Star Lanes

Star Lanes sounds like a home computer scoring a space shooter. Tunes run at 120 to 150 beats per minute and lean minor a little more often than major.

Its signature is the fast arpeggio: one channel races through the notes of a chord so quickly that it reads as harmony, an old trick for machines with too few voices. The bass pumps in octaves or steady eighth notes, and the hi-hats use the short, metallic setting of the noise generator.

Expect titles such as Solar Corridor, Neon Drift and Comet Approach.

Listen to Star Lanes

The button opens the radio on this station with a fresh seed. Tempo, scale, energy and the number of notes can be changed while it plays.

The other stations

• Brick Hopper: bouncy side-scroller runs
• Castle Keep: gothic action in a minor key
• Pocket Town: slow handheld lullabies
• Sixteen FM: 16-bit brass, electric piano and slap bass
• Chip Classics: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven on four channels