ImTakt

Berlin's ImTakt operates in the city's proper language - electronic music without the marketing gloss that tends to follow anything the city actually pioneered. The station programs techno, house, and electronica for listeners who already understand the difference and will notice if you don't. Minimal, driving, sometimes uncompromising. Programming rotates between established producers and lesser-known Berlin-based acts doing interesting work in studios you'll never visit. At 128 kilobits the stream holds its own. The station doesn't teach electronic music history - it assumes you've done that…