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When is it on? Whenever you like!
Phantom Circuit is available instantly via on-demand streaming. Select the latest shows below, or take a look at the summaries for special features and other highlights.
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| Series 3 | ||
Hear show 99 |
 Hot from the Brighton Festival Fringe, live music from the comedic electronic pop duo Eccentronic and the first ever collaboration by thereminists Sarah Angliss (of Spacedog) and Hypnotique. |
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| Hear show 98 |
 Featuring an interview with Ikue Mori and Maja Ratkje and excerpts from their live performance in Ulverston, Cumbria, on 29th March. |
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| Hear show 97 |
 Featuring Ryoko Akama live at the Lanternhouse, Ulverston, Cumbria, on 29th March. |
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| Hear show 96 |
 Featuring Ola Szmidt live at the Lanternhouse, Ulverston, Cumbria, on 29th March. |
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| Hear show 95 |
 More mind-boggling music from the Phantom Circuit. |
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| Hear show 94 |
 Running scared between cathedrals. Vivid invisible architecture. |
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| Hear show 93 |
 More willfully obscure music. |
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| Hear show 92 |
 Another matchless mix of music from the Phantom Circuit. |
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| Hear show 91 |
 Featuring an improvised session of dark ambient music made for the programme by Leonardo Rosado. |
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| Hear show 90 |
 People, animals, nature and other. Bite the bars and ding the bell. |
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| Hear show 89 |
 Seeing out 2011, seeing in 2012. |
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| Hear show 88 |
 Featuring an interview with Spacedog about the release of their long-awaited debut album, Juice for the Baby. Step into a world of illusionists, owls, robots, spooky folk and electric lullabies.
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| Hear show 87 |
 The Light Programme.
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| Hear show 86 |
 Unknown numbers, dirty daydreams and cetacean sounds. We orca know better.
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| Hear show 85 |
 An assortment of music for Halloween. Woo. Scary. |
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| Hear show 84 |
 Another surprising transmission from the Phantom Circuit. |
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| Hear show 83 |
 Loki stones, singing bowls, echoing guitars, energetic electronics, neofolk and an unplanned collaboration in a quarry. And more, of course.. |
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| Hear show 82 |
 Second part of coverage of the Full of Noises festival, with interviews with AGF, Tetsuo Kogawa, Philip Jeck, Lee Gamble and more. |
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| Hear show 81 |
 Covering interactive audio events in Barrow Park at the Full of Noises festival. |
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| Hear show 80 |
 Featuring the live debut of improvisational supergroup Black Forest Orchestra at the Woodland Gathering festival. |
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| Hear show 79 |
 Featuring music and interviews from the Woodland Gathering festival, with Islaja, Z’ev and Mick Flower, Sian Macfarlane’s Swallows and event organiser Andy Black Forest. |
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| Hear show 78 |
 Featuring a session recorded for the show by Keith Seatman. |
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| Hear show 77 |
 Featuring a session of ambient and atmospheric music recorded for the show by Gurdonark. |
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| Hear show 76 |
 Featuring an interview with Allie Moss with music from her new album and her live set in Birmingham on 19th May. |
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| Hear show 75 |
 Featuring a set of drone ambience for the show by Kirill Platonkin (Кирилл Платонкин). |
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| Hear show 74 |
 Featuring an interview with Matmos and music from their gig in Birmingham on 15th May. |
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| Hear show 73 |
 Featuring an interview with cellist, composer and technologist Peter Gregson. |
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| Hear show 72 |
 Ian Hodgson aka Moon Wiring Club tells us about the method behind the madness that he calls confusing English electronic music. |
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| Hear show 71 |
 Featuring an interview with People Like Us and Ergo Phizmiz with music from their live audiovisual performance of The Keystone Cutups. |
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| Hear show 70 |
 Featuring an interview with audiovisual group Origamibiro, with music from their live set at the Flatpack festival in Birmingham on 26th March. |
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| Hear show 69 |
 Featuring an interview with audiovisual duo Sculpture, with music from their live set at the Flatpack festival in Birmingham on 26th March. |
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| Hear show 68 |
 Featuring Tokyo cellist and composer Hiromichi Sakamoto (坂本弘道 or Sakamoto Hiromichi) live at the Flatpack Festival in Birmingham on 24th March. |
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| Hear show 67 |
 Featuring an interview with Pram plus music from the live performance of their soundtrack to Shadow Shows, recorded at the Flatpack Festival. |
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| Hear show 66 |
 Featuring an interview with Spacedog about sound recording without electricity, early television experiments and zombie riots. |
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| Hear show 65 |
 Featuring an interview with Harrys Gym. We chat about the songwriting process, long Norwegian nights, vintage synthesisers and, of course, apostrophes. |
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| Hear show 64 |
 Featuring an interview with Esben and the Witch. |
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| Hear show 63 |
 Mostly new releases, ranging from rock to jazz to dance, as if any of those terms really mean much when trying to label the good stuff. |
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| Hear show 62 |
 Voyages around the world and into space, music inspired by the Boards of Canada, outsider pop and other happy listening. |
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| Hear show 61 |
 Black sands, loops and wrongness. |
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| Hear show 60 |
 Featuring a second session for the show by Cousin Silas. |
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| Hear show 59 |
 Featuring a collaborative session by Mutate and Thee Moths. |
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| Hear show 58 |
 Christmas edition, featuring Sarah Blasko live. |
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| Hear show 57 |
 Featuring a spooky live performance of radiophonic music by The Octopus Collective. |
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| Hear show 56 |
 Featuring Daidono live, plus an interview with the duo. |
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| Hear show 55 |
 Featuring an interview with Icelandic cellist and composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, plus an interview with John Hall about the Full of Noises festival at which she played. |
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| Hear show 54 |
 Featuring a live set of dark ambient environments by Yantantethra. |
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| Hear show 53 |
 Featuring highlights of an immersive set of live electronic and vocal music by Shengi. |
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| Hear show 52 |
 Featuring an atmospheric set of live electronic music by Clutter. |
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| Hear show 51 |
 Featuring a live set of rhythmic electronic music by Claire Marshall’s solo music project Cheyenne. |
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| Hear show 50 |
 A double-length edition featuring an interview with Andy Hayes of concert promoters Radio Black Forest plus live experimental electronic music from his project Doors to Nowhere. |
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| Hear show 49 |
 Sam Underwood debuts his MIDI Octopus live and Kate Sugden tells us why It’s a Geek’s World. |
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| Hear show 48 |
 Clog Dancing: the original techno-industrial dance? In The Machinery, Caroline Radcliffe and Sarah Angliss relate a surprising history of dancing in the factory. |
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| Hear show 47 |
 Featuring a live performance of electronic music by Thee Moths, performed in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. |
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 A Phantom Circuit Mix for Exotic Pylon. A guest mix which was broadcast in Jonny Mugwump’s show Exotic Pylon. |
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| Hear show 46 |
 Mostly new releases. Damn genres, just enjoy the creativity. |
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| Hear show 45 |
 Featuring an interview with Thee Moths. |
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| Hear show 44 |
 Featuring an interview with the hugely influential electronics + percussion band Silver Apples, with highlights from the recent gig in Birmingham. |
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| Hear show 43 |
 New releases and other alluring audio. |
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| Hear show 42 |
 Featuring an interview with Charlemagne Palestine on the occasion of his performance of a new work for carillon in Birmingham (UK). |
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| Hear show 41 |
 New releases and a mix of music perhaps best described as a forced landing on a cloud bank. |
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| Hear show 40 |
 Featuring an interview with Penny King of the SouthBank Gamelan Players, during their series of concerts with electronic music duo Plaid. |
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| Hear show 39 |
 Four yourself a gottle of geer and enjoy a nix of old and new nusic. |
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| Hear show 38 |
 Featuring an interview with Jean-Hervé Peron, Zappi Diermaier, Geraldine Swayne and James Johnston of Faust + live tracks. |
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| Hear show 37 |
 Featuring an interview with Chris Carter (Carter Tutti, Throbbing Gristle) and John Richards’ Dirty Electronics Ensemble |
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| Hear show 36 |
 A report on Theremin Day in Birmingham, featuring an interview with Miss Hypnotique |
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| Hear show 35 |
 Featuring an interview with electrifying electric cellist Joanna Quail of SonVer |
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| Hear show 34 |
 Sieben special featuring an interview with Matt Howden |
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| Hear show 33 |
 Ghost Box special featuring an interview with Jim Jupp (Belbury Poly) and Julian House (The Focus Group). |
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| Hear show 32 |
 Featuring an interview with Moon Wiring Club. |
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| Hear show 31 |
 Industrial to pop, dark ambient to computer music, and bongos to the lot of you. |
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| Hear show 30 |
 A double-length edition featuring Fonik live in Birmingham. |
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| Hear show 29 |
 Featuring Clutter live in Birmingham. |
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| Hear show 28 |
 We raise hymns to the stars whilst saying farewell to Les Paul and hello to the new innovators. |
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| Hear show 27 |
 New and forthcoming releases plus of course good old stuff. |
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Hear show 26 |
 Interviews with Goblin & Dirty Electronics Ensemble, Memory Band live + more from the Supersonic festival. |
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| Hear show 25 |
 We choose to go to the Moon. |
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| Hear show 24 |
 Supersonic zombies failing to be conventional. |
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| Hear show 23 |
 Excessive electronics at a variety of speeds. |
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| Hear show 22 |
 From ghostly musicians on TV… to dolphin-friendly tuners… |
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| Hear show 21 |
 You need your motors. |
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| Hear show 20 |
 Off to visit the beach and the Crypt for sun, sea and The Silent Coast. |
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| Hear show 19 |
 Music ranging from the snotty to the phlegmatic. |
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| Hear show 18 |
 Earth Monkey Productions – interview and music from this Cumbrian netlabel. |
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| Hear show 17 |
 Featuring an exclusive session for the programme by Cousin Silas. |
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| Hear show 16 |
 Featuring a report on exhibitions by M. Nyman and by W. Furlong |
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| Hear show 15 |
 Soothing sounds for septuagenerians. |
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| Hear show 14 |
 Music for tomorrow. |
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| Hear show 13 |
 Christmas special: Santa Claus hides in your hard drive. |
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| Hear show 12 |
 Work, rest and play up |
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| Hear show 11 |
 Take sanctuary in this collossal collection |
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| Hear show 10 |
 Nash the Slash: interview and concert in Birmingham |
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| Hear show 9 |
 From New York to Altair 4 |
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| Hear show 8 |
 Driving a talking car around Vietnam? (7, 7) |
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| Hear show 7 |
 Antennae, a guitar lesson, mosquitoes and a positive politician |
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| Hear show 6 |
 If music be the food of Japan, nom nom |
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| Hear show 5 |
 Halloween edition |
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| Hear show 4 |
 Superflash to Soundclash to sound Czechs |
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| Hear show 3 |
 Cousin Silas, PIL & Amon Düül 2, Sea Devils |
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| Hear show 2 |
 Daily dying, shortness of time, Moroccan moves |
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| Hear show 1 |
 The John Baker Tapes, Vietnamese folk and the hearing of new worlds |
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