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 [...]

This edition of Distraction Therapy gathers music that seems to hover at the point where private feeling becomes audible, but before it has hardened into [...]

This episode of Distraction Therapy sits in a productive tension. On one side, it draws from recognisable strands of Japanese alternative rock, pop, remix culture [...]

This Distraction Therapy mix moves through Japanese indie, rock, alternative pop and electronic-adjacent music as a sequence of thresholds. It is not a strict genre [...]

This music mix episode of Distraction Therapy unfolds less as a sequence of songs than as a slow passage through altered emotional weather. The tracks [...]