Oh hi Mark.
Yeah, as indicated by the lack of posting on here and on the socials, I jacked in the radio show.
I left it a little vague in my tweet back in August, but I should really say it was entirely my decision to stop doing Amser Electroneg. I'd just had enough. It sounds daft when it's only selecting ten or so tracks a week - with at last three from Wales obvs - but it took two to three evenings a week putting an hour's show together. It was becoming a chore.
Plus, and I'm going to sound ancient here, it wasn't like back in my student days on Radiowave (which is now Surf Radio). Then it was rock up with some CD-Rs, stick 'em in those awful Denon DJ CD players and do it live. With Amser Electroneg, it was recording links between tracks I'd already uploaded to Myriad at home... and it just wasn't as fun.
Now, this reads like I'm a right Debbie Downer, and I have been struggling recently, but I am very grateful to Ben Dain-Smith and Bro Radio for the opportunity. Doing the show really did make me go digging, I bought more off Bandcamp than I've done in years and got me listening to more local stuff than ever before. And there's some great electronic music being made in South Wales, stuff like Umbromaniii, Pope John Paul Van Damme, and Tom Algorithm.
And one artist I'd really like to shoutout is Ryhs, who's now getting BBC Radio airplay. Top productions from Cardiff like and you can get his latest track for free over on Bandcamp...
Anyway, the door may be open to do more shows at Bro, but I'm thinking I may bring AE back as a MixCloud thing, maybe monthly and just electronic music from Wales. Maybe. I've got a mic and Audacity on an old laptop somewhere. New Year's Resolution? Maybe.
But for now you can listen back to the old Amser Electroneg over on MixCloud.
And I'll try and post more here too. Take care and speak soon.
