Every week Signal Committee create an Eclectic Picks playlist. All tracks are selected from the full inbox of 200 tracks that are submitted each week to Fresh On The Net. Check out their picks from Monday 15th February below.
WHAT DO WE LOOK FOR?
Our playlists are orientated to the alternative music fan. Lyrics are not essential, abstract ideas are embraced and the fusing of different genres is encouraged.
A FEW WORDS ON THIS WEEKS PICKS
This week we ended up with just over 90 minutes of eclectic picks. This is the strongest week we’ve ever had so far, and the bar was already high, so if you or someone you know is on the list – please take some time out, give the full list a blast and drop a comment below with your thoughts! I promise you it’ll be worth it.
LISTEN
You can listen to this weeks playlist using the player below, or click here to open the Soundcloud playlist in a new window.
For the best listening experience… crank up the volume and immerse yourself in the music!
ARTISTS SELECTED THIS WEEK
- JOUSKA – Solus
- SISTER WIVES – I Fyny Af / Rise
- LIGHTS THAT CHANGE – Fall Apart
- INFLEXI0N – Satellite
- PANTHALASSA – Camel Blue
- RAISED BY PURITANS – Tremor
- PULSES – Between Desperation & Hope
- BULZARA – McDead – Love Undone (Remix)
- A LESSER VERSION – Sylvia
- JUNKYARD OF SILENCED POETS – Profane Disco
- FIJI MERMAIDS – Seasick (feat. Polly Preacher)
- SEMITONAL – IDIOTS Handshake Mix
- THE LAST HUSSAR – STOP DEAD
- BENJAMIN MACE-CROSSLEY – The Reality TV – Beats – Master
- TACTICAL NOISE ENSEMBLE – Throw Up Athens
- KAYANOUSH VAVELLA – Sail To The Tropics
- RESTLESS MOSAIC – Gyre
- ASTA HIROKI – Slumber (feat. Dontmesswithjuan)
- DEF ROBOT – Rise of Robot
- KYETOBA – Lemonade
- ELEPHANT TALK – Lost at Sea
- SPIDERS EAT VINYL – Cagliari Dreams
- MICHAEL DENNY – Escape Route
- LUKE MOORE MUSIC – Тӯндар (tūndâr)
- HANNYA WHITE – Callin’ – Hannya White
RADIO OPPORTUNITIES
We all have ambitions to get on national radio, but in the meantime there are loads of great, independent radio stations that are always looking for new music of the alternative variety. They offer no promises, but the following hosts tell me they that, if you made this list, they’d like you to get in touch to be considered for their show:
- Chris Watts, presenter of “In The Moog” online on NCCR (UK) (Twitter: @chriswatts1965. Electronic/synth-based tracks (mp3 &/or WAV) to chrisinthemoog@gmail.com, together with artwork &/or band pic and your Twitter handle).
- Lucas Gil, presenter of Supernova on Glitterbeam Radio (Twitter @lucasgil, apply by his website here)
- Joe Figueira of North Manchester FM (Twitter @moretonguy, apply with MP3, short bio & twitter handle by e-mail to joefigueira@yahoo.co.uk)
Any other radio producers looking for a steer, just let me know if you want to join the club.
PLAYLIST ARCHIVE
All tracks featured above will be added to our monthly playlist. We will also ‘follow’ you on Spotify to keep track of any future releases – which will appear on our revolving weekly playlist. As for our ‘all time favourites’, well, there’s a playlist for that too.
Hi Signal Committee,
as always I love your curated playlist.
It’s truly eclectic Picks for me.
And this time one of my favorites
are included.
The Junkyard of Silenced Poets.
Fiji Mermaids
Actical Noice Ensemble
ACTICAL NOISE ENSEMBLE
Sister Wives
and so much more.
I think you should go for a takeover on a radio
with your well curated picks
you select every week from the entries.
And than don’t be shy and play one of your tracks as well.
Big thanks to Signal Committee for including us again! It’s a great playlist and I know how much effort goes into listening, selecting and publishing, so many kudos.
Still listening to fantastic discoveries from last week’s Eclectics! And listening to this week’s playlist ensured the ‘working’ lunch lasted over 1 ½ hours! Great music and – crucially – interesting music: the unusual mix of genres & unexpected turns in the tracks. Great diversity but still with the curated flow.
Many thanks for including us & tons & tons of thanks for all the support here in the magnificent Eclectics!
HW is correct: take over the radio! Maybe a pirate radio station broadcasting from the Manchester Ship Canal…
Leo Slayer (loathsome guitar strangler from Junkyard of Silenced Poets)
First time on the list for SEMITONAL – thanks for including the IDIOTS Handshake Mix in this great playlist. Cheers!
It’s so validating to be on this list with so much great stuff – thank you! I decided to get back into music during lockdown – selling a bunch of stuff to try it for realsies after faffing about in my teens and twenties – and it kept me sane during a tough year. (I’m a legislation and budget adviser for Seattle government in the daytime, so there was a lot of stuff to shovel at the peak of COVID and in the cascade effects of CHAZ/CHOP.)
I didn’t know getting back into music whether I’d have more than one song or two of ideas, so to connect with my target audience in this isolation…it means a lot.
-Brandon Isleib, doing music as Restless Mosaic
A pleasure and an honour to be included here – thanks so much!
INFLEXI0N – Satellite
SPIDERS EAT VINYL – Cagliari Dreams
RESTLESS MOSAIC – Gyre
ELEPHANT TALK – Lost at Sea
…. were my favourites this week. Ta, really enjoyed it