Radio ISA

Radio ISA operates out of France with a straightforward mission: play music without the bloat. The station avoids the trap of trying to be everything to everyone, which means there's no schmaltz padding out the schedule. What you get is a rotating mix of tracks that skew contemporary but respect the older stuff that still sounds fresh. The programming rotates through shifts, and the sonic palette spans from indie rock to electronic without losing coherence. French radio has always had a certain sensibility about music discovery that American stations abandoned around 1995. ISA maintains that t…