Border Blaster Radio #5 today!
December 17, 2015
Thursday/Viernes 17.12.2015
When: 4-6PM (MX)
Listen: Stream
here
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Where: Centro de Cultura Digital,
Paseo de Reforma s/n Esquina Lieja, Cuauhtemoc, Juárez, 06600 Ciudad de México, D.F.
Who: Diego Aguirre (Escuchatorio, CCD), Lucia Anaya (Boiler Room MX, Vice MX), Norma Patricia Pineda (Mutec MX), Monica Saldaña (Nrml Festival), Alfonso Muriedas (Nrml Festival), Sara Lehn, Chicharron
Public & Free: yes!
Show #3 “Wie der daliegt, der Kunde”
December 7, 2015
live fm transmission & sell out outside/inside Goethe Institut –
Friday 11.12.2015
Goethe Institute Mexico D.F.
w/Sara Lehn, Chicharron, Atz Theke
Border Blaster con Getto Blaster vs Goethe Blaster con Getto Institut?
How do you get into Goethe Institut? Maybe only via so called German culture. So we brought some.
Border Blaster #3 Goethe Institut Show
December 4, 2015
#2 Cultural Science Fiction NOFM Hack
December 2, 2015
show #1
November 26, 2015
border blaster ¿que passolino?
November 23, 2015
Eine Welt aus Hack presents itself as a hub for a wandering community of musicians, performers, and curators whose work moves between Berlin, Leipzig, Hamburg, and cities far beyond Germany. The site gathers a wide roster of artists and projects, treating live concerts, recorded releases, exhibitions, and festival appearances as part of one shared activity. Rather than organizing itself around a single sound or format, it functions more like an ongoing bulletin board where each tour stop, residency, or collaboration is documented and made available to anyone curious enough to look. The tone throughout is informal and accumulative, suggesting that the value of the platform lies less in polished presentation than in the steady rhythm of updates, announcements, and reflections on what has just happened and what is still to come.
Within this broader framework, the archive plays a quietly important role by preserving traces of earlier events. Old tour posters, press images, videos, and short texts accumulate in a chronological stack that visitors can scroll through at their own pace. Because the project values process as much as outcome, the archive does not aim to be a tidy retrospective; instead, it behaves like a working journal, capturing the messy reality of organizing concerts, handling last-minute changes, and learning from each iteration. Readers interested in a particular artist or city can wander through these older entries and piece together their own narrative about how certain collaborations first came together.
Radio transmissions have become one of the recurring formats through which the network extends its reach. Broadcasts such as Border Blaster are framed as cross-border conversations rather than conventional music shows, mixing live performance, recorded material, and on-air discussion between invited guests. The format invites participants from different cities to share local scenes with an international audience, often in real time and from unusual venues. By treating the microphone as a meeting point between places, the project highlights how musical communities in one country can be meaningfully shaped by sounds, scenes, and conversations happening elsewhere, and how radio remains a flexible medium for those kinds of encounters.
Live events, whether they take the shape of an intimate concert, a noisy festival set, or a more conceptual presentation, are described with an emphasis on atmosphere and context. Notes often mention the room, the audience, and the surrounding program rather than focusing solely on the artists on stage. Some events are explicitly framed as experiments, where the lineup, the format, or the collaboration itself is part of the point. This approach encourages visitors to read the announcements as invitations into a specific situation rather than as straightforward advertisements, and it gives a sense of how the organizers think about the relationship between performance, place, and the people who show up to take part.
Underlying all of this is a sense that the work is collective and ongoing, built gradually through relationships that stretch across regions and disciplines. The site regularly references guest lists, friends of the project, and collaborators who contribute in small or occasional ways, suggesting an open structure where new participants are welcome. Rather than presenting a closed brand identity, the platform documents a process of exchange between musicians, visual artists, writers, and organizers who share resources and audiences. For readers, the result is less a static archive and more a living record of a network in motion, continually reshaped by the people and projects passing through it.
