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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.

<1NTWRK - Various Artists

UNCOILED MIX 

Sunday 23rd November 9pm UK time

Repeated Thursdays 1am UK time.

Info on the schedule page.

MOSS20NOV25 

A curious glow from the swamp of new additions to grey clay.

First playing Saturday 22nd November 1pm (UK time) then repeated Mondays 1am and Thursdays 9am(also UK time.)

Timestamped track list 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.

Raffaele Pezzella’s 

The Recognition Test - show #377

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

Details on the schedule page.

AFTERVOLTER - cyphod.EXE

“The fallout from your disappearance have led the sect towards the scatter. There was a potent absence in your wake and that has created an attractor, a magnetic ‘siren field’. The contact zone will be  most viable at the next new moon. We will arrange for your extraction.” 

Playing Thursday 20th November 5am and 12 noon (UK times). 

Repeated weekly. 

Details and lore on the schedule page

motif#21 GLINT

Tuesday 25th November, 9pm UK time

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

Ethereal Projector #4 Pierrot de Lune

Tuesdays 12 midnight and Saturdays 7am, UK time. Commencing 25.11.2025.

Melancholic cinematic neoclassical ambient mix from Chitra Records and Ambient Cat Records by Dionisaf.

See schedule page for track list and further details.

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.

FEATURED ALBUM: Small Boat: Adrift

by 

Ken Peel

10 tracks, 38 minutes

Released October 2025

https://kenpeel.bandcamp.com/album/small-boat-adrift

I have had the privilege of seeing Ken Peel play live a few times in the past couple of years so was already aware of his musicianship and also the excellent EMOM he runs in Wells, Somerset. His recent performance at Frome’s Breeze Block Beats blew the room away with an utterly stunning and dynamic performance of tracks from Small Boat: Adrift, just dripping with class.

Communal, the opening track swashes in with layers of overlapping echoes and immediately establishes control of your sense of time. Rising and falling in intensity it neither bullies nor pleads with the senses, it just takes charge with a quiet confidence and, within a few minutes, has set your ears up for what is to come.

The sound is richly electronic though as the album progresses you realise that field recordings have been there all along, so deftly woven into the texture, and why not? It is such an evocative image, drifting on water. In fact this album was inspired by Ken’s involvement with the local Drone Day broadcast on grey clay in 2024 so was born of that unhurried and moody ambience. I don’t know for sure, but if you’ve been anywhere near a marina on a blowy day, the sound of ropes slapping against masts in the wind seems to ring out in the third track, Boat.

Conflicted, the single from the album, is a beautifully composed, slow introspective gaze with all the drifting qualities that could be said to typify the album. The lines in it wrap themselves around each other dreamily then somehow emerge into a very coherent and haunting melody that sort of stays with you.

Whilst the serene and meditative atmosphere is sustained, tracks cross several stylistic sub-territories. In Passage, you get the experimental drone feel with dark, distant machinations and lonely notes suspended above, while in Symbolic a frenetically fast picked line, evoking Spanish guitar, shimmers over brooding chords magically. Bluff seems to combine all these elements and Ultramarine adds the charm of a very analog sounding rhythm machine, more as an atmospheric than really driving it, before Cathedral ups the energy with a harder beat and perfectly arching filters.

Closing the album, Lost and then Ascension. Where the first cools the energy down somewhat in its drone infused focus, the second surges up in fluttering waves, almost burning themselves out in places before finally giving way to a melancholic descent whose abrupt end is left ringing. If you have the album on repeat, this end moves very beautifully into the start of Communal again.

This is a masterful album that seems to have so much range within it while never betraying its innate simplicity. Each track covers different ground and yet taken all together, a coherence and integrity mark it as an exceptionally well conceived and crafted piece of work. 

I suspect I will not be the only one enjoying it on repeat.

Ken Peel is a musician, sound artist and award winning media composer working in South West England.

https://www.kenpeel.com

https://kenpeel.bandcamp.com/music

T.Čelet 

Nov 2025

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

Another artist album of motif tracks! The Decaf Conspiracy 'Grey Clay Radio motif Submissions - Volume I'

Details over on the motif page

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

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.

ANALYSIS 8

New for October, the latest mix from Substak starting Wednesday 15th October, 7pm [UK time].

See schedule page for track list and further details.

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.

deep motif.

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