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TL;DR: Around 2002, I listened to an internet radio station on Live365 called Signal Decay. With no surviving playlists or recordings of my own, I went digging through the Wayback Machine and pieced together 143 tracks from old HTML snapshots, three songs at a time—eventually turning them into a playable 137-track mixtape. A mosaic of album covers from the 137 tracks recovered from Signal Decay. Around 2002, I spent a lot of time listening to an internet radio station called Signal Decay on Live365. It was a source for synthpop, futurepop, EBM, and assorted electronic music: Monolithic, Cosmicity, Neuroactive, Icon of Coil, Stromkern, and others. I loved it, but as is the way with internet radio from that era, one day it was just gone. I have no idea what happened to it. I didn't have a playlist, a stream dump, or any recordings. I get stuck on this kind of thing, though. Long story short, now I have a playable Signal Decay inspired mixtape: 137 tracks, reconstructed from the Wayback…

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