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Musicforhackers.com is dead, long live IntelligentDanceMusic.com

2:35 pm on February 9 2005
By Stefan Lasiewski
Filed in: Geek, Music

MusicForHackers.com was one of the greatest IDM music streaming sites that ever lived. Hundreds of hours of IDM, ambient, experimental and other electronic music, all provided commercial-free.

MfH used live365.com as their main broadcast source, and had a large listenership. Sadly, they shut down in late 2003. I’m not sure of the details, but it involved the live365 fees. live365 themselves were reqired to pay the music labels and the RIAA for each song broadcast. Ironically, most of the labels represented on MusicForHackers were not members of the RIAA.

But don’t dispair! The spirit of MusicForHackers.com lives again at IntelligentDanceMusic.com. Similar feel, HUGE music list (30 days worth of music!), streaming titles and auto-refreshing playlists so you know what song is being broadcast.

I’m very happy to find that the spirit of MfH lives on. Please check it out.

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6 Responses to “Musicforhackers.com is dead, long live IntelligentDanceMusic.com”

  1. 2:35 pm on February 9 2005, deusdiabolus said:

    And should you not be able to get to intelligentdancemusic.com (a moment ago I was unable to), there’s also http://www.staticbeats.com as well. Their playlist is not quite as “subtle” as MFH.com, but definitely shares a lot of the same styles.

  2. 2:35 pm on February 9 2005, deus|diabolus said:

    And should you not be able to get to intelligentdancemusic.com (a moment ago I was unable to), there’s also http://www.staticbeats.com as well. Their playlist is not quite as “subtle” as MFH.com, but definitely shares a lot of the same styles.

  3. 2:35 pm on February 9 2005, Stefan Lasiewski said:

    Thanks for the reply! I’ve been listening to staticbeats all morning. Great stuff.

    Staticbeats has less noise then IDM.com, which is great — I’m not a big fan of Venetian Snares :)

  4. 2:35 pm on February 9 2005, Alaiox said:

    finally an answer to lifes problems!
    Ive been searching for Mfh and it was forever lost! No more tears streaming from me!

  5. 2:35 pm on February 9 2005, anonymous surfing said:

    message from the future – looks like http://intelligentdancemusic.com/ also went the way of MFH – on the site is a “did this for 6 years w/o any contribs – so FU and go somewhere else” message.

    http://www.staticbeats.com/ is still up though…

  6. 2:35 pm on February 9 2005, Anonymous said:

    both those sites seem to be toast now as well. whats everyone listening to these days?

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