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Motte and Bailey

One-person songs written in apartments to worldwide grand collectives. Sprawling emotional esoteric epics to fun and catchy songs. Forgotten visionaries to modern trailblazers. Are your playlists more unorganized than a poorly run library? Do you want to listen to new things and challenge yourself? Join Milan Uyeno as he guides you through the sprawling, engaging, nerdy, and ever-expanding world of experimental music and beyond on Motte and Bailey.

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    Motte and Bailey - Episode June 20, 2026

    Another Long Song Special for these trying times, keeping it simple with dark ambient to jazz rock.Playlist: Alan & Jan - Déjà VuMeredith Bates - Book 1: 3rd Incantation (love)Hechicera Guadalupe Santamaría Negrete - S.N. Guadalupe, hechiceraLA Timpa - BondDoughnut Skin - Stretch Until Limbs Come OffGigi Masin - UMICroz Boyce - Steven’s Sunshine RejectedThis Is The Glasshouse - Old GeorgeEnsemble Infini - Requiem & Fanfare (pour Peter B.)Backengrillen - Socialism or BarbarismBurro - Enbalmed Indulgence

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    Motte and Bailey - Episode June 13, 2026

    This week, some unbridled upbeat fun for this warm summer evening! The Motte has a combination of DnB and IDM (with an X-tra special set in the middle!), and the Bailey has free improvisation, some of it stripped back and some of it absolutely chaotic.Playlist: Huerco S. - Plonk VIIIT.Power - Postcards from Plutohaiipara - you (how does it feel)Masked Opponent - Merch StandXylitol - MelancholiaXingu Hill - The Conquistador Closes His Eyesx.nte - undocumented supplexN O Moore - side 2_2Picastro - Fell The Family Treeaudry - forever to bring men's minds back to the painful detailIvo Perelman and Damon Smith - EightQuit Music - Sometimes I doNolan Hildebrand - DATA BENDERBob Bell - Track 4

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    Motte and Bailey - Episode May 30, 2026

    This week, a heavier and darker episode in celebration of the new Boards of Canada album! The Motte has beat-driven and experimental ambient, and the Bailey is chock full of wild and heavy free jazz.Playlist: Boards of Canada - All Reason DepartsIsolated Showers - Time Lag HumidifierKhôra, Mas Aya - The BornlessGrumm Trencher - HuntedMonopoly Child Star Searchers, featuring Sun Araw - Lava Solos on HorsebackElementals' Orrery - Desert Court of Whale, New Coral CityCoil - The Snowflrst - 141 days from todayBellbird - Blowing on EmbersPhillip Golub - utopian micronationWebber/Morris Big Band - Mist/MissedQuit Music - Sometimes i don'tFact - with a bit of assisstance from my palsEarth Ball - Where I Come From

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    Motte and Bailey - Episode May 23, 2026

    This week, and All-Canadian long classics episode, with some new music mixed into the bunch! The Motte has grainy and noisy ambient, and the Bailey is a collection of some fine experimental / post rock.Playlist: Unknown Mobile, featuring Rob Dickson - GalteröOssements - Suite I - Die GeisterglockeNPNP, Jairus Sharif - Crows Vision of a Flat PlaneTim Hecker - Virginal IMoss Harvest - Glass Into SandDeath Kneel - Maybe Some Other TimeLiam Aldous - Genie Apparition & Water is MagicHermitess - The Birds Never LeftPolmo Polpo - Farewelljordaan mason - stop walking start swimmingi.o - with vital force they feed meLucid 44 - slow down panicGodspeed You Black Emperor! - Piss Crowns Are TrebledNadja, Pyramids - An Angel Was Heard to Cry Over the City of Rome

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    Motte and Bailey - Episode May 16, 2026

    This week, part two of the NCRA award celebration! This time, a look at some of my favorite artists that shaped the sound of the early days of this show. On the Motte: Ambient with a hint of electronica at the end. On the Bailey: Calming jazz that slowly gets warped into wild free improvisation and metal.Playlist: 1958-2009 - A2Ariel Ulysses - 1:19:10 + 1:22:56 (original concept)Desolatum - spiralConcrete Cedars - For Those Who Live In ApartmentsEine Kleine China - Zugzwangsub lumen - Fireflies OilA Pact Between Strangers - Sowbuddywudd - DJ Tomand RenallAline's étoile magique - SegmentYlang Ylang - DamageKalia Vandever - Hubbard RoadEsbjorn Svensson Trio - Premonition II. ContortedColin Stetson - BloodrestTantric Bile - Familial Blood GuiltImperial Triumphant - Gomorrah Nouveauxわたしのココ (Watashi No Koko) - kj

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    Motte and Bailey - Episode May 9, 2026

    Part 1 of the Motte and Bailey NCRA award celebration special, looking at some of my favourite artists I've learned about these last three years. Easily the most chaotic episode I've had in awhile.Playlist: Fishmans - LONG SEASONJairus Sharif - Water & ToolsQuit Music - others i wontEstrogen Estrogen Estrogen - 12-2:00 AM Wednesday 90.9fmArts&Crafts - Footprints in the SandSwan Void - AscensionThe Sleep Dealers - hold on to your heartTelematic Visions - moratoriumDJ Bamberino - Magical Girls With Long JohnsAsleep Country - Comedy of Hand SleightsDeprivationn, featuring Hennerson Hendryx - an end to a mire caught in the razorblades of realityPyrrhon - Last Gasp

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    Motte and Bailey - Episode May 2, 2026

    This week, a classic pairing of wild electronic music and free jazz! The Motte has a bunch of glitchy tunes ranging from ambient to psytrance monoliths, and the Bailey has a wide variety of avant-garde jazz.Playlist: Madeleine Pyramids - BENEATHDaniel Majer - Divided Heartestle, featuring Ari Lilola - Life in SuperpositionOnline Threat - Life After LifeIHP - Deliver Us From EvilDittofused - AnzySlikback - TIDALcrasse et paillettes - marguerite elle est maladeThe Plastic Waste Band - Bear Awarenesseel - Load BearingNick Fraser - There Are Other WaysPink Flamingo - A New Way To Say HelloFact - white out springPet Retina - Untitled 5

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    Motte and Bailey - Episode April 25, 2026

    This week, an energetic episode to complement last week's toned down sounds (and also a sort of birthday episode too). The Motte has ambient and IDM with some new releases from classic artists, and the Bailey has metal galore.Playlist: ka lok - cairo_space_stationmoonhasteeth - In bocca al lupo (in the wolf's mouth)Actress, Suzanne Ciani - London B2Hadd_ - adriftNondi_ - Tree FestivalFlying Lotus - CAPTAIN KERNALSquarepusher - K4 FairlandsAlbum - GenreApollo Bitrate - two bewildering threshoutsAutechre - Gantz GrafSwan Void - LamentSUNN O))) - Butch's GunsFawn Limbs & Nadja - Cascading EntropyBeannachd Leibh - Allegiance To TheiaVoidstar Nocturnal - 1/137Kovtun - Lost Epiphanies

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    Motte and Bailey - Episode April 18, 2026

    This week, an episode dedicated to the flu I caught a couple days ago. The Motte is nothing but calming ambient, and the Bailey is a throwback to the early days of the show with some post rock and math rock.Playlist: Boards of Canada - Tape 05Ghosts of Dead Structures - You Can't Stay Here ForeverSiimoya - 0.9Corporation - Sa dent douce à la mortBitter Fictions - Amethyst & EmeraldKruseR - Hustle To FlowMadeleine Pyramids - BLANKPan American - Entrance to AfterlifePopulation II - Liaisons (450)Panda Rosa, Johnathan Citizen - System is Down, Swing the WeaponRoy Montgomery - Pyromantic Ideationteodioteodio - CatástrofeHypercollider - how wonderfulAngine De Poitrine - Mata ZyklekMicrowaves - Bedtime for Treats

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    Motte and Bailey - Episode April 11, 2026

    This week, some more heavy stuff for everyone pummelling through final assignments! The Motte has a little ambient and a lot of wild electronica, and the Bailey has a mix of long free jazz and metal pieces.Playlist: feldmark - Wandering GibsonNoémi Büchi, featuring Anushka Chkheidze - dislocated bodiesEvent Cloak - False PositiveOklou, Casey MQ - DAWNTwelfty - Exxon My Chestsix impala - HATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEGuinneissik 기나이직 - Rules of SummerGoreshit - banfield's crazy fingersReizoko Cj - Svensk Super Kung-FuNyxothera - BabyNick Fraser - AreaRapid Zen - Clockwork Predictibilitymandelbrat - what muscle is thatNathan Corder, Tom Weeks - ErnstBekor Qilish - Where Horror Fadeth, Error TranscendethSymbolicance - Symbolicance

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    Motte and Bailey - Episode April 4, 2026

    This week, some more atmospheric music inspired by my current reading kick. The Motte has ambient moving into sound collage, and the Bailey has a wide range of free jazz and noise to end the day off.Playlist: WKWP - New York CityBeach Vicodin, Thoughts on Air - Beautifully Fucked UpMark Templeton - Highway/HypnosisBitter Fictions - AquamarineKXSSEAGGOINE - rapture, part 1shelby obzut - curses are workingKyle Cahill, featuring mulch - Xerox (Crack the Glass)anarchrrow - MATCHBOXLos Thuthanaka - Wara Wara (capo-kullawada)Nathan Yell - reverberatesinonó - siento y sigoIshmael Ali - Stars In My PocketEnsemble Infini - Table PlusFACT , featuring Quiet Winter - FORTIFIED.Vivian Raine - A Canvas, An Exit / Porcelain BloodObelix - Right Key, Wrong Door

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    Motte and Bailey - Episode March 28, 2026

    This week, straight chaos across the board, dedicated to all students pushing through the last few weeks of school right now. The Motte has wild electronic music, and the Bailey has some heavy and menacing rock and metal.Playlist: moonhasteeth - May the wolf die (crepi il lupo)b.michaael - Midi ChaseCares - Dataset I Trustdotnds - Arm Gen 7GAN!GAN!GAO! - ganganganBlood of Aza - IN VAINApollo Bitrate - making sandcastles out of oblivionDJ Bamberino - AutostimmerzzzzzSwan Void - Bourke Street SaturdayUnwound - Below the Saltheavensouls - shed a tear for meDungeon Eye/ Post Cog/ Quit Music - The SpoilsNomad War Machine, Susan Alcorn - Those Who Do Not DanceAborted Defecated Whale, featuring Snotnoze Saleem - Untitled 1Codex Crudelitas - Luminescing Faintly Through Unsightly Tissue Amalgam

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    Motte and Bailey - Episode March 21, 2026

    This week, a heavy atmospheric episode heavily inspired by the TV adaptation of Hirohiro Araki's masterpiece "Steel Ball Run". The Motte is full of ambient and psychedelic rock, and the Bailey has hypnotic music around the world, ending with raw unbridled rage. Truly a very long roundabout path...Playlist: Hank and Slim - Thumbs In BeltloopsBordeleau - Dead FriendsDaniel Lanois - The Deadly NightshadeFKCH - IHayden Pedigo - SmokedShane Parish - BikePullman - WeightlessBitter Fictions - GarnetOeXaOxEe - The Meatlet / Terminator's FamilyToninato & Thiessen - Hot Blood FlowAsleep Country - Golden Goose of Rock Bottom ↘ Fauxberge by CommitteeTanya Tagaq - Black BootPraed - Assarab السرابAntropoceno - Ayaba OxumNeurosis - In the Waiting Hours

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

One-person songs written in apartments to worldwide grand collectives. Sprawling emotional esoteric epics to fun and catchy songs. Forgotten visionaries to modern trailblazers. Are your playlists more unorganized than a poorly run library? Do you want to listen to new things and challenge yourself? Join Milan Uyeno as he guides you through the sprawling, engaging, nerdy, and ever-expanding world of experimental music and beyond on Motte and Bailey.

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One-person songs written in apartments to worldwide grand collectives. Sprawling emotional esoteric epics to fun and catchy songs. Forgotten visionaries to modern trailblazers. Are your playlists more unorganized than a poorly run library? Do you want to listen to new things and challenge yourself?...

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