Cool and Strange Music on Internet Radio
Greetings, seeker of the strange sonic, the sublime song, the simply...err...stupendous. You've found your way to Radio Fragments, so you have come far enough -- you're there. Broadcasting 24/7, Radio Fragments is your home for the beautiful, the strange, the cool, the forgotten. I am your host, your guide on the rolicking seas of music -- and 'sea' is an apt analogy. Vast, familiar but ever-changing, scary, beautiful, dark and light. You can't put a wall around it, you can't divide it. At least, that's how music should be. Instead people like to pretend that it can be defined, cordoned, split into categories and divided. "Formats" they call it. Artificial deliniations, if you ask me, and the fetid stink rising off 99% of commercial radio tells the tale. Instead, I want to explore how pieces contrast and complement each other and see how they evolve over time and as the styles are taken and co-opted by others. It's about relationships and the threads that either appear naturally or can be seen externally, followed through the vast variety that is music: What were different artists doing in 1972? What does the Japanese take on 60's psychedelic music sound like? How many different cover versions of "Stairway to Heaven" can we find? What was electronic music like in 1958? Country music from central Asia? Damn straight. And that's what Radio Fragments is all about. But, put another way, "This is the coolest music from around the world and over the last 100 years, and I want to share it with you". So get your ass over to the station and start listening!