The voices and selectors behind RadioPeng.
Jazz · Jazz Fusion · Eclectic
Gianni Papa got into journalism and radio in Palermo in the early 90s, working for Mondello Radio — a station that broadcast from a toilet cubicle inside a larger radio privata, on 108 FM. Mondello Radio was Fabio Beccali's creation. It lasted roughly a year. The two or three people who ever listened still haven't forgotten what it put out: jazz, punk, and whatever else was forward or alternative enough to qualify. It was a free, independent response to the flat melodic pop filling Italy's thousand-odd FM channels. Then the legge Mammì killed the whole anarchic DIY scene and handed Italian TV and radio to Mr. Berlusconi and... Berlusconi. During the same period, Gianni was music editor at Astolfo, the magazine run by Fausto Maria Amato — Ademaro Bisbini's adoptive son — and worked with Madwonko on the comics supplement Alfonso. Astolfo ran a few issues, cost everyone involved enormous amounts of work, sold almost nothing, and left an unforgettable memory in everyone who made it. Again. In the years between, he did some soul-searching. He became a fan of Papa Legba and Papa Francesco. Radiopeng — formerly Radiozorro — starts now, thirty years and much life later. The focus this time: communication, solidarity, ecologism, immigrant culture, and good music for the sake of it. Whatever happens, there will be unforgettable memories. Please join in.
Psychedelic Rock · Jazz Fusion · Classic Prog Rock · Folk World
Jah Bong is what happens when dub gets lost in a back alley, finds a crate of scorched 7-inches, and decides to stay awhile. Smoke signal and sound system séance. Low-end pressure, off-kilter grooves, transmissions that smell faintly of solder and weed. Roots reggae warped through echo chambers, mutant dub experiments, psychedelic drift, and the occasional track that sounds like it was recorded inside a collapsing satellite. No interest in genre purity or good behavior. Jah Bong treats the airwaves like communal contraband: pass it left, let it feedback, see what survives. A selector, a saboteur, a sonic herbalist of questionable judgment. Broadcasting for night owls, static worshippers, and anyone who thinks bass should register in their dental work.
Vulture doesn't curate playlists. He assembles collapses. Raised somewhere between punk's impatience and industrial music's machine-room hypnosis, he treats radio like a transmission from a pirate relay station. Expect serrated guitars, drum machines that sound like factory alarms, post-punk ghosts, blown speakers, and the occasional hard left into something actually unhinged. Soft spot for early industrial clang, punk in its mutant forms, records that feel slightly dangerous to leave unattended. If it's polished, it's probably an accident. If it sounds like a basement, an abandoned warehouse, or a minor civic disturbance, it's already cued up.
Ambient · Electronica · Italian
MadWonko is a sonic shapeshifter on a mission to scramble your brainwaves and reboot your soul. Spinning the strange, the surreal, and the sonically sublime, MadWonko blends eclectic grooves, offbeat rhythms, and musical oddities into a genre-bending journey through sound. If it’s weird, wobbly, or wildly wonderful, it’s in the set. Expect the unexpected—and maybe a kazoo solo.
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