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Absolutely love this from Ian Hawgood, the second track especially. https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/--4 It's the follow up to this, which is also excellent. https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/no-voices

My eyes!

He's a solid dude that guy. Been watching him for a while. No nonsense.

Equal opportunity police brutality seems like the best we can hope for.

Thanks! Mark made it very, very easy. Super nice guy.

Oh yeah, I forgot about that idiotic bullshit. Its in here: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/52fwpzd7had9i/NPLD_on_Dublin_Digital_Radio

Our most recent show: Have to figure out how to evade the roadblocks for the next recording.

Copeland had a particularly unsettling moment in the limelight last year.

We've done a bunch of shows since this was last updated. Guest mix from composer Amanda Feery: And our last pre-pandemic appearance:

We did an interview and profile of Mark last year for the radio show. Absolute gentleman.

We've had two drone gigs cancelled this week.

Did a fair bit of writing, design and editing for Woofah a few years back. https://www.woofahmag.com/

A ramshackle best of 2019 now up, finally: https://www.mixcloud.com/DublinDigitalRadio/no-place-like-drone-010120-2019-rundown/

Great thread. Not quite cult music, but this is a banger and I think it fits in here: There's a great story behind this record as well. https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/donal-dineen-s-sunken-treasure-sister-irene-o-connor-fire-of-god-s-love-1.3050696

Best of 2019 - tonight at 9pm. https://listen.dublindigitalradio.com/home

Yeah - they kinda were though. The '17 manifesto pledges were even more popular in some cases. https://www.businessinsider.com/poll-huge-public-support-for-jeremy-corbyns-manifesto-promises-2017-5?r=US&IR=T These numbers are unusually high for economic policy pledges from any party. I would agree that there were serious issues with messaging, and this was highlighted by a large contingent of Labour activists during the campaign, but it seems that based on the available data its fair to say that Labour's policies over the last two election campaigns have been unusually popular. That's not really a huge surprise considering this agenda are more or less in line with moderate social democratic policies in most European countries and only seem radical in the context of the UK's political environment, which is amongst one of the most neo liberal on the planet.

Its worth noting that Labour were the most popular party with 18-49 year olds. Also, Corbyn's policies are generally very popular in the UK. I haven't got the numbers to hand but I think stuff like nationalisation, wealth tax etc are all in the mid 60s. that was why he did so well in 2017. This time round, brexit, bad messaging, lacklustre campaign, personal failings and/or the longstanding and vociferously ruthless media smear campaign all created the worst case scenario for Corbyn. But the right knows that their policies are unpopular and demography is against them, which is why they depend so much on lies, media bias and dominance, and outright electoral manipulation (coming soon to the UK). We see the exact same strategies and patterns with the GOP. Fundamentally - if they can't win fairly they will ensure that there is no fairness.

Aww, thank you. Though as you get more familiar with the music you may be less impressed with our curation!

Best of 2019 next month. Another toughie.

No love for the old reliable?

Ok, here we go - mixcloud link here. Was kind of fun to do, but certainly should've spent more time weighing up the options. Could easily have done five or ten shows like this. Its been the most prolific decade ever for ambient music (by my rough calculations).

We have an overview of the last decade of Ambient and Drone music coming up tonight at 9pm (GMT) if anyone's inclined to listen here: https://listen.dublindigitalradio.com/home Archive will be up on mixcloud over the next week or so.

Here's one for fans of the austere. Robert Curgenven: Climata by Robert Curgenven

Yes! I saw that, and thank you for the kind words, undeserved of course. We did a special on Donnacha a while ago. Spent ages trying to get him into the studio, but ended up doing it over the phone, despite the fact that he only lives about 15 miles away.

I was suspicious of the indie/postrock ambient thing for far too long, though a good friend of mine was a huge fan of the aforementioned, and Godspeed and the like. STOL have made some very serious and genuinely great ambient records and in general I think that whole scene has produced some very good music and pushed some boundaries. Riley sits up there as a one of the pioneers of minimalism, hugely influential, though a lot of his work falls more under the banner of serialism than sustained tone. I think perhaps one of his most important cultural innovations was the integration of Indian musical philosophy into the avant garde, a move that also connected minimalism with probably the most enduring and long lived drone tradition.