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Founded in Baku in 2022, Anti Radio is an independent, ad-free online station built as a rebellion against algorithmic radio. It streams a human-curated flow of lo-fi, ambient and deep house, and even weaves listeners' own playlists into the rotation. Its motto: break the loop.
Liquid DnB is a London internet station dedicated to the melodic, soulful side of drum and bass, curated by mix technicians Addictive, Arythmatik and H-Prom in an MC-free environment. Built on the jazz, soul, and ambient influences that gave the liquid subgenre its name, it's drum and bass for listeners who know the genre has always had more to offer than its reputation suggests.
WDR 1Live Special is the curated overflow channel of Germany's 1LIVE, the WDR public broadcaster that launched on April 1, 1995 to replace the ageing WDR 1 and reach NRW's 14-to-39 generation. The Special stream carries live sessions, music specials, and themed sets that don't make the main schedule, all commercial-free.
Launched on New Year's Eve 2008 by a German electronic music enthusiast known as baq, Hirschmilch Radio grew over 18 years from a two-channel passion project into a free, non-commercial home for chillout, ambient, downtempo, psytrance, techno and more, with its Chillout channel anchored by DJ Dense's long-running weekly show Chill On!
REYFM is a multi-channel internet radio network based in Bönen, North Rhine-Westphalia, and #original is its flagship: a 24/7 stream of melodic house, progressive dance, and crossover electronic music that captures the core of what the project was built to do.
Founded on March 8, 2003, by academics Gabriela Warkentin and Juan Carlos Henríquez at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, Ibero 90.9 is a hand-curated alternative station that plays no algorithms, no commercial playlists, and answers to no advertisers. It is, as its own manifesto puts it, an antídoto contra el silencio intolerable.
Born in April 2020 from one man's lifelong passion for sound, Le Bon Mix Radio 97.9 is a self-financed, ad-free French station broadcasting Funk, Jazz, Soul, Disco, Reggae, Rock and World music — with a 70,000-title library and lossless FLAC streaming for true audiophiles.
In 2020, Leipzig DJ and producer Philip Mertens bought the radio station he'd been running for someone else, refused to let it die, and rebuilt it from scratch. Today Leipzig Beatzz is a 24/7 EDM and electronic station, a club night, and the organiser of Leipzig's first major outdoor festival, the Future Beatzz Festival.
