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NOVA NOVA NOVA ...toujours NOVA
Radio Nova is the first and best place
to go for a great mix of hip hop, electronic drum and bass, and
the cool beats.
You don't even have to be in Paris to listen...
if you have real audio player, you can listen to Radio
Nova Live over the www.
Cool Sounds of FIP
For a more wideranging selection of music --
selection that reaches from Jazz to chanson francaise via hip hop
and world beats -- FIP is the choice to make. And it's commercial
free, and without too much DJ chatter.
The station first appeared in 1971, when
it pioneered a new format in French radio: exclusively music with
only the occasional interruption provided by urbane female announcers
who offer up witty and slightly sarcastic commentary on the days'
news.
Through the years the station has forged
a unique identity, becoming an essential part of the Paris soundtrack.
Each day, more than 300 000 listeners have set their dials to FIP.
In Paris you can hear FIP at105.1. Or try
listening to FIP live
over the www.
Let yourself be guided by the eclectic
but always impeccable tastes of FIPs team. "La sélection
FIP" proposes 8 recent albums (2 jazz, 2 chanson francaise,
2 english-language, and 2 world music). The choice is based not
only on one or two tracks but on the album as a whole.
The Cultures of Radio Pays
Late one night while playing with my radio
dial I came across something definitely worth a listen. At 93.1
I discovered a musical mixture I'd never heard before-beautiful
songs in languages I couldn't quite identify, one after another
with no annoying publicité. An announcer just said, "Radio
Pays 93.1" and thoughtfully shut up to let the music do the
talking.
After some investigation I found out this
is an associative radio station that's been around since 1981 serving
several different cultural communities in the Ile de France region.
The station does programming specifically for people speaking Occitan,
Basque, Corse, Catalan, Breton, Alsacian and Flemish.
Since 1981, Radio Pays has worked to defend
and promote the languages and cultures of these communities. It
is the only station with a playlist that is based on the cultural
richness of France's various language groups. And it remains an
independent and non-commercial radio station that plays a whole
globe's worth of music in between. Renald, one of the all-volunteer
staff running the station says, "Radio Pays is very open to
the music of other peoples and to good music period."
It was in that spirit that late one night
I heard something Arabic, followed by something French, followed
by something Jazzy-New Age, followed by something Latin American
sounding, followed by a little Reggae dancehall French style...
Ecoute, Ecoute... all in one half-hour, no kidding. Of course, it
depends on the hour, the next morning I was treated to a lesson
in feudal history...
Anyway, turn on your radio, tune in 93.1
and take a chance-who knows what you'll hear. Check out Radio
Pays.
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