Following on from my post on free video games mp3 remixes (where everything went wrong!), I thought I’d mention some game and demoscene music streamed stations.

What follows are links to the front pages of these websites. Which radio stream you choose to listen to will depend on whether you have broadband, cable or prefer a Java player - each site offers different combinations. Choose the appropriate link to play the audio stream when you get there; it’ll usually say “listen here” or something similar. The websites also have pretty good FAQs if you get stuck. Generally, a music player like iTunes, Winamp or Amarok will be all you’ll need to listen to these stations. At an absolute push, if you can’t get them to play, contact me for more information and I’ll do my best to help.

When I dropped by at SLAY Radio today (tune in now and get a free TCP packet, they say - how could you refuse? ) there were 142 people listening to the station! SLAY Radio broadcasts from Gothenburg, Sweden and mainly plays remixes of Commodore 64 (C64) music from Remix.Kwed.Org (RKO). There are also live shows in which a DJ will play tracks from RKO, but is able to augment these by playing other music from games and the demoscene, together with tunes that didn’t originate on the C64.

Nectarine Demoscene Internet Radio is a French streamed station that has been around for a long time. It carries over 19,000 demoscene songs and has nearly 3,000 members. There were 57 listeners online when I visited. Members can request specific tracks to be played. Incidentally, Nectarine works in cooperation with Amiga Music Preservation (AMP), which is compiling the biggest and most comprehensive database ever about Amiga musicians.

Kohina, a Finnish station, plays a mixture of oldschool 8 and 16 bit computer, arcade and console music, and new scene releases. There were 18 listeners when I visited. Kohina is well worth listening to if you remember this stuff from first time around, like me, and you’re nostalgic, or if you wonder what computer musicians were able to do with little computer memory but with great enthusiasm.

A relative newcomer is BitJam, a station from Germany which plays only demoscene or related material. The highest number of listeners so far has been 34, and there were 13 listening when I was there, but that’s fine for a new station which has yet to receive much exposure. I particularly like the way the site shows little flags beside the musicians so that you can see where they’re from.

I hope you enjoy listening to these stations, and as a tip, remember to bookmark them in your music player in case you want to listen to them again. You’re sure to find something fresh on each visit.

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