Online Radio Festival

Charlie Bones / 09:00
From Monday to Friday, Charlie Bones lets listeners of NTS Radio rise and shine with The Do!! You!!! Breakfast Show. Loving the mistakes, background noise and throwaway comments of radio and live recording, he has created a safe space that encourages spontaneity on air. Aiming to rhythmically edify his listeners all week, Bones puts together eclectic sets focusing on the odd ones out of each genre.

Claire Tolan / 11:00
Since 2014, Berlin-based American artist and programmer Claire Tolan has been producing You’re Worth It, an experimental show on Berlin Community Radio dedicated to the sounds and culture of ASMR. Spelled out, that’s Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, and it refers to the controversial perceptual phenomenon said to be caused by whispering and soft sounds, and resulting in a tingling sensation. Tolan also just debuted Always Here For You, an all-round tickling installation and radio play, commissioned by the CTM Festival and Deustschlandradio Kultur for the 2015 Radiolab. Because she’s worth it.

Mittland Och Leo / 15:10
Mittland Och Leo are Milan Warmoeskerken and Joke Leonare, Antwerp-based synth pop duo that indulges in soft bass lines and swooning keyboards creating auditory experiences that gently wash over the listener. Mixed by Milan and released via Joke’s label Jj funhouse, their debut long-player Optimists is a collection of tropical synthwaves that might not have you hitting the dancefloor but will likely beam you into a dreamscape.

Summer Recreation Camp / 07:00
Serial band starter, film school dropout and Bandcamp hero are only a few of the ways in which the tireless Cristian Subirà can be described. Barcelona born and bred, Subirà has been actively involved in the local scene, playing in numerous bands, as well as recording a dublab radio show called Latitudes under the guise of Cosmic D’Alessandro. Summer Recreation Camp is one of his longer standing projects dedicated to ambient and drone works, with shoegaze sonorities and experimental pop frequencies buried deep inside.

Craig Leon / 20:00
Having produced early releases of The Ramones, Suicide and Blondie, Craig Leon has often been described as a pivotal figure in the punk and new wave scenes. Less known is that in the ‘80s he also released two of his own compositions, Nommos and Visiting, inspired by sculptures of the Dogon tribe and employing the latest at the time in synthesizer technology. Now considered seminal cosmic-synth works, they’ve been reissued by RVNG Intl. in their definitive form, also occasioning a rare live performance of Nommos at Muziekgebouw for which Leon will be accompanied by Ragazze Quartet.

Juju & Jordash / 21:15
Israeli born Gal Aner and Jordan Czamanski first crossed paths as jazz musicians in Haifa and Tel Aviv, only to reunite in Amsterdam as DJ’s ten years ago, performing from behind a desk full of hardware and building tracks from scratch. The promising duo soon became a Red Light Radio favorite, and signed with the newly-founded Dekmantel label. Their improvisational flair showed in the ensuing forays: deep house, primitive techno, dub tracks, and free jazz experiments, all coming into focus on their third release to date, boldly-titled Clean-Cut.

Awesome Tapes From Africa 23:00
Following a research trip to Ghana in 2002, Brian Shimkovitz started a blog to share his rare musical finds from West Africa. Awesome Tapes from Africa quickly became an online showcase of the continent’s vibrant cassette culture, mostly unheard internationally. The blog turned into a label as Shimkovitz went the extra mile and started reissuing and remastering some of his findings, as well as performing carefully-curated DJ sets. No wonder he became an online radio star, hosting shows on Berlin Community Radio, Boiler Room and most recently dublab.

Palmistry / 22:15
Palmistry easily combines being a producer, singer and visual artist. After having worked with Cantonese MC Triad God with whom he released an album on the experimental label Hippos In Tanks in 2012, Palmistry’s own voice became more present in his recent solo material. There’s a minimalist dancehall aesthetic in his productions, with hints of reggaeton and RnB. But like many of his London contemporaries, this is genre-defying music.  

James Pants / 19:00
An obsessive record collector, James Pants has been breathing new life into 80's boogie, new wave, R&B, and 60's prog rock as well as embracing synth experiments and dated keyboard jingles that no one else would touch. His crate digging skills recommend him as a highly interesting selector, proof to which are his many mixtapes and off-kilter DJ sets. It's the year of the rat, which means temple music by a floor tom orchestra, shamanic robes, violent magma bursts, rain dances. Expect an incantation here and there and loads of pagan!

Joanne Robertson /18:00
Mostly known as the feminine half to Dean Blunt’s The Redeemer and Black Metal, Joanne Robertson and her devastating vocals infuse emotion when Blunt stops short of feeling too much. But outside their collaboration, little is known of her. Painter and rumored poet, Robertson has recently released a new (avant-)folk album entitled Black Moon Days, out on Feeding Tube Records. Paired with a soft guitar, little or no percussion, her voice lulls and murmurs with a sweet inflection, at times taking the meaning out of the lyrics as it floats away. It’s a delicate as well as an unexpected listen.