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De_El:
So I am back at college and all that mess and I have the opportunity to return to the radio airwaves (within a pretty tight area of the Twin Cities) in the form of a weekly feature, and I was kinda wondering how I was gonna do it this semester.  Last term I played a lot of drone/doom and stoner metal, but I was thinking of departing from that.  I've been considering a few options, but am open to suggestion, which is why I'm starting this thread. 

So far I've thought about having a show that specializes in noisy, scuzzy, abrasive rock music, maybe occasionally venturing into actual noise. Alternately, I might do a soul show, especially considering, if I don't do a soul show then I don't really reckon anyone else will on the station. Or maybe I will play lots of electronic dance music, because that's what I've been listening to lately. I have a bit of time to work it out before i figure out my time slot.

David_Dovey:
Play it all! That shit seemed to work for John Peel...

Bastardous Bassist:

--- Quote from: De_El on 25 Sep 2009, 10:33 ---So far I've thought about having a show that specializes in noisy, scuzzy, abrasive rock music, maybe occasionally venturing into actual noise.

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If you do this, you might want to dedicate at least one show to the concert music that paved the way for all of this stuff.

You could do what I did and dedicate one show each to something different, but that gets really hard really quickly (you'll have to repeat, or sometimes you'll want to repeat because you wanted to play so much more than you had time for), plus if you listen to things that are too different for people, you might lose your audience (the audience of my college radio station was indie music, so when I started playing contemporary jazz some days and straight-up rock on other days, nobody listened).

So, I guess I've not been very helpful.

E. Spaceman:
Electric Wizard

the_pied_piper:

--- Quote from: Bastardous Bassist on 25 Sep 2009, 10:37 ---
--- Quote from: De_El on 25 Sep 2009, 10:33 ---So far I've thought about having a show that specializes in noisy, scuzzy, abrasive rock music, maybe occasionally venturing into actual noise.

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If you listen to things that are too different for people, you might lose your audience.
So, I guess I've not been very helpful.

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Sad as it is i would have to agree with this based on a college radio station. Last year i helped some friends run one aswell and originally their idea was to play only the music that they liked to listen to but they were almost moved to the graveyard slots when this didn't bring in any listeners.

The most important thing is to find a balance between what you want to hear and what your audience will want to hear. I find that the best way to do this is not to tie yourself down to a specific genre but rather to list a lot of bands that you like and then find some slightly more popular bands in these genres (if you don't listen to popular bands already) and add some of their more listened to tracks to your playlist aswell. This idea worked for my friends and they became a mid-range show by the end of the year.

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