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Re:SomaFM by rektide on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @01:19PM (#31572166)
I really miss Shoutcast/Icecast being such an active part of my life. The quality is way down, and there's like 1/6th the channels there used to be. For electronica in particular, there was just so much. But there were also so many random niche stations!

SomaFM continues to be a great place for highly genre-d music. I make sure to give em money semi-regularly. Suburbs of Goa[1] is one of my favorite.

[1] https://somafm.com/suburbsofgoa/

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Re:SomaFM by soylentcola on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @01:54PM (#31572625)
There are still quite a few though. I have several bookmarks on my normal PC and in AIMP on mobile. I never did "outgrow" my practice of using multiple bookmarked streaming stations as my daily "radio dial".
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Re:SomaFM by bambataa on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @02:16PM (#31572906)
There may not be as much Icecast stuff but internet radio is doing very well.

Someone else has already mentioned nts.live (it has a huge range of stuff, more like a radio station) but other UK-based stations are balamii.com, supremefm.com and rinse.fm (Rinse used to be a pirate radio station but went legal).

Internet radio stations are the go to for up to date music really.

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Re:SomaFM by foresto on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @05:43PM (#31575322)
> For electronica in particular, there was just so much. But there were also so many random niche stations!

Indeed. I remember regularly switching between Massinova and a rebroadcast Polish classical station whose DJ had a nice voice.

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Re:SomaFM by meanmrmustard92 on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @05:35PM (#31588450)
Shpongle and OTT are amazing goa-ish electronica. OTT's new album is great.
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