Chill radio plays relaxed music for the end of the day: chillout, downtempo, lounge, café music and gentle electronica. The stations below come from the open Radio Browser directory, ordered by listener votes — SomaFM Groove Salad from San Francisco, Smooth Chill from the UK, Antenne Bayern Chillout from Germany, 1.FM Chillout Lounge at 256kbps, Chilltrax and Café del Mar from Ibiza are among the most-voted. For something slower and without a beat, try the ambient page. Everything plays in your browser, 15 minutes a day free, with no account and no download.
Among the most-voted in the directory are SomaFM Groove Salad, Smooth Chill, Antenne Bayern Chillout, 1.FM Chillout Lounge, Chilltrax and Café del Mar.
Chill stations usually keep a gentle beat — downtempo, lounge, trip-hop. Ambient is slower and more textural, often with no beat at all.
Yes. Café del Mar, named after the bar on Ibiza's sunset strip, streams chillout and is in the directory.
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Some moments call for music that asks nothing. After a long day, in the space between one thing and the next, or simply when the noise of the world needs to settle — calming radio is the kind of company that knows when not to speak. It can settle a dog left at home, too — radio for dogs looks at the research. On 72FM, the ambient genre pages and the 72FM Chill channel are among the most reliable starting points.
Read the full guide: Calming Radio: Stations to Help You Unwind