For this installment of our Buy Music Club, the effortlessly refined DJ ojo has given us 13 tracks played on NARR shows past ʕ•͡-•ʔ Each month he brings a bunch of ~the weird, the fresh, the classic~ to his show - check out the latest ep here: https://soundcloud.com/narr-radio/dj-ojo-070523

*What do you do in your life apart from making your show on NARR?*

hi! by day i'm a software engineer. i also make music, enjoy music, dance enthusiastically at nightclubs, eat and drink tasty things, sit around thinking about the strangeness of life, etc etc

*When did you first start making radio?*

my first ever radio appearance would have been around 2013, at Southampton uni on the student-run Surge radio, where I ran a show for a couple of years. Some years later I started doing a b2b show with k means called Avant Garbage, on Threads and Netil, before landing on NARR with a solo show in 2021. happy days :~)

*What are your other favourite shows to listen to?*

i love radio so there's a lot, too many to list fully but here's an attempt... some amazing shows on NARR ofc - Desire Path, Floor Length Skirts, Organology, Table Jelly, Bitzer Maloney, Mike Smaczylo, and all the lovely ppl who run the station!

Elsewhere, friends and others are doing killer shows of eclecticism, deepness, noise, texture and sound in all forms across the internet. Some favourites (and favourite names) are Tinned Heat, Instant Yum!, Bubbling Through, Oliver K, Hopping Around, The Secret Shade, The Mustard Hour, Accidental Meetings, Motion Sickness, The Slug Farm, A Long Strange Dream, Peking Spring, Nosedrip, Vocal Fry, Orpheu The Wizard, Paul Camo, Fatima's Maple Syrup Waffle Show, YL Hooi, The Slip, Poorly Knit, Do/While, Don't Overtake, Ice Exposure, all the Kindred family ofc. When i'm looking to relax i'll reach for Calm Roots, Dan Thorman's Early Doors, Rahill, Fifth World, Post Geography, Sacred Space. And of course the NTS Breakfast Show with Flo.

*What is your favourite meal to cook at the moment?*

Recently I've been cooking all sorts, making more of an effort to cook seasonally, so lots of veg/grains etc. But my absolute favourite thing to cook will always be slow cooked tomato sauce. I find the sauce process very therapeutic, its a great thing to put love into

*Are you reading anything at the moment?*

I've just started Art Sex Music by Cosey Fanni Tutti - her stories are amazing and she has a very inspiring perspective on life. Also re-reading David Toop's Ocean of Sound, a beautiful history of ambient sound and music from quite a unique angle. I'm sporadically reading London Feeds Itself, a compilation of essays about food and social architecture, put together by Jonathan Nunn, which comes complete with restaurant recommendations. Othwrise I guess i'm reading about all sorts of vaguely interesting shit on the internet. I haven't read a novel in about 10 years, someone send me a recommendation pls x

*Do you have any exciting plans, things you are looking forward to in 2023?*

Hopefully going to do some travelling around Europe, seeing and doing some music stuff whilst away. Definitely gonna check out the 3 Wheel Drive festival, and the Meakusma weekender. Music wise, I have some new tracks coming out on nice compilations in the next few months, keep your eyes on Twin System, MAL Recordings and Dreaming Vinyl. Hoping to release at least one more solo thing this year as well. I've also got a couple DJ sets in London coming up, otherwise looking forward to seeing friends continue to smash it!