During Apartheid in South Africa, music was an essential art form for the disenfranchised coloured Africans to express their supression and suffering. We will visit a time of violent riots and gruesome events. From Sharpville to Soweto and into the prison walls of Robben Island.
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Underground around the globe - Episode 6 - UNDGRND
While Alex is studying for his exams, Lennart charters a plane and flies around the world from Australia, Japan, to Hungary and the UK. On the way, we meet artists from different backgrounds performing rap, indi, techno and funk. Join our Underground revue to venues on all five continents around the world.
After the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, young alternative artists had to go underground. Rock, indi, rap and electro music developed in small venues and behind bars of China's growing metropolis. On this episode we explore why and how today's young Chinese underground artists have lost much of its political edge over the past decades.
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Inside Compton - Episode 4 - UNDGRND
Alex is alone in the studio today and takes us on a trip to Compton. The suburb of L.A. that has brought up some of the most influential and successful rap artists in the world. Visti the beginnings of N.W.A and Dr. Dre.
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Underground behind the Berlin Wall - Episode 3 - UNDGRND
Below the Berlin Wall, away from STASI surveillance and out of reach from the Socialist Unity Party in East Germany erupted a diverse Underground music scene. On today's show we explore the artists that defied their totalitarian communist regime during the Cold War and achieved the fall of the Berlin Wall.
This radio show taps into the niche underground scenes that have opposed and challenged the established system, society and sound of their time. Each week, Lennart and Alex investigate a specific musical venue and ask themselves how it emerged? Who were the people driving it? And how have they challenged the social and political norms of their world?
From Nigerian 70s Afro-beat, to German Trap sounds of today, or Hip Hop beats out of Compton and the South Bronx, each episode will uncover the story of its underground artists. Most importantly it will shed light on the society they emerged in, the politics they confronted and the lifestyle they lived. Narration and storytelling complement the best tunes we believe to represent the scene. The listener enters our Pirate-Radio-Submarine and dives deep into a music genre they could otherwise have missed out on...
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