If there is one function the web has simplified to the extreme, it is finding and playing music. Between YouTube and Spotify, almost any user can cover a large part of their musical needs, but there is always room for platforms that help us discover something new. One of them is Radiooooo, a kind of melodic time tunnel where we can listen to songs dating back to 1900.
Radios bombard us with the latest from the most popular artists. In fact, they play those songs dozens of times a day, which reveals a somewhat perverse mechanism underneath. If you prefer something a bit more “retro” or “classic”, you need to look for specialized broadcasts, and if you turn to the web, you will see the same pattern: both YouTube and Spotify put the most hyper-promoted artists up front, and it is up to the user to pierce that veil to find something different.
Now, what happens when the goal is to discover new music? In general, online platforms do not do a great job, regardless of the information we decide to share. So why not take a different route? Travel through time, for example.
Radiooooo: A Musical Time Machine
That is how we arrive at Radiooooo, a striking portal that divides its music database by countries and decades. Basically, all you have to do is choose a decade. The map also includes special zones such as “Kids Playground” (music for children), “Titanic”, “Bombass” and “Top 10”, among others waiting to be discovered.
The “Taxi” function lets you program a journey through time and space, choosing specific decades and regions. “Shuffle” mode is, in my opinion, the site's best option, as it lets you move through a curated list of international artists with songs from all eras. A real treat. Finally, results can be filtered by mood, divided into slow, fast, or weird.
The social component of Radiooooo is very strong. All visitors are invited to upload songs (after creating an account), share them, vote and, of course, buy them. Although sharing music can be problematic (you know, copyright), Radiooooo has been online for several years and works perfectly, with no external dependencies.
