Kool FM

Kool FM ranks 89 among 466 stations in the United Kingdom. High enough that the country hub carries it in its own tables, and far enough from the head that the neighbours below are a genuinely different set of stations from the famous ones.

Only two entries in the United Kingdom put breakbeat first. The tag is self-declared and inconsistent between countries, which is why the rail below is worth more as a way of wandering than as a filter.

Where the United Kingdom's stations mostly use MP3, this one uses AAC+. Worth a line only because it is a difference, and because the country page's format breakdown is one of the quicker ways to see which providers a national dial runs on.

Its audio comes from admin.stream.rinse.fm. Two other stations in the United Kingdom stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.

The station's own site is rinse.fm. The .fm domain has nothing to do with FM radio or with where a station is: it belongs to the Federated States of Micronesia and has been sold to broadcasters worldwide for years, so read it as branding rather than as a location.