This page is for all listeners of Deviant Audio.

NOTE! If you'd like to make one, big, really useful final act of support for the station and myself, please register your interest in the OpenSSL AES encryption-breaking project, to break an encrypted backup that we need both to recover information that is required to re-launch the station at a later date, and to assist me recover a lot of other important personal data that has been lost. Your support with this would be really appreciated!

Deviant Audio will not return in its previous/current form. In early April 2008 we had a financial problem regarding funding the audio servers. We raised easily enough money in the 3 days April 12th - April 14th 2008 to cover the server costs so money wasn't ultimately the issue, the reason it went down is because the server host reformatted the hard disk due to non-payment while I was out of the country - after the server was billed for and we were notified that it would be put back online "very soon". That company was Server4You and we had been their customer for 4 years. The deleted data also included all the email addresses of the DJs and listeners, we have a backup which is handily encrypted with a password the server host also deleted, the server also had all of the station's email accounts, my business site (now resurrected here), personal email addresses and other people's web sites that I was maintaining, so as well as destroying the radio, the server host also damaged my income-generating business and reputation with my clients.

We have considered suing S4U over this but since they are based in the US it would probably cost alot more than it is worth.

Since my income was removed as well as the radio, restoring the radio was therefore not my first priority and indeed it took a long time to get the business site and email back up and running.

After much reflection and discussion with the assistant manager Thomas Johannesen we decided not to re-launch the station. This decision was taken for a variety of reasons including our personal circumstances, but mostly due to general dissatisfaction with the attitudes and politics happening in the trance industry, together with the very uncertain prospect of ever being able to make the station profitable, which was a requirement for me to continue working on it mostly full-time from home as I was.

I will state publicly that Thomas and I are both quite disgusted with the sheer stupidity, arrogance, ungratefulness and general attitude and lack of professionalism with some of the artists and also one of the online stations serving the same market sector as us. We have discussed whether to name names publicly or not since these people really do not deserve your time or money in our opinion - or our support - but for now I will just say that these people treated the radio station and Thomas's and my hard work to support them with such callous disrespect that it really left a bitter taste in both our mouths to a point where there are some artists whose tracks we can't even listen to and enjoy anymore, and if we showed you the correspondence, you'd probably feel the same. With this attitude, the industry will continue going downhill and fade out as it currently is.

We both talked with many of our previous favourite DJs and for the most part they treated us like shit.

Compounding this, there was alot of backstabbing by both artists and even volunteers who had been with us for some time that we believed were loyal and that we thought we could trust. Instead, they took the opportunity to step on us on the way to better things as soon as something more appealing came up. There is in addition one station - a very large trance station, and believe me, every record label and agent knows which station this is, the owner is notorious for being shall we say, less than scrupulous in his business ethic - but unfortunately, alot of naive artists don't know about it and are in fact causing desperately needed money to be sucked out of the industry by airing their shows on that particular station.

I must add that the majority of the artists we did actually work with up until the time of the station's closure were a pleasure to work with, and the idiots probably know who they are.

The listeners have also been great, and it was amazing to see lots of unfamiliar faces chip in when we had our financial crisis in April. The station's final balance sheet was calculated to be about £130, after many thousands of pounds of donations; this amount was used to pay off a bit of the station's credit card.

Another factor is that Thomas and I no longer live together or nearby, and we were both diagnosed with clinical depression in the March/April 2008 period and have both been receiving treatment of one kind or another for it. We weren't taking any satisfaction from our work at the radio because of all the fighting, and because the hobbyist, underground, unique element got replaced by something that sounded just like a professional FM station when we tried to cater to the mass market, a substantial increase in work with no increase in listeners or reward.

So, with all these things combined, it does not make sense at this point to re-open Deviant Audio.

However the door is not entirely closed. Long time listeners will recall the station was off air for the whole of 2002 and 2003 and was eventually re-lauched. All the software and music will be kept. We have a library of almost 120,000 songs and I have invested hundreds or thousands of hours writing over 60,000 lines of code to run the station and its services. The servers are all kept and the record labels are still sending us music on a regular basis.

We can therefore re-launch at any time. However, Deviant Audio will not appear in the format that it was in before. It would be run as a hobbyist rather than a professional monetized station, with radically different management policies designed to give us personal reward like the station used to. Or, it would be re-launched as more of a do-it-yourself service where everything is automated completely, including artists signing up and scheduling their own shows and mixes, nothing is verified or quality checked and we wouldn't be open for general correspondence.

There are no immediate plans to do anything. My priority now is to focus on fixing my own life, finding new clients for income and trying to be happy again in my personal situation. Music and radio projects will come later.

If you're a listener, we recommend you listen to Sense.FM (formerly SenseGenerate) whom we had a good working relationship with, or DanceRadio.gr which is a professionally run station with good business ethic. The same applies if you are an artist looking for a new place to air your show.

If you want to be notified if the station relaunches or of other related news, please subscribe (add yourself as a fan) to the following Facebook page: Deviant Audio Facebook page and add yourself to the Deviant Audio Facebook group.

Thank you for all your support over the years, and best wishes to all. Feel free to leave comments below.

Katy.