Motte and Bailey

Motte and Bailey

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Motte and Bailey episodes

  • Motte and Bailey - Episode October 31, 2026
    This week, a heavy episode for Halloween, with a special interview from Washington folk artist Zodiacs on the Wing!. You can find her new album, The Shriek at Assisi, on Bandcamp among other streaming sites. The rest of the episode runs from emo to jazz to metal.

    Playlist:
    • Animal Collective - April and the Phantom
    • Zodiacs on the Wing - Zodiacs on the Wing Interview!!!
    • Zodiacs on the Wing - snowy cat
    • Zodiacs on the Wing - you are as tall as a plane tree
    • auburrn - Leap Year
    • Camo Meal - Popinpobopia
    • Still There - But... The Future Refused To Change
    • Coup D'état - Losing Meaning
    • Andrew W.K. - No Clue
    • Pamięć - II: Krzyk (Dziecko)
    • Tempête Solaire - Spheres Orbitantes
    • Anno Solar - Eterna vigilia
    • The Canyon Observer - Koža
    • Thantifaxath - Burning Kingdom of Now
    • Neural Indent - Total Depersonalized Realization
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  • Motte and Bailey - Episode October 24, 2026
    Funding Drive 2026!!! Featuring Miguel, Daryl and Shawn!

    Playlist:
    • Boards of Canada - Arena Americanada
    • Liam Aldous - Osoul
    • heavensouls, featuring Stickerbush - "shipping times and quiet streets"
    • Apollo Bitrate, featuring bagel fanclub - eye cassette metamorphosis
    • Hechicera Guadalupe Santamaría Negrete - La cueva
    • Friesen / Hume / Waters - Stained Coat
    • Zodiacs on the Wing - agapē agape
    • Brii - Enlutados
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  • Motte and Bailey - Episode October 17, 2026
    This week, we're going back to more traditional sounds before the big Funding Drive episode! The Motte has a wide variety of alternative folk, and the Bailey dives into some wild avant-garde jazz.

    Playlist:
    • Sundrips - A2
    • Tenderlove - door to know-where
    • Plains Apparition - Cobalt Rain
    • Eliot Krimsky - Feel I'm Getting Closer
    • anrimeal, featuring Quelle Chris - Chapter III - St. Chris, paines
    • Kee Avil - un
    • Croz Boyce - Hanging Out With a Blueberry Pop
    • Myriad Valley - Blurred Reality
    • East of the Valley Blues - Anywhere is Nowhere
    • Michael Scott Dawson - Standard Blues
    • Enneads - ananke
    • Various Artists, featuring Laraaji - Ralimba Joy
    • Angell & Crane - Tabarka
    • Slowfoam, featuring Patrick Shiroishi - Imprints
    • Lingyuan Yang - Bloodstain
    • Poskrom - Swarog upadł, Słońca wciąż brak
    • Jim Davis - Deserve / The Death of Language
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  • Motte and Bailey - Episode October 10, 2026
    This week, another heaping serving of weird electronica and rock to keep you warm during these increasingly chilly days. The Motte has a bunch of IDM both new and old, and the Bailey has a wild path between emo and black metal.

    Playlist:
    • Clark - Ted
    • Phoenecia - Suite D256
    • Ilkae - cast aside
    • Ascetic Snakes - Machine Learning
    • State n Division - horse/eater/four/seater
    • Hexalyne - XetersennaC
    • Phlex - Fiesser
    • heavensouls - model housing
    • Orchestroll - spotshadowsphere
    • Bola - W.I.K
    • Various Artists, featuring Jairus Sharif & Malcolm Mooney - Oh, And Poets Maybe
    • Zodiacs on the Wing - the endless tandem suns
    • bit depth - breathing in / breathing out
    • The Corta Vita - Love Letter To Metropolitan City
    • i.o - in prophecy
    • ira glass - new guy (big softie)
    • JUNON - Propheten der blauen Flamme
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  • Motte and Bailey - Episode October 3, 2026
    This week, a trip through some organic experimentation. The Motte has a blend of folk with electronic flourishes, and the Bailey has psychedelic jazzy rock that just keeps escalating.

    Playlist:
    • Jules Reidy - Clerestory Windows II
    • Kathleen Yearwood - The Work of the Spider
    • Settima Tacca - Mirror
    • Radwan Ghazi Moumneh & Frédéric D. Oberland - The Serpent
    • Juana Aguirre - la noche
    • cjb - fear
    • By Storm - Dead Weight
    • Spectratio - Major ragers welcome
    • khc, moribet, featuring PAR - gomuncheea
    • C. Diab - Anamnesiac
    • ecotype - Cross Section
    • Steve Bates - Green As A Ghost
    • Hailstones - Solstice
    • Water Gun Water Gun Sky Attack - Lake of Rot
    • Nigeria Futebol Clube - ambiência vol.VIII - Motel Paris
    • Érick d'Orion - Ectoplasme
    • Standing On The Corner - doesn't mean a thing
    • Guttersnipe - Keep Honking! We're Trapped in a Memetic Bottleneck
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  • Motte and Bailey - Episode September 26, 2026
    This week, a wild rave party from the comfort of your radio (including the slow hazy walk home in the cold.) The Motte has GABBER GABBER GABBER oh yeah some pop too, and the Bailey has long atmospheric rock and metal.

    Playlist:
    • Solari - Eroding Us
    • Hakushi Hasegawa - We The Ominous Warriors
    • buddywudd, featuring healspirit1 - Wannacry
    • Ivy Hollivana - Angelstar
    • Xylocaine - Consternation
    • Super Hell - Amen in the Hell
    • Adversary - Stygian Daughtren
    • Jerkoff Savant - Life is not Worth Living (unhappy person mix)
    • excel dj - !folk star's (real mera)
    • *struck - tetra
    • Verity Larsen - neverstop
    • audry - Ghost Investigations
    • Bare Wire Son - Ends Below
    • Blous3 - movies
    • Mares of Thrace - Complicated Grief
    • Emptiness - When The Whole Arrives
    • Altarage - Not a Proper Burial
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  • Motte and Bailey - Episode September 19, 2026
    This week, some longer and wilder songs to balance out last week's fast paced bonanza. The Motte has IDM and a long-needed return to some hardcore EDM, and the Bailey has slow pastoral post-rock goodness.

    Playlist:
    • Way Deep - Off Kilter
    • Antitelepath - Recognize
    • Congelador, featuring Lore - Suncosta
    • ponxi - garigari
    • Bogdan Raczynski - 329 15h
    • kCadaver - waltz for nine of swords [i hate this song holy s***]
    • Premolar - FRATURA
    • wawawa - skeletal
    • Nero's Day at Disneyland - ØBabylon
    • Kreuzschmerzen - Blach
    • cuebasher - Emotions Are Real
    • liam smidzik - sour tasting blade
    • Actors Artificial - Insentient Vacancy Mapping Apperceptive Container
    • Stefan Christoff, Joseph Sannicandro - The skies are always beyond our imagination
    • fish eat cat - Generational suicide
    • bit depth - intertwined
    • Jasmine Smoke - hit single
    • HaHarry Bartlett and Kurtis Perrie - Child's Play
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  • Motte and Bailey - Episode September 12, 2026
    This week, a massive episode focusing on the upcoming festival Zest Fest 3, a ginormous online festival made by and for the internet underground. The Motte and Bailey has a wild mix of rap, electronic, ambient, and other assorted genres, including an interview from the festival crew!

    Playlist:
    • glass structure - sketchers edit
    • consolation arts - Individual Machinical Standards (we hold)
    • Jacob Shay, Opals - Grasshopper Lullaby
    • bliss3three - sunset express {to eternal bliss}
    • Before Grim - Carousel
    • Snopoint Apathy - Lucid Cynar Springs
    • KawaiiOnMyDick - fw Devour: lo nunk antes visto i oido x el humano , una dimensión aparte, nosotros venimos del futuro. go to soundcloud.com/ddvour
    • YUNG DECKK - The Coke
    • mmryxloss - I Used To See
    • Mazelfyre - U can Always Come Back
    • Lua Trilogy!, featuring Jia Eden - Bluenote
    • pseudo-antigone - To The Lighthouse
    • kitty ray - cassadaga fairy garden
    • DJ Ellie - ellie fights the flames: a Speed House story (lights, camera, bars!)
    • username - CC House
    • DJ Elmoe - Whea Yo Ghost At, Whea Yo Dead Man
    • Hashirat - caodaism
    • Weed420, featuring Nhil Ov Curse - mala intencion 'PEGADITAS MIX 2008'
    • Fawn Soto - checksum
    • Unidos X La Cumbia - Miamor<3
    • Dynamtic - pushover
    • Celestaphone - AM PM
    • Departure, featuring high girlfriend - potentially
    • Jusmix - Frames of the Thought
    • bridge of sand. - 4sin
    • The Sleep Dealers, featuring lua trilogy! - you're home
    • BITWASHERE - Keep Waiting For Me (Always Late)
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  • Motte and Bailey - Episode September 5, 2026
    This week, a grab bag of some new gems and some older deep cuts. The Motte is a deep dive into the world of folktronica, and the Bailey is non-stop gritty and wild noise rock.

    Playlist:
    • Leo Seligo - Away Waiting
    • French Paddleboat - Signal That Opens Gates
    • OMB - Unconscious wwworld
    • 새눈도둑 Bird's Eye Thief - Triarp
    • Batfinks - Ort To Gop
    • Neo Geodesia - Médiatrix of Brévie Line
    • connect_icut - 74 Guitars
    • Groomble - speeed
    • Leafcutter John - Melimëlon
    • CG tears - Blue Wall of Ectoplasm
    • Those Who Walk Away - Memorial Environment #4
    • Still There - Weathering
    • ven y mira - absorto
    • halfmass - consequence
    • n.u.do - d3ad l3tt3rs
    • Hangedup & Tony Conrad - Flying Fast N Furious
    • Sly and the Family Drone - In The Oils
    • Blemishes - I Want To Be Water
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  • Motte and Bailey - Episode August 29, 2026
    This week, an episode that originally was going to be themed around summer ending, but the setlist was made while I was sick, so it ended up a lot wonkier than I expected. You could probably find all seasons in here for all I know. The Motte goes from psychedelic ambient to plunderphonic EDM, and the Bailey has a bunch of new avant-garde jazz!

    Playlist:
    • Animal Collective - #1
    • Cindy Lee - Til Polarity's End
    • Dealers of God - It's Too Easy
    • eternity god - sensation whole
    • Luke Requena - Tale of the Dead Monk
    • WKWP - In The Range
    • Haunted Ghost, Plains Apparition - Holding On (Try)
    • dotnds - Tuning / Girlfriends
    • The Lampreys - Object-PermanentJewelry-Always
    • Enraile - Tw40 I'm Inside
    • Dream as One - First Light
    • Picastro - Chance Striker
    • HaHarry Bartlett and Kurtis Perrie - Banya
    • Friesen / Hume / Waters - Pastoral
    • Raymond Roussel - Multi-Watt
    • Ahmed - Bye-Ya / Epistrophy
    • SHAAANE - Coma Wars
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