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STEGI.RADIO 2

One genre, taken seriously.

The Hip Hop Side, running from evening to dawn.

Giving a whole channel to one genre is an odd thing for an arts foundation to do, and Onassis Stegi did it anyway. The station it runs from Athens has three of them, directed by the Greek electronic musicians Voltnoi and Quetempo out of a studio the foundation built, and the second is hip-hop and nothing else. The research behind all three is the same: a Mediterranean read as an archipelago, the cities along it treated as one connected scene rather than a set of national ones.

Evening Selections carries the channel through the evening, and then the strand simply keeps going through the night without handing over to anything else. The producers it draws on sit across the station's roster of more than a hundred and sixty names, from Ramallah's beat scene to club and rap producers working out of the Americas and across Europe.

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JapanShibuya

WREP

Shibuya, noon, no small talk.

United States

DJ BIGJOHNSTUD

Tapes older than the station.

hip hop

ItalyNovara

NovaHot22

Nobody here is a guest.

CanadaToronto

Thugzone

No suits sign off here.

hip hop

Puerto Rico

Cacoteo Radio

Remembers who built it.

GhanaAccra

Hiphop Africa Radio

Fifty-four countries, one dial.

hip hop

EstoniaTallinn

R2p

One country's whole rap scene.

hip hop

FranceBordeaux

Wanted Radio

Serious about the music, not itself.

PortugalSines

Hip Hop Rádio

Every district gets a verse.

hip hop

United States

Classic Storm Radio

The guests do the talking.

hip hop

United States

The 54 Sideshow

Twenty-six years of digging.

ColombiaBogotá

Radio Bajo Fondo

Twenty-five mixtapes, still free.

hip hop

United KingdomLondon

Itch Radio

Hip-hop, culture included.

NetherlandsAmsterdam

HHZ Radio

Four elements, still counted.

United StatesBrooklyn

Beatminerz Radio

Same hands that made the records.

hip hop

ChileSantiago

RRCE

Where the tokata gets announced.

ColombiaBogotá

El Parche Hip Hop

A newsroom that plays records.

hip hop

CanadaMontréal

WEFUNK Radio

Two diggers, still no filler.

BrazilRio de Janeiro

Rato Sujo Old School Rap

Nostalgia with the dust left on.

hip hop

South AfricaPretoria

The Grind Radio

Ten residents, no playlist.

Athens, Greece

STEGI.RADIO 2

One genre, taken seriously.

The Hip Hop Side, running from evening to dawn.

Giving a whole channel to one genre is an odd thing for an arts foundation to do, and Onassis Stegi did it anyway. The station it runs from Athens has three of them, directed by the Greek electronic musicians Voltnoi and Quetempo out of a studio the foundation built, and the second is hip-hop and nothing else. The research behind all three is the same: a Mediterranean read as an archipelago, the cities along it treated as one connected scene rather than a set of national ones.

Evening Selections carries the channel through the evening, and then the strand simply keeps going through the night without handing over to anything else. The producers it draws on sit across the station's roster of more than a hundred and sixty names, from Ramallah's beat scene to club and rap producers working out of the Americas and across Europe.

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