Sound Plunge
6 Excellent Sources for Internet Music
Remember the days CD mixes were the shit, and radio transformed with FM? While vintage gadgets had their place in coolness, they’re hardly compatible in the office, or too distracting while you drive and want some music.
Remember the days CD mixes were the shit, and radio transformed with FM? While vintage gadgets had their place in coolness, they’re hardly compatible in the office, or too distracting while you drive and want some music. Move over radio jockeys, as internet radio channels are the future and ensure you move on to more personalized playlists and uninterrupted music listening. A lot of artists are in favour of releasing their music digitally, and the internet has taken over traditional media when it comes to discovering new music. Here’s a mix of internet radios and digital libraries to get you started if you’re new to this.
Sky FM is very popular for reggae music around the world.
While this is a go-to channel for reggae music, it also features about 64 other channels including one dedicated solely to The Beatles and another for bebop jazz. It will suit the pickiest people among you to find the music that gets you. Run out of England, this channel remains ad-free (and hence hassle free) and relies upon contributions to get it going.
Grooveshark has a brilliant digital library doubling up as a radio station.
Everybody’s favourite place to download music from since 2003 (as a result grooveshark happens to be battling quite a few pending cases against record labels currently) also runs a pretty swell FM radio channel that is accessible across the world. Following a community contribution playlist cum genre based playlist system, it is for those times when you would rather not have to decide what you want to play, but know specifically how it is supposed to make you feel.
India’s first online radio station plays all sorts of original music from around the world.
Operated out of Bangalore, My Opus Radio is a world music radio channel that operates out of India. The nine different channels are fine-tuned (literally so) to Indian tastes. These include FullThrottle (which has three sub-categories Full Throttle, Moshpit and Black Jack 24*7 that has a mix of classic rock and blues), Cassette Player which has smooth retro numbers, Indian indie music in the Opus Platform and other wacky names like House Party and Sax and Violins.
Nokia MixRadio has a huge variety with around 90 lakh songs in their coterie.
So you switch from Jazz to Punj pop at the drop of a hat. Nokia MixRadio is a joy for those who need new music compulsively for with a store of about 90 lakh songs across 21 genres it probably has that particular song you need to hear at that moment, or some new music after a long while. A ‘Play Me’ option on the app helps customize your own mix of your favourite albums/artists. It has the same utility as Pandora’s very popular recommendation option.
As a side-project of Maria Popova, the founder of the brainy literary platform www.brainpickings.org, literary jukebox is for those times you need a bout of inspiration in the middle of the day. Pairing up a quote with a piece of music that resonates those words, it is a multiple aural-cognitive pleasure that it incites. (Say if you could smell the food whenever Jamie Oliver’s on TV.) Moreover, it’s likelier than not you will discover some good indie music. (For us, literary jukebox introduced us to Emilia Torrini and Beth Orton, what about you?)
The perfect radio station to trip on that nostaligia wave, with technicolor to boot.
Maybe for a while you might think you’re looking at a spam website with the fluorescent colours and the hectic figures dancing in the middle. Bringing the 90s back in all it’s technicolour glory, the 90s button is a heady nostalgia trip two decades long. (Seriously, it has been that long since your favourite period in time.)
