Stepping Tiger’s founder & resident DJ Ben The Roman drops in to shine light on today’s freshest acts of UK jazz and beyond.

Gen Degenerate is already an unavoidable name in the Liverpool live music scene despite having appeared on it just over a year ago. 

We welcome a sure shot Liverpool staple to Melodic Distraction Radio, celebrating urban music situated 100% within Merseyside...tune in for L100 with DJ 2Kind and guests!

Tune in each month to Liverpool’s Dharma Collective for a selection of afro-fusion, funk and disco…

SisBis is all female collective that puts on parties that are inclusive, full to the brim with good vibes and good music.

We welcome Jab to the airwaves for one hour of "Jazz, but not as we know it." Jab is the first of our Kickstarter Radio Workshop graduates to make their way onto the airwaves having completed a three-part training programme with our good friend and workshop mentor, Mo Ayoub.

The Ranga crew are live on the Melodic Distraction airwaves, for their show filled with tropical dancefloor grooves and killer selections!

Richie Vegas cut his DJing teeth in his late teens – messing about with hip hop and breaks – before plundering his family’s record collections and forging a sound that includes soul, funk, jazz, afrobeat and reggae.

Chris Barker gets deep, weird and wonky with Spaced Out on Melodic Distraction. One half of Deep Space Orchestra, Chris brings a progressive sound to the airwaves.

Belfast native Bobby Analog is a DJ and producer who likes to go it alone. 

Subcora joins MDR on a voyage of sound. She's taking us through deep, groovy house with jazz influences and afro-tinged edges.

Aoibhneas (/*eev-ness): The sense of joy, wonder and delight we get from music, art and the wonderful world around us. 

Since the 1990s, Phat Phil Cooper has been on a journey through DJ culture and electronic music with more twists and turns than your average million-selling novel.

Brought to you by Josh Aitman & James Zaremba, Melodic Distraction’s first weekly show explores everything and anything, old and new - just as long as it sounds sweet.

Manchester based collective, Shifting Spheres, are behind a string of underground music podcasts and workshops for women, trans and non-binary DJs. 

In a corrupt, greed-fuelled world, a powerful alchemist leads a Christ-like character and materialistic figures to the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment.

Longstanding friend of Melodic Distraction, Jimmy Allen tackles a monthly show hailing devotion to the 4/4 drawing on disco, soulful house, afro grooves and techno.

Fresh to the airwaves; Dance floor mechanics is transmitting an array of guest mixes, emerging artist and unreleased dance music to a speaker near you...

Mates’ Crates is about sharing the stories behind music, whether the story of how a record came about or how we came to love it. 

Studio head, rhubarb-and-custard-flavoured vaper and Kinder Bueno enthusiast, Zaremba, brings a gentler touch to Sunday mornings.

Meandering through jazz, hip hop, disco and boogie,  Joseph Kaye comes from a family synonymous with the Liverpool music scene. He holds down a monthly Sunday soundtrack. 

A local label boasting the city's finest folk, blues and roots artists, Mellowtone sure have put the work in over the past decade.

An experimental hour of nutrient rich sound ecology built from terra-firma recordings and direct internet biomass.