Electronically Yours with Martyn Ware

Today's episode features Ruth Daniel and Merlyn Driver from the amazing global arts charity In Place of War.

Ruth is the CEO and Artistic Director of In Place of War. Ruth has led global arts and peace-building initiatives, developing over 100 cultural programmes in conflict zones.

Merlyn Driver is a singer songwriter and nature-focused musician whose approach draws on folk, contemporary music, and a wide range of other influences and sounds. His collaboration with IPOW on their nature based project EarthSonic is an inspiration for potential sound recordists and composers.

This is a fascinating and important creative discussion, ladies and gentlemen meet Ruth and Merlyn...

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Today’s guest is BISHI - singer, electronic rock-sitarist, composer, producer, and performer born in London of Bengali heritage. She has independently released two albums and several EPs on her own label Gryphon Records to critical acclaim. She co-produced her third album ‘Let My Country Awake,’ with Jeff Cook, out now on all platforms.

BISHI has recorded work with Tony Visconti, Sean Ono Lennon, Jarvis Cocker, Richard Norris and Daphne Guinness. Her collaborations and commissions for the stage include; The London Symphony Orchestra, The Kronos Quartet and  Yoko Ono’s ‘Meltdown’, and is the founder of WITCiH: The Women in Technology Creative Industries Hub, a platform elevating Women & Non-Binary genders in tech, through commissions, performances & the podcast 'Creative Women in Tech.'

Ladies and gentlemen – meet the unique performer Bishi...

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This episode features legendary electronic musician, producer and synth nut Benge.

His works with John Foxx and the Maths and Hannah Peel are outstanding, also Wrangler, OMD, Blancmange and Creep Show with Mal from Cabaret Voltaire, John Grant and Phill Winter.

He also runs a label - MemeTune Recordings, as well as a YouTube series MemeTune, semi-ironically exploring the history of synthesisers…
Ladies and gentlemen - prepare to geek out - meet Benge.

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Today's episode features TV presenter and disability champion Mik Scarlet.

Mik is a broadcaster, journalist, actor and musician, as well as an expert in the field of access and inclusion for disabled people. He has been voted one of the most influential disabled people in the UK, and was one of the first television presenters in the world with a physical disability.

In his early years, he followed his passion for music, forming bands that toured Europe and writing music for TV, radio and adverts. During a live performance he was spotted by a TV producer and offered a job as a TV presenter. By 1990, Mik was becoming a well known face in the media, one of the first generation of disabled onscreen talent. He won awards, including an Emmy in 1992, and went on to have a media career that lasted well in the 2000s. 

Ladies and gentlemen-what a story - meet Mik Scarlet...

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Today’s episode features Nicky Chance-Thompson, CEO for the outstanding Piece Hall in Halifax, one of the UK’s premier music venues and cultural hubs. Under her leadership an outstanding arts, culture and community events programme has seen the award-winning heritage destination welcome more than 11 million visitors.
This year will feature a huge range of musical events, including James, The Coors, Pendulum, UB40, Weezer, The Script, Simple Minds, Rag ‘n’ Bone Man, The Human League, and many more - 32 in total so far…
Ladies and gentlemen, meet Nicky Chance-Thompson...

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This episode features a true pioneer and innovator in the field of VJing – Jonny Wilson. Under the name of Eclectic Method he established himself as an audio-visual remix act.

Originally formed in London in 2001 by Jonny, Geoff Gamlen and Ian Edgar, he is now the sole remaining member. Inspired almost entirely by Jonny's early experiences with Sony Vegas editing software, Eclectic Method's audiovisual style quickly developed into a live performance featuring video turntables (Pioneer DVJ-1000) - mixing videos, often acapellas, as integral parts of their astounding audio mashups. As a live act, they have travelled around the world playing hundreds of gigs in Asia, North America, South America, Europe and the Middle East.

The Eclectic Method YouTube site is here – check it out… exceptional work

https://www.youtube.com/user/eclecticmethod

Ladies and gentlemen – meet the digital outlaw – Jonny Wilson and Eclectic Method...

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Today’s exceptionally danceable Electronically Yours episode features an in depth discussion with Mark Wood (Demon Records) and author Ian Wade about their new 5 CD + 4 LP boxsets, featuring  the best queer club classics 1980-1989.

Across five individually themed discs, the deluxe CD set presents 53 original extended versions, including many hard-to-find remixes, encompassing full-length High Energy, House, Diva, Pop, Europop and Alternative eighties classics from the likes of Pet Shop Boys, Grace Jones, Sylvester, Eartha Kitt, Divine, New Order, Hazell Dean, Laura Branigan and many more.  Highlights include the hard-to-find 12” version of Village People’s ‘Can’t Stop The Music’ plus the rarely-compiled underground club anthems ‘Pistol In My Pocket’ by Lana Pellay and ‘After The Rainbow’ by Joanne Daniëls.

 Not only were the ‘80s queer clubs where you were most likely to hear the latest groundbreaking developments in dance music (for example, house music would quietly flourish and innovate on the scene before busting overground and achieving near ubiquity as the decade progressed), there was also a heck of a lot of diversity on offer.

Ladies and gentlemen - It’s time to give in to sin – More Sin 2...

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This episode features a wide-ranging discussion with the fascinating Lias Saoudi, most famous for his frontman work with the excellent Fat White Family and Decius, and collaboration with The Moonlandingz.
He is also a writer and thinker, and is inspired by his life journey growing up in various countries.
Ladies and gentlemen, meet the fascinating Lias Saoudi...

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This episode features Mixmaster Morris, English electronica DJ and underground musician who has also recorded as The Irresistible Force. He was one of the originators of the ambient techno dance scene in the 1990s, also sometimes called chill-out.

He has extensively toured with many highly-influential dance acts including Psychic TV and The Shamen, has created innumerable remixes for artists like Lloyd Cole, Coldcut and Sven Vath, and many residences including Megatripolis in London.

Ladies and Gentlemen - meet Mixmaster Morris...

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