san francisco ca key people rusty hodge founder website somafm.com somafm is an independent internet only streaming group of radio channels supported entirely with donations from listeners . 1 somafm originally started broadcasting out of founder rusty hodge s basement garage in the bernal heights neighborhood of san francisco as a micro power radio station broadcast at the burning man festival in 1999 . the response to the project was sufficiently positive that rusty hodge launched it as a full time internet radio station in february 2000 . somafm takes its name from soma the perfect pleasure drug from aldous huxley s 1932 novel brave new world and the south of market neighborhood of san francisco known colloquially as soma . somafm s twelve channels reached a peak listenership of 10 000 concurrent listeners by 2002 and now reports nearly 6 million listener hours every month . 2 contents 1 list of channels 1.1 awards and credits 2 conflict with soundexchange 3 notes 4 references 5 external links list of channels edit channel genre theme year added drone zone drone 2000 groove salad downtempo chillout 2000 secret agent lounge jazz with a 1960s spy theme 2000 indie pop rocks indie pop indie rock 2002 cliqhop idm intelligent dance music 2002 beat blender house downtempo chillout 2002 boot liquor americana 2003 the trip classic trance progressive trance . formerly known as tag s trip . 2004 xmas in frisco eclectic christmas themed music 2005 a space station soma ambient space music 2006 illinois street lounge lounge 2006 doomed industrial dark ambient 2006 sonic universe avant garde jazz 2008 lush female driven vocal downtempo 2008 digitalis self produced indie rock and electronic music 2008 suburbs of goa desi arabic influenced worldbeat 2008 underground 80s early 80s british synthpop and new wave . formerly known as nu musik . 2008 christmas lounge christmas themed lounge music 2008 a mission control ambient music mixed with the sounds of nasa s mission broadcasts and live shuttle coverage 2009 poptron electropop dance rock 2009 covers cover songs 2009 black rock fm the broadcast for 102.3 fm in black rock city for the burning man festival 2010 a bagel radio alternative rock post punk indie rock noise pop . formerly known as 480 minutes . 2011 south by soma music by artists from the sxsw festival 2012 a sf 10 33 ambient music mixed with the sounds of san francisco public safety radio traffic 2012 dub step beyond dubstep dub and other bass driven electronic music 2012 folk forward indie folk alternate folk and the occasional folk classics 2012 christmas rocks christmas themed indie alternative rock 2012 a earwaves early electronic music avant garde music computer music 2013 def con radio music from def con s chill room provided by somafm 2013 iceland airwaves music by artists from the iceland airwaves festival 2013 a deep space one deep ambient electronic experimental and space music 2013 seven inch soul classic soul music 2014 left coast 70s mellow album oriented rock from the 1970s 2015 fluid instrumental hip hop future soul liquid trap 2015 thistleradio celtic music was previously broadcast as the thistle & shamrock on npr 2015 metal detector heavy metal 2015 jolly ol soul christmas themed soul music 2015 a the silent channel ambient electronic music sourced from the silent records ambient music label 2016 awards and credits edit elise nordling music director and curator of indie pop rocks and folk forward was awarded the san francisco bay guardian s best dj of the bay award in 2005 2007 and 2009 . in 2007 they wrote that dj elise is renowned for her impeccable taste encompassing everything from bleeding edge unsigned bands to classic small label favorites ... because of this pioneer s curatorship indie pop rocks has become required listening on a global scale . 3 the san francisco bay guardian also awarded somafm a best of the bay award in 2005 for best way to avoid the top 40 . conflict with soundexchange edit in may 2002 the digital millennium copyright act copyright arbitration royalty panel rate ruling came into effect requiring internet broadcasters to pay a per song per listener royalty to soundexchange for the performance of the sound recording retroactively through october 1998 . hodge estimated that the channel could have been forced to pay over 1 000 usd per day to continue operations . the royalty was later reduced by half but that rate still would require payments by somafm that exceeded their revenues . citation needed in june 2002 somafm ceased broadcasting . hodge was one of several webcasters who testified before the u.s. congress in 2002 in the hopes of reducing the royalty rate . 4 subsequently congress passed the small webcaster settlement act of 2002 swsa on november 15 2002 5 which enabled small webcasters to negotiate a lower rate with soundexchange . 6 somafm resumed broadcasting in late november 2002 under this new royalty structure . on june 26 2007 somafm participated in the internet radio day of silence 7 8 in protest of the copyright royalty board s decision at the time to raise royalty fees for internet radio stations . notes edit a b c d e f g only available seasonally . references edit hodge rusty . donate to somafm support commercial free internet radio . retrieved 2013 08 08 . somafm.com about . somafm.com . retrieved 6 august 2014 . poll positions . 2007 . archived from the original on 2009 04 18 . retrieved 2013 08 08 . testimony of mr. don henley . united states senate committee on the judiciary . 2002 05 15 . retrieved 2013 08 08 . senate house pass bill to end webcasting crisis . archived from the original on 2010 02 03 . retrieved 2013 08 08 . notification of agreement under the small webcaster settlement act of 2002 . united states copyright office . 2002 12 24 . retrieved 2013 08 08 . jake ward 2007 06 25 . the sounds of silence will be heard by millions pdf . savenetradio . archived from the original pdf on 2008 07 23 . retrieved 2013 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