Whois & Analysis for di.fm

Digitally Imported (DI) is an Internet radio broadcaster playing various types of electronic music including house, trance, progressive, techno, eurodance, drum and bass, and dubstep, across 91 hand curated channels.

It was founded in December 1999 as a hobby project by Ari Shohat in his Binghamton University dorm room and was one of the first Internet radio stations.

It has often been listed as one of the top electronic dance music radio stations online and was awarded Best Global Radio Station at the International Dance Music Awards in March 2010.

It also offers streaming radio services of other, non-electronic dance music genres — such as pop hits, jazz and rock — across nearly 300 channels through its sister networks, RadioTunes, JAZZRADIO, ROCKRADIO, and ClassicalRadio.

Electronic dance music (also known as EDM, dance music, club music, or simply dance) is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres made largely for nightclubs, raves, and festivals.

EDM is generally produced for playback by disc jockeys (DJs) who create seamless selections of tracks, called a mix, by segueing from one recording to another.

EDM producers also perform their music live in a concert or festival setting in what is sometimes called a live PA.

In the United Kingdom and in continental Europe, EDM is more commonly called 'dance music' or simply 'dance'.

Trance is a genre of electronic dance music that developed during the 1990s in Germany.

It is characterized by a tempo lying between 125 and 150 beats per minute (BPM), repeating melodic phrases, and a musical form that distinctly builds tension and elements throughout a track often culminating in 1 to 2 "peaks" or "drops." Although trance is a genre of its own, it liberally incorporates influences from other musical styles such as techno, house, pop, chill-out, classical music, tech house, ambient, and film music.

A disc jockey (abbreviated DJ, D.J.

or deejay) is a person who mixes different sources of pre-existing recorded music as it is playing, usually for a live audience in a nightclub or dance club or via broadcasting.

Originally, the "disc" in "disc jockey" referred to gramophone records, but now "DJ" is used as an all-encompassing term to describe someone who mixes recorded music from any sources, including cassettes, CDs, or digital audio files on a CDJ or laptop.

DJs typically perform for a live audience in a nightclub or dance club or a TV, radio broadcast audience, or in the 2010s, an online radio audience.

DJs also create mixes, remixes and tracks that are recorded for later sale and distribution.

In hip hop music, DJs may create beats, using percussion breaks, basslines and other musical content sampled from pre-existing records.

In hip hop, rappers and MCs use these beats to rap over.

Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a provider.

The verb "to stream" refers to the process of delivering or obtaining media in this manner; the term refers to the delivery method of the medium, rather than the medium itself, and is an alternative to file downloading, a process in which the end-user obtains the entire file for the content before watching or listening to it.