ICS Radio

Launches
February 2027

An independent Melbourne station with hip-hop roots and an open crate. Hip-hop, soul, funk, jazz, neo soul, broken beat, Latin, afrobeat. New music first, from Melbourne and further out.

How it works

Your player, our channel

Every episode plays through the artist’s own published player. Spotify, SoundCloud, Mixcloud or YouTube.

ICS Radio hosts no audio. That is deliberate. Artists keep everything they make, ICS Radio carries it, and it does not own it. Pull it at the source and it is gone from here too.

ICS DJ sets are recorded live in Melbourne with one of our venue partners. Nowhere else.

Credited and linked, every time.
Newest first. The page is the archive.
No account, no install, no paywall.

Weekly

New Music Mondays

New music goes out on a Monday before it reaches a room. One curated set a week. One record that caught us and one that will not leave.

Open in Spotify

In the room

The Booth

The Booth takes shout-outs and requests straight from the room to the DJ. One code on the table. No install, no account. Requests stop being a thing you shout over a speaker.

How the Booth works

Before this

The old shows

ICS ran as a podcast from 2014 and as a live radio show on Energy Groove, Sundays twelve to three. Full interviews and tribute shows, most of them still sitting on SoundCloud and Mixcloud.

Full interviews

Egg Man. Frame. Blackshades and Arrogance.

Tribute shows

Mac Miller. Mobb Deep. 2Pac. Ol Skool.

In the mix

Serato Presents In The Mix. DJ Cross, Nick Bike.

The archive