I used to look forward to Memorial Day, 4th of July, and Labor Day, so I could listen to the special mix weekends on 97.9 The Beat. Now, radio is so horrible, all I enjoy is the meat on the grill, the time off, and what the holiday represents. I can't believe radio has gotten this bad. The days of mix weekends on 97.9 The Beat are long gone thanks to management, (f*ing idiots), and it's just regular rotation on K104 as usual. Casa 106.7 is a thing of the past and La Kalle don't even sound the same anymore. So there you have it. Dallas/Ft. Worth radio in a nutshell... Have a happy 4th!
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I don't even get excited about summer holidays anymore
- Thread starter bucwhyl
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Wow, you'd think 97.9 THE BEAT would be choppin' it down in the mix. Well, 97.9 THE BEAT's sister station here in ATL, HOT 107.9 is mixin' up "The 4th of July Megamix Weekend!" www.hot1079atl.com
bucwhyl said:Man, market #5 sucks!!! Can you believe 97.9, 94.5, 104.5, or 105.7 is doing absolutely nothing? When it comes to radio, I hate this market. And Candelera, you have destroyed The Beat, and everything it represented. Leave DFW you idiot.
At least you still have 4 urbans in DFW, unlike market #6 to the south of ya, where we're still stuck with the usual 2.
Well, I guess
Well, I guess I cannot really complain because at least THIS year there was some action for the summer. Our former "where hip hop lives" station is still doing their Valley Caliente Power Mix Weekends every weekend, all summer long. Only difference these days is that it's no longer ALL weekend! They stop around 3 or 4am whenever the last regularly weekend mix show is scheduled, then continue the next day around 10 am. Also, this past July 4, we had our other rhythmic station do an Independence Mix. It, too, was not nonstop, but started in the early evening both the day before and the day of Independence Day, ending at 3am both times.
This was much much better than nothing at all.
I do have to give it up for our 101.5 KZON for doing the Holiday Mix for CHRISTMAS (when most stations decide to get really boring) and New years! It was 392 hours of nonstop mixing!
Anyway, I'm a little excited because I am leaving tomorrow for the funeral in California and I know there is some new stuff happening there since the last time I visited. I'll be there Sun-Wed, which is pretty much a rather boring time to look forward to radio, and on top of that, things have changed, but still...
These were the best days of radio, when you could get all of the following IN ARIZONA, OUT OF ALL PLACES! Example:
~ Memorial Day Weekend back in 2005, when ~
Mega 104.3/99.3 (rhythmic oldies) mixed all weekend. Guest dj's came in as well. GOOD mixes
Power 92 The Hip Hop Station (rhythmic) mixed all weekend. Guest dj's came in as well. GOOD mixes
104.7 Kiss FM (Top 40) did a party weekend, playing old school and new school hits
Club 95 Latino Vibe (Latin Rhythm) ...well, they were new and already sounded good, so they just stayed the same and it still seemed like a big party with the incredible amount of mixing they did 7 days a week.
Energy 92.7 / 101.1 Arizona's Dance Authority (dance) mixed the house and trance ALL weekend. No off beat mixes.
That was the most we had going all at once, and it was almost as good as how it was done in California back in the late 90's for Labor Day and ALL OF DECEMBER for Christmas! If only this could happen again, with all the stations we NOW have that are rhythmic something! I do greatly miss how it was done back in the day, when everyone REALLY got active on the west coast, for instance, WiLD 94.9 in Cali was mixing all weekend, we had it going on here in Phoenix, Power 106 in California...The Spanish top 40 station...etc. And I loved these rhythmic stations because they would do interesting things and not just play one type of music. All the hip hop, some dancehall, freestyle, latin house, booty bass, and even some euro dance...Great times! I remember how it was in California for Labor Day and Christmas when I used to visit back in the mid to late 90's! I had to just spend all day and stand by with my tapes ready, passing my entire holiday time recording, and that was pretty much all I listened to when I went back to Atlanta or Stone Mountain for the rest of the school year.
It seems as if things have just gone downhill, both radio and music-wise, ever since the year 2000. At least now, it does seem a little bit that things may be beginning to change for the better in both areas again.
This was much much better than nothing at all.
I do have to give it up for our 101.5 KZON for doing the Holiday Mix for CHRISTMAS (when most stations decide to get really boring) and New years! It was 392 hours of nonstop mixing!
Anyway, I'm a little excited because I am leaving tomorrow for the funeral in California and I know there is some new stuff happening there since the last time I visited. I'll be there Sun-Wed, which is pretty much a rather boring time to look forward to radio, and on top of that, things have changed, but still...
These were the best days of radio, when you could get all of the following IN ARIZONA, OUT OF ALL PLACES! Example:
~ Memorial Day Weekend back in 2005, when ~
Mega 104.3/99.3 (rhythmic oldies) mixed all weekend. Guest dj's came in as well. GOOD mixes
Power 92 The Hip Hop Station (rhythmic) mixed all weekend. Guest dj's came in as well. GOOD mixes
104.7 Kiss FM (Top 40) did a party weekend, playing old school and new school hits
Club 95 Latino Vibe (Latin Rhythm) ...well, they were new and already sounded good, so they just stayed the same and it still seemed like a big party with the incredible amount of mixing they did 7 days a week.
Energy 92.7 / 101.1 Arizona's Dance Authority (dance) mixed the house and trance ALL weekend. No off beat mixes.
That was the most we had going all at once, and it was almost as good as how it was done in California back in the late 90's for Labor Day and ALL OF DECEMBER for Christmas! If only this could happen again, with all the stations we NOW have that are rhythmic something! I do greatly miss how it was done back in the day, when everyone REALLY got active on the west coast, for instance, WiLD 94.9 in Cali was mixing all weekend, we had it going on here in Phoenix, Power 106 in California...The Spanish top 40 station...etc. And I loved these rhythmic stations because they would do interesting things and not just play one type of music. All the hip hop, some dancehall, freestyle, latin house, booty bass, and even some euro dance...Great times! I remember how it was in California for Labor Day and Christmas when I used to visit back in the mid to late 90's! I had to just spend all day and stand by with my tapes ready, passing my entire holiday time recording, and that was pretty much all I listened to when I went back to Atlanta or Stone Mountain for the rest of the school year.
It seems as if things have just gone downhill, both radio and music-wise, ever since the year 2000. At least now, it does seem a little bit that things may be beginning to change for the better in both areas again.
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I hope Movin 99.7 in SF does a old school labor day again.
BACK IN THE DAY RADIO MIXES VS. TODAY'S MIX SHOWS
I shouldn't say the recordings from California was all I listened to in Atlanta. Hot 97.5 (19, 97.5 as they were saying it) had a HUGE quantitiy of booty bass to offer. The problem was I had to come to the west coast to get everything else I wanted in terms of freestyle, latin freestyle, house, and other forms of dance music. I don't know anyone in Miami, so I couldn't go there, even though that would've been the best place for me to live, radio station-wise... but the Bay Area freestyle in Cali was good enough and they had enough latin booty bass to offer, even though they didn't compare to Miami or many of Florida's stations in general. If you're thinking "what about WSTR Star*94" then you might as well just wipe that thought out of your head. All they would ever play in terms of freestyle was Shannon's "let the music play", which wasn't actually the generation of freestyle I was interested in. Lisa Lisa, Shannon, Cover Girls, Nocera, were all pioneers, but I liked the late 90's sound the most. Anyway, let me stop talking about freestyle since many people are probably thinking I'm speaking Greek or something. I know a few people are familiar with it.
I do have to give credit to WHTA for playing Corina's "summertime summertime" on the so so def bass allstars compilation. I guess that could be considered bass, but it is actually more freestyle related, especially the spanish version. Inoj.... well.... she has some freestyle flavor in her, with hits like "time after time". She just kept it safe by not having any electronic elements thrown in. The Booty Girlz "freak me" original version is freestyle, even though it passed as bass. Today, Xcape's "what's up" could be freestyle, too, in addition to some of Ciara's material from "the evolution" cd.
Anyway - flash forward to today, and much of the west coast is boring when it comes to radio stations and dance mix shows. I guess San Fransisco is still somewhat an exception to this in addition to Phoenix on weekends, but other than that, it's all pretty much stuff you can already get in the regular playlists that are played in mix shows today. Actually, this is pretty much nationwide today.
THE MODERNIZED DANCE SOUND TODAY
I guess you could say that the modernized freestyle sound is now the new Akon, Jay Sean, Colby O Donis, and all these artists who are now fusing breakbeat, bass, and freestyle together to make a whole "new" sound (even though much of the freestyle community will hate on you for mentioning those artists as modern day freestyle... But someone explain to me how Debbie Deb's "when I hear music" and "lookout weekend" and Afrika Bambaataa and all of them are accepted as freestyle, but today's sound is not?) Today's latin house I guess is Pitbull all by himself, and the house / dance stuff is Sean Kingston, Rihanna, LMFAO ft Lil Jon..etc. Well, to me "beautiful" by Akon is a modern day freestyle track. "Right now (na na na)" Samples a dance/house song by The Underdog Project, and the Underdog Project is known mostly as a freestyle artist. Only difference is Akon gave the new version of the song a break/freestyle type beat instead of a house beat. I guess today and in the future, it will all be known as electro-pop or electro-hip hop, according to the new generation of kids. All the parents of these kids who don't know any better will just call it all "techno". Freestyle pretty much died, and everyone has forgotten about the term "booty bass", even though it has pretty much made a full come back. I would say Flo Rida is the new "Booty Bass King", but many of his productions do heavily use a lot of freestyle elements - too electronic to be bass. "Low" and "sugar" could pass as modernized booty bass. "In the ayer" is straight up electro-freestyle. "Boom boom pow" is.... not booty either.... and "I gotta feeling", everyone should know is house, produced by David Guetta... look up David Guetta on google and see about him.
Much love to KKFR and their electro-hip hop and house show weekends, along with KZZP and KKFR playing some of it in their mixes as well. KPWR L.A. is good for their 5:40, 6:40, 7:40, 8:40 am mixes, 12pm party mix, New @ 2 hour long mix, the four hour mix at 3, the 7pm top 7 at 7 mix, and the 9pm 2 hour mix, IN ADDITION TO the all weekend mixes all summer. KPWR is where I learned a lot of my favorite style of music from the late 90's, although I know KYLD was 10 times better.
I shouldn't say the recordings from California was all I listened to in Atlanta. Hot 97.5 (19, 97.5 as they were saying it) had a HUGE quantitiy of booty bass to offer. The problem was I had to come to the west coast to get everything else I wanted in terms of freestyle, latin freestyle, house, and other forms of dance music. I don't know anyone in Miami, so I couldn't go there, even though that would've been the best place for me to live, radio station-wise... but the Bay Area freestyle in Cali was good enough and they had enough latin booty bass to offer, even though they didn't compare to Miami or many of Florida's stations in general. If you're thinking "what about WSTR Star*94" then you might as well just wipe that thought out of your head. All they would ever play in terms of freestyle was Shannon's "let the music play", which wasn't actually the generation of freestyle I was interested in. Lisa Lisa, Shannon, Cover Girls, Nocera, were all pioneers, but I liked the late 90's sound the most. Anyway, let me stop talking about freestyle since many people are probably thinking I'm speaking Greek or something. I know a few people are familiar with it.
I do have to give credit to WHTA for playing Corina's "summertime summertime" on the so so def bass allstars compilation. I guess that could be considered bass, but it is actually more freestyle related, especially the spanish version. Inoj.... well.... she has some freestyle flavor in her, with hits like "time after time". She just kept it safe by not having any electronic elements thrown in. The Booty Girlz "freak me" original version is freestyle, even though it passed as bass. Today, Xcape's "what's up" could be freestyle, too, in addition to some of Ciara's material from "the evolution" cd.
Anyway - flash forward to today, and much of the west coast is boring when it comes to radio stations and dance mix shows. I guess San Fransisco is still somewhat an exception to this in addition to Phoenix on weekends, but other than that, it's all pretty much stuff you can already get in the regular playlists that are played in mix shows today. Actually, this is pretty much nationwide today.
THE MODERNIZED DANCE SOUND TODAY
I guess you could say that the modernized freestyle sound is now the new Akon, Jay Sean, Colby O Donis, and all these artists who are now fusing breakbeat, bass, and freestyle together to make a whole "new" sound (even though much of the freestyle community will hate on you for mentioning those artists as modern day freestyle... But someone explain to me how Debbie Deb's "when I hear music" and "lookout weekend" and Afrika Bambaataa and all of them are accepted as freestyle, but today's sound is not?) Today's latin house I guess is Pitbull all by himself, and the house / dance stuff is Sean Kingston, Rihanna, LMFAO ft Lil Jon..etc. Well, to me "beautiful" by Akon is a modern day freestyle track. "Right now (na na na)" Samples a dance/house song by The Underdog Project, and the Underdog Project is known mostly as a freestyle artist. Only difference is Akon gave the new version of the song a break/freestyle type beat instead of a house beat. I guess today and in the future, it will all be known as electro-pop or electro-hip hop, according to the new generation of kids. All the parents of these kids who don't know any better will just call it all "techno". Freestyle pretty much died, and everyone has forgotten about the term "booty bass", even though it has pretty much made a full come back. I would say Flo Rida is the new "Booty Bass King", but many of his productions do heavily use a lot of freestyle elements - too electronic to be bass. "Low" and "sugar" could pass as modernized booty bass. "In the ayer" is straight up electro-freestyle. "Boom boom pow" is.... not booty either.... and "I gotta feeling", everyone should know is house, produced by David Guetta... look up David Guetta on google and see about him.
Much love to KKFR and their electro-hip hop and house show weekends, along with KZZP and KKFR playing some of it in their mixes as well. KPWR L.A. is good for their 5:40, 6:40, 7:40, 8:40 am mixes, 12pm party mix, New @ 2 hour long mix, the four hour mix at 3, the 7pm top 7 at 7 mix, and the 9pm 2 hour mix, IN ADDITION TO the all weekend mixes all summer. KPWR is where I learned a lot of my favorite style of music from the late 90's, although I know KYLD was 10 times better.
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