This edition of Distraction Therapy moves through Japanese soundtrack music, technopop, electronic minimalism, guitar rock, singer-songwriter balladry and contemporary pop. What connects the tracks is [...]

There is a peculiar paradox at the heart of contemporary life. We have unprecedented access to information, techniques, systems and processes, yet many people struggle [...]

This edition of Distraction Therapy is arranged around the idea of cultural emergence. That phrase can sound abstract, but the experience itself is familiar. A [...]

What happens when art leaves the gallery and returns to the places where people live? That question sat quietly in the background as I visited [...]

What happens when a mix begins with the feeling of being named, tagged, measured and watched? Part Two of Distraction Therapy moves through a more [...]

What kind of feeling does a mix create before we can explain it? This first hour of Distraction Therapy begins with Brian Eno’s “An Ending [...]

Distraction Therapy with Rob Watson now goes out on Soar Sound, community radio from Leicester and across the East Midlands, on Wednesdays from nine to [...]

Distraction Therapy is broadcast on Soar Sound on Wednesdays, 9pm to 11pm. This episode of Distraction Therapy includes a short edited feature recorded at a [...]

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 [...]