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#radiofreefedi — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #radiofreefedi, aggregated by home.social.
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HAPPY EARTH WIND AND FIRE DAY EVERYBODY!!!
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🎶 This was the center of the world for me once; where I saw 'I love you' all over the place. That was where The Stones played once. These are the bricks that shattered my heart. This is the place where I felt like the world's tallest self-supporting tower — at least for a little while, anyway. 🎶
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If like me, you'd forgotten how much you miss the Bug Guy from #RadioFreeFedi's the News...he's back with an hour's set on the #NHAMfest! Come join if you fancy Insect Insights from a delightful storyteller, @StrepsipZerg
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#NHAM and #RadioFreeFedi are hosting a #virtualmusicfestival on the #Fediverse, showcasing diverse musical talent and other performances. The festival, featuring artists like Doctor Deathray and Jamie Hill, will be streamed live over 24 hours, with viewers directed to different domains for each block. https://wedistribute.org/2026/08/the-fediverse-is-throwing-a-music-festival/?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News
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This time tomorrow! Come watch for free at https://fest.nham.co.uk/ and hear some of my new stuff, including:
• The Cleaning-Up Rag, a tale of woe and Hammerbarn orders gone awry.
• See Me Now, an anthem about defeating adversity that you’ll swear is by the band 1927.
• Reviewer 2, a creepy gothic horror about academic peer review.Also old favourites, including Big Boat Stuck [with a new verse!], Clank! I Just Thought of the Romans Again! [with a new verse!], Space Parity [“I’m on Hold to Telecom”], and many more. With a guest video appearance* by none other than Void, and candid cat content.
Schedule in the previous toot. 👆🏻
#NHAMFest26 #music #LiveInAbsentia #RadioFreeFedi #IndieMusic
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I suppose the cat's out of the bag. I'll be at #NHAMfest #NHAMfest26, with "Live in Absentia", a prerecorded* concert of original music, performed and recorded lovingly and amateurishly over the last four days and inexpertly mixed and edited by a complete novice (me).
Streams Thursday 27 August 2026 at 10.00 UTC (20.00 AEST, 18.00 AWST, 12.00 CEST, 06.00 EDT) at https://fest.nham.co.uk/ (no registration required, just drop in at the appointed time).
My show's an hour long, but come and go as you like, and please stay for as much of the rest of the 24-hour Fedi artist showcase as you can. Be amazed at the talent that the Fedi has to offer!
* I'll be at a conference but maybe I'll be able to join in the chat.
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Looking for a chill soundtrack to your Saturday morning? Give a listen to the Earthbound music mixtape I made!
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@yefra @ailepet @raphael @yhancik
Subvert est surtout doué pour faire parler de…subvert, alors que Mirlo, jam.coop, bandwagon, Faircamp et des collectifs comme bonkwave.org existent depuis longtemps et mettent en avant les artistes, avec des modèles souvent plus vertueux.Tout ça est documenté sur @nham qui couvre depuis plus d’un an et demi le monde riche et varié de la musique sur le Fedi révélé par feu #RadioFreeFedi et #FediVision, organise des streams et des concerts avec #TIBtv, etc.
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Sockpuppet: Live Shows: Radio Free Fedi Fest 2026 https://sockpuppet.band/live/2113-Radio-Free-Fedi-Fest-2026 #RadioFreeFedi #LiveShows #Fediverse #VRChat
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🎶 Don't know what to think 🎶
🎶 And the sultry wind 🎶
🎶 You're so perfect, baby 🎶
🎶 Were you meant for me? 🎶 -
I'm struggling to make words, as tears stream down my cheeks. My lover and her mom are going without food and within now less than two days they'll be cast out, should #housing not be covered.
I want to keep seeing #SabiLewSounds #art, #music, #writings and #advocacy brought forth into the world.
I don't know who will see this and who will take a moment to #boost. But I am asking you please help them survive.
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Watch #SabiLewSounds with me on #Twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/sabilewsounds?sr=a
LIVE NOW!
Streaming #OriginalMusic
Raising for survival
Please tell others!
#Fundraiser #Crowdfund #MutualAid #TwitchStreamer #TwitchStream #DisabledArtist #LatinaMusician #MentalHealthAdvocate #RadioFreeFedi #ArtFed #MastoMusic
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Sabi is planning for a #SabiLewSounds #Twitch stream tonight. Streaming #music. Raising funds for survival. Aiming for 9PM ET. Please tell others!
https://www.twitch.tv/sabilewsounds
#Fundraiser #Crowdfund #MutualAid #TwitchStreamer #TwitchStream #DisabledArtist #LatinaMusician #MentalHealthAdvocate #RadioFreeFedi #ArtFed
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today's vibe is my favorite baroque-flavored chamber band, The Leisure Society, playing the childhood nursery rhyme, "Inchworm"
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i think now's a good time to remind my fellow White people to listen to this Blue Scholars song.
https://genius.com/Blue-scholars-no-rest-for-the-weary-lyrics
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thinking about this song from a little indie band that released a few albums from within the dregs of christian contemporary music, "Anastasia" by Brave Saint Saturn.
It's such a great encapsulation of what it feels like as a young, shy boy to idolize a girl but never have the eggs to actually speak to her.
"Her name means "the resurrection"
It's not too far from true
I'm afraid that if I write this song
She might break my heart in two "Song attached.
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From the archive: Nowt Hat’swhatic All Music! (NHAM Mixtape 1)
It's great to be able to bring you the classic @nham mixtapes that @ethicalrevolution made for #RadioFreeFedi last year. Follow along for other classic episodes coming later in the month.
cc/ @nham
https://www.audiointerface.org/shows/nham-mixtapes/20251211/
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Interview with Socool
Dressed ever so splendiferously here at NHAM HQ we took some time out to sit back, relax, unwind and listen to ‘To the Nines’, the latest release from Vancouver-based music producer and DJ Socool. Whilst doing so we penned some questions and fired them over to Canada where she was waiting to respond…
NHAM: Hey Socool, how are you today and, as we’re conducting this interview virtually, across continents, can you tell us if you have also dressed to the nines especially for this chat?
Socool: Hello! I’m delighted to have this space to talk about music with you, thank you very much. By the way, you’re looking spiffy in that outfit, super liking those biodegradable sequins, wow! So yeah, thanks for asking, I’m having a great day so far, just hanging out on Cloud 9 in my favourite comfy spacesuit.
NHAM: Great stuff! Speaking of which, your new album To the Nines is another beautiful blend of gorgeous tones and chilled beats and breaks that we’ve become accustomed to hearing from you. It’s your first full album in nearly three years. In between time you’ve released various EPs and singles (two of which earned high praise on BBC 6 Music). Yet all the while the nine tracks from this new album had been floating around in the background. Can you tell us why now was the right time to pull these nine tracks down and release the album?
Socool: Ah thank you! Those years passed by with so much growth in both how I make and present my music, and more importantly in my understanding of why I do this and what I need to do to be able to keep doing it. In between all the many collabs and remixes, these tracks were quietly taking form. I’d start a track, get it to a place where I was happy with it, then put it away for a while, visiting it periodically with fresh perspective to refine the ideas and bring it closer to where I wanted it to be. One day I took a step back and looked at all these tracks that were piling up and realized the time had come to let others enjoy them. After that, many more things needed to happen, but I had made enough space in my life to have the energy to make the decisions and do the work and now here we are! I’m one of those people that mostly listens to full albums so presenting my music in this way is exciting to me.
NHAM: Tell us a but more about your background… Have you always been based in Vancouver? When did you start making music? We hear you were both a radio DJ and a live DJ in the early days?
Socool: I was born here on the coast in Vancouver but was raised in the Okanagan, in a small town that’s nestled between two lakes in the interior of British Columbia. Growing up, I had a chance to learn several musical instruments starting with piano, then clarinet, saxophone and guitar before I took up DJing when I returned to Vancouver after graduating from high school. I was one of the hosts of a radio show called Shadow Jugglers that aired every Saturday night from 7-9pm on CiTR 101.9fm. We’d mix records live on air, invite our friends to play guest slots, give away tickets to whatever show we were going to that night, and just generally have silly amounts of fun. I was loving those DJ days, playing all vinyl sets at various lounges, club nights, afterhours and summer music festivals in BC, until I got a copy of Ableton Live and that was it for me: from then on making music became my focus.
NHAM: That sounds like so much fun! So, where did the name Socool come from?
Socool: Around the time I started DJing, I had a really fun group of coworkers at the library I worked at and we all had nicknames for each other and they started calling me Socool because my last name is Sobool. So when I needed a DJ handle, I picked DJ Socool and it ended up being kind of perfect because I tend to play very chill music (and funny too, because I am a deeply awkward person so it’s a bit of an oxymoron).
NHAM: Brilliant! We’re interested to hear about your creative process:
– Where does the inspiration come from?
– How is it fleshed out/do you have a typical process?
– What’s easy, what’s hard?
– What do you enjoy, what do you dread?Socool: Inspiration comes from many things. A chord progression that needs to be explored, a BPM that captures my imagination, an improvised melody that sticks. Also, it’s probably not ideal but going through stressful situations and experiencing difficult emotions tends to bring out some of my best music unfortunately!
NHAM: Makes sense – Great art often comes from a place of difficulty.
Socool: Sometimes certain music I listen to just grabs me and all I want to do is listen to it on repeat. I’ve been known to try to remake a song from scratch just to have an excuse to listen to it over and over, and in the process of deconstructing it there will often be a spark and something new will emerge.
My process of making music is pretty straightforward I think, I just kind of keep going until I can listen to a track without feeling the need to add or change anything. It can take me a long time to get to that place, but I usually do eventually – I’m not really one to give up on songs I’ve started: if something’s not working for present me, it might just be a little gift for a future me to come back to. And while I find it easy to start new songs, finishing them is more difficult for me because while I’m working on them they feel alive, and drawing that line and saying something’s done feels like a kind of abandonment.
I most enjoy that feeling when a song is still new, still figuring itself out, and there is this rush of like a honeymoon phase when all I want to do when I’m not working on it is work on it some more.
I used to feel like everything needed to be perfect and I dreaded listening to a track of mine that I had finished and released in case I might hear that there was something wrong with it. So I would avoid listening to music I had released, especially the earlier stuff, because of that fear of finding imperfections. But a couple of years ago, I had the honour of spending some time with a brilliant and creative Indigenous storyteller who introduced me to the concept of the spirit bead. In the context of beadwork, the spirit bead is a cultural tradition where a single bead is deliberately made to be out of place, for example, a different colour, facing the wrong direction, or slightly off-pattern, and this bead is placed this way intentionally to represent a sense of humility, to acknowledge that no person is perfect, so no artwork made by a human should pretend to be perfect. When I heard about this, it was the exact right moment for me to take it in and after that, there was a major shift in how I feel about my music. And in the these times of generative AI taking the place of real art, humanness in art is more important than ever, so I’m less afraid now to share art that has imperfections, instead, I embrace it.
NHAM: So true, what a beautiful tale. Tell us about some of your greatest influences, musical or otherwise.
Socool: Gladly! Some key albums in the early days include Breath from Another by Esthero, Mezzanine by Massive Attack, Homogenic by Bjork, and Portishead’s self titled album. More recently we have Forms by Rohne, Keep Your Soul Young by Amparo, Sisyphean Audio Therapy (all three volumes) by Ordos Mk.0 (@ordosmarkzero) and Bleach by cable.percussion.
NHAM: You’ve done a good number of collaborations including with other Fedi artists. It seems that remote collaboration is something you particularly enjoy. Can you give us an insight in to the process, right from the first approach to collaborate, through the process of creating the music to releasing the finished work?
Socool: Yes, I really do love collaborating with other music producers and musicians! I’ve collaborated with quite a few different people now and I’ve found that the process is wildly different depending on who I’m working with. Truly I just love it when people send me audio to play with, it keeps things fresh for me and brings about new techniques and approaches that I think I would miss out on otherwise. Plus the feeling of hearing something amazing that another producer has done with the audio I sent them is incredible!
Working with Skysonix (@skysonix) for example was really special, as everything flowed really nicely right from the start and all through the release process. It started with meeting on Mastodon, having a mutual appreciation for each other’s music, then one of us floated the idea of collaborating, the other enthusiastically agreed, one sent an initial idea for a track and the other took took that and ran with it, and vice versa, and then with some back and forth suddenly, almost effortlessly, we found we had an EP finished. Track names, artwork, track order, release planning, all those decisions were shared which I found to be a great relief.
NHAM: Can you remember how you first become initiated in to the Fedi Music Scene?
Socool: I was part of that big wave of people looking for alternatives when Twitter imploded. Someone I followed there mentioned they were trying out this place called Mastodon and I checked it out and found that people were really welcoming. I was around when Radio Free Fedi started up and at that point it really started to feel like a music community was forming.
NHAM: What is the pull of the Fediverse over traditional, dare I say ‘legacy’ social media for you?
Socool: It feels like home. So many of the people I cross paths with here share similar values.
NHAM: Is there a particular song or artist within the Fedi that’s caught your attention recently?
Socool: ‘Black Knoll’ by Bedlam Steps (@bedlamsteps) (from the Patterns and Shades EP) just gets me every time. I can’t seem to listen to it only once, I get stuck in it and end up having it on repeat for a while. It reaches me in the same way # 19 by Aphex Twin does.
NHAM: You have a wonderful back catalogue over on Bandcamp but more recently you’ve begun releasing on Bandwagon, Faircamp and Mirlo (@mirlo) too. What has been the appeal of these platforms for you?
Socool: I have a lot of respect for people who look at the current situation around the music economy and actually do something to improve it, and I feel like Faircamp, Bandwagon and Mirlo are good examples of this so I’d like to support them as best I can. Faircamp lets artists self-host their music and present it to the world via an elegant static site generator, and I’m grateful to have some music out there via the negative void community Faircamp, so my music can potentially be discovered via the Faircamp Webring. And with Bandwagon, I can simply check a box and then my music will go into rotation on The Indie Beat Radio, which is great because I am trying to reach more people with my music so I want it to be in as many places as possible to do that. In the case of Mirlo, I like how I can offer some music there and if someone is kind enough to buy it, a percentage goes to them so they can continue to grow this music cooperative.
NHAM: You’re also a regular contributor to Bonkwave compilation albums. Tell us some more about that. Why do you particularly enjoy being part of the Bonkwave community?
Socool: I love how chaotic bonk wave music can be, while at the same time the community is well-organized, friendly and inclusive. When I sit down to make bonk wave, often something kind of magical happens and the resulting music comes from a sincere and honest place that seems to be easier to access when I create music that has no rules and no genre constraints. And making music is a really important part of my life, so I put a lot of thought into how certain things that come with it make me feel, and in an effort to protect it, I try to be careful to only do the things that feel good. Well, one of the things that does make me happy is being part of the bonk wave community, and I feel a lot of gratitude to everyone involved. Also, we’ve established that I can take years to finish and release music when left to my own devices so having a set deadline to finish something for our compilations has been really good for me, haha. And how great is it to get to release music alongside some of my favourite producers? It’s inspiring and also a lot of fun.
NHAM: Something we don’t hear so much in your music is your own voice, but you were heard singing on the Happy Bonkday 2025 release. Might we hear your voice more in future releases?
Socool: I think so! I’ve been collaborating with an amazing music producer who is also part of the Fedi music and bonk wave communities. Can I just say how happy it makes me like every single day that one of my favourite artists is sending me instrumentals to add vocals to? I’ve been enjoying the process a lot and I’m excited for you to hear our songs …when the time is right!
NHAM: Finally, is there a question you always fantasised someone would ask about you or your music?
Socool: Heh, great question! I’d like to talk about how making and releasing music has brought so much more great music into my life. What I mean by that is every time my music is shared in DJ’s mixtape or a radio show, I’ll listen to the whole thing and more often than not, it will lead to me discovering music I would likely never had heard of. So many of my favourite songs, albums and artists have reached me this way. And that, along with the great sense of community I get from being part of the fedi music scene and the bonk wave community, is why I think I’ll continue to make and share music.
NHAM: Brilliant, it’s been so great to chat with you, Socool. With the breeze now blowing your cloud back toward your music studio (and hurrying the biodegradation of our sequins), this is the perfect time to sign off and tell every to go and listen to To the Nines – available now on Mirlo.
Find Socool on:
– Mastodon (@socool)
– Bandwagon
– Faircamp
– Mirlo
– Socool’s website
– Pixelfed#Bandwagon #bonkwave #community #interview #Mirlo #music #RadioFreeFedi #TIBR
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Two really great episodes from the Too Much Music Podcast by Greg (@composergreg) and Alison (@alisynthesis) are now available to watch in the podcasts section of NHAMtv.
In them they chat about:
- The toxic grip of big tech on creativity and mental autonomy,
- Rebelling against Facebook,
- DeGoogling,
- How algorithms poison focus, erode privacy, and stifle artistic expression,
- The hidden cost of “engagement”: stolen attention spans, fractured communities, and a world where making art feels impossible,
- Reclaiming our minds from the feed,
- Making art without selling your soul to capitalism,
- Spotify and AI,
- The hope of Mastodon and The Fediverse,
- Community and Radio Free Fedi Fest.
#AI #art #capitalism #community #DeGoogle #Facebook #Fediverse #Mastodon #podcast #RadioFreeFedi #RFFF25 #spotify
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The Creativity Rebellion: Escaping Big Tech’s Art Heist (Part 2) - Too Much Music Podcast
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Ukrainians Cheer As Zelenskyy Signs Law Ensuring Anti-Corruption Agency Independence #ukraine #anticorruption #goodnews #zelenskyy #kyiv #radiofreefedi #antigraft #government #integrity www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-bi...
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Ukrainians Cheer As Zelenskyy Signs Law Ensuring Anti-Corruption Agency Independence
#ukraine #anticorruption #goodnews #zelenskyy #kyiv #radiofreefedi #antigraft #government #integrity
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-bill-anticorruption-law-zelenskyy-parliament-protests/33490791.html
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I'll be playing a solo set of songs tomorrow evening at 8pm UK time as part of #RFFF25 over at https://party.radiofreefedi.net/ so I've made a small picture to celebrate.
If you can't make it tomorrow, there's a series of live streams happening over there until the end of the month (details in link) all of which are highly recommended.
Hope to see you at one or more of them.
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Just did another test / rehearsal stream to no-one (because I told no-one) on never mind where (Twitch) prior to my Birthday Gig Stream for #RFFF25 on Wednesday 23rd, 8pm UK time, which will not be never mind where but instead very definitely here: https://party.radiofreefedi.net/
I will be singing old songs and even older songs. See you there?
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On en est à la moitié du festival de musique en ligne « #RadioFreeFedi Fest ».
Il y’en a eu pour tous les goûts, l’ambiance est chaleureuse et la qualité est largement au rendez-vous. Et ce n’est pas fini !
Pour soutenir les initiatives d’autogestion musicale, de #musiqueLibre et de #radioLibre qui contournent les multinationales rapaces, venez passer une oreille et surtout…
…relayez #RFFF25 quand vous le voyez passer dans vos fils !
Merci ! :boost_ok:
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is there a stream link for #radiofreefedi or #basspistol?
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Special Live NHAM show with Q+A (Post by @ethicalrevolution)
[If the video doesn’t appear below in your Fedi client click here to view]
On July 2nd we broadcast a special live show at Radio Free Fedi Fest (RFFF25), answering questions about NHAM in between showcasing 12 tracks from the 13th NHAM Mixtape (Nonesuch Homecoming And Merrymaking), which were all by artists performing at the festival.
The video is now available on demand at the top of this post or via our Hyper8 videos page (thanks @freebliss for the awesome video software).
It was a first for both @sknob and myself but we managed to stumble through okay it seems. A big thank you to sknob for sorting all of the technical aspects out (not to mention the moral support). And thanks to my dad too for lending me his laptop to stream from. (This neo-luddite doesn’t even have a device good enough to do a video call!)
A big thank you to everyone who was able to join us live on the @owncast stream. For those who couldn’t be there you can now watch above.
Details of artist performance times at RFFF25 are in the video and you can also check them out below the player at the venue at party.radiofreefedi.net. There are loads of great acts lined up throughout the month of July and we’re looking forward to being at as many of them as we can!
We are so grateful to the hamster (@controlfreak) for putting on this month long extravaganza of amazing Fedi Music.
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The Cunning - "(We Are) The 99%"
https://thecunning.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-the-99
A song more than a decade in the making.
(As in, I wrote the piano part and beat back in like 2012. Then in 2016/2017 my partner wrote the lyrics and adapted the piano lead into the melody. Our friend Crow sang. An online music nerd friend did the included remix of the instrumental tracks and I took those to flesh out the rest of my arrangement. Then for various reasons, the song 80% finished, I got distracted, didn't complete it. In the past year I picked up again, stripped the mix back to the raw tracks and finally finished it. )
A song for our late stage capitalism.
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Le patron de Spotify (en plus de se gaver sur le dos des artistes et d’être un suppôt de Trump), devient PDG d’une boîte d’IA militaire, donc si on est de gauche et qu’on aime la musique, on se désabonne, et on redécouvre les radios libres !
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Grève à Radio France. C’est l’occasion d’écouter la légendaire Comfy Channel de #RadioFreeFedi, ressuscitée pour le mois de juin en amont de #RFFF25.
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Lorenzo's Music Podcast Fedi Specials: #1 Meljoann