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A show with a dedication and lots of contra move-vents to flows, currents and moods and thus Radio Nuda creates a home of its own. And it is inhabited. Says Rádio Nuda’s main character: Thanks anyway to our cold or still hot victims Guillaume de Machaut, Iveta Plná, Technotronics, Vermisst Susi, Chie Mukai + Justin Simon, The Tête de con, the yellow jackets, O Reche Modo, Ken Ganfield, Shit & Shine, and a special one to “etc”
Adrian Shephard returned to Berlin after a visit to his family in England. He didn’t bring back the Sunday edition of The Panama Daily. In his suitcase was a collection of old longplayers. Then one day in the studio, a short time after it had been hit by the Gysin comet, overlooking the ravage, he found out that the old record player was still intact. “IDEA!” He connected, put on the first record, and The Scratched Vinyl Show was born. Then the record stoped. Now what to do if you…
In this show you will hear Don Campau announce, that, over this year, he will send a great part of his cassette collection to Friedrichshafen, in the very south of Germany. With time a museum, or part of a museum will be dedicated to cassette culture. While making a selection for his packet of 80-100 cassettes, he also made a selection for today’s show. No Pigeonholes is an ongoing show, that documents the world of hometapers, bedroom producers and assorted pioneers of unusual sound collections, that together created the…
Part two of a masterly mixed show by David Asher. It starts of smooth and mellow, almost suitable to hear in the background when you drink your latte, and then, halfway it becomes steaming and militant. At one point you will hear mention of the year 1868. You can start your research on that, here. Says Simon Wade The Wirebender hosted by guest Detroit’s David Asher Presents Part two of a three part special featuring the music of Ghetto Priest. Ghetto Priest aka Squidz is one of the most flamboyant,…
Brainhall’s offering of a bootleg recording made in Lucerne in 1992 is a fine documental piece of music. You can hear the audience from very near, because the microphone of the recorder was among them. It also shows the energy of a small venue. And it takes the listener back to the early nineties, when after the waves of post-punk band ecclecticism became a part of the independent scene. H.P. Zinker (guitar, bass, drums) reminds of Hüsker Dü, but also of early 70s West Coast music (like the live album…
Says Anders “Well, are you lovesick? You feel lonely and blue? Did your girlfriend or boyfriend left you with tears on your pillow? I have the medicine for you. Obscure heartbreaking 1960s US garage songs from my collection. Enjoy!!!” Says Radio On ” This is another exquisite selection from Anders’s collection that he delivers every seven months. All the songs you hear are hard to find, as it is hard to believe you ever heard them. It is a beautiful collection that will make your working space, living room or…
Simon Wade from the Wirebender proposes a show made on migrants day. It is originally made for soundart radio in Devon and was transmitted live on the day itself. The production is available as a podcast. To give it a wider audience Radio On has adopted the program and will schedule it regularly in the months to come. Here’s the text from the podcast page Music by the migrants in the camp in Calais, recorded on 18th December 2015 on Migrants Day. Plus talk with Lavinia Caravacci volunteer, Care4Calais lead,…
One of the many interviews we did in the Oranien Studio in Berlin. And one fine day, while on visit in Berlin, Adrian Shephard’s friend Mim King walked into the studio. Here’s a short portrait of her in Adrian’s words “Mim King is the mermaid who fell to earth and whose home is a homage to her lifetime of seminal bodywork and performance. As a teenager she would wear a rubber diving costume under her clothes and have an obsession with gelatin (jelly babies). One of her jobs was airbrushing…
Back in the year 2009 the Neukölln area of Berlin was still a dirty neighbourhood. Hardly anyone wanted to live there. Apartments were cheap; the bars were the same as ever, for the locals, the typical eckkneipe. This zone of Berlin was not hip at all, and the word hipster, the attitude and fashion style had still to be discovered and introduced. Basement concerts had a strong sense of prohibition. Adrian Shephard and I (=Rinus Van Alebeek) had been doing radio since the year 2006. We had no connection to…
