What if we started a campaign

[JayD]

and had people call KTU everyday saying "Please play NEW music, enough of the disco"... you think it would work...I did it yesterday and the girl on the phone was dumbfounded and said "sorry, i wish I could"I then requested "Elektro" by Outwork (BIG club song here in NY/NJ) .. her reply was "i can try but i doubt it"

 

[SirNigel]

At least she was honest. But seriously why do they only play music that's almost AC type disco when they could spin new dance tunes? Ratings, listeners, are they just scared?

 

[TonySantiago]

Jay...believe me from experience, I applaud your effort but when radio execs are stuck on something and aren't too apt to open up to anything new (not because they don't WANT to but that their hands are tied), that's when trying to make a major push is for naught.Personally, I think the only way a message can get out to the masses is to hold a major dance music rally outside of Mix 102.7 and 'KTU, with DJ's keeping to new material. It gets a bit tricky though trying to obtain licenses from the local police stating that you want to rally.

 

[JayD]

I was thinking more like putting on face masks, barge into KTU over there in Newport, hold the station hostage, take over the airwaves and make them play some new music.

 

[rhaney]

I then requested "Elektro" by Outwork (BIG club song here in NY/NJ) .. her reply was "i can try but i doubt it"

same here in Miami... for those that dont know the song.. its the one playing on http://www.mmc06.com/If you want to listen to some good house music: http://www.1club.fm/asx/prog/prog.asx

 

[ScorpioBoy]

I was thinking more like putting on face masks, barge into KTU over there in Newport, hold the station hostage, take over the airwaves and make them play some new music.

Ah, yes. Taking a page from the movie Airheads.

 

[JustinCase]

with current listening trends of the general public (not just the small pure dance crowd) keeping stustainable selling numbers to keep the station playing any dance at all means playing more classics right now... when dance becomes the mainstream again, you'll see more and more newer tracks... dance music is so stale now, everywhere with latin and hip hop beats most prevelent in clubs anyway.

 

[The-Major]

I think part of the problem is that Europe is heavily fixated on North American R & B, hip hop, and even rock music right now instead of their own homegrown trance and techno product. A look at a current hit music chart in The Netherlands reveals such hits by Shakira, Mary J. Blige, Rihanna, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kelly Clarkson, LL Cool J / Jennifer Lopez, Sean Paul, Bon Jovi, The Pussycat Dolls, Busta Rhymes, and Nelly Furtado. I keep hearing that a new U.K. pop invasion is on here in the States, but the way that I see it is that North American hit music dominates the charts in Europe and (especially) Australia / New Zealand. We're exporting all of this hit music to the rest of the world, but we're not importing nearly as much. Cascada's "Everytime We Touch" somehow managed to cross the sea and buck the trend (thankfully).THE MAJOR