KURS RadioKURS Radio

KURS runs out of Kultura Record Store as a non-profit community station with an open door: the invitation on its own pages is to start hosting or volunteer, and the grid fills up accordingly. Hour-long shows run most afternoons and evenings on Moscow time, and the archive files each one by the city it came from — Moscow most weeks, St Petersburg often, Minsk when someone there has something to play. Listeners keep it going through a monthly subscription and the merch table rather than advertising.

What gets played is genuinely unsettled. A recent run took in Лиза Александрова's experimental ambient, an IDM hour from mилk, underground rap on Special Herbs with Макс Луч, breakbeat from psytelligence, and a folk-electronic session recorded in St Petersburg. Shows carry names like Dawn Prophylaxis, Washing Machine, UK Dealer and Прожиточный минимал, each with its own host.