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Radiohop
Hard To Handle
Melting Pot Music
- Cat No: MPM 364
- updated:2026-05-18
A new release from Germany’s MELTING POT MUSIC, known for its popular jazz-funk and downtempo tracks. Due to changes in distribution, we hadn’t been able to get our hands on it, but we’ve now received a direct shipment from the artist himself, who was in Japan on tour with *Wicked Wax Amsterdam*. (Saito)
Track List
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1. DUMMY
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2. 2TONS OF FUTONS
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3. MAD FLUTE
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4. omw
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5. WHERE MY KEYS
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6. IN THE RAIN
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7. SPOOKY TOWN
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8. 1BOWL OF CROUTONS
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9. WHO CARES
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10. BUT THIS
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11. EXCHANGE
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12. hard to handle, hard to hold
RADIOHOP are a four-piece jazz/hip-hop band from Amsterdam, exploring the boundaries between groove, texture, and improvisation. HARD TO HANDLE is their second album and the first drop on Melting Pot Music. As the title suggests, RADIOHOP are going hard on this one.
When HARD TO HANDLE hit our inbox, the band called the 12-track project a “beat tape”. Fair enough. The music is raw, loud, and unapologetic. No polish, no garnish — straight from the source. But describing HARD TO HANDLE a beat tape would not do justice to the quality of the music — that’s why we release it as an a-l-b-u-m: digital, but first and foremost on vinyl.
RADIOHOP are:
Johnny Biner – guitar
Joshua Lutz – keys
Joel Svedberg – bass
Euan Jenkins – drums
All four of them moved to Amsterdam around 2020 to study jazz and quickly plugged into the city’s bubbling scene. RADIOHOP are tight with collectives and promoters like Steppin’ Into Tomorrow, and Super-Sonic Jazz. They released their first album on the local imprint Wicked Wax Music, where they also recorded a collaboration album with Dutch beat icon Kid Sublime (Kill Your Darlings).
Each band member plays an equal role in shaping the music as a single organism, empha-sising feeling and atmosphere rather than ego or individual spotlight.
The compositions arise from experimentation, intuitive collaboration, and deep listening, an approach that has as much to do with their backgrounds as improvisers and beat-makers, as it does with their roots in jazz.
RADIOHOP have performed as the rhythm section for artists like Soul Supreme and Juju Rogers. Beatheads might be familiar with Joshua’s solo project Halfpastseven, who has collaborated with FloFilz and Jake Milliner.
When HARD TO HANDLE hit our inbox, the band called the 12-track project a “beat tape”. Fair enough. The music is raw, loud, and unapologetic. No polish, no garnish — straight from the source. But describing HARD TO HANDLE a beat tape would not do justice to the quality of the music — that’s why we release it as an a-l-b-u-m: digital, but first and foremost on vinyl.
RADIOHOP are:
Johnny Biner – guitar
Joshua Lutz – keys
Joel Svedberg – bass
Euan Jenkins – drums
All four of them moved to Amsterdam around 2020 to study jazz and quickly plugged into the city’s bubbling scene. RADIOHOP are tight with collectives and promoters like Steppin’ Into Tomorrow, and Super-Sonic Jazz. They released their first album on the local imprint Wicked Wax Music, where they also recorded a collaboration album with Dutch beat icon Kid Sublime (Kill Your Darlings).
Each band member plays an equal role in shaping the music as a single organism, empha-sising feeling and atmosphere rather than ego or individual spotlight.
The compositions arise from experimentation, intuitive collaboration, and deep listening, an approach that has as much to do with their backgrounds as improvisers and beat-makers, as it does with their roots in jazz.
RADIOHOP have performed as the rhythm section for artists like Soul Supreme and Juju Rogers. Beatheads might be familiar with Joshua’s solo project Halfpastseven, who has collaborated with FloFilz and Jake Milliner.
Radiohop is a band of musicians who have collaborated with FloFilz, Soul Supreme, Kid Sublime, Juju Rogers, and many other popular hip-hop bands that follow downtempo, jazz, and funk-tinged styles. The band's new third album is a collection of jazz, rare groove, dub, and electronic music with a new dimension of technique and taste. It's really good.
(As a bonus, you get a special set that includes KitPlayer (a KiT album format that was popular in K-POP|a special app is needed), stickers and photo cards to listen to the previous album "All We Do" by connecting it to your cell phone).