The System (satellite radio)
The System is a radio station on WorldSpace Satellite Radio's Asiastar satellite channel 202, and is also offered on XM Satellite Radio channel 82 in North America, through a business relationship with XM pre-dating the launch of XM. On WorldSpace, the channel is broadcast only on the AsiaStar satellite, covering the southern parts of the Asian continent and portions of the Middle East, and not on the Afristar satellite, which covers Africa. The System heard on WorldSpace plays a variety of dance music, from mainstream to underground to downtempo, while the format of The System on XM focuses on Trance, Breaks, Electronica, and Progressive dance music, as XM offers additional channels, which, like The System, cover (other) specific genres of dance music.
Artists You'll Hear (XM): Tiësto, Underworld, The Chemical Brothers, The Crystal Method, Uberzone, Sasha, The Orb, Timo Maas, Armin van Buuren, Agnelli & Nelson, Orbital, Ferry Corsten, Solarstone, Above & Beyond, Paul Oakenfold, Paul van Dyk, BT
Notable Shows
The System carries many radio shows from leading DJs worldwide, including (on XM):
A State of Trance - Armin van Buuren - Saturday 11pm CT/Thursday 3pm CT
Trance Around the World - Above & Beyond - Friday 9pm CT/Monday 3pm CT
European Union - Rotating hosts Menno De Jong with Radio Intuition from the Netherlands, Miika Kuisma with Intelligent Design from Finland, Elusive with Oslo Nights from Norway and Lotte from Germany with Aural Extasy - Monday 9pm CT/Wednesday 3pm CT
Lost Episode - Victor Dinaire - Tuesday 9pm CT/Sunday 3pm CT
Deepblue Radio Show and Fundamental- Solarstone/Agnelli & Nelson (Deepblue) and Deepsky's Jason Blum (Fundamental) alternate weekly at this time - Wednesday 9pm CT/Sunday 9am CT
Anjunabeats Worldwide - Sunday 7pm CT/Wednesday 1am CT - Rotating hosts James Grant, Mark Pledger, Super 8 & Tab, and on the fourth week of the month an Anjunabeats label guest DJ
Afterglow Sessions - Friday 3pm CT/Tuesday 11am CT. Started in late July 2007, apparently exclusive to XM Radio, DJ mixes from various artists from Afterglow Records including Duende and Store N Forward
Genetic Blueprint - Kelowna - Friday 1am CT. Darkwave and industrial dance music
Subterranean - Zoltar - Thursday 9pm CT/Saturday 3pm CT
Mutant Dance Party - Zoltar - Monday-Friday 5pm CT
On WorldSpace:
A State of Trance - Armin van Buuren
Trance Around the World - Above & Beyond
Anjunabeats Worldwide - Rotating hosts James Grant, Mark Pledger, Super 8 & Tab, and on the fourth week of the month an Anjunabeats label guest DJ
Subterranean - Zoltar
Nocturnal - Matt Darey
VONYC Sessions - Paul van Dyk