Radio Bochum – Dein Urban Radio

Radio Bochum carries the tagline “Dein Urban Radio” and clearly focuses its name on urban music culture. The station refers to Bochum, a city in the Ruhr area, and thus sees itself as a local voice of a region where hip hop has been a fixed presence for decades. Precise details on broadcast area, frequencies or year of founding are not available for this description.

Musically, hip hop is at the centre: hard, grooving beats, striking samples and rhymes carried by driving bass lines. In addition, there are variations of the genre that move around rap and urban sounds. Anyone listening to Radio Bochum mainly expects music that picks up the rhythm of the street and makes it audible.