Subcity Radio

Edinburgh's Subcity Radio is a student-run station that's been operating since 1994, which means it predates most internet radio and still treats radio like something worth doing properly. The programming avoids mainstream playlists entirely. Instead you get experimental electronic, Scottish indie, African jazz reissues, whatever the schedule of student DJs collectively thinks matters. There's no format bible here. It's ideological, in the best way - radio as space for things that don't fit commercial slots. That means inconsistency sometimes, which is fine because the alternative is the autom…