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Over 30 channels of commercial-free, human-curated radio programming focusing on great but non-mainstream music.

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Wondering why a nightly maintenance program didn't run last night -- only to notice it was scheduled to run at 2AM and there was no 2AM last night! #daylightsavingstime

08.03.2026 19:12 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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The @RivalConsoles.bsky.social Europe 2026 Live A/V tour commences tonight at MeetFactory in Prague with support from Ben Lukas Boysen, preceding shows across the continent and the UK later this spring.

Tickets: www.rivalconsoles.net/tour

05.03.2026 18:40 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Robert Kaye – MetaBrainz Blog MetaBrainz Blog

Very sad to learn the passing of Robert Kaye, founder of MusicBrainz. Not only we he extremely smart, but he was one of the nicest and friendliest people in the music technology space. He will be greatly missed.
blog.metabrainz.org/2026/02/24/r...

05.03.2026 20:25 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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Thanks to shitty AI we are now inundated with lots of spam like this 😠

01.03.2026 20:25 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Today I released "Closer to Home", a compilation of dub ambient and slow dub techno tracks. The album was mastered by Leon BΓΆlting at @arclab_mastering on high end analog equipment. Thanks a lot to salt for the artwork photo. phelios.bandcamp.com/album/closer...
#dubtechno #ambient

27.02.2026 11:41 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"...one more listener from Sweden :-) Mostly FolkForward or SpyLounge. Nice to find masterpieces which usually will not be broadcasted elsewhere." -- Robert

26.02.2026 20:25 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

You can add our stream links as favorites to iTunes. Towards the bottom of each channel page there are stream links.

24.02.2026 22:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Infinite Machinery Eurorack: A Sleeper Brand in Musical Context
Infinite Machinery Eurorack: A Sleeper Brand in Musical Context YouTube video by S1gns Of L1fe Modular

S1gns Of L1fe did this great introduction and review of my modules. He's such a wonderful ambient music artist and gracefully weaves the modules into play, while creating a song.
#eurorack
youtu.be/0NjVquImVGY

23.02.2026 14:00 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Drone Zone is my near constant work companion. I've always loved atmospheric and ambient music, and I love nearly everything you play. For variety, I go to Deep Space One and when in a rowdier mood Underground 80's which makes me nostalgic for the New Wave band I was in during the 80s." -- Stephen

23.02.2026 01:26 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

"Can't believe I never found this site before in all the time I've been online. Loving the genres here, they're definitely a lifeline getting me through university work right now! Thank you all!" -- Amelia

22.02.2026 20:25 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Huge tune πŸ’ƒπŸ»

19.02.2026 21:39 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It can reflect how you're feeling

19.02.2026 16:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Great record store find in Strasbourg, France: "L'Occase de l'Oncle Tom"
Surprised at how many people were buying CDs, but they were mostly priced new from 7-8 Euros and had a great curated selection. Vinyl on the second floor as well, new and used.

18.02.2026 20:25 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Concerto is an awesome vinyl and more shop in Amsterdam. Highly recommended.

13.02.2026 17:28 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Album cover for "Hounds of Love" by Kate Bush, featuring a woman with long hair in a purple setting, accompanied by dogs.

Album cover for "Hounds of Love" by Kate Bush, featuring a woman with long hair in a purple setting, accompanied by dogs.

FIVE KEY RECORDS: Kate Bush

β€˜Hounds Of Love’ remains Bush’s biggest and arguably best record, featuring her most recognised hits while pushing the limits of pop experimentation.

www.normanrecords.com/features/fiv...

12.02.2026 19:00 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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This looks really cool for our Amsterdam friends:

11.02.2026 18:32 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just what the world needs. More shitty music.

11.02.2026 17:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sad to learn of the passing of Ray Lynch, whose early "genre-defying instrumental music" releases had a real impact on us. We'll be sprinkling some of his tracks around Deep Space One and Drone Zone.

raylynch.com/tribute/inde...

09.02.2026 20:25 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

"Love this place, especially Underground 80's (Huge Thomas Dolby, Depeche etc etc fan so it's great to hear some of those B sides) and Space Station Soma. (perfect for indoor turbo / cycle sessions and driving when the world is rushing by) Just donated" -- Dan

06.02.2026 20:25 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Unfolded Instant, by Astropilot 1 track album

Some lovely floaty ambient here, #bandcampfriday and his 82-release discography is on sale for €55.50 today (considering that is about 4 CDs in the old days, this is a lot of listening for the price).
astro-sphere.bandcamp.com/album/unfold...

06.02.2026 18:58 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Har Har is an American solo atmospheric//prog/alt-rock artist (as Har and Failover), as well as guitarist/bassist/Chapman Stickist for the electronic/prog band Christus and The Cosmonaughts (with Scot Solida), guitarist for the German synth-pop band Elmodic, and former member of the atmospheric band Mirror of Dreams. For more info, visit Har's website: http://www.ambientguitarist.com

Tomorrow is once again #BandcampFriday, when Bandcamp waives their revenue share from all music sales & passes the funds directly to independent artists such as myself. So a great time to pick up the new album or any of my releases available on Bandcamp. Thanks!! πŸ™‚
ambientguitarist.bandcamp.com

06.02.2026 03:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Evening top-down commute vibes courtesy of @somafm.com ❀️

05.02.2026 03:05 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s disappointing to read β€” how hard was it to keep an internet only stream available

04.02.2026 17:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Gonna pour one out for Catherine O’Hara tonight.

31.01.2026 02:55 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β‡’ Deezer: 28% of all music delivered to streaming is now fully AI-generated ⇐

They say there's over 100,00 new songs submitted every day. EVERY DAY!!! That's alot of AI slop dumped into streaming. Ugh, terrible junk.

31.01.2026 00:30 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Philip Glass is trending β€” and he’s not dead (relieved)

28.01.2026 09:25 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

"Listening from Mexico. I owe this website literally my life, I am incredibly thankful for the Indie Rock station and how it made me lock in." -- snats

28.01.2026 01:26 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The public can’t have access to the data, only people pay tremendous amounts of money to data brokers can have it

27.01.2026 09:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

US GOV radio systems are all encrypted. Local cops may or may not be encrypted. Apps like what you mention use Broadcastify on the back end, and they won't stream police tac channels (only dispatch in the clear)

27.01.2026 00:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So many people ask if we take crypto, and now that we do, (and told them we do), they never donate any. Sometimes feels like they say "I only use crypto" as an excuse to not spend money. Β―\_(ツ)_/Β―

27.01.2026 00:26 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0