This week, another hearty serving of new music, guaranteed loud, heavy and chaotic. The Motte has glitchy ambient and breakcore with a special exclusive track, and The Bailey has drone and noise.

Playlist:

• By Storm, featuring billy woods - Best Interest
• 16:9 Ratio - I don't go to lakes, I go to The Pond
• Mas Aya - Ocarina
• Orchestroll - Spume (Formerly an Icefield)
• Janis Lago - Draining Marmara
• Hitori Tori - Nouve
• MTS AIRMASS - Winter Has a New Victim (Album Version)
• Lneheb, Sven Noon - П
• Severed Suns of the Golden Noontide - bone chip
• Mighty Old Redwood - Swallowed and Encompassed by a Mass of Swirling Tentacles Part I
• Deprivationn, featuring bozoru bear - swallowed (should've been)
• Aether zlz - wyndir
• Morrigan - Crime of Curiosity
• Chase That Skirt - Chase That Skirt
• STALWART - 374

This week, some quieter music to balance out the last few weeks, featuring a special guest mix by Montreal experimental electronica artist Digipet! Check her music out on Bandcamp. The rest of the show is mostly electroacoustic and folky free improvisation.

Playlist:

• Shawn Kemp - Slippy Syrup
• digipet - DIGIPET @ Motte and Bailey!!!
• Concrete Sun - little bug on the water
• Sarah Belle Reid - Weave (Quark Version)
• Bitter Fictions - Sapphire
• Family Ravine - Dense crowds under too hot cameras
• Širom - Tiny Dewdrop Explosions Crackling Delightfully
• microplastique - Aghot'k'

This week, we're bringing the energy to the station! The Motte has upbeat electronic music (the breakcore returns), and the Bailey has noisy psychedelic rock.

Playlist:

• Ariel Ulysses - 1:06:40 + 1:08:34
• Katia Krow - Clocks Rust in Absentia
• audry - piano32
• Liam Aldous - Stealing Time
• subtractiveLAD - Ruckus
• Anito Soul - UNAKAYA
• Satanicpornocultshop, featuring Baiyon - Zap Meu-Meu
• Status: Expunged - Final Eternity
• tellur - 오래된 스타일의 돈과 사랑 [Old-Fashioned Money and Love]
• Prado, Andrés Prado - Dream
• Kobaryo - Dimension Hacker -Daria's Version-
• Her Motives Are Silent - It's OK
• Grave Guy - Sauerkraut
• Yankee Yankee - Rocks
• Jason Philip Wierzba - Beanpole Falstaff
• Joshua Chuquimia Crampton - Mallku Diablón
• 15,000 Guns - Blunt Force Trauma to the Head
• El Café Atómico - Los Gringos
• UUGGHH - Gay Metal Faerie Goo Secretions
• Perfect - Oh....Yes!

This week, absolute jazz insanity, featuring a special interview with artists Lua Trilogy and Foxxmonger where we talk about their new release Pandemonium, which you can find on Bandcamp alongside other streaming sites.

The Motte and Bailey has a bunch of jazz, with some hip-hop, metal and even some spoken word in the mix.

Playlist:

• Pharoah Sanders - Colors
• DJ MILLION$ - Lua Trilogy & Foxxmonger Interview! Check out "Pandemonium" on Bandcamp!
• Martinez/Roach - Where or When (Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here)
• Quinton Barnes - Sober for the Weekend
• By Storm - Double Trio 2
• Baby Jay Club - Sector
• Casual Vices - Fly Tipper
• Va - Stable Descent
• Los Esteroides - segunda vida [en wuhu o darkrp]
• Gas Giant - MERLOT
• (Z)erpents - Its a kettle battle to the deaf
• Ligne De Front Infanterie - Speaking of Dead Things
• Backengrillen - Repeater II

This week, a lot of atmosphere and a lot of sampling. The Motte is a whirlwind of ambient, plunderphonics and electronica, and the Bailey is another dip into longer songs with new rock and metal.

Playlist:

• Arid Landscapes - RTMK
• UrsDeMould - Hitori(seul) Nico's mix
• Stereo_IMG - The ICU
• Shiratinpro - FNDME
• Darren Wright - Try
• Jetski - Split Dogs
• Segunda Mordida - Biolitos en mi Nokia 3220
• Ophidian - Abandon
• Sote - ADTVESSPXLUT
• NUM - The Gate
• William Covert - Dream Void
• SPILLINGS - SKINNED
• Earth Ball - And Music Shall Untune The Sky
• AIDS Wolf - Sixty EIGHT
• Effluence - Molluscan Hemolymph Extraction
• Serpent Column - Always is the Kairos (ἐν ἡμῖν καὶ οὐσία ἀδάμας)

This week, some more standard fare, but don't expect that means the show's gone easy listening! The Motte has some folky ambient and some hard hitting electronica, and the Bailey has a fine selection of long songs from dreamy rock to metal to a haunting chaotic reimagination of a classic jazz standard.

Playlist:

• Sterling MacKenzie - There's No Point In Hiding Anymore (Washed)
• Cloveback - Pools Form in the Yard
• Greg Block - Whale Fall
• Diewob - Summit House
• Jaiden Macintosh - untitled 1
• peopling - rETALiATe iN jOY
• xicada - PORTAL
• easygoingtech - nebdai
• Moa Piller - Komitasa
• SILKRØAD - Schneider Open
• Hailstones - Trecherous
• Computer Bugs - A necessary departure: Willow covered caverns
• The Phanerozoic Eon - Ancient Rivers of the Old World
• Martinez/Roach - My Funny Valentine
• Zu - Kether

This week, a loose collection of some more albums last year that I liked, with a sprinkling of some new tracks that just released this past week. The Motte has ambient and electronica, and the Bailey has folk and improvisation. Nothing fancy, but all great tunes.

Playlist:

• Lucy Liyou - Credit
• mari park - every time
• Joni Void - Event Flow - A Sequence
• Nick Storring - Roxa I
• Gryphon Rue - The Other Green Worm
• nov-r701 - 3
• AVI - Diamonds
• Kewyo - 9vxtzy
• buq - Preach8.5
• Enraile - Ether
• Hakita - The Man Who Began to Suspect He Was Made of Glass
• Naval Fictions - when a storm upon the palace came
• bodies of divine infinite and eternal spirit - i could scream because i fear the route of love
• Brother Dragon - hear her breathe
• NPNP, Jairus Sharif - Ark Distant
• Arts&Crafts, featuring Mark Limacher - 花樣年華
• Invisible Whip, Invisible Shield - Shield
• FACT - m'orange

First episode of 2026, and we're starting it off with a bang! The Motte has an interview with Austin rapper Departure talking about his newest album "work of artist i love you", which you can find on Bandcamp, Youtube, and other places. The Bailey has mostly all new 2026 music and some great music last year.

Playlist:

• Departure, featuring Zawdy - dada as language and art
• DJ MILLION$ - Departure Interview!!! Check out "work of artist i love you" on Bandcamp!
• Departure, featuring support - change your behavior
• V/Vm - 008
• Quiet Winter - drips
• Bomb Erotica - Quelaan
• Goodnight Girl - Drifting Into Sleep
• Steven Leak, Ottmar Soulier - a fierce red lion walks among them
• waivestate - Rhizome
• The Sidepeices - everyday fishing
• kiralitch - HAPPY MASH-UP+
• Crying Chiyo - Tuscan Burial Ceremony
• Klein - eternal
• Doughnut Skin - Box Cutter Blues

The Motte and Bailey 119th Episode Spectacular: The "Best of 2025" Episode.

Playlist:

• Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Gift Song 1
• Jairus Sharif - Oh And Poets Maybe
• marcy firelife - let them see
• Oneohtrix Point Never - Bumpy
• Fawn Soto - growing up small
• The Sidepeices - psalm 23:1
• Weed420 - terminal
• 23wa - CRESPISM
• Bagel Fanclub - possum clawz and tanuki pawz
• かめりあ(Camellia) - 24-Dimensional Non-Euclidean Deep Blue Starfall Vertigo
• aya - heat death
• Danny Brown - All4U
• Los Thuthanaka - Parrandita "Sariri Tunupa"
• Swans - Guardian Spirit
• billy woods, featuring Yolanda Watson - A Doll Fulla Pins
• Midnight Channel - Shelly
• Yowie - Throckmorton
• Skin Tension - Ferox
• Pissgrave - In Heretic Blood Christened
• Deafheaven - Revelator
• Hayden Pedigo - I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away

This week, a darker and wintery episode to celebrate the last live episode in the booth for 2025. The Motte has ambient and some wild experimental EDM, and the Bailey is a smorgasbord of free jazz.

Playlist:

• Ariel Ulysses - Mount Mesa
• oksoundsgreat - ainslie wood
• August, Yours Truly - Her Name Is Emily
• Slow Riffs - Mutual Dreaming
• Coil - Princess Margaret's Man in the D'jamalfna
• Kristen Pilon, Demdike Stare - Twist
• healspirit1 - Antastades
• mossy place - the croupier
• Quiet Winter - bird
• Bill Brennan & Andy McNeill - Golden Voices
• JJJJJerome Ellis, featuring Haruna Lee, James Harrison Monaco, Ronald Peet, and S T A R R (busby) - Vesper Sparrow
• Ahmed - Isma'a [Listen]
• The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters - 'reason'
• Tempête Solaire - Les instruments de mesures du soleil