15 Jahre detektor.fm – mit Oum Shatt, Meagre Martin & Live-Podcast (Lage der Nation)

In the organizer's words:

We founded detektor.fm 15 years ago. This must be celebrated! We invite you to our birthday party on November 28 at UT Connewitz in Leipzig. With us: Oum Shatt, Meagre Martin and a podcast talk with Ulf Buermeyer from "Lage der Nation".

Podcasts and radio united

It all started with a handful of friends who got together in 2009 and decided to do something: Radio, it has to be better somehow. With sophisticated content and good music. With brains, heart and passion. Fast forward to 2024: it works! It is challenging at times, but anything else would be boring. Over the years, the online-only radio station of the early days has evolved into the podcast radio station detektor.fm. Two audio worlds united in one.

15 years of podcast radio detektor.fm - that calls for a celebration. And of course you celebrate your birthday with your favorite music. That's why we've invited two bands who regularly sweeten the day for you and us in the detektor.fm rotation: Oum Shatt and Meagre Martin. There will also be a live podcast. Come along, it's going to be a party!

Oum Shatt

"We're actually a pretty haphazard band," says singer and songwriter Jonas Poppe in a 2017 detektor.fm interview. "Poorly organized," adds drummer Chris Imler. "Lucky," we say, because it is precisely this lack of planning that allows Oum Shatt to leave a lot to chance and create a unique sound. On their highly acclaimed debut album, the Berlin band brought together American surf with Greek rembetika music, no wave and oriental influences in 2016. Radioeins and taz found their song of the year on this album, and the BBC and the SXSW festival also rejoiced.

The wild ride continues on the second album "OPT OUT", released in January: psychedelic sounds and hypnotic, danceable grooves that are made for the ambience of the UT Connewitz. We are looking forward to Oum Shatt at the detektor.fm birthday party and are humming mantra-like: Power to the women of the morning shift!

Meagre Martin

Last year in spring, a little guitar pop gem flashed up in the thicket of our editorial mailbox. The sender is the tasteful label Mansions and Millions, the subject line reads "new signing: Meagre Martin". Three US-Americans based in Berlin, musical coordinates: Dream Pop, Americana, Fleetwood Mac, Mac DeMarco. The first single "All My Thoughts" is immediately catchy and goes into our rotation, followed shortly afterwards by their debut album "Gut Punch", which is full of unagitated indie pop anthems.

The music connoisseur blogs are whistling it from the rooftops: This band is "ready to make a real splash". So we are all the more delighted that Meagre Martin, after supporting alt-J in the USA and performing at festivals such as SXSW, Immergut, Reeperbahn and Pitchfork London, are now playing at detektor.fm's birthday party in Leipzig. "In all my thoughts I listen for you", it sounds from the radio and we are already swaying soulfully across the editorial corridors.

Live podcast

The evening opens with a live podcast. Our guest is Ulf Buermeyer, who has hosted the multi-award-winning political podcast "Lage der Nation" together with Philip Banse since 2016. In the podcast talk on detektor.fm's birthday, he talks about the secret of Lage's success and economic developments. Over the past eight years, a podcast universe with a community, advertising customers and its own hosting service has grown up around "Lage der Nation".