Totally Wired Radio

Totally Wired Radio is an independent specialist station associated with Acid Jazz Records and Fred Perry. Its programme is built around music that its contributors believe deserves more room than mainstream radio usually gives it. The broadcaster describes an international outlook, with programmes arriving from different countries and musical communities.

Jazz, soul, funk, electronic listening, reggae and less expected selections share a wide programme. Individual DJs bring specialist interests rather than following one uniform musical brief. Interviews and other spoken material also appear, extending the station's curiosity beyond the records themselves.

Launched in April 2019, the station takes its title from the Totally Wired compilations assembled by Acid Jazz's Eddie Piller and fellow DJ Gilles Peterson. That record-label connection helps explain its eclectic brief. The musical range explicitly includes library music and soundtracks, ska and 2Tone, rare R&B, jazz-funk and Afrobeat, alongside poetry and interviews. Contributions from places including Peru, Serbia, Brazil and Finland extend the programme beyond the London origins of the project and its founding partners.

The not-for-profit project asks listeners to support its independence through donations and its Friends scheme. Programme pages and archives make it possible to explore particular contributors and subjects in more depth. Totally Wired Radio is suited to listeners who value knowledgeable selection and are happy to follow a show into unfamiliar music, with eclecticism providing a connection across its broad range.