A STATION FROM LONDON YOU MAY LIKE.....

topic posted Sun, October 2, 2005 - 5:51 AM by  Sean
ORGAN ON YOUR RADIO @ RESONANCE 104.4FM - NOW IT'S WEEKLY!
Because writing about music is like dancing about architecture - Organ on the air.. Sean and Marina from Organ present underground music, goings-on from beyond and who knows what. Alternating with the on air duties and styles, one week Marina, the next week Sean. On air every Sunday night, invading your taxi cabs, your bath times and all of your airwaves from OCTOBER 2nd. One hour every Sunday, kicking off at 10.30pm all over London on proper radio on 104.4FM and all over the world via the web at www.resonanancefm.com Marina brings you “The Other Rock Show” – The Other Rock is the musical exploration of the avant perverse and complex rock, progressive adventures beyond the safety of 4/4. Sean will be bringing you whatever the hell he wants, who knows? 65Daysofstatic, Spo-it’s, Jello And The Melvins, Twentysixfeet, Colt…. Who knows, we don’t and we’re the ones doing it.
Resonance 104.4fm. The best radio station in London” (said Stewart Lee at The Guardian), “A Glorious experiment that everyone in the country deserves the chance to hear” (said Nicholas Lezard from The Independent) Best radio station in the world (said the New York Village Voice)
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SO LET SEE WHAT ON RESONANCE FM

1: 9.42pm Friday Sept 19th - Voivod followed by Upsilon Acrux and then Gentle Giant and some nice early IQ and before that the show kicked off with Ex Girl. It’s the final once a month Friday Other Rock Show with Marina O. Marina has been broadcasting in this slot for three years now. Time for a slight change and a move to weekly. “The Other Rock Show is the musical exploration of the avant, of perverse and complex rock, progressive adventures beyond the safety of 4/4”.

What else is there on Resonance FM? SOME RANDOM SWITCHES OF THE RESONANCE ON-SWITCH

2: 4.25pm Sunday - The start of our Resonance Watch - ok, let’s randomly turn on and listen: Some kind of strange Germanic sounding oompha band with a flute, no, Eastern European? Threatening to turn into a Polish polka - oh, it’s the “world’s favourite Jewish music show” called Something Jewish (I wasn’t that far off!) an easy going left field slightly tongue in cheek magazine show with a Jewish perspective…

3: 10.40pm Sunday - Just switched on to hear strange mellow industrial drones and talking crowd noises - oh it’s a live performance, the talking/drone was the crowd, they seem to be having a prize draw, to win who knows what? Hang on, it’s Stokey Churchy - kite flying and lit-art rapping from deepest Stoke Newington and someone called Skanky and someone else called Doctor Fingerpaint and don’t ask me what’s going on now, just get to your radio and find out…….

4: 10.10am - Monday morning and I can’t work out if this is some kind of pagan ritual or maybe a native north American thing that I’ve just tuned into. Now there’s a cat purring and the gentle hum of traffic and a whispered spoken word thing from an intriguingly soft-spoken American girl. She’s talking about the wind and car engines and the sun like a beacon and all day is mid day, she’s really whispering now…. Arctic Sun/Arctic wind by Audrey somebody or other (sorry, didn’t catch the name, rude of me). Now it’s music from Linda O’Keith and a track called Tuning In Section One - which seems to be all to do with the act of tuning in your radio!

5: 11.28am Monday Morning still. Right now it’s the KLF and the Red Army choir and they just had an interview with Bill Drummond and Mark Manning (Zodiac Mindwarp) about their new book, and now they’re talking about a photography journalist exhibition - seems to be some kind of rather good informative arts review show

6: 1.38pm Wednesday - interviewing people in a super market in Scotland about Fair Trade goods and why and who and how it touches people’s lives…. Talking about a boy being deported to back Angola from the UK at the age of 15 and his terrified father committing suicide instead (read more at indymediauk.org - Indymedia is always worth checking out but that’s another thing for another day)

7: 6.12pm Saturday - Lots of cool 60’s sounding French crooner/film soundtrack stuff, all lush strings and big arrangements and it’s Johnny Trunk with a show called OST - Original film soundtracks, a two hour show every Saturday.

8: 7.17pm Saturday - The Truth About Markets with Max Keiser And Stacy Herbert. Financial markets and economic analysis and conspiracy theories - theories about the head of an airline who always take the train…..why Tesco’s are so bad and how you’re making yourself poorer by buying their cheap food and how those loyalty bonus cards are just modern day slave chains and he knows, he’s been involved in Wall Street (so he keeps telling us) and he warns of the evils of the politeness of neo-liberalism and how America kills any journalist who tries to find out about the truth in Iraq, and who’s really behind the terrorism and is it Kate Moss and Tesco’s?

9: 11.19pm Saturday - some really good banging hardcore techno - “exclusive live set coming up from Monkey State, first here comes some nice warm dub….” Followed by some erratic D n’b from Shitmat “and next up a nice bit of gabber from DJ Skinhead called Extreme Terror” - 1, 2, 3, 4 bang bang bang wooooooooooaaaaggghhhhh, bang bang bang….next week it’s a special show with DJ Wrongspeed… and now at midnight a change of Show and some Psychic TV followed by a documentary about the CIA and their operations against Cuba and they infiltrated via the Olympic organisation and this appears to be a programme originally broadcast on altenativeradio.org - and now I have to go investigate them….

10: 1.00am Sunday - Interview with Gina Birch from the Raincoats and a feature on women in punk/post-punk and attitudes that the Raincoats encountered and the effect of Riot Grrrl and the influence of those Poison Girls (a fine thing to be listening to as we put this issue of Organ together…..). Now Gina is playing live in the cramped Resonance studio - a little studio above a restaurant in Denmark Street.

There’s all kinds of good things on Resonance, it’s always worth turning on, sometimes you can get yourself hooked for hours and hours, and yes, occasionally they can catch you off guard and you think “what the hell is this pretentious crap?”. What the hell, one man’s meat etc... Our ResonanceFM Watch experiment proves the sheer brilliance is in the majority. Haven’t mentioned Calling All Pensioners - a suprisingly aggressive pensioners action show that you just have to check out, the Kosmische show is always good, Xanurtsian Nights from Max Benezeth is always good. Max presents a rather seductive stylish Anglo-French electronica show in his very own very warm way. Not in London? The web site has archives and most importantly good quality live streaming. If you’re on the outskirts of the city, give the airwaves a try - The Other Rock Show has listeners in Staines and Kent! Let’s not forget that ResonanceFM is a legal, licenced station supported by listener donations and benefit gigs and all but two of the many DJs, administrators and engineers are unpaid volunteers! Resonance 104.4fm - the art of listening. Experimental radio art 24/7… www.resonancefm.com
posted by:
Sean
London

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