Spivs and Stewards – What Kind of Political Culture Are We Rewarding?
One of the most revealing divisions in British public life is not simply between left and right, liberal and conservative, or metropolitan and provincial. It […]
Distraction Therapy – Japan, Memory And Reinvention
https://robwatsonmedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Distraction-Therapy-002-2026-07-22-Mixdown.mp3This episode of Distraction Therapy moves through Japanese pop, rock, electronic music and soundtrack composition. It is not intended as a comprehensive account of Japanese music. […]
Distraction Therapy – Miffy Ryan on Music, Memory and Attention
https://robwatsonmedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Distraction-Therapy-Show-001-2026-07-22-Mixdown.mp3What does it mean to use music as distraction? Does it take us away from immediate experience, or can it return us to the body, to […]
Distraction Therapy — Inner Worlds, Distant Signals and Japanese Pop
https://robwatsonmedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Distraction-Therapy-Show-002-2026-07-15-Mixdown.mp3This episode of Distraction Therapy moves through Japanese rock, electronic pop, dance music and independent digital production. Across the mix, familiar images return. Love. Silence. Distance. […]
Distraction Therapy – Signals, Ruins and Rearranged Memory
https://robwatsonmedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Distraction-Therapy-Show-001-2026-07-15-Mixdown.mp3This episode of Distraction Therapy moves through music that exists between states. Between ambient suspension and rhythmic momentum. Between private memory and collective history. Between natural […]
Distraction Therapy Mix – Surface, Depth and the Designed Self
https://robwatsonmedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Distraction-Therapy-002-2026-07-08-Mixdown.mp3This episode of Distraction Therapy moves through a vivid field of contemporary Japanese pop, rock, hip-hop and electronic songcraft. The mix is bright, precise and […]
Distraction Therapy Mix – Surface, Depth and Distant Signals
https://robwatsonmedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Distraction-Therapy-001-2026-07-08-Mixdown.mp3This episode of Distraction Therapy moves through music that seems to arrive from elsewhere. Some of it feels as if it has been transmitted across […]
Beyond Gender – Classification, Experience and the Symbolic Life of Identity
The Beyond Gender episode on the classification of gender identity opens up a more difficult question than whether the phrase “transgender child” is true or […]
Has Socially Engaged Art Run Out of Feeling?
There is a fatigue that settles in when every artwork is introduced by its social purpose before anyone has had the chance to look, listen, […]
Distraction Therapy – The Sound of Exhausted Sincerity
https://robwatsonmedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Distraction-Therapy-002-2026-07-01-Mixdown.mp3This edition of Distraction Therapy moves through a contemporary Japanese and Japan-adjacent soundworld shaped by electronic minimalism, platform pop, balladry, actor-singer performance, soundtrack atmosphere, urban […]