Underground Bass

In the United Kingdom's ordering this is number 236 of 466, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

Underground Bass shares its leading tag, breakbeat, with one other United Kingdom entry. Across every country the directory has 4 stations leading with it, so the rail below is mostly a trip abroad.

At 256 kbps, Underground Bass streams at more than double the United Kingdom's median of 128 kbps. That is a deliberate choice by whoever runs it: bandwidth is the recurring cost of an internet station, and a rate this far above the local norm is money spent on sounding better than the dial around it.

Underground Bass streams from listen.undergroundbass.com:8804. No other station in the United Kingdom is served from that address, and across the whole directory it appears one time in total.

The station's site is at undergroundbass.uk, which sits under the .uk country domain rather than the United Kingdom's. That mismatch is usually mundane, a host or a parent organisation registered elsewhere, and it is the kind of small inconsistency worth seeing rather than smoothing over.