NULLWAVE Neon ghost frequencies

Cyberpunk music
for reading &
coding

Rain·Drones·Machine hum
Wet ConcourseSable Circuit · Live
02:41
A listener in white technical wear wearing large over ear headphones

Today on air

All times GMT · Continuous stream

Four stations

A long aisle of machine cabinets under weak strip light On air
01

Focus

Long form drones and machine hum with no percussion, built for work that needs the front of your head free.

Rain running down a window above a city at night On air
02

Night drive

Slow arpeggios and rain. The one people leave on until it gets light.

Fog sitting over an empty concrete overpass at dawn On air
03

Deep read

Almost nothing happens on purpose. Sub bass, tape hiss, one chord an hour.

The reels of a worn reel to reel tape machine turning On air
04

Tape room

Archive reels played end to end, dropouts and all. Nothing is cleaned up before it goes out.

A slender white lattice transmitter mast against a pale sky
MASTRotterdam ENCODERAAC 320 EDGEnearest of four YOUwherever

One mast,
no adverts.

The stream leaves a rack in Rotterdam and reaches you through whichever of the four edges is closest. There is no ad break because there is nothing to break for.

1,411Days on air
50kW radiated
0Adverts served
A small broadcast desk at night, mixing console lit by one lamp

What the
signal goes
through.

Everything is analogue until the encoder. The chain has not changed since 2023 and we publish it because people ask.

  1. Reel to reel, half inchStuder A80
  2. Passive summing16 into 2
  3. Valve compressor2:1, slow
  4. Tape delay sendSpace Echo
  5. Converter48 kHz, 24 bit
  6. EncoderAAC 320

Where it gets
listened to

Two thirds of the audience are on headphones after ten at night. The rest are in a room with one speaker and something else to do.

A bare room with one floorstanding speaker and a single chair
Rotterdam · one speaker, one chair
A listener in a white shell jacket walking away in the rain at night
22:40 · headphones, going home

Build your own bed

Every station is three layers. Move them and the stream follows within a bar, and it stays that way on this device until you change it again.

62
48
30

Nine hours is
the average session

People do not put this on for a track. They put it on at nine in the morning and notice it at six, which is the only metric we actually care about.

Live from Berlin · 24 hours a day since 2019

From the archive

MIX 118

Rain Room

3h 12m · Field, drone
MIX 117

Cold Storage

2h 40m · Machine hum
MIX 116

Blue Corridor

4h 05m · Ambient
MIX 115

Last Tram

1h 58m · Slow arpeggio

Listen anywhere

One stream, everywhere at once. Nothing is exclusive to an app, and the raw stream URL is published so you can point anything at it.

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No adverts, ever.

Nullwave runs on about four hundred supporters. No sponsor reads, no interruptions, and the archive stays free for everyone.