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Energy Top 98 of 2010

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theedger

Another year has passed. Once again we'll be counting down the year's biggest dance hits. It's our 8th annual countdown! Crazy.

We have definitely helped to shaped dance in this country directly and indirectly. The proof is to look at everyone who calls their format 'dance hits' (we created the format). Look at playlists of other stations that didn't touch a song until we featured it in TLR or added it.

We helped to get a record licensed in the US this year, and it became that label's biggest hit to date. Glad we can do our part.

And the one thing I'm most proud of - not one song on our playlist was downloaded from some blog or p2p. Every song is a pure uncompressed wav file!

Thanks for a year of interesting chatting.

-Mikeo
 
DJ Perry,

I am the same way about my station as well. Everything as uncompressed audio. Not to get into a long technical discussion, but after being a Broadcast Engineer for several years (and actually competing against Mike's cluster..) the analogy garbage in-garbage out means a lot. If you are re-compressing a file that was already compressed, the audio gets muddy and it sound like crap. Plus you add on Multiband processing, and you end up with dogpoop that is filled with midrange swirl and high end splatter.

I am not sure what Mike is running for processing, but we run a software called MBL4 which was the software used on a former Innovonics product a few years back, this allows some fairly good control of the final limiting and clipping. But even with the More expensive Orban 1100 cards that we used on our commercial FM's, when you played any form of compressed audio, it sounded like garbage.

There is a ton more theory I could get into, but it would probably bore most of the people that read this forum.
 
I understand all that for FM stations, but I have trouble believing it would make a difference on a internet stream where everything gets squished to 128mp3 anyway. Plus most PCs have crap speakers anyway and its only background music. Its not like anybody pumps it up for a party and says "hey, that doesn't sound like a wave"

It's online music. waves take longer to download. i would imagine it takes longer to find wave sources too, while others are already on top of a song because even FM's all over are playing MP3s. A 320 is now industry standard with all the labels. Nobody cares. Listeners just wanna hear their song.
 
DJ_Perry said:
So was Energy Chicago and possibly Az
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Yes - but the were not 'dance hits'
 
if this playlist isn't "dance hits", what the hell is?

Da Buzz "Let Me Love You"
Chili Hi Fly "Is It Love?"
Kim Sozzi "Feeling Me"
Soul Dujour "Here We Go"
Barry Harris /Pepper Mashay "Dive In The Pool"
Modjo "Lady"
Daft Punk "One More Time"
Safri Duo "Played A-Live (The Bongo Song)"
Ultra Nate' "Get It Up (The Feeling)"
Sarina Paris "Look At Us"
Becca "You Make Me Feel (More and More)"
Melanie C "I Turn To You"
Ian Van Dahl "Castles In The Sky"
Da Buzz "Want To Be With Me"
Kim English "Everyday"
Amber "Yes"
Erika "Relations"
Hannah "Blinded"
Wendy Phillips "Stay"
Funky Green Dogs "You Got Me (Burnin' Up)"
Kosheen "Hide U"
Perpetuous Dreamer "The Sound Of Goodbye"
Laut Sprecher f. Katie Skate "Omnibus"
Absolom "Stars"
Darude "Sandstorm"
DJ Jean "The Launch"
 
DJ_Perry said:
if this playlist isn't "dance hits", what the hell is?

Da Buzz "Let Me Love You"
Chili Hi Fly "Is It Love?"
Kim Sozzi "Feeling Me"
Soul Dujour "Here We Go"
Barry Harris /Pepper Mashay "Dive In The Pool"
Modjo "Lady"
Daft Punk "One More Time"
Safri Duo "Played A-Live (The Bongo Song)"
Ultra Nate' "Get It Up (The Feeling)"
Sarina Paris "Look At Us"
Becca "You Make Me Feel (More and More)"
Melanie C "I Turn To You"
Ian Van Dahl "Castles In The Sky"
Da Buzz "Want To Be With Me"
Kim English "Everyday"
Amber "Yes"
Erika "Relations"
Hannah "Blinded"
Wendy Phillips "Stay"
Funky Green Dogs "You Got Me (Burnin' Up)"
Kosheen "Hide U"
Perpetuous Dreamer "The Sound Of Goodbye"
Laut Sprecher f. Katie Skate "Omnibus"
Absolom "Stars"
Darude "Sandstorm"
DJ Jean "The Launch"
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What you didn't list was all the pop songs that played inbetween those songs. That's the difference.
 
theedger said:
What you didn't list was all the pop songs that played inbetween those songs. That's the difference.
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I didn't edit that playlist I came across. I will admit, I do recall hearing remixes of Madonna, Pink, Kylie, Christina, etc in rotation, but they were still passable on a Dance Hits station. I don't think there's anybody here that would dispute that "Energy" was a huge influence in the format, and taking credit for creating it is very arrogant. Especially when you share the same name, and (at the time) a majority of their playlist.
 
I just loved getting calls from listeners (when I was working overnights on the country station) from listeners who stumbled upon the original Energy..

Good times back then, Mike was on 98.1, and I was on 95.9 on the eastside, and the other 98.3 was beaming out from 30 floors above me.
 
DJ_Perry said:
theedger said:
What you didn't list was all the pop songs that played inbetween those songs. That's the difference.
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I didn't edit that playlist I came across. I will admit, I do recall hearing remixes of Madonna, Pink, Kylie, Christina, etc in rotation, but they were still passable on a Dance Hits station. I don't think there's anybody here that would dispute that "Energy" was a huge influence in the format, and taking credit for creating it is very arrogant. Especially when you share the same name, and (at the time) a majority of their playlist.
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Perry, not only that, but at one point, Energy 98's website was directed towards EnergyAZ when the two "merged" while Mikeo was there. I can't help but think that Energy 98 also got a little something out of the time it was "joined" with EnergyAZ.

Mikeo, while I enjoyed your tenure at EnergyAZ very much, I too find your opening comments in this thread to be quite arrogant. As someone who listened to EnergyAZ throughout it's entire 6.5 years, I, like many others, enjoyed EnergyAZ before your arrival, while you were there, and long after you left...and while I have listened to Energy 98 quite a bit off and on over the years and enjoyed...there have also been times when I've listened to it and NOT enjoyed it just like I can say that about any other station I've listened to.

We appreciate your contribution. Now get off your high horse and continue (or start) helping the dance community rather than tooting your own horn. There is no reason you should be promoting your station here. We all know about it. Go look elsewhere to find your new listeners.
 
Mikeo is now programming 94.5 The Vibe in Vegas. The streams aren't combined. Energy 98 is still mostly pure dance and 94.5 The Vibe has a lot of pop remixes added in. If KVBE gets HD, I'm sure Energy 98 would wind up on its HD2 (but at this point I think whoever doesn't have HD will never get HD).
 
TicTak from 92.3 NOW is still the PD of The Vibe but isn't involved. I'm sure Mike is doing the right thing, programming a more mass-appeal version of the dance format for the FM station. FM and Internet and HD2 are completely different playing fields. The Internet audience is global and doesn't need advertisers for support. The FM's audience is primarily for a 70 mile radius of the Moapa Valley transmitter, which is mostly desert except for the Las Vegas valley and St George, Utah, and it is supported by advertisers. Me listening to 94.5 The Vibe online from New Jersey won't be valuable to local advertisers in Vegas, so the FM station must program the music to cater to the local market. And HD's audience is limited to the few people that own HD radios and live within sight of the tower, and is a loss leader for stations that are broadcasting IBUZ on their sidebands.
 
theedger said:
The proof is to look at everyone who calls their format 'dance hits' (we created the format).
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Love ya Mikeo, but even I gotta call foul on that one, that's a bit rambunctious.

;D

Happy New Year kids.
 
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