For the preperation task of finding and listening to a radio station I like, I went about an exploration of the stations around London using the Radio Garden site, writing down any I found of any interest and deciding on a favourite. Of these were a few fun Rave oriented stations and one station that had attrociously bad mixing (Future Drumz), the presenter being barely audible and the music randomly getting boosted until clipping which I found entertaining. My decided favourite though was Aaja Channel 1, which while listening seemed to reject any genre classification for the programme, drifting between Glitch, IDM, Post Punk, Japanese Pop Rock, Chinese Folk, Liquid DnB and whatever else the curator likes.
The main attraction of this station I feel like is that the selection flows organically despite being so drastically diverse and yet so consistent in the quality, I don’t think throughout the entire hour or so I spent listening that I disliked a single track. Another nice feature of the station is that the interludes aren’t so horribly long and obnoxious, with the time I was listening having these sparse and extremely short text to speech voice interludes that served more as a reminder you’re listening than to sell you something you don’t want. If there was a station I would regularly tune into, I think this would be my choice, but ultimately I don’t think I will be doing that very often as I prefer controlling what I listen to and listening to albums in their entirety.