SomaFM SF Police Scanner

SomaFM's SF Police Scanner is exactly what it sounds like: a music stream that incorporates live police scanner audio from San Francisco. It's weird, hypnotic, and oddly calming. The music underneath is ambient, drone, and downtempo - think Brian Eno's Music for Airports but with a layer of real-time dispatch calls. The scanner chatter becomes a kind of found poetry. It's not for everyone. Some will find it intrusive. But for fans of field recordings and experimental radio, this is pure gold. The stream runs at 128kbps, decent enough for the spoken word and subtle textures. As a Music radio st…