22/05/2026
TEAM HULA RADIO SHOW // INTERNETCORE 007
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22.05.2026 // 19-21 H //
Today’s broadcast investigates the sonic residue of the early web, the quotes, samples, glitches, and found sounds that circulated through forums, Flash animations, and dial-up connections before the internet learned to curate itself. We trace two entangled trajectories: the vernacular audio culture of the pre-platform web, where sound travelled as novelty, absurdity, and communal in-joke; and its absorption into contemporary music production, where these fragments resurface as hauntological material, nostalgic not for a moment but for a texture of experience that has since been smoothed away. Our mix treats the early internet not as prehistory but as an unresolved archive, asking what it means to sample a world that most listeners have already forgotten.
Team Hula Radio interrogates how internet-core and post-internet music push the boundaries of sound and culture in a hyper-digital age. By linking the subcultural roots of traditional genres with genre-agnostic contemporary music, we explore how digital culture redefines music’s emotional and cultural significance. Through a research-driven lens, we recontextualize post-internet music, investigating its reflection of an immediacy-obsessed, hyper-connected world. Team Hula Radio invites listeners to examine how music, identity, and digital mediation converge, showing how the internet reshapes our experience of sound.