The lead story
A frequency for everything the mainstream left out.
Marginalised voices first. Rare pressings, unfiled reports, and conversations that never made it into the official record — on a frequency nobody cleared for public consumption.
On the schedule
Pete Gorston — Live
11th October · 3pm–4pm (Archived)
A mixed indie radio show, live on air.
The Riddim Files
Live now · Every Thursday · 15:00–16:00
Undiscovered reggae sounds from Brixton Village: an hour of riddims you won’t have heard yet, pulled straight from the files.
Pre-Jumma Qawwali Warm up
Live now · Every Friday · 11:00–13:30
Two and a half hours of devotional qawwali before Friday prayers, from Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the Sabri Brothers and Abida Parveen.
The Rare Groove Dossier
Live now · Every Friday · 14:00–15:00
Soul & rare groove from Brixton Village: deep cuts, B-sides and forgotten 45s to see you into the weekend.
Early Morning Jams
Live now · Every day · 07:00–10:00
Reggae through to old hip hop classics, with the occasional new jam to start your day.
Come Chai With Me
Coming soon
Pull up a cup and stay a while — loose conversation, tangents, and whatever's on someone's mind.
Who Wants to Be a £1,000-aire?
Dial-in show · Coming soon
(’Cos I’m not a millionaire.) The phone-in quiz: dial in, take on the questions, and see how far up the ladder you get.
How to Set Up a Large Language Model on a Raspberry Pi
Coming soon
Running your own AI on a tiny computer — details TBA.
SkullRub — Secret Set
Secret date in October · 1 hour
An hour in the dark with the SkullRub crew — heads down, lights low, no tracklist and no warning. Full details only for those paying attention. SkullRub on Resident Advisor →
Bounce Against Babylon — dimebagg
Secret date in October · Live only, not recorded
dimebagg dials in from Atlanta. No archive, no replay — catch it live or miss it.
Soosh & Jo
End of October
Soosh made Colour is Breathe for Error Broadcast, and its 2013 remix record pulled in Slugabed, Dam Mantle, DELS, Synkro and The Cyclist. That gives you some idea of the hazy, beat-led company Soosh keeps. Soosh is now back with the new single Come Alive. Soosh is joined by Jo for a back-to-back session. Soosh on Bandcamp →
DIN Is Noise — Live
Secret time · 1 hour · Live show
Dialling in from Chennai, Jagannathan Sampath plays his own "synth of a 3rd kind": free software that swaps classic waveforms for hand-drawn Bezier curves, with additive synthesis and infinite microtones between every note. dinisnoise.org →
Memotone’s Hidden 1 Hour of Records from His Shelves
Secret date in November · Live only, not recorded
One hour, straight off his shelves. No archive, no replay — catch it live or miss it.
The Archive Shuffle
Whenever no show is live · 24/7
The crate never stops spinning. The full archive shuffles at random — you never know what's coming. Neither do we.
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From the field
From the desk
Deep crate excavations.
Pressings you won't find on streaming, surfaced from record fairs and boxes nobody labelled right.
File 02 — DebriefThe week, filed and annotated.
The week's headlines, heavily annotated. Half briefing, half bit.
File 03 — RedactedOff the record, in tone if not in fact.
Long-form talk. Guests, rants, tangents.
Side projects — Merch & Hot SauceCome on air. Leave with a drop.
Guests get merch, the best sessions get a numbered drop — and listeners can still win the sauce.
How we broadcast
No filter
We say the thing. Satire only lands when nobody's holding back.
No schedule
Segments surface when they're ready, not on a programming grid.
No permission
If it's obscure enough to need a search warrant, it's in rotation.
No boring
If a segment isn't earning its airtime, it gets cut. Simple as that.
Learn more
Meet the crate diggers
Who's behind the console, and how the archive gets built one estate sale at a time.
About the stationBehind the mic
How the talk segments come together — and who's cleared to go off script.
Go to RedactedWanted
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Leaked tapes are a crime against musicality.
Bootlegged sets, ripped masters, and unauthorised leaks will be found and punished, personally, by our DJs. They are not archived here, and they are not over on SoundCloud Discover either. Don't go looking.