Partying, dance and electronic music are part of our global, transnational cultural heritage. Rave is a site of recovery as well as one of liberation.  K-cast’s current project ‘The War on Music’ aims to uncover stories from past and contemporary histories of electronic music. Against commodification, overbearing regulation and brutal policing, ‘The War on Music’ connects disparate stories of partying - from Acid House culture in North West England, to Gabber in Rotterdam and Doof  in Melbourne - in order to highlight how partying is repressed and controlled by the establishment. Understanding this, we can better figure out how to take it back into the people’s hands.

ep1: The War on Music: Acid House (UK) w/ Fergal Kinney

ep2: Mark Fisher and Revolutionary Dreaming w/ Devin Thomas O'Shea

Featured on @Operator Radio on 17th November 2025. 

Suriname, 1772. K.cast’s new series Music Struggle debuts with a sonic journey taking you from Early Modern Rotterdam, sailing to the Dutch fortress Elmina in modern day Ghana before finally disembarking in Paramaribo, the capital of the Netherland’s largest and most brutal plantation colony.

Tracks by Drexciya, Nkisi and Lamsi combined with natural and man-made soundscapes put you in the shoes of someone entering the colony for the first time via sea. Featuring too is professor of Dutch colonialism, Pepijn Brandon, who discusses why African culture and music were repressed and attacked ferociously by the colonists, and what that reveals about the power of resistance music cultures.

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