Room service (radio broadcast)

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Room Service is a listener request program that has been broadcast every Sunday on FM4 since January 22, 1995 .

history

Initially, the program was moderated exclusively by Martin Blumenau . Since July 2007 it has been moderated alternately by Martin Pieper and Martin Blumenau. Listeners suggest music numbers, which are then usually played. The first number (“Platte zur Lage”) is always selected by the moderator, mostly due to a current occasion. Requests can only be made in writing. In Blumenau, this was later also done via email, Pieper can also be reached via new media such as WhatsApp . The moderator reads the listener's mail live during the broadcast, giving the audience the opportunity to participate in the design. There is no given style of music, so the playlist ranges from singer-songwriter to dub and ambient . But pieces of classical music have also been played.

The two (previous) moderators reserve the right not to play some requests due to different personal preferences. In particular, Martin Blumenau's moderation style, which was somewhat rough and deliberately “unclean” - by bypassing the throat key - caused a sensation among the audience in the early years of FM4. Therefore, at the beginning of the program, the "Signation" warned: "Attention, listeners are touched a little harder in this program!"

Until the changeover from FM4 to the 24-hour program on February 1, 2000, the respective FM4 weekly charts were presented in the last part of the program .

Due to the unofficial subtitle “the show for the special”, the individual wishes sometimes develop in unexpected directions due to the research of the program designer - based on earlier traditions of the music box (“The complete LP ”) or rare, older live recordings are broadcast. Sometimes series like in 2001 supplement the autobiographical 49Songs or, in collaboration with the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the series 50 Years of Pop Music (2005–2006).

Due to these peculiarities and due to the often detailed pop-historical explanations, room service goes far beyond the genre of the “classic” desired program.

Characteristic melody

Until July 2007, a passage from Tonight's da Night (from the debut LP Whut? Thee album from 1992) by Redman , which in turn was samples of "A Few Kisses More" ( Isaac Hayes ; 1979) and "All Night Long "(The Mary Jane Girls) contains.

With the new "Signation" (Austrian for "signature melody"), however, you can hear a butler knocking on the door with the words "FM4 room service", the word "FM4" being a sample by Hubertus Bengsch (German dubbing voice by Richard Gere ), followed by a simple melody - Combustible Edison's song "Junglero" , taken from the 1995 soundtrack album "Four Rooms" - played on a double bass and a singing saw.

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