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Guus Christian presents Living In The Light. Let’s move to better times together. Dance music serves a greater purpose than purely hedonistic escapism. Let’s find togetherness, joy, strength, love and wisdom in dance music, new and old. Because we need it, now more than ever. www.operator-radio.com

Ian Martin's music and mix are oscillating between sun and rain. He produces deep and unpredictable music. Love, sadness, and euphoria. www.operator-radio.com

Comrade Winston presents Glasnost, a radio show focussed on winding down after a weekend of club heavy music. Expect downtempo music: ambient, soundscapes, 90 IDM electronica, acoustic music. Tune in, zone out. www.operator-radio.com

Joy, has graced renowned Brazilian projects like Mamba Negra, Gop Tun, Mareh and so on. She weaves genre-defying narratives with dynamic beats and acid timbres, taking us to a high-energy dance floor experience spanning dub, techno, house and breaks. www.operator-radio.com

As I like to feel the vibe just before my set, I never fully know what I’m going to play. It can be happy and uplifting, or darker depending on the mood and even if the sun is out or not :) With the festival season coming to an end and the club season starting again, I think it’s a nice moment to make a crossover between the two. I’ll definitely be playing some of my unreleased tracks, together wi...

Each month, DJ Ray Escobar dives into the roots and branches of groove — tracing everything born from jazz. From soulful hip-hop and disco rarities to Caribbean riddims and West-African rhythms, his sets connect eras and continents in an eclectic blend you rarely hear elsewhere. Expect a sonic journey where new discoveries meet forgotten gems, driven by pure love for rhythm, culture, and connectio...

A vinyl-only journey through deep, raw and hypnotic techno, moving at a slower pace while preserving a strong sense of tension and movement. Built around rolling grooves, subtle percussion and hypnotic harmonies, the set focuses on depth, atmosphere and a natural flow between records — allowing the music to evolve gradually without losing its intensity. Warm, physical and immersive, it’s a selecti...

A deep dive in house, both Paulo Sea and dj daze delivering their take on the Body Heat sound www.operator-radio.com

A show focusing on leathereza’s current discoveries and moods. Going from progressive tech/house to deep and intense energy. Always structured by sustained rhythmic. www.operator-radio.com

State Of The Ether is a bi-monthly radio show on Operator Radio. Its focus lies on all things body music. Aiming to showcase artists on the axis Rotterdam ↔ Leipzig. Unreleased, unfinished and not quite thought out tracks are thrown into the mix. MX Terrible Sound collagist MX Terrible, originally from Poland, focuses on creation of a sonic archive alongside a personal one: a deep excavation of mu...

A monthly show focusing on Mowgli’s more moody and out-there tracks. Take a ride through this concrete jungle full of surprises. From stripped-down electronics melancholia through weird synths and analog rhythms. www.operator-radio.com

"Chronicles Of Lazaland" gives you a sneak peek into the world of Producer/DJ LAZA, and takes you on a journey into the rhythms within. Will be covering anything from jazz/breakbeat to house/electronic styles and beyond. Besides special guests, also expect new unreleased works as well as previous releases from favourite artists, friends and LAZA himself. www.operator-radio.com

Moving between weight, space and playfulness, Lulà Luna brings back her signature sound. Rooted in soundsystem culture, low end, pressure, space, but with a rhythm that pushes forward into motion. Organic textures move through it, turning psychedelic. Underneath it all, a sensuality that lives in the tension between space and pressure, playful, teasing, never quite settling into one or the other....

Patchouli is something you either love or hate. Earthy, warm, and sentimental, Oliva weaves slow-burning tracks into a grounding listening moment filled with charm. www.operator-radio.com

V2_, Lab for the Unstable Media is an interdisciplinary center for art and media technology in Rotterdam (the Netherlands). V2_ presents, produces, archives, and publishes research at the interface of art, technology, and society. Founded in 1981, V2_ offers a platform for artists, designers, scientists, researchers, theorists, and developers of software and hardware from various disciplines to di...

In addition to giving in-depth info on aired songs, artists/composers who have made or are making music in the field of electro-acoustics, new world, neo-classical and with a humanistic or world-conscious message will be interviewed during 'The Early Current'. www.operator-radio.com

Finally!! De Dodenrit returns. Two DJ's, one language. Sonny Forelli and Zwits come together once again as their iconic Dutch duo. They will be playing two hours full of weird and cool songs from the lowlands. Artwork by: John F. Dickweed www.operator-radio.com

Under his Winterdagen moniker, composer & producer Mink Steekelenburg creates piano- and electronic music. Next to his releases as Winterdagen, Steekelenburg has been making his name composing music for film, theatre & dance and museums. The Winterdagen Operator show has always been a playground for the Rotterdam-based musician to explore newly found music. Over the years, Winterdagen’s DJ sets ha...

Expect to experience a deep dive into electro, breaks, house and some acid bleeps and bloops. A thought out mix of vinyl records for you to enjoy! www.operator-radio.com

A show built for late night movement and restless focus, drifting between heavy low-end experimentation and some dancefloor curiosities. www.operator-radio.com

Yadin Moha explores the vague spaces in between dance and not-dance. www.operator-radio.com

One hour of personal Dynamic D favorites live at Operator! www.operator-radio.com

Philosopher and writer Walter Benjamin evoked the figure of the ragpicker, the itinerant worker who collects scraps, shards and unwanted items, to describe a particular relationship to the past. The ragpicker combines forgotten, discarded fragments of the past to make something new xf something collage-like and juxtaposed. In contrast the curator attempts to reconstruct a pure, idealised image of...

Join Nick this week as he covers for Just Felix on a morning show where he’ll dive into the soundscapes of his favourite games, films, anime (and cultures). This month we explore the cafe. Expect a mix of ambience, asmr as he plays recordings, archive footage, and music centred around food and cafe culture. See you on the pass. www.operator-radio.com