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This surely was a heavy year for almost all of us—ups and downs, weirdness, and so much anger and emotion. After a longer hiatus, we decided to go back to the one thing that has always made us happy and filled us with sunshine: doing a live radio set at OKJ. This time, no interview, no special guest—just a collection of vinyl, some drinks, and a few peeps in the studio. Spinning records, sipping d...

Equipped with somewhat lower voices than usual (thanks to the aftermath of G&T’s and Gibsons) we met with Jonny aka LUSO (@lusomusica) on a crisp cold day somewhere in a Scottish Office building for a chat all around Jonny’s heritage his path from Texas to Europe and his main influences all from music over architecture and visual arts to ice cream and pizza. After our conversation, LUSO dished out...

Hey y'all out there, welcome to our 63rd session this year, and what a rare treat this one is. Not only are we stepping quietly into this very special season of the year, but we are doing so alongside @oliver-goldt who takes us on a journey: a musical potpourri for the laughing and crying eye – from the plate directly into your ears. Oliver Goldt (@oliver-goldt), the 100% passionate music lover is...

On one of the last sunny days of the summer of 2023, we visited @djresoul in the Soultrade Record Store in Berlin. Enjoy a session filled with talk tracks from the beginnings of @djresoul as a member of the Downtown Lyrics crew (one of the only HipHop crews in former DDR/GDR check for info on these also the permanent exhibition in the Humboldt Forum - https://www.humboldtforum.org/de/programm/term...

Welcome y’all to our 61st instalment of the Fonia Radio Show and with that to our special mega package to celebrate the 10th anniversary of our show. We would have never thought that out of the one-off idea to just play our favourite jazz records in a radio station would become a regular show not to mention a show with so many guests!! When we prepared for this special anniversary show we, again,...

Welcome to the 60th instalment of the Fonia Radio Show. We looked for this special number for a special guest and were happy and thrilled to meet with DJ, selector, collector, artist, traveller and teddy bear doctor Daniel W. Best(@bestworks) right in the center of Berlin. As this (second weird in a row) year turns slowly to an end it was our special pleasure to talk with Daniel about all those ex...

We present in our show: TIMSON from Jena City alias @timsoncrime. As a kid he listened to so many styles of music, his mother gave him compact discs but instead he bought a lot of vinyl. We are proud to give him two hours of space in our radio show, so enjoy various styles of beats from the guy who grew up in the Kassablanca Jena. Mastering by @stachy Tracklist – selected, dubbed and mixed by Tims...

We welcomed in our radio show: ESO! from Berlin. The artist's name stands for „Das Elektronische Schwingkreis Orchester“. It is the project of composer, music producer, bass player, disc jockey and journalist Joerg Henning(@terribleinc) and sound engineer, vinyl cutter, and mastering specialist Frederic Stader(@djmaxximus). In autumn 2020 both released the album "AM, AUF UND IM WASSER" on LYT Reco...

We present in our show: ZAMBON from @polishcutouts. The Idea behind The Very Polish Cut-Outs: presentation and promotion of polish 70s and 80s music all over the world through releasing different compilations, mixes and by putting it in a new context trough editing. So cute that we had an interesting talk with Zambon, the originator of the label. As a polish dj & producer originally from Jelenia G...

On one of those beautiful sunny days were pigeons make out and families of foxes stroll to the next beach, we had a long-distance call with Ian Simmonds (@ian-simmonds), straight out of Brighton. Ian talked with us about all the things which are on top of his mind these days, new releases how to survive as an active artist in days of lockdown and we chatted a bit around his experiences in and with...

In our first session after the lockdown, we welcomed IN THE STUDIO (again) @Spindyrella from Leipzig! Friendly weather, friendly guests, friendly drinks and so we enjoyed a friendly chat all around mysterious record collectors, early days in zoos and many many other things! Enjoy the well-curated mix, this one pairs splendidly with this great summertime all around. This all would probably not have...

From a small village in the thuringian forest @kAUBL conquers the world with a taste of dub and afro beats. In his youth he started listening to metal and then quickly discovered the deep bass. Numerous synonyms followed and all ended in a musical cooking pot, from which he made a label called Glenn Dancer (@glenn-dancer-records). Check his afro tunes and rare grooves directly from his vinyl colle...

In the last session in the year 2019, we welcomed Costa from Halle in the studio. Born in Königsee he discovered the world of music and all their styles with his first Technics HiFi System. As a person grown-up with Drum n Bass Costa explains in our show his roots and proves his choice with a real eclectic DJ mix consisting of endless varieties of music. Besides his busy work life, he manages a re...

The days get shorter and all around us turn a little chillier as it seems these days ... Our answer: a live vinyl set in the radio studio. The topic: one of our most favorite - Jazz in all its variations. The journey: a musical trip around the world. Jazz, not as the great redeemer, but as a window, a caleidoscope - just as colorful as this world can be. Enjoy the show! Playlist: =================...

We met Lucas Croon in April and from that moment on we decided to visit him in person. In the middle of this beautiful summer, we went to Düsseldorf to breathe in a breeze of music after 20 years. Voila, here comes a new FONIA radio show. Listen up, because we think there are very interesting musical developments to discover here since Kraftwerk, Rheingold and La Düsseldorf. Stabil Elite (@stabile...

Drum roll!! For our 50th show, we welcomed Alex Pehlemann. Alex, born in Berlin-Lichtenberg switched a career as a ringer for the army club "Vorwärts" Frankfurt/Oder with the wild world of pop culture in the GDR. Since 1993 he publishes the "Zonic", the magazine for "Kulturelle Randstandsblicke & Involvierungsmomente" and travels (very often eastwards) from Leipzig/Connewitz into the world, always...

For the last show in 2018 we welcomed in the studio Dusty Maik from Leipzig! Maik who runs SORRADIO and SOLID ROTATION together with Gabriel, Wuh and Jules @solid-rotation is also 1/2 of the pad-orchestra VOKODE @vokode, 33.3% of SUPERFIT @superfitski and resident at MJUT (http://mjut.me). He brought with him an eclectic selection of his favourite vinyls together with friends, smiles and a ton of...

Welcome to the 48th fonia radio session. Pretty late in the super hot summer 2018 we met in the nice bar "HALLO MACHEN" with for chats laughs and some music! Anadol, the name after has been taken from an old-fashioned turkish car brand, is an instrumental synth-pop project by Gözen Atila, an artist, dj and keyboard player based in Berlin. She did a radio show for Açık Radyo 94.9 (@koltukcular-c-km...

For the last show in the year 2017, the holidays just around the corner and so with a somewhat mellow mood and mind we welcomed in the radio show (@lutz-hartmann) for some smokey beers (yea, that Schlenkerla from Bamberg). We talked with Lutz about his musical journey – starting with jazz played by his grandfather – via dji’ing and mixing to producing and running an own label (oldnew records - @ol...

It was on one of those friday's again! :-) One bottle of rather splendid vodka, two crates full of obscure, psych, jazz und sounds and a radio station at our disposal - and so it went. Enjoy two hours filled with back to back obscure vinyl spinning by Inannia & Foolong. Thank you all for listening. Be good to yourself!

The story starts with the fonia radio show 25 - that was the initial spark that lights the show you can hear here today. No fakes and as close to the original as possible, so basically the opposite what usually happens if @stachy takes on a track and grinds that one through the sound mincer ... It is a kind of proof of heritage for @stachy, as he has never really been a "jazz-dj" (but what does it...

On a beautiful spring evening we invited DJ Coins (https://www.facebook.com/coins.eins) to visit us in the OKJ radio studio. We had a friendly chat with him all around art (graffiti), fashion (Are clothing) and his various involvements into music projects . After all that talking DJ Coins played an outstanding set of finest beats and hiphop. Thank you all for listening! And check out Dj Coins labe...

On a cold afternoon close to christmas we met with Pete Onthecorner (@onthecornerrecords) in a noisy little asian restaurant in London for tea and looong chats all around his way from an anthropological music collector, over being a worker for a human rights organization in Africa to a founder of an own record label. We talked for hours, but had to squeeze all that into a small q&a to leave room f...

Sometimes one is just not enough, right? Following our never-ending craving for stories told by sounds we invited for the last show in 2015 DJ Légères. Again (we had him in the studio about a year ago for the first time)we had the fun to spend an entire session with him in the radio studio as he took us to an acoustic travel around the world in 2 hours. We hope you will enjoy the ride! Thank you a...

Welcome to the 35th installment of the fonia radio show. This time we turned once more to asia with the focus on ... Singapore! Since we knew only few things from earlier visits to Singapore like chili crabs and parks and stuff, so the more questions we had for our special guest: Dean, aka Funk Bast*rd (@funk-bast-rd)designer, architect and a founding member of the record label Darker Than Wax (@d...