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
Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation. It includes both music ...
, such as
house
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,
trance,
techno,
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
The State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton University or SUNY Binghamton) is a public university, public research university in Binghamton metropolitan area, Greater Binghamton, New York, United States. It is one of the four uni ...
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 and
AccuRadio reached a revenue-sharing deal with royalty collector
SoundExchange 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
* 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
* 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 nu-disco
* Deep tech
*
Detroit house & techno
*
Disco house
* 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
*
EDM festival
* EDM hits
*
Electro house
* 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
*
Epic trance
*
Eurodance
*
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 garage
* Future
synthpop
Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop; ) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s ...
*
Gabber
*
Glitch hop
*
Goa-psy trance
*
Hands up
* Hardcore
* Hard dance
* Hardstyle
* Hard techno
*
House
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* Indie beats
* Indie dance
*
Jungle
*
Jazz house
*
Latin house
*
Liquid DnB
* Liquid dubstep
* Liquid trap
*
Lo-fi hip hop
*
Lounge
* Melodic progressive
* Minimal
*
Nightcore
*
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
*
Tech house
*
Techno
*
Trance
*
Trap
* Tribal house
*
UMF radio
* Underground techno
* Vocal chillout
* Vocal house
* Vocal lounge
*
Vocal trance
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