PLAY.FM is a web radio and online audio database for DJ and club culture. DJ sets, radio shows and live recordings are collected and can be listened to on-demand. The PLAY.FM studio and the office were located in the Museumsquartier

Museumsquartier

The Museumsquartier is a 60,000 m² large area in the 7th district of the city of Vienna, Austria; it is the eighth largest cultural area in the world. The Museumsquartier contains Baroque buildings as well as Modern architecture by the architects Laurids and Manfred Ortner . The renovation of the...

 in Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

, Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

 but are now in the 16th district.

Web radio and audio archive

The PLAY.FM audio database offers more than 21,000 recordings. Users can search the database by DJ, artist, label, club and event. The recordings run from 30 minutes to 9 hours in length and are streamed on-demand without interruption in CD quality sound. PLAY.FM counts more than 80,000 registered users from around the world. PLAY.FM was started in 2004 by owner Georg Hitzenberger.

The PLAY.FM online radio station broadcasts live from 8PM to 12AM in the PLAY.FM studios in quartier21 in the Museumsquartier

Museumsquartier

The Museumsquartier is a 60,000 m² large area in the 7th district of the city of Vienna, Austria; it is the eighth largest cultural area in the world. The Museumsquartier contains Baroque buildings as well as Modern architecture by the architects Laurids and Manfred Ortner . The renovation of the...

 Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

. 150 Labels, Record stores, event managers and DJs present their own radio shows on PLAY.FM; including Vienna Scientists, Cheap Records

Cheap Records

Cheap Records is a record label founded 1993 in Vienna, Austria by Patrick Pulsinger and Erdem Tunakan.Alongside Pulsinger and Tunakan, some artists who have recorded for the label include Christopher Just, Gerhard Potuznik and Robert Hood....

 and Indigo Inc.

PLAY.FM is one of the business companies that has received funding from departure in 2008. departure is an initiative of the City of Vienna (an enterprise of the Vienna Business Agency), which supports entrepreneurs and company founders active in the field of the creative industries.

Together with quartier 21, PLAY.FM is awarding two grants within the framework of an Artist-in-Residence programme. Two young international artists won a one-month stay in Vienna. In May 2008 Maik Loewen, from Cologne, visited the PLAY.FM-Team.

Recordings and artists

More than 21,000 live recordings are available from national and international clubs (Flex

Flex (club)

Flex is a nightclub in Vienna. It is located between underground station Schottenring and Augartenbrücke. Flex has already been venue of many international and Austrian music acts and DJs, such as Pete Doherty, Juliette and the Licks and Arcade Fire...

 (Vienna), The Loft (Barcelona), Womb (Tokyo), Rothko

Rothko (club)

Rothko was a small nightclub and live music venue in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City. The club opened in a former textile factory in May 2004, and closed in 2006...

 (New York), Space

Space (Ibiza nightclub)

Space is a nightclub on Ibizaowned bi STANCA. It was awarded "Best Global Club" at the International Dance Music Awards in 2005 and again in 2006...

 (Ibiza)) and festivals (springfestival (Graz/at), Stereolize (Paris/fr) and Exit (Novi Sad/srb)). Well known DJs as well as newcomers can be found in the archive:

• DJ Romeo
• Coldcut
  Coldcut
  Coldcut are an English dance music duo, comprising Matt Black and Jonathan More. Their signature style is electronic dance music, featuring cut up samples of hip hop, breaks, jazz, spoken word and various other types of music, as well as video and multimedia.-1980s:In 1986, computer programmer Matt...
  
  
• Sven Väth
  Sven Väth
  Sven Väth is a Frankfurt-based DJ who has produced an extensive range of work since his career began in 1982. From 1985, he was part of the band OFF which released the hit "Electrica Salsa" in 1986...
  
  
• Laurent Garnier
  Laurent Garnier
  Laurent Garnier , is a French techno music producer and DJ. Garnier began DJ-ing in Manchester during the late 1980s. By the following decade, he had a broad stylistic range, able to span deep house, Detroit techno, trance and jazz...
  
  
• Dmitry Tsoy
• Tiefschwarz
  Tiefschwarz
  Tiefschwarz is an electro house group comprising brothers, Alexander "Ali" and Sebastian "Basti" Schwarz, which formed in Stuttgart in 1996. Peter Hoff, who runs the Benztown studios in Stuttgart, joined later, and completed the first Tiefschwarz production team...
  
  
• Miss Kittin
  Miss Kittin
  Miss Kittin is an electronic music DJ, vocalist, and songwriter. Since rising to prominence in 1998 for her singles "1982" and "Frank Sinatra" with The Hacker, she has worked with other musicians such as Chicks on Speed, Felix da Housecat and Golden Boy...
  
  
• Princess Superstar
  Princess Superstar
  Princess Superstar is an American emcee and DJ.Her musical style, as she describes it, is flip-flop — a mixture of 'hip hop, electroclash and electronica'.-Background:...
  
  
• Kid Koala
  Kid Koala
  Eric San , who records under the name Kid Koala, is a Canadian DJ, turntablist, musician and an author of graphic novels. He is signed to the British record label Ninja Tune, is a member of alternative hip hop supergroup Deltron 3030, and The Slew with Dynamite D and former members of the...
  
  
• Roots Manuva
  Roots Manuva
  Rodney Hylton Smith , better known by his stage name Roots Manuva, is a British rapper from Stockwell, South London. He is currently signed to Big Dada.-Biography:...
  
  
• Ed Rush and Patife
• Carl Craig
  Carl Craig
  Carl Craig is a Detroit-based producer of techno music, and is considered to be one of the most important names in the Detroit second generation of techno producers and DJs...
  
  
• Ellen Allien
  Ellen Allien
  Ellen Allien, born Ellen Fraatz , is a German electronic musician, music producer and founder of BPitch Control music label. She lives in Berlin, Germany. She sings in both German and English. She has said that one of the main inspirations for her music is the culture of reunified Berlin; her...
  
  
• Gilles Peterson
  Gilles Peterson
  Gilles Peterson , is a DJ, record collector and record label owner from London, UK. Through his labels Acid Jazz, Talkin' Loud, and latterly Brownswood Recordings, he has been associated with the careers of well-known artists of the 1990s such as Erykah Badu, Roni Size and Jamiroquai...
  
  
• Derrick May
• Jazzanova
  Jazzanova
  Jazzanova is a German Berlin-based DJ/producer collective consisting of Alexander Barck, Claas Brieler, Jürgen von Knoblauch, Roskow Kretschmann, Stefan Leisering, and Axel Reinemer. Formed in 1995, the group is one of the foremost proponents of the nu-jazz, chillout and jazz house styles of music...
  
  
• DJ Hell
  DJ Hell
  This article is about Helmut Josef Geier. You may also be looking for Darryl Hell.Helmut Josef Geier, professionally known as DJ Hell is a German house-techno DJ...
  
  
• Trentemoller
• Marshall Jefferson
  Marshall Jefferson
  Marshall Jefferson is an American musician, working in house music, in particular, the subgenres of Chicago house and deep house.-Biography:...
  
  
• Bob Sinclar
  Bob Sinclar
  Bob Sinclar, originally spelled "Sinclair" - , is a French record producer, House music DJ, remixer and owner of the label Yellow Productions.- Career history :...
  
  
• Juan Atkins
  Juan Atkins
  Juan Atkins is an American musician. He is widely credited as the originator of techno music, specifically Detroit techno along with Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson...