“Music so difficult you’ll scratch your head and think ‘was that any good?’.” Richard Youngs explores some challenging / difficult / beautiful music. (delete as appropriate)
The Rope Factory – Big Trouble in Little Sparta
This week The Rope Factory explores the ‘The Sorrow of Derdui’ by Mac Talla Nan Creag – who said second albums were difficult? – and further takes in some German nu-disco, Sudanese rhythms and Greek paradise music.
Go Bang! – The Lark Descending
Go Bang! Djs return with an Earl Grey and chocolate Hobnob powered mix of krautrock, post-punk, funk and couple of other dusty slabs of wax.
Patrick Ryming’s List of Love
Jutland’s finest, Patrick Ryming, treats us to an hour of songs in the key of love.
Auchterturra High Jinks – Bunacaimb 10m Trials
In anticipation of Still House Plants forthcoming ‘Fast Edit’ LP on Bison, this weeks High Jinks episode includes a couple of tracks from their debut self titled release from 2016. Also featured is a track from Alexia Avina’s excellent Unearth, out on Lost Map in October.
Ben ‘Jack Your Body’ Robinson – Play Therapy #3
Ben ‘Jack Your Body’ Robinson brings you Acid House, Italo, Post Punk and all sorts of other stuff too.
Richard Youngs’ Radio Show – Fidelity Special
Richard Youngs returns with an exploration of fidelity and it’s not all Hi-Fi! Features The Fall, Iggy and Stooges, Taming Power, Neil Campbell and the Blue Nile.
The Rope Factory – Conditions that Exist
After a short break Neil Dargie returns with The Rope Factory for more musical map making.
This week, we take a look at 70’s versus modern day free jazz, Ivor Cutler makes a welcome and reassuring appearance and we delve deeper into the Latino scene of 1970’s New York City.
Lumpen Nobleman – Spectre Juice
Extra Normal Records and Contra Pop founder Lumpen Nobleman returns to Tak Tent Radio for another mix of musical curios. Mr Nobleman’s all court game takes us rolling from acoustic arpeggios to experimental chamber pop, Swedish punk and a heavy slab of foot shuffling electronica.
Go Bang! – Skylark
Go Bang! dj’s debut on Tak Tent Radio, with a one hour mix of world rhythms, disco, house and percussion, scheduled to celebrate the reopening of The Skylark in Portobello, home of Go Bang! nights for the past year.