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Finds
Regional and curious finds from around the world.
15 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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ByteFM · Hamburg, DE · mp3 · 192 kbit/s
A listener-funded Hamburg station practicing music journalism in the best sense since 2008: shows with a theme, research, and a point of view instead of a rotation playlist. The closest German counterpart to WFMU.
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WDR · Köln, DE · mp3 · 128 kbit/s
WDR's world-music channel, grown out of the sixties program for guest workers. Today the best German-language source for global pop, Afrobeats, and Turkish psychedelia.
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Radio Méga · Valence, FR · mp3 · 320 kbit/s
A free radio from the provinces along the Rhône, part of the French network of independent local stations. Broadcasts at 320 kbit/s with a selection that pays no mind to reach.
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Ancient FM · Toronto, CA · mp3 · 128 kbit/s
Exclusively medieval and Renaissance music, played on period instruments. A station nobody would think to invent, which is exactly why it exists — for over fifteen years now.
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Multimedia Group · Kumasi, GH · mp3 · 128 kbit/s
A station from Kumasi, Ghana's second-largest city, with programming mostly in Twi. Highlife, gospel, and long talk shows in a language almost no European listener understands — and it works anyway.
local human host
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LagosJump · Lagos, NG · mp3 · 192 kbit/s
An online station from Lagos, mapping Nigeria's music scene up close rather than by way of Western charts. Afrobeats sounds different when it hasn't been sorted for export.
local live DJ
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Yabiladi · Casablanca, MA · mp3 · 128 kbit/s
Chaabi is Moroccan folk music for festivals and weddings, loud, repetitive, and almost unknown in Europe. This station plays it without the soft focus world-music compilations like to apply.
local
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Yurd FM · Baku, AZ · mp3 · 192 kbit/s
An Azerbaijani station with mugham, the local modal art music, mixed in with current pop. Music from a region that sits culturally between Persia, Turkey, and Russia and belongs to none of them.
local human host
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Radyo Şiran · Şiran, TR · mp3 · 128 kbit/s
A small-town station from Şiran in northeastern Anatolia, with Turkish folk music and local news. So small and so local that while listening, you can be fairly sure how many people are tuned in.
local community
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Bamtaare FM · Dodel, SN · mp3 · 128 kbit/s
A village station from Senegal, broadcasting in Pulaar for the region along the Senegal River. Community radio in its most original form — announcements, music, people passing word to each other.
local community
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Radio Armisa · Bergamo, IT · aac · 195 kbit/s
An Italian provincial station from the Bergamo countryside with surprisingly good sound quality. Italian pop music away from the Sanremo axis, with local news from a valley almost nobody knows.
local community
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NTS Radio · London, GB · mp3 · 256 kbit/s
Not a music channel, but field recordings throughout: rainforests, subway stations, marketplaces, thunderstorms. The strangest show in the whole catalog, and surprisingly good at changing a room.
instrumental no ads at night
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SomaFM · San Francisco, US · mp3 · 320 kbit/s
Americana and alt-country for people who can't do anything with Nashville — raw, thinly produced, often from labels nobody's heard of. At 320 kbit/s, the best-sounding channel the house has.
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SomaFM · San Francisco, US · mp3 · 128 kbit/s
Celtic music and its relatives around the world — from Scottish ballads through Breton dance music to Canadian fiddle. Shows how far a tradition can travel when emigrants take it with them.
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SomaFM · Black Rock City, US · mp3 · 128 kbit/s
The radio of the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert, which keeps broadcasting for the rest of the year. A mix of desert techno, announcements to a city that only exists one week a year, and things hard to classify.
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