Adrian Shephard and I host Radio On Berlin. Based in Kreuzberg and broadcasting 24/7 since 2013 Radio On offers interviews, radiophonics, live concerts, experimentations, travel reports, radioplays, tape reviews, cassette culture, field recordings, poetry readings, lectures, journals, vinyl memories, avant-radio & extreme noise. Lo-fi radio for lo-fi people !
Radio On presents an insight into the current situation of the ultra-margins of contemporary music and non-institutional artistic developments.
The Culture Trip lists Radio On as one of the ten radio stations in Berlin you need to listen to.
Radio On was founded in 2006 in a former east German light bulb factory and Stasi lookout post over the Spree in Berlin. Our first broadcast was recorded in Adrian Shephard’s studio. The program was transmitted by Resonance FM in London as a part of the Framework-afield series.
We continued to play strange music and had even more bizarre dialogues. Programmes were scheduled and transmitted irregularly via a covert server in the heart of Amsterdam. For years to come we were the only pirate station on the internet, funded by the Dutch Crown.
We made programs for other stations such as the radia network, the oldest internet station dfm.nu, H.A.K. and cannibal caniche in France and radio zero’s radiophonic festival in Lisbon.
A quantum leap in Radio On’s existence was possible thanks to the help of sourcefabric. We were offered the free use of their software (a virtual radio station) and their Airtime server: we could re-schedule programs from our vast archive and be on air for 24 hours.