# Radio mistake! 2025/02 - NonMales and others in Experimental Arts [ *This is a cheap'n dirty machine translation. Therefore it may not be entirely correct* ] Yes, so there you all are here at Alex Berlin, but where are you really? [Intro] Exactly, you are at RADIO IRRTUM! the *strange* music broadcast; my name is Herr Irrtum! and all of this happens on the experimentally determined frequencies of Alex Berlin... * at 91 zero, * namely in Mhz on FM in and around Berlin, * right there but also on DAB+ on K7D and also * worldwide in an international stream Today the show is roughly divided into two parts: on the one hand there's a big club and bass section, and on the other there's a part with a lot of experimental music, which in our case almost never comes from men. More on that in a moment, but let's start off relaxed with a wonderful indie number. namely with **01. Horsegirl: Switch Over | Phonetics On and On** Reminds me a bit of the early 90s, especially of the wonderful British Th' Faith Healers, who of course remain undefeated here, but still: This song “Switch Over” by the group “Horsegirl”, from their album “Phonetics On and On” which will be released on February 14th (wait a minute - that was just yesterday!) - anyway... I really liked the song. The record then goes more in the direction of Stereolab, but only very distantly, what the 3 girls from Chicago do is very independent - they don't try to sound like others, and that always deserves recognition. About the recognition, you can also say that about all the other musicians who are playing in this hour, here [Border of the plate] This is what it looks like, my name is Herr Irrtum! and very specifically there is now * souly Beatmaker Raps * UK Garage Club Stuff * 2 Step Bass * Cut up Bass * Denver Bass * (So you see, when I talk about a club/bass half here, I'm not exaggerating!) * experimental Songwriter Techno * minimal lofi Synth Punk * experimental lofi folk completed with spoken words * experimental foot work * experimental Jazz Noise * experimental Pop * (and so you have the experimental part in the second half; which, with only one exception, is dominated by women... and then there is...) * Feminist punk [and finally] * new classic goth rock But that's still not enough - at least for me personally - and that's why we let the earth shake in the background with a lot of bassy Dub, in the case of Ghost Dubs, actually by Löbau-born MICHAEL FIEDLER, who tends to write theater and film music, but has also dealt deeply with Jamaican recording techniques and that's what you can hear - here's an excerpt from his current album "Extended Damaged Versions" - here's Ghost Dubs [play] But we continue with something completely different, namely incredibly stylish beatmaker rap - here are: **02. Ol' Burger Beats feat. MoRuf: Same Time | Out of Time (Reimagined)** ↑↑↑ What kind of people are they: We'll start with the featured MoRuf - he's a Nigerian-American rapper from New Jersey who has been active since 2010 and whose good reputation extends all the way to Los Angeles. Fascinatingly, he raps here based on Ol' Burger beats, and he in turn has been active mainly in Oslo since 2014, has quickly made a good name for himself in the Norwegian beatmaker scene and is known for the fact that he - and we could all just hear this - ...that he can extract pure magic from old jazz and soul records. By the way, this won't be the only Norwegian we'll hear on this show. But let’s continue with… wait, wait, wait… it’s not today too [Saturday] Yes we have! And with that in mind: go out to the clubs and let your sexy hips move to ↓↓↓ **03. bastiengoat: Zilly ab 1:20 | Intercouple EP** ↑↑↑ ... We've had Bastiengoat, the distinguished producer from Oakland, on the show several times, so I don't have to say too much more. I just think that he makes very innovative club music that is relatively free of the baggage of previous beat generations and, as they say, is more towards the FUTURE. Most of the time anyway. Because this EP, apart from this first track, turns shockingly clearly towards conventional techno in the other tracks - not bad tracks, but I don't know - I think that's the wrong direction. [Microphone] Then we prefer to stay innovatively progressive - here comes a really successful blend of 2-step and bass - namely ↓↓↓ **04. NothingNice: Bad Inna | SAK005** [Alex] Remarkably light for a track so clearly aimed at the bass community. Anyway, that was ↑↑↑. Yes, SAK005, what kind of album title is that supposed to be? A very functional one is this - this is simply NothingNice's label, namely Sakura Selections, which begins with the letters SAK and in this sense NothingNice's album SAK005 is probably the 5th release of this label. I don't know if I I would like that as an artist, that kind of label branding. In any case, this artist from Bristol plays along for now, but he actually doesn't need to; He's one of the top stars of the 140 scene (that's a collective term for primarily British bass music that runs at 140 beats per minute and can also contain grime, garage and trap elements) - but maybe he also has his fingers in the business of the Sakura Selections label from South London. Well,,, we'll stick with it [Bass] But: We're toughening the mood a bit, here's it **05. Jimmy Pé: Wormhole | Stupid Jokes** ↑↑↑ Yes, and Mr. Jimmy Pé can be described as a “Broken Beat Explorer” who was able to gain a small, fine, worldwide audience with his “Cut Up Electronica”. And where do you think it comes from? From Bristol perhaps? From LA? No, he comes from Slovakia! And why not? And now, ladies, gentlemen, whatever, now we come to the climax of this little bass round... [OMG] Here is the incredibly innovative ↓↓↓ **06. VCTRE: Sound Eater | Reciprocity** For me the contender for the bass album of the year, “Reciprocity” it’s called, it comes from VCTRE (spelled V C T R E) and we heard the title “Sound Eater” from it. [ALEX Chip] Yes, and the artist responsible, VCTRE, is currently based in Denver and is actually a drummer by musical training; This is certainly where his penchant for these highly variable rhythmic structures comes from. He's actually from Alabama, but who wants to stay there? In recent years he has already appeared at larger US festivals such as Sonic Bloom - so he may not be entirely unknown to some people. And with that we are already halfway through [Tellerand] my name is Herr Irrtum! and we continue here * experimental Songwriter Techno * minimal lofi Synth Punk * experimental lofi folk completed with spoken words * experimental foot work * experimental Jazz Noise * experimental Pop * (and yes, you can definitely talk about a focus on experimental music, which, by the way, mostly comes from non-male musicians, but then there is that) * Feminist punk [and] * Brand new classic goth rock But now let's first hear a musician from Norway who, in my opinion, is unfairly completely unknown, here is **07. Life Substitute: 4000 meter | 4000 meter [S]** [nibbling] ↑↑↑ . Originally, Life Substitute was a project made up of several musicians, who now live scattered all over the world and hardly have any contact with each other. The only person left in Oslo is someone who is on Fediverse, the free social network, as “Captain of the SS El Faro” and the SS El Faro, in turn, was a merchant ship that met a tragic fate… but I digress. In any case, the Captain of the SS El Faro, Life Substitute, writes cryptic things about this track on Bandcamp. It's May 13th, 2004 - A journey into a culturally Marxist, mainly depressed autism. That's about 4000m. But... you know what: I think a radio presenter who you should have gotten to know quite well by now and this same Life Substitute will be releasing something together this year ;) Yes! Stay tuned! And now it's going to be really great, I'm really happy about it *Nailclub* has released a new album – here she is with Reassure., **08. NAIL CLUB: Reassure | Prima Facie (Prima Fahdchijäh) -** This all hits SUCH a nerve with me. ↑↑↑ - And Prima Fahdchijäh is Romanian and means: First Face. Nail Club comes from New Orleans, is actually called Sara Storm and, as far as I can tell, has been releasing her music since 2014. So far she has recorded them on a 4-track cassette device using a few inexpensive synthesizers. I asked her whether this strong lofi aesthetic, which literally takes us listeners into another mysterious world, is important to her. And she, in turn, wrote back, somewhat perplexed, that this impression could actually only have arisen because of this 4-track cassette recording process. Her new album, on the other hand, for the first time has been recorded primarily digitally, and she hopes that everything will now sound much clearer. What she also wrote to me is that the individual pieces go back to episodes in her diaries - and in this respect it became an extremely personal, intimate album. And Sara, if you hear this - thanks for answering my mail - of all people I wrote to: you were the only one who answered - Thank you for that. [Microphone] We continue with a woman who dares to experiment musically, here is… ↓↓↓ **09. Kathryn Mohr: Rated | Waiting Room** ↑↑↑ Kathryn Mohr comes from California and somehow she managed to get this album - her third so far - to attract a lot of attention - even Pitchfork magazine reviewed it very favorably. I quickly become a bit skeptical. Is this music, I ask myself, that is trying to ingratiate itself? And why *her*, where there are so many others, such as Nailclub or 𝚂𝚒𝚕𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚂𝚒𝚋𝚢𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 from New York, who also master this type of musical expression, but are completely unknown. Unfortunately I can't answer the latter question, but one thing is clear: the record is great, the atmosphere is oppressive, her voice and way of speaking completely freaks out people like me and yes - that's good! Really good! Incidentally, she left California to record this album and moved into a windowless concrete building, a former fish factory *cold* Iceland and produced this album – Waiting Room – within a month. What you do when you want it to be good. So Kathlyn Mohr. The next experimentalist here is ↓↓↓ **10. A.Fruit: Irida | Somnambulism** [Alex] And you still listen to Radio Error! with Herr Irrtum! on the microphone and in front of this station ID, which was ↑↑↑ . And it's a bit crazy that I'm classifying A. Fruit as an experimental musician, because that's not really what she is. She is actually a figurehead of the bass music scene in Madrid, and it was precisely in this capacity that I first became aware of her. But this new album of hers doesn't just cross the genre boundaries of bass music, it turns it on its head and pours it out, this new album of hers is so wonderfully varied: Somnambulism. ok. Maybe time for some jazz, but actually it's not jazz at all but an experimental, electronic, fascinating something: here's ↓↓↓ **11. Laura Agnusdei ("Anjusdej"): Cuttlefish REM Phase | Flowers Are Blooming In Antarctica** ↑↑↑ Laura Anjusdej studied classical saxophone in Bologna and that wasn't enough for her, so she also did her master's degree in electronic music in The Hague. And it's exactly these two worlds that she mixes on her albums - we were able to see that perfectly. She has been performing musically since around 2015 - back then as a member of the band Julie's Haircut - and this band is still there and they still make great music and ACTUALLY I should be playing them now; but there was a complaint from a listener who clearly dislikes all the experimental music here and now finally wants something completely different - And ok - the listeners are king, let's just let him say his wish himself: Here you go, Dieter: [Dieter] **12. SERIAL PEST: Little Girls | HOT BREATH** Yeah! Clear statement, but... as it turns out, it's not enough to have strong women in influential positions, they also need a good heart, otherwise we end up with figures like Alice Weidel, Giorgia Meloni or Marine Le Pen, and no .person. can seriously want the kind of strong women. Anyway, those were ↑↑↑ and they describe themselves as people who make feminist punk rock. Confusingly, it's not a girl band, it's three guys and one... *famous…* Woman from Sydney, Australia. And so that we can all calm down again, we're doing something indy-alternative-pop - here are ↓↓↓ **13. MEMORIALS: Book Stall | Memorial Waterslides** ↑↑↑ This is a duo from Canterbury, a town of 55,000 souls on the southeast coast of England. Their music, as we could clearly hear, is characterized by solid songwriting, but it always tilts towards avant-garde or, in my opinion, experimental music. They not only use reel to reel tape machines to record their albums, no, they also use these old devices in their live performances, adding and condensing their music layer by layer. So much for the memorials from Canterbury… and that brings us to the end of… [OMG] My name is Herr Irrtum! and you can find me, the playlist and the manuscript for this show on the free network Fediverse at... @herr.irrtum@s.basspistol.org But wait - wait - I still have one track for you. You know, it's quite rare that I, as an old Sisters of Mercy fan, play a Goth track on this show - because many, many of the current Goth releases seem more like they are than real *be* *schein*. Too often I only perceive the celebration of a cliché, without a soul of its own. I'm all the more happy when something really good comes out of this corner again, and that's exactly what happened with the debut album of a band from Melborn. The band is called PROMAJA, their album Bravo Brava and the title: Hidden Figures. Thank you for listening, had you well and maybe see you next time in a month... Your mistake! **14. DRAFT: Hidden Figures | Bravo Brava LP**