Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Nonmainstream foreign music stations of Thessaloniki

 By nonmainstrem I mean stations with either evergreen or  alternative music that is not played  in sttations with mainstream pop music ie contemporary pop/rock music hits  .That can mean either [a] heavymeNtal (separate  article ) [b] ambient/rave/trance music and  related  [c] local or folk sounds from allover music (world music ) [d] unknown songs from well known singers.

 

This  is the fist part that includes only non-Greek music . There is separate listing for  Greek  alternative stations for FM. Notice that here are included and two  antistatusquo political stations of the extreme leftwing part that play also alternative  music that is not so bound  to "foreign music" only



 
 88.5  "88miso" no motto available

A station with great tradition who was reintroduced in Fm  on 2015 (noticed also since  16.4.12 on 88.7 oas per radiofono.gr  ) afer an internet only presence  for about 6-7years.  It is one of the first alternative station in the town started on 90s ad is part  of the  the Mylos group a place of events group in the  outer districts of Thessaloniki with  more than 15 halls fr the  events, bars , restaurants and more,. a main cultural  point of the city and more than 600 events  in just 6 years most of them concerts .
The music styles plaid are refereed in their webpage as :pop jazz soul blues and varous other  local styles from the whole planet. I can listen also to salsa . They have also RDS but at my reception point its signal is poor that can't activate RDS properly
Their current page is   http://radio88miso.gr/about/   that shows  also several forthcoming  events
 
 

"The power of music "

 

A relatively old station started  on  2005 with alternative music with many producers  from  88.5 and  reintroduced himself under  new management  on 20/4/15 and  changed their music format to a more 'commercial' model although their product still seems non mainstream.   

Their old  format as far as i remembered  consisted of : electronica, e-pops ,house ,trance etc

Thier new format consists  : alternative pops , jazz , strange remixes  of older songs that include also Greek and  many more music kinds .. As for example to stress  on its  nonmainstream nature of this station yo can watch the latest 10 songs via their webpage http://republicradio.gr/playlist/ but names that passed the list are Lola Marsh, Calexico, Samuroquai, Black13,One Eskimo ,Mercury Collier,The sounds ,Brenda   Dukin and Poolside. A stations employee advised me that they 'play everything' .I must admit that i don’t know any of these names or any other names passed  through the RDS shown in my smart phone or even the listing in their webpage  . 

It is highly ranked at #7  an #10  in eradio and greekradios  respectively

IN a fnal scene the station changes its format  to only greek songs , as many others



OLDER ALTERNATIVE STATIONS

 
 Sunhsine 107.7 "music   valuable to listen"

Various epop  songs and music , ambient and  other  related replacing the  previous project-station named   PeIratikos on 2013 which transmitted  Greek music .Their  audio is the best of the town among with other handful stations. Non companded ,flat curved  with the  broadest audio response perfect  for testing audio equipment. In other words totally  vinyl compatible  The  new project  Minima Fm  started on 12/6/17 after the owner posted a message in his  Facebook page .

Their main web page http://1077sunshine.blogspot.gr  shows big listings of songs played  thru various  periods
 
 Naousa  92.8  now Yellow

Nearly  the same type of music sounds with sunshine with house ambient  trance  and other  e-pop kinds aired for about 1.5-2 years till 2016 that has been  then given to  a volunteer club for Aris (Mars) a football group in Thessaloniki. tten was called as  Aris FM  that shortly  changed  to Yellow that its the colors of Aris . Station name Naousa  is a city around 70 km  SWW-direct  from Thessaloniki.



And two political alternative  stations :


 Radio revolt and 1431 AM

One  internet  based only (revolt) and onw MW station with also internet stream. I m writing here only because they are a special case. Revolt was transmitted for very short time  in FM  (less an month i  think around  88.5) but 1431(MW) is the xperimental station from the Poyltechnics dept of Universty of Salonica transmitted  on 99.2 or 99.4 for less than one week on 2013. Both are collectivity stations and anti as they call themselves with highly  political based program  and totally  alternative music. 1431AM is now 15 yeas old. Pages  powered by indymedia.

http://www.radio-revolt.net with lots of interesting info in greek and their activities
Direct Links  for revolt stream  :http://195.251.129.38:8000/revolt128.m3u

http://www.1431am.org  for 1431  a huge mine of alternative information (counter status quo)in Greek .Their transmission streams  are  shown on the top right of the page with 128 /96 kbit MP3  and also 26/160 ogg format




 




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