I'M IN L.A., B!TCH !!

[Wildstyle K]

That's right, I'm currently IN Los Angeles, and during the drive here, I got stuck in traffic just in time for the first (5:20 A.M.) Miki Fiki Mix on Power 106. Every time I come to L.A., I say the same thing; It's not the same like the good ol' days. No more Lina Santiago, Angelina, Jocelyn Enriquez, and that whole sound or latin dance & booty bass. However, you can tell Power 106 is still staying true to their original sound, but in a modernized fashion. While the times and music has changed, the dj mix show formula and style pretty much hasn't. Right when I tuned in, they had quite an electro feel going on. There was a nice electro-hip hop / house set that was half electro and half hip hop (back in the day, that would've been latin house, freestyle, bass and hip hop).

I also tuned in to Q104.7 a bit and they also had a morning mix going on as well. It wasn't as live and fun as Power 106's morning mix, but it did have the same uptempo start and r&b / hip hop / pop finish. While L.A. radio isn't as exciting as it once was, Power 106 has definitely done their best to "stay true to their roots", but at the same time, modernize themselves. I'll wait to see what 99.1 KGGI, Jammin Z90, KIIS F.M., Latino 96.3, 102.3, and whatever else I may have forgotten will do Friday & Saturday nights in the form of urban dance sounds and eventoday's (recently improved) r&b / hip hop resurgeance. I'm not really expecting KAMP 97.1 to do any mixing. What's funny is that I know times have changed since the late 90's, but for some reason, I always come to L.A. with this false hope that I will get a little blast from the past and get to hear things the way they used to be done (1995-2000) before the KE$HA's and all this new generation electro-pop stuff took over and before almost all L.A. CHR stations started sounding pretty much the same.

Well, this year at least, there is some better r&b, hip hop, and house music out, so it wont be like the later 00's when hit music still really wasn't its best. And if necessary, I have my own mixes and Zune / MP3 player ready to go. Anyway, later folks. As the day goes on, I'll probably say more. Now, I should get some sleep after this 7 hour drive.

 

[wdb2003]

Friday nights not really that much in town to listen too

Fridays in the mix
KGGI
KXOL
KPWR
KDAY(Really the only thing worth listening. Only time the station opens up its playlist
KIIS
KCAQ/KQIE (Baka Boyz Mixshow syndicated)

Saturdays
KIIS
KGGI
KPWR(If your up after 2 or 3am Powertools is worth listening too)
KXOL
KDAY(The same as Friday night more than likely it will be a repeat since they are not live on a CD)
KJLH(Saturday night mixdown not so great anymore compared to 2006. The gospel verison after 12am sounds better.

 

[Wildstyle K]

So far, after listening around today, to sum it all up, too many stations with almost identical formats! The only chr type station that seems to be "uniquish" is KBIG - and that's only because they lean adult. I heard the new Kanye West ft Jay-Z premiered on three different stations (and at one point, it was playing on more than one station at the same time).

KJLH confuses me now. I tune in in the morning and it's gospel (on a random Thursday morning where you'd expect a morning show). I tune in later in the day and it's Lisa Lisa and The Cult Jam "Wonder if I take you home". What follows that song? A gospel tune.

KPWR is... well, a little different. While they are still rather soft for a "Hip Hop" station, they do have less dance in rotation (pretty much the same small amount of uptempo hits in regular rotation that seem to repeat a lot after an eternity of commercials). Their playlist is still pretty tight...

KGGI seems like they want to be urban, old school, and chr all at one time. I guess they are (still) trying to fill a few holes locally within their market. Haven't heard any mixes on there yet.

KIIS I'd say is the best CHR in town. I've already heard them mix at noon, and what I heard before I fell back to sleep was some house music that was preceded by retro. KAMP could do better by adding mixshows.

KXOL hasn't mixed yet, but it's currently 7:57pm, not 8pm yet. I guess we'll see what happens, possibly even before I finish typing this. They are ok, and if I were still into latin pop and modern latin dance as much as I was in the past, I'd probably be all over them.

KDAY is still back in the day. I thought I read somewhere that they were trying to go current like a regular urban...

Looks like Phoenix radio has finally caught up to L.A. radio! L.A. is no longer exciting (compared to Phoenix)! Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing... maybe a good thing for me, since I live in Phoenix, but maybe not for L.A., a place that could do better. L.A. offers nothing that we don't already have in Phoenix! We already have our classic hip hop station, our KBIG sound, our pop leaning rhythmic and a rhythmic leaning top 40, a rhythmic station where hip hop lives, Club 95 Latino Vibe (in addition to La Kalle), KFYI Fox News Radio, KYOT - a seemingly confused wanna be rhythmic urban ac, Mega 104.3 KAJM the old school station...etc. etc. etc. We also have our Hot AC and AC radio stations (that are not like KBIG). Only real differences is KPWR mixes way more than KKFR Phoenix, KXOL plays more english hits than KVIB and KQMR in Az, and we have no station with a KGGI type format, no (2 hour) Earthquake Mix or Powertools, and no r&b station that plays gospel.

Man, do I miss the good ol' L.A. days! However, I am satisfied with the current Phoenix days! I no longer have to go all the way to L.A. for excitement. What happened here?

 

[Wildstyle K]

Anyway, let me wrap up this pointless thread. Bottom line is that times and things changed, and there's really no point on dwelling on how things used to be or how things COULD'VE been / could be now. It is what it is.

 

[wdb2003]

Yeah look at the Los Angeles section and grab some popcorn lots and lots of post from over the past months. I actually misread your post I thought you were in town friday you arrived thursday.

 

[BJordan]

Yeah look at the Los Angeles section and grab some popcorn lots and lots of post from over the past months. I actually misread your post I thought you were in town friday you arrived thursday.

I was all over place with my post about the old KKBT/KJLH/KPWR/KHHT and KDAY.





BTW since KDM 7000 is in the L.A. We(I, wdb2003 and KDM 7000) need to get together and have night out. LOL :

 

[Wildstyle K]

Completely forgot about the LA section!

 

[Wildstyle K]

Forget what I said about KGGI wanting to be urban.

 

[BJordan]

Forget what I said about KGGI wanting to be urban.

KGGI plays a lot more 90's R&B than KPWR. On the Mediabase request line they're R&B selection includes Tony! Toni! Toné Anniversary, TLC's Red Light Special, Mary J. Blige's Sweet Thing, Faith's Love Like This, Keith Sweat's Twisted, INOJ's Love You Down, Aaliyah's One In a Million and Are You That Somebody, Adina Howard's Freak Like Me,etc.

 

[Wildstyle K]

Does anyone know if WVEE and WHTA played any Inoj songs? I left to Phoenix right before her first track came out on Phoenix radio (which means that if they did play her on WVEE or WHTA, they surely weren't early on it...

And did anyone in L.A. use "summertime summertime" by Corina in any mixes?

 

[BJordan]

Does anyone know if WVEE and WHTA played any Inoj songs? I left to Phoenix right before her first track came out on Phoenix radio (which means that if they did play her on WVEE or WHTA, they surely weren't early on it...

And did anyone in L.A. use "summertime summertime" by Corina in any mixes?

According to Hot 107.9 & V-103 ATL Mediabase playlist they don't have INOJ on they playlist. The stations that played INOJ out here in L.A. were KKBT 92.3 The Beat and KPWR Power 106 in 1997-98. KDAY plays INOJ's Love You Down.

 

[Wildstyle K]

That's odd, because Inoj and a lot of hardcore bass music is from Atlanta. I figured that "Love you down" would at least be played on WHTA or WVEE in 1997.

 

[BJordan]

That's odd, because Inoj and a lot of hardcore bass music is from Atlanta. I figured that "Love you down" would at least be played on WHTA or WVEE in 1997.

They probably did play it in 1997. WVEE plays K.P. & Envyi's Swing My Way.

 

[Martin Mac]

That's odd, because Inoj and a lot of hardcore bass music is from Atlanta. I figured that "Love you down" would at least be played on WHTA or WVEE in 1997.

Hey KDM, you might get lucky today. Usually Power 106 goes in on their mixes on Friday and you'll usually hear stuff you don't normally hear throughout the week. Also Power 106 has added the new Kanye West & Jay-Z track "Otis". This has surprised me alot, because Power usually stays around from that hardcore urban rap sound, and this is definitely what Otis is.

 

[Wildstyle K]

Power 106 has been mixing since... I don't know when. I went to sleep around 7:30am and woke up a few times and they were already in their weekend U-MIX. Got up just in time for the New @ 2 mix. As far as Otis, KAMP, KGGI, KIIS, and KPWR have all been on it since yesterday. I think Carson Daily or somebody even decided to play it this morning. Not sure if they did, but they did say they were going to..

 

[Wildstyle K]

That's odd, because Inoj and a lot of hardcore bass music is from Atlanta. I figured that "Love you down" would at least be played on WHTA or WVEE in 1997.

Hey KDM, you might get lucky today. Usually Power 106 goes in on their mixes on Friday and you'll usually hear stuff you don't normally hear throughout the week. Also Power 106 has added the new Kanye West & Jay-Z track "Otis". This has surprised me alot, because Power usually stays around from that hardcore urban rap sound, and this is definitely what Otis is.

You're right. KPWR has already started playing "different things" since 5pm! I'd expect KAMP to deliver these type of sounds! Don't understand why KAMP still doesn't have mixes.

And we've got the bass remix of "motivation" playing in the mix on KGGI! Looks like LA hasn't completely lost that whole sound. It's still slightly around, but with a modernized twist.

 

[BJordan]

That's odd, because Inoj and a lot of hardcore bass music is from Atlanta. I figured that "Love you down" would at least be played on WHTA or WVEE in 1997.

Hey KDM, you might get lucky today. Usually Power 106 goes in on their mixes on Friday and you'll usually hear stuff you don't normally hear throughout the week. Also Power 106 has added the new Kanye West & Jay-Z track "Otis". This has surprised me alot, because Power usually stays around from that hardcore urban rap sound, and this is definitely what Otis is.

KDM you should've listen to the Power Party Mix at Noon they were playing Ghost Town





DJ's My Boo which really stood out to me is because Power 106 remains heavily current and they haven't played Ghost Town DJ's since 1995-96. Shocked as heck. Ghost Town DJ's My Boo got alot of airplay on Power 106, 92.3 The Beat and KGGI along with LL Cool J's Doin' It & Hey Lover, Tha Dogg Pound's New York, New York & Let's Play House, Groove Theory's Tell Me and 2Pac's California Love, 2 of America's Most Wanted and How Do U Want It, Junior Mafia's Players Anthem, Get Money and The Get Money Remix and I Need You Tonight, Total's Can't You See, No One Else and Kissin' You, Brandy's Sittin Up In My Room, I Wanna Be Down, Best Friend and Baby and Craig Mack's Flava In Your Ear and Warren G's Regulate, Do You See and This DJ. Remember those days? Need I Go On.

You're right. KPWR has already started playing "different things" since 5pm! I'd expect KAMP to
deliver these type of sounds! Don't understand why KAMP still doesn't have mixes.

And we've got the bass remix of "motivation" playing in the mix on KGGI! Looks like LA hasn't completely lost that whole sound. It's still slightly around, but with a modernized twist.

KDM you should've listen to the Power Party Mix at Noon they were playing Ghost Town DJ's My Boo which really stood out to me is because Power 106 remains heavily current and they haven't played Ghost Town DJ's since 1995-96. Shocked as heck. Ghost Town DJ's My Boo got alot of airplay on Power 106, 92.3 The Beat and KGGI along with LL Cool J's Doin' It & Hey Lover, Tha Dogg Pound's New York, New York & Let's Play House, Groove Theory's Tell Me and 2Pac's California Love, 2 of America's Most Wanted and How Do U Want It, Junior Mafia's Players Anthem, Get Money and The Get Money Remix and I Need You Tonight, Total's Can't You See, No One Else and Kissin' You, Brandy's Sittin Up In My Room, I Wanna Be Down, Best Friend and Baby and Craig Mack's Flava In Your Ear and Warren G's Regulate, Do You See and This DJ. Remember those days? Need I Go On.

 

[Wildstyle K]

I remember those days... when the Timbaland and Neptunes were, or were about to be at their best. All (or most of) those were hits on Power 92 in Phoenix. They also had Dj Taz in rotation along with Freak Nasty.

On another note, Dj Alex Dreams is sounding pretty nice on KIIS right now! Just played Deadmau5 and Tiesto ft Sneaky Sound System...

KBIG is on some classic Power Workout or Aquanet set type sound at the moment...

KXOL has some pretty decent mixes as well. At least they mix kind of often.

Interesting things going on here.

 

[BJordan]

I remember those days... when the Timbaland and Neptunes were, or were about to be at their best. All (or most of) those were hits on Power 92 in Phoenix. They also had Dj Taz in rotation along with Freak Nasty.

On another note, Dj Alex Dreams is sounding pretty nice on KIIS right now! Just played Deadmau5 and Tiesto ft Sneaky Sound System...

KBIG is on some classic Power Workout or Aquanet set type sound at the moment...

KXOL has some pretty decent mixes as well. At least they mix kind of often.

Interesting things going on here.

Timbaland's futuristic sound dominated The Beat & Power 106 in the late 90's with hits such as Timbaland & Magoo Luv 2 Luv Ya and Up Jumps Da Boogie, Aaliyah's One In A Million, Missy Elliot's The Rain, Beep Me 911 and Sock It 2 Me and Playa's Cheer 2 U,etc. I loved Neptunes sound to. Remember Ray J's Formal Invite & Wait A Minute from 2001-02, Nelly's Hot In Here from 2002 and Mystikal's Shake it Fast? That was the pop sound of Power 106 and "The Beat" years ago.

 

[Wildstyle K]

And what about Ginuwine "what's so different", Jay-Z "jigga what", Trick Daddy "Shut up" & "no na'an", Aaliyah "more than a woman", Trina "B R Right", and "Is that your chick" Memphis Bleak? Some good ol' futuristic sounds there..

Even Nelly Furtado "turn off the lights" Timbaland Remix and "get ur freak on" Missy Elliott ft Nelly Furtado, and even P!NK was doing it with some of her songs, like "There you go". Oh, and Mya "Case of the ex"...