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Be prepared, the music on Essential Madness Radio is abrasive, absurd, adventurous, bizarre, crazy, dark, deviant, erroneous, experimental, freaky, hilarious, humorous, independent, inventive, original, otherworldly, quirky, strange, terrifying, weird, wild, and zany.

The overall music style is experimental, that is the avoidance of pre-manufactured formats and an interest in surprises. The overall spirit is D.I.Y. and cassette culture, that is when the urge for creative expression meets the devices at hand. Talking of genres these would possibly be: post-punk, industrial, new wave, minimal synth, ambient, Neue Deutsche Welle, theater/ballet/circus music, movie soundtrack, audio collages, plunderphonics, psychedelic, jazz, dub, hip hop, electro, and punk. Often we are in Germany and/or in the 80's. Thematically it's often about sex, drugs, computers & video games, afrofuturism, (anti-)capitalism, global apocalypse, and personal distress.

The tracks are played in random order, so some juxtapositions will certainly be banal, but occasionally stories come through. Anyways EMR will keep your ears and your brain constantly busy, and sometimes will also engage your feet.

Obviously you can play EMR with the player above. Alternatively you can use your own player (e.g. iTunes, VLC). The stream URL is https://emr.fm/stream

Essential Madness Radio is brought to you by Jörg Richter, software developer (DMX) and music head from Berlin. Every 4th Wednesday MissVergnügen (host) and I (as DJ jri) gave the Strange Songs for Strange People DJ nights at Berlin's Eschschloraque artist club (until 2020). In case you like EMR please consider sending me an email. I'd love to get in contact with great people like you. 😀 Also I'd appreciate to know your craziest yet listenable music recommendation.

Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste.
It is a process of expression.
-- Merleau-Ponty

For Essential Madness Radio Jörg Richter did 2 mashups, that is mixing 2 tracks together.

During the Vietnam war a local Vietnamese, "Hanoi Hannah", gives a demoralizing speech to the surrounding GIs, through a public address loudspeaker. Mixed with "Nachalo" by Slava Ranko (from the 1981 album "Arctic Hysteria").

Bill "Ravi" Harris plays a sitar on a James Brown-like beat, mixed with a comedy performance by The Frantics (1987). In it a martial arts teacher in Ti Kwan Leep is disturbed by a participant who is not realizing he is in the wrong workshop.

Jörg also loves to curate mixes, that is selecting and sequencing suitable pieces to build diverse but coherent journeys.

A fine selection of trip hop, dub, and breakbeat with a very dark spirit. Created 1998 for jrimixes.de (as "Load 3").

After strolling the catacombs of darkness for quite a while Jörg eventually entered the realm of light and love. This mix was created 2022 and was #1 in Mixcloud's global gospel music chart. Hallelujah! 😀

Where EMR and Jörg Richter is mentioned in other radios (in German):

Jeandado mentions EMR and DJ jri in his Mount Wobble Show #17 at Cashmere Radio (2023) and plays 2 of my recommendations, one being Haratabotu – Aufruhr im Busch, a track I've recorded 1992 (as Phil & Jörg) together with Berlin comic artist Fil. That was fun!

Johannes Wilms mentions Jörg's Anika 5 mixtape in the final show at Radio Industry (2023). @Johannes: the track you're asking about is Yopparai (A Drunkard Who Fell From Heaven) by japanese duo IQU from their album Chotto Matte a Moment! (1998). Cheers!