Pure music with Blastfm.ch
No moderation, no advertising, just music. And what did blues legend Muddy Waters once say? "There are only two kinds of music: good and bad". Blastfm.ch wants to focus on the former and put an end to the musical uniformity of the Swiss radio landscape with a mix of dub, downbeat, funky breaks, house and a pinch of Latin.
No moderation, no advertising, just music. And what did blues legend Muddy Waters once say? "There are only two kinds of music: good and bad". Blastfm.ch wants to focus on the former and put an end to the musical uniformity of the Swiss radio landscape with a mix of dub, downbeat, funky breaks, house and a pinch of Latin.
The initiators from Bern, led by Rolf Blaser alias DJ Blaster, were not content to moan about the yawning boredom on the Swiss airwaves, but preferred to take action themselves. Since radio licenses are a tricky thing in this country, it soon became clear that an Internet radio station was needed. This initially meant a lot of hard work: the gems were sorted out from a pool of 4,000 Vynil records, digitized and saved as mp3 files. Then the tracks were recorded in a database, a stream server was set up, domains, firewalls and web servers were set up, playlists were created, and only then could things get started. However, as the creators write in their press release, the road ahead was rocky, as the copyright authorities IFPI and SUISA tried to stand in the way of musical diversity with high fees. Nevertheless, Blastfm.ch is now available to listen to online, with sets by well-known DJs that can also be downloaded. An album cover gallery for electronic music, unique in Switzerland, completes the offer.
The initiators from Bern, led by Rolf Blaser alias DJ Blaster, were not content to moan about the yawning boredom on the Swiss airwaves, but preferred to take action themselves. Since radio licenses are a tricky thing in this country, it soon became clear that an Internet radio station was needed. This initially meant a lot of hard work: the gems were sorted out from a pool of 4,000 Vynil records, digitized and saved as mp3 files. Then the tracks were recorded in a database, a stream server was set up, domains, firewalls and web servers were set up, playlists were created, and only then could things get started. However, as the creators write in their press release, the road ahead was rocky, as the copyright authorities IFPI and SUISA tried to stand in the way of musical diversity with high fees. Nevertheless, Blastfm.ch is now available to listen to online, with sets by well-known DJs that can also be downloaded. An album cover gallery for electronic music, unique in Switzerland, completes the offer.
