Radio Primitive: live radio fra Reims

Veeent...

Tørrer støvet af nålen…

Radio Primitive

Crèche to care home, same mic.

Free radio from Reims, guaranteed algorithm-free.

It went on air in Reims in 1981, the year the French state stopped treating free radio as a crime, and the association behind it wrote éducation populaire into its purpose rather than leaving it as a slogan. More than forty volunteers keep 92.4 running and put on some two hundred and fifty workshops a year, with groups that start at nursery age and finish in care homes. It belongs to Férarock, the federation of independent French music stations, and takes its turn in the live marathons.

The music is picked by people, and the station says so plainly: no algorithm, and a deliberate detour around the obvious. Its most-played lists run French post-punk and noisy electronics into psych, garage and roots reggae, with self-released records sitting level alongside label ones. Première Écoute, No Pogo and Pop O'Clock carry the rest of the week.

Mere som denne

United StatesRaleigh

WKNC 88.1 HD-1

Nobody here is a professional.

rock

United StatesSan Francisco

BAGeL Radio

One man, since the email list.

FranceGrenoble

Radio Campus Grenoble

A student station that trains.

United StatesSeattle

Hollow Earth Radio KHUH 104.9

Imperfections, on purpose.

United StatesMinneapolis

KFAI 90.3 FM

Radio for everyone left out.

New ZealandPalmerston North

Radio Control 99.4FM

The hosts still choose the records.

Czech RepublicPrague

Radio 1

Thirty-five years, no chart.

CanadaVancouver

CiTR 101.9 FM

Student-run, never student-safe.

United StatesBerkeley

KALX 90.7 FM

300 volunteers, zero playlists.

BelgiumLeuven

Radio Scorpio

Forty-seven years without an ad.

United StatesBinghamton

WHRW 90.5 FM

Seniority, then total freedom.

United StatesUnion City

HEADY.FM

Programmed by a person, not a feed.

GermanyBerlin

Freie Radios Berlin Brandenburg

Pirates, now with paperwork.

CanadaToronto

DKFM Shoegaze Radio

The buzz is supposed to be there.

rock

IndonesiaBanjar Seribatu

Volcano

If they're from Bali, they're on.

United StatesAustin

KVRX 91.7 FM

Hits are somebody else's job.

United StatesLos Angeles

INDIE X FM

KROQ veterans, still digging.

United StatesBrooklyn

Radio Free Brooklyn

Nobody edits the hosts.

United StatesAtlanta

WREK 91.1 FM

Engineers, at full power.

AustraliaBrisbane

4ZZZ

Still annoying the government.

Reims, France

Radio Primitive

Crèche to care home, same mic.

Free radio from Reims, guaranteed algorithm-free.

It went on air in Reims in 1981, the year the French state stopped treating free radio as a crime, and the association behind it wrote éducation populaire into its purpose rather than leaving it as a slogan. More than forty volunteers keep 92.4 running and put on some two hundred and fifty workshops a year, with groups that start at nursery age and finish in care homes. It belongs to Férarock, the federation of independent French music stations, and takes its turn in the live marathons.

The music is picked by people, and the station says so plainly: no algorithm, and a deliberate detour around the obvious. Its most-played lists run French post-punk and noisy electronics into psych, garage and roots reggae, with self-released records sitting level alongside label ones. Première Écoute, No Pogo and Pop O'Clock carry the rest of the week.