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Old times, but the stubborn kind. Italo disco, spacesynth, early rave — what nobody played back then, and even less so now.
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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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SomaFM · San Francisco, US · mp3 · 256 kbit/s
Early UK synth-pop and new wave away from the rotation — Soft Cell, Human League, and plenty that nobody played even back then. SomaFM has funded itself through donations for over twenty years and broadcasts without a single second of advertising as a result.
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Radio Italopower · unbekannt, IT · mp3 · 192 kbit/s
Italo disco, Hi-NRG, and spacesynth — the niche nobody else in the shop covers. New productions in the same style are mixed in, barely distinguishable from the originals. The website funds itself through ads.
80s instrumental
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REGIOCAST · Kiel, DE · mp3 · 192 kbit/s
The early nineties, when rave still sounded like a warehouse and not a festival stage. Acid house and hardcore before Eurodance and long before trance. Tracks built for sound systems that could barely handle the bass — and that's exactly where their hardness comes from.
90s instrumental
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SomaFM · San Francisco, US · mp3 · 320 kbit/s
Californian rock and yacht rock from the seventies, curated rather than rotated — Steely Dan next to names that never made it into a best-of compilation. At 320 kbit/s, one of the best-sounding channels in the whole shop.
no ads 70s
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Radio Cowabunga · Madrid, ES · aac · 128 kbit/s
Northern soul, boogaloo, garage, and power pop from a Spanish collective. Music that flopped in the sixties and got rediscovered decades later on British dance floors — the second career of poorly selling records.
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XRaydio · Sofia, BG · aac · 165 kbit/s
A Bulgarian jukebox with mod, vintage soul, and jet-set lounge. Sounds like a bar where the records haven't been swapped out since 1966 — which is exactly the appeal of this selection.
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XRaydio · Sofia, BG · aac · 164 kbit/s
The broader sister channel: garage punk, dream pop, acid house, and Americana in the same program. A station that refuses to make up its mind and stays surprisingly coherent anyway.
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Wraith Vision · Berlin, DE · mp3 · 128 kbit/s
Doo-wop, crooners, and rhythm and blues from the fifties and sixties. The music pop music started with, played without the nostalgia filter oldies stations usually lay over it — as if the recordings had just come out.
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R.SA · Leipzig, DE · mp3 · 192 kbit/s
Rock music from East Germany — Puhdys, Karat, Silly, City. A music history that ran parallel to the Western one for forty years and that almost nobody outside East Germany knows to this day.
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