Red Light Radio is an online radio station and international music platform based in Amsterdam’s Red Light District. Since 2010 Red Light Radio broadcasts daily shows of local and international artists, does parties & concerts and collaborations with festivals, museums & other cultural partners all over the world.
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All radio shows can be heard live at www.redlightradio.net and the mobile app. The main goal of the station is spreading underground music gems. The station broadcasts approximately 40 different live shows every week. These are streamed live and are available on demand on the website and RLR Mixcloud page. Through the years RLR built a global community with music lovers and fans.
Location
The location of the radio studio is in a former brothel in the heart of Amsterdam's Red Light District. They share the building with many Amsterdam creatives and the record stores Red Light Records & Vintage Voudou. The radio studio is right behind a window between the prostitutes at the Oudekerksplein, next to Amsterdam's oldest building, the Oude Kerk.
Since 2011, Red Light Radio travels with a mobile studio to broadcast from different locations. There have been dozens of collaborations with cultural partners and events. There have been live broadcasts from parties, museums, festivals and other spaces. Next to Holland, the station has visited China, Russia, USA, Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden & Turkey for several radio broadcasts and events.
Guests
Over the years Red Light Radio had many international guests at their station including live sessions & DJ-sets by Allah-Las, Andrew WK, Charanjit Singh, Chelsea Wolfe, Connan Mockasin, Death, Dirty Fences, Homeboy Sandman, J Mascis, Joey Anderson, John Cooper Clarke, Jonwayne, Joy Orbison, Mac DeMarco, Marcellus Pittman, Max D, Wooden Shjips, Nisennenmondai, NOFX, Nothing, Optimo, Peaking Lights, Randomer, Ron Morelli, Seth Troxler, Shabazz Palaces, Silent Servant, Solar, Suuns, Suzanne Kraft, The Gaslamp Killer, The Shrine, The Soft Moon, Traxx, Vakula, Veronica Vasicka, Viet Cong & Wooden Wisdom.
Awards
In 2015 Red Light Radio won Mixcloud's Best Online Radio Station award and visited the International Radio Festival in Zürich in August 2015.