DI.FM (formerly known as Digitally Imported) is an
Internet radio
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broadcaster consisting of over 90 channels dedicated to
electronic music
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, such as
house
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,
trance
Trance is a state of semi-consciousness in which a person is not self-aware and is either altogether unresponsive to external stimuli (but nevertheless capable of pursuing and realizing an aim) or is selectively responsive in following the dir ...
,
techno
Techno is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempos being in the range from 120 to 150 beats per minute (bpm). The central rhythm is typically in common time ( ) and often ...
,
drum and bass
Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated as DnB, D&B, or D'n'B) is a genre of electronic dance music characterised by fast Break (music)#Breakbeat (element of music), breakbeats (typically 165–185 Tempo, beats per minute) with heavy Bass (music) ...
, and
dubstep
Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London in the early 2000s. The style emerged as a UK garage offshoot that blended 2-step rhythms and sparse dub production, as well as incorporating elements of broken ...
.
DI.FM broadcasts handpicked selections consisting of classic, new and up-and-coming hits, as well as weekly and monthly mixed shows from professional DJs. It was founded in December 1999 as a hobby project by Ari Shohat in his
Binghamton University
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dorm room and was one of the first Internet radio stations.
It has often been listed as one of the top internet radio stations.
During the 2000s, DI.FM participated in a number of protests against high royalty fees for Internet radio.
In July 2009, Digitally Imported,
radioIO
RadioIO (pronounced “radio eye-oh”) is a New York–based internet radio and streaming media service owned by RadioIO, Inc. (RAIO) started in 1998. It was the first Internet radio company to be publicly traded.
RadioIO broadcasts over 100 mus ...
and
AccuRadio
AccuRadio () is an independent, multichannel Internet radio property founded in 2000, and based in Chicago, Illinois, US, available globally. It currently offers over a thousand pre-developed 'music channels'. Some channels also highlight music ...
reached a revenue-sharing deal with royalty collector
SoundExchange
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securing music rights.
It also licenses out its own proprietary streaming platform to power other internet radio sites such as RadioTunes (formerly sky.fm),
JazzRadio,
RockRadio,
ClassicalRadio
and ZenRadio.
DI.FM ended its free options in December 2024, becoming a subscription-only service.
Channels
Source:
* 00s club hits
*
Ambient
Ambient or ambiance or ambience may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Ambiancé'', an unreleased experimental film
* ''Ambient'' (novel), a novel by Jack Womack
Music and sound
* Ambience (sound recording), also known as atmospheres or backgr ...
* Atmospheric breaks
* Bass & jackin' house
* Bassline
*
Big beat
Big beat is an electronic music genre that usually uses heavy breakbeats and synthesizer-generated loops and patterns – common to acid house/techno. The term has been used by the British music industry to describe music by artists such as the ...
* Big room house
* Breaks
* ChillHop
*
Chillout
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* Chillout dreams
* Chillstep
* Chill & tropical house
* Classic eurodance
* Classic eurodisco
* Classic trance
* Classic vocal trance
* Club dubstep
* Club sounds
* Dark DnB
* Dark psytrance
*
Deep house
Deep house is a subgenre of house music that originated in the 1980s, initially fusing elements of Chicago house with the lush chords of 1980s jazz-funk and touches of soul music. Its origins are attributed to the early recordings of Larry Heard ...
* Deep nu-disco
* Deep tech
*
Detroit house & techno
*
Disco house
French house (also referred to as French touch, filter house, or tekfunk) is a style of house music devised by French musicians in the 1990s. It is a form of Eurodisco and a popular strand of the late 1990s and 2000s European dance music sc ...
* DJ mixes
* Downtempo lounge
*
Drum and bass
Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated as DnB, D&B, or D'n'B) is a genre of electronic dance music characterised by fast Break (music)#Breakbeat (element of music), breakbeats (typically 165–185 Tempo, beats per minute) with heavy Bass (music) ...
* Drumstep
*
Dub
*
Dubstep
Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London in the early 2000s. The style emerged as a UK garage offshoot that blended 2-step rhythms and sparse dub production, as well as incorporating elements of broken ...
*
Dub techno
Dub techno is a subgenre of electronic music that originated in the early 1990s, blending the repetitive, minimal structures of techno with the echo-laden, spacey production techniques of dub music. It is notable for its deep, atmospheric soundsc ...
*
EDM festival
* EDM hits
*
Electro house
Electro house is a genre of electronic dance music and a subgenre of house music characterized by heavy bass and a tempo around 125–135 beats per minute. The term has been used to describe the music of many ''DJ Mag'' Top 100 DJs, including ...
* Electronic pioneers
*
Electropop
Electropop is a popular music fusion genre combining elements of the electronic and pop styles. It has been described as a variant of synth-pop with emphasis on a hard electronic sound. The genre was developed in the 1980s and saw a rev ...
*
Electro swing
Electro swing, or swing house, is an electronic dance music
Electronic dance music (EDM), also referred to as dance music or club music, is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and Lis ...
*
Epic trance
Uplifting trance (often synonymous with epic trance, energetic trance, anthem trance, emotional trance, or euphoric trance) is a broad subgenre of trance music. The name, which emerged in the wake of progressive trance in 1996, is derived from ...
*
Eurodance
Eurodance (sometimes referred to as Euro-NRG) is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1980s in Europe. It combines many elements of Hip-hop, rap, techno and Eurodisco. This genre of music is heavily influenced by the use ...
*
Funky house
Funky house is a subgenre of house music that uses disco and funk samples, a funk-inspired bass line or a strong soul influence, combined with drum breaks that draw inspiration from 1970s and 1980s funk records. It often includes disco strings ...
*
Future bass
Future bass is a style of electronic dance music which developed in the 2010s that mixes elements of dubstep and EDM Trap music (EDM), trap with warmer, less abrasive rhythms. The genre was pioneered by producers such as Rustie, Hudson Mohawke, ...
*
Future garage
Future garage is a genre of electronic music that incorporates a variety of influences from UK garage and softer elements from 2-step garage, leading to an off-kilter rhythmic style. Characteristic sounds are pitched vocal chops, warm filtered ree ...
* Future
synthpop
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*
Gabber
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*
Glitch hop
Glitch is a genre of experimental electronic music that emerged in the 1990s, which is distinguished by the deliberate use of glitches in audio media and other sonic artifacts.
The sounds featured in glitch tracks usually come from audio record ...
*
Goa-psy trance
*
Hands up
* Hardcore
* Hard dance
* Hardstyle
* Hard techno
*
House
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* Indie beats
* Indie dance
*
Jungle
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Etymology
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*
Jazz house
*
Latin house
Latin house is an electronic dance music genre that combines house and Latin American music, such as that of Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, and African origin.
History Origins
In the second half of the 1980s, some of the pioneers of house mus ...
*
Liquid DnB
* Liquid dubstep
* Liquid trap
*
Lo-fi hip hop
Lofi hip hop (also typeset as lo-fi, short for "low fidelity") is a style of lo-fi music that combines hip hop music, hip hop beats with elements of chill-out music, chill-out. The name refers to the unpolished, low fidelity production techniques ...
*
Lounge
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Architecture
* Lounge, the living room of a dwelling
* Lounge, a public waiting area in a hotel's lobby
* Lounge, a style of commercial alcohol- bar
* Airport lounge or train lounge (e.g., Amtrak's Acela Lounge), a premium ...
* Melodic progressive
* Minimal
*
Nightcore
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*
Nu disco
*
Oldschool acid
* Oldschool house
*
Oldschool rave
* Oldschool techno & trance
* Progressive
* Progressive psy
* Psybient
* Psychill
* Psydub
* Russian club hits
*
Soulful house
* Space dreams
*
Synthwave
Synthwave (also called retrowave, or futuresynth) is an electronic music microgenre that is based predominantly on the music associated with the Film score, film soundtracks of action films, science fiction films, and horror films of the 1980s. ...
*
Tech house
Tech house is a subgenre of house music that combines stylistic features of techno with house. The term ''tech house'' developed as a shorthand record store name for a category of electronic dance music that combined musical aspects of techno, ...
*
Techno
Techno is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempos being in the range from 120 to 150 beats per minute (bpm). The central rhythm is typically in common time ( ) and often ...
*
Trance
Trance is a state of semi-consciousness in which a person is not self-aware and is either altogether unresponsive to external stimuli (but nevertheless capable of pursuing and realizing an aim) or is selectively responsive in following the dir ...
*
Trap
* Tribal house
*
UMF radio
* Underground techno
* Vocal chillout
* Vocal house
* Vocal lounge
*
Vocal trance
Trance is a genre of electronic dance music that emerged from EBM in Frankfurt, Germany, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and quickly spread throughout Europe.
Trance music is typically characterized by a tempo between 120 and 150 beats per ...
Notes
References
See also
*
List of internet radio stations
This is a list of Internet radio stations, including traditional broadcast stations which stream programming over the Internet as well as Internet-only stations.
General
BBC
Radio France
Indian Internet Radios
* Boxout.fm
* RadioJoyAlu ...
External links
* {{Official website
RadioTunes.comJazzRadio.comRockRadio.comClassicalRadio.comZenRadio.com
Internet radio
Internet radio in the United States
Internet properties established in 1999
Android (operating system) software
BlackBerry software
IOS software
1999 establishments in Colorado