# UFO at 50 Episodes

> we're starting a radio station

**Published by:** [UFO](https://news.ufo.fm/)
**Published on:** 2024-02-14
**URL:** https://news.ufo.fm/ufo-at-50-episodes

## Content

Welcome back to UFO news. A weekly selection of news, music, releases and essays. On episode 50 of the podcast we announced Nick Hollins, Alex Guy, aiio and LGHT are hosts of the first shows on the UFO network. Our next steps are establishing a podcasts network and developing the music side of an onchain radio station and magazine at ufo.fm.FarcasterNick Hollins on Warpcast50 A Collective Signal with UFO — @al3xander, @aiio, @lght.eth Introducing the hosts of the first shows on the UFO network. Going to air with an onchain radio station. Enjoy 500 free mints thanks to the Boost contract on @zora https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x4174f78b7769650c1b205a2e1ac69cd0e47bbe02/50/framesLet's introduce a few hosts. Their shows will surprise and delight, along with other shows joining the network. Alex is head of Growth at Zerion and recently launched Still Here. A show to explore his curiosity talking with people who are founders and builders. Through all the ups and downs of crypto. Answering the question of what motivates and inspires them. Why they’re still here. aiio is a researcher, community builder and writer bridging across web3 and the underground electronic music and arts communities in Copenhagen. She writes about the concept of space, linking it to human culture, existence, and the need for adaptive ecosystems. LGHT is an artist, designer, writer, and technologist based in the US. Creator of the Hypercultures essay series as well as co-founding Based Management. His work focuses on protocol design, the science of digital language/memetics, and zero to one acceleration of tech primitives and adoption.How Did UFO Start?It's likely you haven't heard the origin stories, we don't much talk about ourselves. Let's rewind. UFO went live in September 2022 when I returned home to Byron Bay in Australia. I'd been travelling for a while in Europe and met amazing people including future UFO radio hosts Alex Guy and aiio at ETH Barcelona. Ivano Salonia and myself have been working together since 2020 and he was in from the jump as Art Director. We designed the UFO brand with inspirations from retro psychedelia, music and science fiction. The purpose was to establish a radio station, magazine and onchain collective. This project is paying homage to the legendary and short-lived UFO Club created by Joe Boyd and John "Hoppy" Hopkins in December 1966. The nightclub famous for light shows and happenings. Plays and poetry readings. Staging artists like Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd and Yoko Ono at 31 Tottenham Court Road in central London, a few blocks from the British Museum. Just imagine what it was like to be at the UFO Club. The people you would meet. This scene is inspiring to what we're doing. We're here for similar reasons.In this time, John Dunbar, Peter Asher and Barry Miles had founded the Indica Gallery which ran from 1965 to 1967. Their group published the International Times underground newspaper which is said to have inspired Jann Wenner visiting London in his early 20s before returning to San Francisco and creating Rolling Stone. They had connections to the UFO Club and there are phenomenal print ads which ran in IT. John Dunbar is an artist who was married to Marianne Faithfull and he was the one who introduced John Lennon to Yoko Ono at their gallery. Barry was friends with The Beatles, Allen Ginsberg and members of the Beat Generation and has written books about the 1960s. These are the people spaced around the studio in Abbey Road holding pencils with tape loops running around for Tomorrow Never Knows. Rick Rubin had Peter Asher on Tetragrammaton recently telling stories from the London scene. Casually seeing the Rolling Stones every Monday night in a small club. For current day outlets we like NTS, The Lot Radio, Song Exploder and the Marginalian. We're here in this ecosystem of web3 projects and collectives like Songcamp, Metalabel, Nouns, FWB, Purple, Seed Club, Cheeks Collective, BLVKHVND, Folklore, Public Assembly, wavWRLD, thepark, Builder DAO, JPG, Gitcoin, Forefront, Take Up Space, Future Primitive, Based Management and many others. It's an onchain movement on protocols like Ethereum, Optimism, Base, Zora, Farcaster and Lens.Why Radio?Before starting in crypto in 2017, I was a radio host and producer for 10 years in Sydney. Presenting an independent music show on FBi Radio, contributing as a music programmer, videographer and venue booker. These were formative times and I experienced what a collective signal for music, arts and ideas looks like with 100+ DJs. Radio stations are a place to find where culture is happening in a city. Art and music is celebrated. Young people get a start in creative fields. Anyone with a radio dream can make it happen. A show on the radio is a finite resource. There's only so much time in a day and it kinda means something to be on the air. It's a live signal. There's something cool about that. It's been a wild dream to create a radio station.UFO 01I was talking about radio, music and the sixties when I met Charlie Waterhouse in London in 2022. We'd first met a few months before through ASSEMBLY workshops organized by Metalabel. He's an early contributor at Extinction Rebellion who helped design their art and iconography. The plan was to record the first podcast at his office in Brixton, but it was too noisy. Instead we talked off-mic about music, what's happening in web3, the media, politics, climate and behind the scenes at Extinction Rebellion before heading to the pub. I flew home two days later. Once a stable internet connection was set up from a farm house in the Australian countryside, Charlie and me sat down to record UFO 01. We've been on the air since then. Charlie is a co-founder of Hard Art with people like Clare Farrell, Brian Eno and Es Devlin who are getting ready to stage The Fête of Britain, a four-day celebration of collaboration and imagination in the face of the great challenges of our time, Feb 22 — 25 in Manchester’s Aviva Studios. Collect NFT https://factoryinternational.orgThe Fête of BritainThis four-day celebration of community, collaboration and imagination challenges us to rethink politics in the UK todayhttps://www.theguardian.comJury clears climate protesters of causing damage to HSBC London HQNine women used hammers and chisels to shatter building's windows in April 2021 as part of Extinction Rebellion protesthttps://hardart.metalabel.comHard Art - Page 2Open letter to all people of conscience in response to acquittal of HSBC 9Latest podcasts49 Songwriting, Music and the Internet in 2024 — Leo Pastel Collect NFT 50 A Collective Signal with UFO — Alex Guy, aiio, LGHT Collect NFT 06 DAOs & Investing in Web3 Social — Jakub Rusiecki Collect NFT Margo Guryan — Someone I Know Jackson C. Frank — Blues Run The Game The Pennywhistlers — Cotton Mill Girls Otis Redding — (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay The Association — Never My Love jacob @js_horne Demystifying how to get started onchain By @dg_goens 119 18:23 • 8 Feb 2024 https://lght.mirror.xyzWe Are So Early.. as CreativesNothing written is financial or even general life advice. These essays are for entertainment purposes only --- Godspeed.https://highlight.mirror.xyz20 for '24: Digital Art Trends That Will Shape This YearWe're already a month into 2024 and the digital art world is moving as fast as ever.https://mirror.xyzSpeedtracer: 1 Month InToday marks the 31st day of Speedtracer, my daily casual mobile game for people who are too dumb for Wordle. Speedtracer challenges users to trace a racetrack as quick as they can, without crashing. Tracks start off as algorithmically generated shapes, but they are also NFTs that grant the owner customization rights, so we've seen a lot of branded tracks in our first month.https://mirror.xyzHaberdashers & MemesSo, not too long ago now my friend PurpLetariat, a longtime ghoul holder and general chat frequenter put out a message on Warpcast asking if anyone would make some new NFTs for the $DEGEN DAO that he helped found. I jokingly said "just ask me next time, buddy."https://paragraph.xyzPurple's Proposal to Fund FarconI voted yes today to Purple's Prop 54 to fund and support Farcon and the Farcon Hackathon. There were quite a number of questions and concerns b...https://mirror.xyzProcess Notes: Very Internet Person x GalleryWhen Gallery asked if I wanted to make a Very Internet Person special edition piece for them to gift to users for the holidays, I, of course, said yes. I love Gallery because of the focus on displaying, discovering, and posting art, which is an underserved area in blockchain related media as most of the tools are focused on trading.https://titles.mirror.xyzCREATE DOGE, GET $DOGThe world's best doge AI model, TITLES on web, and become a part owner of the Doge meme.https://mirror.xyzThoughts: on Farcaster growth, innovation, speculationIn this mini-article, I aim to shed light on the events leading to Farcaster's recent growth, emphasizing the interplay between:https://paragraph.xyz#7 - Birth of DegenExploring the Emergence of $DEGEN: In the heart of Farcaster's dynamic ecosystem, a new force arises. $DEGEN, born from community-driven memetics, transcends traditional token paradigms to redefine brand interaction and ownership. Witness the journey of a memecoin becoming a symbol of collective creUFO is an onchain radio network. A club for music, arts and ideas. Subscribe to be in the loop.

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