Radio Stations and the scene!

[samer]

with the occasion of MixFM's 10th birthday, I was thinking alone and asking myself a few questions that I'll share it with you guys as I'm interested to know the thoughts of eachone of you regarding this matter..

so the question would be:

Do you think Radio Stations in Lebanon are doing the necessary to spread and improve EDM in our country?! are they helping the scene enough? what are they doing wrong (in case they are) and what could/should they do in order to improve the scene?!

waiting your comments!!

[Roland]

[Path;)s !]

[JAD]

[samer]

[AKRAM]

hey guys
In a few days,Lebanon's #1 hitmusic station will be
celebrating its 10th year of success.It is the station
which marked Lebanon on the world map of clubbing and music...
Of coarse this is due to the outstanding efforts done to bring such incredible
events to us besides broadcastin amazing shows on air.
Am not expectin anything more from a station that big but am
so proud to be one of the millions of listeners who tune to
that frequency.
[glow=red]MIXFM[/glow],well done!!
i say congratulations to all the crew members who work under that name.
Cheers!!!

[bxtreme]

I'm so thankful for everything they are doing: great events, excellent organization, the DJs they bring are the most famous and well recognized. Its easy to say that without them, none of these djs we witnessed wouldve came to Lebanon in the last 3 years. Even if another entity would have bought these big name djs, it wouldnt have been as organized.

Now for the other points: As for education regarding EDM, I think it would be great to:
1_ Play more EDM during daytime.
2_ Add EDM news to their current news.

I don't really think you can call MixFM/Bacardi a monopoly, they are just people who are smart and know what to do. Would like to see more of these organizations compete with mixfm. Competition is always good and it would help MixFM be more eager to satisfy us. Unfortunately there arent any real competitors at the moment, but it isnt that bad, the prices are not that high and ignoring a few issues here and there, their events are good.

As for the scene from my point of view as a dj, I do really hope for such local events to exist where the local djs available get to spin. I even hope that other event organizers get to do more of these events, I think there are so many opportunities out there and I have a feeling people will soon get bored of the same old clubbing concept they are used to everyweekend (Get a table, order bottles to table, listen to a shitload of different types of music, followed by 5 tiesto tracks, then the dj shouting on the mic every other minute). It's been like that for ages, how about a change? So lets hope for the best!

[Genesis]

The best help radio stations in Lebanon can offer to improve the EDM scene
is having a dedicated EDM radio station on its own. EDM is a huge style of
music that can fill a 24/7 playtime schedual with all the variety it offers.
Trance, house, electro, breaks, & techno to name a few would all deliver a
good line-up of international and local shows. As Bex, pointed out: they can
also add EDM news. Some Irish stations here bang EDM from 9 pm till sunrise
(although the Irish EDM scene is literally dead). BBC also airs daily EDM
sets, shows, and keeps listeners up to date with whatever's going on in the
EDM world).

Now, regarding what we already have on stake (which is mixfm) the guys
are doing a pretty good job in terms of shows - I can't really count them
because I don't know them all, but I know there's plenty at selective nights
of the week). Interviews would be a good idea (not only with DJs that are
coming to Lebanon in a forthnight or were in Lebanon - but DJs in general).

Mixfm Radio is something & Mixfm the event organizer is something else.
Their approach to spread the EDM in Lebanon is not perfectly right
(extensive advertising pulls ignorants out of their homes to a party that
they know nothing about) but this is totally understandable because after
all this is their business & like any organizer: they want to make profit.
I mean, that's ok. It's not necessarily a bad thing as long as they don't
bombard the scene (that is young and still immature) with an advertising
campaign making those that don't even listen to EDM think of it as 'cool' &
'the fashion' music nowadays and turn up in thousands. Huge numbers is
not a bad thing: it's more money for them, and better experience for us
(clubers) but some things (like rising EDM popularity) shouldn't happen fast
especially if it's not associated with EDM education.

How can they educate? I'm afraid they can't - nobody can. Listeners need
to listen to trance on their own more often and gradually enrich their
knowledge. They best to do in that manner is (as Bex suggested) more
EDM during different parts of the day (if not having an EDM Radio) and air
some sort of EDM show that discusses EDM issues (hardware, software,
DJ tutorials - though it won't be easy with no visual demonstration) and
also organize some topics or discussions about drugs and it's bad influence
as well as false connection with EDM.

[JAD]

[Tala]

[samer]

mmm nice point of views.. i'll leave mine till later.. but 1 thing to mention:

for me MixFM the radio station is not the same as the Co-organizer! i think they're doing v.good in term of organizations (but could do much better too..) but in term of radio station, well i think much more could be done..

[Proof]

[Trancelvania]

[pTq]

im totally with everything bassel said ...
educating : more EM during the day and more news
and it would be really good if we see mixfm support other local djs .. like having a night every once in awhile specifically for bedroom djs....or how about a competition or something like that with judges that are well capable of understading what it takes in order to be a profesional dj ...

all in all , you all give very important points that should be taken into consideration .. thanxs samer for this topic , it was really needed

[psycho]

1- yeah more edm during the day!!! inno whos gonna hear for example ASOT@2am!!??
2- i know this idea is crazy but what about EDM Acadamy!!! a program for as may said "bedroom djs" being trained with pros (let it be a joint program), compete live on air and let the best dj win !!!!

i have also one more comment: how about they boost abit their frequency for those who cant hear shish except by hanging the radio outside the balcony!!!!

gr8 topic sam aka