Music and going around the world and time

teresa peixe
15 de mar. de 2017
2 min de leitura

In 2012, French DJ and artist Benjamin Moreau, having a stroll around the Riviera, in his father’s collection car and, like he said to the New Yorker: “When my fingers came across the old radio in that astonishing wood panel and turned it on a terrible wave of commercial music came out, throwing away the time when we used to “travel””

That moment led to the idea of how great it would be to be able to choose the music, not by genre or complex algorithms, but as part of time and space.

He presented this concept to his friend and music producer Raphaël Hamburger, who already had a wide collection of music from all around the world, and together they created the Radiooooo company. The five repetitions of the word are linked and justified by every continent, and from all of them there is music to be heard.

They turned to crowdfunding, so they would be able to launch the website, and are assisted by highly specialized music nerds. “The curators make sure that the archives have high-fidelity and the music fits in with the Radiooooo aesthetics, which is difficult to define. The music is selected using how we feel when we start to listen to it as criteria. [We pay attention to] the song’s ability to touch us instantaneously, in a completely subjective manner. I would even say in a naive manner. We’re not trying to enforce ethno-musical criteria. We maintain those who we believe to be true musical treasures. “

Entering the website a world map is presented, you have only to choose a country and a decade from the 20thC, and if you want a slow sound, fast or freaky to gain access to a broad music catalogue provided by the platform.

You will be able to discover what people in Tanzania listened to around the 70’s or Iranian music from the 50’s and then listen music after music like it would be aired in a radio station from that time. There is no permission to skip a song, in doing so you will be leaping in time and space!

Also, worth mentioning is their Instagram account, with covers and histories, both magnificent.