The philosophy behind radiohhh.com

 

Along with the digital revolution itself, the advent of the shuffle button has transformed the way many of us listen to music. For those with diverse tastes, Rachmaninoff can be followed by Kanye West, then the Stones, then Ella Fitzgerald. The shuffle button can deliver constant surprise.

Of course, we can all enjoy music that way when we’re listening to our iPods. But music delivered by radio is still pretty much the way it has always been. By commercial necessity, Program Directors are still locked into formats, demographics and genres.

radiohhh.com is the first radio station to be absolutely free from genre and demographic dictate. The simple premise is: if it’s good music, it’s good music. But the throwing aside of conventional playlists doesn’t mean radiohhh.com is not programmed. It is. With a diversity of taste for those with a taste for diversity. You’ll experience the aural version of walking into an art gallery and seeing a Picasso, next to a Gainsborough, next to a Hirst. On the same wall.

Whatever the magic is that can attract us to a piece of art, it is only enhanced when placed in unorthodox surrounds. Each piece of music played at radiohhh.com will sound even more special, even more of a surprise, because of what precedes it and what follows it. It’s a reversal of radio programming orthodoxy.

radiohhh.com is really a melting-pot of music; part museum of popular music, part shaky experiment, part labor-of-love and part serious endeavor.

 

 

 

The music on radiohhh.com

 

A lifetime of listening and collecting is represented on radiohhh.com. You’ll hear music going back to the early 1900‘s when recording was a very young  industry. And the next track you hear may have been released last week.

The sonic differences are there to be heard as part of the listening experience. Studio and production techniques stamp the sound of an era as much as voice and style. Some tracks have been transferred directly from vinyl. Indeed, some began life on an Edison cylinder or 78rpm disk. 

Other tracks, from the early days of CD, may sound thinner than you’re now used to. In most cases tracks are unaltered, but where surface noise has been lessened or some frequency depth added, it’s been with moderation and sensitivity.

Naturally, the playlist expands day by day and if you’ve some suggestions of artists you’d like included, or if you’re in the business of making music yourself and would like to submit tracks for play on radiohhh.com go to the contact page.

radiohhh.com streams to any browser supporting the new HTML5 standard. Streams in AAC+, MP3 and VORBIS codecs, all at varying bitrates, are available. Select the bitrate in the radiohhh.com player. The higher the bitrate, the better the quality (and the more bandwidth you use).

 

 

 

 

The radiohhh.com identification

 

Somewhere near the top of each hour you’ll hear the radiohhh.com station identification. This is an ‘audio logo’ derived from the morse code signal for ‘ohhh’ (three dashes followed by three sets of four dots).

You’ll hear our audio logos in various forms. Some electronic, some not. Because music rules on radiohhh.com, the exact time of day is secondary, so we suggest you use them as an approximate guide only.