SomaFM
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| Radio station | |
| reception | Livestream |
| Reception area | Worldwide |
| Start of transmission | February 2000 |
| executive Director | Rusty Hodge |
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SomaFM is an ad-free internet station with 20 radio stations on different music styles, ranging from electronic music to indie rock . The station, founded in San Francisco in 1999 , uses SHOUTcast server capacities and is financed through donations. This means that the radio program can be offered free of advertising. A current list of the tracks played is available. AacPlus , MP3 -Stream and Windows Mediastream are available as data formats .
Radio stations
The stations of the station are each limited to a certain genre of music. There are also topics that are supposed to represent the individual radio stations and on the basis of which the pieces of music are selected. The current more than 30 stations include:
- Beat Blender : Music between deep house and chill-out
- Black Rock FM : 102.3 MHz in Black Rock City and live stream on SomaFM
- Boot Liquor : Americana
- cliqhop idm : Minimal Dance
- Covers : only cover versions
- DEF CON Radio : Ambient and chill-out music to hack. Live from DEF CON 22 in Las Vegas.
- Digitalis : post-rock
- Doomed : Elektro , EBM , Neofolk and (Post-) Industrial
- Drone Zone : Ambient
- Groove Salad : Chill-Out and Ambient . The most heard station on SomaFM
- Illinois Street Lounge : lounge music
- Indie Pop Rocks! : Indie
- Left Coast 70's: Mellow album rock from the 70s. A yacht is not a requirement
- Lush : downtempo
- Mission Control : Ambient Dance . Historical sound recordings from NASA space missions with ambient music
- PopTron : Indie electropop and indie
- Secret Agent : Soundtracks from 1960s agent films and music in a similar style
- SF 10-33: Ambient mixed with a live broadcast of the San Francisco police radio .
- Sonic Universe : Nu jazz and avant-garde
- Space Station Soma : futuristic ambient and electronica pieces
- Suburbs of Goa : Asian World music
- Tag's Trance Trip : Trance and Techno
- Underground 80s : Early 80s UK synthpop and new wave
Litigation with the RIAA
SomaFM is known, among other things, through a legal dispute with the influential RIAA , the association of the music industry in the USA. The RIAA demanded US $ 15,000 per month in license fees from the Internet radio and obtained its temporary shutdown in June 2002.
Rusty Hodge, the founder of SomaFM , then organized a civil protest, which led to a hearing before the US Congress . In response to this hearing, the Small Broadcasters Amendment Act was passed, which enables an internet broadcaster like SomaFM to work for license fees of between $ 2,000 and $ 5,000 per year.
The Internet Radio Day of Silence took place on June 27, 2007 and was also supported by SomaFM. This time the complaint was a substantial increase in fees by the American Copyright Royalty Board.
literature
- Katharine Mieszkowski: Web radio's last stand , Salon.com . March 26, 2002. Retrieved February 24, 2007.
- Chris Coomey: Move over, pirate radio - from a Bernal Heights garage, Internet station SomaFM plays tunes for the whole wide world, and it's all perfectly legal , San Francisco Chronicle . June 30, 2004. Retrieved February 24, 2007.
Web links
- somafm.com
- RIAA kills US-based Internet radio . In: Kuro5hin , June 21, 2002