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Afro house is more than a genre - it’s a cultural movement. This week, returning guest host Ayan Shirwa plays Amapiano, deep house, and other sounds inspired by Afro House. Ready For You / Black Coffee feat. Celeste Wadada Qul Qul (Ghost Remix) / SaiSoundsAtalaku / AsnaChat / Scorpio QveenBelong / Chymamusique & AfrotactionNo Contest / Culoe De SongPasilda / Afro MedusaAgolo (Shimza Remix) / Angel...

New volunteer Antimony presents a playlist of 70s psych rock and new wave. Νοστράδαμος / Ατλαντίς (Μαγική Πολιτεία)Tao Longue De Mim / Os BrasosSoy Una Nube / Elia Y ElizabethLovemaker / Calum BryceI Had Too Much To Dream Last Night / The Electric PrunesSilence Of The Morning / Glass SunHaunted With The Minutes Drag / Love And RocketsI See The Rain / The MarmaladeYou Keep Me Hanging On / The Vanil...

Regular guest on Freedom of Species, Ruby Ramsden, spins some tracks as Naarm-based DJ and Producer, RAMdragon. This set moves from house to hyperpop and bass,showcasing Australian EDM artists, political dance music, and an unreleased track. Setlist:  Must Be Love / TSEBA feat. Electric Fields (jamesjamesjames remix) Easier / Bad Hoax Frankfurt / Pryda Prosper / Memphis LK RVR2SEA / Kharachi Float...

Joe, 3CR Music Coordinator and co-presenter of Music Sans Frontieres and Music Matters, features tracks from artists appearing at WOMADelaide 2026.Kurungal Kurungal - Kankawa Nagarra (Olive Knight); Wirlmarni [2024]*Aua Atu Ra - Marlon Williams; Te Whare Tiwekaweka [2025]*(Song intro) 4.5.0. (Ft. Marichka) - Daughters of Donbas; Songs of Stolen Children [2025]MERMAIDS - GANNA; Single [2024]*esorci...

Brendan and (Grandpa) André go crate-diving into a section of their super organised music collection. Old and just-released music on vinyl, digital and even cassette! Tracks played:Still Tea // Stellar MoonAll of My Thoughts // Spiritualized Mask // Sasha Millar Where Did Our Love Go? // The Supremes Sweaty // Soup on Tap Skindeep // The Stranglers Caller ID // Pippa Swanwick // Wild at HeartBirth...

Jacob Grech from 3CR’s A Friday Rave speaks with legendary political singer/songwriter Leon Rosselson. At 91 years of age, Leon has been writing songs about the state of our world for more than 70 years. Most recently performing a “Live From His Loungeroom” gig in September with long time collaborator Robb Johnston. Leon speaks about how it all started and reminisces about the background to a few...

 Guest hosts Innez and Matt of Dippers share songs and sounds that soothed and inspired them through 2025. Some new, some old, looking forward, looking back and all that. Marvis / Uhlmann Johnson Wilkes / 2025Side by Side (feat Jeff Parker) / Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer / 2025Guardadas / Navy Blue / 2025Bog an Lochan / Brighde Chaimbeul / 2025The Townie Polka / Lankum / 2017Ardi Cuan / Skara...

Matt Munster of Planet X, officially named himself the new voice of summer, and this is his playlist. The Parable Of Glenn McGrath's Haircut / TISMChristmas with Satan / James ChanceBugs for Christmas / Deja VoodoPsychotic Reaction / The FadeawaysI walked with a Zombie (live) / Roky Erickson and the ExplosivesMy Confusion / The EliteWhen do I get to sing My Way / Redd KrossLove on the Terraces / S...

Michele Vescio, 3CR volunteer and audio editor, presents a mix they put together over a decade ago for a now-defunct project called Cake Bar, something they and their friend Lennox O Diamonds created together. Cake Bar was a dessert-degustation and sound event that had a short run in Narrm back in 2012.The mix in this episode is a shorter, redux version of a much longer original. Even after all th...

One day in the Summer of ’86, Warwick (later to be known as Madison) Moffat looked at their budding record collection purchased from the proceeds of a new kitchen hand job and thought 'I’ll make a compilation'. They called it 'The Hits Collection in the Mind of Warwick Moffat, Tape 1'. It spurred thoughts of one day being a DJ.40 years later, things have come full circle, and Madison Moffat is pla...

This week's theme for Rotations is "In Sickness and in Health", playing songs (and telling stories) related to illness, disease and addiction, as well as love, marriage and devotion. Presented by Celine and Brendan at 3CR.Tracks played:Magnolia Tree / Truckstop HoneymoonSick Day / The Old Married CoupleYu Liang Dai Biao Wo De Xin / Gary DohPlastic / JoppyHospital / Eilish GilliganGet Better / Alt-...

Musician and founder of the Black Wreath record label, Pirate, lives in Alice Springs, Mparntwe. Pirate joined Marty (Wednesday Breakfast) in the studios of 3CR recently to discuss the Black Wreath's celebrated heavy metal festival Blacken Open Air, held at Ross River in September. In addition to this year's festival, Pirate also organised the successful Shadows of Uluru concert, featuring Sand Di...

Ayan Shirwa, broadcaster and presenter, guest hosts this week's episode with a selection of her favourite tracks - lush vocals, laid-back grooves, and feel-good nostalgia from Mary J. Blige and Aaliyah to Jadakiss, Tracy Chapman, and Barkaa. Ayan is the writer and editor of Our Stories, Our Flats, a four-part podcast series about living and thriving in the Carlton Flats. Listen to the series via 3...

In September, the 21st annual Bush Bands Bash concert was held in Alice Springs, Mparntwe. Marty (Wednesday Breakfast) attended the concert, and associated four-day music workshop that runs each year in Ross River, prior to the concert. This episode of Rotations features interviews with members of Ilkari Maru, Fejo & the Cruizers, Garrangali Band and more. A crowd of about 2,000 people attended th...

Today, Vittorio (Radio FILEF) and Karina (City Limits) take us on a by-no-means-exhaustive trip through history with songs of popular resistance throughout the world. When we use the terms struggle, rebellion, peoples resistance, we are not speaking about violence for the sake of itself, but of the fundamental aims of why we struggle: peace, joy, love & freedom... and we hope that this is reflecte...

September 14 marks the 52nd Anniversary of the US-backed coup in Chile that ousted democratically elected President Salvador Allende. The brutal dictatorship that followed saw widespread repression, but also resistance and hope. On this episode, guest hosts Pilar and Karina present songs to remember the detained and disappeared, and celebrate the legacy of joy and steadfastness of Chilean musician...

A selection of mostly local contemporary composers, with introspective pieces infused with their respective worlds. Presented by Brendan Bonsack. Mad World (Tears for Fears cover) / Rose RieblNgarwul / AllaraAbandoned Places I. Pripyat, Ukraine / Celia CraigVoices from Gaza / Saied SilbakFar Winds and Following Seas / Imogen FerdinandoA medley from dormant, I lay. / Helen Svoboda Image: Strings, C...

This all vinyl playlist is dedicated to some of the incredible artists guest presenter Michaela Stubbs has had the privilege to see perform their music live in Naarm-Melbourne and whose creations they continue to enjoy on the record player at home. Paint me Still / Lady Lash / Spiritual Misfit (2022)Magma / Cold Hands Warm Hear / Luxury Bat (2023).Give Me Your Love / Lisa Salvo / I Could Have Been...

Madison Moffat (Trans-creator Radio) has always loved a good fad, evidence that it was not only her with tendencies to dilate the diminutive. In this edition of Rotations, she shares some of examples of the 'follicle on a grand scale’, from 50’s dance crazes to the manic replication in 1990-2 of the same ‘beep’ sequence across multiple rave trax.   Tango Tea / Studio G; Period Music - Victorian an...

Rob (Monday Breakfast) and Marisa (Doin' Time) celebrating the diversity of the hardcore punk and heavy metal scenes in so-called Australia. Track list (Track / Artist / Album):Taste the Wound / Algor Mortis / Self TitledNothing Ever Changes / Backhand / ANGER SICKThe Wretched of the Earth/ Military Issue (live) / Persecutor / A HOMELAND DENIED: A Compilation For Palestinian LiberationBury Us / Ou...

this week @c_a_l_y_x slides into the chair to take you from narrm --> adelaide's unsound festival --> open ear festival on sherkin island, west cork, ireland --> emancipatory neuro-queer hip hop from estonia --> free palestine. Track list:-----------DuChamp / EpithalamionGolden Syrup / The Blue Dogaya / Heat DeathLos Thuthanaka / Caporal “Apnaqkaya Titi”RÓIS / CAOINEI Dreamed I Dream / F*gsMineral...

Louisa shares a collection of tracks gifted over the years by record store staff and graveyard shift radio DJs, a tribute to a time when you could tour the city each week to each record store and staff would know your taste and recommend great new and old releases just for you. So this is a bit of a comfort nostalgia for a cold wintry Sunday. Shrine / The DambuildersFor Love / LushEverywhere  I Go...

Presented by Joe, 3CR Music CoOrdinator, and eaturing tracks from Electronic Sound magazine 7 inch Bundles from Issues 121 to 126, and other electronic delights Playlist: The Art of This - “In a Moment (Introduction to a Song)”(a* Side); Silver vinyl Issue 122 [2025]Cluster - “15:43 (Bureau B Edit)” (A Side) (1971) Orange vinyl Issue 123 [2025]Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke - “The Men Who Dance In St...

Iggy Pop once described his initial musical ethos as chasing the sound of ‘Clang Clang Clang, Bang Bang Bang; loud and louder’.Simple, impressive percussive sounds that can be easily mastered. This is a collection of songs that come to the mind of Madison Moffatof Trans-creator Radio when they ruminate on that ideal. Down on the Street / The Stooges; Fun House LP [1970]High Society (Calypso) / Lou...

The 2025 Radiothon show, presented by Meghan (Freedom of Species), with guests Joe (Music Matters and Music Sans Frontieres), Ash, Michele and Brendan. Please help support Rotations by donating online here, or calling the station during business hours on 03 9419 8377.Tracks played in this episode:Radio Gaga / QueenVideo Killed the Radio Star / The BugglesRadio / RammsteinThis is Radio Clash / The...