Originally Posted by Steve Buck:
“Purely anecdotal again, but one consistent piece of feedback I'm hearing is that people like being able to hear the same music they get in the week on the weekend.
Personally it's bugged me for years that on Friday and Saturday nights every bloody station had some tedious dance or party show. CHR or Hot AC stations would be chasing Radio 1's tail with some Pete-Tong-alike show, whilst AC stations would be playing some clunky disco nonsense.
It's very refreshing to get something akin to daytime output on Capital when I'm getting ready for work on a Saturday night, rather than the dreadful dance remixes of the daytime playlist Galaxy played. No, I don't want to hear some camp, pitched-up, amphetamine-fuelled remix of The Saturdays, thanks. I want to hear the same version of the song I get on a Tuesday afternoon. Non-radio people seem to share this opinion, saying it was frustrating that they couldn't find a station playing "normal" music if they were in the car at half seven on a weekend evening.”
you have an interesting view.........now it could be narrow minded, or more than likely your local radio "dance " presenter is up his own rear, or isn't as savvy as people think.
remixes by the likes of liam keegan, moto blanco, dave aude, cahill, and some,[ though not all] bimbo jones will enhance a track, yet still keep the best elements of a song!
when your local dance jock plays "an exclusive", its more than likely his mate or a fellow club jock that has done it at home on his PC...............you can tell instantly, and the countless number that DONT timestretch the vocal is criminal!!