Radio Multiverso Chat

On Thursdays at eleven at night, *DJ_Kosmik* connects from a floor in Lavapiés with the volume of the speakers at a minimum so as not to wake up the neighbor from the third floor. He has been hanging out on Radio Multiverso for three years with the same synthwave set he recorded at an abandoned festival in Valencia, and every time he uploads it, *Laurita87* tells him to "play *Outrun* again, Kos, we've already heard it 47 times". He responds with a broken heart emoji and a link to a live version of Kavinsky that no one else in the room knew. That's how it all started: with a record that sounded like a roadside gas station and a discussion about whether vaporwave was music or decoration for vape shops. Kos came back because nobody judges him for playing the same song three Thursdays in a row, and Laurita because, between insults, she always ends up recommending something he had never heard before.

Conversations here aren't about "music", but about things like whether *El Último de la Fila* sounds better on vinyl or cassette (the debate has been open since 2019 and *Toni_Cassette* still claims that "the hiss is part of the experience"), or whether *Rosalía* stole *flamenco* or saved it (there are two factions: those who call her "the traitor" and those who forgive her everything for *Malamente*). Sometimes someone asks for the name of that song that plays in an episode of *Dark* and in less than five minutes, three different answers appear, a YouTube link, and a thread about why *Ben Howard* is the only one who can do the soundtrack for an apocalypse. There's also *Chino*, who every Christmas uploads the same list of punk carols and complains that nobody listens to it all the way through, and *Marta_92*, who once cried out loud because someone reminded her that *Chambao* no longer exists. The weird thing isn't that people argue, but that they always come back the next day.

What makes this room unique is that impossible balance between chaos and ritual. Nobody sets rules, but everyone knows that Sundays at six in the afternoon is the time for *La Hora del Vinilo*, where anyone can play a song from their collection without explanation (the record is held by *El_Pirata* with a scratched *LP* of *Los Rodríguez* that played for 17 seconds before someone shouted "ENOUGH!"). There's also the *Duelo de los Viernes*, where two users choose an artist and defend why theirs is better than the other's, even though 90% of the time they end up discovering they like the same song. And then there's the *Muro de los Olvidos*, a thread that never closes where people leave songs they used to listen to when they were 15 and now embarrass them (the top 1 is *Las Ketchup* with *Aserejé*, closely followed by *Eiffel 65*). Here, there are no algorithms telling you what to listen to, just people telling you "listen to this" or "delete that from your life already".

To join, all you need is a nickname, an IRC client (mobile or PC, it doesn't matter), and connect to *irc.chatzona.com* on port 6667. The room is *#radio-multiverso* and doesn't require registration or passwords. ChatZona has been around since 2007 without changing