A shelf in the record shop
The Bargain Bin
Mainstream, clearly marked. What's here is what everyone knows — for visitors looking for something familiar. From here it's just a few shelves to music you've never heard.
9 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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New Wave Radio · unbekannt, US · mp3 · 128 kbit/s
The more accessible side of new wave: Cure, Kate Bush, Duran Duran instead of rarities. If Underground 80s has too much unfamiliar material for you, this is the right place. The website carries ads; whether the stream itself does could not be determined.
80s
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RauteMusik GmbH · Köln, DE · mp3 · 192 kbit/s
The decade's broad hits, no pretense of discovery — the counterpart to Underground 80s and Italopower. RauteMusik has broadcast from Cologne since 2003, and the individual channels run without ad breaks.
no ads 80s
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RauteMusik GmbH · Köln, DE · mp3 · 192 kbit/s
Same principle, one decade later: nineties pop and charts, broad rather than curated. Fills the gap that would otherwise sit open between Eurodance and grunge. If you want to hear the nineties as a whole rather than sliced by genre, this is the place.
no ads 90s
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RauteMusik GmbH · Köln, DE · mp3 · 192 kbit/s
Trance from the nineties to today — so not just the rearview mirror. Still one of the cleanest freely available sources for Robert Miles, Paul van Dyk, and Cosmic Gate, and without ad breaks.
no ads 90s instrumental
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181.FM · Waynesboro, US · mp3 · 128 kbit/s
Wu-Tang, A Tribe Called Quest, TLC, Boyz II Men — the hip-hop and R&B side of the nineties that was missing from the shop entirely until now. Just short station IDs instead of ad blocks. The station has run out of Virginia since 2001 and has preserved the sound of the era instead of polishing it up.
90s human host
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181.FM · Waynesboro, US · mp3 · 128 kbit/s
Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots. Guitars as a counterweight to a shelf that would otherwise list heavily electronic. Recordings from the years a regional Seattle scene became world music within months.
90s
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1.FM AG · Baar, CH · mp3 · 256 kbit/s
Broad nineties pop music from Switzerland, and at 256 kbit/s the best-sounding entry on this shelf. 1.FM has broadcast since the earliest days of web radio. From boy bands to Britpop, without the scissors other stations take to anything that doesn't sound catchy today.
90s
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REGIOCAST · Kiel, DE · mp3 · 192 kbit/s
2 Unlimited, Snap!, Culture Beat, Dr. Alban — Eurodance with no apology. Exactly the genre that divides opinion and that hadn't shown up in the shop before. Music that lived off cheap synthesizers, rapped verses, and sung choruses — and ruled the charts for half a decade.
90s
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REGIOCAST · Kiel, DE · mp3 · 192 kbit/s
The same genre as 181.FM 90s Alternative, but from a German vantage point and with a different rotation. Listen to both side by side and you'll quickly notice how differently the same decade gets remembered.
90s