Groove (magazine)

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Groove is a magazine for the electronic music , parties and techno lifestyle that has been published digitally from 1989 to 2018 as a print edition and since then . Along with de: Bug and Raveline , Groove was one of the most important German magazines for electronic music. It was sold with a circulation of up to 100,000 in German-speaking countries and partly in the Netherlands. In addition to interviews and reports on national and international DJs , technical reports and the numerous DJ charts, there are overviews of parties and a section with record reviews . Each issue later featured a comic with the character “Hotze”, which was drawn by the artists Bringmann & Kopetzki .

history

The magazine was founded in 1989 by Thomas Koch (DJ T.) in Frankfurt am Main as a regional scene magazine for the Rhine-Main area . The central part of the magazine was initially the charts of DJs and record stores and event information. The magazine was initially financed through advertisements and distributed free of charge to scene establishments. Advertisements came from regional scene-related facilities such as record and streetwear stores or hairdressing salons. Initially, the magazine was still focused on electronic music in the broader sense and reported, among other things, on black music , hip-hop , soul and rhythm and blues . In the early 1990s, the focus was on techno and house.

In 1999 Heiko Hoffmann became editor-in-chief, who had previously worked as a freelance journalist. The editorial team then moved to Berlin . In the year 2000, the magazine achieved its highest income from advertisements with around 500,000 D-Marks per issue. and contained around 200 pages. A few months later, however, sales began to drop continuously to 30 to 40 percent within six months.

Thomas Koch was editor of the magazine until December 2004. In December of that year he announced the sale of the magazine to Piranha Media GmbH , which has published the magazine since then. The Groove was released every two months. In addition to the freely distributed edition, the magazine was also available at the kiosk in a "refined" version with a few additional pages and an accompanying audio CD. In addition to the approximately 35,000 freely available copies, 25,000 copies of the paid version were published.

In 2018 the print edition of the magazine was discontinued after 175 issues due to financial difficulties, since then the magazine has operated exclusively as an online magazine via a subscription model .

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  1. ↑ Heiko Hoffmann & DJ T. - Change. Retrieved November 30, 2019 .