Every week Signal Committee present 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. This week all the credit goes to our special guest curator, FLVZ.

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. If you used to write band names on your pencil case at school, you’ll probably like our playlists.

INTRODUCING FLVZ

Once upon a time I drew up a shortlist for the Eclectic Picks and passed it to our singer/synth player, CELC. He returned a photo of a handwritten note listing each artist’s name. The one’s he liked had a tick next to them. One artist had two ticks, with the comment “Love this guy!”. That artist was FLVZ, with his lush, abstract electronica track… Butterfly.

Inspired by hip hop, electronica, Latin and Afro genres, FLVZ is no one trick pony – with a diverse back catalogue which oozes quality. FLVZ recently performed at an Electronic Music Open Mic (EMOM) night in Nottingham, and he’ll be back in action on 24th March in Derby at Dubrek Studios. In the meantime, check out his Eclectic Picks…

ARTISTS SELECTED THIS WEEK

1. MALFUCKTION – Witch Hunt
2. LONELY GHXST – All In Your Head
3. SAMUEL NICHOLSON – West Coast Feeling
4. UNCLE KID – One Small Step
5. BODGER – You Got It All So Wrong
6. VIDEO BLUE – Piece Of Work
7. PRIEST OF BEARDS – Dr Fruitfly
8. SYDNEY’S GUARD – Run-Extended Final
9. ANDRÆ – Arrows
10. WARE – Sable Bay Lush
11. LYVA VAMITY – Draw Swords
12. INKFIELDS – Your Head’s In The Sand
13. HANNYA WHITE – Just Yours
14. LXDEE – LONELY

A FEW WORDS FROM FLVZ

MALFUCKTION – Witch Hunt. A rhythmic noise, bouncing bass type banger, with very quirky sound design. Very interesting musical progression in this one

LONELY GHXST – All In Your Head. Brilliant soundscape created from sound design and equally brilliant vocals to match

SAMUEL NICHOLSON – West Coast Feeling. Love the vocals on this, wonderfully made overall

UNCLE KID – One Small Step. A wild ride through a sonic sci-fi world

BODGER – You Got It All So Wrong. Brilliant sound, love how the track progresses with more layers of sound added as it develops

VIDEO BLUE – Piece Of Work. Beautifully constructed with beautiful sounds, the soundscape is hypnotic

PRIEST OF BEARDS – Dr Fruitfly. Powerful sounds, bold choices, high energy, sounds great!

SYDNEY’S GUARD – Run-Extended Final. An interesting combination of musical styles come together really nicely here

ANDRÆ – Arrows. Amazing vocals, really well thought out composition

WARE – Sable Bay. Lush, soothing, very calming listen

LYVA VAMITY – Draw Swords. Solid track, really strong beat and vocals add another whole dimension to the sonic aesthetic

INKFIELDS – Your Head’s In The Sand. Great songwriting, backed some great production and sound design

HANNYA WHITE – Just Yours. Really fascinating listen, I enjoy pieces like these because of how the obscurity of the sonic aesthetic generates curiosity in my mind

LXDEE – LONELY. Some great production and songwriting on show with this track, the structure is really solid as well

STEP 1 – LISTEN

Listen to this weeks Eclectic Picks playlist using your weapon of choice below:

SOUNDCLOUD

SPOTIFY

(Spotify playlist is limited to tracks which are available on Spotify

After 7 days, the playlist will be updated with the next batch, and this week’s picks will be added to the 2023 playlists below.

STEP 2 – SPREAD THE WORD

Do you ever think, or hear people say, “there’s no good music any more”? Maybe they aren’t looking in the right places. Prove them wrong:

• Subscribe to the playlist
• Listen in each week
• Tell your friends
• Shout on social media

The more people listen to this playlist, the more exposure unsigned artists receive. So spread the word!

ARCHIVE PLAYLISTS

The playlists above are updated weekly, then added to the playlists below:

2023 Playlist: Soundcloud | Spotify

2022 Playlist – Soundcloud | Spotify

2021 Playlist – Soundcloud | Spotify

2020 Playlist – Soundcloud | Spotify

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:

• Del Osei-Owusu, aka Platinum Mind and fellow FOTN moderator, is happy to consider submissions for the Songbird Sessions, a 1 hour show for The Songbird HQ on Islington Radio. Just email Del with a bio and MP3 to del.owusu@gmail.com
• Joe Figueira of North Manchester FM, apply with MP3, short bio & twitter handle by e-mail to joefigueira@yahoo.co.uk)

If you are are radio presenter/DJ looking for someone to do all the hard work for you in filtering out the more alternative tunes hitting the FOTN inbox each, week, just give Signal Committee a shout!