Where's the Skill In That? Returns

Great news from the 'Mixing It' boys.

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"Mark Russell and Robert Sandall, presenters of BBC Radio 3's much-missed contemporary music mash-up 'Mixing It', return on Wednesday 16th April at 9pm, with a new weekly programme for Resonance FM: 'Where's The Skill In That?'

Named after a much-quoted remark in listening sessions for the programme, 'Where's The Skill In That?' broadcasts in London on 104.4 FM and worldwide via resonancefm.com.

The programme's musical remit remains the same: that's to say, not wilfully obscure, but certainly the more experimental end of the music scene, alongside songwriters doing interesting things, contemporary classical and jazz/improv, and strange uncategorisable listening....

'Mixing It' was broadcast for 17 years from 1990-2007 on BBC Radio 3.

'Where's The Skill In That?' will be broadcast every Wednesday at 9pm on resonancefm here: resonancefm.com/sche... - you can of course listen online, and in the London area on 104.4fm."

And the first two playlists:

Where’s The Skill In That?
Prog 1 - 16th April 2008

The Go Team
Bull in the Heather
Mi single, Grip Like a Vice
3’04”

Robert Wyatt
Out of the Blue
Domino album, Comicopera
3’49”

Jonny Greenwood
There Will Be Blood; Prospectors Arrive
Nonesuch album, There Will Be Blood OST
2’06”; 4’35”

Guessmen
Sunglasses
Co-lab album, Back from the Bins
3’42”

SFQ (Simon Fell Quintet)
Hard Frame, Plus Soft Hard Interpolation 1
From '13 Rectangles' CD on Bruce's Fingers Label
4’06”

Hercules and Love Affair
Easy
5’22”
DFA album, Hercules and Love Affair

Burial
Endorphin
3’03”
Hyperdub album, Untrue

Zeitkratzer/Lou Reed
Metal Machine Music
Asphodel album, Metal Machine Music
7’00”

B For Bang
Julia
Cargo album, Across the Universe of Languages
4’09”

Oligopolis
A Legitimate Tool Of Statecraft
3’05”

The Bad Plus
Life on Mars
Emarcy album, Prog
6’06”


Where’s The Skill In That?
Prog 2 - 23rd April 2008

Steve Jansen
Cancelled Pieces
Samadhi Sound album, Slope
3’21”

Autechre
Simmm
Warp album, Quaristice
5’00”

Médéric Collignon
Improlibration
Sonic Arts Network compilation, Blood, Muscle and Air
3’23”
sonicartsnetwork.org

Astrolabioanima
Aleanto
Slam album, Astrolabioanima
4’51”
slamproductions.net

To Rococo Rot
Helvetica (zigue zigue)
Domino album, ABC123
3’14”

Human League
The Dignity of Labour, Part 2
Virgin album, Reproduction
2’54”

Rothko
Suddenly Becomes Light
Trace album, A Life Lived Elsewhere
4’25”
tracerecordings.com

Essie Jain
Talking
Ba Da Bing album, We Made This Ourselves
4’57”

Autechre
WNSN
Warp album, Quaristice
4’57”

Melissa Madden Gray
Heart Murmur’
Sonic Arts Network compilation, Blood, Muscle and Air
2’58”
sonicartsnetwork.org

Gavin Bryars/Philip Jeck/Alter Ego
The Sinking of the Titanic
Touch album, The Sinking of the Titanic
6’30”