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Anna C. October 8th, 2015

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Puking aural sunshine every Friday afternoon from 3-5 p.m.!

Enzo is a veteran dj of 40 years in clubs and radio. He’s played everything from hole-in-the-wall punk clubs in the early 80s, to European style techno clubs in the late 90s, and everything in between. He’s also done Top 40, Hot A.C., and Modern Rock commercial radio.

Disillusioned by the homogenous wasteland the medium had become, he walked away from radio at the turn of the millennium, and never looked back.

Until…..

One night in 2006, while walking home from the grocery store, quite by accident, he dropped his keys in front of 1621 W.Broad St.

As he went to pick them up, he noticed the small, hand written paper sign on the door that read “WRIR Richmond Independent Radio”.

He fondly likens that moment to being akin to discovering the holy grail.

He immediately pulled out his phone, and called the number to see what he had to do to get a show, and remembers weeping openly when told he would have NO restrictions on what he could play.

He giddily tested that freedom on one of his first shows by playing The Replacements “Kiss Me On The Bus”, and following it up with Little Tony Defranco and The Defrano Family’s “Heartbeat, It’s A Love Beat”.

He claims he felt the knees of every radio programmer in the country buckle that morning.

He has now made it his mission to use his acutely fine tuned pop aesthetic to save the world from mediocrity, and bring joy and happiness to all the good little boys and girls with pure hearts with power chord crunches, soaring three part harmonies, and a smattering of minor chords played on jangly guitars.

He equally enjoys talking about himself in the third person.

Jesse Oremland July 10th, 2015

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Global A Go-Go is a weekly two-hour world music radio program that I’ve been hosting since 2004. It’s produced live in the studio and can be heard on both the FM radio band and as a webstream simulcast. It is rebroadcast on other radio stations, and it’s available as a podcast as well.

LIVE RADIO
Global A Go-Go originates in the studios of WRIR Richmond Independent Radio 97.3 FM in Richmond, Virginia, USA, from which it is broadcast live every Sunday from 1 to 3 PM Eastern time USA. A live broadcast has a certain energy and realness that’s hard to duplicate in any other format — that’s what I’m aiming for each week.

WEBSTREAM SIMULCAST
In addition to broadcasting at 97.3 FM in Richmond, WRIR simulcasts its programming on a webstream. So if you have a broadband connection and a media player, you can listen live to Global A Go-Go from anywhere in the world.

REBROADCASTS
Global A Go-Go is rebroadcast on seven radio stations: CKDU 88.1 FM in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; CKUW 95.9 FM in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; KBOG 97.9 FM in Bandon, Oregon, USA; KRFP Radio Free Moscow 92.5 FM in Moscow, Idaho, USA; WMNB 107.1 FM in North Adams, Massachusetts USA; WXDR 98.9 FM in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; and the internet radio station Caribriddims International at caribriddims.com. The program is available to be aired by any non-profit radio station free of charge via the A-Infos Radio Project, also known as Radio4all.net.

PODCASTS
There’s a comprehensive online archive of Global A Go-Go programs (I’m not kidding about it being comprehensive — the recordings go all the way back to August 25, 2004) here:

http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/series/Global+A+Go-Go

These recordings can be downloaded for your listening pleasure, and you can receive Global A Go-Go every week as a podcast.

In addition, WRIR’s website has a listening portal that allows you to stream any program for two weeks after it’s been aired. You can find the listening portal here:

http://www.wrir.org/listen

Desert Island Disc (Global A Go-Go Remix) by Bill Lupoletti & Alyssa Salomon, photographed by Alyssa Salomon

MUSIC FROM AROUND THE WORLD IN THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE OF GROOVE
I describe Global A Go-Go as “music from around the world in the universal language of groove.” In short, you could call it a world music program that emphasizes the danceable over the folkloric.

Global A Go-Go is all about decolonizing your ears. My goal with this program is to expand your listening horizon: I want more people to listen to more music from outside their own country, language, culture and comfort zone.

You’ll hear plenty of newly released music on Global A Go-Go, but I also feature classic and historic recordings on virtually every program. I play music from all continents (OK, not Antarctica) — if I tallied everything Africa would certainly come in #1 and South America would probably be #2. And I do play music from the USA when it fits the context.

GLOBAL IS LOCAL
“World music” is one of those terms that everybody uses but nobody claims to like; I guess I’m that group too. My favorite definition of world music is that it’s “local music from somewhere else.” That’s a pretty good description of my show as well — most of the artists I play aren’t the least bit obscure, they’re just popular somewhere other than Richmond, Virginia.

In addition to local music from somewhere else, I play quite a bit of what you might call “culturally hybrid” music — music that draws on multiple, independent cultural traditions. Hybridity is a hot topic in academia, but my interest in it is anything but academic. I’m simply a lifelong fan of music, and to my ears the most interesting, exciting music in the world right now reflects the ever-decreasing distance between cultures in today’s world.

I hope you enjoy listening to the program, and I’d certainly be happy to hear from you. You can leave me a comment on the site, or drop me a line via email at globalagogoradio [at] gmail [dot] com.

Globally yours,
Bill Lupoletti

P.S. If you’d like me to hear your music for potential airplay (I’ll share it with other WRIR DJs as well), you can send recordings to me at this address:

Bill Lupoletti
Assistant Music Director for World Music
WRIR 97.3 FM Richmond Independent Radio
P.O. Box 4787
Richmond, VA 23220
USA

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Puking aural sunshine every Friday afternoon from 3-5 p.m.!

Enzo is a veteran dj of 40 years in clubs and radio. He’s played everything from hole-in-the-wall punk clubs in the early 80s, to European style techno clubs in the late 90s, and everything in between. He’s also done Top 40, Hot A.C., and Modern Rock commercial radio.

Disillusioned by the homogenous wasteland the medium had become, he walked away from radio at the turn of the millennium, and never looked back.

Until…..

One night in 2006, while walking home from the grocery store, quite by accident, he dropped his keys in front of 1621 W.Broad St.

As he went to pick them up, he noticed the small, hand written paper sign on the door that read “WRIR Richmond Independent Radio”.

He fondly likens that moment to being akin to discovering the holy grail.

He immediately pulled out his phone, and called the number to see what he had to do to get a show, and remembers weeping openly when told he would have NO restrictions on what he could play.

He giddily tested that freedom on one of his first shows by playing The Replacements “Kiss Me On The Bus”, and following it up with Little Tony Defranco and The Defrano Family’s “Heartbeat, It’s A Love Beat”.

He claims he felt the knees of every radio programmer in the country buckle that morning.

He equally enjoys talking about himself in the third person.

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