This week, a heavier and darker episode in celebration of the new Boards of Canada album! The Motte has beat-driven and experimental ambient, and the Bailey is chock full of wild and heavy free jazz.Playlist: Boards of Canada - All Reason DepartsIsolated Showers - Time Lag HumidifierKhôra, Mas Aya - The BornlessGrumm Trencher - HuntedMonopoly Child Star Searchers, featuring Sun Araw - Lava Solos on HorsebackElementals' Orrery - Desert Court of Whale, New Coral CityCoil - The Snowflrst - 141 days from todayBellbird - Blowing on EmbersPhillip Golub - utopian micronationWebber/Morris Big Band - Mist/MissedQuit Music - Sometimes i don'tFact - with a bit of assisstance from my palsEarth Ball - Where I Come From

This week, and All-Canadian long classics episode, with some new music mixed into the bunch! The Motte has grainy and noisy ambient, and the Bailey is a collection of some fine experimental / post rock.Playlist: Unknown Mobile, featuring Rob Dickson - GalteröOssements - Suite I - Die GeisterglockeNPNP, Jairus Sharif - Crows Vision of a Flat PlaneTim Hecker - Virginal IMoss Harvest - Glass Into SandDeath Kneel - Maybe Some Other TimeLiam Aldous - Genie Apparition & Water is MagicHermitess - The Birds Never LeftPolmo Polpo - Farewelljordaan mason - stop walking start swimmingi.o - with vital force they feed meLucid 44 - slow down panicGodspeed You Black Emperor! - Piss Crowns Are TrebledNadja, Pyramids - An Angel Was Heard to Cry Over the City of Rome

This week, part two of the NCRA award celebration! This time, a look at some of my favorite artists that shaped the sound of the early days of this show. On the Motte: Ambient with a hint of electronica at the end. On the Bailey: Calming jazz that slowly gets warped into wild free improvisation and metal.Playlist: 1958-2009 - A2Ariel Ulysses - 1:19:10 + 1:22:56 (original concept)Desolatum - spiralConcrete Cedars - For Those Who Live In ApartmentsEine Kleine China - Zugzwangsub lumen - Fireflies OilA Pact Between Strangers - Sowbuddywudd - DJ Tomand RenallAline's étoile magique - SegmentYlang Ylang - DamageKalia Vandever - Hubbard RoadEsbjorn Svensson Trio - Premonition II. ContortedColin Stetson - BloodrestTantric Bile - Familial Blood GuiltImperial Triumphant - Gomorrah Nouveauxわたしのココ (Watashi No Koko) - kj

Part 1 of the Motte and Bailey NCRA award celebration special, looking at some of my favourite artists I've learned about these last three years. Easily the most chaotic episode I've had in awhile.Playlist: Fishmans - LONG SEASONJairus Sharif - Water & ToolsQuit Music - others i wontEstrogen Estrogen Estrogen - 12-2:00 AM Wednesday 90.9fmArts&Crafts - Footprints in the SandSwan Void - AscensionThe Sleep Dealers - hold on to your heartTelematic Visions - moratoriumDJ Bamberino - Magical Girls With Long JohnsAsleep Country - Comedy of Hand SleightsDeprivationn, featuring Hennerson Hendryx - an end to a mire caught in the razorblades of realityPyrrhon - Last Gasp

This week, a classic pairing of wild electronic music and free jazz! The Motte has a bunch of glitchy tunes ranging from ambient to psytrance monoliths, and the Bailey has a wide variety of avant-garde jazz.Playlist: Madeleine Pyramids - BENEATHDaniel Majer - Divided Heartestle, featuring Ari Lilola - Life in SuperpositionOnline Threat - Life After LifeIHP - Deliver Us From EvilDittofused - AnzySlikback - TIDALcrasse et paillettes - marguerite elle est maladeThe Plastic Waste Band - Bear Awarenesseel - Load BearingNick Fraser - There Are Other WaysPink Flamingo - A New Way To Say HelloFact - white out springPet Retina - Untitled 5

This week, an energetic episode to complement last week's toned down sounds (and also a sort of birthday episode too). The Motte has ambient and IDM with some new releases from classic artists, and the Bailey has metal galore.Playlist: ka lok - cairo_space_stationmoonhasteeth - In bocca al lupo (in the wolf's mouth)Actress, Suzanne Ciani - London B2Hadd_ - adriftNondi_ - Tree FestivalFlying Lotus - CAPTAIN KERNALSquarepusher - K4 FairlandsAlbum - GenreApollo Bitrate - two bewildering threshoutsAutechre - Gantz GrafSwan Void - LamentSUNN O))) - Butch's GunsFawn Limbs & Nadja - Cascading EntropyBeannachd Leibh - Allegiance To TheiaVoidstar Nocturnal - 1/137Kovtun - Lost Epiphanies