Podcasts focused on digging deeper into underground and experimental sounds of the past and present.
The latest episode of Dan Melchior’s Quality Street podcast features an interesting combination of strange strings and other electronic and twangy things. Dan takes the week off and hands over the mic duties to Digital Debbie. Enjoy!!
Dan Melchior’s Quality Street podcast will now be available on Free Form Freakout. “A veritable viennetta of idiosyncratically fetishized sound” awaits you!
On this installment, I’ll be exploring the vast musical universe of Dan Melchior, who has been actively making music for over 20 years now. Probably for many listeners of this show, Melchior needs little introduction. Emerging from the late 90’s garage rock scene in the UK while recording with the likes of Billy Childish and…
On this installment of the podcast, I get back to sifting through a bunch of new music that I’ve acquired over the past month or so, and there has been just a wealth of top notch material coming out of late, so I’m only scratching the surface here. Hope you enjoy and come across a…
On this installment of the podcast, I’m pleased to welcome back Graham Lambkin to the show. As some listeners may be aware, Lambkin has appeared on the show multiple times over the years, where we’ve covered various aspects of his creative output, including his years being in The Shadow Ring, his work running Kye Records,…
On this installment of the podcast, I was fortunate to have an actual in-studio guest back on the show, which it has been quite some time since I’ve been able to do that. With the proper social distancing measures in place, I was joined at the KMSU studios by the Minneapolis guitarist, Matt Sowell. Matt…
On this installment, I highlight some of the great new music, or in some cases music that is new to me, that has arrived over the past month or so. I also pulled out a couple of releases from two pioneering figures within the realms of free jazz and the avant garde who we sadly…
On this installment of the podcast, I’ll be digging into the work of the London-based experimental and avant-garde label, Paradigm Discs. Founded in 1995 by Clive Graham of the long-running improv group, Morphogenesis, Paradigm Discs has since gone on to put out releases by the likes of Pauline Oliveros, Trevor Wishart, Daphne Oram, Adam Bohman,…
I’m going to try and get back into a fairly consistent schedule with the podcast in the months ahead, alternating between episodes focused primarily on newer music and episodes featuring the work of specific artists or labels. I’ve got a few feature shows lined-up for the weeks ahead, but for this installment I’ve got a…
Happy New Year! I hope you were able to find some comfort and joy during the holidays. On this installment, I take one last look back on some of my favorite music of 2020. I selected tracks from the lists of albums, cassettes, and reissues and archival releases that I posted on the Free Form…
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