House, techno and breaks from a corner of Brooklyn.
The Lot Radio started broadcasting in February 2016 out of a shipping container parked on an unused triangular lot in north Brooklyn. Francois Vaxelaire founded it and still owns it, while Pauline Le Mell runs the programming and most of the daily operation, with Chris Cherry and Lloyd Harris directing shows alongside her. A coffee counter and a bar on the same patch of asphalt pay for the thing, and it took Best Online Radio Station in North America inside its first year, before the neighbourhood had worked out what the container was.
Everything goes out live and on camera, with no pre-recorded filler anywhere in the schedule. Plenty of touring headliners have taken the decks inside the container, alongside the New York residents who fill most of the week, and every set is archived on the station's own site once it ends, tagged by genre in its index, which is how most of them get heard.
New York, mixed in public.
