ArrayFM Logo Tee

Description

Heavyweight cotton tee with the bracket logo. We keep a strict no-autoplay policy on the site: you press play, and then we never interrupt you. Guests are always surprised by how relaxed the studio is, until the ON AIR light turns red.

What changes for listeners

The archive now holds more than two thousand hours of shows, all searchable by track and guest. The mixing desk is older than some of our interns, and it still sounds better than anything new. We record every show, trim the talk, and publish it as a podcast by the next morning. Our engineers obsess over latency because a stream that stutters is a stream people switch off. Guests are always surprised by how relaxed the studio is, until the ON AIR light turns red.

We keep the site lightweight on purpose, so it loads fast on a train, a tired laptop or a phone at 5% battery. A radio station is really a promise: that there will be something good playing whenever you tune in. We still print the weekly playlist and pin it on the studio wall, mostly out of habit. The studio is small, the monitors are loud and the coffee machine has its own on-call rotation.

• Chat moderated by real people
• Community playlist every Sunday
• Shows archived for 90 days
• Transcripts for every talk segment

We keep a strict no-autoplay policy on the site: you press play, and then we never interrupt you. Every show on ArrayFM starts with a simple rule: play the track you would send to a friend at 2am. A good transition is invisible: you only notice it when it goes wrong, like a page that flashes white between clicks.

From the request line

We believe the music should never stop just because you clicked a link. If you have ever wondered why a song sounds warmer on air, the answer is a ridiculous amount of compression. A radio station is really a promise: that there will be something good playing whenever you tune in. We record every show, trim the talk, and publish it as a podcast by the next morning.

We believe the music should never stop just because you clicked a link. Nothing beats the feeling of a track dropping at exactly the right moment and the chat exploding with fire emojis. Every show on ArrayFM starts with a simple rule: play the track you would send to a friend at 2am. Good radio sounds effortless, but every minute on air has at least ten minutes of prep behind it.

Play the track you would send to a friend at 2am. That is the whole format.

We run on a tiny budget, a lot of goodwill and a very generous hosting sponsor. Every show on ArrayFM starts with a simple rule: play the track you would send to a friend at 2am. We learned early that a stable stream matters more than a fancy one. The archive now holds more than two thousand hours of shows, all searchable by track and guest.

The tech stack

Morning shows are for energy, weather, traffic and the one story everyone at work will talk about. We measure success in hours listened, not clicks, which keeps us honest about what actually matters. We keep the site lightweight on purpose, so it loads fast on a train, a tired laptop or a phone at 5% battery.

We keep the site lightweight on purpose, so it loads fast on a train, a tired laptop or a phone at 5% battery. Nothing beats the feeling of a track dropping at exactly the right moment and the chat exploding with fire emojis. The request line gets more messages than ever, and our DJs read every single one on air. We run on a tiny budget, a lot of goodwill and a very generous hosting sponsor. Our schedule is built in blocks, with softer sounds in the morning and heavier beats after dark.

The short version

The best feedback we ever got was a single line: “you made my deploy go faster”. The mixing desk is older than some of our interns, and it still sounds better than anything new. Guests are always surprised by how relaxed the studio is, until the ON AIR light turns red. Every Friday we look at the numbers, and every Friday the numbers say people want more synthwave. The chat is moderated by humans, which keeps it friendly, weird and welcoming.

Listeners tell us they tune in while they code, study, drive, cook and occasionally while they should be sleeping. We run on a tiny budget, a lot of goodwill and a very generous hosting sponsor. A radio station is really a promise: that there will be something good playing whenever you tune in.