written by SeanMontgomery on 14/06/2011
Just about all radio stations today (terrestrial, satellite, internet) suffer from the same problem: predictability. Even the ones that play music that I like rarely surprise me. But Strangeways is different. It's what a radio station used to (and ought to) be: a place where people whose taste I trust bring in new discoveries that they're passionate about, and share them with me. Every day, I hear something new and interesting. And in the station's chatroom, I can talk about these tracks with the DJs. I haven't felt this kind of excitement and camaraderie about music since my mid-20s. And on top of that, they also play some of the best music of the past 30 years...the same varied selection of genres that I've grown up listening to: electronica, trip hop, shoegaze, indie...it's all here. And it's pretty much all I listen to now.
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