Radio Blau

Radio Blau isn't background music. It's a statement. In a country whose radio is often locked in predictable formats, this Leipzig-based station swims against the current. Listen to Radio Blau live and you'll hear DJs pulling records from every corner, Krautrock, post-punk, ambient, tropicalia, free jazz. The programming is entirely freeform; one moment you're lost in a Can groove, the next a field recording from a Berlin U-Bahn station. It's messy. That's the point. Music radio Germany hardly ever gets this unpredictable. The station runs as a collective, with volunteers hosting shows that re…