FMC56 Ashcircle – off the cliff edge

Artist: Ashcircle Title: off the cliff edge Format: Cassette & download Label: Fractal Meat Cuts Release date: 3rd July 2020 Ashcircle is a South London duo making improvised music in order to cope with the overwhelming chaos of constant information and Tory governments. They organise “Cliff-Edge” at Hundred Years Gallery in Hoxton (before that, “Funeral” […]

Episode 166 – full tracklisting

Episode 166 Broadcasts on NTS on Monday night / Tuesday morning 16th June 2020, from 01:00 – 03:00. Full tracklist below. Duncan Harrison – Music From Amplified Flexible Discs B Aaron Dilloway – Chicken Traces Ain Bailey – Five Car Train to Fremont Sally Child – Foraminifera Modersohn-Becker – Song Of Tears aidnq – Multisensory […]

FMC55 Graham Dunning – Play it Today

Artist: Graham Dunning Title: Play It Today Recorded May 2020 using the Music by the Metre method. Edition of 20 tapes, individually recorded with hand made recycled covers, and digital download. The recordings were made with automated systems which were left to run, each tape recorded in succession so that each is different to […]

FMC54: Amy Cutler – Örö Tape (Fieldtrips of the Damned)

Artist: Amy Cutler Title: ÖRÖ TAPE (FIELDTRIPS OF THE DAMNED) Format: Cassette & download Release date: 5th June 2020 And whereas I had before said to myself: ‘If now a wave from the Deep has washed over this planetary ship of earth…,’ I said now: ‘A wave—but not from the Deep: a wave rather which […]

Episode 165 – tracklist

Episode 165 broadcasts on NTS.live on Monday night 18th May from 23:00 to 01:00 (uk time). Full tracklist below. — Free Magic Show – house music C. Reider – larva beat JD ZAZIE – Risacca Caroline Kraabel – Breath Clock 4 April 2020 Webster & Dunning – Winding Amy Cutler – riddles of the firmament […]

FMC53 – Mariam Rezaei: SKEEN

Artist: Mariam Rezaei Title: SKEEN Label: Fractal Meat Cuts Format: Cassette & download Release date: 8th May 2020 https://fractalmeat.bandcamp.com/album/skeen SKEEN was composed entirely under lockdown and is meant to be performed live. Using one Technics SL-1200 Mk5 and one Vestax Controller One turntable, the album manipulates each sound through a myriad of turntablist techniques, pushing […]

FMC52 Paul Nataraj – Cobblestones & Kitchari

Artist: Paul Nataraj Title: Cobblstones & Kitchari Format: cassette & download Label: Fractal Meat Cuts https://fractalmeat.bandcamp.com/album/cobblestones-kitchari Release date: 1st May 2020 Paul Nataraj is a sound artist and music researcher from Blackburn, Lancashire. His work explores musical materiality, memory, the personal stories attached to music, and how our relationship with listening and the […]

Episode 164 – full tracklist

Episode 164 broadcasts from 01:00-03:00 (BST) on Tuesday morning 21st April, on NTS 1. Full tracklist below. Including music from two forthcoming tape releases on Fractal Meat. Photo by Amy Cutler. Left Hand Cuts Off The Right – Time Off Paul Nataraj – Two Places at the Same Time Chlorine – True With You Delphine […]

FMC51 Cut A Lonely Figure – Sugimoto Seascapes

Artist: Cut A Lonely Figure Title: Sugimoto Seascapes Format: Cassette & download Label: Fractal Meat Cuts Release date: 22 April 2020 Cut A Lonely Figure is the solo musical project of Blue Tapes and X-Ray Records founder David McNamee. The work predominantly involves the use of acoustic instruments such as pipe organ, […]

Episode 163 – tracklist

Episode 163 broadcasts between 1am – 3am on Tuesday morning 25th February, on NTS1. Full tracklist below. Field recording, synth drone, lo-fi improv, outsider electronics, extreme computer music and more. cowp – jigsaw piece one geological creep – creek, throwing stones Francesco Ameglio & Studio 23.56 – Hohner Rapid II The Doll – Krill Network Anne-F […]