There is a new sound coming to Milwaukee and it is rooted in all the things tradition.
“We need to present completely different elements of Black tradition that aren’t highlighted within the media immediately,” stated Tarik Moody.
Moody is the Program Director of HYFIN; a brand new City Different media channel launching this month on Radio Milwaukee’s 88.9.
“City Different is principally to acknowledge our group — the Black group — cannot match into containers,” Moody defined. “We’re simply as numerous as any group. Whether or not it is Afro Beats or whether or not it is Jazz and even Folks… we need to present the sweetness, and variety of our tradition” he stated.
Moody, who’s hosted his nationally syndicated Rhythm Lab radio for almost 20 years, says HYFIN is about greater than music.
“Hyphen, grammatically, is a instrument that connects two phrases,” Moody stated. “We need to use that to attach cultures, join the variety of our music and the variety of our folks with HYFIN.”
Moody can be joined by Component Everest Blanks, DJ Bruwer, Anthony Foster and Chris Alexander when HYFIN formally launches on June 19, or Juneteenth.
“We see the ability of that and what that basically means,” Moody stated in regards to the launch date’s significance. “What we’re attempting to do is about free in letting the world know, let town know, let this area know, that is who we’re,” he stated. “We additionally needed to amplify our group — the Black group — whether or not it is companies, entrepreneurs, organizations or people as nicely via storytelling and different alternatives like occasions as nicely.”
From June 19 to July 3, HYFIN can be unhosted aside from Moody’s shift, permitting listeners to benefit from the depth and intentionality of the music programming of HYFIN. Starting July 4, the weekday programming schedule on HYFIN can be as follows:
- 6 a.m. to 12 p.m. — “The Morning Combine,” Milwaukee’s most music morning present with no speak and all tunes
- 12 to three p.m. — Anthony Foster
- 3 to 9 p.m. — Component Everest-Blanks
- 9 p.m. to 12 a.m. — Tarik Moody, simulcast on 88.9FM HD1 and HD2
- 12 a.m. to three a.m. — Unhosted, simulcast on 88.9FM HD1 and HD2
HYFIN is backed by a $450,000 grant from the Company for Public Broadcasting.