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OpenLab Radio was founded in Ibiza by producer Robert Miles in 2013, went silent after his 2017 death, and returned in 2019 to keep championing independent electronic music.
Beat Geeks Radio is a London-based station run by nearly 20 resident DJs across house, hip-hop, electronic, rock and reggae, growing its roster through an open Monthly Mix Competition rather than a fixed lineup.
Deutschrap Charts is a rautemusik (rm.fm) channel out of Cologne streaming uncensored German rap around the clock, tracking a genre that moved from the margins to dominate Germany's streaming charts after 2017.
Newtown Radio has broadcast freeform, artist-run programming from a former Bushwick, Brooklyn brewery since 2009, hosting everything from underground rock showcases to MoMA-curated concerts.
Project 88.7 is Boise's Christian rap and hip-hop station, part of a faith-based network that began in 1990 as KTSY, now riding a genre wave that Lecrae helped push into the mainstream.
Shake!FM began in 2017 as founder Michel Mertens' solo Hamburg music blog devoted to soul, funk, and beat-driven genres, and now runs professionally as part of the Radio Regenbogen broadcast family, still curated by the same founder who named it after a friend's old club.
bigFM Just Music is the talk-free, music-only channel of bigFM, the biggest private youth radio station in Germany with 2.5 million weekly listeners. It keeps the station's hip-hop, urban and chart-pop energy and strips out the chatter, for an uninterrupted stream of beats.
REYFM Hip-Hop Gold is one of 15+ specialist channels from Germany's REYFM internet radio network, dedicated entirely to classic hip-hop from the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. Streaming at 320kbps, it plays the East Coast, West Coast, and Southern rap records that built the genre.
German rap was once dismissed as a linguistic impossibility. Delta radio's Top100 Deutschrap channel, streaming non-stop from Kiel's RADIOZENTRUM, tells the full story of how it became Germany's dominant youth music format, from 90s pioneers like Absolute Beginner and Fettes Brot to today's Casper, Marteria, K.I.Z. and RAF Camora.
Radio Regenbogen Flashback is the nostalgia channel of Radio Regenbogen, southwest Germany's biggest private broadcaster since 1988. Broadcasting from Mannheim, the Flashback stream plays the defining hits of the 80s, 90s, and 2000s as a continuous time machine, drawing on nearly four decades of curatorial experience from the station that built its reputation on these tracks.
