Net Radio
I love this stuff.
I found Radiomax, a Hungarian site that serves up several flavors of music. I am currently hooked on their Chillout station, which is more of a world-beat thing than anything else.
The next music purchase, in fact, is Arabica II - Voyages Into North African Sound. Rachid Taha got a thing called Barra Barra on there, and I don't know what the hell he's saying, but it's been like that with American music for like YEARS anyway so I can just feel the beat. Human voice as musical instrument.
Then there's Mystic Radio, all New Age all the time. I find I like Celtic music, go figure. They got this really soothing cute-chicks-in-heaven sound going. And SomaFM is like the San Francisco version of Radiomax. Okay, SomaFM has been around much longer, but they don't have a classical channel. Still, they were my first regular net station and I still get my tchno fix there. The jazz thang is SwissGroove. Yup. Switzerland.
It would probably be bad to tell Windows users about Stationripper. Linux types tend to keep up and so probably know about Streamripper already so I could probably mention that. But it's probably safer not to mention either of them.
