The Radio Room

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Líder: musinum
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Criado em: 3 Mar 2009
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I've built 15 radios for my 17 groups, and I expect those numbers to increase. This is a listening room for all those radios, and will help the listener get a feel for the various groups. Enjoy!

~~~~~~ Ring Hub for The Radio Room Ring ~~~~~~


Futuristic RMF FM Headquarters in Krakow, Poland. Likewise, this group functions as the hub to all my groups.



Chez Musinum - from my Friends list, artists, listeners, & group leaders
Tim Doyle - my fanclub; artists rotate
ENTP - Extraverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving - artists rotate
SlowSound, SlowerSound, SlowestSound, sharing one radio... New Weird America, alt-country, freak folk, post-rock, World, blues, arctic ambient, soundtrack+
Frame Without A Painting (Ambient Music Group) & Frame Without Another Painting: Japanese ambient, glitch, minimal, tape music, electro-acoustic, drone, field recordings, cutting-edge sounds
New Edge: New Age that's NOT elevator music!
Deep Listening: New Age, World, devotional, instrumental mastery
Light and Shadow: Soundtrack, jazz, darkwave, ethereal... Centered on Angelo Badalamenti
Chef Musinum: Chez M's artistic "kitchen"
Professor Longhair: New Orleans Plus: funk, soul, jazz, blues, roots rock, brass bands
Chappaqua: Ginsberg, Moondog, Ornette - spoken word, avant-garde, post-romantic, noise, drone+
Clifford Brown The immortal trumpet... Innocence & sophistication in every breath... the group, simply, Jazz Heaven
Chez Platinum Chez M's "deluxe annex"


The Radio Room




There are two types of radios here.

The first is the traditional Tag Radio, where artists, albums, and/or tracks are given a unique tag (either personal, in which one user has complete control over the content, or global, in which anyone can apply the tag -- all of my tag radios are global), and the Tag Radio can then be played. (Formerly labels could also be tagged.)

There has always been a slight lag involved, but a big problem arose when non-subscribers could no longer play new tag radios.

The problem was eventually fixed, but meanwhile a solution was found: Library Bots. I was an early adopter, not an originator, of the Library Bot solution, but I do take credit for the name, which seems to have caught on, tho several other terms are also used.

The Library Bot is a dummy user created for the sole purpose of building a radio by putting the items (artists, albums, and/or tracks) into the dummy user's library, which anyone can then play.

The person creating the Bot has complete control over the radio content, there is no lag involved, and the last.fm Recommendations system is a very useful tool for extending the library by artist similarities and for filling in the gaps where appropriate items may have been overlooked, particularly now that recommendations are now filterable by tags (which are dynamic according to the current content of the library).

So even when the original problem was fixed, I found no reason to go back to creating more tag radios, and have continued to create Libary Bots.



The Tag Radios


Chez Musinum Artist Radio (tag )
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This station plays all artists connected to Chez Musinum and to Chef Musinum and Chez Platinum. Chez M. is my flagship group, open to anyone on my Friends list, and any members who have an artist presence are connected to either that group or to Chef Musinum or Chez Platinum, depending on the number of listeners and plays achieved.

Chef Musinum is the musical "kitchen" where artists are simmered and seasoned until they reach 200 listeners and 1000 plays, at which point they move over to the Big House at Chez Musinum; once an artist has both 2000 listeners and 10,000 plays, they will move on to Chez Platinum. This division is a solution to the problem posed by the 200-artist limit for group connections.

Labels attached to members are also connected to Chez Musinum. In the case of certain small labels that are the member's own creation, the artists on that label may be tagged for the radio as well.

Tim Doyle Fanclub Artist Radio (tag )
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This station plays all artists connected to Tim Doyle, the fanclub for my artist presence Tim Doyle. Each week the top artist is the group charts who is not already connected is added to the group connections. In the case of a tie, all the tied artists are connected. (At this writing I'm about ten weeks behind, but that's the theory!) Although it's not possible to connect albums and tracks, they are tagged for the radio on the same basis... the most popular with the group that are not already tagged.

ENTP Artist Radio (tag )
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This station plays all artists connected to ENTP, a group for those who test as Extraverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving in the Meyers-Briggs Personality Inventory (and anyone else who wants to join). Connections are made on the same basis as for the Tim Doyle Fanclub above, except that for albums and tracks, the highest-charting one or more not by an artist already connected has the artist connected and tagged, not the album or chart tagged... at a certain point a lower limit of three listeners was applied for manageability. As the number of artist connections hit 200 some time ago, the oldest artists are now phased out to let new ones in... if they are still popular, they will re-qualify soon, perhaps even in the next week. (This group is also about ten weeks behind at this writing.)

SlowSound (or SlowerSound or SlowestSound) Artist Radio (a.k.a. Music From Big Pink) (tag )
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This station plays all 600 artists connected to three sister groups: SlowSound, SlowerSound, and SlowestSound, which wrap a core of New Weird America, indie, singer-songwriter, alt-country, freak folk, post-rock, and a touch of shoegaze and slowcore with a mix of World music from Tibetan chants to reggae to Cuban son to MPB (Brazilian) to klezmer, blues, arctic ambient, soundtracks, artists like Sade, Alice Coltrane, Dylan, Neil Young, Melanie, Phoebe Snow, Janis Ian, Sam Cooke, Billie Holiday, and more.


The Big Pink Pillow Radio


The Library Bot Radios


SlowSound (or SlowerSound or SlowestSound) Artist Radio (a.k.a. Music From Big Pink) (user SlodioSlowRadio's library)

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This radio plays all the artists connected to the three sister groups above, and adds another 200 or so for around 800 artists total. This was the "overlap" period, the only station in both tag and Library Bot form.

Frame Without a Painting (or Frame Without Another Painting) Artist Radio (user fwap's library)

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This radio plays all the artists connected to two related groups, Frame Without a Painting (Ambient Music Group) and its companion Frame Without Another Painting: Japanese ambient, glitch, minimal, tape music, electro-acoustic, drone, field recordings, cutting-edge sounds from everywhere

New Edge Artist Radio (user new_edge's library)

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This radio plays, along with similar artists, all the artists connected to the group New Edge: New Age that's NOT elevator music. ~~~~~~ Brian Eno: "The problem with New Age music is that there's no evil in it". This group is for those who like New Age without the bland pseudoclassical sound I call "New Age Lite". Keep the evil!

Deep Listening Artist Radio (user deep_listening's library)

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This radio plays, along with similar artists, all the artists connected to the group Deep Listening: Somewhere at the juncture of New Age, World Music, Devotional, and sheer musical mastery lies a font of profound wonderment and evergreen spirit... Experience Deep Listening. (Again, not elevator music, but "relaxing" and "soothing" aren't dirty words here, as they may be at New Edge.)

Light and Shadow Artist Radio (user ThruGlassDarkly's library)

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"Donut touch that dial!"




This radio plays, along with similar artists, all the artists connected to the group Light and Shadow: The intersecting worlds of Angelo Badalamenti, his similar artists, & theirs, & theirs... a river delta of soundtracks, neo-medieval / darkwave, ethereal, jazz, ambient, trip hop: worldly & otherworldy, awestruck to jaded.



Chef Musinum's Edible Artist Radio (user chef_musinum's library)

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This radio plays all the artists connected to the group Chef Musinum, the "kitchen" annex of Chez Musinum, for artists with fewer than 1000 plays and/or 200 listeners (see first tag radio). Since those artists are also tagged to play on the Chez Musinum Artist Radio, they stay in rotation there while at the same time having their own "small-fry" venue where they are not overshadowed by the artists with more of an established audience.



Professor Longhair Artist Radio (user ProfessLonghair's library)

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This radio plays, along with similar artists, all the artists connected to the group Professor Longhair: I was astounded to find Professor Longhair did not have his own fanclub, so here it is! Rooted in, but not confined to, the sounds of New Orleans, our still-beating musical heart.. Funk, soul, jazz, blues, roots rock, brass bands, Memphis sounds, Motown, and more.

Chappaqua Artist Radio (user aHowl's library)

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This radio plays, along with similar artists, all the artists connected to the group Chappaqua: A group built around Allen Ginsberg, Moondog, Ornette Coleman, radiating everywhere. Needed name: turns out all 3 were part of a 1966 film, "Chappaqua" (as "Messiah," "The Prophet," & "Peyote Eater"). The connections may be unexpected... ended up with less spoken word and jazz than I expected, and a lot more avant-garde / early modernist and late classical / post-romantic, noise & drone, and quite a bit of New Weird America. What the artists seem to have in common is that they are not afraid to go out on a limb, to take the risk of abject failure, to be misunderstood or even reviled. Each artist here creates distinctive sounds and occupies previously uninhabited artistic territory.



Clifford Brown Artist Radio (user IRmembrClifford's library)

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This radio plays, along with similar artists, all the artists connected to the group Clifford Brown: A celebration the pure joy that was Brownie's horn. In a tragically short career, he left his mark forever on jazz trumpet & on the improvisor's art. Innocence & sophistication in every breath!

These 200 artists are an oasis of life-saving jazz.




Chez Platinum's Artist Radio (user Chez_Platinum's library)

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This radio plays all the artists connected to the group Chez Platinum, the "deluxe" annex of Chez Musinum, for artists with at least 10,000 plays and at least 2000 listeners (see first tag radio). Since those artists are also tagged to play on the Chez Musinum Artist Radio, they stay in rotation there while at the same time having their own "established artist" venue.




The Radio of Radios


The Radio Room Artist Radio (user TheRadioRoom's library)

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A sampling of all the Radio Room radios.


Current group tag cloud, updated 07/21/2009:







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