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Demoscene and video game music streaming radio links

by m_walden on 2/10/24, 9:19 PM with 34 comments

• by williamjackson on 2/10/24, 9:57 PM

  I’ve been an admin at https://rainwave.cc for about 15 years now. One of the unique (I think) features we have allows listeners to influence what plays next on the radio.

  While the current song is playing, we run a three-candidate election to choose the next song. We usually include a listener request as one of the three candidates in the election.

  We’re a friendly community, in my obviously biased opinion. Feel free to hang out with us on Discord; the link is on the Rainwave homepage.

• by bronikowski on 2/10/24, 9:51 PM

  Every morning I turn up my computer, go to grab some tea, start pyradio and pick up Slay Radio from the list. Nectarine is for the evenings.

• by atum47 on 2/10/24, 11:00 PM

  I tried something very similar a few years ago with Radio [1]. To have animations running along side good music. I got in touch with a lot of web radios asking to use their links. In the beginning I had a lot of streams on my project, but after a while I had to remove a bunch of them, cause they either stop working or were not serving it via HTTPS (chrome wouldn't let me stream http over my https app). Most of the animations were made by me, I've asked a lot of programmers to contribute, but few did. In the end, I let the project run it course. Visiting it today to write this post I saw the only one radio is working "Classic Rock Florida HD". Those guys really liked this project, they were using the link to my app instead of theirs a while ago

  1 - https://victorribeiro.com/radio/classicrockflorida

  https://github.com/victorqribeiro/radio

• by heed on 2/11/24, 4:41 AM

  A worthy mention is zoasty's (super metroid speed runner and musician) alt twitch stream where hardware rips of video game music are played:

  https://www.twitch.tv/sgqfmfunk

  More info on the channel:

  https://pastebin.com/RuAqfgqM

• by sedatk on 2/11/24, 2:16 AM

  Not a Demoscene radio per se, but SomaFM is also a donation-funded internet radio that's well aligned with demoscene listeners like me: electronic, chill, downtempo music which goes well with coding sessions. I've been listening to them for decades now.

  https://somafm.com

• by renegat0x0 on 2/11/24, 8:09 AM

  My links, I have not verified them all if have valid content:

  - https://www.remix64.com/

  - https://modarchive.org/

  - https://www.pouet.net/

  - https://www.elwoodproductions.com/

  - https://nolife-radio.com/

  - https://www.lukhash.com/ and https://www.youtube.com/@lukhash

  - https://keygenmusic.tk/

  - https://csdb.dk/

  - https://www.amigaremix.com/

  - https://archive.org/details/essential-keygen-music

  - https://www.youtube.com/@Kuokka77

  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV3idhsGatQ

  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y82euAFSg7U

  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-mVa7D-ZPY

  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYS66ZWrxWg

  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf_p3-8fTo0

• by snvzz on 2/11/24, 4:57 AM

  And yet not a single reference to https://pouet.net somehow.

• by xrd on 2/10/24, 10:39 PM

  I'm really fascinated by the demoscene, but clicking on those links only gives me music which seems completely devoid of humans. And, I suppose I'm really interested in the demoscene because I really want to know the humans behind it.

  My current favorite radio stations are things like KMHD jazz in Portland, OR, or BBC with Gilles Peterson. Great music, but they always provide such fascinating context to the people behind the music.

  How do I get to know the people making demoscene art? Is there a radio station where someone can introduce me to that? Or, is this the wrong way to think about the demoscene?

• by VyseofArcadia on 2/10/24, 10:55 PM

  Radio Sega seems to be missing from the list - https://www.radiosega.net/

• by fnord77 on 2/11/24, 12:31 AM

  I picked 3 random links and none of them worked.

  and all of them had ads and trackers blocked by my plugins

• by djaouen on 2/10/24, 10:35 PM

  These would pair well with my internet radio program written in Hylang: https://github.com/danieljaouen/pi-radio-hylang ;)

• by kls0e on 2/10/24, 9:45 PM

  interesting. I have had a nectarine demoscene radio sticker on my last fridge. Didn‘t know there is so much more. Thanks!