Online Radio Festival

Dean Blunt / 23:00
Both in his collaboration with Inga Copeland as Hype Williams and on his solo albums, Blunt has showed an act for deadpan appropriation, making very serious music out of discarded elements of R&B, hip hop, and bass culture, often with a sarcastic edge. Black Metal, his latest release via Rough Trade, projects him into an unlikely crooner repurposing the sound of ‘80s jangly indie before plunging into something much darker. Although preceded by his fabricated reputation, one that focuses more on his elusive persona than on his singular music, Dean Blunt is worth the hype.

Gigi Masin / 21:00
Dubbed as the Italian godfather of ambient music, Gigi Masin has acquired a relative fame in recent years as audiences rediscovered, mainly through word-of-mouth, his self-released albums, Wind and Wind Collector, from late ‘80s. Little over a year ago, Amsterdam label and Red Light Radio relative, Music from Memory, issued Talk to the Sea, a compilation that delves into Masin’s rich body of ambient works, some never released or previously unavailable. Yet another stepping stone towards international recognition is Hoshi, a mind expanding affair produced by Masin in collaboration with electronic duo Tempelhof, and released mid-2014.

Laurel Halo / 00:00
Following her critically acclaimed debut in 2012, Midwest recording artist Laurel Halo has spared no effort in defining her potent blend of electronic music. She’s made great strides on Chance of Rain, dropping the vocals as to create a more impersonal headspace, one fit for non-entities. It’s a challenging listen that lends itself easily to overly elaborate interpretations. Its insistent basselines, unpredictable synth experiments, and heavy drums instill a sense of urgency with the listener. One that travels over into the unsettling, atonal sets she has been curating for her monthly show on Berlin Community Radio.

Acid Arab / 03:30
It only took one trip to Tunisia for Guido Minisky and Hervé Carvalho to fall in love with Eastern music. Under the moniker Acid Arab, the two started a musical journey that took them to different regions of North Africa, where they dove into the local traditional party music, matching its complex rhythms to the beatboxes and bassline machines of acid tracks. The duo took a collective approach as they sought out musicians and performers from Maghreb and the Middle East, and together released Acid Arab Collections on Versatile, revealing a distinctly emotional dimension to acid house. Red Light Radio loves them.

Orpheu the Wizard & Robert Bergman / 02:00
Representing Red Light Radio, Orpheu the Wizard and Robert Bergman will play a back to back set. As one of the founders of RLR, local hero Orpheu de Jong is the driving force behind the eclectic programming of the station. He is also known for his smooth, synth-loving, and constantly in flux DJ sets that traverse genres. Between his residency at Red Light Radio, Rush Hour, and his music studies at UvA, there’s little time for Robert Bergman to do anything else but music. Unsurprisingly, he is an agile selector, treating his sets as mission statements and always going against the grain.

Hiele / 01:00
Belgium’s Roman Hiele effortlessly combines IDM with jazz structures, rarefied acid house with ambient sounds, brilliantly punctuating dreamy passages with dub, and punching holes in every melody with heavily saturated drum parts. Suggestively titled Essential Oils, his 2014 release on Antwerp label Ekster qualifies as a sensorial overkill executed with precision in eight commanding tracks. Selected by Stroom for its unique sound alchemy.

JM Moser / 22:00
As a co-conspirator of The Institute Of Harmless Thinking, a series of unconventional, dance-heavy club nights, Berlin DJ JM Moser is well-versed in leftfield sets. Remember the name Brown Rice, that’s his Wednesday freeform slot on Berlin Community Radio. He builds on ambient soundscapes, incorporating jazz phrases, raising and falling to dub, and always landing on dance, his failsafe and your safe bet.

Suzanne Kraft / 20:00
Los Angeles based DJ and producer, Diego Herrera operates under many names - Suzanne Kraft, Dude Energy for his solo works, Pharaohs and Blasé when he feels like playing in bands. He is also the creative director of dublab, has his own weekly show called Things of Life, and is seemingly thriving in this highly collaborative milieu. As a selector, his sound is dominated by a sunny aesthetic, channeling house, balearic disco and kraut works.