K-Slop
keeping your trough full
frequently asked questions
what is k-slop?
a 24/7 automated internet radio station broadcasting from edinburgh. everything is generated except for maybe some of the station imaging. it runs continuously whether anyone is listening or not.
is any of the music real?
the lyrics were written by a model and the vocals were synthesised by a different model. it's all slop. feast upon it.
is this ethical?
millennials have been unethically acquiring music their entire lives. look at them, they're fine.
but generative music sucks and has no soul?
yeah.
who are the DJs?
six slop jockeys rotate through the day, they're generated using a combination of a language model (for scripts) and a text-to-speech model (for voices). see the
schedule for the full lineup.
what happens if I click the like button on a song?
liked songs are permanently protected from being pruned and go into regular rotation. songs that aren't liked will be retired to make room for new material. the heart button only appears during songs, not DJ breaks. those are always gone forever. though you might hear basically the same one again. it's a language model, you keep prompting it for the same stuff, sometimes it'll keep repeating the same stuff. but it was generated on the fly in every case.
it's claiming there's a world premiere song that nobody's heard before. isn't all of this music that nobody's heard before?
occasionally it generates a new song and airs it for the first time. the slop jockey will flag it when it happens. if nobody clicks the like button before the end of the song, it gets deleted immediately.
can I request a song?
no.
how do I listen somewhere other than this website?
use the
open in winamp link to get the stream URL. this works in any media player that supports internet radio — VLC, foobar2000, winamp, or the equivalent on your phone. the URL is
https://kslop.uk/stream.
why does it sound the way it does?
generative music sounds like that. there's no shenanigans here, it's just taking the output of the model. we're not trying to pass this off as real music. it's slop. it sounds like slop.
where's this coming from?
a mac mini in scotland.