
Viral Radio, the Amsterdam based independent network for music futurism, is turning 5 years old this Saturday. Over these years, ‘the most cutting-edge event in Amsterdam’ (Time Out Amsterdam) has seen brain-tingling performances by a long thread of scifi contemporaries, from Flying Lotus, Kode9 and Hudson Mohawke, to Ben Frost, Colin Stetson and Stephen O’Malley.

Viral Radio, the Amsterdam based independent network for music futurism, is turning 5 years old this Saturday. Over these years, ‘the most cutting-edge event in Amsterdam’ (Time Out Amsterdam) has seen brain-tingling performances by a long thread of scifi contemporaries, from Flying Lotus, Kode9 and Hudson Mohawke, to Ben Frost, Colin Stetson and Stephen O’Malley.

Viral Radio, the Amsterdam based independent network for music futurism, is turning 5 years old this Saturday. Over these years, ‘the most cutting-edge event in Amsterdam’ (Time Out Amsterdam) has seen brain-tingling performances by a long thread of scifi contemporaries, from Flying Lotus, Kode9 and Hudson Mohawke, to Ben Frost, Colin Stetson and Stephen O’Malley.
Will speaks to Ford Models Fashion. Step aside DKNY, hello GLKLA…
New release: Jonti’s debut album on Stones Throw is out. It was our dear friend the Gaslamp Killer that sent us an excited e-mail some months ago that we had to check out this guy that sounded like “if Dimlite were from Los Angeles”. Indeed, Jonti’s music will most likely be enjoyed by those who like Dimlite, Baths and Shlohmo.
Erkin Koray ‘İnan ki’ played over the radio in the second taxi we got into in Istanbul last night. You might recognise it as the song ‘I’ve given’ by Gonjasufi, from the album ‘A Sufi and a Killer’.
Quite the welcome to this incredible city. Any suggestions on where to go and who to listen to in the coming 9 days are appreciated.
Los Angeles has for years been one of the most futurist electronic music cities on this planet. But even for a city of the quality and quantity as LA, 2011 has been an outstanding year of releases and performances.
Behind the household names of Flying Lotus, Daedelus, Gaslamp Killer, Ras G, Samiyam, Daddy Kev and Nosaj Thing, swarms a myriad of boutique musicians as Baths, Shlohmo, Free the Robots, Matthewdavid, Jonwayne, Asura, Kone and ELOS - and there are many more.
A grand transatlantic salute to Brainfeeder, Alpha Pup, Non Projects, FoF, Leaving, and all the other labels holding it down in Los Angeles, for staying the course in supporting and sharing Zeitgeist surfing electronic music.
2011 has been your year. We look forward to seeing all of our friends in Amsterdam soon again.
Stussy - Make Beats Contest. With GLK and Nosaj Thing for Low End Theory.
A Gaslamp Killer recommendation.
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Stones Throw Podcast 67: Jonti - Sine And Moon Mix. Jonti was suggested to us by a raving Gaslamp Killer, comparing him with Dimlite. Not a bad introduction.
Introducing the “psychedelic gangster funk” from yet another new producer from Los Angeles, Kone delivers an odd future hip hop album with psychedelia bass lines. Music for fans of Gaslamp Killer, Gonjasufi and Ras G.
Clark played live at the second Viral Radio event at Trouw Amsterdam on 3 April 2009. Those first events were all stellar: Kode9 & the Spaceape, then Clark, followed by Flying Lotus, Gaslamp Killer and Samiyam. Amazing events in an incredible venue.
The rapture ‘Confrontation’. Sometimes iTunes surprises me with its contents. I did not know I had this track. Thank you Gaslamp Killer for leaving it there.
Amral’s Trinidad Cavaliers Steel Drum Orchestra - The World Is A Ghetto. A Gaslamp Killer classic, and a Viral Radio favourite.
“Stunning photography by Janet Echelman, a designer who focuses on reshaping “urban airspace with monumental, fluidly moving...
Listen to this with Viral Radio at the Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ
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Sometimes I don’t trust my own judgement....
A small video interview by Pitchfork with 2012 favourite Laurel Halo (via Dirk Geurs on Twitter.)