Radio Whirlwind

The only Pokemon radio station on earth - playing music from the games, anime and from the community!

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State of the Station 2020

Before I begin with the State of the Station for 2020, I would like to wish everyone reading this my best regards as we get through this difficult time. Stay strong, be smart, and be kind to one another. We will get through this.

Greetings and thank for you taking the time to read the State of the Station for Radio Whirlwind for 2020. Every year going forward, I plan to release these blogs to let people know my overall thoughts on how we are doing as a community and as a radio station.

Last year, I was hoping to get Radio Whirlwind up and running but sadly I did not see it through. I will be honest, the idea of rebooting and starting up the station again has been frightening for me. There would be times when I would want to start working on the site and even just getting a stream running again so people can listen via TuneIn or another other internet radio application or apparatus, but I would never find the motivation to do it. However, over the last few months, I have seen various members in the Pokémon community along with old Radio Whirlwind community members wanting to support and get our station up and running again. As a result, I am hoping to see through a soft relaunch of Radio Whirlwind by the end of the summer, with a website launch in the fall. If I can plan everything right, Radio Whirlwind will have a full launch on what would be our sixth anniversary since we started the station up in 2014.

I want to be honest though, one of my biggest concerns that has made me hesitant to bring back Radio Whirlwind comes down to copyright laws and regulations. Since we stopped broadcasting in 2016, laws have changed which may make our station more of a risk to operate. While we may operate from Canada, we want to ensure that we are examining these risks and taking responsibility if we do get told to shut the station down. I am more than happy to pull the plug to ensure the safety of myself and the station if it comes down to that. My hope is that I can continue using Radio Whirlwind as an archive for Pokémon music and sound, while creating an anchor point for artists in the community to share and promote their work. When the website goes up, my hope is that we can use the website to help point listeners to support the artists that are streaming on the platform along with links to official Pokémon albums and merchandise from around the world.

With that in mind, Radio Whirlwind can come back and become better than what it originally was. My hope with the station is to use it as a platform to help share and promote our community, rather than host it. Over the last few years, many members in the music and podcasting community have created incredible events and collative projects that allowed people to get together in ways they never thought they could. It is amazing to see all of this happen and I am hopeful that Whirlwind can be used as an asset to help promote and spread awareness of these amazing and talented individuals.

Radio Whirlwind, on its return, may start off as just a radio station, but I am confident to use its platform for more than that. With services like YouTube and Twitch, Whirlwind can expand to allow for the community to express their work without being restricted. Radio Whirlwind will be part of a network that I am calling The Whirlwind Network, or WhirlNet for short. WhirlNet will focus on the same fundamentals as the station but allow us to brand out and do more with our name. WhirlNet will be something that I will diving more into in 2021 as this year will focus on more of a soft relaunch of the station first.

WhirlNet will allow us to host our own in-house content such as Broadcasters for a Cure and WhirlCast. This is a huge step for the station to grow and become more. My desire is for WhirlNet to be a stepping stone within the Pokémon community so that amazing content creators can have their work shared in new and exciting ways.

In summary, here is what you can expect from Radio Whirlwind as we move forward:

Late July – an update regarding all the music that you can find on stream will be posted. Content will be rolled out monthly following the soft relaunch. Some music that was featured during our 2014 – 2016 run may not be featured on the station right away and or will reappear in the future.

August – the soft relaunch of Radio Whirlwind, this will only be the radio station and it will only be streaming through internet radio streaming websites during this time or through our partnership with Radio Nintendo.

September/October – The first version of our new website will be launched.

Spring 2021 – The second version of our website will be launched.

Summer 2021 – Details about WhirlNet, WhirlCast and Broadcasters for Cure will be posted.

When the station launched up in August, we will continue to remain non-profit and ad-free. The goal of the station will be to preserve the music of Pokémon. We hope you look forward to our soft launch.

Thank you for reading and please stay safe,

Fiddle

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State of the Station 2019

Hello and thank you for taking a moment to read this post. My name is Fiddle, the creator of Radio Whirlwind. I wanted to take some time to reflect on the past, along with talk about what is necessary for this station to hop back onto the airwaves. Two years ago, I made the ultimate decision to discontinue Radio Whirlwind. This included WhirlCast, Radio Whirlwind: Summer Fest and Broadcasters for a Cure. It was a tough choice but ultimately, I was alone. I was scared to continue running the station, despite the community having my back. When it comes down to it, I made a lot of bad choices. I acted in sheer desperation to keep the station alive, thinking that the only way forward was to get more people tuned in. I never thought creatively, I managed poorly and I put myself into drama that was unnecessary. In the end, people lost trust in me and I lost trust in myself and what I created. For those affected, I sincerely apologize for my wrong doings and hope to be able to work again with you in time. 

--------------------------- When I created Radio Whirlwind with my peers, we did it to escape the plasma chamber that we got forced into during our time podcasting for a fan game. The station was to serve a few purposes: i. An archive for our pre-existing podcast, which had been running for two years prior, at the time of creating Whirlwind. ii. An archive for Pokémon music, completely non-profit. Running similar to stations like Radio SEGA and Radio Nintendo. I feel like, as time went on, there were choices I made that went against those fundamental values, which lead to chaos. I continued to add new shows, take on too much work and not communicate with the other parties involved. I put a lot of stress onto myself, which wasn’t good for anyone. This is definitely something I don’t want to have happen again. I've come to realize that I miss running this station. It made a lot of people happy, along with myself. Pokémon is about bringing people together, and Radio Whirlwind did that by capturing the incredible sounds of the Pokémon games, anime, and the creativity and brilliance of our community. To this day, there is no other station that has successfully done what Whirlwind has done and I think it's time to bring back our waves to the internet. --------------------------- What can you expect from our return? I’m hoping we can make some big changes to how we operate and how we reflect ourselves within the Pokemon community. Here are some of the goals that I’d personally like to achieve if Radio Whirlwind is to come back full force.  a) Bring back a modernized, friendly UI version of Radio Whirlwind that will be compatible with all web-enabled devices.  b) Re-evaluate our collaborations with musicians to create a hub for their work to be shared, archived, credited and reachable. c) Re-evaluate WhirlCast (yes, bringing this back would be a goal of mine), with previous and or new hosts, new format.  d) Find new ways to broadcast our station outside of the standard internet radio format, this includes new ways to broadcast WhirlCast as well. e) Continue our efforts with Broadcasters for a Cure, perhaps making it its own thing outside of Radio Whirlwind.

With these goals in mind, I will need some time to get this station going again. I am hoping to launch this project towards the end of the summer. We may launch earlier through Radio Nintendo, and depending on the launch, we would be able to determine what we can do from there. --------------------------- We hope you look forward to our relaunching and we will keep you updated in due time. Thank you very much, Fiddle

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Final Statement - 08.07.2017

Hello. You may not know me but my name is Fiddle, some of you may know me as Illus. For those who did know me, I was the host of WhirlCast or what rather known to be the Radio Whirlwind Podcast. 

Radio Whirlwind has a very long and complex history. It didn’t just start off as a radio station and to be honest, I wasn’t even the one handling anything to begin with. Our journey starts nearly ten years ago in 2009 on a fan game known as Pokemon Mystery Universe. The host of the podcast, Kronic, ran the show for two years before it was retried in early 2011. Eventually, I found this game on Christmas Eve of the same year and I decided to test the waters and host the podcast myself. 

For another two years, PMU had a fully functional podcast with a team of dedicated hosts. The show was entirely focused on Pokemon, its community and more. It was something that would eventually evolve, no pun intended, into something bigger and grander which only left the door open for what was to come. 

Fast forward to September 2014 and the podcast was being cancelled and moved to become its own independent show. A month passes and the team of eight create Radio Whirlwind, a radio station dedicated to Pokemon music and the host site for the newly named Radio Whirlwind Podcast. Originally, Radio Whirlwind played music from the ga mes but eventually expanded into the anime, movies and even allowed musicians from within the vast community of Pokemon to take part in the station. That wasn’t even my idea. A couple of remixer friends at the time suggested that they add their music to the station. At the end of its life, Radio Whirlwind had accumulated over 90 hours of remixes from over 38 musicians. The station began playing on October 24th, 2014, after gaining approval from Junichi Masuda. The first song that played on the station was “Gotta Catch Em’ All” by Jason Paige. The final song that played on the station was “KISEKI” from Pokemon X&Y. 

Radio Whirlwind hit its high in the summer of 2015 with its Summer Fest event. The podcast team put shows together with a variety of content creators from within the community and following that with a Broadcasters for a Cure charity event. Speaking of Broadcasters for a Cure, the charity marathon was able to raise over $2,100 for various charities across of North America spanning over five events.

The station continued to see a huge rate of decline, however, in 2016 and 2017 and the show that kept the station going, WhirlCast, ended on the fifth anniversary in 2017. Unfortunately, Radio Whirlwind was unable to keep up with its musicians and became an unreliable hub for what Radio Whirlwind wanted to achieve. The station became unmanageable and this leads to what is happening right now. 

Radio Whirlwind started as a way to carry on entertainment that eight people believed had purpose and meaning. The station was meant to archive and allow the community to come together in new ways through the sound of music and through the words from our voices and while this was achieved, this was unable to be maintained and it lead to the fall of the station.

So what happens now? Radio Whirlwind will hopefully continue on through Radio Nintendo. More information will be revealed at a later date but you’ll be happy to hear that Whirlwind will not be going away that easy. 

It’s been a fun ride, let’s do it again sometime. Thank you again for everything. I hope we can meet again in the future.  Until next time, be sure to catch em’ all in the Whirlwind. - Fiddle

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Radio Whirlwind Update - 08.04.17

Effective August 7th, 2017, Radio Whirlwind will be concluding its service. The changes will be immediate. For nearly three years, Radio Whirlwind has provided the Pokémon community with a wide variety of Pokémon music cataloging over 10,000 songs, spanning months of content. Whirlwind was responsible for running it own podcast, later renamed WhirlCast which originally started in 2009 on little known fan game called Pokémon Mystery Universe. The show ended early this year. Additionally, under the WhirlNet Media umbrella, Broadcasters for a Cure was an ongoing charity marathon which raised over $2,100 over the course of four years with the help of many talented content creators from within the Pokémon community and beyond. Radio Whirlwind aimed to fill in the void of stations such as PIRN, a station that we greatly admire and respect. The station could not of been anything of it weren't for the talented musicians of our community who generously volunteered their time and talents to be shared on Whirlwind. It's been an absolute honor to work with you all. To the fans, thank you for sticking by our side. The journey has been tough and perhaps even rough but a wise women once said, "It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end." Thank you for everything. Until next time, be sure to catch em' all in the whirlwind.

[radiowhirlwind]

Stream Update (07.23.2017)

It has been sometime since the last stream update on Radio Whirlwind. This update will be adding two new soundtracks to the rotation, along with updating two existing soundtracks. We hope you enjoy the changes and additions.

Brand New Music - Pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon Original Soundtrack (3DS) - Pokemon Duel (iOS and Android)

Updated Music - Pokemon Diamond, Pearl and Platinum Original Soundtrack (DS) - Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver Original Soundtrack (DS)

Thanks for listening to Radio Whirlwind! You can listen to us 24/7 at http://radiowhirlwind.com/

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Beach break at Hau’oli City.

[weirdmageddon]

pokemon nintendo direct

good ending: sinnoh remakes confirmed and early dev gameplay and new features are shown neutral ending: third installment game for sun/moon on the switch bad ending: new pokemon mobile app game or adding hoenn to pokemon go true ending: some shit about marshadow

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Featured musician Kalbur is back at it again after a year of inactivity with his remix of the Tree of Life from Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon. 

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New Pokemon Direct tomorrow

Looks like there will be a brand new Pokemon Direct happening tomorrow. This is extremely exciting and it’s most likely going to very shocking. You will be able to watch the 8-minute presentation over at http://www.nintendo.com/nintendo-direct.

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The final episodes of WhirlCast are now up for grabs!

As Radio Whirlwind moved forward to v.3, it was decided we would end our five-year-old podcast, WhirlCast. For some time, we didn’t get around to uploading the final episodes but we’re happy to say they are now both up for grabs.  You can download and stream both episodes on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/whirlcast-a-pokemon-podcast/id820699988?mt=2 You can also download both episodes from our website:  (88) bit.do/doRgE (89) bit.do/doRgK You can also pick them up from Podbay:  http://podbay.fm/show/820699988

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Radio Whirlwind on Tumblr

After the long wait, we’ve officially made a Tumblr blog! Finally, you can keep updated with all things Whirlwind without having to deal with a messy and cluttered homepage. You can also share our updates to let people know that we exist! Seeing as this is our first post, we just wanted to make sure we get the word out! Welcome to our blog.