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Our WW Melbourne rotation continues with Prequel for a two hour show. Tune in as he delivers his first WWFM show for 2019 with a lovely dose of newly discovered Jazz treats, recent Hip-Hop drops, some choice Australian selections, a few brief stops in Detroit and some Rhythm Section representation. As a DJ, Prequel’s love of sharing carefully researched music is only matched by his ever present enthusiasm. He wears his musical heart on his sleeve and creates a unique and memorable experience whenever and wherever he plays.      

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Our Daily show, hosted by Papaoul (Gabriel Francis) on Mondays and Fridays and Erica McKoy on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. In one hour, catch up with the latest sessions, music, news and guests in our flagship WW Daily show.

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Monthly 2-hour show from Carlos Icaza of the Mexican group La Redada. Carlos plays music from Ecuador on the 1st hour and continues with Latin / Mexican music and a never revealed before Brasilian mix.

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Emily Hill AKA MLE is part of the team behind Rhythm Section and International Black, keeping things ticking over at the labels and helping to curate their regular club nights.  Growing up surrounded by grass fields and perpetual boredom, MLE spent much of her formative years escaping to the virtual realm, exploring the endless depths of electronic music and digital culture that early Web 2.0 had to offer. An early interest into music came from playing piano, clarinet and drums; informing her current eclectic taste that takes you from breaks & bass, to New Yorkian leftfield, to clanging Drexian electro. MLE brings her love of weird party bangers together with a warrior spirit aimed at breaking down gender imbalance within dance music. A true party instigator, MLE’s talent and dedication is remarkable, and her growth as an artist and selector shows no signs of stopping anytime soon.

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London-based jazz saxophonist and electronic music producer from Saudi Arabia, Leila Samir hosts a monthly hour featuring experimental sounds from the Middle East alongside jazz and genre-bending music.

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Our Daily show, hosted by Papaoul (Gabriel Francis) on Mondays and Fridays and Erica McKoy on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. In one hour, catch up with the latest sessions, music, news and guests in our flagship WW Daily show.

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Monthly show from Kyoto, Japan’s original capital city, presented by Sara Aiko, the founder and creative director of Curated Kyoto. She is joined by Kay Young, Masaki Tamura and Yukari BB.  

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Min June Park aka DJ Soulscape, one of the best known and most respected DJs in South Korea, has been arranging and composing music under a whole other persona since as early as 2000.

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On Day 8 of broadcasting from The Rio, we have Leanne Wright as our host. She is joined by Clémentine, Steve Spacek and the organiser of Sète-Los Angeles exhibition Charlie in conversation. We are recording our shows and gathering at Le Rio Mediterranée everyday at 1PM (CEST). Come and join us.

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This coming Friday, Straight No Chaser’s Paul Bradshaw is in the WWFM studio with Crudo Volta founder and Art Director Mike Calandra Achode, Gqom Oh! DJ and label owner Nan Kolè and writer Christian Adofo. Following their first two documentaries Woza and Yenkyi – which focused respectively on Gqom in Durban and Afrobass in Accra – the visual collective Crudo Volta have just returned to the UK to promote a new series called Taxi Waves. In the mix are three excellent, beautifully constructed and culturally illuminating documentary films that focus on modern, urban African music in three very different African cities: Lagos (Nigeria), Maputo (Mozambique) and Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). Tune in to get an insight into the future!

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Monthly show from Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy, founder of Classic Album Sundays and the David Mancuso-indebted Lucky Cloud Loft Party in London.

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On Day 7 of our daily broadcasts from The Rio in Sète, we have Erica McKoy, Anders and Lekin as our hosts. They are joined by DJ Khalab for a special live session and François Commeinhes (Major of Sète), Roni and Gabrielle Kwarteng. We are recording our shows and gathering at Le Rio Mediterranée everyday at 1PM (CEST). Come and join us.

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DJ and music journalist Papaoul (aka Gabriel Francis) is in the studio exploring some new sounds from and inspired by Latin America. Expect everything from downtempo folktronica to future baile.

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International Tribe is a weekly mix series hosted by Thris Tian. This week’s International Tribe mix comes from Lucy Locket of Equaliser Leeds.  Equaliser is a Leeds-based DJ collective that aims to nurture and promote the talent of all women, trans men, and non-binary people. They host monthly, free-to-access DJ workshops for non-cis men, helping to highlight new talent and offering access to an intimate, safer space to practice and learn. Equaliser uses their platform to create open conversations, challenge and teach perceptions of gender within music, with an aim to create safer music spaces that everyone can be equal in. Stepping up for the Equaliser Leeds International Tribe mix is Lucy Locket. She is a resident at Love Muscle in Leeds, runs DJ workshops for womxn, non-binary and trans people through Equaliser, plays for Homoelectric in Manchester/ London on the odd occasion and in her words “spend too much money on Disco 12”s.”

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We’ve reached Day 6 of our 8 day broadcasts from The Rio at Sète including guests from Worldwide Festival Sète 2019. Today, The show is presented by Global Roots and he is joined by Carista, Superpoze and Turbojazz for a chat and mini mix. We are recording our shows and gathering at Le Rio Mediterranée everyday at 1PM (CEST). Come and join us.

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Weekly show with Lefto, the Brussels based selector and Studio Brussels host.

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On Day 5 of our Worldwide Festival Sète 2019 broadcasts from The Rio, we have Alexis Blondel and Haseeb Iqbal as our guests. They will be joined by Mr. Scruff and Leroy Burgess. We are also joined by Gilles Peterson and Flora Purim as a surprise! Tune in for their chat about Flora’s musical journey. We are recording our shows and gathering at Le Rio Mediterranée everyday at 1PM (CEST). Come and join us.

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Fortnightly show from Berlin, exploring the city’s vibrant music scene and nightlife, featuring exiled and original Berliners bringing live mixes and interviews. Lucifour M Lucifour M is a four-piece band whose multifaceted and multidimensional music features many references to cinematic works. Thus, the four musicians point to parallels between the stylistic devices of director Bruno Dumont and their own musical approach which they like to resume as follows: “It’s like standing on the verge of abyss, as if peering deeply into the eyes of the impossible.” Furthermore, the story behind the development of the band’s name has strong connections to the film “Lucifer Rising” by director Kenneth Anger. Still, the band mentions Pink Floyd’s song“Lucifer Sam” as main inspiration when it comes to the foundation myth of Lucifour M.All this reveals how wide the band’s cosmos is and how much they defy classic genre associations. Additionally, the quartet’s name works as an allusion to the fact that all our members’ forenames start with the letter ‘M’. The two musicians Michele Ducci and Marco Frattini have already been playing together as “M+A” for a while when they had the chance to perform as opening act for Bryan Ferry at Glastonbury Festival. It was there in the backstage that the idea of founding Lucifour M as a full band came into being when Ducci played new sketches of songs to Frattini. In the further course Michele Manzo (bass, guitar and keys) und Mattia Dallara (samplers and keys) should come to the project and complete the band as a quartet. The main recordings of Lucifour M’s debut EP “L4M” which will be released on Sonar Kollektiv in September 2019 have been made in spring 2018 within the scope of three extensive studio sessions where the four have recorded live versions of their jamming and playing. Subsequently, they further edited these parts until all the music material connected organically as two full concept EPs. All four members of the band can count on a solid and strong experience in both production and live performances.

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As we’ve reached Day 4 on our daily broadcasts from Worldwide Festival Sète 2019, we have a Rhythm Section Takeover with Prequel, Dawit Eklund and Bradley Zero. We are recording our shows and gathering at Le Rio Mediterranée everyday at 1PM (CEST). Come and join us.

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On the third day of daily Worldwide Festival Sète 2019 broadcasts from The Rio in Sète, our hosts are Sophie Callis and Simbad. They are joined by China Moses. We are recording our shows and gathering at Le Rio Mediterranée everyday at 1PM (CEST). Come and join us.

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Drummers Inc. is a weekly series, giving our favourite drummers a platform to showcase their favourite rhythms. This week is headed up by Tom Skinner AKA Hello Skinny, a DJ, producer and percussionist in Sons of Kemet and Owiny Sigoma Band.

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Toshio Matsuura presents his fortnightly two hour music program, WW Tokyo. One of the founding members of the U.F.O. (United Futures Organisation), Toshio has remained a leader in the Tokyo nightlife scene for years. WW Tokyo is live from WIRED HOTEL ASAKUSA. Toshio will be joined by DJ and producer Masato Komatsu (Slowly) for a mix and the Japanese multi-genre artist duo Small Circle of Friends (STUDIO75) for a live set.  

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We continue our daily Worldwide Festival Sète 2019 broadcasts with Ruby Savage and Alex Intas coming to you from Le Rio, Sète, France. They are joined by 30/70 and Nicola Cruz. We are recording our shows and gathering at Le Rio Mediterranée everyday at 1PM (CEST). Come and join us.

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Founded by radio host, music producer, label owner and journalist, Colleen “Cosmo” Murphy, Classic Album Sundays allows listeners to fully immerse themselves into an album by exploring its context, the making of and a full replay of the album on vinyl. This month, Classic Album Sundays presents Grace Jones’ “Slave To The Rhythm”. Slave to the Rhythm is an audio biography of Grace Jones produced by Trevor Horn, it’s a sonic treat along the lines of Yes’s 90125 or Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s first album. The music ranges from slick R&B runaway grooves to striking audio montages, interrupted occasionally by conversation about Jones’s life.

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Rocco Pandiani (founder of Right Tempo Records) and Painè Cuadrelli (Compl8 Produzioni) present Mono Jazz, two hours centred on jazz from the 1950s to the present day. They are joined by Vittorio Barabino and Max ‘Jazzcat’ Conti in the mix.  

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Monthly show from London music platform Stamp the Wax, headed up by Editor-in-Chief Aaron L. He is joined by the Swedish house DJ duo, Mount Liberation Unlimited.

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Haseeb Iqbal, poet, DJ and presenter of DIY podcast platform, Mare Street Records, brings you his monthly show on Worldwide FM. Combining conversation, with musical figureheads from various different scenes, alongside a deep-rooted exploration of the music that is precious to them, his two hour show of wholesome discussion and eclectic sounds is bound to take the listener on a compelling and rich cultural journey. This month Haseeb is joined by Norwegian saxophonist, Bror Havnes, who makes up one seventh of Oslo-based, West African funk-influenced outfit, Flammer Dance Band. The pair discuss the riveting, up-and-coming live music scene in Oslo and the influences it incorporates, fusing breakdancing and graffiti culture alongside hip-hop, jazz, funk and more. They explore the current sounds emerging from the depths of Oslo, Bror’s personal discography and the worldwide influences that have filtered into his sound. Avidly collecting records from the age of just 12, Bror probes his thirst for music from all across the globe, speaking about a recent three-month solo pilgrimage of India in search for some of the richest South Asian sounds that exist, acquiring over 200 Indian and Pakistani records along the way.

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Worldwide Festival Sète 2019 has just started with a stellar line up as always. Tune in to hear the opening show recorded live at Theatre de la Mer with Gilles Peterson, Global Roots and Erica McKoy. They will be joined by Rashad “Ringo” Smith, Virgil Abloh and more on the Theatre de la Mer. 

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As we start our daily Worldwide Festival Sète 2019 broadcasts, we have Gilles Peterson and Lefto hosting the first show coming to you from Le Rio, Sète, France. We are recording our shows and gathering at Le Rio Mediterranée everyday at 1PM (CEST). Come and join us.

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