lest anybody should get the wrong impression--hot 97 bascially plays the most
commercial pap imaginable (think endless slow jams for the 'ladies')
interspersed with equal time given to ads.
they used to have frankie knuckles spining from 2-4 on saturday nights. i
have a pile of great tapes. but
In a message dated 2/10/00 7:05:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
With any top radio format I just think there's more hoops to jump through
and also less of a language barrie with techno than hip-hop where alot of
the phrases and slangs might not translate.
You'd be surprised. The biggest
I think Cyclones statements below should be taken as relating to the eastern
states. With perth Ben Stinga is on the job at Complex records and we get
stuff at the same time the rest of the world does. Its all imports of
course...
Josh
In Australia it comes down to the majors not having a
- Hiphop and rb are much more controlled by major labels. They
probably
have a marketing strategy in which this lag is purposefully built in.
The rationale for it is unclear to me though.
I think this is about right. I had a friend who lived in europe last
summer and he told me that
...Old Skool Jams has gotten me through many a work day.
Anyway on the globalization subject I also think its because the techno
(what ever the hell you wanna call it:) community is smaller, more
intertwined.
A DJ gets a white label from his own or a friend,plays it out, it gets heard
and
In a message dated 2/10/00 3:52:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anyway, about Hot97: I was in NYC from July-September last year and
listened to it quite a bit. One thing that struck me in the last one/two
months or so, is the number of hiphop and rb tunes that are new in the
charts or on the
