A shelf in the record shop
Freak Show
Mashups, vaporwave, genre accidents on purpose.
16 stations
Every station here plays in 432 Hz instead of the usual 440 if you want it to — the page shifts the pitch down by 31.77 cents. We promise you no effect. We give you a dial.
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Bootie Mashup · San Francisco, US · mp3 · 320 kbit/s
The people behind the Bootie party series, playing mashups in San Francisco and a dozen other cities since 2003. At 320 kbit/s, with a mixing craft that goes well beyond the usual two-track trick.
live DJ
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Nightwave Plaza · Moskau, RU · opus · 64 kbit/s
Vaporwave around the clock, with stretched-out eighties ad jingles, department-store music, and video-game sounds. An internet culture that materialized as a radio station — animated shopping mall on the website included.
no ads at night instrumental
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SomaFM · San Francisco, US · aac · 128 kbit/s
SomaFM's answer to the vaporwave phenomenon, sorted a bit more accessibly than Nightwave Plaza. For anyone who wants to understand the appeal without fighting straight through the genre's thicket.
no ads instrumental
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Kohina · Helsinki, FI · vorbis · 128 kbit/s
Broadcasting exclusively music from the demoscene and old home computers since 2003 — Amiga modules, C64 sounds, tracker tunes. A genre that shaped a whole generation of programmers and plays nowhere else.
no ads instrumental community
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Keygen FM · Moskau, RU · mp3 · 128 kbit/s
Plays the chiptune music from software-piracy keygens — small programs whose authors developed a whole music culture out of sheer ambition. Absurd origin, surprisingly good music.
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Zelerk · Chicago, US · mp3 · 256 kbit/s
The danceable offshoot of vaporwave, called future funk: eighties Japanese city pop records, sped up and laid over house beats. Happier than the source material, and considerably faster.
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Zelerk · Chicago, US · mp3 · 256 kbit/s
Modern chiptune productions — new music on old game-console hardware rather than nostalgia reruns. The limit of three channels and noise forces an inventiveness you can hear.
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NoLife · Paris, FR · mp3 · 96 kbit/s
The remnant of a French niche TV channel for video-game and Japanese culture, living on as radio. Video game music, J-pop, and French oddities in a mix that could only have come about this way.
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Shmup Radio · Sankt Petersburg, RU · mp3 · 320 kbit/s
Exclusively music from shoot-'em-up arcade games, mostly Japanese ones from the nineties. An extremely narrow genre with surprisingly dense musicianship — horn sections and basslines for games that last nine minutes.
instrumental no ads
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Gamesboro · Wien, AT · mp3 · 128 kbit/s
Video game music from four decades, from orchestral scores to 8-bit tracks, run by a Vienna collective. A repertoire that by now fills serious concert halls and still barely shows up on radio.
instrumental community
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SomaFM · San Francisco, US · mp3 · 128 kbit/s
Ambient soundscapes with actual San Francisco police radio mixed underneath — calls, codes, street names, all live. Sounds like the soundtrack to a movie being shot outside right now.
no ads at night
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SomaFM · San Francisco, US · mp3 · 128 kbit/s
Exotica and space-age bachelor-pad music from the fifties and sixties — the records postwar suburbs used to dream of Tahiti. Absurd, kitschy, and musically surprisingly sophisticated.
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SomaFM · San Francisco, US · mp3 · 256 kbit/s
The even more specialized twin of Illinois Street Lounge: tiki culture, Hawaiian guitars, bird calls between tracks. A genre that comes straight out of American cocktail bars and is entirely made up.
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SomaFM · San Francisco, US · mp3 · 128 kbit/s
Exclusively cover versions — and specifically ones that rebuild the original instead of replaying it: punk as bossa nova, rap as bluegrass. A whole channel that lives off the joy of misunderstanding.
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NTS Radio · London, GB · mp3 · 256 kbit/s
The most unwieldy NTS mix: musique concrète, noise, electroacoustic experiments, and things you're not sure qualify as music. Expressly meant as an imposition, and a successful one.
no ads instrumental at night
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Gutsy Radio · Vereinigte Staaten, US · aac · 128 kbit/s
Freeform in the original sense: no format, no playlist, no program grid. What plays is decided by whoever's on the mic — and you notice immediately when they change.
live DJ community