SHIBUYA '84
Tokyo, 1984
- 79.5Morning Acoustic
- 84.2City Pop Easy
- 88.0Night Piano
- roomRain on the awning
88.0 after midnight. Rain on the window, maths on the desk. If you hear a voice under the piano around 2 a.m., it's not just you.
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Retro Focus Radio
Turn the dial.
Find the room.
Six vintage desk radios from six cities. Tune by hand through the static until the music comes in, with the rain, the fan or the café the set used to sit in.
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This one works. Switch it on and turn the knob.
TOKYO // 1984.11.10 · 02:39 JSTOFF AIR
SHIBUYA '84
84.2MHzCity Pop Easy
TUNEDSIGNAL
Not a playlist.
A radio somebody loved.
Between stations there is static.No tiles, no shuffle. You turn the knob, the needle drifts, the hiss thins out and a song arrives. Finding it is half the pleasure.
Every set keeps its room.Rain on a Shibuya awning. A ceiling fan over a Bangkok cassette stall. Cups in a café at closing time. Mix the room under the music, or leave only the room.
Then it switches itself off.A focus timer for a block of work, a sleep timer for the night. It plays on with the screen locked and ends on time, with a soft chime.
Focus, Relax, Sleep
Pick a mode, set the minutes, start. 25 minutes on the free receiver and with sound packs, up to 60 with Plus.
Turn the room up
One slider between the music and the place it plays in. All the way down for just the station, all the way up for just the rain.
Plays with the screen off
Background and Lock Screen playback that survives calls and headphones coming out. Open the app tomorrow and it is still on your station.
No signal needed
Every station and room ships inside the app and plays offline.
Six receivers.
Six previous owners.
Every receiver is built, not skinned: its own window, speaker, knob and lettering. Each one belonged to someone, and the first time you switch it on, their note slips out.
SIAM '96
Bangkok, 1996
- 91.5Indie Afternoon
- 95.5Midnight Acoustic
- 101.0Lo-Fi Rain
- roomFan and rain on the tin roof
When the afternoon storm comes and nobody's buying, put it on 101. The fan, the rain on the tin roof, this. That's the whole shop.
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BRAUN '68
European café, 1968
- 93.0Café Jazz
- 97.5Chamber Piano
- 102.5Shortwave Night
- roomCafé murmur
Chairs up, floor swept, one last coffee for me. 102.5 comes and goes. Wait for it. It always comes back.
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HONG KONG '79
Hong Kong, 1979
- 89.3Canto Easy
- 96.8Harbour Lounge
- 104.5Neon Midnight
- roomRain at the tram stop
Last crossing is the quietest. Harbour lights, 104.5, nobody aboard but me. Somewhere past 106 there's a song I never caught the name of.
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NEW YORK '58
New York, 1958
- 92.3Supper Club
- 98.7Late Jazz
- 104.7Rooftop Ballads
- roomStreet below at night
Home at 3, shoes off, 98.7 on low so the neighbours don't knock. The band at the club was better. Don't tell the radio.
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RIO '64
Rio de Janeiro, 1964
- 90.5Bossa Morning
- 95.1Samba Lento
- 103.3Ocean Night
- roomWaves and sea breeze
Fixed this one myself. It hums a little at 90.5 — leave it, that's the sea. Mornings sound better here than anywhere.
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Leave the window open. It's raining in Shibuya.
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