15.08.2016 - The Polish underground music scene has been exploding in recent years, so today we spend an hour spinning tunes from the country. Industrial beats, windswept folk, jazz fusion, and minimalism. email // globalunderground@o94.at twitter //...
05.08.2016 - This week we talk to music journalist Joseph Burnett about Folklore Tapes, a record label / research project aiming to rekindle interest in the treasure trove of traditional British culture by “finding new forms for its expression”. He...
24.07.2016 - There’s so much more to modern Brazil than tropical beats and musicians with ‘Gilberto’ in their name, so this week – via the musical wormhole that is Bandcamp – we play a whole host of newly discovered music from the country. Plus a...
17.07.2016 - Scores of funky sounds were recorded in the Soviet Union during the second half of the 20th century, and released in tiny vinyl batches that barely survived through past the millennium. This week we play a few gems from back in the USSR plus a...
11.07.2016 - A week of happy vibes and dense grooves, from Tallinn to Tokyo. This show includes music from legendary Bollywood playback singer Kishore Kumar, Haruomi Hosono’s pre-YMO folk-rock band Happy End, Estonian jazz-funkers Estrada Orchestra, a...
04.07.2016 - We dive into the world of classic Spaghetti Western soundtracks. Mostly written and recorded by Italians for Westerns produced in Italy. This episode is dedicated to Italian actor Bud Spencer, who passed away last week Visit this brilliant...
28.06.2016 - We caught up with Iranian drone/ambient artist and veteran of the mighty Umor Rex label, Siavash Amini to talk about how he makes music, his upcoming collaborative album, and the experimental music scene in the Iranian capital of Tehran. email...
19.06.2016 - Only recently unearthed and released by Svart records, a treasure trove of live sessions recorded at Liisankatu studios in Helsinki for Finnish state radio between 1972-1977 join the dots between jazz and European prog, and pull the curtain on...
06.06.2016 - Plastic clothing! Wild hair cuts! Synthesizers!! It’s an hour of music culled from the early 80s synthpop explosion in Japan – featuring Yellow Magic Orchestra (of course), Ippu-Do, Mayumi Chiwaki, and the inimitable Miharu Koshi....
30.05.2016 - This week we select a handful of highlights from this year’s stellar lineup at Primavera festival in Barcelona. email // globalunderground@o94.at twitter // @tristan_bath Playlist: El Último Vecino – Tu Casa Nueva – Spain Dungen – Franks...
