Radio Tapas

Sick of whiny hip-hop? ‘Ooooh, I don’t beloooong, I’m an ooooutcast’, they moan. In this one-minute-fortynine-seconds of radio, Craig Shuftan argues that all modern artist live on the fringe, but explains that it wasn’t always so.

These little packages are my favourite thing on triple j. You’re driving along, or doing the dishes or having a nap, and all of a sudden you’re thinking about the role of the artist in revolutionary France. You get to have an intellectual moment in the middle of your mundane day, a minute to remind yourself, ‘hey, I’ve got an awesome brain, maybe I should use it some time’.

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Reasons to love radio #463: “on good nights, I can get North Africa”.

It’s such a romantic idea… tune in your short-wave, talk to people on the other side of the world. I know the internet does the same thing, but it doesn’t seem as special as some 10-year-old randomly spinning the dial for whole evenings. I guess for him, it was a surprise to find something, and he wouldn’t have known what he’d get that night. Me, I expect to find exactly what I look for, and to have my search completed in less than 0.27 seconds.

My wanderings are directed by me; his were deliciously random.

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