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by rektide 1483 days ago
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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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".
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.

> 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.

Shpongle and OTT are amazing goa-ish electronica. OTT's new album is great.