A shelf in the record shop
Engine Room
Electronic with an edge.
18 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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Hirschmilch · Kassel, DE · mp3 · 128 kbit/s
A one-man station from Kassel running ad-free and unhosted since 2003. The techno channel is the hardest of the four and holds the line for hours without lapsing into cheap tricks.
no ads instrumental at night
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Hirschmilch · Kassel, DE · mp3 · 128 kbit/s
The broadest of the Hirschmilch channels: electronica, downtempo, IDM, all instrumental and uninterrupted. The channel where, after an hour, you forget radio is even playing — in the best sense.
no ads instrumental
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Hirschmilch · Kassel, DE · mp3 · 128 kbit/s
The name says it all: repetitive, slowly mutating tracks that take twelve minutes to get anywhere. For work that can't afford distraction, the most useful channel in the whole catalog.
no ads instrumental at night
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Hirschmilch · Kassel, DE · mp3 · 128 kbit/s
Progressive house and trance in the long, patient build that was standard before the festival boom. If you only know trance as a wall of anthems, this is the other, more restrained half of the genre.
no ads instrumental
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Bassdrive · Chicago, US · mp3 · 192 kbit/s
The worldwide go-to for drum and bass since 1999, run by a network of volunteer DJs across several continents. No station has held the scene outside Britain together like this one.
live DJ human host
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Brokenbeats · Kiew, UA · aac · 340 kbit/s
A Ukrainian station for atmospheric drum and bass, broadcasting at over 300 kbit/s AAC — technically one of the best streams in the whole catalog. Has kept running for years, even under conditions that would have shut down others long ago.
instrumental no ads
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Frisky Radio · Cincinnati, US · mp3 · 96 kbit/s
One of the few underground house stations that has made the leap across two decades, on air since 2003. Built on continuous DJ mixes rather than individual tracks — radio structured like a night at the club.
live DJ
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UZIC · Lausanne, CH · aac · 128 kbit/s
A Swiss station playing minimal and techno exclusively, favoring the stripped-down, near-austere strain of it. Little build, little drama — but tracks you'd otherwise only find on twelve-inches.
instrumental no ads
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ORF · Wien, AT · mp3 · 192 kbit/s
The alternative channel of Austrian public broadcasting, bilingual in German and English, on air since 1995. A public broadcaster that plays drum and bass and experimental music in the evenings instead of chart hits — Germany has nothing comparable.
human host live DJ
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UK Bass Radio · Manchester, GB · mp3 · 192 kbit/s
A small British station for bass music in all its forms — dubstep, garage, bassline, jungle. Small enough that the selection still sounds like people, not playlist software.
live DJ
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Brokenbeats · Bukarest, RO · aac · 323 kbit/s
The softer twin channel to Brokenbeats: liquid and atmospheric drum and bass in the same high sound quality. The channel for the hours when the hard variant would be too much.
instrumental at night
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RES · Moskau, RU · mp3 · 320 kbit/s
A Russian underground station for electronic music at 320 kbit/s and without any interruption. The selection is idiosyncratic enough that you regularly hear tracks that show up in no Western catalog.
instrumental no ads
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Isekoi Chill Zone
FLACIsekoi Radio · Paris, FR · flac
A French channel for electronic chill music, broadcasting lossless in FLAC — rare in this genre and immediately audible on good headphones. Musically somewhere between downtempo, lo-fi, and Japanese-influenced electronic music.
lossless instrumental
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DNB FM · Moskau, RU · mp3 · 320 kbit/s
A Russian drum and bass station at 320 kbit/s, mapping the Eastern European scene — a world of its own with its own producers. If you know the British strain, this is its considerably rougher relative.
instrumental live DJ
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SomaFM · San Francisco, US · mp3 · 128 kbit/s
Indian classical and Bollywood finds, woven together with downtempo and dub — a genre mix that exists nowhere else quite like this. Neither world music nor electronic, but a third thing with no name.
no ads instrumental
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SomaFM · San Francisco, US · mp3 · 256 kbit/s
IDM in the Warp Records tradition: chopped-up rhythms, glitches, tracks that refuse to hold a beat. A genre whose heyday is behind it and is kept alive here.
no ads instrumental
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SomaFM · San Francisco, US · mp3 · 128 kbit/s
Progressive house and psychedelic trance in the long build that was standard in British clubs in the nineties. Tracks that take ten minutes and use every one of them.
no ads instrumental at night
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Dunkerque Street Radio · Dünkirchen, FR · aac · 128 kbit/s
From a North Sea port town nobody associates with club music — exactly why. Electro, house, and techno from people who live there and have no scene at their backs.
live DJ community