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Party 87.7 is playing...

Morpheux said:
Party should be playing this:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_28PBo0V6A
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The track is starting to gain a bit of ground actually. In that sense, we may be hearing more of these tracks down the pike...."rocktronica"???? If anything, Jes has a new track coming out called "Lovesong" which is of this "brand" of dance music. Heck, if this can get the rock crowd to come over this side, I'm all for it! :)

Though, if we're talking about material Party should get on top of....I've been going NUTS for this track! :) Played it on Urban Latino Radio a couple of times already :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZf5kcpUxGs
 
That's Taio Cruz I first heard it this past summer.Good song.Its mind boggling how on youtube you literally have songs with millions of hits before radio even plays it. It's like the record pool for the new age.Youtube has proven to be a good medium for testing songs before releasing them to the more traditional outlets.

I forgot to mention that "Get u home" is # 66 on the media base charts so there must be quite a handful of stations playing it.
 
Morpheux said:
That's Taio Cruz I first heard it this past summer.Good song.Its mind boggling how on youtube you literally have songs with millions of hits before radio even plays it. It's like the record pool for the new age.Youtube has proven to be a good medium for testing songs before releasing them to the more traditional outlets.

I forgot to mention that "Get u home" is # 66 on the media base charts so there must be quite a handful of stations playing it.
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SO TRUE about YouTube as the "record pool for the new age". I have a couple of "subscriptions" to dance music posters that break out the new material. It's certainly opened my eyes to a LOT of new material that may get airplay down the road, or never....but SHOULD HAVE.

Shwayze is definitely picking up some ground. :)
 
I tell you what Party should be playing

Chicane - Hiding All the Stars

How they've been missing this great track just boggles me... ::)
 
Apparently Party FM removed my suggestion to play "Hiding all the stars" from their wall on facebook. Apparently they could care less about us.
 
islanddxer said:
Apparently Party FM removed my suggestion to play "Hiding all the stars" from their wall on facebook. Apparently they could care less about us.
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So wait....YOU were the one that wrote about Chicane on my FB board :)

I have an idea...let's put it out there :) I'll go with the radio edit but if a club remix deserves the nod, post it up :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9JfvwkFed8
 
Thanks! ;)
I have to add props to MikeO for getting this song out there on Energy 98. First place I heard it and best internet dance station out there.
 
Hardrocker9 said:
and this surprises you why? Its still the same hip-hop saturated train wreck it always was.
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Wasn't always. Before Vic came in Andre was doing a pretty good job with the station. 1 out of 5 songs at the time was Hip Hop (roughly 80/20 ratio dance), and often Party played the newest singles before anyone else (including Pulse) did. Stuff like Robbie Rivera "Back to Zero", Miracle "Inpetto edit", Meck "Feels Like Home", Eric Prydz "Proper Education" (which has been demoted to bed music in Party), along with older stuff like Sonique "It Feels So Good", Angelo Venuto "Sweet Caroline", and Ascension "Someone". Vic shouldn't be wearing 2 hats as GM and PD over at Party and should let Andre come in as PD. But Vic has too much of an ego for that.
Something's wrong when the "Party Music Leader" is missing some of the biggest dance singles out there, and plays "HOT" songs months behind most internet dance stations.
The sooner portable streaming players come about (once high speed wifi is everywhere) the better...
 
Also never got why Party played the original mix of Single Ladies, when the Dave Aude one is much better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX8XgkikmqM

It's official. Vic is afraid of trance. I'm suprised he isn't freaked out by those piney woods by the Ronkonkoma studio.
I think I've given up on Party. Much easier to record Energy 98 to my MD player...
 
islanddxer said:
Apparently Party FM removed my suggestion to play "Hiding all the stars" from their wall on facebook. Apparently they could care less about us.
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You should see how many "Bring Back Pulse" and "play more dance" comments get deleted everyday. Don't feel too bad about it. I already know majority of die hard Pulse fans are not listening to Party, and even though the numbers were encoded for only a few days, I have a feeling the numbers will still be lower than Pulse's numbers by the January book. Not that I'm hating, it's from what I'm seeing. The only way PartyFM would satisfy the Pulse fans is if "The Big Picture" would happen now, to have the way Andre ran Party from 2005-2007 on 87.7, and have Vic keep his style on 105.3. No way would there be 100% dance on 87.7, because technically, Pulse 87 wasn't even 100% dance :-X. Now I did read a couple of posts of hearing too much "Live Your Life" from T.I......didn't Pulse play that same version too? They also played Jay Sean's "Down", the ORIGINAL edit on Pulse as well. Anyway, point is, Pulse did have the cutting edge dance hits and broke them out even before Energy 98, or iPartyRadio could air it.

But I'm not the only one hearing a little more hip-hop or Top 40 original edits, and to be honest, it does get a little bit ugly from my end since I recieve Now, Wired (at times), Z, KTU, and Hit 106. But it's common that we warn them of what to do and yet (terrestrial) is still stubborn and eventually learn from their mistakes. Once the numbers for the January book come and if WNYZ is the same or if lower than what it is now, then "Party 87.7" has to be unleashed.
 
d21ofnj said:
But I'm not the only one hearing a little more hip-hop or Top 40 original edits, and to be honest, it does get a little bit ugly from my end since I recieve Now, Wired (at times), Z, KTU, and Hit 106. But it's common that we warn them of what to do and yet (terrestrial) is still stubborn and eventually learn from their mistakes. Once the numbers for the January book come and if WNYZ is the same or if lower than what it is now, then "Party 87.7" has to be unleashed.
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And I would wholeheartedly have to agree with that.

In the beginnings, there was a lot of anger regarding hip-hop on PartyFM, with the angst thinking that Party BOUGHT Pulse (which it didn't), amongst other thoughts. I was telling everyone to give things a chance and it appeared as if things were leaning towards dance. Yet the hip-hop spins seemed to have increased, therefore causing more anger about things. I'm hearing it often enough from the dance music fans. At first, maybe it could have been brushed off as being "spoiled" by Pulse. But the reality is, after these past couple of weeks, there has ALWAYS been that bitterness with hip-hop from the dance music side, and that goes back to when Hot 97 flipped format, early in 1992, from dance to hip-hop with other stations in other cities following suit (Power 106/LA, Kix 106/Providence, RI, to name a few).

Yes, I realize radio IS a business first and foremost and I DID acknowledge that Hot 97 did the RIGHT thing by changing format in order to get Emmis out of bankruptcy. And I DO realize why Party has hip-hop on the format. Which made me think (and Sam brought this up on Pulse not ALWAYS playing dance)....would the anger still be strong if it was Beyonce, Sean Kingston and Rihanna on the playlist instead of Jay-Z, Lil' Wayne, Young Jeezy, etc.? And yes, it does get back to radio being a business since Party FM also doubles up as a rhythmic reporter. Would the anger be as harsh?

I can't help to think back to the beginnings of 'KTU on 103.5 back in 1996. Back then my anger was the fact that a lot more current, edgier dance could have been played there instead of the huge run of disco and classic freestyle (it was a 75/25 lean favoring the older material). I've expressed it on the other boards, in the VERY early days of Radio-info and a lot of core dance fans felt the same way. It wasn't uncommon to see a "KTU Sucks" post here and there, based on going with Gloria Gaynor for the 1,523,565th time versus throwing in something new by the Outhere Brothers. I never started any of those posts but my anger was based on the fact that current based, edgier dance could work on its own (which was the case when I took my trips to Toronto to hear Energy 108 and Hot 103) and that if radio just tried it, they could achieve maximum results, especially in a city like New York.

In the case of Party being so close to NYC, people that WOULD take trips out to Long Island or Southern Connecticut 6 years ago or so would remember solely hearing cutting edge dance music, with Andre Ferro on the helm as the PD and the ONLY on-air personality in the afternoons. Even when Andre was out, there was still a good amount of dance music happening there. Once Pulse came in, people in NYC didn't really think about Party as much but people basically remembered and regarded it as a dance station. So when the Party brand of music came in on 87.7, for those not following as close as we do here, it became a shock with the hip-hop since yes, you can hear it in other places and the music that WAS on Pulse was unique to NYC radio as a whole. Even 'KTU didn't jump on some of the Pulse tracks until much later.

I DO know the anger and feel for the fans of dance music in that sense. And for me, I'm just really hoping on "The Big Picture". That's why I've been "hands off" on making comments regarding Party. And unlike the 'KTU bashings, I have learned based on experience plus running the coalition as long as I have that if anything is going to get accomplished somehow, it has to take constructive criticism along with "helping and guiding" matters instead of bashing, doing "disses" on staffers, etc.

I'm still keeping as confident as I can regarding Party. But at the same time, if the cumes/ratings remain the same come next book then something has to give because, for one, while I want radio to succeed as much as they can with dance music even if not on a full-time leaning basis, I also have to look out for my "brothers and sisters" in the dance music community that believe in dance music and its potential, as I do.

In that sense, lets continue working together with things for the best, yet at the same time realize that the dissatisfaction rate has been rising. I'm just keeping it real in that regards.

TS
 
The Outhere Brothers?! Aren't those the guys who gave us that masterpiece of modern song composition "I Wanna (Expletive) You In The (Expletive)"?! I used to hear that song alot at gay clubs! :D
 
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