Episode #72 : After Cologne, the wish to meet again

Indiependence Day 2026 is over. The music has stopped, but something is still moving. There are weekends that end when you get home. And then there are weekends that keep travelling with you. Indiependence Day 2026 was one of those. A few days in Cologne surrounded by artists, friends and people who still believe that independent music is not merely something we release, promote or stream.

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Mitxoda Weekly #103 - Cologne Was Only the Rehearsal

Friends, music, one dead coffee machine, and the feeling that next year should be bigger.

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Same Place, Louder Next Year

There is a peculiar moment at an independent music gathering when the map collapses. Germany, Belgium and all the other places people travelled from stop being distances. Names that normally appear beneath songs become faces. Conversations no longer wait for a reply, an algorithm or the right time zone. Someone is standing in front of you. You can talk, laugh, listen, disagree, make a plan and abandon it five minutes later for a better one.

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Mitxoda Weekly #102 - When Songs Become People

Going to Cologne for the 2d edition of the Indiependence Day!

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Episode 71: When Songs Become People

Most new music enters my life in the least romantic way possible. An email. A Spotify link. A Bandcamp page. A SoundCloud track. Sometimes a very long press release. Sometimes three words and a URL. An artist I have never heard of asks me to listen. And I do. Not always immediately,  apologies to everyone currently waiting somewhere inside my inbox, but eventually, I press play.

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This Summer’s Heroes

🇳🇿 Vanessa Tottle — Invisible Rose🎛️ Electronic / Trip-Hop • August 21, 2026Born alone at a Wellington hotel bar, complete with real field recordings of cocktails being shaken and poured, Invisible Rose turns distance and longing into a wonderfully cinematic trip-hop landscape.🎧 Listen: ✨ 🇫🇷 Marla Fredonne — Figer le soleil🎸 Rock • April 4, 2026…

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Episode 70 : Why Do We Keep Making Music?

Who are we actually talking to? What are we trying to fill, to repair, to affirm? What are we trying to prove - if anything? And perhaps the question that sometimes hurts the most:  is there even an audience for what we create? As indie artists, I think we’ve all asked ourselves these questions at some point. Maybe after releasing a track that disappears almost silently into the endless stream.

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Episode 69: Love Is the Answer

Happy is the one who goes on holiday. I wish we could invent little proverbs like that all year long. I’ve just returned from Andalusia, and some of the landscapes are still with me. A region literally dried out by the summer. In places, you could clearly imagine where the river was supposed to be, but instead of water, there was only a bed of stones, dust and sand.

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Episode 68: Away, Still Listening

Two hours of music. No microphone. No new submissions this time. Summer has caught up with me a little, and I simply haven’t had enough time to properly listen to and process all the tracks you’ve been sending. I’m sorry for that, they’re still there, waiting for my ears, and they’ll find their way into the Salon soon. For Episode 68, I went back instead to songs that already belong to this strange, beautiful little universe we’ve been building together.

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Soundcheck — the daily indie word

One word from the indie world, six tries, liner notes at the end.

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Episode 67: Midnight Somewhere

There was something particularly warm about this 67th Salon Indie. Mostly new music, fresh discoveries, and one of those playlists that simply found its own flow. No complicated recipe this week, just a seriously good vibe and a lot of music I was happy to let into the room. And the Salon was properly alive, too. I had the chance to chat live with Across the Frostland, Veronica MoonRay, a solo artist with an absolutely wonderful voice.

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Soundcheck: A Daily Wordle for People Who Dig Indie Music

I made a game. Play Soundcheck Now Because apparently, creating newsletters, radio shows, playlists, websites and a whole indie universe wasn't enough 🙂 So here we are. Meet Soundcheck - the daily indie word game by Mitxoda. Think Wordle, but instead of guessing random five-letter words, you're stepping into the vocabulary of indie music and the creative ecosystem around it…

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Episode 66: Just Press Play

No voice from me this week, just two uninterrupted hours of outstanding indie music. Expect a wonderful selection of old-school indie tracks, carefully picked to keep the music flowing from start to finish. It's also a chance to revisit the beautiful La La Tunes that some of you created for my birthday last year. They still make me smile, and they deserve another listen. Sit back, press play, and enjoy two hours of pure indie sounds. Enjoy your summer, love you all!

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Soundcheck — the daily indie word

One word from the indie world, six tries, liner notes at the end.

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Episode 65: Growing Older, Still Turning the Volume Up

Some birthdays deserve a proper announcement. Mine is this Sunday, and I had planned to tell you during the show... but once again, technology had other ideas. The little gremlins came back for a visit. Nothing dramatic, just enough to remind me that live radio always has its own personality. Still, the most important thing survived: the music. My children once again found their way into the opening moments, which always makes the show feel a little more like home.

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Episode 64: From Budapest with Love

This week's Salon comes to you from somewhere between memories, train rides, family laughter, and the timeless beauty of Budapest. I spent the week away with my family, discovering one of my favorite cities through the eyes of my children. That also means there is no voice from me this time... well, almost. If you listen carefully, you'll hear two very special guests at the very beginning of the show: my kids, proudly opening this episode before letting the music take over.

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Episode 62: Summer Begins

Summer has finally arrived, and this episode naturally followed its rhythm. I opened the doors of the Salon with a collection of calm, atmospheric instrumentals. Sometimes the best way to start a journey is simply to slow down. Among those beautiful moments was a brand-new track from my Mexican friends Sonophagen, always a genuine pleasure to welcome their music into the Salon.

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Episode 61: Heat, Harmony and Happy Accidents

The heat refused to leave Brussels. If anything, it decided to turn the dial up even further. Yet once again, the music proved stronger than the temperature. This week's journey through the Indie Salon brought an abundance of fresh discoveries, brand-new releases, and those rare songs that deserve their very first moment on the radio. Alongside them came a handful of timeless tracks, songs from another era that quietly remind us why music never really ages.

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Episode 60: Too Hot!

Some shows happen. Others feel like a celebration. This 60th edition of Le Salon Indie de Mitxoda was definitely the second kind. The heat was everywhere. Brussels was preparing for the music celebrations filling its streets, and all around the world musicians, listeners, dreamers and curious souls were gathering for the annual magic of music. What better moment to celebrate sixty consecutive episodes together?

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Episode 59: No Borders, Only Ears

Some Fridays feel different. Not louder. Not bigger. Not more important. Just different. Maybe it was the strange silence of a world temporarily disconnected. Facebook was down for hours. Timelines frozen. Notifications asleep. Algorithms taking an unexpected nap. And somehow, it felt fitting. Because indie music never really belonged there anyway. It belongs in quieter places. In a room with half-closed curtains.

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Episode 58: Good News Between the Notes

Sometimes, a radio show becomes more than a playlist. Episode 58 arrived with unexpected good news landing right in the middle of the broadcast. The kind of news that makes you smile while the music keeps flowing. Yet my thoughts were also with Arnaud from LZMP. Some moments in life ask us to slow down and remember that music is not only about promotion, releases, algorithms, or streams.

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Mitxoda Weekly #89: What Happens Before You Hear The Music? 🎙️🎂

Celebrating Lisa, Celebrating Indie Radio

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Episode 57: Sickness And Joy

Some weeks arrive wrapped in contradiction. The body slows down while the mind keeps running. Energy disappears without warning, yet curiosity remains untouched. A cough, a fever, a sleepless night, and suddenly the simplest things become victories. Making tea. Opening a window. Listening to a song all the way through. This week's Salon Indie was born somewhere in that strange territory between sickness and joy.

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Mitxoda Weekly #88: Where Memory Meets Resistance

When the Music Persists, We Remember We're Alive

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Episode 56: My Boy Is 6

Six years old. There are moments in life where words suddenly become too small for what we feel. Today was one of those moments. So I made a choice. No long introduction. No philosophy. No stories between the songs. No fragile attempt to explain what runs through a father’s heart when he watches time move far too quickly. Just music.

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Mitxoda Weekly #87: Transparent Hearts in the Age of Artificial Noise

75,000 AI songs a day. Labels, bans, confusion… and one essential question: how do we remain emotionally real?

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Episode 55: Tea, Biscuits, and Nordic Ghosts

A deep voice. A painfully slow beginning. The kind of opening that should make people nervous rather than relaxed. And yet, there I was, opening this 55th episode of the Salon Indie de Mitxoda with Abysmal Growls of Despair and their Prologue to Agony. Because sometimes, the indie world is exactly that contradiction. A dark corridor leading toward warmth. A difficult emotion opening the door to comfort.

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Episode 54: From Ostend with Love

The sea was not far away this time. You could almost hear it between the songs. A slow tide rolling through distortion, fragile voices, old dreams, unfinished letters, and all these invisible connections that indie music keeps creating between people who may never physically meet, yet somehow already know each other. There are cities that feel like postcards. And there are cities that feel like memories before they even happen.

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