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listen live to Ungawa online streaming here:
http://streaming.radiocentraal.org only on Sunday 6-7pm (local time! GMT+1)

(Antwerp, Belgium, FM 106.7 - live broadcast every Sunday 18:00 - 19:00)
(more info AND soundfiles on www.myspace.com/ungawa66 , so join!
and on Facebook)

I started recording my shows digitally at the end of 2000. Some shows from 1992-2000 I still have somewhere on audiotape, but the sound quality is too low and I don't know exactly where to look for them. (what's the meaning of the word Ungawa?)

Here you get all the playlists from november 2000 till today. Also my yearly TOP50 and the 45s I've found that year:

2000 top50 old45s                     11 12
2001 top50 old45s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
2002 top50 old45s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
2003 top50 old45s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
2004 top50 old45s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
2005 top50 old45s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
2006 top50 old45s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
2007 top50 old45s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
2008 top50 old45s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
2009 top50   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
2010     1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
2011     1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
2012     1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

The radio show Ungawa! started in 1992 at the independent alternative and non-commercial radio station Radio Centraal settled in the old center of the city of Antwerp, one of a kind in Belgium. While at the beginning the show was focused on the weirdest movie soundtracks, Ungawa! evolved into a more diverse radio show. From rockabilly, blues, novelty and exotica of the 40s and 50s to beat, garage, soul and psychedelic of the 60s and 70s, and mixed with movie tunes, soundtracks and recent bands that are influenced by all the aforementioned music genres. Once in a while there's a live interview, every year the legendscary Halloween specials and other special features and also (re-)views on concerts, festivals, movies and other interesting features.

 

 

 

What does the word UNGAWA mean? It's a million things... supposedly there's even a book written about this magical word!
(sometimes UMGAWA, UNGUAUA, UMGOWA,UM-GOW-WOW, OONGAWA...)

  • a peninsula

  • a native Indian princess

  • a popular Apache word

  • a weird Navajo word

  • a popular word uttered by Tarzan and other native Africans, meaning Go! Come on!

  • a song by The Kingpins (Unguaua Pts1&2)

  • a song by Ali Baba

  • a song by Pulsallama (Ungawa Pt.2)

  • a song by Dizzy Gillespie

  • a song by Homer Henderson and the Dalworthington Garden Boys (Hawaiian Ungawa)

  • a song by Jimmy Ricks & The Ravens

  • a song by Buzzercall

  • a song by The Vast Majority

  • and used in a thousand (exotica) tunes

  • like in the Cramps' "Super Goo"

  • a gorilla God in George Of The Jungle

  • a 1993 Oregon based band which recorded BeepBeep

  • a London based 2005 trio

  • an early 90s cult & trash movie magazine

  • a German record store

  • a German radio show (founded a few months after the Belgian one)

  • a Tiki-bar in Italy

  • the exotic tent of the annual Festival Beat (named after me as I played there the year before)

  • ...