Radio Estruendo Tinansucá: live radio from Bogotá

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Radio Estruendo Tinansucá

Loud on purpose, small by design.

Cumbia, field recordings and vinyl digs from Bogotá.

Radio Estruendo Tinansucá went on air in May 2025 out of Bogotá, calling itself a free, mobile and experimental radio built on low-cost hardware and open-source software. It runs as a network of autonomous nodes — Tinansucasa for vinyl and cassettes, Sabana Alta for Colombian traditional music, a Nodo Experimental for sound art, a mobile unit — each producing and transmitting its own programmes. The transmitters come from the same mensajito.mx project that put Radio Nopal on air in Mexico City.

A handful of programmes hold fixed slots. Retratos Cantados follows cumbia's route across Latin America; Diggin' with Dom is a weekly vinyl dig; Aguará Guazú builds each episode around one recording of ritual or folkloric music from a remote territory; Ondanza Presenta improvises around electronic music and much that is not electric; Cuando Pase el Temblor takes on autonomy and organising.

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Radio Estruendo Tinansucá

Loud on purpose, small by design.

Cumbia, field recordings and vinyl digs from Bogotá.

Radio Estruendo Tinansucá went on air in May 2025 out of Bogotá, calling itself a free, mobile and experimental radio built on low-cost hardware and open-source software. It runs as a network of autonomous nodes — Tinansucasa for vinyl and cassettes, Sabana Alta for Colombian traditional music, a Nodo Experimental for sound art, a mobile unit — each producing and transmitting its own programmes. The transmitters come from the same mensajito.mx project that put Radio Nopal on air in Mexico City.

A handful of programmes hold fixed slots. Retratos Cantados follows cumbia's route across Latin America; Diggin' with Dom is a weekly vinyl dig; Aguará Guazú builds each episode around one recording of ritual or folkloric music from a remote territory; Ondanza Presenta improvises around electronic music and much that is not electric; Cuando Pase el Temblor takes on autonomy and organising.