Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Rachmaninoff Radio

There has not been a day when I didn't feel nostalgic about my home country, Russia and my city, Moscow. All the memories from the past make me realize I will always be russian in my soul and in my mind....with my russian, stubborn character. You probably will agree with me - memories from the past are always the best, you think nothing can be better in the future.
This station I found while listening to some Classical music online. Playing my favorite Russian Composer, Rachmaninoff, for hours and days. If you ever get a chance to hear it live in concert, you will understand what a beatuful, romantic and moving music it is. For me it is my Russia that I remember, with its bereza 'birch' trees, big fields and thouthful, warm people.
Enjoy **Rachmaninoff Radio**

Genre Classical, Romantic, Piano
More stations playing Rachmaninoff
Other Romantic Stations

Place i lived in Russia for 15 years - "Kolomenskoe"

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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

ZERO HOUR Network

Taking music in its own hands and making unique Music Genre Categories like Any Mood(Energetic, Mellow,Sad...) and Any Place(At The Beach,Ibiza,Cancun,Route66...), gathering talented independed labels and artists and presenting them through Live365 network. From zeronetwork mission statement:"IN A WORLD where much is made of what divides us, there are many of us who feel, as Sting has written, like a hundred billion castaways stranded on an island, looking for a home.
At 0hour, we believe that Music has the power to heal and the power to unite. Moreover, we believe it has the power to free your mind. It can take you back to a place in time, help you escape to a night club in Ibiza , or create just the right mood for those special occasions.
Consequently, our mission is clear: To make people's lives better with Music. So, all you castaways, we hope you’ll find a home here with us."

Audio:96 kbps MP3PRO

My favorite zerohournetwork stations:

Wired - Electronica, Italo Disco and Alternative Club Mixes with a taste of Ibiza **LISTEN**

Surf - A Day At The Beach **LISTEN**

World Music - The Best The World Has To Offer **LISTEN**

80s - The Music From When They Still Played Music On MTV **LISTEN**

Check their intire directory here

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

DJ Appropriate

DJ Appropriate (aka Tony Brooke) from San Francisco, plays cool dj mixes and artists like Cheb I Sabbah,Beck, The Temptations,Bebel Gilberto and DJ Blue Water in R&B/Urban, Downtempo and Latin genres. **LISTEN**
An Independent with his own website and music recommendations, he also has a last.fm profile where he features his live365 live station as 'Recently Listened Tracks'. While looking at his Profile, I decided to look at lastfm and what they can offer compared to live365. I like their user pages a lot, it's a great way to get users of similar tastes together. The radio station presents sets of songs based on user personal taste or if it is a group, then on the group music taste.
I would not call it a real radiostation experience with its own DJs and handpicked songs to play in certain order as live365 offers. But I admit, they do have a great music lovers community. As a person who likes to listen to more professional DJs and to unique content, I would stick with live365 and hope one day the live365 listening community will be as visible as last.fm .......or even better.

For now: Live365.com Recommendations(login to get personalized ones), or click on purple icons in directory - Listeners who like DJ Appropriate also like these stations

Genre:R&B/Urban,Downtempo,Latin
Playlist:6 days, 12 hours (2300+ tracks) with a minimum of 4 days before any track repeats. Effective freshness factor: high
WEB:djappropriate.com, The Appropriate Stream
Upcoming Events in SF:Every Monday 'Brainstormer Pub Quiz' at Danny Coyle's pub

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Lounge 94109


Lounge 94109 - going local with its neat zipcode name. A downtempo station from Downtown of San Francisco.**LISTEN**
Broadcasting Mezzanine de l'Alcazar, Hotel Costes, Man Ray and Buddha-Bar. Has 4 Scheduled shows at 11 pm 4 days a week with OM label, hometown music and Paris Lounge.











More good stuff:
Tonight 10 pm - FREE Party with Chuck Love(OM, Salted, Tango) at SUPPERCLUB
Downtempo Labels originated in SF:
sixdegreesrecords.com
om-records.com
cyberset.cc
Downtempo tribe online:
downtempo.tribe.net
Best SF mag:
7x7

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

This week - Best of San Francisco

My Painting
Here is a little geographic research and some statistics: There are a total of 872 stations from California on live365.com, from them, 86 are originated in San Francisco and 25 are broadcasting in the Electronica/Downtempo genre. Here is a list of few favorites from SF that will be featured this week along with some of the most popular cool SF spots to visit and listen to some good music:
Lounge 94109++LISTEN++
DJ Appropriate++LISTEN++
-Below Zero-++LISTEN++
:hm::housemuzique::SF::++LISTEN++
chilling you out++LISTEN++

And a painting you see on top is my artwork from year 2000. Enjoy!
Lana

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Doktorlove's relax

Happy Valentine Day! Featuring one of most romantic stations on live365 from France by 'Doctorlove'. Music for your romantic moments and your hot nights! It is a wild mix of R&B, romantic oldies, chill out and international lounge music.||LISTEN||This week Valentine day comes on Wednesday, but i still want you relax, get into romantic mood for the evening and listen to artists like 'The Velvet Underground' and 'Zero 7'.
One of my favorite videos about my favorite time of the week:
The Velvet Underground-Sunday Morning

MORE LOVE FROM:

MY LOVE RADIO.COM

Music4Lovers

IN YOUR HOUSE

Monday, February 12, 2007

Generation 80s Retro

"Generation 80s Retro" is a New Wave, 80s and Alternative Classics station broadcasted by javajanedm. As a teenager I remember stealing tapes from my older brother to listen to this music with my friends. From Javajane "Now partnering with iTunes Radio, Gen80s is one of the most listened to independent, hobbiest [non-corporate] ALTERNATIVE 80s radio station in the world, with nearly 6,000,000 total listening hours logged. Generation80s has been the #1 "Alternative" station on the Live365 network for nearly 4 years and one of the top overall streams on their network for some time, thanks to YOUR listening and support." Popular artists on this station:New Order, The Cure, Human League, Erasure, Duran Duran and many others.+++LISTEN+++
Adding to this review a best Windows Media Interface I've tested so far called TVedia(made by 8Dimensions). Can be accessed from your TV - Supports Live365, Flickr, YouTube, Google Video and MetaCafe.
Here are few pages featuring "Generation 80s Retro" Station Page and Live365.com directory listing.


Blog:javajanesworld.typepad.com
Web:javajanesworld.com
Playlist: longer than 1-2 days (often changes)
Genre: Alternative, 80s, Classic Alternative
Featured Software to listen with: TVedia

Thursday, February 8, 2007

Six Degrees Traveler

A broadcast lead by ‘Six Degrees’ co-founder, Bob Duskis. A weekly station playing 2 hour Traveler Installments with commentaries from Bob Duskis.'LISTEN' This station is my long time favorite as it features amazing songs and mixes that are really rare to find in the World Electronica/Dance genre. Check Out their website for more info on current playlist and artists. My favorite artist I heard on their label is ‘Bombay Dub Orchestra’ which features 2 great artists Garry Hughes and Andrew T. Mackay and 'Bossacucanova'. From ‘Six Degrees’ editors about Bossacucanova album:” the members of Bossacucanova suggest that you "secure a tranquil moment, select the right company and relax your mind and your eyes. Let our soundwaves take you to the magnificent sunsets of Ipanema beach." As attractive as that invitation is, listeners will probably find that this wonderful album will complement a raucous evening on the patio with cocktails and tiki torches as nicely as it does a moment of tranquil relaxation. Gentle jazz, complex breakbeats, sad-but-happy melodies, sudden eruptions of funky electronica — it sounds kind of like a recipe for the perfect party, doesn't it? For that matter, it may even be the recipe for a better world — but the party will do for now”. The station also has an archive for their installements here. And you can hear some of music label music life at various clubs and venues throughout North America.
Playlist: 2 hour show no ads(Professional Station)
Genre: World Electronica
WEB:sixdegreesrecords.com
Other electronica label i like: humpty.de

Wednesday, February 7, 2007

REmiXed! by DJ Jimmy B

This Dance station became popular among thousands of International listeners in just 2 months. Started in December 2006, it reached almost 5,000 TLH (Total Listening Hours in the last 30 days) by February. It takes couple years for a good station to reach this TLH. Broadcaster, ‘DJ Jimmy B’ also has a nice website with 'The Hit List'.
The station has a lot of Energy Megamixes, Progressive remixed tracks and EuroNRG hits by Sash, Alice Deejay and many others. It makes you dance in your chair at work, oops I probably shouldn’t do this. If you have a party, just turn this station on your MAC or PC and any crowd would start dancing hearing the music coming out from your speakers.<Listen>

For readers who don’t know what live365 is – it is a community of more than 10,000 broadcasters and millions of listeners. Anybody can become a broadcaster and share their music tastes with millions. Just as Last.fm and Pandora, we have popular tracks, but we also have many custom DJ Mixes, Talk Shows, International Music from all over the world and Professional stations. I guess this would be one of the reasons why I have been here for more than 7 years already.

Other great dance stations:
Planet Euro
Dance
Genre:Electronic/Dance, Dance Pop, Progressive
Playlist:More than 10 hours long, regularly updated
WEB::djjimmyb.com

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

SFDanceRadio


Remember the movie 'Groove', It was around year 2000 when it came out during a time when we were going out everyweek to party in SF. Popular DJs at the
time: , John Digweed and Sasha, Leftfield and DJ Polywoog. It was a time of progressive house, when your head started slowly spinning and some sounds would bring you up high and some would drop you down. There is a popular party in SF 'Stompy' which we really enjoy back then and now, they have been is SF from 1992. While thinking about these times I tried to find a station that would remind me how happy we were dancing and enjoying each other. Here is the station: SFDance. It is a small spin of tunes that were popular in 2000. Nobody touched this station for few years, but it has few hours of good music. On the left pic of DJ Polywog on Webby Awards 2002 I attended.

My Favs playing progressive house:Dance Groovz

TRANCELVANIA

Netmix.com Net Radio




Playlist: lasts for a few hours
Genre: Electronic/Dance, Techno, Trance
WEB:sfdance.org

Monday, February 5, 2007

EASYTEMPO LATITUDES

This station started in the year 2000 by 2 coworkers, me(Lana) and Natalia. After we discovered absolute love for downtempo music and great artists like Thievery Corporation, Nightmares on Wax, De-Phazz, Kruder & Dorfmeister and many others that were playing in many SF locations. This was also the same time I met my husband who also fell in love with me and the music I love. The image on the left, my painting was also inspired by this station.

Other stations playing downtempo music i like:
Chillout 2 New York



BossaNovaBeats


French Lounge

Playlist: lasts for a few days
Genre: Downtempo, Electronic/Dance, Chill
Listen: 5 years ago-in a club hugging with friends, now-lounging at home connected with Squeezebox.
Some great Downtempo sites: thedownbeat.org, somafm.com
Clubs in SF playing Chill:Supperclub,Levende Lounge,Medjool

 
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