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DENNIS FERRER on 92.3 NOW, a CHR in NYC!

Morpheux said:
Why are you so surprised lol?
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Because I would have never suspected that a CHR/Top 40 radio station would hop on a track that has a more underground/house feel than a "commercial" sounding dance track. It's a good surprise :) BUT GET OVER TO THE NYC BOARD! We're discussing it there! lol :)
 
Dude,haven't you been reading KDM'S long analysis of the dance music comback theory? ;D

If you have then you know that it was only a matter of time for before hardcore dance would make it's way into commercial radio. But I will guarantee you that the dance snobs will find a way to discredit Dennis Ferrer.
 
Morpheux said:
Dude,haven't you been reading KDM'S long analysis of the dance music comback theory? ;D

If you have then you know that it was only a matter of time for before hardcore dance would make it's way into commercial radio. But I will guarantee you that the dance snobs will find a way to discredit Dennis Ferrer.


Agreed. It's only a matter of time that people will give him the "you sold out" meme. Although, I do give mamagement at CBS kudos for allowing this track to be on air and extending the Saturday Night Dance Factory from 7:45 to 3AM.
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Morpheux said:
Dude,haven't you been reading KDM'S long analysis of the dance music comback theory? ;D

If you have then you know that it was only a matter of time for before hardcore dance would make it's way into commercial radio. But I will guarantee you that the dance snobs will find a way to discredit Dennis Ferrer.
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But yours is shorter ;)

I did post something about this on FB and one or two people did criticize saying it's an older track. The thing I pointed out to them is that, yeah, we knew about this in the community since late November/early December when the track first came out. But for the fact that we don't get a LOT of play anymore ON the radio and just on the pure UNDERGROUND nature of this track, for 92.3 Now to get on this is an achievement and that we should all be proud and supportive of it!

In that sense, that's where I have to get on our case :)
 
Come to think of it....this reminds me of a track back in the 80's that I would have NEVER thought would enter onto CHR, even AT that time when CHR was MORE dance music friendly than it is today...

M/A/R/R/S - "Pump Up The Volume"

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"Pump Up The Volume" was the right record at the right time. For one, there's something youthful and fun that speaks to young listeners with a line like "Pump Up The Volume". This was also at the time of your neighborhood boomboxes, and fit the attitudes of those living in big cities, regardless of race/ethnicity. Lastly, and just as important, Dance music was perceived as cool by Blacks and Latinos in the 80s. While in the first half of the 80s CHR was rediscovering and heavily focusing on pure Pop records, in the second half of the 80s a lot of stations tried sounding a lot hipper by embracing Rap in 1986 (Run DMC vs. Aerosmith, LL Cool, Beastie Boys), and both Dance music and Hard Rock starting in 1987.
Probably more shocking was the fact that Rap first broke on CHR radio in the last few months of the 1970s, though only by a handful of true CHRs, including Y-100 Miami and CKGM 98 Montreal. There were also stations between 1980-85 that weren't afraid to touch it, like Kiss 108 Boston, KRLY 94 Houston, I-95 Miami, and of course Z-100 New York (Scott Shannon embraced records like "White Lines" by Grandmaster Flash).
 
92.3 Now was one of the few CHRs in the country playing Feel Your Love in regular rotation, but that could be attributed to the Pulse effect.
 
Nick said:
92.3 Now was one of the few CHRs in the country playing Feel Your Love in regular rotation, but that could be attributed to the Pulse effect.
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The Pulse effect may have had a bit to do with it, but "Feel Your Love" was developing legs, actually long after Pulse was gone. 'KTU was on top of it. Z-100 was on top of it. Other markets were on top of it. It was charting on Billboards Dance Airplay as number 1 for awhile in 2008. "Secret Love" is starting to climb up slowly but surely and WAS NEVER played on Pulse (FM). "Just One Day" is the third track out there. Time will tell on that, but if the stations felt confident about "Feel Your Love", grow into "Secret Love", then "Just One Day" can be the "Kim Sozzi" effect :)
 
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