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Jet City Lounge
Jet City Lounge
A fine mix of chilled instrumental future lounge, nu-jazz, groove jazz, downtempo, soft techno, brokenbeat, electro-bossa, deep house, and ambient house, with intermittent vocals.
Ambient Popsicle
Ambient Popsicle
An aficionado's mix of chilled adult alternative pop, future lounge, vocal downtempo, nu-jazz, ambient pop, trip-hop, neo-soul, synth pop, deep house, and a few surprise classics.

Low Mercury
Low Mercury
A deeply-chilled mix of instrumental downtempo, soft techno, chill-out, IDM, psybient, illbient, ambient dub, ambient techno, ambient house, nu-jazz, and an occasional vocal track.

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Groovera: Web Radio. Chilled Grooves. True. Web Radio Award Winners 'Best Chilled / Ambient Station' and 'Best Downtempo DJ'    '...the perfect soundtrack to a long soak in the bath or a room-service déjeuner à deux' - Time Magazine Europe
About Groovera
Tim Quigley
Groovera began as the labor-passion of
Tim Quigley
, a veteran web producer and lifelong music enthusiast who founded Groovera independently from a concept developed over the course of several years. Today, Groovera reaches hundreds of thousands of listeners monthly and in over seventy-five countries.

Since Internet radio was in its infancy, Quigley has idealized starting the ultimate web radio station and has brought many concepts to fruition embarking upon this effort. Beginning the journey in July 1996, Quigley was invited on contract as an Internet Critic to scout out and write about music-related websites for Microsoft Network features Find (the foundation of MSN Search, nowadays Microsoft Live) and e-zine One Click Away. His research quickly led him to discover the advent of web radio and within a year, nearly all the music he was listening to and purchasing was first discovered online. With the realization of the Internet as a powerful media resource, an aspiration was born.

In January 2002, Quigley formed Qaas Media - the name an acronym of the four partners surname initials. The Qaas Media business plan included a subscription-based service called SongMonger.com which would sell bulk ephemeral music recordings (such as MP3, RM, WAV, AIFF, etc.) with Internet-only radio streams playing the music available through the service. Coinciding with the litigious proceedings against Napster, henceforth making MP3 a "dirty word" in the business world at the time, the idea of selling MP3's or any similar format was openly ridiculed during a meeting with potential investors and Quigley's partnership dissolved, leaving only Tim remaining to pursue his endeavor and allowing iTunes to introduce the concept of selling music files only a little more than a year later, becoming a runaway success.

On August 23, 2003, Tim discovered a free, MP3-based streaming audio technology and a new spark of inspiration changed his world. Within two hours, Groovera's predecessor OverXposure.FM went live with its original music channel FrostByte Groove Lounge featuring selections from Quigley's private music collection, streaming from his living room to an audience of only up to six concurrent listeners on a cable Internet connection using a previously retired 600mHz PC. Within a week, he was streaming continuously 24/7 and soon after he established Groovera's parent company, Qaz Media LLC ("Qaz" being a play on the name of his former partnership and his starting this venture alone, doing everything from "a to z"). In less than two years FrostByte Groove Lounge won two Web Radio Awards and gained an audience spanning the globe, serving millions of listeners of all walks of life in home, business, educational, and government settings alike.

What began as FrostByte Groove Lounge was later divided up to become what are today Groovera's current three-channel line-up and also provided the foundation for seven other formats currently in incubation. In September 2006, OverXposure.FM underwent brand transition and became Groovera, a fanciful combination of the words groove and the Latin word vera, meaning "true" or "pure". Groovera is celebrated as the world's first multi-channel web radio station specializing only in "chill-out music", presenting with each format a rotation to serve each of the popular definitions of what is chill-out and to serve different moods.

To date, Quigley operates Groovera independently, free of commercial interruption or subscription and without any corporate sponsorship or funding. As a result, Groovera stands out as the only webcaster in its league who operates without support of any kind from a major media conglomerate, running entirely with resources provided by private personal funds and listener support.

Quigley has had a lifelong instinct for recognizing music sensations before their realizing commercial success, oftentimes years in advance. He has also had the endless interest to learn about those artists and trends early on to know what they are destined to become. And in just the same spirit, many of the artists on Groovera are not yet commercially successful in the United States, remaining obscure despite their commercial viability. Quigley recognizes the market potential of a radio format bearing an alternative to smooth jazz, adult contemporary and easy listening, showcasing what he calls "cutting-edge elevator music" and appealing to a most favorable socio-economic demographic without geographic or generational limitations. If you're listening right now, you're hearing it - and you can likely say you heard it here first! But it is not just sound, it is vision.

Updated February 17, 2007
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