Episodes
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Don is a musician, he played with Quincy Jones and Sérgio Mendes. He is also an engineer, and he built and experimented with synthesizers very early on. He created the Live Electronic Orchestra in the early Seventies which led to the development of MIDI. We hear how he requested a Rhythm Unit from Roland and ended up helping to build it!
2020 saw the Roland 808 drum machine's 40th birthday and its global impact on music has been huge. Electro, Hip-hop, House, Techno, Soul, Funk, Drum and Bass to Trap - the 808 is at the heart of their stories. It literally changed the sound of popular music. -
Japan’s mighty BORIS tell us about the music scene in Japan and the country’s love of heavy metal and experimental noise. Experimental music group BORIS comprises drummer Atsuo, guitarist/bassist Takeshi and guitarist/keyboardist Wata. They formed in Toyko in 1992. This interview was conducted with Takeshi and translated and voiced by Ms Rie Hiramatsu-Hunter
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Exploring Kenya’s extreme grindcore and hardcore scene with duo Duma. Duma members Martin Khanja and Sam Karugu are former members of bands Lust for a Dying Breed and Seeds of Datura. They formed Duma together in 2019.
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Takiaya Reed and Sylvie Nehill of the American / Australian drone duo Divide and Dissolve share how their experiences as Black & Tsalagi [Cherokee]and Māori women has informed their heavy sound.
Mirroring the brash, bone-crushing potency of their dynamic Drone music, the formidable Takiaya Reed (saxophone, guitar, live effects) and Sylvie Nehill (drums, live effects) carry their fight and ancestors fight forward, using the power of their performances to raw attention to the ongoing battle against system oppression. -
Swedish singer Robyn shares her love for Prince which started as a young child dancing to her mum's albums. She will discuss his seminal album Sign O' The Times and how his emotional lyrics have influenced her immensely.
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Dub poet Roger Robinson, winner of this year's prestigious TS Eliot prize talks us through his early influences, the inspiration behind his poetry and his collaborations with electronic musician The Bug, as part of the brilliant King Midas Sound. Roger won the TS Eliot Prize for his collection of poetry titled, 'A Portable Paradise', which tackle themes such as racism and events such as the Grenfell Tower fire, as well as exploring the idea of paradise and searching for it throughout life.
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Paul Wright created the British Culture Archive to document, highlight and preserve the changes in British society and culture through social and documentary photography.
His focus is on post war working-class culture and diverse communities that are frequently overlooked by more established archives.
The archive is currently hosting an exhibition of photography called The People’s City, at The Refuge in Manchester. Paul Wright tells us more about it.
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Charlotte Dos Santos has Norwegian and Brazilian heritage and was raised in Oslo. She studied jazz at Berklee College of Music in Boston and Flamenco and Mediterranean music in Valencia. Her debut album Cleo was released in 2017
Charlotte chats about her new track Harvest time - and the themes surrounding it, which include shedding your ego, metamorphosis, the influence of nature and the influence of Pharoah Sanders.
She’s back in the UK as part of her first headline European tour. -
Russian DJ and producer Nina Kraviz talks about heading up a very special remix project.
St Vincent approached Nina to make one remix of a track from her album ‘Masseduction’, and Nina suggested curating a series of remixes of the whole album.
This became a record called 'Masseduction Rewired',
Nina called in some of the most innovative electronic artists in the world, including Jlin, Laurel Halo, Steffi, Midland, Mala, Pearson Sound.
We asked her to talk us through the journey, from meeting with St Vincent aka Annie Clark in New York to rewiring the sonic structures of the record. -
Jaz Coleman may be best known to you as the lead singer with eighties post-punk band Killing Joke, but he has another career as an acclaimed classical composer with a global reputation. He discusses his work and much-missed bassist Raven.
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We celebrate Bowie's Birthday by replaying Mary Anne's 1997 interview with David, recorded for his 50th birthday. Hear David talk about his love of drum and bass, his friendship with Lou Reed and how he chose the name David Bowie.
Includes excerpts from his 50th Birthday Special with Mary Anne, originally aired on Radio 1 in 1997.
This Three Minute Epiphany was first aired in the 6 Music Weekend Breakfast Show in 2013. -
Kathryn Jeffs gives us a peek into a new series called Earth’s Tropical Islands. She highlights the great adventures the team had filming wildlife in Madagascar, Borneo and Hawaii
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We continue Relaxation Week with a Three Minute Epiphany from Malaysian-born and LA-based singer Yuna. She has experienced a busy year with the release of her latest album Rouge, featuring Tyler The Creator and Little Simz.
Yuna has also become increasingly involved in the fashion world. She took time out to tell us about how she relaxes and how her home is the ultimate sanctuary. -
We continue relaxation week with a 3 Minute Epiphany from Danish singer/songwriter, Agnes Obel, whose forthcoming album Myopia is set for release in 2020 on the Deutsche Grammophon label. The album is an album about trust and doubt and the writing process for this record found Obel experimenting with with production techniques including warping and pitching down vocals, strings, piano and other instruments.
All this week we're relaxing and we encourage you to join us. We'll be chatting to some of our favourite artists and asking them to share their top tips for switching off and taking time for self care. -
We continue relaxation week with a 3 Minute Epiphany from Angolan-Portuguese electronic musician Pongo, who started rapping over kuduro dance routines at Queluz train station in Portugal, when she would travel every week to physiotherapy. She went on to join kuduro dance collective Buraka Som Sistema, making her musical debut on their album Black Diamond. We caught up with Pongo to find out what she does to relax, when the world around seems slightly hectic.
We're relaxing and we encourage you to join us. We'll be chatting to some of our favourite artists and asking them to share their top tips for switching off and taking time for self care. -
She talks us through the power of sound and how a gong bath can enhance the practice.
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Nitin Sawhney is a British Indian musician and composer, with one of the most distinctive voices in modern day music. He has released over twenty studio albums and works across a number of different specialisms including film, video games, dance and theatre.
Antony Gormley is a British Artist best known for his Angel Of The North sculpture near Gateshead. He currently has a new exhibition at the Royal Academy in London. Antony and Nitin have known each other for many years and collaborated together on the cover for Nitin’s 2008 album, London Undersound -
Anne's work includes sculptural installation, photography and audio. She often explores our relationship with place and space and her pieces re-purpose objects and challenge us to view our surroundings in a totally different way. Anne's art is often fully immersive, creating installations that you enter into rather than view from a distance. She often experiments with new materials and the process of creating each new work, is as important as the finished piece. You can see Anne's Winter Commission at Tate Britain in London from the 30th of November.
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Jim's passion for art began in childhood, when his parents encourage him to paint, sculpt and enter competitions on the back of cereal boxes, which happily, he won.
As a teenager Jim studied at art collage and it was here that he discovered the performance art of Gilbert & George and Joseph Beuys, which inspired his early adventures in comedy and which has continued to inform his writing and performances throughout his career. Recently seen on your TV discussing the history of Video Art, Jim's own art work is exhibited up and down the country.
He is also an ambassador for the Turner Contemporary, home of our special Art is Everywhere show on Tuesday the 3rd of December. -
Our celebration of art starts with the renowned boundary-pushing make-up artist.
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