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



ANALYSIS 2


The latest guest mix by substak on grey clay radio, starting Wednesday 16th October, 7pm [UK time].

See schedule page for track list and further details.


<1NTWRK single artist mix

Kid Mania

Playing 9pm Sunday 13th October and 1am Thursday 17th October 2024 (UK time.


A superb tour through the experimental, industrial and strangely funky world of Kid Mania.


More on the schedule page.


MOSS:10OCT24 

A new fortnightly mix of work from the Mossy Shallows by Thébru Čelet.

Starting Saturday 12th October 1pm and repeating Mondays 1am and Thursdays 9am.


Timestamped Track list on the Schedule Page.


motif# 10 LANGUAGE

Call for Submissions

now open. Deadline 23.10.2024

Details on the news page.


THA_LAB.

Transmission 3

Starting 9pm Monday 7th October, UK time.

The third deep dark guest mix for grey clay by Thierry Arnal. Mondays, 9pm & Fridays 3am, UK time.

Details on the schedule page.


Raffaele Pezzella’s 

The Recognition Test - show #350

9am Sunday 6th October, repeated 11pm Thursday 10th O [UK time] on grey clay radio.


Details on the schedule page.


Generative Wastelands 07

Saturday 5th October 2024 11pm and  Monday 7th October 7pm UK time. Episode 07 continues Thomas Park's appreciation of the cultural elements, ideas or places that seem empty.

Details on the schedule page


ANAKRONISM 11


A beautiful moody mix by Signalstoerung featuring new sounds from artists on the Adventurous Music label. Playing 7pm Friday 4th October and 5am Monday 7th October (UK time) then repeated same days and times.


See schedule page for track list.


now playing              

FEATURED ALBUM

Pieces

by

Janek Krukowski


Released Sept 2020

https://krukowski.bandcamp.com/album/pieces


4 tracks, 14 minutes


I feel like I have found a tiny ornate glass potion bottle in the woods and there are pin pricks of light and sound coming from inside it.

This is by far the shortest featured album to date, but to be fair it is probably technically an EP. However, in keeping with all featured albums it is here by merit and Janek Krukowski’s Pieces is a miniature masterpiece. 

I first became aware of his work through the recent okla records release, Latent, and there is a definite stylistic thread that runs through all three releases on Bandcamp, though each is, in its own way, rewardingly different.

There is no information on the Bandcamp page so again one just has the music and a rather lovely blurred image (of…something) to sit in your mind as you listen. In fact each track has its own image and they are all completely inscrutable - seemingly ‘of’ something but impossible to say what. I like this a lot.

The first track, Spot, begins an unhurried and distantly twinkling pulse which builds with rarified percussion and sound fragments, hinting at tension but maintaining an enchanted feeling. Krukowski is saying so much with this opening piece and it certainly ‘sets the ear up’ for what is to come, managing to remain both utterly beautiful and beguiling whilst also being firmly in the experimental realm.

Diel, the next track drops you into a melancholic, woodwind twilight mood; taking hold of the emotion firmly but gently and with equally unhurried care, anointing it with occasional flakes of light piano and metallic punctuation. I am under a canopy in a forest in the rain watching a sculptor chiselling a figure from the rock, very, very thoughtfully.

Stems then sets up an aching insistent presence, like someone bowing a cymbal and summoning something up from the ground. It is quite the shortest track and is decidedly atonal and suspenseful; seeming a prelude for the final, possibly most evocative track, Diroth.

We are now in a much more kinetic place with swooping portentous notes and frenetic percussion that eventually falls back into the distance as the spell takes full effect. It is now that whatever has been summoned, arrives. I could stay in that final sound of this track for a blissfully long time, but end it must and you realise on awakening that you are still holding that tiny bottle in the palm of your hand.

I find Pieces completely magical - otherworldly and incredibly visual. It is also agonisingly brief, but then some things are supposed to be.



Janek Krukowski is an artist and musician in Prague, Czechia.



T.Čelet (Oct 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.

motif#9 CIRCUIT. 

Playing 9pm Tuesday 1st October & 1am Saturday 5th October [UK time]

See schedule page for track list etc.

QIÏLŌPTH Guest Mix by AFTERVOLTER

From Irving Paul Pereira (aka AFTERVOLTER)a special mix of his latest album CYTOXCIS including unreleased tracks and mixes. Playing Thursday 19th September 5am and 12 noon UK time. Repeated weekly.

Details and lore on the schedule page


new additions


17.10.2024 The new release by Hypnotic Transmissions, Madness.

https://hypnotictransmissions.bandcamp.com/track/madness

16.10.2024 Seen To Remain, the new album by Fletina. Released on Kirigirisu Recordings

https://kirigirisurecordings.bandcamp.com/album/seen-to-remain

15.10.2024 B.D.S.M the latest album by Miss Canine Hoe. Released on Off Records.

https://stilll-off.bandcamp.com/album/b-d-s-m

15.10.2024 Tracks from BLAZEN by Mutant Beatniks added to the mix.

https://www.discogs.com/release/3049150-Mutant-Beatniks-Blazen

14.10.2024 Witchcraft by Capricorni Pneumatici. Originally a 1989 cassette release, this gem from the Italian industrial scene is rereleased by Eighth Tower Records.

https://eighthtowerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/witchcraft

14.10.2024 From Romania's Iah (aka Ia-HA-Crux), Tracks from Cimilituri (Cine are urechi de auzit sa asurzeasca). Released on Inner Demons Records.

https://innerdemonsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cimilituri-cine-are-urechi-de-auzit-sa-asurzeasca-ind196f

13.10.2024 Drifting. A special collection of ambient tracks by Hypnotic Transmissions.

https://hypnotictransmissions.bandcamp.com

13.10.2024 digitalsakura's latest release on Adventurous Music, geopolitik.

https://adventurousmusic.bandcamp.com/album/geopolitik

12.10.2024 Taskerlands - a fascinating upcoming album from Megalithic Transport Network. Released on Human Geography Recordings.

https://human-geography-recordings.bandcamp.com

12.10.2024 Tracks from the latest album from Sermons By The Devil, Exorcismo Electrónico.

https://sermonsbythedevil.bandcamp.com/album/exorcismo-electr-nico

11.10.2024 Coast by Elyse Tabet & Jawad Nawfal. Released on VV-VA.

https://vv-va.bandcamp.com/album/coast

11.10.2024 Rainmaker II from the EP, Rainmaker by R4. Released on Inner Demons Records.

https://innerdemonsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rainmaker-ind186

11.10.2024 More tracks by Pleistocene Megafauna, from sessions 29, 31 and 44.

https://pleistocenemegafauna.bandcamp.com

10.10.2024 Cycling in Space by Stefan Dowsing. Exclusively playing on grey clay radio!

https://soundcloud.com/user-675150542

10.10.2024 Diogene's 2023 Time Reversal, for your temporally inverted pleasure.

https://diogene1.bandcamp.com/album/time-reversal

09.10.2024 The lore of the future techno entity that is, REI-TOXCIS, by ALTËRVOLTAR.

https://irvingpaulpereira.bandcamp.com/album/re-toxc-s-2024