Catch those disco shows straight from the air

On Long Island's airwaves live on Saturdays or from the internet 24/7, the Disco & Funk King Show on WCWP Radio from 2PM-5PM (Eastern Time) spotlights the legendary clubs of the late 70s-early 80s period.

Feb 9th 2008- Check out the DFK MixMaster All-Stars as
they spotlight the music from the Trocadero Transfer
in California!

Feb 16th 2008 - Spotlight on the Legendary 2001 Odyssey

And there are many other clubs to be highlighted every week.

The "Funhouse" and "Studio 54" were spotlighted January 19th and 26th respectively...


Catch the DFK MixMaster
All-Stars MixMaster Max, Delmar Browne, Tony Rocca
(ARBITRON RATED Number 1 IN NYC RADIO), Joey Luciano,
Frankie Dinella, Vinnie Campisi and others as they
work the mix beat2beat and back2back as they do each
and every week on The DFK Quick Mixx at 2:20pm, The DFK
Hott Mix at 3pm, and the DFK Hidden Track Mystery Mix at
4pm.

PLUS all show long DFK MixMaster All-Star's Delmar
Browne and Tony Rocca will be
in studio with Jay Mirabile picking tracks from their own
personal record vaults.

Catch the Disco and Funk King show (Disco, Freestyle Dance, 80's/90's Club
Tracks, Slow Jams and Today’s Hottest House Beats )live on the internet at:


www.WebRadioWCWP.org

or the podcasts at www.dfkwcwp.podomatic.com

Make your requests by:
E-mailing them to – DFKWCWP [at] Yahoo.com
Calling Into The Show – 516-299-2038
or through their MySpace www.Myspace.com/DFKShow

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Internet radio in your car coming soon

For most of us, Internet radio is our radio. We're all tired of the commercialism and corporate hold that the "majors" has on its content. FM is not tired technology, it's just not ours anymore, we can't relate.

One listener of DiscoInternet.com told its owner and program director Lee Porter sometime last year that he yearned for the day he will be able to listen to the disco shows in his car. I felt the same way. Now I know some might suggest that podcasts are available for downloads on the net, and disco ones too, but we feel streaming as opposed to downloading is fairer to the artists as royalties are paid for internet radio streams, therefore, internet radio in your car would be sort of like FM radio, that is, free for the listener!

Now the juicy part,... according to an article I read, and I'm translating here since the source is in French; "Thanks to the technology of Internet Mobile, first internet provider for the auto industry, Avis will be providing internet access in all cars for $10.95 per day. Autonet promise that the service will function on 95 percent of all US roads including tunnels. No software needed, a laptop or PDA will do"

The technology is now here, in time, others might embark on it and eventually the service could be free.

So anyone out there who had the opportunity to lease an Avis car with the internet service are welcome to post their opinions in regards to internet radio!

Source: LaPresse

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Net radio backlashes at major record labels

UpstageRadio.com participated in the "Day of Silence" on Tuesday, June 26th 2007, the next step is the deletion of thousands of songs from major record labels.

"There will be no U2, no Beatles, no Rolling Stones," said Gary Wien, program director for the net radio station Upstage Radio. "I'm taking many of my favorite artists out of the rotation. Once I learned about the new royalty proposals I made the decision that I would no longer buy records from major labels. Why give them more of my money when they're trying to put stations like mine out of business? I'd estimate that Upstage Radio has spent between $10-15,000 on major label records through the years to build up the station's catalog, but they won't get a dime more from us. It's sad that many artists thought online radio stations were trying to protest paying royalties when we've been paying all along; What we're protesting is the way the RIAA is trying to kill online radio in favor of big, corporate radio stations. And since the record industry is showing their support of the big guys, we're going to show our support for the little guys... "

UpstageRadio.com will still play artists from independent record labels because they generally support online radio and recognize the importance of internet radio stations. Wien estimates that about half of the 22,000 songs in the station database are major label artists who will no longer be part of the rotation, but he's looking forward to the challenge of creating a great station with indie artists.

UpstageRadio.com

Source: PRWeb

Editor's note: In 2007, there's so many new acts, new musicians around while the majors are trying to feed us pre-packaged dolls and puppets who know nothing about music, the timing is absolutely perfect, the majors can't stop fans from discovering indie artists on MySpace, absolutely nothing, unless they sign them all up.

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Pete Tong calling out all bedroom producers

Starting next week on his Fast Trax show, Pete will be showcasing tracks from all budding bedroom producers out there.

We assume he'll pick the best ones, not all.

Pete Tong gets the credit for playing the tunes before everyone else, one doesn't have to go clubbing for the privilege to hear what's gonna be hot in the following months, for this purpose, we've added the link to Pete Tong's BBC show on the right hand side "Links" section last year.

How do you submit a track to Pete?

1: Watch the instructions here on video.
2: Send him a message through his MySpace page with a link to a download file and include all your contact details.
3: He'll get back to you if it's good enough
4: Wish yourself good luck!

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Greg Wilson Time Capsule and a hot hot mix

Greg Wilson Time Capsule

For fans of Greg Wilson's Time Capsule on Samurai FM, here's the tracklist of the March '07 show that showcased March '77 Disco style

The folks at Six Million Steps have put it in their archive here

MARCH 1977

Boney M - Sunny (Atlantic)
Tony Etoria - I can prove it (GTO)
Black Satin Featuring Fred Parris - Tears Tears Tears (Buddah)
Double Exposure - My love is free (Salsoul)
Donald Byrd - Dance band (Blue Note)
Fatback Band - Double dutch (Spring)
Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke (Tamla/Motown)
Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan - At midnight (my love will lift you up) (abc)
Rah Band - The crunch (Good Earth)
Barry White - I'm qualified to satisfy you (20th Century)
Bo Kirkland & Ruth Davis - You’re gonna get next to me (EMI International)
Tavares - Whodunit (Capitol)
Commodores - Fancy Dancer (Motown)
Temptations - Shakey ground (Motown)
Average White Band - Goin' home (Atlantic)
Brass Construction - What's on your mind (United Artists)
Rose Royce - I wanna get next to you (MCA)
Deniece Williams - Free (cbs)

Greg Wilson MasterMix

But even more exciting is a Greg Wilson 37 minutes Mastermix we just uploaded on our instant dj mixes section. If you like Wolfman Jack, Kool and the Gang, sounds of church bells,The O'Jays, Led Zep, the Beatles and more rolled into one ....

Go in the dj mixes section, load the menu and take your pick. ENJOY!!!


Notice: The mix is a stream, not a download


Photo credit : David Crawford

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Best of 70s Nigerian afro funk

DJ Obafunkie Jr and the guys at BoogieHeads have assembled the best of 70s Nigerian Afro-Funk for your listening pleasure. If you're curious, check it out!

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Musicovery: Jukebox or radio ...

Musicovery is an interactive jukebox. Some will call it a radio but there's no point in calling an apple a pear. None the less Musicovery lives up to its name, making you discover songs by selecting a mood, a preference, an era or more precisely a genre.

There are 2 interfaces; the first one shown looks sort of like a TV remote. Make your selection and enjoy or not, at that point another graphical interface will materialize like a threaded amoeba on the right hand side. Hover your mouse, titles and artists names will be displayed alongside the thread that now looks like a stretched DNA strand -the graphic designer might have a biochemistry background -. Occasionally, the relations don't make sense and that's exactly when the wow surprise factor enters. You're tired of interacting? No problem, it'll play the tunes along the thread like some recite their prayers one bead at a time on a rosary.

Musicovery is fun and a great way to find out about new songs even if it don't match the sophistication of Last FM. Its visual appeal and instant accessibility makes it worth a visit, or two.

There are US, UK and France versions, all can be accessed from the main URL at:


Musicovery.com

No signing up or registration required, no commercial pop up ads annoyances either.

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Disco on BBC Radio

Yes, there's a weekly 2 hour 100 percent disco radio show: "Glitterball" on the BBC (It's not Norman Jay), specifically from Leeds, strangely, there's no page leading to the radio stream. It's been like that for years.

We couldn't give the URL for you to check out since the internet adress only led to a brief description to the show, with no hyperlinks to the radio stream. The hyperlink to the show can only be accessed from the BBC Radio Player and that's if you look really hard.

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