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

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THA_LAB TRANSMISSION 11

Friday 5th June, 3am UK time

THA_LAB - Show #11 - an hour of brooding, dark elecroacoustic drama.

Repeated 3am Fridays & 9pm Mondays (UK time).

See schedule page for track list.

ANAKRONISM 31

Friday 5th June,7pm Uk time 

A kaleidoscopic adventure through what's new and upcoming on the Adventurous Music label.

Repeated 7pm Fridays & 5am Mondays (UK time).

See schedule page for track list.

MOSS04JUN26 

Blowing in like a golden leaf on a dark wind...

MOSS - the fortnightly mix by Thébru Čelet of new work arriving on grey clay.

First playing Saturday 6th June 2026 1pm (UK time) then repeated Mondays 1am and Thursdays 9am and Saturdays 1pm(also UK time.)

Timestamped track list on the Schedule Page.

<1NTWRK 

SIN 02 Mix

Sunday 7th June 9pm UK time

Repeated Thursdays 1am UK time.

Info on the schedule page.

fluxus 13 

Das Fieber - Schwarzer Tag with Eva C. Petersen and Timo Gastager

Saturday 9th May, 7pm UK time.

Details on the schedule page.

Artist in Residence: 

16bard: retrospective 

More 16bard retrospective from February 2021, #f04c1f. 

Details on the artist in residence page.

Playing Wednesdays at 12:00 and 23:00 UK time.

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.

Raffaele Pezzella’s 

The Recognition Test - show #389

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

Details on the schedule page.

Dogs versus Shadows

motif# 27 HUSK

"Not quite absent - a record of  presence."

First playing Tuesday 26th May 2026 9pm (UK time).

More details and timestamped track list on the Schedule Page.

Ethereal Projector #7 Zen Garden

Tuesdays 12 midnight and Saturdays 7am, UK time. Commencing 26.05.2026.

Atmospheric organic ambient mix with sounds of nature from Chitra Records and Ambient Cat Records by Dionisaf.

See schedule page for track list and further details.

Soundtrack from the edge of the world - Episode 8

The eighth rambunctious mix of abstruse delights from Russell's Teapot.

Sundays 1pm and Tuesdays 7pm, UK time.

Commencing Tuesday 12th May. 

Details on the schedule page.

ANALYSIS 11

by Substak. Wednesday 15th April, 7pm [UK time].

See schedule page for track list and further details.

FEATURED ALBUM: 

Cliff Workshop 

by 

Euan Dalgarno

Released May 2026 on Bytes

https://euandalgarno.bandcamp.com/album/cliff-workshop

8 tracks, 30 minutes

This is a very powerful album which I have lived with on repeat and not come to the end of in any way.

It was written while the artist was recovering from a fairly serious fall. Whilst not a life threatening one, it is just such things as this that put us directly in touch with our mortality, fallibility and reality as a whole physical body in the world. They can shake us from our dream and profoundly affect what we feel we are. I have also seen this happen to young adults who unexpectedly fall over in the street, their heads a million miles away; crashing, in full flight, into the ground. 

Dalgarno has an impressive track history of releases that seem to approach the experimental through a classically trained doorway, Cliff Workshop being no exception in that sense. For me however, it is exceptional in that it feels like he has absolutely achieved a peak of expression in this language. Having the utility of accomplished musicianship, rather than being confined by it, he creates rifts and tears in structures, wrenches them or casts them in some sonic space that works like a foil. All accentuating the drama and emotional bruising, while never falling into sentimentality. That in itself is impressive.

As a journey, from beginning to end, the album sustains a gentle, ambling pace, even when some instrumentation is slightly brisker but it is the intensity of it which rises and falls like the land beneath you, taking you with it. Before you know it you’ve been swept up in some agonising arc, only to be blown out into a misty sea of dissociation. Land that felt solid under your feet is carved out from under you like a sudden precipice. Dark masses loom either side, betraying only glimpses of their dark scale.

Nothing is ‘just a sound’ on this album. Everything is working to push or pull something that is growing or deepening. Brilliantly balanced across the frequencies, field recordings, treated samples and quiet voices energise the musicality of the experience, throwing it out of any assumed context.

I have no desire to deconstruct this experience any further. It is far better as a dream. But when something brushes against me I might find my musical self noticing the press of oddly bent notes or how a passing chord becomes crushed into the brows of distortion. Sometimes the effect lies in the texture. Elsewhere it is a single note.

There is a warmth and reassurance here too. Light behind the cloud. An image of transcendence comes to mind, especially when you consider the context in which it was written. It crosses something, some boundary. 

Perhaps passage is a better word than journey. 

T.Čelet

June 2026

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

Irving Paul Pereira, better known on grey clay radio as artist,  AFTERVOLTER,  sadly passed away over Christmas at home in Singapore aged 48, after a long battle with cancer. Paul, and his incredible imagination and music will be deeply deeply missed. His shows will continue to be played here on rotation on Thursdays, 5am and 12noon, UK time. 

AFTERVOLTER - Aftergeist

Thursdays 5am and 12 noon UK time, from 28.05.2026.

In honour of the late, brilliant Irving Paul Pereira, grey clay is re-running all of his previous shows that he shared with the station, continuing with February 2025's Aftergeist.

Details and full lore on the schedule page

16mm - a sound and spoken word special.

by Dogs versus Shadows and Nicholas Langley.

More info on the Schedule Page.

A Different Take On Time - new book by Corina Retzlaff. 

This is the English version of 

Die Verschiebung der Zeit.

Humorous and philosophical reflections on the theme of time in twenty-two essays, complemented by abstract images by Francis Théberge and an extended soundtrack by Hendekagon.

Bandcamp Listening Party at 6pm (UK time) on Friday 17th April!

https://adventurousmusic.bandcamp.com/merch/a-different-take-on-time-listening-party-2

The digital album includes the book as a pfd-file.

https://adventurousmusic.bandcamp.com/album/a-different-take-on-time

Eighth Tower Magazine Vol. I

from Unexplained Sounds Group

Eighth Tower Magazine is a periodical publication dedicated to music and modern mythologies. It explores alternative and experimental sound practices, tracing connections between contemporary music, invisible cinema, and dark fiction. Eighth Tower investigates how modern mythologies are shaped, transmitted, and transformed. It is conceived as a space for reflection, documentation, and critical exploration, where sound, image, and narrative converge into a shared cultural landscape.

Format: stapled A5

Pages: 64

Language: English

1st Edition: numbered, limited to 50 copies

2nd printing: numbered, limited to 30 copies

Volume I - contents:

Electroacoustic music from Portugal – new Sound Mapping anthology published by Unexplained Sounds Group / Resistant materials. Physical music format in the digital era /

Interview with Robert Rich / Experimental music history, A short journey into the Italian post industrial scene of the 1980s / Invisible sci-fi cinema. 5 films from Japan you probably never saw / The inner space. The revolution of J. G. Ballard’s narrative / Incredible strange YouTube. When the Solar System stared back / Conspiracies and mythologies. Silencers. the invisible presence / Dark fiction corner / Dark fiction corner.  

https://unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com/merch/eighth-tower-magazine-vol-i

EX!Zine edition 5

This is the fifth 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 108-page zine (printed climate-neutral on recycled paper), the digital compilation, and a download code for an exclusive album by Wraith Sector.

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

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EX! Edition 5 is feat.

A.J. Kaufmann, Aleksandr K, Belinda Guerriero, Cedrik Fermont, Corina Retzlaff, Disorganism, Elise Wilson, Ici Chien Chien, Jesse Narens, Jolanda Moletta, Manuel Carbone, Robert Kerber, Sascha Rosemarie Höfer, Schwarzer Tag, See Blue Audio, Wraith Sector, and more.

It also includes music/book recommendations, early experimental musicians, a selection of influential albums by Dan Fox Jr. and Alev Lenz, and more.

released February 17, 2026

https://adventurousmusic.bandcamp.com/album/ex-zine-edition-5

Avocado 1970 

- FREE BONUS DOWNLOAD  with A Woman Under the Influence by Her Menacing Pet. The premiere issue of Avocado 1970, a DIY digital zine focused on dark ambient/experimental music, underground labels, and visual art. Featuring interviews and artwork from musicians and artists operating outside the mainstream, the zine documents the intersection of sound, image, and independent creative culture.

Get both here...

https://hermenacingpet.bandcamp.com/album/a-woman-under-the-influence

Zine also here...

https://archive.org/details/avocado-issue-one/page/n1/mode/2up