Night Deploy Hoodie

Description

For late shifts and later mixes. Nothing beats the feeling of a track dropping at exactly the right moment and the chat exploding with fire emojis. We still print the weekly playlist and pin it on the studio wall, mostly out of habit.

Lessons from the studio

A good transition is invisible: you only notice it when it goes wrong, like a page that flashes white between clicks. We keep the site lightweight on purpose, so it loads fast on a train, a tired laptop or a phone at 5% battery. Most of our DJs have day jobs in software, design or support, which explains the jokes. Some weeks the playlist is meticulously planned; other weeks it is a group chat argument that somehow turns into a show.

We still print the weekly playlist and pin it on the studio wall, mostly out of habit. Behind the scenes, the playout system is a small pile of open source tools glued together with very careful shell scripts. The request line gets more messages than ever, and our DJs read every single one on air. Radio has always been about company, and that has not changed just because the transmitter is now a rack of servers.

• Live sessions from Studio [0] every Saturday
• Shows archived for 90 days
• Community playlist every Sunday
• Listen on the web, in the app or on a smart speaker

A good transition is invisible: you only notice it when it goes wrong, like a page that flashes white between clicks. Some of our most-loved segments started as a joke in the green room. We still print the weekly playlist and pin it on the studio wall, mostly out of habit. We keep the site lightweight on purpose, so it loads fast on a train, a tired laptop or a phone at 5% battery.

Questions we keep getting

Late nights are for experiments: long mixes, ambient sets and the occasional field recording. Morning shows are for energy, weather, traffic and the one story everyone at work will talk about. We keep a strict no-autoplay policy on the site: you press play, and then we never interrupt you.

The archive now holds more than two thousand hours of shows, all searchable by track and guest. Our favourite metric is the number of listeners who stay through the ad break. We believe the music should never stop just because you clicked a link. The station started as a side project in a spare room and a borrowed microphone.

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

We learned early that a stable stream matters more than a fancy one. We run on a tiny budget, a lot of goodwill and a very generous hosting sponsor. The request line gets more messages than ever, and our DJs read every single one on air. Some weeks the playlist is meticulously planned; other weeks it is a group chat argument that somehow turns into a show.

Where to find us

Late nights are for experiments: long mixes, ambient sets and the occasional field recording. We test new segments live, keep what works and quietly retire what does not. Accessibility matters to us, so every show gets a transcript and every page works with a keyboard. The station started as a side project in a spare room and a borrowed microphone.

If you have ever wondered why a song sounds warmer on air, the answer is a ridiculous amount of compression. Listeners tell us they tune in while they code, study, drive, cook and occasionally while they should be sleeping. Nothing beats the feeling of a track dropping at exactly the right moment and the chat exploding with fire emojis. We keep the site lightweight on purpose, so it loads fast on a train, a tired laptop or a phone at 5% battery.

The short version

The mixing desk is older than some of our interns, and it still sounds better than anything new. The best feedback we ever got was a single line: “you made my deploy go faster”. Our schedule is built in blocks, with softer sounds in the morning and heavier beats after dark. Our favourite metric is the number of listeners who stay through the ad break.

Radio has always been about company, and that has not changed just because the transmitter is now a rack of servers. The station started as a side project in a spare room and a borrowed microphone. The chat is moderated by humans, which keeps it friendly, weird and welcoming. If you have ever wondered why a song sounds warmer on air, the answer is a ridiculous amount of compression.