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Montrouve returns to Operator Radio for another listening session. This time I’m sharing music I listen to at home, sounds that have shaped my taste, and a little of what you can expect from Montrouve on October 18th at De Kunstfabriek in Rotterdam. Expect soulful classics, warm grooves, jazz and sounds from different corners of the world. Music I come back to, live with and carry into my sets. I’...

Rem Gow surprises you with beautiful and amazing sounds from all corners of the world wonderfully worked into a seamless tapestry of organic sounds, avant-garde, amazing vintage electronics, ambient/new age, experimental, minimal synth (wave), leftfield, oriental bliss, tribal & tropical treasures. www.operator-radio.com

Bringing various styles of breaky, percussive and synth heavy soundscapes binded with electro throughout. www.operator-radio.com

Established at the forefront of Tokyo’s vibrant underground club scene, mu”he has been a resident at the renowned techno club VENT Tokyo since 2018. Her broad style has been forged through long days of digging crates and stumbling upon all kinds of electronic music gems along the way. www.operator-radio.com

A lively 1 hour-long radio show about language examined through music. Your guide to the latest and greatest tunes from around the globe. Osmanbas diving into the newest releases, breaking free from the confines of one sound with another episode of 'A Way With Music' . www.operator-radio.com

Dood & Verderf is a monthly metal show on Operator. Inge Janse presents his selection of the best new metal releases from the past month. www.operator-radio.com

A 2-hour selection of jazz, folk, ambient, and library, music that inspires me and hopefully gets your day off to a good start :) www.operator-radio.com

Inspired by yearning and limerence, certain lives' show with operator explores ambient desire. how does an atmosphere summon emotional intensities? how do we move through the fog of feeling into the clarity of action? lose your head in ambient techno, disorient yourself in dubbed out rhythms, find the certainty of your desires. www.operator-radio.com

A sexy and hypnotic journey through techno, made to make you move. The mix brings together raw and deep grooves, percussion, dark atmospheres with a touch of tension and sensuality throughout. The energy slowly builds, moving between seductive, groovy moments and intense tracks. The music feels physical and immersive, it will make you want to turn the volume up, close your eyes and dance. This set...

Gamma Intel is a Rotterdam-based DJ / producer. Releasing his own music since 2018, he appeared on labels such as brokntoys, Pinkman, and Mechatronica. He delivers a monthly selection of underground electronics at the station, such as slow beat, ambient, dub, breaks, and electro. www.operator-radio.com

A B2B rooted in deep, minimal and progressive house, moving between hypnotic grooves and more driving electronic sounds. www.operator-radio.com

A show where Dengdeng creates a frenzy of booty-shaking, head-banging and stank-facing (hopefully). A blend of dembow, baile funk, guaracha, latincore, raptor house. Some might scare the hoes. www.operator-radio.com

This mix goes into the bassy edges of Latin American club music. It's timed with the release of Carmela Electrónica, the compilation Cameron Audio curated as label manager of Carmela Collective. This platform was started in Amsterdam to give space to Latin artists living in the Netherlands and beyond, and it's the perfect timing to showcase these sounds at Operator. Expect loads of percussion, low...

'In The Gold Dust Rush' is a 2 hour show focused on the guitar driven, dubby and experimental sounds that aren't suitable for a Birds club set. With a history of being in guitar bands, Birds is no stranger to this music and her love for it runs deep. You can expect everything from shoegaze, to wave, to avant-garde pop and more. www.operator-radio.com

Blueprints for a Moving Target is Leela Rosa’s upcoming EP about being somewhere in between, with no real fixed point to return to. It follows that very twenty-something feeling of being pulled in too many directions at once: through memory, perfectionism, intimacy, alternate lives and a constant hunger for whatever might be next. For this mix, she pulls from the music around that world too: dream...

Sharing is caring. This is about (re)discovering eclectic records and their little secrets, for curious listeners only! This time, the show is about magic and healing. In times of climate crisis where people feel powerless, Môrice brings music to lift our souls. Some spiritual music, sometimes traditional and indigenous, together with jazz and a bit of hip-hop to give us power to resist and fight....

This month I invite the legendary Luigi Madonna, this man doesn't need any introduction. www.operator-radio.com

The Importer Exporter show. After a significant hiatus playing in the container, 2/4th of Buurtje’s Bob Exports the finest Imported frequency good via the ether again. IMPORT. EXPORT. www.operator-radio.com

Some good new and old school Salsa/Latin. www.operator-radio.com

air born with dirtydms www.operator-radio.com

Overall looking for a suspense between dark and warm music, with a blanket of textures or spoken word. Slow and steady. www.operator-radio.com

Menno van Gorp, known as B-Boy Menno, is a highly decorated Dutch breakdancer. He's renowned for his unique style and is the only dancer to win the Red Bull BC One World Final 4 times (2014, 2017, 2019 and 2024). He is also a Red Bull BC One All Star and has won numerous other major breaking competitions. Menno always find's his gems during his travels. And every show is filled with suprises and d...

A Love Supreme sits in between sermon and song. A combination of the great late but also the new, the underground and the contemporary spiritual jazz musicians that grace us with their presence. At the same time, dive into some of the writings, philosophies, poems of the musicians, reflect on some of their practices, their ways of being and see how we may learn from this today and incorporate it i...

A show focusing on Kris cardiaK's more heavy, sexy and hip hop tracks where the groove of Notorious BIG will blend with techno rythms, sounds and atmospheric textures. Be ready to feel sexy and flex.

This set is an invitation to slow down and get lost in a world of deep textures, hypnotic grooves and organic atmospheres. Rather than chasing constant intensity, I wanted to build a journey that evolves naturally, where every transition has its place and every track adds a new layer to the story. Expect rolling percussion, dreamy melodies, immersive soundscapes and subtle moments of tension that...