Kael Driscoll

Presenting on RTRFM allows me to share the music I love with a vibrant community of listeners. I love being a part of the extended RTRFM family and volunteering my time to be involved with the station brings so many rich rewards that I can’t imagine life without it.

I was lucky enough to have an eclectic musical upbringing courtesy of my parents, but I knew I was on to a good thing when I discovered Brian Eno, Jean-Michel Jarre and Gary Numan all by myself. From the age of three I spent many a happy hour in quiet solitude with my portable record player, spinning Oxygene and the soundtrack of Star Wars until the stylus wore out.

After wasting my high school years pretending to be a guitarist, I was taken to a rave by my next door neighbours where discovered a whole new world of musical experience. Although the madness of the dancefloor was a revelation, it was the chill-out rooms and the morning-after-come-downs where I found my true inspiration. Now 30 years later I am recreating some of those hazy memories by trawling through the ambient archives and discovering the new vanguard of spaced-out artists.