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title: "Barking Cats Radio"
authors: ["nikomas.md"]
abstract: "I/Os routed, Sound Checked. Begin Transmission."

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It is too early to run a full exploration into the new project, but as the schedule settles down, and the residents and guests begin to build their envisioned hours, we will watch the blooming of this particular flower.

For now, we wish Barking Cats Radio the brightest future, as it is hard to put in just a few words, how important these investments and hubs and platforms are for music scenes. Techno and Rave culture are translocal subcultures, varying in manifestation around the world, but unionised in underlying ideologies. Berlin and Detroit are different, but they both share the techno >form<, and the variants of techno forms around the world fuse together into a far reaching cultural network. Local scenes interweave with international, and the international techno electronic movement depends on each microcosm opening up, and radiating or transmitting their response to the original echo. Broadcasting is a major part of how this larger network communicates, and it is unimaginably important that some people have taken up the difficult task of setting up, not just a series of sets or streams, but a 24/7, 7 days a week transmission; a permanent, uninterrupted, multidirectional flow of cultural information stored within the aesthetics of the music we breathe in, and breathe out. We take tracks from Berlin, Romania, America, and we absorb the contained ideologies and values just like our bodies extract oxygen in the air we breathe. We exhale modified air, we exhale modified culture. Those tracks and ideas we take are ‘re- pressed’, or re-figured in our format. The kick remains constant, but the context evolves, and the global techno cyborg audience use the replicated form of the kick and snare to understand what defines the uniqueness of our techno. It is the peripherals that define our approach, and that define us.

They always say that Hip-Hop is a culture, a lifestyle, and that different people hip-hop in different ways. It is the same with Techno. We “Techno” in Cyprus. In this sense, the radio becomes a call to their response, or our own attempt to reach out and say “hey, we are here, and we have the techno. Is anyone out there? Is anyone with us?”
