Smile Machine
Digital Art Projects | Immersive Apps + Games | Design + Development | Music on Air | Live 24/7
Welcome to Smile Machine
A hand-built collection of sounds, sights and things to play that will inspire your mind, ignite your emotions and put a smile on your face.
Smile Machine started as a little radio stream and slowly grew into a digital playground. It’s a home for music and art made by real people you haven’t found yet, the kind of thing you stumble on late at night and keep coming back to. We share it because we love it, and we make a few things of our own along the way. Come listen, play, create with us, or just say hi!
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. — Plato
- MusicAESTHETIC FMVaporwave and synthwave, live around the clock, with independent artists in rotation.Tune in→
- GamesRaincity RewindFifteen rainy Vancouver stops, a storm, Delorca the time-travelling orca, and Smiley trying to keep the station on air.Play now→
- The stream machineSmileOS 98The old PC that keeps the stream on air. Every button works. Don’t touch the streamer.Boot it up→
- StoryTen years on airEvery station we’ve run since 2016, the big moments and the people who kept it going.Read the story→
01 · Music · live 24/7
AESTHETIC FM
Vaporwave · synthwave · retro · ambient. Hand-picked, independent and on air around the clock.
- 2,076,869tracks played since Jan 2017
- 500,000hours listened
- 235.24terabytes streamed since 2017
- 12,940 hlongest unbroken broadcast
- 1,000+ hof music in the library
- 9,320+subscribers on YouTube
- 1.1M+channel views, all time
- 2,652+likes on the stream
C:\SMILE\NOWPLAY.EXE 
Tuning in…
AESTHETIC FM
Smile Machine Music
The radio pops up in the corner and keeps playing while you look around. Requests and shout-outs go in the live chat.
RECENT.LOG - Loading the last few tracks…
The live track list lives on Last.fm, where every song we’ve played since 2017 is logged.
STREAMER.EXE 1920x1080 · 30 fps · 320 kbps audio · 0 dropped · sent today —
02 · Games · free in your browser
AESTHETIC FM Raincity Rewind
A storm scattered the station’s tapes across Vancouver and across time. Help Smiley get them back, stop by rainy stop, through the portals of Delorca, the time-travelling orca.
Try the game disc, dig for the secret folder, switch it off if you dare. Just leave the streamer alone.
CDPLAYER.EXE Zero-profit · run out of pocket
Free to play. Not free to make.
Smile Machine is a zero-profit passion project, run out of pocket. Everything here is free to listen to and free to play, and support is what keeps it that way. Want to help? Chip in once, or back it monthly on Patreon.