What is a mixtape for? Not only to collect songs. Not only to show taste. Not only to keep a record of what was listened to [...]

What is a mixtape for? Is it a map, a diary, a spell, a sequence of rooms, or a way of quietly rearranging the furniture inside [...]

This edition of Distraction Therapy gathers music that seems to hover at the point where private feeling becomes audible, but before it has hardened into [...]

This episode of Distraction Therapy sits in a productive tension. On one side, it draws from recognisable strands of Japanese alternative rock, pop, remix culture [...]

This Distraction Therapy mix moves through Japanese indie, rock, alternative pop and electronic-adjacent music as a sequence of thresholds. It is not a strict genre [...]

This music mix episode of Distraction Therapy unfolds less as a sequence of songs than as a slow passage through altered emotional weather. The tracks [...]

This episode is a reflective mixtape journey through Japanese ambient pop, technopop, cinematic melancholy, and electronic modernism. Featuring music by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Susumu Hirasawa, Kenshi Yonezu, and more, exploring memory, liminality, urban solitude, and unfinished futures.

There are conversations that move in straight lines, and there are conversations that circle, return, and deepen. This discussion between Rob Watson and Dr Bret [...]

This episode of Distraction Therapy unfolds as a winter conversation, shaped as much by mood as by argument. Recorded in mid-January, it opens in that [...]

This week’s recording was shaped by the steady rain outside and the slow process of returning to everyday routines after two weeks in Japan. The [...]