Most web radio stations hand you a playlist and leave it there. Friede Freude Musik, a German dance and electronic station on laut.fm, schedules a proper late-night set every evening, then keeps the music running nonstop until morning.
A Nightly Set Called Kraft und Mut
According to the station's listing on Phonostar, the schedule centres on the "Kraft und Mut Dancehouse" set, a new 48-minute dance house mix that airs from 11pm to 1am. Music then continues nonstop through the night. The name translates roughly as "strength and courage," and the set is built to give the late evening a shape rather than leaving it to a random rotation. The same listing credits the station to a DJ operating as Klangstube Nonstop, who openly asks listeners for feedback on the programming.
Electronic Names Across the Rotation
The station's own description on laut.fm points to artists such as Paul Kalkbrenner, Lexer, Rebel, Robin Schulz and Bakermat. That spans the melodic, driving end of German electronic music through to the radio-friendly deep house sound that carried across Europe in the last decade. Directories such as radio.de file it simply under electro, which is a fair shorthand for the mood: steady beats, warm synths and long builds.
Built on laut.fm's User-Generated Radio Model
Friede Freude Musik runs on laut.fm, the German platform launched on 10 June 2005 by Laut AG, the company behind the music magazine laut.de, according to Wikipedia's history of the service. The concept is what the platform calls User Generated Radio: individual DJs and music fans build their own stations while the platform handles the licensing side. It is the reason a one-DJ dance house channel can broadcast legally and reliably, and the reason stations like this one sound so personal compared with a network playlist.
Who It Suits
If you want something to work to, cook to or wind down with, and you would rather hear a DJ's continuous flow than a stack of unrelated singles, this is the kind of station that fits. Pop, rock and other styles occasionally sit in the wider description of the station, but the identity is clearly the dance house sets that give it its character.
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