bermuda.funkbermuda.funk

Three years of groundwork went in before bermuda.funk got on air in autumn 2000 across the Heidelberg and Mannheim region, and it has broadcast from the Alte Feuerwache on Brückenstraße ever since. It is a members' radio in the literal sense — you join to get a slot, and the board waives the fee for anyone who cannot pay — and it takes no advertising, which it says is what keeps ratings and mass taste out of the scheduling. It offers no easy listening either: rough edges, no pretence at perfection.

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