The Other Radio

The Other Radio is coming to Johannesburg! We'll be broadcasting weekdays and for special events on weekends from 8–21 August. Apply to play on the radio, broadcast your event, pitch a workshop idea or just come and hang out with us. Link in bio. We're all connected.

15:00 - 17:00 [CAT] Please Enjoy w/ Keegs Joining us today for his monthly residency, Keegs aka @keegansteenkamp is in the booth! The talented trumpeter and composer will be playing the jazz that makes him fly so high when he’s polishing that brass for the mense! If you around Cape Town looking for some live jazz, why not also join the Keegan Steenkamp Quintet tomorrow night at The Blue Room (Grub & Vine) in Cape Town! 🔗theother.radio

15:00 - 17:00 [CAT] Please Enjoy w/ Keegs Joining us today for his monthly residency, Keegs aka @keegansteenkamp is in the booth! The talented trumpeter and composer will be playing the jazz and dub that makes him fly so high when he’s polishing that brass for the mense! If you around Cape Town looking for some live jazz, why not also join the Keegan Steenkamp Quintet tomorrow night at The Blue Room (Grub & Vine) in Cape Town! 🔗theother.radio

15:00 - 17:00 [CAT] Please Enjoy w/ Keegs Joining us today for his monthly residency, Keegs aka @keegansteenkamp is in the booth! The talented trumpeter and composer will be playing the jazz that makes him fly so high when he’s polishing that brass for the mense! If you around Cape Town looking for some live jazz, why not also join the Keegan Steenkamp Quintet tomorrow night at The Blue Room (Grub & Vine) in Cape Town! 🔗theother.radio

It’s Flo Sho w/ Flowr time again! 18:00 - 19:00 [CAT] Joe has some tunes that are slightly nostalgic for the prospects of the the future install for today’s broadcast Tune in for some hiphop, house & beats 🔗theother.radio

The Other Radio is the official host partner of Musicians in Residence, a 4-week digital residency promoting cultural exchange and music expression between South Africa and a UK-based artist. The residency is supported by PRS Foundation and the British Council. We're thrilled to introduce our musician-in-residence to you: GLOR1A! (@glorias.land) GLOR1A is a future-facing artist exploring Black futurism, sci-fi and human emotion, pushing the intersections of art, music and technology with an earnest curiosity. Dystopic, powerful and heartfelt, her twisted take on Pop/RnB resides in an outlying, otherworldly realms of feminine reality. Throughout April and May, we're facilitating a series of one-week sprints between GLOR1A and several exciting local producers (@omagoqa, @aryujassika, @sunsunus and @odous_) and features from some soon-to-be-announced vocalists and instrumentalists. While the desired outcome is skill exchange overall, the output we're working towards is a multinational EP of some banging tracks by all involved 🥵 We're already halfway through the residency, and this is just the beginning. GLOR1A's unique future-facing sounds and aesthetic is an exciting one; we've got loads planned after the residency is over. Keep an eye out to see what we're up to in the coming weeks! We're all connected. 🇿🇦🇬🇧

From 1–3PM today, tune in for the first broadcast of KWAITour Presents, a series inviting living legends from the 80s, 90s and 2000s for a sitdown session discussing the legacy of their music, where they're at today and of course to play some jams! The first guest is the godfather of proto-House and Kwaito, Joe Nina! (@joenina_official) South Africa has always been a country that's developed its own unique musical identity, a fact that rings true on either side of the dawn of democracy in 1994. From the synth-heavy pop of bubblegum, to the groovy mid-tempo sounds of kwaito and the eventual explosion of South African house music (which in recent years have morphed into Gqom and Amapiano, the latter being back on the mid-tempo Kwaito-recalling antics), KWAITOur, made up of Paul Waxon (@waxonsa), Pierre-Estienne (@pierrestienne) and DJ Okapi (@afrosynth), is on mission to celebrate these jamtastic roots and keep the stories alive. Joe Nina cut his teeth in music as a teenager and could be found in the family’s garage studio practicing piano, guitar, drums and other instruments. From his first albums in the early 1990s under the aliases T McCool and King Rap, Joe experimented with local and international popular genres of the day. As part of the duo LA Beat (alongside Mdu Masilela), the song ‘Boss of the Road’ established him as an innovative composer and producer. The song's slow-paced township groove helped change the face of South African music forever. Still in his early 20s, his creativity found expression in a new genre: kwaito. Joe was celebrated as one of the originators of the genre! That's all happening today from 1–3pm! Keen for even more kwaito? On Saturday, come check out the first Kwaitour bash of 2022 with Paul Waxon, Athi Maq and Pierre-Estienne at Ghost (AKA right here at The Other Radio)! Pull through for some braai food and easy beats!

With @movida_movida coming up this Saturday and two of our hosts playing B2B as headliners at the event, why not get 'em in an early for a set at The Other Radio two warm up for tomorrow! Catch these two babies building blocks together from 3-5pm [CAT] on theother.radio

(PYROEIS), the first installment of @hcm.netx's residency HUES CREWS MESS!, is inspired by a non-linear nightmare similar to Dante's Inferno, involving endless fire_s inside metaverse hell < a metahell, Pyroeis (named after the greek god of the wandering stars) is a digital environment depicted as a red void full of bestial avatars, sold leaks and betrayed encryptions. This first installment includes sounds by Griffit Vigo, WULFFLUW XCIV, LiL JaBBA, A.k.Adrix, Nazar, Sueuga Kamau, Sueuga Kamau, xin, Odik, blue steel, JK Flesh, Menzi, ltfll, IVVVO and Laksa. You better BZZZT into shape from 20:00 — 21:00, Central African Time, on 🟢theother.radio (link in bio 🔗)! High concept high sound high time you hear the chaos.

Diving into the more outer sounds of Ambient, Noise, Post-Punk and Bass music from the left-field wizard, producer and DJ @chrisxtimm. Let’s see where it goes. 🧙‍♂️ 7pm - 9pm [CAT] From Cape Town to URL // theother.radio

NEW SHOW 🟢 The Panthera Principle is a celebration of the fearless culture drivers and provocateurs of the world of music, art & self expression. Join Cheshire V (@cheshire_v_) in the first episode in an introduction to the legacy and phenomenon of ballroom! This show highlights and showcases artists that move through this world with a quality our host likes to call "The Panthera Principle" — sovereign beings who blaze their own trail, own their edge, express their unique essence and by so doing have collectively created a culture that continues to pioneer, innovate & shift paradigms, globally. This culture is not a passing fad, it's a way of life. Yes honey, this is Ballroom!! Spotlighting fringe artists turned Legends, then Icons, as well as those only beginning to make their mark, and artists unafraid of going against the grain, being rebels and making their own rules. Link in bio for this wild, joyous introduction to the life and legacy.

A while back, we saw a conversation on Twitter arguing for and against vinyl. This got us talking about it too, but only after someone pointed out that they would love to watch a discussion on this did we oblige, turning up to facilitate this moderated-turned-freeform panel discussion around physical and digital music consumption in South Africa. We're calling it a "shifting" narrative because, between super disruptive technical difficulties and force majeure, it was actually really difficult to keep on track with the conversations. It was our first time doing this kind of thing, but definitely not the last. In fact, conversations like these are very much needed in South Africa, where shared resources and support is scarce. We just don't communicate with each other enough across the industry. This was a good first step. Our panel includes Shiba Mazaza (our amazing moderator for the day), Gareth Jones (Producer, co-label owner of SWAK Catalog), Tshego Nyatlo (Producer, co-label owner of Subterranean Wavelength), Jackie Queens (Singer and house vocalist, label owner of Bae Electronica), Aaron Peters (Co-owner of The Other), Atiyyah Khan (Archivist, arts writer, part of Future Nostalgia) and Philippus Johan (Co-owner of The Other). Due to technical difficulties, Bongani Mtholonga (DJ Ras Bee, vinyl collector) could not enter the discussion but will be included in future panels. Talking points include: how we like to listen to music, what it's like to put out and distribute music, why we think South Africa struggles to expand its small vinyl scene (and why we like or dislike vinyl), our thoughts on NFTs, what are the values of physical media to artists and record labels, are we getting enough value from digital releases and how is it archived, our thoughts on the environmental effects of music, streaming in general, labels vs independent, Bandcamp and the lack of shared knowledge and resources in South Africa. You can catch this 1hr30min panel on Thursday, 18/03 at