RauteMusik (also RM or ''#Musik'') is an

internet radio Internet radio, also known as online radio, web radio, net radio, streaming radio, e-radio and IP radio, is a digital audio service transmitted via the Internet. Broadcasting on the Internet is usually referred to as webcasting since it is not ...

station based in Germany. RauteMusik was first broadcast on 20 April 2003 with just one main stream. In the next four years, RauteMusik established itself as one of Europe's biggest

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. Currently up to 37,000 people listen to RauteMusik simultaneously.

RauteMusik Streams

RauteMusik currently has 40 different radio streams: * Musik.Top40: Chart Hits * Musik.Main: 80s, Pop, Rock, Charts and new Hits *Musik.ChartHits: Pop, R'n'B, Dance, Electro *Musik.Club: Dance, HandsUp, Techno,

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 ...

*Musik.Rock: Rock,

Alternative Alternative or alternate may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media * Alternative (Kamen Rider), Alternative (''Kamen Rider''), a character in the Japanese TV series ''Kamen Rider Ryuki'' * Alternative comics, or independent comics are an altern ...

, Punk *Musik.Metal: Metal, Heavy Metal,

Metalcore Metalcore is a broadly defined fusion genre combining elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk, originating in the 1990s United States and becoming popular in the 2000s. Metalcore typically has aggressive verses and melodic choruses, combined ...

, Grindcore *Musik.JaM: HipHop, R’n’B, Rap,

Reggae Reggae () is a music genre that originated in Jamaica during the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its Jamaican diaspora, diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, "Do the Reggay", was the first ...

, Soul, Urban *Musik.Happy: Feel Good Music *Musik.Party: Party Hits *Musik.Workout: 130BPM Beats *Musik.Deutschrap: German

Hip-Hop Hip-hop or hip hop (originally disco rap) is a popular music genre that emerged in the early 1970s from the African-American community of New York City. The style is characterized by its synthesis of a wide range of musical techniques. Hi ...

& Rap *Musik.House: House, Dance, Electro *LoveHits.FM: Love Songs and Kuschelsongs *Musik.Goldies: Oldies, 60s, 70s, 80s *Musik.Lounge: Ambient, Jazz,

Downtempo Downtempo (or downbeat) is a broad label for electronic music that features an atmospheric sound and slower beats than would typically be found in dance music. Closely related to ambient music but with greater emphasis on rhythm, the style may ...

, Chillout *Musik.HardeR: Hardstyle, Hardcore,

Jumpstyle Jumpstyle is an electronic dance music, electronic dance style and music genre popular in Western Europe, originally in Belgium. Jumpstyling is often referred to as "Jumpen": a combination of the English word 'Jump' and the Dutch and German suf ...

, Schranz *Musik.BigCityBeats:

House A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air c ...

, Electro *Musik.Oriental: Arabian Music *Musik.Schlager: German Schlager, Discofox *Musik.DrumStep: Drum & Bass,

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 ...

*Musik.Christmas: Christmas and Holiday Songs *Musik.Trance: Trance,

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 ...

, Uplifting *Musik.Solo Piano: Piano Composers *Musik.HappyHardcore:

Happy Hardcore Happy hardcore, also known as 4-beat or happycore, is a subgenre of hardcore dance music or " hard dance". It emerged both from the UK breakbeat hardcore rave scene, and Belgian, German and Dutch hardcore techno scenes in the early 1990s ...

and UK

Hardcore Hardcore, hard core or hard-core may refer to: Arts and media Film * ''Hardcore'' (1977 film), a British comedy film * ''Hardcore'' (1979 film), an American crime drama film starring George C Scott * ''Hardcore'' (2001 film), a British documen ...

*Musik.Country: Country, Western, Americana *Musik.12Punk:

Punk Rock Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a rock music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s. Rooted in 1950s rock and roll and 1960s garage rock, punk bands rejected the corporate nature of mainstream 1970s rock music. They typically produced sh ...

Ska Ska (; , ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. It combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. Ska is characterized by a w ...

, Hardcore *Musik.Kids:

Kindermusik Founded in the United States in 1978, Kindermusik is an early childhood education music and movement program for children from infants to 7 years of age (2nd grade in elementary school). It is based on a kindergarten music and movement program dev ...

, Kinderpop *Musik.Study: Lo-Fi *Musik.Salsa: Salsa, Latino,

Tropical The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the equator, where the sun may shine directly overhead. This contrasts with the temperate or polar regions of Earth, where the Sun can never be directly overhead. This is because of Earth's ax ...

*Musik.Trap: Trap, Glitch Hop,

Moombahton Moombahton (, ) is an electronic dance music genre, derived from house music and reggaeton, that was created by American DJ and producer Dave Nada in Washington, D.C., in 2009. Nada coined the name as a portmanteau of "Moombah" (a track by Sur ...

*Musik.TechHouse: Tech House, Minimal *Musik.90s: 90s, Eurodance *Musik.Sex: *Musik.Traurig: Loneliness, Sadness *DAS Coachingradio: Easy Listening, Coaching *WackenRadio.Com: Metal from the Wacken Open Air Festivals *BreakZ.FM:

Mixtape In the modern music industry, a mixtape is a musical project, typically with looser constraints than that of an album or extended play. Unlike the traditional album or extended play, mixtapes are labeled as laid-back projects that allow artists mo ...

s, Hip Hop, Dance Aside from these channels, RauteMusik also licenses out its own proprietary streaming platform to power other internet radio services such as 0nlineradio, Epic Piano, Heavy Radio, Technolovers, Epic Classical, and Epic Lounge. These brands are only used for direct access to their streams on various

audio streaming Streaming media refers to multimedia delivered through a network for playback using a media player. Media is transferred in a ''stream'' of packets from a server to a client and is rendered in real-time; this contrasts with file downl ...

services; these streams are otherwise jointly grouped under the catch-all banner ''RauteMusik Plus'' on the main site.

References

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External links

Internetradio RauteMusik.FM
Internet radio in Germany