Bombolone

Broadcast on Thursday 5 November 2026 from Madrid to the Adriatic coast via Radio Fragola Trieste (104.5 / 104.8 FM). Season 16, episode 7. Vincenzo builds an eleven-track hour around people who invented something instead of simply consuming: a genre, an instrument, a sound, a season.

The selection moves from Hypnolove's imagined holiday to Yuksek and Bertrand Burgalat's Icarus. It passes through Patrick Cowley, who built hi-NRG with synthesizers, and Soulwax's remix of Charlotte Gainsbourg, which turns grief into dance. It continues with Vaudou Game's Togolese vodun rhythms plugged into Afro-funk, Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek's reinvented Anatolian folk and Francis Bebey, a Cameroonian broadcaster who put effects pedals on the sanza. It closes with Joe Hisaishi's "One Summer's Day". Along the way, a short comment on the eviction of the housing camp at Puerta del Sol.

Bombolone is an independent music programme broadcast every Thursday at 14:00 CET, hosted by Vincenzo from Spain.

Episode tracklist:

1. Hypnolove, Holiday Reverie
2. Bertrand Burgalat, Yuksek, Icare
3. Emi Ömar, C'est La Vibe
4. Patrick Cowley, Surfside Sex
5. Charlotte Gainsbourg, Soulwax, Deadly Valentine (Soulwax Remix)
6. Anchorsong, Butterflies
7. Vaudou Game, Roberto
8. Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek, Kar Yağar
9. Francis Bebey, Sanza Tristesse
10. Prince Fatty, Mutant Hi-Fi, Black Powder
11. Joe Hisaishi, One Summer Day

Description: Broadcast on Thursday 29 October 2026 from Madrid to the Adriatic coast via Radio Fragola Trieste (104.5 / 104.8 FM). Season 16, episode 6. Vincenzo builds a twelve-track hour of upbeat, danceable music where nearly every song hides something darker in the lyrics.

The selection moves from Claire Rosinkranz's dancer who is afraid to stay still to Breakbot's devotion, The Avener's rework about "slow growing fear" and Dua Lipa's "Training Season". It passes through new club tracks from Jimi Jules with TRI/XON, JØRD and Chris Lorenzo, Crystal Fighters' four-in-the-morning "Plage", a Kinks classic about the night and SBTRKT's masked producer. It closes with Hot Chip's "Random Violence", a tribute to the late Optimo DJ Keith McIvor and to anyone who spent a life sending songs into the world.

Bombolone is an independent music programme broadcast every Thursday at 14:00 CET, hosted by Vincenzo from Spain.

Episode tracklist:

1. Claire Rosinkranz - Dancer 
2. Breakbot, Irfane - Baby I'm Yours 
3. The Avener, Phoebe Killdeer - Fade Out Lines 
4. Dua Lipa - Training Season 
5. Jimi Jules, Tri/xon, Dixon, Trikk - Looking For You 
6. JØRD - Baby Do You Wanna Bump 
7. ABEL, Sabrina Morreno - Back On Cigarettes 
8. Crystal Fighters - Plage 
9. The Kinks - All Day and All of the Night 
10. SBTRKT, Roses Gabor - Pharaohs 
11. Chris Lorenzo, Kah-Lo - In This Bih' 
12. Hot Chip - Random Violence
13. Robert Miles - Children

Title: Bombolone: Second lives, remixes and the original thing

Description: Broadcast on Thursday 22 October 2026 from Madrid to the Adriatic coast via Radio Fragola Trieste (104.5 / 104.8 FM). Season 16, episode 5. Vincenzo builds a thirteen-track hour around second lives: new releases that have barely begun, remasters, remixes, and the original recording that came before the famous cover.

The selection opens with "Diamanti" by okgiorgio and PARISI, released only days ago, and TOKiMONSTA's recent single "Memory on the Run". It moves through Serge Gainsbourg's 1975 provocation, Skunk Anansie's reunion-era "An Artist Is An Artist" and Joan Manuel Serrat's "Mediterráneo". It then lands in disco and soul, with the remastered "Miss You" by The Rolling Stones, a Breakbot remix of Candi Staton and a preview of Dam Swindle's upcoming DJ-Kicks. It heads towards the end with Gloria Jones and the 1964 original of "Tainted Love", and closes with Alex Izenberg's "Breathless Darkness". Along the way, a short comment on this week's protests across Europe, with a nod to John Lennon.

Bombolone is an independent music programme broadcast every Thursday at 14:00 CET, hosted by Vincenzo from Spain.

Episode tracklist:

1. okgiorgio, PARISI - Diamanti  
2. TOKiMONSTA - Memory on the Run 
3. Serge Gainsbourg - Zig zig avec toi 
4. Skunk Anansie - An Artist Is An Artist 
5. Joan Manuel Serrat - Mediterráneo 
6. Tom Misch - South of the River 
7. The Rolling Stones - Miss You 
8. Kraak & Smaak, Kosta G - Nothing Is Forever 
9. Candi Staton, Breakbot - Young Hearts Run Free (Breakbot Remix) 
10. Dam Swindle, Allysha Joy - I Want You 
11. Elvis Presley - All Shook Up  
12. Gloria Jones - Tainted Love 
13. Alex Izenberg - Breathless Darkness

Description: Bombolone is Vincenzo's weekly independent music show, recorded in Madrid and broadcast on Radio Fragola Trieste (104.5 / 104.8 FM). This week he is back from Barcelona, where he met the friend he started radio with in London. He talks about the sea, about distance, and about a city that makes you question it.

Twelve tracks about pressure, rebellion and getting by: the Caribbean-British funk of Cymande, the constructive destruction of Talking Heads, the domestic trap behind Wham!'s synth pop, the Italian street sound of Bassi Maestro and Casino Royale, a dance-floor song about a dictatorship from Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, and the urban decline of The Specials.

Every Thursday at 14:00 CET.

Episode tracklist:

01 Cymande - Brothers On The Slide 

02 Talking Heads - Burning Down the House 

03 David Bowie - Let's Dance 

04 The Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want 

05 Bassi Maestro, La Pina - Piccolo Bassi 

06 Wham! - Everything She Wants 

07 Tam Tam Go! - Atrapados en la red 

08 Casino Royale - Treno per Babylon 

09 Los Fabulosos Cadillacs - El Matador 

10 The Monkees - I'm a Believer 

11 The Specials - Ghost Town 

12 Sublime - Badfish

Broadcast on Thursday 8 October 2026 from Madrid to the Adriatic coast via Radio Fragola Trieste (104.5 / 104.8 FM). As Madrid accelerates towards the Hispanidad celebrations and Trieste prepares for the historic sails of the Barcolana regatta, Vincenzo curates a sophisticated thirteen track selection exploring urban survival and timeless songcraft.

This episode traverses continents and decades without nostalgia. Highlights include the refined neo soul groove of Jungle, Piero Umiliani’s golden Italian television library music, and the iconic slack rock poetry of Pavement. The narrative reaches an emotional peak with Chico Buarque and Milton Nascimento’s defiant 1976 Brazilian anthem against authoritarian censorship. The journey continues with 1980s Nigerian disco by Oby Onyioha, polyrhythmic bass architecture from Pino Palladino and Blake Mills, Nico’s haunting reflection on Chelsea Girl, and Kendra Morris’s urgent Brooklyn soul finale.

Bombolone is an independent music programme broadcast every Thursday at 14:00 CET, hosted by Vincenzo from Spain.

Episode tracklist:

01 Jungle, PROBLEMZ

02 Piero Umiliani, Discomania

03 Pavement, Gold Soundz

04 Getdown Services, Dog Dribble

05 Chico Buarque, Milton Nascimento, O Que Será (A Flor Da Terra)

06 Fred again.., Anderson .Paak, CHIKA, places to be

07 Parallel Dance Ensemble, Shopping Cart

08 Oby Onyioha, Enjoy Your Life

09 Maribou State, Andreya Triana, All I Need

10 The Be Good Tanyas, Draft Daughter's Blues aka Ootischenia

11 Pino Palladino, Blake Mills, Ekuté

12 Nico, The Fairest Of The Seasons

First Thursday of October. Suma Flamenca opens the 13th. Brunori Sas at the Rossetti in Trieste on the 22nd. Trieste Photo Days from the 23rd.

Twelve tracks. Overmono's Good Lies, the partial optimisms you tell yourself because they work. Ebo Taylor, born 1936 in Ghana, played with Fela Kuti, still here, into Pat Thomas, born 1952, same country, same tradition, different branch. Spiller from Verona and Sophie Ellis-Bextor beating Victoria Beckham to number one in the UK in 2000. Mike Dunn from Chicago asking if this is house. It is. Closes with Frank Ocean and André 3000 on Pink Matter, the brain, what it's made of, what's worth keeping. André 3000 answers from the other end. Oh and Vieux Farka Touré plays Sala Mon Live Madrid on October 29.

Bombolone airs every Thursday at 14:00 on Radio Fragola Trieste (104.5 / 104.8 FM).

Tracklist:

01 Clea Vincent — Du sang sur les congas

02 Sex Mask — Tv Movie

03 Overmono — Good Lies

04 Ebo Taylor — Atwer Abroba

05 Crazy P — One True Light

06 Spiller, Sophie Ellis-Bextor — Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)

07 Bjorn Wolf, Youri Donatz, Mike Dunn — Iz Diz Houz?

08 Pat Thomas, Kwashibu Area Band — Gyae Su

09 Space Monk — Infinite Summer, Pts. I & II

10 Shadow Band — Eagle Unseen

11 Keysunapldg, Luccini Sweets — Get a life

12 Frank Ocean, André 3000 — Pink Matter

Season sixteen. Vincenzo thanks Lucia and gets on with it.

The opener is honest: more broken, more enthusiastic, more extreme, further from himself than usual. Which is not a complaint. The edges are where things actually happen. Twelve tracks built around that — from Mexican Institute Of Sound and Colombia's Meridian Brothers opening with a track about a champion and funeral goods, through AfroCubism (Malian and Cuban musicians rediscovering shared African roots), Vashti Bunyan on a horse in 1970, Teddy Pendergrass at twenty-two with that voice, and Patrick Watson leaving words behind with the episode's title track. Closes with Mashrou' Leila remixed by Jade, Lebanese diaspora talking to Lebanese diaspora. Both still here.

Bombolone airs every Thursday at 14:00 on Radio Fragola Trieste (104.5 / 104.8 FM).

Tracklist: Mexican Institute Of Sound & Meridian Brothers · AfroCubism · Alexis Taylor & Mike Simonetti · Jaakko Eino Kalevi · Flavien Berger · Sabine McCalla · The Zen Circus & Brian Ritchie · Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes · We Have Band · Vashti Bunyan · Patrick Watson · Mashrou' Leila & Jade (LB)

The Pope left Monday. The city exhaled. Bad Bunny is still at the Bernabéu. Soundset opens the Conde Duque courtyard for the first time in four seasons this Friday and Saturday. June is properly here.

Vincenzo just finished Ian Leslie's John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs — a book about two people who made something extraordinary by pushing hard against each other — and is still mid-Auster.

This episode follows that logic: Bladee (Swedish cloud rap) and Current 93 (David Tibet's English neofolk, 1982) meet on a track called Fox & Birch and it works precisely because of the distance between them. CCCP say they're fine, with their usual beautiful ambiguity. Lee Scratch Perry, dead since 2021, on a track called Scratch Is Alive. Phoenix in 2000. LCD Soundsystem not going anywhere. André Toussaint closing with a bolero from 1939 that by now belongs to everyone.

Bombolone airs every Thursday at 14:00 on Radio Fragola Trieste (104.5 / 104.8 FM).

Tracklist:

01 Make A Dance - No Way Out

02 Tiga, MEDUZA - You Gonna Want Me (I Know)

03 E.VAX, Ratatat - When I'm Gone

04 Phoenix - Too Young

05 Lee "Scratch" Perry, Steve Marshall - Scratch Is Alive

06 CCCP - Fedeli Alla Linea - Io Sto Bene

07 Mac DeMarco - Heart To Heart

08 Fallen Angel - Bittersweet Regret

09 Bladee, Current 93 - Fox & Birch

10 STRFKR - Girls Just Want to Have Fun

11 Romare - All Night

12 Anchorsong - Butterflies

13 LCD Soundsystem - Time to Get Away

14 Andre Toussaint - Perfida

Vincenzo picked up Mr. Vertigo -Paul Auster's 1994 novel about a street orphan who learns to levitate, just one centimetre off the ground — and realised he hadn't properly read a book in a long time. Not scrolled. Read. From that, a question: what's the difference between relaxing (absence) and being chill (presence without pressure)?

This episode is the second thing. Siji's Irinajo — journey in Yoruba, remixed by Osunlade into something slow and horizontal — sits at the centre. Around it: Leyla McCalla with Haitian traditional music on cello and banjo. David Bowie in 1966, nineteen years old, before he became David Bowie. Hot Chip going down. DARKSIDE going deeper. Massive Attack closing with Lately from Protection, 1994 — the same year as the Auster novel. Unplanned. Appropriate.

Bombolone airs every Thursday at 14:00 on Radio Fragola Trieste (104.5 / 104.8 FM).

Tracklist: Zuffalo · Grace Jones · TV Girl · Rareș · Siji · Bama & The Family · Chicha Libre · Leyla McCalla · David Bowie · Hot Chip · DARKSIDE · Fallen Angel · Massive Attack

Late May in Madrid: San Isidro is over, the Feria del Libro opens tomorrow in the Retiro, and the city is doing that thing it does when it doesn't quite know whether summer has started yet.

From that particular Thursday afternoon, Vincenzo puts together a set that moves from a sixty-year-old Detroit soul record — Darrell Banks' Open the Door to Your Heart, a Northern Soul cornerstone that never stopped working — through Hamburg electro (Digitalism), Belgian institution Soulwax, and SAULT, a British collective who publish and vanish and refuse to have faces.

Charlotte Gainsbourg carries the weight of three losses in a single track without making it feel like grief. Joe Goddard makes gospel house sound inevitable. Closes with good news, because someone has to.

1. Phileas - Better Days
2. Darrell Banks - Open the Door to Your Heart
3. EMBRZ - Gather Together
4. Digitalism - Zdarlight
5. Anni B Sweet - Adiós con alegría
6. Dyzen - She Likes
7. Soulwax - Perfect We Are Not (Edit)
8. Joe Goddard, Fiorious - New World (Flow)
9. Charlotte Gainsbourg - Deadly Valentine
10. John Gray - Let’s Get the Fuck Out of Here
11. SAULT - Wildfires
12. KALLI - Feel Good Trouble
13. Nick Marks - Good News 

Bombolone airs every Thursday at 14:00 on Radio Fragola Trieste (104.5 / 104.8 FM).

Tracklist: Phileas · Darrell Banks · EMBRZ · Digitalism · Anni B Sweet · Dyzen · Soulwax · Joe Goddard & Fiorious · Charlotte Gainsbourg · John Gray · SAULT · KALLI · Nick Marks