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In memory of ENERGY 108

Feeling nostalgic?

Every time when there's a discussion of toronto's underground dance music scene of the 1990s, I always think of its house scene and the dance scene.





I am wondering as to how many of TA's here were big fan of Energy 108? What are your memorable moments, best memories, favourite tunes? Live to air? Chris Sheppard? Freestyle Frenzy? Lets start a discussion.

Oldskool rules.

Some of my favs:

Nathalie Page - This Is The Time
Rhythm Reaction - You're Not Alone
Reactor Project - Give Me Attitude
Emjay (ALL tracks)
BKS - Dreamcatcher, Astroplane
Brooklyn Bounce - Get Ready To Bounce
Capital Sound - In The Night
2 Eivissa - O La La La
First Base - Love Is Paradise
Porn Kings - Up To No Good
PJ - Happy Days
Whigfield - Saturday Night
Culture Beat - Inside Out, Crying In The Rain
Koko - Open Your Eyes
Unlimited Nation - Move Your Body
Mondano - Feelin' Good
DJ Dado - Coming Back
Joee - Angel
Alexia
Lil Suzy
Real McCoy
Le Click
Shauna Davis
Nadia
Olive
Solid Base
Solina
Temperance
Everything But The Girl - Missing (Todd Terry Club Mix)
Culture Beat - Take Me Away
CJ Bolland - Sugar Is Sweeter (Armand's Mix)
Killer Bunnies - I Can't Take the Heartbreak
Red 5 - I Love You ... Stop!
M1 - Electronic Funk
Ultra Nate - Free (Mood II Swing Mix)
Crush - Jellyhead
Jocelyn Enriquez - Do You Miss Me
Amber - This Is Your Night
Paul London - Ti Amo
Billie Ray Martin - Your Loving Arms
Cleo & Marcus - I've Got The Music In Me
Mr. President - Coco Jamboo

etc.

Torontos best radio station ever. hands down.

I remember hearing josh wink - higher state of conciousness for the first time ever on energy 108 and i thought to myself "wow this is crazy. i like it!" Tons of old school house and euro and epic memories from my childhood.

Energy 108 then led to to Chris Sheppard and his CD's destination dancefloor 1,2 and 3 all of which I still have.

more notable tracks that energy played:

boris dlugosh - keep on pushin
sandy b - make the world go round
ruffneck - everybody be somebody
planet soul - set u free
winx - dont laugh (the mothafuckin original son!)
armand van helden - the funk phenomena
culture beat - take me away
brainbug - nightmare
sneaker pimps - spin spin sugar (armand van helden remix)
run dmc vs jason nevins - its like that

It was a very sad day when I turned the channel to Energy 108 and it was no longer

It was the ONLY station that I listened to for many many years!

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Originally posted by Adamo Torontos best radio station ever. hands down. I remember hearing josh wink - higher state of conciousness for the first time ever on energy 108 and i thought to myself "wow this is crazy. i like it!"

That was the song that got me into techno! I used to come home from school, put on one of Chris Sheppard's CD's (the one that had that on it) and just crank and jump around.

I can still remember the day I heard a non-dance tune, and had a WTF moment in my head.

I think before it, there also dance stations on AM640 and AM680.

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Originally posted by Orko I think before it, there also dance stations on AM640 and AM680.

Correct, although they played what would have been considered top 40 at the time. But a different era where dance music got more mainstream radio play (although that has changed somewhat over the last cople years - dance has returned).

Energy 108 was the best radio station for dance music in toronto hands down. It was for the most part a top 40 radio station with more dance influence. But what really made Energy 108 were their feature shows like street beat at 6pm (PRIME TIME!) with Scott Cairns. Featured all the progressive dance music of its time. I remember hearing josh wink too and others like Shy fx orignal nuttah - shit that blew my 15 year old mind.

But there was also another more underground layer of radio in toronto that we don't really have anymore. The original global groove network 100.7 (the first over night rave music station) that had different genres featured every night and then groove radio (89.5) after that who still maintained a diverse line up of progressive shows. Since that time others have tried to mainatin the overnight dance channel but IMO failed miserablely with no variety and a similar brand of recycled playlists that we have grown accustomed to from mainstream stations.

Thank god we don't need to worry about tradional radio anymore.

freestyle frenzy!!!
i was all about freestyle and euro back in the early 90s.

edit: i even had my hair slicked back with dippity doo back then. such a little chinese gino.

That was a great station...

Good times

I listened to Energy 108 religiously. I won off their station pretty much every 30 days. So many contests. So many meet and greets.

Energy was the reason I pursued radio in college.

Curious, was the station ever located in Toronto? Cuz when I was listening, it was in Burlington.

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Originally posted by Time2Burn But there was also another more underground layer of radio in toronto that we don't really have anymore. The original global groove network 100.7 (the first over night rave music station) that had different genres featured every night

I always used to switch over from 108 to this station after midnight back when I was in highschool....

So much blast from the past..

In junior high, our bus driver was a mid 30'something wannabe gino and always had energy 108 going in the bus.

Good times.

Awesome, nice input and great feedback from everyone. I absolutely agree, Energy 108 was the BEST radio station ever. Their music programming and contests/giveaways were legendary.

Talk about other stations playing dance music in 1997-1999 ... there was 88.5 FM playing underground dance beats (even TRANCE and HOUSE - most people at that time DIDNT KNOW what trance was!), then also there was HOT 103.5, before it switched to Hits 103 dot 5 in '98 and then to Z 103 years later.

Yes, dance music scene was quite vibrant. One of my favourite memories from that scene is blasting trance from my parents car after I just got my G1 license in high school and people were like - "WHAT IS THIS? I WANNA KNOW!" Then I told them its trance music, Paul Van Dyk, and they were fucking amazed. That was in 1999. I kinda feel proud for being one of the earlier people in the area to discover and attain trance music.

For Energy 108, I loved their live-to-air shows the most. I would wake up 5 in the morning to hear repeats and underground tracks, as well as tons of euro. Oh, the memories. Tunes like these on live to air, legendary shit!

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Originally posted by Amy_DoLL I listened to Energy 108 religiously. I won off their station pretty much every 30 days. So many contests. So many meet and greets. Energy was the reason I pursued radio in college. Curious, was the station ever located in Toronto? Cuz when I was listening, it was in Burlington.

Good question. I am in Hamilton, too, and the signal was very strong as far as Binbrook and Haldimand county (borderline).

Could it be possible that they had multiple radio transmitters?

Not sure. Only thing I figured, was maybe they changed the format up a bit (if they moved the station to Burlington).

Was the location ever actually in Toronto??

But regardless, yes, the signal of the station 108 was actually pretty strong. One of the reasons why now the current Y108 took it over was because of the strength of the signal versus the listeners. They apparently had more...whatever.

I was peeved when they switched bands. Blah. Then off the air altogether. Double blahhhh.

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Originally posted by Amy_DoLL Was the location ever actually in Toronto??

im pretty sure it was burlington.

edit: yup im right.

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CING was launched in 1976 by Burlington Broadcasting, at 107.9 FM in Burlington, Ontario. Initially an easy listening and then an oldies station, the station switched to a dance music format in 1991, after several months of adding new-age music to its mixture of classical and middle-of-the-road music.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CING-FM

I remember energy 108, got to hear them while they were almost over. then I got to global groove or ciut 89.5 w many shows off there. I stil have a cassette w PvD at "Smirnoff Radio", (Bobby I still have to give you those!)

Not sure when I actually began listening to this station, but it was to the point that I wouldn't shut it off, even to go to sleep. LoL.

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Originally posted by Stilez

Stilez - That Energy 108 ad is still @ Keele / Annette

Yup, for me the transition was AM 640/680 then to 108... CFNY also had some interesting stuff in certain time slots but most of it wasn't my taste.

On a side note, it was always great times listening to the Shelley Klink call-in show back in the day (LOL)... I still remember the time a girl had her mom pick up the phone and give her shit on air for being up so late.

Hah...I forgot about AM 640!

all hits 680
&
640 the hog

lol

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