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#351 – Favourites of 2021, Part One

What a year it’s been. Terrible for many people in many ways, but the music has been absolutely sublime. This is the first episode of … Read more

#346 – Blawan, The Oscillation, Raja Kirik, Seekersinternational & Roger Robinson, Hawthonn, Fine Place

We keep reading about the new Blawan release “shedding the ‘techno’ box he has so often been put in” but his new, exceptional record on … Read more

#183 – Miss Red, Kamaal Williams, Elza Soares, Sen Morimoto

This week’s podcast starts off of the funky side, with smooth jazz funk from The Comet is Coming-affiliated Soccer96 and Henry Wu’s Kamaal Williams. We … Read more

#94 – Field Day Festival Special

Field Day festival returns for its tenth birthday this year at Victoria Park in London. Gareth and Anthony run through ten of the artists they’re … Read more

#70 – Anna Meredith, The Comet is Coming, I Know I’m an Alien, Epirus Quartet

Weird electronic noises this week, with something very special from the complete unknown I Know I’m an Alien. We’ve got a 10-minute opener from Maserati, … Read more

#54 – Venetian Snares, Tapes, Carbs, Nozinja

The brand new Venetian Snares record gets an airing on the Independent Music Podcast this week, but that’s not the only new track we’re playing. … Read more

#31 – Gil Scott-Heron, Jamie XX, Woli Wols, Jim Noir

The first podcast of another year of inevitably wonderful independent music starts with a 1927 blues track. Take whatever political meaning out of ‘Pray While … Read more

#7 – Faust, Zola Jesus, Antarctica Takes It!, Connan Mockasin

It’s a bank holiday, but that doesn’t stop the Independent Music Podcast – inane chatter about chocolate records, Canadian slave labour camps and the acting … Read more