Welcome To Dynamic Range Radio

Dynamic Range Radio is an eclectic internet radio station playing a wide mix of music 24/7 with superb sound quality. Broadcasting from Vancouver, Canada, Dynamic Range Radio is committed to the idea of radio as an art form, offering carefully-crafted sets built around themes and focusing on smooth segues.

HOW TO LISTEN

Dynamic Range Radio broadcasts in high quality mp3 format, so you'll need a broadband internet connection and a media player like Winamp, which is what I recommend. iTunes will also work, as will Windows Media Player, Real Player, VLC, or a stand-alone internet radio like the Roku Soundbridge. If you have one of those installed, just click on one of the links under "Listen Now" in the sidebar.

WHAT DOES ECLECTIC MEAN?

Merriam-Webster defines eclectic as "selecting what appears to be best in various doctrines, methods, or styles."

I play whatever sounds good to me, whether it be rock, alternative, reggae, soul, Celtic, Americana, blues, folk, electronica, soundtracks, jazz, or any other genre you can think of. I play new music and old music. Hard music and soft music. Happy music and sad music. Popular music and obscure music. In a nutshell, I play music that I like. As far as I'm concerned, all other labels are meaningless.

I guarantee you won't like every song I play, but I hope you'll like most of them. If you're open-minded about all manner of music, Dynamic Range Radio may be the station for you.

SOUND QUALITY

Dynamic Range Radio is one of the few radio stations, internet or otherwise, that adds no extra compression to its audio signal. To learn more about what this means and why I think Dynamic Range Radio offers the best sound quality available anywhere, follow this link.

ABOUT THE DJ

Dynamic Range Radio is owned and operated by one man with a passion for music and an independent spirit. There's no deep-pocketed, black-hearted corporation behind this. Only me.

SPREAD THE WORD

I want to stress how important it is for listeners to recommend this station to your friends if you like what you hear. Word of mouth is by far the most important form of advertising, and one of the few I can afford. So you can help by becoming a fan of Dynamic Range Radio's Facebook page or a friend on Last.FM, and if you have a blog, a link would be greatly appreciated, as would recommendations posted in forums on other websites. In the future, I'll be providing banners you can use for linking purposes as well as flyers you can print and post in your community.

Thanks for visiting the site, and I hope you enjoy the music.

Dynamic Range Radio
No Compression. No Limits.

Dynamic Range Radio's Weekly Charts - Sept. 29 - Oct 5th

Top Tracks This Week

1. Calexico - Two Silver Trees (4 plays)
1. Lykke Li - Dance Dance Dance (4)
1. Bloc Party - Signs (4)
1. Nick Cave - Dig Lazarus Dig (4)
5. Evangelicals - Skeleton Man (3)
5. Against Me! - White People For Peace (3)
5. School Of Language - Rockist Part 4 (3)
5. An Angle - Oh! Oh! Oh! Trouble (3)
5. Black Mountain - Tyrants (3)
5. Lou Hickey - One Man Tango (3)
5. Foxtail Somersault - Motionland (3)

Plus 29 other tracks played three times each

Dynamic Range Radio Presents: Halloween 2008

Dynamic Range Radio is pleased to announce its third annual Halloween broadcast which will begin at one minute after midnight on October 1st and repeat for the entire month leading up to Halloween.

You can read the official press release here, spread the word on Facebook by clicking here, or visit the Last.FM page dedicated to the Halloween show by clicking here.

If you tuned in last year you have some idea of what to expect, and I've added more than three hours worth of new music to the mix to keep things fresh.

To read a recap of the previous Halloween broadcasts, click here, and to get you into the mood, here's a selection of videos from YouTube to give you an idea what you'll be hearing once the Halloween broadcast is up and running.

As always, I apologize for the extremely poor sound and video quality offered by YouTube. Tune in to my Halloween show, or my normal broadcast, and I think you'll hear the difference.

And if you like what you hear, and if you can afford to lend some support to independent, commercial-free radio, then please consider dropping a few dollars in my tip jar. Just look for the PayPal icons on the left-hand side of the page.

Or take advantage of Amazon.com's special Halloween offer and I'll receive a small commission on whatever you purchase.

New Music Added: Kings Of Leon

Hot on the heels of last year's excellent "Because Of The Times", The Kings Of Leon are back with a solid new album, "Only By The Night", which firmly establishes them as one of the most prolific and certainly one of the best bands of their era.

I've added the song "Manhattan" into heavy rotation, and if there's been a more explosive rock track than "Crawl" released this year, I've yet to hear it.

I'm not in love with the first single "Sex On Fire" because I can't help thinking of Spinal Tap's "Sex Farm" whenever I hear the title, but I couldn't resist incorporating it into one of my oh-so-clever themed sets, so you'll be hearing that one on occasion as well.

Or buy from Amazon.ca (Canada)

Shoutcast 's New "Themes" Genre

Shoutcast's revamped design features a new genre on the front page called "Themes", and some people are already discovering Dynamic Range Radio because of it, but you may be wondering what the heck kind of genre is "themes" anyway.

I wondered the same thing when it first appeared, especially since there wasn't a single station using that genre, but I soon decided that "themes" refers to stations that build sets around themes, which is something Dynamic Range Radio does as often as possible.

The themes are sometimes based on lyrics or song titles, such as with the set that's playing as I type this:

Spandau Ballet - True
Mudhoney - Overblown
The Smithereens - Sick Of Seattle
Patty Griffin - Rain

I won't explain the connections betwen the songs because it's a poor comedian who has to explain his jokes, and part of the fun of listening to Dynamic Range Radio is spotting the themes on your own.

Sometimes the themes are based on other factors, like when I put together a set of songs that all feature the same unusual instrument, or singers who sound alike, or bands who all hail from the same country, and so on.

And at the very least, I make sure each set features songs that sound good together and create a nice flow from one track to the next.

Unlike the vast majority of stations which simply toss a bunch of mp3s into a folder and rely on a computer program to randomly shuffle the songs, I put a great deal of time and effort into crafting my playlists by hand. You know, like actual DJs used to do.

I think it makes all the difference, and I hope you will too.