Oi! from South East London,

The weather has turned and the studio’s mixer has been upgraded, so here’s another hour of the Most Wanted Music. Looking at the tracklisting there is an entirely accidental devotional theme amongst the songs and artists, but I can assure you that it is coincidental — I’d say we were just thinking aloud about the coming attractions:

Yes, this Thursday we’ll be at Multi Story in Peckham town centre playing the palatable ends of what you’ve come to expect on Repetitive Strain. Pure V-2-B from 20:00-00:00, it’s the cheap drinks night, the place is huge and the best new venue in town. See you there!

And continuing the Thursday theme: not long now until we host Oakland dream rockers Blue Zero, plus local noises Moist Crevice and Crude Image, at the paradise hall of the Ivy House. Thursday 4th December, £12, come see this miserable year out with us. Tickets on WeGotTickets. As always, if you want to come but lack funds, let us know and we’ll get you in!

Listen: Voices Radio • 16.11.25

01. Lemurian Time Warriors - Argus Panoptes
02. Old Man Crane - Hepp
03. Altern 8 - Infiltrate 202 (Altern 8 vs Astrix & Space Mix)
04. Rroxymore - Dub Me Somewhere
05. Fat Tony & Fierce Child - Men Adore (12 Inches Just The Right Size)
06. O-GATA - AFTER-6290 MIX
07. Pete Shelley - Witness The Change (Dub)
08. Clickbait - 5G Horse
09. Tesco Bombers - Break The Ice at Parties
10. The Wolfgang Press - Christianity (Sherwood Mix)
11. Psalm Star Electric - They're Listening For The Ghost
12. London Clay - Smashing Time
13. Yu Su - Foundry
14. Laurie Anderson - Sharkey's Day
15. Sister Irene O'Connor - Mass - 'Emmanuel'
16. Flaming Tunes - Beguiling The Hours
17. Puppet Wipes - The Unabomber Used To Come And Dance At Events
18. Haruomi Hosono - Non-Standard Mixture

You can hear the show on our Mixcloud and Soundcloud. Links to tracks available on Bandcamp can be found on our Buy Music Club.

We will be broadcasting live again on Voices Radio next month on Sunday 21st December at 20:00 UK time.

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Cranked Up Really High

V: OK OK OK quick one because we did this a mere two weeks ago, and there are two opportunities to see us recommend you things in literal reality above! Come through!

Watching: A lot of anime. Spriggan (Cold War child warriors fight to claim God - 9/10), Dorohedoro (man with giant lizard head causes ultraviolence and eats gyoza, RS-approved soundtrack - 7/10), Serial Experiments Lain rewatch (we’re doomed – 11/10), Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex S1 rewatch (we’re definitely doomed - 9/10). Also Shu Lea Chang’s absolutely insane and very NSFW I.K.U. – very good Tone Glow interview about this. If you’ve never seen Fresh Kill do it now! I saw The Doom Generation in a cinema for the first time ever (that’s my GOAT). I did not like Bugonia or Sinners. I am concerned about the bad reviews of this new Ducournau movie.

Reading: Mostly academic papers (boooooo) but also JG Ballard’s 70s Shepperton sci-fi The Unlimited Dream Company (wooooo - £1 from Pete, obv).

Listening: The above (duh), but a few recent things I’ve yet to play on the show lately includes the new Rigorous Institution and Abism EPs and - previous releases dropped many a time on the show - the new Rat Heart LP and corresponding Tom Boogizm 12” on DDS.

Living: V v excited to see Mouth Wound’s haunted noise wall and Beau Wanzer’s clanking mechanical wonk at Sunday School’s (pulse) night at Venue MOT, being guestlisted to see Laurie Anderson play 5 seconds of ‘O Superman’ before delivering a satirical AI horse powerpoint (thank you Sophie!), the new Ryoji Ikeda exhibition, the mapo tofu that cured me on Sunday. See ya Thursday!

5G Horse? You Should Get That Looked At

B: The end of a busy weekend, so I was glad the stick worked this time. A month enjoying digging into archives, accidental and otherwise, and remarking how my head feels bigger this year.

The day before this month’s show I was in Manchester giving a talk about the punk paper and showing a lecture theatre what remains of my MySpace profile, as a means to warn about not hoarding flyers in boxes and hard drives, and was glad to hear other people who are also asking why we’re all doing counterculture on Meta. Then some guy started shouting at me on a train, I think because he was unhappy to see me using an e-reader (bought a Kobo from CEX, tell me where books are please). “PLUGGED INTO THE DATABASE?” If only you know, Mr. Stoke.

Cultural highlights have been just as all over the place, too. Go to 179 Burnt Ash Hill on a Saturday soon and walk around artist Charlotte Mann’s interpretation, send-off, celebration of her family’s history in that address - which when I realised involved walking into a GP surgery left not-quite-abandoned a couple years before I was born, which bent my head in exciting directions, not least because there is a lot of new-old stock NHS forms in there.

Speaking of south-east borderlands: our ‘snap’ artist this week? The new London Clay LP, Private View, is a mechanical treat; mediative music for the Design Research Unit Christmas do. Elsewhere I played something from that Sister Irene O’Connor reissue, fitting well into music that feels accidentally ahead of its time, and a song called ‘5G Horse’ due to an excellent bassline and again reminding me of the works of Benjamin Partridge. (Thanks to see-saw.fun for pointing me in that direction.)

Not ready for Christmas, but I am ready for 2025 to end. Need to get a list together…