M–L–XL Occasional Radio

Playboy: Have you ever taken LSD yourself? Marshal McLuhan: No, I never have. I'm an observer in these matters, not a participant. The episode features: Les Halles, Visible Cloaks, Spirit & Form, Kosmische Keuterboeren, Raju Arara and Hare Akedod.

Pacific City Sound Visions is an experimental and contemporary new age, futuristic record label founded and ran by Spencer Clark (well known for his duo project with James Ferraro, The Skaters). The label releases a multitude of Clark’s aliases such as Fourth World Magazine and Typhonian Highlife alongside a selection collaborations in which he himself takes part in. The episode features: Star Searchers, The Fanfare of the Ascension of Thee Facehugger, H.R. Giger's Studiolo, Fourth World Magazine Volume, Typhonian Highlife, Tarzana and Monopoly Child Star Searchers.

Space Age Recordings and Fierce Recordings are two British independent record labels that not only released music from Spacemen3, but were the godfathers of the shoegazer and drone-rock scenes which blossomed in the U.K. at the end of the 1980’s with obvious affinity with the sounds of The Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth and Suicide. This episode features also other bands from their catalogue, including a piece from the controversial album ‘LIE: The Love & Terror Cult’ by Charles Manson. The episode features: Angus MacLise, Spacemen 3, Spectrum, Experimental Audio Research, Sonic boom, Octal and Charles Manson.

Hippos In Tanks was a Los Angeles based record label founded in 2010 by Barron Machat and Travis Woolsey. Inactive since late 2015 due to Barron Machat’s passing in a car crash in Miami. The label, named after the novel by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs ‘And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks’, started as a radio program but became in just a couple of year the benchmark for a new wave of Internet age experimental artists such as Dean Blunt, Laurel Halo and James Ferraro. The episode features: D’Eon, Dean Blunt, James Ferraro, Hype Williams, White Car, Triad God, Bodyguard, Laurel Halo, Sleep ∞ Over.

Bruce Mau wrote this sentence in 1998 in his Incomplete Manifesto for Growth. The rest of the music is composed with sounds collected while browsing the Internet during the week of the incredible high tide that dramatically hit Venice.

Coloursound Library is a Munich based experimental, progressive library label, established in 1979, created by Gunter Greffenius. Artwork paintings were often created by his wife Waltraud Greffenius. Notes on records report intringuing descriptions such as: “Documentary and industrial underlays for current themes of modern life”, “Computer Data Sound, the overture to a new era in music”, “Music suitable for heavy industry, production lines, demolitions, earth movements, biological research, laboratories, mines, oil rigs, light industry including electronics”, “Contemporary synthesizer underscores played by computers; depicting future technologies in today's process”, “Contemporary industrial moods depicting product and fabrication”, “Positive music statements for the commercial creative and business worlds”, "Continuous atmospheric sounds for enigmatic landscapes, metaphysical situations and prehistorical periods". The episode features: Joel Vandroogenbroeck, Eric Vann, Peter Lüdemann, Alessandro Alessandroni, Klaus Weiss and John Tender.

Oops! I Dropped the Lemon Tart, is the name of the perfectly imperfect dessert by chef Massimo Bottura of the acclaimed Osteria Francescana. The recipe first came about when Kondo Takahiko, Osteria Francescana’s pastry chef, let go of one of the restaurant’s signature desserts at an inopportune moment. Rather than simply ditch the smashed tart, Takahiko and Bottura decided to remake it in a culinary tribute to the thing that defines great art in any sphere — imperfection. “It’s imperfect,” says Bottura, “in a perfect way.” The episode features: Inspired School Of Astral Music, Blue Communion: ISAM and Time Gate: ISAM.

Artist Cindy Bernard initiated sound. at Angels Gate Park in San Pedro, California, in 1998. This concert series eventually evolved into the Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound—better known as SASSAS—a small Los Angeles organization fostering exciting new site-based work at the intersection of experimental music and contemporary art. The episode features performances from two CD compilations of early sound. concerts: James Tenney (performing John Cage), Solid Eye, Nels Cline and Gregg Bendian (performing John Coltrane and Rashied Ali), Philip Gelb and Pauline Oliveros, Extended Organ, and Voice of the Bowed Guitar.

Acido is a Berlin based imprint, founded in 2004 by Andreas Krumm AKA Dynamo Dreesen. Initially putting out just one record per year, the label was born as the result of impulse, gut instincts and a laissez-faire approach to business. The episode features: Dynamo Dreesen, Porn Sword Tobacco, 291out, SVN, Convextion, Asis, Dresvn, SW., DJ Sotofett

John Giorno died last week, at age 82, at his home in Lower Manhattan, were he was living with his partner Ugo Rondinone. Poet and performer — a strong and suffering voice belonging to New York’s avant-garde milieu — in 1965 has founded the not-for-profit record label and organisation Giorno Poetry Systems with the aim of connecting poetry and related art forms to a larger audience using innovative ideas, audiovisual materials and experimental recording techniques. GPS released albums regularly until the late 1980s featuring recordings by artists such as Laurie Anderson and Philip Glass as well as unique performances by Frank Zappa, Diamanda Galás, Allen Ginsberg, John Cage, Brion Gysin, Giorno himself and William S. Burroughs. The episode features: John Giorno, Rose Lesniak, Anne Waldman, Cabaret Voltaire, Lydia Lunch and Clint Ruin, Richard Hell, John Cage, Laurie Anderson, Brion Gysin with Ramuntcho Matta and Psychic TV.