DIA! Radio: radio en directo desde Saint-Jean-de-Luz

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DIA! Radio

Both sides of the border, one dial.

Post-punk, dub and basement electronics, ad-free.

DIA! went on air in August 2019 from Saint-Jean-de-Luz, put up by the Moï Moï collective during what turned out to be the final edition of the Baleapop festival — the radio outlived the thing that started it. It broadcasts from the Parc Ducontenia, runs as a non-profit with no advertising, and opened with around fifty residents. Six years on, the archive holds more than a hundred and seventy shows, made by DJs, selectors, musicians, journalists and a fair number of people who are none of those.

Its own episode tags say where the weight falls: ambient and leftfield first, then downtempo, dub, house and IDM, with psych rock, post-punk and dark wave alongside them and afrobeat, funk and R&B turning up often enough to count. Shows run monthly or fortnightly rather than daily, which is what happens when everyone making them has something else to do.

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DIA! Radio

Both sides of the border, one dial.

Post-punk, dub and basement electronics, ad-free.

DIA! went on air in August 2019 from Saint-Jean-de-Luz, put up by the Moï Moï collective during what turned out to be the final edition of the Baleapop festival — the radio outlived the thing that started it. It broadcasts from the Parc Ducontenia, runs as a non-profit with no advertising, and opened with around fifty residents. Six years on, the archive holds more than a hundred and seventy shows, made by DJs, selectors, musicians, journalists and a fair number of people who are none of those.

Its own episode tags say where the weight falls: ambient and leftfield first, then downtempo, dub, house and IDM, with psych rock, post-punk and dark wave alongside them and afrobeat, funk and R&B turning up often enough to count. Shows run monthly or fortnightly rather than daily, which is what happens when everyone making them has something else to do.