Cultured recommendations with a Superfly pulse.
Superfly Selected collects compact, broadcast-shaped pieces from Radio Superfly’s cultural orbit. Its best moments move between artist interviews, record histories, book talk, events, and civic conversations with a steady, reflective tone.
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Superfly Selected is a Radio Superfly collection built around recommendation, conversation, and cultural context. It has the shape of a music show, but its range is broader than a playlist. The episodes move through interviews, short features, album notes, book conversations, event previews, and public-interest discussions. Music remains the center of gravity. Keziah Jones becomes a way to talk about Nigeria, the UK, Paris, funk, rock, Yoruba influence, Fela Kuti, Prince, and the practical education of performing for people on the street. The Apollo Brown feature turns production style into history, following warm soul loops and sample choices back toward Jerry Butler and Curtis Mayfield. A segment on Mali’s women places Wasulu between Bamako, the Sahelzone, memory, resistance, identity, and the sound of the Kamale Ngoni. The show likes those wider frames. It rarely treats a recommendation as just a title to remember. A discussion of pop with Eberhard Forcher opens into language, local scenes, international ambition, local music, airplay, authenticity, and the patience needed to keep a band alive. The book episodes take a similar path. Katja Schwingshandl and Max Freudenschuss discuss literary holidays, book culture, young readers, genre loyalty, and the way teenage enthusiasms can become identity. Social topics sit beside the cultural ones without feeling imported from another program. The inclusion conversation with Karin Riebenbauer and Angie Weikmann is direct about schools, work, family pressure, poverty risk, and the difference between public language and actual change. Nightlife appears through the G-Tricks Club Night, where fashion, music, community, and club energy are framed as more than a night out. The overall feel is measured but lively. Superfly Selected is strongest when it lets examples build: a song, a scene, a city, a book trend, a social problem, then the larger pattern underneath. It suits listeners who like radio with curiosity, taste, and a little cultural memory.
Made for: For listeners who want music discovery with cultural context, especially those drawn to soul, hip-hop, pop history, books, events, and thoughtful interviews. It also suits people who like public radio pacing without heavy formality.
What sets it apart: Superfly Selected connects recommendations to the worlds around them: streets, scenes, samples, reading habits, social systems, and club spaces. It feels curated without becoming narrow.
Wöchentliche Empfehlungen in Sachen Musik, Film, Bücher und Events
Billie Holiday's grave meets inclusion policy, and your cultural curiosity gets the good chair.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A book chat that becomes a lesson in how music interviews happen.
Samir Kock's Talk To Me conversation treats interviewing as a craft, with the book, the Austrian Honor Cross for Science and Art, and years of music questions all pointing in the same direction.
Central Oregon talk with a Black community center.
Fast riffs, music heat, civic nonsense.
Hip-hop arguments with memory and edge.
Sports talk with Cashville cadence.
Hip-hop memory with no indoor voice.
Rap criticism with jokes still in it.
Samir Köck discusses his new book 'Talk to Me,' which compiles interviews from his 30-year music journalism career.
Katja Schwingshandl recommends Caleb Erdmann's novel 'Die Ausweichschule', which was shortlisted for the German Book Prize.
Host Samy Lorenz interviews Verena Titze about her diverse creative roles as a cabaret artist, podcaster, and author, focusing on her recent writing process and the themes of self-determination in a performance-driven world.
This episode features an interview with German hip-hop artist Das Bo discussing his first solo tour and his post-pandemic cultural event projects in Hamburg.
Keziah Jones explains how African-American funk, British radio, Fela Kuti, Yoruba traditions, and Paris street performance shaped his self-described “blue funk” style.
Sani Pfalzer und Ariane Müller stellen ihre Beiträge zum B26 Art Weekend vom 29.
Radio Superfly interviews Eberhard Forcher about how the definition and production of pop music have changed from Ö3-era Austrian radio to global digital platforms.
Superfly Selected spricht mit Karin Riebenbauer und Angie Weikmann von Inklusion Österreich über die Lücke zwischen dem politischen Begriff „Inklusion“ und tatsächlichen Änderungen in Österreich.
Katja Schwingshandl and Max Freudenschuss discuss the World Book Day on Radio Superfly and the events connected to 23 April, including the Global Book Crawl and Vienna’s first independent book fair.
This episode explores the musical traditions of Mali, focusing on the influential female artist Omo Sangare and the Wasulu music style from the 1980s-90s, characterized by the Kamale Ngoni instrument.
This episode explores the career and musical style of producer Apollo Brown, focusing on his use of dusty samples and soul loops in timeless Hip-Hop, including a track from 2012 featuring a sample from Jerry Butler.
This episode discusses Raye's album 'This Music May Contain Hope,' highlighting her journey from a background songwriter to an independent artist and the album's themes of overcoming self-doubt and finding one's voice.
This episode features an interview with Katharina Kaltenegger and Chiara Scherf about the upcoming G-Tricks Club Night event on April 16th, which blends fashion, music, and community to create a new chapter in Vienna's nightlife.
This episode reviews Tiwayo's album 'Outsider', highlighting its raw, soulful sound produced by Adrian Quesada and featuring tracks that blend blues, gospel, and Southern soul influences.
This episode features an interview with Samir Köck, a journalist known for his 35-year career interviewing musicians, discussing his new book 'Talk to Me' and receiving the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art.
Sammy Lorenz interviews Verena Titze about her diverse roles as a cabaret artist, podcaster, and author, focusing on her recent writing process and the themes of self-determination in a performance-driven world.
This episode features an interview with director Christopher Schier discussing his film adaptation of Pavel Kohut's novel, exploring themes of violence, hate, and the shifting of moral boundaries in a historical context with contemporary relevance.