Netil Radio Newsfilter
005 | Comeback 2.0
Editorial
Words by Miro, from Slovak English translated by Amris
Hello and welcome back
It’s been a while. Some housekeeping had to be done, so this newsletter could fulfil its purpose to communicate with you, dear listener and fan of our quirky little box of wonders. We are grateful that you believe in us, tuning in and enjoying the content we transmit. And here, we would love to let you get to know other residents better – their music taste, activities, reviews or opinions. Netil Radio residents are a beautiful and colourful bunch of creative minds.
Speaking of colourful things, “I lost my marbles” is one of my favourite expressions in the English language. I think it’s the cutest way to accept a certain state of mind, so you can move forward. At the end of last year, I had a feeling that we all lost our marbles to some degree. Luckily good quality marbles don’t break and you only have to put them back on the string. That’s what we did at Netil Radio and here we are, stronger than ever and ready to walk into the new era and break more boundaries.
Starting today, we are moving our archive to Soundcloud and all the new shows will be archived there. You know what to do.
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Some exciting news: next week we’ll open our new and shiny Discord channel for communicating in the new era of your favourite community radio. From that moment it will all connect together like a good string with quality marbles.
Thank you for reading and stay connected
Coming Up
New show on the block
Artists Without Borders w/ Tara Fatehi
1st Wednesday of the month 7-9pm
Anahita Shamsaei extends the activities of her Makaan-مکان Records to a radio show and we are very excited to be her platform of choice.
Her first guest is Tara Fatehi. A performer and writer engaging with ambiguity, mistranslation, disjunction and unfinishedness. Her recent projects include Mishandled Archive, 365 days of dispersing an archive in public space, and From the Lips to the Moon, an unusual music and poetry night with Pouya Ehsaei. Tune in on Wednesday 6th of March 7-9pm.
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● Psych Milligan invited a dear friend with exceptional taste… Jody Moss. Expect lysergic wonderments and oddities from the broad church of freak & roll. Tune in next Thursday 7-9pm ●
● Beirut Collective’s Nathalie Shooter will join Valentine Comar in the next episode of low key & local next Friday 1-3pm ●
Music Tips
Our residents’ current favourite
TSUNIMAN ○ PLASMA ○ 4th Tuesday 9-11pm
● 12 Moons - Zero Gravity ● Ruben Ganev - Collector’s Series 9 - Mould Audio ● Various Artists - Oscillatory Motion - Dürüm Records ●
Mihnea ○ fragile enclosures ○ 1st Sunday 2-4pm
● Astrid Sonne - Boost ● flywheel - Fogged Up ● YL HOOI - W/O Love ●
Valentine Comar ○ low key & local ○ 2nd Friday 1-3pm
● Carlos Niño & Friends - (I’m Just) Chillin’ on Fire - International Anthem ● Delasi - Audacity of Free Thought ● Muslimgauze vs The Rootsman - City of Djinn ●
Oren G ○ 1st Monday 7-9pm
● Munsinger - October Rouge ● HEALNG - Lost in Oxford - Disco for the Damned ● L.F.T. - I Want To Be A Witch - Mannequin Records ●
The International EBM Day
or a brief history lesson on EBM 101
By Oren G
Every 24th of February is a celebration of the major electronic genre by the name of Electronic Body Music.
Emerging from the pulsating heart of the electronic music scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Electronic Body Music (EBM) carved its niche with an industrial edge and hypnotic beats. Hailing from the industrial landscapes of Europe, EBM fused the raw power of post-punk with the synthesizer-driven sounds of new wave, giving birth to a genre that pulsated with mechanical precision.
One of the first ancestors was the German group DAF (Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft) which took the raw energies of punk and combined them with riffs of synthesizers and drum machines. They broke the “rule” that rock music is played by guitar, bass and drums and introduced the synthesizer to the stage with hard, dark and most importantly dancing sounds and this is actually how the name of the band was born.
Groups like Nitzer Ebb, Nine Inch Nails and Front 242 (this is the reason for the date of this celebration) took this genre a step further and became the core of this genre.
Here’s some essential listening:
○ Front 242 – Headhunter ○ Nitzer Ebb - Join the Chant ○ Nine Inch Nails – Sin ○ The Neon Judgment – The Fashion Party ○ DAF – Der Mussolini ○
That’s all for this week, stay tuned
NR team
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