Dub & Bass: anything that sounds deep and heavy on the bass.
From electronica to heavy jungle. Andrea & Raz are digging deep to keep you locked every other thursday. From 8 to 10

Amen: an hour and half of breakbeat madness. Old skool jungle, ragga jungle, atmospheric, jump up, liquid. Everything that sounds heavy and phat will be played. Tune in and fasten your seatbelts, we will take you for a ride.

Andy has been music obsessed since being tall enough to reach a note on his Dads old piano. An avid collector of music for years, was turned onto electronic music after his first hearing of 808:90.

Tune into the Shipton St Sessions every 2nd Saturday of the month for a veritable smorgasbord of whatever falls to hand, all washed down with a mix of this months deep house acquisitions.

Shipton St Sessions, 2nd Saturday of the month. 19.00 – 21.00

Old enough to know better, daft enough to keep going… that’ll be Andy Bgpz, then. Manchester. So much to answer for. Sunset Radio, Most Excellent, the Gay Traitor bar, and the Crows Nest at LuvDup all left their mark. He’s had a residency alongside a beardier, scruffier, much more successful namesake. Had his bum pinched by New Order’s manager. Kicked London clubland up the arse for a decade with various mates via Raya and SoxaN, with audio-visual nonsense and some frankly questionable afterparties. Now resident in Canada, he continues to trainspot and talk shite on air via the magic of the interweb. Some things don’t change. Nice tunes, though.

Machine Soul – Every other week, 2am-4am Sat morning (9-11pm EST Friday night)
Hamilton Beach Sessions – Every other week, 2am-4am Sat morning (9-11pm EST Friday night)

Back of the Bucket has been entertaining the people of Milton Keynes for about twenty years (Yes really!). With an ever-evolving roster of DJs the mixing is always searching for that elusive perfect mix. Throwing together Dub, Ambient, Jazz, Dance and anything else that falls into their hands bucket mixes are often surprising. Current DJs : Melvin, Rick, Maff and Jules.

Every other Saturday, 11pm – 1am

Ben has been playing records regardless of (some would say in spite of) the audience’s reaction for some years now. This show takes its name from a song by The Fall, whose shambolic, almost slap-dash approach Ben will try to emulate through the medium of his record collection. His young family will hinder wherever possible.

Rebellious Jukebox with Ben, Thursday night, 20:00 – 22:00

Bob Johnston aka King of the delta blues has been passionately collecting and listening to music for years and dj’ing for a few.

He is interested in a wide range of music and his weekly Monday night show tries to link the two opposite ends of the musical spectrum. In one corner the acoustic tugging at your heartstrings, and in the other electronic music to lose yourself to. Tune into his show and join him on the long winding road from country to techno stopping of at some surprise places along the way.

A wee bump of Bob, Mondays, 18:00 – 20:00

With early influences from Bach, Mozart and Handel as a chorister, through his teenage years in the Seventies as a wannabe rockstar listening to Floyd, AC/DC, Zappa etc, Boss eventually became involved in the electronic music game in the mid nineties. Initially operating the lighting rig for Mayhem throughout the North of England, he progressed to producing and performing live, with amongst others, the Mayhem DJ’s, Amoeba Assassin, Mark EG, Digs and Whoosh, and the Airtight DJ’s.

Maybe attending the Last 7 Big Chill UK events has mellowed and influenced his tastes somewhat? Have the Wurzels, Chas and Dave and the Ukelele Orchestra twisted his perception totally?

The Sounds from Upstairs with Buzz Rozwell & Guests Broadcasting from Vancouver, BC, Canada this show is definitely for the musically open minded. Never predictable but always flowing, deep and eclectic. Expect to hear beautiful music hand picked from the Upstairs Recordings label and from a limitless variety of genres.
DJ Mixes, live guest mixes, new tracks – the sky is the limit.

Sunday fortnightly 19:00 – 21:00 London time

Dadaist and occasional miscreant collaborators present outsider audio for your inner raver

The shows can be downloaded as podcasts here : http://duddingstonbooks.com/cabaret/

Like Dr. Fox, but less qualified. I’ll be performing earhole surgery to try and banish your Monday seratonin dip. You’re victim to my quarter inch tape collection I’m afraid, so expect anything from Quirk ‘N’ B to Plip Plop, all smeared together with a pebbledashing of ear candy (all Jingle Massive hold tight!) Music is baggage…

Dr Piz in the Serotonin Surgery, Mondays, 20:00 – 22:00

ElevenThirtyEight is the musical partnership of Delesh Chauhan and Stu Holland. We use a combination of computers,musical instruments, and a little technical voodoo, all at once to put our own spin on the traditional dj performance.

Monthly Tuesday night slot 8-10

A music geek for over thirty years, Stuart will be plucking delights from his personal wall of sound for your delectation, delight, or possibly despair.

Expect anything from ‘30s blues to ‘00s electronica, via disco, jazz, punk funk, and whatever falls to hand.

Guey goes out on the 2nd Sunday of the month, 17:30- 19:00

Started when a parking space-related row was averted due to Blunts having a book about old funk record labels on his back seat.
Named after a dream that Brazil had wherein he wrote an odd honk-jazz, electronica, big band version of ‘Wicked Game’ by Chris Issacs.
Months later Blunts plays a remix of ‘Wicked Game’ by Chris Issacs and Brazil is a little bit upset because he didn’t do his version. They have been playing records together ever since.
Funk, breaks, folk, dub, science music, hip-hop, shed-step and everything outside and inbetween.

Infected with 80s soul, funk and disco and 60s electronica as a child, and then exposed to dangerously high levels of weapons-grade electronic dance music, Jez will be wheeling the Throbbing Couch into your living rooms once a fortnight as part of his ongoing treatment. Expect deep, groovy stuff with big production values. Don’t expect a cure.

Throbbing Couch – Every other Saturday night, 7-9 pm

“Rob on the Radio” first graced the airwaves in autumn 1993, giving the students at Sussex University a reason to go out on a Wednesday afternoon. Back then the show had no particular musical direction, and sounded like it was thrown together at the last minute. Nothing much has changed, except that now Rob has a much record collection to entertain you with

Rob on the Radio, Monday night, 22:00 – 24:00.

‘A Saturday Night in’ with Lenodd encompasses everything from Detroit techno and drum & bass to disco, house, breaks & beats plus some downtempo numbers for all you clapped out ex-ravers.

It’s your chance to join us for a beer, a smoke, some choice tunes and a disregard for radio etiquette. More than ample support is on hand from fellow Collective Discharger, obsessive covers collector and all round caner, Mr Lovely.

At a time of great (mid-life) crisis and armed with nothing more than a passion for great music of various genre and age, suburbanites Lou & Paul were faced with a choice – buy a motorcycle ?, join a commune ? or play music on the internet ? the result was the Saturday Sundowner – a fortnightly re-discovery of vintage funk, jazz, fusion and disco, complemented by some fine mature stilton.

The Saturday Sundowner every other Saturday afternoon 4 to 6pm, bring a bottle !

Easing you into Sunday, Marcus starts off a bit slow and then goes a bit faster. It’s Attention Deficit radio and anything goes.

The Ritalin Sessions, every other Sunday morning, 10:00 – 12:00

Broadcasting from a hill high above Bristol join Mark Williams as he tries to ease your end of weekend pain with a lush selection of head nodding foot tapping beard stroking ambience. Nice.

Mark Williams plays fortnightly on Sunday night from 22:00 – 24:00

Birmingham-born scratch DJ and reluctant hedonist Marky has come a long way since he first started “DJing” questionable heavy metal records (across two lounge hi-fi systems) over a decade ago.

Now residing in Cardiff, when he’s not smashing the back end off student parties or spinning sophisticated sounds in the city’s finest cocktail bars, Marky can usually be found loitering around the Purple Radio bins.

Expect to hear eclectic electronica, funksouljazz, hiphop, downtempo and the occasional bit of Simply Red when he mans the Purple Radio turntables.

Marky’s Badly Packed Kebab is broadcast weekly Friday night/Saturday morning – midnight til 2am.

With presenters Hoods and Dunk le Chunk, Hoodlumtribe Radio is a heavy contrast of musical influences ranging from Duncs folk driven blues and charity shop finds through to the discohiphoplatinafrobeat wonders of Hoods concrete collection. They slag each others records off then play some more good music, occasionally at the right speed.

Hoodlum Tribe, every Wednesday, 22:00 – 00:00

Melvin’s been mixing it up for years and years. Based in Milton Keynes he enjoys a diverse range of music from Drill’n'Bass to African Chilled beats. His regular “Melvin’s Pickled” show usually showcases a “featured artist” and Melvin also appears on Backofthebucket, mixing diverse elements alongside his DJ mates

Melvin’s show goes out every other Thursday, 23:00 – 01:00

Reg has been buying music for nearly 30 years. He’s mainly into music production, but also likes to dabble in the murky world of DJing. His Purple Radio shows are wilfully eclectic, mixing up genres such as electronica, psychedelia, krautrock, lounge, exotica, soundtracks, old rave, post punk, punk funk, disco, house, breaks, drum and bass…..and whatever else takes his fancy.

Minke Reg is on the 3rd Sunday of the month, 17:30- 19:00

Monty’s formative DJing career started in the early nineties at the seminal ‘Beehive Pub Christmas parties’. After a hiatus, Monty was lured out of DJing retirement in 2006, and he now masquerades as an occasional purveyor of Balearic beats and early disco & house classics. Can usually be found fluffing for Myles and his Mojo…

Monty’s show is monthly on a Tuesday evening between 20:00-22:00

Mr Black’s Nocturnal Emissions – every Friday night 10 ’til midnight. Underground disco, Loft classics, chugging house, questionable re-edits, Balearic gems/nightmares; they’re all here – so do tune in, there’s a love.

Nocturnal Emissions, Friday, 10 ’til midnight

Myles first taste of DJing was back in the earlier 90’s while running a bar on the Greek island of Rhodes. Since then Myles has always tried to maintain an eclectic beach vibe with his selections.

So if you’ve got the Tuesday blues tune into the Mojo and get over it!!

Myles Mojo, alternate Tuesdays, 22:00 – 00:00

James has been chasing the vinyl since his metal years. He 1st got behind the decks in 1994 and has since played at venues and parties all over London and Cornwall. Currently a resident dj at Digital City he also regularly turns up as dj support for Belleruche. Expect tunes from across the board, and special guests. woohooo!

Like drivetime, but slightly toasted and with less ginger.

Flytime with Remote, Wednesday night, 20:00 – 22:00.

Ringo has been obsessively collecting reggae since the mid 80’s and playing parties, clubs and sound systems for 20 years.

Ten years of chaotic nonsense as one half of the Muppet Sound System has done absolutely nothing for his attitude, professionalism or short term memory. Expect an eclectic range of scratchy records. From Jamaica. Mainly from 1974 to 1981. Recorded at Channel One. Just after tea time

Ringo’s Scratchy Sounds is on every Wednesday 18:30 – 20:00.

Mobile discos, youth clubs, student unions, nightclubs : Simon has had a rich and varied time behind the decks over the last 25 or so years! A self confessed house head, vinyl addict and general lover of electronic music Simon broadcasts and DJs whenever and wherever he can! Tune in to The Deep Freeze for chilled beats and deep grooves every other week on a Wednesday from 8pm until 10pm.

Supine plays late night music for late night folk. Tune in to hear quality music from the last 40 years or so.

Simple rules: No genre. No planning. No continuous linear 4/4. Quality music without the chat. Late night afterparty sessions.

Expect to hear soulful gems mixed with skanking reggae 7″s, acidic bosh, dubstep and underground future disco classics.

Plenty of guest DJ’s turn up to get into the mix for the late night sessions. Previous guests have included Placid, Bam Bam, Peej (DiY), Matthew Clarke (Keep On Magazine), Alex Trasca (MHYH), Phantom Beats (Plastic Raygun) & Schmoov! amongst others.

Lots of guest DJ’s and featured mixes are planned for 2009. Stay up late and check it out.

Obsessive music nerd for since his formative years, Teiresias finally pulled his finger out and started inflicting his collection of Funk, Soul, Hip-hop, Reggae and random ephemera on the unwitting public mid-2008.

Broadcasting from the Bristol ghetto, expect a eclectic variety of meaty, beaty, big and bouncy tunes with some random slurred segues to keep you entertained.

Ctrl : Alt : The Beat is fortnightly, Tuesdays, 22:00 – 00:00.

The Only M takes you on a monthly ramble around the dustiest corners of his extensive and eclectic collection of tunes, songs and soundtracks.

Half of Big Chill Recordings’ artists Animat as well as being almost a whole person in his own right, The Only Michael has played his own and other people’s music at festivals, clubs, bars, cinemas and anywhere else where they will have him around the UK and Europe.

Steel city loungecore with The Only Michael
6-8pm, Thursdays (monthly from 12th November 09)

Faced with the prospect of a monthly radio show, the svelte one was torn between the twin beasts of a huge and unruly music collection and a need for structure and limits.
Her solution? Focus her monthly show on What’s Going On In Her Life Right Now.

Expect reviews of gigs and festivals, tunes from new albums and recently re-discovered gems from the past. Everything from glitch to guitars with the occasional bit of ’serious’ music. Just for summut different, innit.

The Svelte One is on Wednesdays monthly, 20:00-22:00.

You see what we did there? Ok so they aren’t really at the bottom of our list but they certainly shouldn’t be lost in the middle either!
If you would like to contribute a mix to purple radio and get it posted here then get in touch!