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motif# 21 GLINT

The submissions window is now open for Dogs versus Shadows motif#21 and the theme is GLINT. 

Full details on the motif page.

Soundtrack from the edge of the world - Episode 3

The superb new mix by Russell's Teapot from the scalloped and undulating edge of perception.

Sundays 1pm and Tuesdays 7pm, UK time.

Commencing 11th November. Details on the schedule page.

NON-SPECIFIC TEXTURES

Tuesdays 1pm & Sundays 3am UK time. 

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.

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

black_ops...

Heavy Cloud Appreciation

grey clay radio is delighted to welcome DJ black_ops to the schedule with this one-off mix in appreciation of Ryan Hooper's Heavy Cloud.

Playing Mondays 7pm and Saturdays 11pm UK time. Commencing Saturday 15th November.

Details on the schedule page.

motif#20 HOLLOW

Tuesdays 9pm and Saturdays 1am, UK time. Track list on the Schedule page

MOSS06NOV25 

The new mix of recent work added to grey clay in the past two weeks.

First playing Saturday 8th November 1pm (UK time) then repeated Mondays 1am and Thursdays 9am(also UK time.)

Timestamped track list on the Schedule Page.

<1NTWRK 

Reclamation 25 

Sunday 9th November 9pm UK time

Repeated Thursdays 1am UK time.

Info on the schedule page.

ANAKRONISM 24

Friday 7th November

7pm UK time

A profound new mix of work from the Adventurous Music label by Signalstoerung.

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

See schedule page for track list.

fluxus 9 1984

Saturday 1st November, 7pm UK time. Schwarzer Tag with Signalstoerung, Elena Malke Friederike Meister, Timo Gasterager and Eva C. Petersen.

Fridays 11am and Saturdays 7pm, UK time.

Details on the schedule page.

FEATURED ALBUM: reassessment tapes 

by 

Ice Cream Death Cult

8 tracks, 1hr 1 min

released May 2022

https://icdc.bandcamp.com/album/reassessment-tapes

Not a lot is written about this album by the artist on the Bandcamp page, which is just as I like it, leaving you to make up all the pictures in your head. Released in 2022, it is far from their latest work but of the two so far received by grey clay radio it presents the fullest picture of Ice Cream Death Cult’s sonic world. And what a world it is. For me the appeal of reassessment tapes, as an hour’s listening, lies in the complex and often introspective atmospheres it achieves; the conventions it breaks and the sheer timelessness of it.

Welcome to beautiful damage kicks off the album and is the longest track at 15 minutes. A rapid rhythmic echo that morphs over the course of the track provides a sense of movement along which the track oozes. It’s smilingly tense and insistent and doesn’t follow any recognisable musical narrative, more of a sculptural or architectural one. Sirens herald a momentary softening before it breaks into a strangely ethereal frequency overload (yes, really) and then is torn off abruptly at the end without ceremony. I was somewhere in a rainy city street at night as cars were sucked down a glowing vortex in the tarmac.

bad acid starts curiously, briefly visits acid-like vibes then gets to the bad bit as its DNA goes through the mangle. This track kind of wrong-foots you as it seems so obviously ‘of this world’ in one moment, touching ground fleetingly before bleaching itself out. brain sounds 1 evokes just that, but perhaps not an entirely human brain - it’s hard not to be somewhere slightly sci-fi here. city death rattle redux (2014) again has you in that charged urban space of distant rumbling, metallic incidents, siren drive-bys - descending into its own menacing depths before again being sliced off at the end.

gas mountain tram death (2014), a stand-out track in my opinion, assembles such an instantly appealing palette that it lifts the mood with its tones and running sequences which become simpler and sweeter as it goes. In its self, as an element of this album it brings height and light but in the context of the whole it seems to accentuate all the other moods by its presence. Brilliant.

Had I not read about their other releases, the title CROS SOUND 1 might have seemed completely obscure but it would appear to relate to C.R.O.S (Center for Ritual Occult Studies) which is a whole other release. Swirling ominously and suffused with subtle sounds from possibly field recordings, it suspends the album in chords before the initially more threatening atmospheres of 5 AUDIO TRACK(2015) INSTALLATION* commence. Voices take over, seemingly random; a reluctant sort of rhythm emerges with beautiful chimes until another repeated vocal element comfortably arrives  and it all disappears into the underground chasm. This is a very interesting track! Another stand-out one too. As the second longest track, it is a whole story in its self with these wonderful changes in atmosphere that somehow all seem to make sense. 

And finally, E.REDUX (not feeling better yet). Another spacey, strung out salad of a track where you begin to feel some incidental sounds may not actually be so incidental - suddenly growing in structure and significance before once more being cut off at the end. This cutting off of the recording at the end of tracks on the album dispenses with any conventions of fades, endings or suchlike but is oddly in keeping with the overall feel, the titles and even the album name. 

It feels like reassessment tapes could be a collation of work from over a period of years (as some track titles imply) where snips and cuts in time’s tape are being made, with no excuses, to great effect. I love that.

Ice Cream Death Cult is a musical project from England, UK, that creates occult, industrial, and harsh noise experimental music.

https://icdc.bandcamp.com

T.Čelet 

Nov 2025

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

EX!Zine edition 4

This is the fourth issue of EX! Magazine for Experimental Art (audio, visual, text, etc.).

There are two versions: print (Book/Magazine) and digital (Digital Album).

The print version (Book/Magazine) includes the 96-page zine (printed climate-neutral on recycled paper), the digital compilation, and a download code for an exclusive album by Percipient.

The digital version (Digital Album) includes the zine (in PDF format) and the digital compilation.

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EX! Edition 4 is feat.

Asja Skrinik, Aura Kamikura, Bionic & The Wires, Corina Retzlaff, D4000, Frenetic Magic Sound, Jean-François Magre, Jeff Düngfelder, Manuel Carbone & Lucus, Paul Jettenbach, Peer Smits, Pernille Meidell, Sara Mohammadi Sharifi, Thierry Arnal, Yann Novak, and more.

It also includes music/book recommendations, early experimental musicians, a selection of influential albums by Syntax Erika and Signalstoerung, and more.

https://adventurousmusic.bandcamp.com/album/ex-zine-edition-4

deep motif.

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

Ethereal Projector

Transcendental Meditation - show #3 from Chitra Records and Ambient Cat Records by Dionisaf (Dionis Afonichev). Tuesdays 12 midnight and Saturdays 7am, UK time. Commencing 30.09.2025.

See schedule page for track list and further details.

THA_LAB.

Transmission 09

Part 2 of the mix of work from SEPL (Scorched Earth Policy Lab) Record label by Thierry Arnal.

Mondays, 9pm & Fridays 3am, UK time. Starting 9pm Monday 6th October, UK time.

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Details on the schedule page.

AFTERVOLTER - Ossia Frixia

“It’s a genius loci called  XiiXR. It’s grimoire, EXCLATEXT,  is 9 generations in the making.”  

Playing Thursday 16th October 5am and 12 noon (UK times). 

Repeated weekly. 

Details and lore on the schedule page