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The British Library is home to the UK’s national collection of radio recordings in its Sound Archive. On 18th November 2010, the entire collection was handed over to and shared with The British Library, and is now a "named collection" within the Library's Archival Sound Recordings website. You can read more about this here.

7.05.12 - Cambridge Unitarian, April 2012 - 29:59 - 192 kbps

Live performance on pipe organ and synthesiser. Recorded at Cambridge Unitarian Church, Saturday 28 April 2012 by Norman Ipsmael using a Tascam DR-07. Thanks to Jo Brook/Bad Timing, Simon Scott, Norman Ipsmael and Benny Nilsen.

Continue reading: Touch Radio 79 | John Chantler

7.05.12 - Live YU - 77:12 - 192 kbps

Photo: Daniel Menche

Live Performance on April 21st, 2012 at the YU Contemporary Art Center located in Portland, Oregon USA. This concert was a two hour non-stop performance and this recording only captured an hour and fifteen minutes due to a recording failing. The amplifiers also blew out at the end. The room in which this concert was performed was the size of a city block (68,000 ft/20726 m) and had enormous room acoustics with considerable natural reverberations. Maximum volume was used, for 120 bodies were present to absorb this 120 minute sonic mass.

"Boredom is tuneless matter. Tears are music in material form." (E.M. Cioran)

Continue reading: Touch Radio 78 | Daniel Menche

22.04.12 - VINYL+, Live at ZKM, Karlsruhe 21st April 2012 - 63:16 - 192 kbps

Photo: Mike Harding and Philip Marshall

Achim Mohné [00:00 to 29:11] uses three Omnitronic decks, Philip Jeck [26:51 to 63:16] uses two Dancettes and sampler. Recorded by Philip Marshall from desk to hard drive.

The resurgence of vinyl in recent years is a phenomenon which has not gone unnoticed; as CD declines sharply, its audio limitations exposed not only by advances in other technologies, but also by the myths propagated at the inception of digital exposed, so artists explore and demand other formats to express their work. Although a business model is still some way off the traditional artist » label » distribution » shop paradigm, it is clear this is being radically overhauled and replaced by online sales platforms set up by the artists themselves. But vinyl seems to have escaped this process, and continues to grow. Why is that?

Continue reading: Touch Radio 77 | Achim Mohne and Philip Jeck

06.03.12 - Listen! - 14:08 - 192 kbps

Photo: Mike Harding

Recorded live at Passionskirche, Berlin @ Spire Live, closing CTM12

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14.02.12 - Unlearn All Languages in 15 Minutes - 15:00 - 192 kbps

Volume five in an ongoing series.
Self-assembled and reversed in February 2012.
Photography: Heitor Alvelos

Why not pay a humble tribute to the golden age of backmasking? Once upon a time, radio DJs would go up in flames accusing pop records of containing satanic messages woven backwards onto the groove. These would then supposedly make their way onto your teenage subconscious, and from its depths command you to do very bad things.

Echoes of the Altamont and Manson traumas aside, it was all a bit naive when compared to the magnitude of the very shady side of the entertainment industry nowadays, where worthwhile pop music once again becomes demonised: the recent, heavy policy proposals against online piracy, the terrorist-like shutdown of megaupload, the steamroller-like production-line of prime-time karaoke, the pervasive disgust of auto-tuning, the endless parade of cute iGadgets valiantly ignoring the abyss of over-consumption and worldwide economic meltdown.

Hubris, Icarus, Tower of Babel... Some say the future is once again in the local. Let's just forget all those un-local languages, then. Press play, unlearn them all, quickly and painlessly. Bliss.

28.01.12 - Live Last Night - 23:54 - 192 kbps

Photo: Dave Knapik

Recorded live at Fim de Semana Especial n.º 3, Teatro Maria Matos, Lisbon, 27th January 2012.

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Continue reading: Touch Radio 74 | CM von Hausswolff

6.01.12 - On Invisible Pause - 48:13 - 192 kbps

Photo: Mats Bäcker

On Invisible Pause, choreographed by Christopher Arouni, is part of Skånes Dansteater's performance HAZE, November 4th 2011 in Malmö's Skånesdansteater. Mixed by Christopher Arouni, Christian Fennesz & Anders Myhrman.

Continue reading: Touch Radio 73 | Fennesz

23.12.11 - Bells! – 25:39 - 192 kbps

Recorded in the belltower of St. Mary's Church, Walthamstow on 30th November 2011. With thanks to Denis Hewitt & Ewan Marshall.