On my show this month:
Leo's show this month is a long, slanted walk through systems that hum, fracture, heal, and occasionally combust. We open in a kind of uneasy calibration mode: Prewn's "System" and Prolapse 's Faust-remixed "Ectoplasm Untied" set the tone for a set where structure is constantly tested, bent, and reassembled. From there, Headache & Vegyn 's hyper-clarity rubs up against the woozy playfulness of Voka Gentle (via Goat Girl ), before Lord Of The Isles ' "Astraglossa" pulls us into deeper, tidal territory.
There's a strong emotional undercurrent running through the show, but it never settles. Just Mustard 's blurred-out intensity, Vanessa Amara 's slow-motion shimmer, and the strange folk echoes of Buppah Saichol and Lisa O'Neill all gesture towards feeling without ever pinning it down. Elsewhere, club logic keeps mutating: Clark , Powell , Avalon Emerson , Martinou and Bicep offer propulsion in very different dialects, while Jamie xx 's remix for Robyn reframes dopamine as something anxious and slightly feral.
Collaboration and collision are key motifs. Surusinghe meets Cameo Blush via gyrofield , Rachika Nayar and The Field braid textures, and Pain Magazine's brutalist catharsis sits unexpectedly close to the hushed intimacy of King Creosote live or Emma Pollock 's rush of red. There's humour too, often dark or sideways: IDLES via Interpol , People Like Us ' skewed archival mischief, and Nakano Rhythm Boys' voice-as-instrument oddity.
As the show unfolds, genres dissolve into each other—ambient into dub, folk into techno, pop into noise—until the distinctions feel irrelevant. What remains is motion, curiosity, and a sense of listening as an active, communal act. No neat ending, no final answer—just a shared drift through sound, heading for the moon but happy to get lost on the way.
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Biography:
I am in many ways your typical John Peel fan. I grew up listening to his shows from the era of punk rock until his death, and, with increasing obsessiveness, compiled cassettes, mini discs and finally mp3 playlists of the best tunes. Music runs through my family’s veins, and in me this takes the form of a compulsive search for new sounds. As John Peel used to put it, what I really want to hear is something I haven’t heard before.
Envy fills me when I read what my Dandelion collaborators have achieved in promoting, making and playing music, but my life as a teacher for the past quarter of a century has squeezed out any time for, well, pretty much anything apart from listening to and appreciating what continues to be made musically across the world. At last, though, I have found the space to pursue what has long been an ambition and can attempt to meet the stellar broadcasting standards set by my volunteer colleagues by sharing my love of new music with Dandelion listeners. I really hope at least some of what you hear gets its hooks into you.
Tracklistings and listen again to the previous shows:
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