BASEMENT FM
net radio, broadcasting live from a bedroom floor somewhere in the suburbs. No ads, no schedule you can fully trust, and no DJ over the age of nineteen. Press play and stay a while. ~ DJ Dial-Up, station of one
~ * ~ * ~ 88.8 on your imaginary dial ~ * ~ * ~
Now playing LIVE
The booth is live. Whatever is spinning in the deck below is what is going out over the stream this very second, give or take one buffering hiccup and a cough into the mic.
♪ The Basement FM deck
Here is tonight's rotation, loaded into the player. Nothing plays until you press ▶, we would never blast audio at a stranger who just walked in. Click any title to cue it up.
Today's lineup
The clock on the wall is a novelty item, so times are approximate. Slots run on basement standard time.
| Slot | Show | On the decks |
|---|---|---|
| 6-9 AM | Modem Sunrise | DJ Dial-Up |
| 9-12 PM | Desktop Wallpaper | DJ Teal |
| 12-3 PM | Lunch Tray Lo-Fi | DJ Floppy |
| 3-6 PM | After-School Static | Selector Static |
| 6-9 PM | The Dinner Rush | MC Ctrl-Alt |
| 9 PM-1 AM | Basement After Dark | DJ Dial-Up |
| 1-6 AM | The Night Sysop (unattended) | a very long tape |
The request line
Want to hear something? Dedicate a track to a friend, a crush, or your own future self? Fill this out and it prints to the little receipt printer by the mic. I read the good ones between songs.
Heads up: this is a demo booth, so the receipt printer is imaginary and nothing you type leaves your machine.
Last played
Missed something and need to know what it was? The deck remembers the last few.
- "Dial Tone Symphony", The Handshake Modems (11:58 PM)
- "Autoexec Dreams", Config Sys (11:52 PM)
- "Basement Window Blues", Fluorescent Hum (11:47 PM)
- "56k Forever", The Buffering (11:41 PM)
- "Cassette Deck Lullaby", Tape Hiss (11:36 PM)
- "Teal Screensaver Waltz", Bouncing DVD Logo (11:30 PM)
Listeners tuned in
You are listener
Counted since we warmed up the transmitter for Y2K. Some of them are probably the same person hitting refresh. That person is welcome here.
How to tune in
Point any streaming MP3 player at the stream. Open your player, choose File then Open URL, and paste one of these. No plugins, no login, no account to make.
type basementfm.pls [playlist] NumberOfEntries=1 Title1=Basement FM - 128kbps stereo File1=http://stream.basementfm.example:8000/listen.pls backup mount ...... http://stream.basementfm.example:8000/listen.m3u status ............ ON AIR bitrate ........... 128 kbps now buffering ..... this is normal, breathe 1 file(s) displayed, 0 ads served
That address is a prop, a fake dial for a fake station. Nothing here connects to anything; it is a picture of a stream, not a stream.
The booth
Basement FM signed on at midnight on the first of January, 2000, mostly to prove the computer would survive the date. It survived. The stream never went back off. It runs off one beige tower, a sound card with delusions of grandeur, and a microphone clipped to a desk lamp.
The whole operation is DJ Dial-Up, nineteen, nocturnal, and firmly of the opinion that a segue is a sacred thing. Guest DJs are friends who wandered downstairs. The overnight show is a tape that loops until someone trips over the cable.
Station ID
"You're locked into Basement FM, eighty-eight point eight on your imaginary dial, the only frequency broadcast entirely from below ground level. Stay warm, stay tuned."
i have no idea who you are but the overnight tape got me through a whole history essay. please never fix the buffering, it is part of the sound now.
Fellow basements
We hold hands with other kids broadcasting off their bedroom floors. Follow the ring around and go get lost in someone else's static.
Basement FM is a proud node of the Bedroom Broadcasters webring, net radio from teenagers' floors, worldwide.