George Brusstar said:
When you've heard one Daft Punk song you've really heard them all.
Errr.....excuse me, but if you think that all electronic music sounds like Daft Punk, then you are sadly misinformed. There are so many different subgenres of electronic music...so many songs that sound completely different - you can't just make a blanket statement like that. I can give you a number of examples - ranging from freestyle, to house, to progressive trance, techno, electro, minimal, breaks, dnb, hardcore.....each of these genres alone sound completely different. Then there's all the little sub-genres in between.....I'll be more than happy to give examples if you'd like, but I think someone already did that in this thread.
For the record, I used to live in Philly.....I also used to work in radio there (long time ago)....which is why I am even in this area of the forums in the first place - just wanted to see what was happening in radio over there and this particular thread stood out to me. Also perhaps because outside of my stint in radio, I also dj, produce music, and on the rare occasion produce events.
I´m just curious as to why some people on this board feel that dance music would not be 'viable' in a city like Philadelphia? It was at one time. It seems to be coming back, as demonstrated by the producers I know who are coming out of that city. Do you know who Josh Wink is? He's probably one of Philly's biggest exports in dance music right now. Is it because you people posting the negative stuff in this thread obviously don't like this kind of music, or is it because you genuinely feel it will not work? See, this was one of the issues I always had with radio - no one is ever willing to try something new. If you don't try something new, how will you honestly know that it won't work?
I see everyone's argument whenever someone suggests something like this - trying something new won't work. How can you just assume that? Maybe it would. But someone should at least be willing to give it a try. If you hire the right people to program and run the station, it possibly could work....maybe. Is it because the corporations that own the stations are dictating what you are allowed to play and you have no choice but to go along with it? If so, that's really a shame.....I mean, I look at a company like Clear Channel and am left wondering how they can produce the LARGEST, most well known electronic music party in a small country like Belgium, which pulls in roughly 50000 people every year from all parts of the world, yet they can't push dance music in the US, where electronic music was practically invented (Detroit techno anyone?). Same goes for MTV - they play music videos for dance music and sponsor HUGE events here, as do non-media companies...mainly alcohol, but you get the occasional car company too. Dance music is definitely marketable if you have people pushing it that know what they are doing.
One other thing I want to know - why does Philly have to have ummm....what are they up to now....3, maybe 4 stations playing hiphop? Is this what has become of the music industry in the US? Bling bling? I'm all for listening to all genres of music (and I DO listen to a bit of everything), but why have so much of one genre dominating the airwaves?
Ok, I´m done now.....I´m neither for nor against the idea of Philly having a dance station...just wanted to post my .02 euros
