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Music in the Sahara spread phone-to-phone via Bluetooth and memory cards long before streaming. Sahel Sounds documented that grassroots network, tracked down the artists behind the shared MP3s, cleared rights, and released compilations like Music from Saharan Cellphones. The project shows how low-cost phones and social sharing created a people-built music distribution system that labels later helped bring to global audiences.

Don Cherry was a pioneering jazz trumpeter who helped launch free jazz alongside Ornette Coleman, notably on The Shape of Jazz to Come. In the 1960s and 70s he expanded beyond jazz, traveling widely and blending African, Indian, Middle Eastern, and Western traditions into a truly borderless sound. His album Brown Rice and the trio Codona cemented his role as an early architect of world fusion. Cherry’s legacy is a vision of music without borders, rooted in curiosity, collaboration, and deep respect for global traditions.

Mary Halvorson Amsterdam Concert

A thoughtful playlist of music for yoga.

A tiny manifesto for weird radio and why the button matters.

Wonkoworld is a sonic playground where genres blur and moods melt. Presented by MadWonko, this radio show drifts through a surreal landscape of eclectic, ambient, lounge, and jazz sounds — the kind of music that feels like a dream you're not sure you had. Expect strange textures, smoky grooves, and deep vibes, all stitched together with MadWonko's quirky sensibility and crate-digging instincts.\nFrom back-alley bossanovas to interstellar synth drones, Wonkoworld is a passport to the odd corners of cool. Tune in, zone out, and let the weird wash over you.

Late-night ambient, dub, and low-light rhythms.

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.

Curates slow-burn sets for late-night listeners and insomniac commuters.