KölnCampus: College radio in Cologne

There had been an urgent need for an independent radio station in Cologne for ages and since the local college radio station "KölnCampus" went on air a few years ago it's fun to listen to the radio again. Although the program is far from perfect the main difference to the established corporate and public radio stations is the choice of music they play. And that's where it really gets interesting.
Cologne is dominated by the WDR, the public radio and TV station Westdeutscher Runfunk". They air five radio programs and one TV broadcast. Their radio stations range from youth orientated programs ("1Live") to spoken word programs (WDR5) to a station for the music of, well, let's say elder people (WDR4) to an information based program for everybody else (WDR2). "1Live" was my preferred choice over the past few years although it's rather hard to listen to it because of the crappy chart music they play. Still when the clock changes to 8 pm their program suddenly becomes better with lots of in depth broadcasts about bands, famous people, they do reports on all kinds of topics and they have the german version of John Peel in Klaus Fiehe whose Sunday evening program is really worth listening.

What "KölnCampus" did was introducing a whole new load of bands to the airwaves. Sometimes the mixture is rather strange because when they don't have a program in the studio they have a computer streaming a shuffle mix of the music they have. Which leads to rather abrupt and weird combinations. Like havning a classic rock song first which is followed by a hip hop song which is followed by a hard trance track which is followed by a country song which is followed by a grindcore stomper. You get the picture.
Today though they have an hour of hardcore and punkrock tracks and that's pretty neat because I got to listen to some bands I had never heard of before or some bands I had long forgotten. That's what I really like about the station. Sometimes the really dig deep to bring up stuff which reminds you of something and then you can continue from there. This is the playlist up until now (it's still running as I write this at 11:44h am):

11:43 raised fist you ignore them all
11:40 agnostic front dead to me
11:37 bubonix fashion tattoo
11:33 Refused The Shape of Punk to Come
11:30 propagandhi anti manifesto
11:28 no fun at all catch me running around
11:25 millencolin twenty two
11:23 good riddance united cigar
11:21 bad religion against the grain
11:19 pennywise i get around
11:17 nofx whats the matter with parent..
11:15 anti-flag you can kill the protester...
11:11 against me white people for peace
11:09 lagwagon know it all
11:06 far from finished disaster
11:02 be your own pet love your shotgun
11:00 distillers, the drain the blood

Great stuff. Maybe it's the overture to tonight's Hellfire Radio broadcast, the punkrock show on "KölnCampus".
There's the chance to listen in via livestream which can be found here. I don't know the capacity of the bandwidth but for me it worked fine every time I checked it out.