A GROUNDBREAKING Remix

Some of you might know of my pet peeve about GeorgeFM up here in Aucks. For those who don't GeorgeFM is a radio station specialising in dance music. Great, I can enjoy a bit of electronica and I ever really dig some stuff, Dub especially. George even some some fantastic shows- mostly on the weekend. Hell, my mate Tone hosts (and co-hosts) a great little show on Sunday mornings (7.30 - 10.00 if your interested). My problem lies with the day-to-day DJ's.

I'll completely leave Peter Urlich out of this, since my issues with his show run oh-so deep, and focus solely on the regular daytime programming.

Its a bit of a mixed bag really, but the focus seems to be on selecting the most annoying or repetitive or commercial tracks and playing them to death. The seem to prefer electro, which we all know is a musical style which involved sticking a microphone in the engine bay of a badly tuned car. Revving seems to be optional.

On top of this they hire semi retarded, yet excitable DJ's to ramble between tracks. Today I heard a statement which made me want to punch myself in the face. The DJ proudly announced "This is a GROUNDGREAKING Remix".

Yeah, some re-hash of someone else's song, groundbreaking, sure. ITS THE SAME FUCKING SONG YOU ASSHOLE! Its just a different version. Fucking retard.

I'm not hating remixes, they can be excellent, sometimes even better than the original, but groundbreaking, go fuck yourself you retard. The first remix was groundbreaking. That one. Thats it.

If George mirrored the quality of their weekend line up during the week it would be a brilliant station. This would require them shifting their target audience from Pretty Blond Shore girls and boys to real people. This might prove a problem for them since their advertisers are keen to take advantage of that demographic. Yep, Young, Rich and Stupid. Ideal target market. I don't see things changing any time soon.