The summer is here in mainland Europe and we Berliners are facing a solid heatwave with over 38 degrees in the shade. To get through the heat with some laidback selection we invited DJ Zhao for this edition of the Riddims Tropicale radioshow. He came by for a cold beer, a aged rum on the rocks and a handfull of amazing tunes from Africa and the Caribbean – Kizomba, Zouk, Dancehall, Reggaeton, UKFunky..
Btw.: We are in the middle of the Soca summer season with carnivals in St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Barbados and Grenada. Soca heads and bacchanalists watch out for a special edition of the MashUp Show loaded with nu tunes. We are also working on a proper archive for both shows.
This weeks show features some of the sweetests sounds hitting the airwaves out of St Vincent & The Grenadines. We also drop you Chardanai’s first release for the 2k10 season, called “Get Loose”, so keep an eye out for this UK songstress, you’ve been warned! The second part is where my podcast goes back on course featuring nothing but hype!!
New edition of our podcast show Riddims Tropicale. In June we fully focus on the township music from South-Africa: Kwaito and Kwaito House. Enjoy 120min of nice vibes!
Host: Marflix
We are getting ready for our main event and fete of the year – Berlin Carnival aka Karneval der Kulturen. The truck rolls on sunday at the big roadmarch, but our fete is on Saturday, the night before.
Hendrik, Benny and crew put a nice line-up together:
April edition of the MashUp Show successor Riddims Tropicale presented by TropicalBass.com hosted by Marflix. This 2h show is packed with fresh music: Kuduro and Cumbia from the Caribbean, UKFunky, Soca, Tropical Bass,House, Electric Dancehall and more cool stuff..
Second edition of the Riddims Tropicale mix / radioshow, hosted by Marflix.
Brand nu tunes from different tropical genres like Dancehall, Soca, UK Funky, House, Cumbia, Kuduro and more.. Presented by TropicalBass.com.
Like earlier mentioned the MashUp Show will come to an end.
It was the very first internet radioshow and podcast for Soca and Caribbean music. Plus the very first show for World Bass / Tropical – years before the genre came into existance.
I am not even sure when it exactly started.. I guess somewhere around 2003 (our archive-guy and irc-logger Frosch might help us out here), first on my own server, than later on streamed via streamguys/rastamusic, reggaeradio.info and bigvibes. Since 2005 the show is hosted on the mighty Raggakings.net .
The first shows I did on my own, but soon Mudds (of Constant Pressure Supa Soca, one of the legendary soca sounds in Germany) joined the show. Since we were hosted on Raggakings, it turned to a weekly show with podcast download.
In October 2005 Hendrik joined the show.
Mudds left the MashUp Show in 2008, and Danny joined the team.
We had a lot of fun the last years, many litres of rum went dung our thirsty throats. Anyway, thank you to all listeners for patience and love! Special bigup to the IRC-Chat Posse on #dhm and #raggakings.
There will be an archive with all available shows soon – I’ll keep you posted.
So here is the deal: on 2st of Jan. there will be a final show with Hendrik, Danny and myself (hey Mudds, come over we have cold drinks!). It will be a best-of show with our greatest anthems.
