There are all kinds of music download sites available on your phone these days, but this one is a little different. There’s a show for every mood, in-depth interviews with musical mavericks, highlights from the world’s premier festivals and clubs, and you’re guaranteed to hear something new that makes you go ‘hmmmm?’ You can browse through thousands of shows, create your own personal radio archive, get a ton of background information like playlists and artist bios, and recommend shows to your friends, wherever you are.

Pretty good huh? Now there is no excuse not to tune in to some of the fantastic shows that we make for the station. Not wishing to blow our own trumpets of course… Well… Maybe just a bit…

Download the app here >

And check out what you could be listening to here>

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Oh go on then, here too >

Having made it this far means that Karen is now a proud member of the UKYCE Club. This is an excellent opportunity to meet the like minded and engage in cross sectoral dialogue within the sector and through the network, which comprises of over 150 entrepreneurs from 47 different countries.

Find out more about the UK Young Music Entrepreneur of the Year Award here >

The SRA and Red Bull Music Academy are offering ten pairs of trips to London for students, to get involved with the Red Bull Music Academy Radio team for a unique broadcasting experience.

Working with a team of seasoned radio professionals (including company director Karen P) during the Academy event through February 7 to March 12, 2010, the successful candidates be able to take their production skills to the next level, while getting must-listen content for their own radio shows. Talk about a seriously good work experience opportunity!

To find out more see the Student Radio Association website here >

Or the Radio Academy website here >

Download an application here >

And find out more about Red Bull Music Academy in London go here >

Created for digital radio and online and broadcast from 10th of December until Christmas Eve digital radio listeners can tune into a brand new digital radio station, Radio Lapland, which features all the sounds of Santa’s workshop as well as charity messages to help get people in the Christmas spirit.

Radio Lapland aims to give children an original and exciting station to listen to during the festive period, capturing their imagination as they gain an insight into Santa and his elves getting ready for Christmas.  Santa’s voice was recorded by leading British film and stage actor Julian Wadham, who we had in our studio for a very amusing morning.

Space on the channel will be offered free to any UK charities who have suitable Christmas messages and appeals to run.

Radio Lapland is available on digital radio in more than 20 regions across the UK including Plymouth, Cornwall, Cardiff & Newport and South Hampshire.

The word is spreading too, all over the UK and beyond, features have sprung up in The Sun, The Guardian and Chris Evans even did a feature on his Radio 2 program this week.

There is a list of stations where you can hear the broadcast here >

You can listen online here >

And you can check out some of the national (and international) news features on the topic right here >

In this episode of Tuned In To The Future we are looking at the relationship between media and education. At the Folded Wing studios Karen P shares some hints and tips about editing music for radio.

We hear from a producer at BBC Blast, who tells us what she loves about working in media. Plus, we speak to media maestro Gail Gallie from GallieGodfrey, who launched CBeebies and worked with Roundhouse Radio. Gail explains why it’s so important for media companies to be involved in educating and tells us what they learn from the youngsters themselves.

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We also have new homes on the Red Bull UK site for a number of other projects that we produce for Red Bull and RBMA Radio. Take a look (and a listen) if you will.

The Wandering Feet Podcast Series >

Broad Casting >

London Belongs To Me >

That’s right folks, bringing a healthy dose of the deep stuff to this year’s London Jazz Festival, November’s Broad Casting welcomes the authentic and deeply spiritual jazz of Build an Ark to the stage, and asks IG Culture to chew it up and spit it out of his sampler in time for a unique dancefloor destroying DJ set at the end of the night. In fact IG’s own take on the music of the past - the Zen Badizm workshop - will also open up the night’s proceedings with their UK debut performance. Whilst Zen Badizm is built around some of the best Jazz musicians the younger generation in the UK has to offer, Build An Ark’s show features a couple of key jazz innovators of the late 20th century, Phil Ranelin and Dwight Trible. it’s only a month away so get your skates on - this will be another special night.

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The campaign itself focuses on the ‘Dirty Little Secret’ girl, who confesses and shares all her beauty secrets, in various forms of media, including of course the podcast series. Working with screenwriter Ben Bickerton we developed 5 episodes voiced by the Dirty Little Secret girl herself, and produced in our studios in Clerkenwell.  The podcasts also benefited from some bespoke Folded Wing music content and branded audio identities.
You want to hear some dirty little secrets? Download via iTunes here >

Want to read about some dirty little secrets and even post your own? The blog is here >

This installment follows Folded Wing team member Maria ‘On Location’ to the Notting Hill Carnival where Folded Wing recorded the Red Bull stage for Red Bull Music Academy Radio. TITF features insights from interrogated revellers, employees and even our client Red Bull, and definitely captures the atmosphere of the second most attended Carnival in the world. More importantly, it definitely illustrates how it feels to work there, against a cracking backdrop of pumping beats from headliner Major Lazer Soundsystem.

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BBC Blast is a project that sets out to inspire inspiration, creativity, determination, ideas and confidence in the UK’s teenagers. The website’s videos are aimed at 13 to 19 year olds who are into art, fashion, music, games, writing, film and dance. Pretty excitingly, Karen P was invited to participate as the representative from our crazy world of radio production, with Folded Wing also providing the sound design for the project. (In fact, our bespoke BBC Blast sound design will now feature across all of BBC Blast’s video output, which is definitely something to be proud of!)

So anyway, a few weeks back we ushered the BBC Blast crew into our offices for a couple of days of madness, and in four videos Karen gave her insights into the skills required to make a radio package: her tips and tricks on giving interviews; editing audio and even revealing past mistakes (surely not!) for the youngsters to look out for and learn from when giving it a shot themselves.

Check out the links below for the full series of videos, pretty darned informative even if we do say so ourselves!

If you want to see more of the brilliant stuff BBC Blast are putting together, click here >

How to Make a Radio Package:

Part 1 >

Part 2 >

Part 3 >

Part 4 >