Rock Out to Curated Music Streaming From Different Decades and Locations
Whether you want to find jams that were popular in Canada in the 1950s to kickstart your weekend, or just want a random assortment of popular songs by era and location for no particular reason, Radiooooo’s website is a great interactive journey.
Its premise is simple but effective: you pick a decade on a timeline spanning the full 20th and 21st centuries (1900 to the present). Then you select a country on a giant old world map. Assuming that the Radiooooo database has music for that country and time period, you will hear songs that were popular for this combination of location and decade. It is so simple.
There are some combinations that will go nowhere – sorry for those looking for popular hits from 20s Turkmenistan. However, if you have extensive musical knowledge of a particular place and decade, you can bring in the songs that you think Radiooooo should add to its mix.
However, don’t just try to upload every song you like from the music library to the site. As The New Yorker described on their 2016 Radiooooo profile :
“Radiooooo has curators who spend hours every day reviewing hundreds of applications from nearly thirty thousand participants from all over the world (Trubat calls them ‘treasure hunters’). Curators make sure that the audio files are of high quality and assess whether the song matches the Radiooooo aesthetic, which can be difficult to determine. ”
If you find a song that you like while listening toCarmen Sandiego radio, you can assign it a stereotyped “heart” to track it on your profile if you sign up for an account. Depending on the availability of what’s playing, you can even click the little coin icon to buy the track directly from iTunes.
My favorite part of Radiooooo is the taxi function, because it allows you to create a playlist with options, choosing only the decades and places that interest you. From there, Radiooooo will create random song combinations that will be sent to you. I only wish the site had an opportunity to skip music that you don’t find very interesting – either I’m blind and missed it, or I spent too much time sunbathing on the 8-bit island. … ” Bon Voyage.