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No Soulful (R&B) House on Pulse 87

J

JerseyDude

Why doesn't Pulse 87 play any Soulful House? Some blacks and Asians would like to hear some of it.

The type of music that is played at The Shelter Nightclub and the Fort Greene Soul Sessions at Fort Greene Park (Brooklyn) on Sunday afternoons during the Summer months. At least add a weekend Soulful House show with DJs like Dennis Ferrer,The Martinez Brothers,Quentin Harris and Masters at Work (Louie Vega and Kenny Dope Gonzales).

Blacks I know tell me they would turn away from WRKS and WBLS if Pulse added a little Soul Dance.
 
lalumia said:
then the alarm clock went off and you woke up....
soulful house........lol
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The Old Hot 97 played House music back in the day (my pre-teen years). I remember them playing Marshall Jefferson (Move your body) and Xavier Gold (You used to hold me). There are House songs out today that would fit into Pulse 87's playlist.
 
You are absolutely correct J-Dude! It's a bizarre fact that Pulse doesn't include this extremely popular (in NYC) house genre in its world.

Not only do Daryl James and Ruben Toro spin soulful house and house classics on weekends for WRKS, but whenever they do holiday "mixmaster" weekends (if they still do them, that is...I'm not sure) they include DJs like Tommy Allen and Reggie Wells who follow similar formulas.

On top of that, anybody who knows the club scene in Manhattan & Brooklyn knows the heavy, heavy amount of DJs and weekly parties that provide soulful house. Of course, the club scene is hardly a great way to program a dance station (or any station) but there's certainly a call for a late-night weekend slot, at least an hour long, to feature the soulful stuff.

KTU used to run a program called "The Velvet Lounge" with DJ KC Anderson (that ex-PD Skyy appropriated from his ex-ex-PD job at Party 105) on late Saturdays/ early Sunday mornings that focused on the uplifting stuff too. You can find it on WNYU at times, and when 91.5 does what it does (and I'm not sure what they "officially" do) they will play plenty of the classics. Ironically, BPM on Sirius/ XM doesn't go there, but really, there is enough evidence of what is happening right now club-wise in this city to justify a minor nod from the Pulse people.
 
Let me take this from one of the coalition blogs because I've been saying this for quite awhile now.

FROM MAY 13, 2009 on the coalition blog:

One aspect of dance I forget to talk about:

I've been meaning to write about this for a while....

A lot of the music you hear on this site and a lot of what I talk about regarding dance music come mainly from radio and certain clubs. However, I often forget to talk about one aspect of dance music that is rarely mentioned that barely gets any radio airplay along with a core fan base that enjoys it. I am referring to "soulful", Afrocentric house....the style of music popularized by DJ's such as Tony Humphries, Darryl James, Merlin Bobb, Bobby Konders, Timmy Regisford, John Robinson, at legendary venues such as Bentley's and Zanzibar.

The afrocentric styles stay true to the originial Chicago-style house roots as well as other derivatives such as New Jersey house where you have the deep sounds, thumping beats and those voices that make you want to pray in the dance club and shout hallelujah!

While at one time there was a considerable amount of airplay of this style on the radio (the 'BLS noon mixes, the Kiss-FM shows as well as "The Move" which was XM satellite radio's house music station), nowadays it's been minimized. What's basically left of that sound on-air is during Saturday Nights on 98.7 Kiss-FM (Ruben Toro & Darryl James) as well as the legendary "Liquid Sound Lounge" show with Jeannie Hopper, Saturdays 7 - 9:30 on WBAI (99.5). "The Move" was removed off XM stereo receivers, though was still on the Internet until recently.

During the first run of the coalition, I had suggested that 'BLS consider doing this style as a format. At that time, Emmis Broadcasting had recently purchased Kiss-FM and changed it to an adult urban format. Along with owning Hot 97, Emmis had cornered 'BLS into a "rock and a hard place" since they had the #1 ratings at the time with hip-hop/R&B on Hot 97 as well as taking the adult audience over to Kiss. Being that there was a popularity with this style of dance music, I thought that 'BLS should have went there and covered this as a format.

I really don't know if this still has potential to be a format, but I do believe there is a core audience that loves the sounds. I'm actually preferential to the Chicago house sounds myself so hearing this is an extension, so I definitely have mad respect for it as well as the DJ's and artists that produce it (such as Kim English, Byron Stingily, Inaya Day, Joi Cardwell, Barbara Tucker, Masters At Work).

For now you have the Internet streamers such as DEEPINSIDE (from the UK), Full House Radio that still give respect to this genre of dance. If a New York station launched with this format, I'd welcome it.
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Having noted the above, in the past I have also talked about the different "schools" of dance music in NYC (worldly, afrocentric, outer borough, "soccer mom" and the GLBT "circuit"). Because of the differing mentalities, you really can't place one station to cover all. For Pulse 87, they market well to the outer borough (Italian, Latino). For 'KTU it is "soccer mom". For a soulful station, I'd really like to see 'BLS give it some sort of try...at least as a specialty show aspect. Though, there is the "Liquid Sound Lounge" (WBAI) that Jeannie Hopper has done for quite a long time and that covers the soulful aspect.
 
Deep House is well loved here in NYC as well as Jersey (Newark is big on it)....

A deep house show, NOT in the wee hours of the morning, but on a Sunday evening would be awesome.

Look at Water Taxi Beach, PS1, and other fun daytime parties... Theyre filled when they have deep house djs...

Imagine Body & Soul or a Cielo Roots type show on the radio... that would be great... plus its on a Sunday evening...so it doesnt drive a stake into their normal programming.
 
herethere said:
You are absolutely correct J-Dude! It's a bizarre fact that Pulse doesn't include this extremely popular (in NYC) house genre in its world.

Not only do Daryl James and Ruben Toro spin soulful house and house classics on weekends for WRKS, but whenever they do holiday "mixmaster" weekends (if they still do them, that is...I'm not sure) they include DJs like Tommy Allen and Reggie Wells who follow similar formulas.

On top of that, anybody who knows the club scene in Manhattan & Brooklyn knows the heavy, heavy amount of DJs and weekly parties that provide soulful house. Of course, the club scene is hardly a great way to program a dance station (or any station) but there's certainly a call for a late-night weekend slot, at least an hour long, to feature the soulful stuff.

KTU used to run a program called "The Velvet Lounge" with DJ KC Anderson (that ex-PD Skyy appropriated from his ex-ex-PD job at Party 105) on late Saturdays/ early Sunday mornings that focused on the uplifting stuff too. You can find it on WNYU at times, and when 91.5 does what it does (and I'm not sure what they "officially" do) they will play plenty of the classics. Ironically, BPM on Sirius/ XM doesn't go there, but really, there is enough evidence of what is happening right now club-wise in this city to justify a minor nod from the Pulse people.
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I remember KC Anderson's show on KTU. Used to tape it. That was my show. Pulse 87 should have a Sunday Night Soulful House Show. 6pm-8pm would be nice. JD, I know Newark,The Oranges and Irvington loves Soulful House. Newark has that big House Festival in Lincoln Park every Summer. Soulful House is popular in New York City,Chicago and somewhat in the Baltimore/Washington DC areas. I like what the DJs do on WRKS. They are a little too heavy on the Classics (guess thats why they call it Kiss Club Classics).There is a lot of new stuff out there today. A Pulse show should be 90% new House music. Someone like Dennis Ferrer,Kenny Dope Gonzales or Quintin Harris could handle that.
 
AMEN to all those who'd like to see a mid-Sunday evening soulful house party...I was only suggesting late night as a safety; I agree that it should be, if possible, earlier.

Good job Tony! I forgot to mention Ms. Hopper's excellent program...she deserves a nod.

And JD's dead-on with the massive parties handling the soulful stuff right now. Don't forget about the Sunday parties at the BKLYN Yard, the Turntables on the Hudson events and Mr. Toro's fantastic long-running Temple party too. Of course, umpteen DJ party playlists does not solid radio programming make, but it's a good guess Pulse could live up to its new dance music status and still squeeze in an hour of artists somewhere, ranging from the excellent choices already mentioned here to amazing talents with even less name recognition like Andy Caldwell, Blue Six, Osunlade and more.

PS...and where else would you get to here the flawless work of Blaze? OK I admit it, I'm biased. ;) But a little uplifting house on Pulse would be a natural fit.
 
The suggestion that "Soulful House" belongs on a specialty show is one that I would agree with. Late nights with whoever would be good. But there aren't any real "hits" in that genre right now so I doubt you'll see rotation love on anything. The BLS/Kiss listener that says they'd listen to the Pulse if they played Soulful House would also push the button as soon as a Basshunter record came on. Let's not kid ourselves here.

Pulse is doing well. They are growing their base at a nice steady pace. I just hope that they can keep the frequency when they eventually switch these LPTV stations over to digital, whenever that is.

jp
 
Pulse - if youre reading... here are the cliff notes:

A Sunday Evening House specialty show would be well received...

A few commercial friendly groovy, soulful like songs could be sprinkled into to the playlist...

Songs such as:

The Cure and The Cause by Fish Go Deep
Twisted by Ultra Nate

to name a couple... :)
 
Choice FM/London used to play Fish Go Deep (Dennis Ferrer Mix) in regular rotation.

Kiss 100/London,a dance leaning Rhythmic station that plays a lot Trance and Techno music,has a Soulful House Show with DJ Pioneer(http://djs.totalkiss.com/dj/djpioneer/). What am I thinking. Im comparing New York to a progressive city like London. My bad. New York lost it's edge many years ago.

JayD said:
Pulse - if youre reading... here are the cliff notes:

A Sunday Evening House specialty show would be well received...

A few commercial friendly groovy, soulful like songs could be sprinkled into to the playlist...

Songs such as:

The Cure and The Cause by Fish Go Deep
Twisted by Ultra Nate

to name a couple... :)
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There are certainly a lot of artists out there that can be heard on a soulful specialty show. You could even get DJ's such as Davidson Ospina or Danny Krivit to do an hour mix during such a show. Now THAT would be something :)
 
JerseyDude said:
I remember KC Anderson's show on KTU. Used to tape it. That was my show. Pulse 87 should have a Sunday Night Soulful House Show. 6pm-8pm would be nice. JD, I know Newark,The Oranges and Irvington loves Soulful House. Newark has that big House Festival in Lincoln Park every Summer. Soulful House is popular in New York City,Chicago and somewhat in the Baltimore/Washington DC areas. I like what the DJs do on WRKS. They are a little too heavy on the Classics (guess thats why they call it Kiss Club Classics).There is a lot of new stuff out there today. A Pulse show should be 90% new House music. Someone like Dennis Ferrer,Kenny Dope Gonzales or Quintin Harris could handle that.
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The only problem with Pulse 87 targeting a soulful house show to an audience in the Newark area is the 87.9 pirate station that is usually on Sunday nights.
Speaking of pirate stations, I heard a house mixshow on Streetz 96 on a Sunday afternoon. If it's being played on one of the popular pirate stations, there must be a demand for that type of music.
 
Not to hijack the subject, but speaking of Streetz 96, someone over on the dentist board posted that they heard them broadcasting on 96.7. Have they changed frequencies, or added a second transmitter somewhere? As I recall, they were on 96.5...I even caught them on 96.5 during a really strong tropo opening about a month ago.

Not surprisingly, the dentist extracted that thread (but threads about potential TV station move-ins and the late Ed McMahon and Don LaFontaine are fair game!).
 
If house music can be placed on the dial, it should be on either Pulse 87 or pop radio (or what's left of it).

Dance and House Mixshows are vital for dance and pop radio.

Correct me if I am wrong.
 
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