Gallery: Revolutions On Air Roundtable

The early ‘80s was a uniquely fertile time for music, with a plethora of new and exciting genres – dance, electro, and hip-hop – developing all at once. Ingenuity was coming from clubs and the streets, and new sounds were being tested out on the millions who were listening to the radio. As a companion piece to the Red Bull Music Academy documentary Revolutions On Air: The Golden Era of New York Radio 1980 - 1988, we invited the era’s most important players for a roundtable discussion: with insights from Marley Marl, Tony Humphries, DJ Red Alert, Merlin Bobb, Ted Currier, Aldo Marin, and Chuck Chillout, all hosted by EgoTrip's Chairman Mao. Check the photo highlights below from Drew Gurian and Maria Jose Govea.