Radium88

Radium88 are Jema Davies (vocals, percussion, guitar) and Tim Thwaites (instruments and production). They met in Nottingham, UK in the 90’s, bonding over a shared initial desire to make music that sounds the way William Gibson reads. Dense, quite dark, futuristic, richly textured, strange, yet with moments of humanity, hope, and beauty. Around 2004 they stopped playing live, gradually shedding punk and hip-hop influences, absorbing instead ambient electronic and classical influences, and devoting their energies to recording a series of increasingly ambitious albums on their own Lotek Recordings label. These albums feature a wide range of live instrumentation in an electronic setting, and a number of tracks were used to soundtrack TV programmes. In 2016, following a contribution to a compilation on the Disco Gecko label, “Strange-Eyed Constellations”, they were offered the opportunity to release more material on the label, beginning with an EP, “The Man Who Failed The Turing Test”. This has been accompanied by a return to live performance and the album “Perpetual Emotion Machine”.