On this month’s edition of Join The Future on Noods Radio – episode 3 of season five, fact fans – I’ve mixed things up a bit. Of course, there’s the usual selection of rediscovered gems from the record collection, classic cuts, new releases and forthcoming tracks, but also excerpts from two recent interviews.

These interviews were conducted for soon-to-be-published features on Juno Daily, the editorial portal of the long-running online record store, Juno. The first is with someone who has been operating at the forefront of electronic music culture since he accidentally had a novelty rave hit in the early 1990s: Mark Pritchard. A proud son of the West Country, Mark spent the first two decades of his career working under a ridiculous array of aliases, both as a solo artist (Harmonic 313, MPR Productions, Link, Troubleman) and alongside production partners (Chameloen, Global Communication, Jedi Knights and Reload with Tom Middleton, Africa Hi-Tech with Steve Spacek).

His latest project is a collaboration, too: a joint album alongside another hard-to-pigeonhole musical polymath, Thom Yorke. On the show, Tom discusses the process of working with Thom and specifically the way the Radiohead front man worked with his own vocals.

The second interview excerpt features my old pal Parrot (he of Sweet Excrocist and Crooked Man fame) and fellow Sheffield-based producer Dean Honer talking about their time alongside JP Buckle in The All Seeing I – an outfit whose music was frequently odd and eccentric, but spawned a trio of chart hits in the late 1990s (most famously ‘The Beat Goes On’ and ‘Walk Like a Panther’). Their sole album, the wayward celebration of off-kilter Sheffield music culture that is Pickled Eggs & Sherbert, is being reissued by London Records at the end of April 2025. As a son of the Steel City living in the south, that album was important to me on its initial release in 1999.

In the show, Parrot and Dean discuss the low-key Steel City “secret party” scene – a reaction to the rise of superclub culture and “regimented DJ sets” – that not only inspired the formation of the All Seeing I, but also Parrot’s largely overlooked EARTH Records imprint. Keep your eyes peeled for an in-depth feature on the EARTH Records story on this website very soon.

You can listen to S5E3 of Join The Future on Noods Radio on Wednesday 26^th March 2025 at 15:00 GMT, via the Noods website and app (head to tour operating system’s app store to download it). It will then be available to listen to on demand online from 16:00 GMT the same day. An embedded listening link and full track listing will be added to this post afterwards.