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Sat, Aug 12, 2006, 12:00
- Each week RA scours the web for the best online radio shows, podcasts and downloadable sets. This week: Hawtin at the DEMF, John Tejada and a Kraftwerk documentary�
August 12, 2006. Radioactivity is a weekly roundup of the best radio shows, podcasts and downloadable sets online. Things to listen to while you’re putting on your makeup to go out.
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Tejada with a Y: AOL’s dance music page has a storming set by LA DJ and tech house production force John Tejada Live at the Getty Center. Those who’ve witnessed Tejada in a club know that he only spins quality. Kicking off on the Wighnomy’s retake of Adolf Noise, the stream is 53 minutes of innovation production after innovation production that never once loses sight of the dancefloor. This one is on high rotation at the RA offices. Scroll down to editor’s picks.
Radioactivity: The BBC’s music doco page has a new 30-minute documentary about Kraftwerk up narrated by Alex Kapranos from Franz Ferdinand. The history of the band is covered and includes interviews with Ralf Hutter, Karl Bartos, David Bowie, Underworld, Afrika Bambaataa Mylo, Hot Chip and plenty of others. There’s also clips from the BBC archives which give a back in the day perspective. Tune in here.
Hieroglyphic Being: Chicago native Jamal Moss (aka Hieroglyphic Being, The Sun God) has recorded on Klang, Spectral and Mathematics Recordings and usually mixes midway between Chicago, Detroit and IDM-land, but he trades bleeping and jacking in for more deep house inspired rotations on his new mix Preaching the Blues, which you can download here [via earplug.cc]
Berlin radio: RA always tunes into Radio Fritz for Anja Schneider's 'Dance Under The Blue Moon' show. Mobilee label boss Schneider always has the latest underground vinyl out of Germany in her mitts before everyone else, but her show is not mixed --and she announces the names of the records which gives you a chance not only listen to what’s hot, but also find out the names of what's hot (important to us trainspotters). Also, we can practice our German. Each week she has a guest in for an interview and a DJ set, too – Loco Dice, Tiefschwarz and Jennifer Cardini have been in this year. Tune in from 10:00 p.m. to 12:00pm GMT+1. This week's guest is DJ Pete, one of the brains behind Berlin’s Hardwax Record store and label and dub-techno pioneers Substance [Chain Reaction] and the mighty Scion.
DEMF: The live sets from the main stage at Detroit’s DEMF Festival in May have finally been posted on their website. Full sets from local heroes Mike Clark, Robert Hood, Ron Trent, Kevin Saunderson and Derrick May sit alongside European visitors Dandy Jack & the Junction SM, Pantytec, Adam Beyer, Speedy J & Chris Liebing, Le Petit Orb and Adam X. RA especially recommends the Richie Hawtin set, which bridges America/European divide in an hour and a half of beep-and-squeak minimal techno that wrapped up the festival.
There you have it. If you have any links to fantastic music which you want to share with the world, post them in the forum or send 'em along to [email protected] with the subject line ‘Radioactivity’.
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