20ft Radio: live radio from Kyiv

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20ft Radio

Still on air, war and all.

Ambient, techno, and leftfield from a Kyiv container.

Serge Taranovskiy was a graphic designer who had found Amsterdam's Red Light Radio and wanted Kyiv to have something like it; Dima Isaenko had a twenty-foot shipping container he was using as a showroom for his backpack brand. They put the two together in December 2016 with a third partner, Vitaliy Nemchenko, parking it at the Nyzhnoyurkivska complex — a former ribbon-weaving factory — and were broadcasting by the following year. In 2023 the station moved a few blocks to a garden on Kyrylivska Street.

Ambient, experimental and leftfield dominate the archive, with techno, house, bass and breakbeat behind them, and every slot goes to a guest DJ, producer or collector rather than a presenter. HUM, Hybrid Moment, Secrets Revealed and Iriy.frequencies are the recurring strands, and the station works with labels like Mystictrax and Ornithology. It has never taken advertising.

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20ft Radio

Still on air, war and all.

Ambient, techno, and leftfield from a Kyiv container.

Serge Taranovskiy was a graphic designer who had found Amsterdam's Red Light Radio and wanted Kyiv to have something like it; Dima Isaenko had a twenty-foot shipping container he was using as a showroom for his backpack brand. They put the two together in December 2016 with a third partner, Vitaliy Nemchenko, parking it at the Nyzhnoyurkivska complex — a former ribbon-weaving factory — and were broadcasting by the following year. In 2023 the station moved a few blocks to a garden on Kyrylivska Street.

Ambient, experimental and leftfield dominate the archive, with techno, house, bass and breakbeat behind them, and every slot goes to a guest DJ, producer or collector rather than a presenter. HUM, Hybrid Moment, Secrets Revealed and Iriy.frequencies are the recurring strands, and the station works with labels like Mystictrax and Ornithology. It has never taken advertising.