Downtempo that treats hurrying as bad manners.
Groove Salad was the second channel SomaFM ever launched, arriving in 2000 directly behind Drone Zone, when Rusty Hodge turned the micropower transmitter he had run at Burning Man into a full-time internet station. Hodge had been tinkering with online radio since 1995, and the channel first went out from his basement garage in Bernal Heights. It has been commercial-free and listener-funded from the beginning, and has since become the most-listened channel on a network that now carries more than twenty of them.
The sound is downtempo and chillout electronica, these days mostly newer producers from the lounge and ambient-electronic end, while the late-nineties canon has a channel of its own in Groove Salad Classic. It moves at a deliberate pace, edging toward ambient without settling there, and that restraint has kept it running in office headphones for more than twenty years.
Serenity with a superiority complex.
