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Energy 98

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now that BPM on XM that has completely disintigrated my fave dance hits station would have to be internet radio station Energy 98. Why?

--Pro voiceovers
--A balanced sound that doesn't lean too heavily on any particular segment of the genre.
--Not afraid to play great early 00s, 90s and even 80s dance hits
--Unlike nearly all of their online "competition" they are not a jukebox.
--Great imaging
--On-air announcers! What a novel concept for net radio.
--Interactive, inventive contests.

im sure there are more reasons but these are a few that come to mind.

http://energy981.com
 
Dear XM...

I heard breaks in the 5pm hour and 9pm hour. Every jock stepped on the song. It's either REALLY bad voicetracking or people were drunk.

Music is so-so. We're hearing Closer from Res-Q as a breakout track, even though it already went through the dance scene 2.5 years ago. All the house bores me to death, I'm hearing the same recurrents and golds over and over again (ENOUGH Way Out West and Lustral) and this Air 81 thing is the same mixing with a new name. The same sweepers are there. Spin Factor is weak, lame, et al....33 1/3 was an original name AND played on the fact you're doing 33 current tracks with a "1/3" track just hanging on.

This rejuvination/relaunch/re-whatever has failed. BPM neglected to consult someone ambitious and perverse enough to pull it off. Sweepers should be zinging all over my car. My bass bin should be constantly pounding in the trunk. The music should make me so anxious that I want to pull over, bust out a Martin MX-4 and start a roadside dance club (PPK's Resurrection or Beautiful Child from Madelyne/4 Strings)...yet also pull me down into that ecstacy trance that you can't escape (Need to Feel Loved from Reflekt or anything Chicane).

Here's how I see it...you hear someone do a great job on an FM so they get hired. Then you assimilate them into this "XM mode" where you're the anti-FM. You don't process the hell out of your mics, you don't squash your audio to death, you don't have aggressive imaging and a true v/o person, the jocks are boring, mix shows are canned sets with no live jock or crowd noise...COME ON.

You don't get noticed being the norm. Here's your checklist, BPM:

- FEMALE jocks. Stop re-using the same jocks. Get me fresh talent with an attitude sound...in fact, get me a brit accent.
- HIGH ENERGY male jocks. Get me a jock who projects. Get me a jock who sounds excited about the music.
- Mic processing. Stop using this lazy ass leveler. Go smack your engineer in the face and crank the ratio to 12:1, the threshold to -30, attack to 5ms and release the lowest setting...turn on the tube emulation...and fix the damn de-esser because the XM codec sucks. I want to hear that compressor screaming in pain as it tries to duck the voice.
- Audio processing. Call Bobby Orban...or go out on a limb and try that DSP-X thing the guy on the engineering board is talking about. Set it to the most aggressively clipped and limited thing in there. Get me that HUGE sound.
- Get the Killer Hertz imaging package. Get Chase Cuts. Get SOMETHING.
- Get a v/o chick. If I could marry Beth Cameron's voice, I would. Call her.
- Form an actual clock and daypart the music. Shut The F Up And Dance from Adrenaline is awesome on a Friday night coming home from the club but I don't want to hear it while I'm at work on a Tuesday afternoon. New, Power, Recurrent, Power, Gold, Power, New, Power, Recurrent, Recurrent, Gold, New, Recurrent, Power, Recurrent. There's your freaking clock. Observe genre separation, too.
- I'll send you my extra telephone hybrid. CALLERS. Not aim. Not email. Not text message. CALLERS. I don't have email in the car, texting is a pain in the car, and aim sucks on my phone. CALLERS. Get VoIP and use the free asterisk PBX if you're concerned about phone bills.
- Liiiiiiiiiiiive broadcasts. I don't want "resident DJ's [sic]". A real club would play what's really hot because the jock doesn't want his floor to walk away. Show us this supposed "XM Nation".
- Immediately pull your version of Sounds of San Francisco, burn the master, smash the adobe audition hard drive with an axe. Get non-XM version back on.
- GET MOTIVATED. Sounds like NO ONE in the entire building is motivated. All that's going on is stagnant stock price (damnit), piss poor utilization of bandwidth (DUMP THE TRAFFIC IMMEDIATELY) and this BS "anti-FM" sentiment that isn't working.

Why isn't anyone ranting and raving about how EVERYONE needs XM? Why did furbies outsell XM? How come the entire dance community isn't hooked on BPM to the point they're trading their ecstacy pills for an XM receiver? The anti-FM thing ain't working and neither are these supposed "changes" that came to BPM. Time for plan B.

You know the difference between FM and XM? FM figured it out. Grant it, they've lost a lot of it...but they had the working formula in the 80s through late 90s regarding top 40/dance. You just refuse to adopt it.<P ID="signature">______________
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a guy who used to supply music to BPM has just started a dance stream in response to XM's New Cheese81.

http://www.radiodanz.com

Note the all the former BPM staples in this sample hour:

"Dancin'" - Aaron Smith ft. Luvli
"Give It Away" - Deepest Blue
"Am I On Your Mind" - Oxygen
"Higher & Higher" - Alice Deejay
"Utopia" - Stereo Star ft. Mia
"Lola's Theme" - Shapeshifters
"Let's Get Down" - Supafly Inc.
"Everybody Everybody" - Black Box
"No Strings" - Lola
"Steppin' Out" - Kaskade
"One More Time" - Daft Punk
"Push The Button" (remix) - Sugababes
"Just The Way You Are" - Milky
"Love Comes Again" - DJ Tiesto
"The Sound Of Goodbye" - Perpetuous Dreamer
"Summer Is Magic" - Playahitty
"Without Love" - Sun
"Raindrops" - Stunt
"Truly" - Delerium
"One Word" - Kelly Osbourne
"Dove" - Moony
"Walkin'" - Freemasons

I think the only thing musically missing from this station are some of the "More Cowbell"-esque songs and some of the really obscure stuff BPM used to play that broke up the monotonly of all the trax that play at roughly the same speed.
 
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We play all but 2 titles on that list. I'm sure there are some that we play he doesn't. It's getting crowded here with internet dance. But it looks like the only real home for dance music these days.
 
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Good playlist :)<P ID="signature">______________
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Re: Xm: OFF Internet: ON

> We play all but 2 titles on that list. I'm sure there are
> some that we play he doesn't. It's getting crowded here
> with internet dance. But it looks like the only real home
> for dance music these days.

Just remember...when people mimick what you've done, that's the finest form of flattery.<P ID="signature">______________
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> We play all but 2 titles on that list. I'm sure there are
> some that we play he doesn't. It's getting crowded here
> with internet dance. But it looks like the only real home
> for dance music these days.
>
I disagree. I'm very happy with the satellite offerings from XM and Sirius and would dare say they are the dance format leaders. Granted, there have been some changes at XM, but "BPM" is still a very good dance outlet. I also think "the Beat" on Sirius is sounding much better lately too. Sure, the interntet stations are going to be deeper and more obscure and less mainstream, because they don't have the same listenership pressures; but I prefer "mainstream dance hits", and for that, I don't think satellite can be beat. Also, I'm not going to fool with the trouble of listening to internet radio. It's just a hassle. Plus it's not really portable. Sure, you can download and so forth, but that's just too much of a hassle for me. I'm glad that internet radio is out there for dance, but for me, I'll put my money and support into satellite and "BPM" and "the Beat".
 
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> Good playlist :)
>
I dont see this net station really lasting that long, it seems a bit amaturish. I still think E-98, I-party radio, and of course 1club.fm are the best of the internet dance (hits) stations, but also C-89.5, Energy Arizona, and Energy San Francisco are all pretty good Terestrial dance stations, that stream online..... Although im usually too busy with my nose stuck over in the European Dance scene, especially the Dance stations in Belgium, and Holland.
 
Re: Dear XM...

> - Form an actual clock and daypart the music. Shut The F Up
> And Dance from Adrenaline is awesome on a Friday night
> coming home from the club but I don't want to hear it while
> I'm at work on a Tuesday afternoon.

FYI, 95.3 Party Orlando played that song during all dayparts when the station was at its peak. Phil Michaels was there, Vic The Latino was there, and I believe their 12+ ratings were closing in on a 4 share.


> - Liiiiiiiiiiiive broadcasts. I don't want "resident DJ's
> [sic]". A real club would play what's really hot because
> the jock doesn't want his floor to walk away. Show us this
> supposed "XM Nation".

This is not Z-103.5 Toronto - this is a service available all over North America, so people in Seattle or Houston could care less about a club in Boston or Philadelphia. Come to think of it, I don't think KTU broadcasts live from any club either.
 
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> Although im usually too busy with my nose stuck over in the European Dance scene,

Likewise.
 
Re: Dear XM...

> This is not Z-103.5 Toronto - this is a service available
> all over North America, so people in Seattle or Houston
> could care less about a club in Boston or Philadelphia. Come
> to think of it, I don't think KTU broadcasts live from any
> club either.

Take this "Air 81" concept to a real level. Broadcast live from east coast clubs in the early hours and follow the night life out west to close out the night.<P ID="signature">______________
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Re: Dear XM...

> > This is not Z-103.5 Toronto - this is a service available
> > all over North America, so people in Seattle or Houston
> > could care less about a club in Boston or Philadelphia.
> Come
> > to think of it, I don't think KTU broadcasts live from any
>
> > club either.
>
> Take this "Air 81" concept to a real level. Broadcast live
> from east coast clubs in the early hours and follow the
> night life out west to close out the night.
>

That sounds like something me and you would enjoy, but would it play in Peoria as the saying goes? ;)

It could be pretty cool to broadcast live for an hour from a club in Boston, then an hour from a club from DC, followed by Atlanta. Then do an hour in Detroit, an hour in Chicago, followed by Dallas. Continue with a club from Denver, and then one from Vegas or L.A., and finish it all off in Anchorage and Honolulu, LOL.
 
Re: Dear XM...

> > > This is not Z-103.5 Toronto - this is a service
> available
> > > all over North America, so people in Seattle or Houston
> > > could care less about a club in Boston or Philadelphia.
> > Come
> > > to think of it, I don't think KTU broadcasts live from
> any
> >
> > > club either.
> >
> > Take this "Air 81" concept to a real level. Broadcast
> live
> > from east coast clubs in the early hours and follow the
> > night life out west to close out the night.
> >
>
> That sounds like something me and you would enjoy, but would
> it play in Peoria as the saying goes? ;)
>
> It could be pretty cool to broadcast live for an hour from a
> club in Boston, then an hour from a club from DC, followed
> by Atlanta. Then do an hour in Detroit, an hour in Chicago,
> followed by Dallas. Continue with a club from Denver, and
> then one from Vegas or L.A., and finish it all off in
> Anchorage and Honolulu, LOL.
>
I would enjoy this as well. I think Satelite Mixshows do lack the Energy, of a real Live radio Mixshow. When I listen to the Evening, and weekend mixshows, on Top 40, and Dance stations, from around the globe, You can really feel the Energy, even though you dont speak a word of their native Language. I honsetly think Sam is Right on Track about this, he feels almost the same way i do. One thing that I like, that most of you probably dont, Is actually like When the DJs talk over the music, and I like Sweepers to be inserted during the Transitions, just as the next song picks up. I dont like it When the Step on the Lyrics though, I prefer they Talk and Drop Sweepers during Transitions, or during an instrumental part of the song... In europe,, Especially on NON-Licensed stations, its not uncommon for the Jocks to Talk over almost the entire song, which I think is overkill.
 
Re: Dear XM...

> It could be pretty cool to broadcast live for an hour from a
> club in Boston, then an hour from a club from DC, followed
> by Atlanta. Then do an hour in Detroit, an hour in Chicago,
> followed by Dallas. Continue with a club from Denver, and
> then one from Vegas or L.A., and finish it all off in
> Anchorage and Honolulu, LOL.

That's what BPM needs...something NEW. This fresh blood that keeps showing up and then disappearing a month later needs to stop because the final product isn't changing. Hate to tell the newbie there, but changing it to the Spin Factor and Air 81 but playing the same music, same sets, same DJs, same sweepers and same sound doesn't do anything. You want to call it Air 81....fine. Call it "Air 81 Coast to Coast"...as night time falls over America, we follow it...bringing you the hottest mixes from the hottest clubs featuring the hottest DJs starting on the east coast and moving to the west coast. Kick it off with coordinated DJs across the country...Van Dyk in NYC, Tieso in Miami, Armin Van Buuren in Detriot, Ferry Corsten in Houston and Oakenfold in LA. This is XM for christ's sake..make a few phone calls and make it happen.

I'm well aware that this is probably so far out of the hands of the PD that it isn't even worth the fight with management (ala Cumulus or CC internal politics)...but nonetheless, BPM has so many dance fans with prior radio experience willing to jump in and help, it's stupid not to take some advice and constructive criticism.<P ID="signature">______________
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If you want to pay for radio - yes XM and Sirius offer a service. I don't work for either, but I assume since they have no real way to rate their channels, there is more freedom. FREE dance radio - unless you live in selected cities - is dead. Anyone who has internet access can listen to Dance 'Radio'. If you need some help tuning into internet radio, hit me up.

Internet radio is becoming more portable everyday too. It'll be a 3-way race. FM's HD, Satellite and Internet.
 
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> If you want to pay for radio - yes XM and Sirius offer a
> service. I don't work for either, but I assume since they
> have no real way to rate their channels, there is more
> freedom. FREE dance radio - unless you live in selected
> cities - is dead. Anyone who has internet access can listen
> to Dance 'Radio'. If you need some help tuning into
> internet radio, hit me up.
>
> Internet radio is becoming more portable everyday too.
> It'll be a 3-way race. FM's HD, Satellite and Internet.


I hope Internet Radio wins, and allows listeners to listen to stations like Energy 98, I-Party Radio, and Club FM from their cars in the next few years.

And, dare I say it, I hope there are ways made in the coming years to allow wireless Internet Radio to be received on small devices like iPods, Walkmans, and BoomBoxes in the coming years!!

When that all happens, and there is wireless broadband Internet made available throughout the country, WATCH OUT!!

Internet Radio will ultimately be the death of so-called "over-the-air" FM radio!! :)

DeanSB<P ID="signature">______________
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