wandering tone structure, shot through with the almost genre-obligatory arpeggio line, where the warmth and roundedness in the album are introduced but are repeatedly undermined by disturbing key changes. If you know what an oubliette is then the horror element of the movie starts here, despite it feeling like an early glimpse of the films ending.

We are somehow in space, or at least under stars, and astral coffin feels like we are really getting into the plot - marching into some unknown place with optimistic determination. This mood seems to repeatedly be swamped or confused before building its self back up, again and again. Oddly, there is also a resignation to an uncertain fate in this, before a final fade to white.

With tunnel decay the warmth is suddenly back for a while with its ‘everything’s fine’ chords, first person perspective, almost untainted at first, it feels at odds with the preceding mood. Is that a hint of claustrophobia? It’s a very well lit tunnel - perhaps the occasional blinking strip light and unexplained scuff on the walls, but as the shortest track on the album it is a device which transitions us to what could be the stand-out track.

Tranceplants - a play on words with a somewhat narcotic undertone - feels like the scene where the big decision is made. The protagonist is now committed and events will unfold with unstoppable consequences. The pill is taken, the button is pressed - moments lilt, before the pace resumes and all they can do is stand among the swelling chords as it all comes to its clattering, echoing end.

Here it is as if the perspective finally shifts to the viewpoint of an outside observer, as passing the sun reveals the full, irretrievable extent of the situation. And so then to void birds - the open ended ending sequence which leaves the story hanging on a note. No warmth here, it is as if the character has joined hundreds, thousands, maybe millions of other hapless travellers, all in their own cells, all believing they are completely desolated.

In contrast to the movie music I first thought of, Celestial Sewer is a much more nuanced and sophisticated offering. And not actually being a movie (yet), it does all the sets, scenery, screenplay and cinematography.

The plot, of course, is up to you.

Space Rot is a side project of Ontario’s Yankees Suck.

T.Čelet March 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.

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

motif 2024 - a compilation of tracks by K42DG3 made for grey clay's motif shows this year.

https://k43dg3.bandcamp.com/album/motif-2024

     motifs   

WHI Recordings present ‘motifs’, a compilation of tracks recorded specially for the ‘motif’ show on Grey Clay Radio.

https://whirecordings.bandcamp.com/album/motifs

ANALYSIS 04

The first mix of 2025 by substak on grey clay radio, starting Wednesday 12th February, 7pm [UK time].

See schedule page for track list and further details.

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.