VIA PRESS RELEASE | Worldwide FM, the UK’s award-winning platform for underground music, today announces a brand new 4-week series The 20, presented and selected by Gilles Peterson.
Stuck in the Brownswood Basement with over 50,000 records in his collection, Gilles will use his time in lockdown to explore deep into the crates and round up 20 of his favourite songs across the stations most celebrated genres including Brit Funk (April 16th), Broken Beat (April 23rd), Brazilian Jazz (April 30th) and Disco (May 7th). This will be a career first for the selector, having never previously shared his rundown of records in these genres before. The 20 is a continuation of Worldwide FM’s passion and sense of curiosity for music, as well as working with one another to shine a light on marginalised world music and providing extraordinary access to records that are rarely heard elsewhere. Gilles will be inviting listeners to offer up their own selections too, via social media and the Worldwide FM chatline. https://worldwidefm.net/chat.html
Building on the station’s already impressive listenership, which has significantly doubled from 400k to just under 1 million monthly listeners since the UK lockdown, Worldwide FM also unveils a brand new ‘lockdown’ schedule which sees Gilles Peterson present a daily show (for the very first time in 4 years) from 9am-11am every weekday.
Highlights of the week include Morning Mari’s daily 8:45am show. Every Monday she is joined by Joshua Fletcher MBACP, MSc Counselling Psychology, the author of Anxiety: Panicking about Panic and Anxiety: Practical about Panic. He will be offering listeners helpful tips on staying calm and sane during the lockdown.
Wednesday 15th April is the start of a new show called ‘Audio Yoga’ with Colleen Cosmo Murphy Live from Colleen’s Record room, a selection to stretch out to. Other shows throughout the week come from Tokyo, Paris, Brussels, Berlin, New York, LA, Rio De Janeiro and Melbourne. Full schedule details can be found at https://worldwidefm.net/
Finally, but not least, DJ and record producer legend Louie Vega will begin his weekly shows from Monday 20th April, live and direct from New York.
About Worldwide FM | Worldwide FM is an award-winning platform for underground music, culture and stories from around the globe, founded by Gilles Peterson in September 2016. The station is based in East London, with branches in Berlin, Kyoto, Los Angeles, Paris, Rio, Tokyo and beyond. Every day we work with each other to shine a light on marginalised music, to empower movements and scenes, and create world-class audio and video with our friends across the globe. File-hosting platform WeTransfer help power the new station, whose mission statement is the same as ours—to explore and tie together the shape- shifting diversity of global creativity.
Respect and equality is the founding ethos of the station; we are committed to implementing the best practices for staff, presenters and listeners. Worldwide FM is host to some of the most knowledgeable and experienced broadcasters in the world, as well as many young cutting edge new talent. Our aim is to inform and offer unique insights and curation around the sort of music that is rarely heard elsewhere.
Now 3 years old, Worldwide FM has already won ‘Best Digital Station’ at the ARIAS radio awards and been nominated for best ‘Branded Content’ for its Japanese programming with Asahi Super Dry Beer.
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