Carl, Hi

Ummm.....i still disagree with you!

Kiss Fm, as any commercial radio station has to raise revenue...
mostly through selling advertising space, agreed?

On this basis, the more listeners they get,
the higher price they can command for their ads? agreed?

So...prime time - in radio land thats the daytime? ok?

Move the station output towards the centre = more listeners ! - agreed?

Therefore - Kiss becomes financially better off and more in a position to support/promote dance music

I dont know if you can tune to kiss in your part of the world?
But here in London I can...

I think they have struck a fair balance between the needs of their financial backers
and the people of London who appreciate dance music.

Kiss is a big station now, and I guess over the past few years,
their success has inevitably brought compromise between all the interested parties.

I guess the same could be said about many clubs, record labels, shops etc...
They have all become commercialised

Take the Ministry Of Sound for example...
Now i can remember when that place first opened.

Excellent concept...like Zanzibar brought to the Elephant and Castle, London.

I mean a garage heads dream (huge US sound system with 3 decks and a urei mixer) .......

But look at those f*&"!6 now, promoting every kind of dance music, commercial cds in every record shop, sponsoring politicians etc etc etc

I could go on about the commercialisation to dance music for ever Carl....

Its very sad when i think about the roots and the good times we had many years ago.. but its the way of the world sadly.

I've seen so many sad thing happen to dance music in the last decade...so nowadays i find it difficult to feel passionate about the commercialisation of dance music. Money talks - end of story !

Still I am a total underground "real" garage head, and get the ultimate high on the smell of freshly unwrapped US import 12"s every Wednesday afternoon ! and I'm fortunate that I am still able to create, craft and enjoy deep underground mixes in my private studio !

My ideal radio station, wouldn't be Kiss FM at all (even if it was like it used to be)
- it would consist of back to back garage and disco music, it would broadcast 24 hours a day and only have three DJs (Tony Humphries, Todd Terry and Roger Sanchez), they could do it in 4 hour shifts ! and kip on the studio floor !