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aleksander

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  1. I listened to parts of the show. In style the tracks were similar to the former 'Ready for the Weekend' on Friday nights which has now been rebranded 'Dance Anthems' as I expected, however it did have more of a daytime feel to it as you mentioned. However, I especially liked the last hour which was in the mix with less commercial tracks and remixes that you generally wouldn't hear on daytime Radio 1.

  2. I think the reason is because urban music has been the most popular genre of music (at least in terms of the charts) in the last couple of years and Radio 1 play whatever is popular, so this coincidentally overlaps a fair bit with 1Xtra's playlist.

  3. It depends on how big your iTunes library is. If you have more than about 30 albums (obviously I'm estimating here) then I think a regular laptop would be a better idea.

    Netbooks are considerably cheaper but aren't as powerful (or really useful) as a laptop. Most Windows laptops are cheap anyway, so I'd go for one of those instead. I think the less power of a netbook would get really annoying after a while, but it's up to you. Good laptop brands are Dell, HP, or Acer. Sony Vaio laptops are quick expensive :)

    I would disagree that Acer is a good brand. I have always had very bad experiences with it. As far as I see it, there's a reason why it's cheap...

  4. Really not that fussed over Matt- but Sara deserves a lot more than one crappy show a week. And ditch the skive/lie-in thing- there's enough boring old music on The Golden Hour and Wonder Years already.

    There are around 100 hours of playlisted music a week, so surely 3 or 4 hours of older music a week isn't a bad thing...

  5. I like Sara Cox because I just think she is a naturally talkative person and sometimes she comes out with such random things, but she has an open and bubbly personality which I think works really well on the radio. I can see some people being annoyed that she says pointless things or just rambles on, but this is what I like about her.

  6. Nihal is butchering Jo's show. Really, really bad.

    The spell-star feature Jo normally does is being ruined by his lame attempts to make jokes about every word, talking over the callers when they are spelling, its really bad radio.

    I agree. I now remember why I was so glad when Jo Whiley took over from Nihal last year.

  7. But in the last hour of the show especially, there are a few tracks that come up really frequently that aren't that popular which I'm pretty sure Reggie likes and probably picks himself from the text screen. Examples include:

    Nneka - Heartbeat (Chase and Status Mix)

    Sub Focus - Could This Be Real

    Caspa - Back For The First Time <Perhaps not surprising as it was his weekend anthem and in none of his shows does he technically get to choose any of the music>

    Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed (Jakwob Remix)

  8. I have a feeling that Edith could take over the Review Show as she has been covering it recently. It could be an easy way to free up the Weekend Breakfast slot. Nihal could then stick to the Asian show or do another show.

    Like many others, I agree that the changes will almost certainly happen in the specialist line-up this year. I just hope that Judge Jules (the only trance DJ left) doesn't leave, unless he is replaced by another trance DJ. Pete Tong is also unfortunately a candidate to go because of his age and wanting to bring in new DJs. I can see Andy George & Jaymo replacing him, but I would rather that didn't happen.

    I also agree DC that Annie Mac claims to cover 'all the corners of the dancefloor', yet she doesn't like/doesn't play any trance music and the house music selection is limited.

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