you know how they have those lil thingies that go 'Z, 95.3 blah blah blah', you know, they advertise themselves, telling you what you're tuned to?? anywho, theyve got one of them things and i could SWEAR i heard tiesto's urban train in one of them, but its there for a split second, i know its urban train cause i been listening to that song a bit too much lately

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Originally posted by apri_peel i know its urban train cause i been listening to that song a bit too much lately

a lil off-topic: can U actually overlisten to a trance song?

cuz I listened to Flaming June at least 100 times (I am bein' as realistic as possible) and I wouldn't mind puttin' it back on right now!

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Z95 is the bane of my existance. I've done some DJ'ing at Kits Pub in Vancouver and it fucking drives me crazy when people request the shit that's played on Z. I'm way too big of a snob to really hold that job down now I think.

That and annoying cougars coming up to request Cindi Lauper, or my personal favourite, when they say "Play something I can dance to!" in the middle of playing Urban Train (actually happened). MUST.. CONTROL.. ANGER.

Anyways, the other day I was listening to Barthezz - On the Move on my 1200s, and right afterwards I put Z on (I have no idea why), to hear it playing. I was like "OMG WTF!!!", but of course it was one of their 6 second advertisements and they quickly got back to shitty top 40.

Here's to my fellow trance snobs!

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Originally posted by dj-sean That and annoying cougars coming up to request Cindi Lauper, or my personal favourite, when they say "Play something I can dance to!" in the middle of playing Urban Train (actually happened). MUST.. CONTROL.. ANGER.

I know what U R sayin'!
I've sometimes DJed to my friends parties back in Romania (though I have never used a mixer or anything... just changin' songs on the computer/music thingy. nothin' big!), and they come to me and say "Hey, could U please put om something that we can actually dance to?" and they were reffering to some stupid gipsy shit that was en vogue then... fukin' great!

but then again not so many are enlightened.

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Originally posted by dj-sean "Play something I can dance to!"

hehe man i hate that shite
also "it takes too long to get to the good part"

that's why you listen to radio edits, you radio-loving MASSES

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Z95 has been trying to play dance music for quite a while. It has something to do with their licensing which forbid them to play certain type of music. (Rhythem and blue to something... I don't remember.) The point is that Freeway Frank (Now a radio DJ in Toronto) who had been trying to push the dance music here in Vancouver, but their music director was somewhat reluctant. So now you can only hear few of the dance music tunes once in a while.
As for the Z club thing at the Rage. It also has something to do with the Canadian broadcasting regulation. They have to play certain percentage of Canadian content within their program. That's why their Saturday night live thing was kinda lame.
As for Delerium, they are from Vancouver. So that justifies as Canadian content. That could explain why you heard Delerium in the early morning.
As for DJing. I had the opportunity to play at Big Bam Boo on Thursday nights before. I know what DJ Sean had to say about playing "Something we can dance to" thing... "Can you play Leon Lai? Utada Hikaru? Ayumi Hamasaki? 'Butterfly' from DDR????" Argh!!!!!!!!!

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Originally posted by Bundesbahn "Can you play Leon Lai? Utada Hikaru? Ayumi Hamasaki? 'Butterfly' from DDR????" Argh!!!!!!!!!

LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!! damn i'm still laughing on the floor....LOL...people actually requests for these tracks???? those ayumi remixes are cool but leon lai??? butterfly from DDR???? hahahahahahaha damn thats soooooo lame!!!!

sorry if i offended anyone's musical tastes if you actually like these tracks, but i just can't hold my laughter.....

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Originally posted by Bundesbahn It also has something to do with the Canadian broadcasting regulation. They have to play certain percentage of Canadian content within their program. That's why their Saturday night live thing was kinda lame. As for Delerium, they are from Vancouver. So that justifies as Canadian content. That could explain why you heard Delerium in the early morning.

thats CanCon you're talking about, the percentage was increased earlier this year, but i still dont get something, if Z has to comply with certain regulations that forbid them from playing "dance" music, how come do XFM and Fox have those shows on saturday nights that place electronic music? all three are pretty much top 40 stations, they just specialize in different music styles that have absolutely nothing to do with "dance" music, in fact Z porlly relates better to trance/house/techno than the 2 other
erm, my point is, its not so much up to laws and regulations, as to music directors and owners of stations that are being closed-minded

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Originally posted by apri_peel erm, my point is, its not so much up to laws and regulations, as to music directors and owners of stations that are being closed-minded

nope, it just isn't commercial. and they would start losing their listeners. do you think there are more trancers or hip-hoppers in Van?

btw, what frequency do those two stations emit on?

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right, thats exactly what i meant. directors/owners are profit driven, pretty much the only reason they've got these stations running. its the same thing with european stations, they might be spinning trance, but trance IS a big thing there
Z is at 95.3
Fox - 99.3
XFM - 104.9

To Turbo GS-R:
Chinese music has been a big part of it on Thursday nights at the Bam Boo. Butterfly from DDR is completely my fault. I was the one that first introduced the DDR music in nightclubs.

Apri_Peel:

Yeah. CanCon. I believe it's now 50%?
As for the licensing. It was a big thing among the industry few years back. Remember when they were petitioning for the new Urban radio station last year? That was also the same time that CFOX was making a license change from Rock to something else. That's why there were words flying around about "The Beat" might not pass the licensing hearing. . XFM has the licensing content of being different than Z. So they can basically playing (somehow) whatever they want. 96.1 is ethnic content, that's why they have that Planet Aaj thing. A side note. CFOX used to have the have 15% of market share. Their market share before the the lisencing change was about 6.something%. a bit less then their very first broadcasting share which was about 7% 35years ago. Of course they had to do something to win back the audience.
As for what those licensing contents are? You guys can check out the CRTC site. I am too lazy to do so.
Do you guys remember when Z used to play Euro back in the early 90's? Culture Beat, KLF, C&C, and the rest? That's when they had different ownership and license. That's why what they played before 1995 were different than what they play now.
As for the commercial viable tunes. Z has learned a valuable lesson after "return of the Mack." It took them a year to put that song to #1. It also changed Z's music direction.

If you guys are confused by what I have to say, it's because I am in a different time zone right now. I will write a more detailed version of it if you guys are interested.