20 Best Experimental Music Podcasts

1. Tabs Out Cassette Podcast

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All cassette podcast featuring experimental noise, drone, etc.
Hosts Mike, Dave, Joe B
Producer/Network Mike, Dave, and Joe
Email ****@tabsout.com
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2. Mid-Valley Mutations

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Austin Rich mixes experimental music and art to create Audio Essays and sonic pallets that you've never heard before.
Host Austin Rich
Producer/Network Austin Rich
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated listeners
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 4Facebook 538Twitter 56 Since Jan 2005 Get Email Contact

3. Free Form Freakout

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Free Form Freakout is a weekly radio show that plays a broad mix of popular and obscure music and produces bi-monthly podcasts focused on underground and experimental music.
Hosts Carl Nordmeier, David Perron
Producer/Network Free Form Freakout
Email ****@hotmail.com
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 43Facebook 1.3KTwitter 1.8K Avg Length 114 min Format Extended Since Dec 2013 Get Email Contact

4. AMBIENT ATOMIC ORBITALS

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'Ambient Atomic Orbitals takes you on a sonic journey through seamlessly mixed ambient and experimental soundscapes. Featuring a blend of drone music, longform ambient, and carefully curated field recordings, each hour-long episode is designed to help you relax, study, or escape into a meditative state. With subtle snippets of speech and immersive sound effects woven into the fabric of every mix, these soundscapes blur the boundaries between music and environment...MORE Producer/Network AMBIENT ATOMIC ORBITALS
Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 83Facebook 117 Avg Length 64 min Format Long form Since Apr 2016 Get Email Contact

5. Improbable Confetti

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Live, improvised, experimental sets of psychedelic post-punk rock soundscapes by Brooklyn trio The Plaster Cramp. New episodes air Thursdays at midnight on Radio Free Brooklyn.
Producer/Network The Plaster Cramp
Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 1Facebook 537Twitter 21 Avg Length 60 min Format Long form Since Apr 2018 Get Email Contact

6. Crucial Listening

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Experimental musicians and sound artists discuss the albums that are important to them. A bi-weekly podcast from ATTN:Magazine.
Host Jack Chuter
Producer/Network ATTN:Magazine
Email ****@attnmagazine.co.uk
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 44Twitter 924 Avg Length 68 min Format Long form Since Oct 2009 Get Email Contact

7. The Process: a podcast about creativity and experimental music.

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This podcast aims to understand the creative process by listening to new works and discussing them with their creators. Each episode focuses on one composer and their music. By understanding how and why they create can inform aspiring composers and help audiences better understand contemporary classical music.MORE Producer/Network theprocessmusic
Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 10 Avg Length 30 min Format Medium form Since Apr 2020 Get Email Contact

8. El Wud Experimental Ambient Project

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Experimental ambient project realized with the use of sound overlaps, causal collisions and cosmic echoes. 'Hearing sound without being contaminated by sound, is liberation' (Bodidharma) Thanks for being here, comments, opinions and collaborations are always welcome. For a best experience, if you can, please use headphones. Logo: https://pixabay.com/it/users/pinkpanthress-2154882/ Stones: https://www.pexels.com/it-it/foto/rocce-pietre-sabbia-bianca-equilibrio-8800327/MORE Producer/Network El Wud
Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 3 Avg Length 4 min Format Bite size Since Apr 2015 Get Email Contact

9. Dark Ambient Atmospheres

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Dark Ambient Atmospheres plays the absolute best dark ambient music, experimental music, and avant-garde sounds and nothing else. Listen anytime athttp://www.darkambientradio.com/
Producer/Network Tandy Venice
Email ****@yahoo.com
Estimated listeners
Apple Rating 4.4/5Apple Reviews 22Facebook 681Twitter 5.4KInstagram 7.2K Avg Length 2728 min Format Extended Since Jan 2017 Get Email Contact

10. Decipher This!

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Members of the technology-focused, experimental music group Ensemble Decipher interview their collaborators on composing and performing music with vintage, contemporary, and emerging technologies.MORE Producer/Network Ensemble Decipher
Email ****@ensembledecipher.com
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 2Facebook 536Twitter 778Instagram 982 Avg Length 38 min Format Medium form Since Feb 2021 Get Email Contact

11. Sonic Encounters: An Original Music Podcast by Synthesist Mark Mosher

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Synthesist, Electronic & Experimental Musician, Multimedia Performance Artist | Founder of the Rocky Mountain Synthesizer Meet and Synth Patrol
Host Mark Mosher
Producer/Network Mark Mosher
Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 3 Avg Length 6 min Format Bite size Since Apr 2012 Get Email Contact

12. Soundologia

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Podcast on New & Experimental Music, Arts & Technologies
Producer/Network Pedja Kovacevic
Email ****@yahoo.com
Estimated listeners
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 2 Avg Length 94 min Format Extended Get Email Contact

13. The Montana Musical Experiments Podcast

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Alexander Ahlstrand, selfmade musician has been creating experimental rock and pop music since 1996. It is a personal account of a musical career that went absolutely nowhere. The Montana Musical Experiments Project and BCP is available on Spotify. Also check out instagram: @mmxpmusic and @BCPMusicMORE Producer/Network Alexander Ahlstrand
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Avg Length 33 min Format Medium form Since Jan 2019 Get Email Contact

14. eltune

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Ambient experimental music podcast, soundscape and talkradio
Producer/Network eltune
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Avg Length 11 min Format Short form Since Aug 2019 Get Email Contact

15. Ribosome Radio

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Ribosome Radio is a regular podcast of experimental music, including sampling, sound manipulation, synthesizer, and computer music, and invented or unusual instruments. Hosted by Matt Davignon, a musician from Oakland, California.MORE Estimated listeners
Avg Length 69 min Format Long form Since Jul 2020 Get Email Contact

16. Double Bummer

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A one-hour exploration of the current experimental music scene.
Email ****@gmail.com
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Since Sep 2015 Get Email Contact

17. unexpected bowtie

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Experimental music with Game Boys, guitars, and the occasional musical saw. This is my scrapbook.
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Twitter 186 Avg Length 3 min Format Bite size Since Jan 2016 Get Email Contact

18. Crank Playthings

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Website Apple
A weekly improvised noise session.
Producer/Network James E Robinson
Email ****@gmail.com
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Since Feb 2017 Get Email Contact