Radio 1 Sign Up Six New Dance DJs Britain's hugely influential radio station Radio 1 are to launch a new late night dance show featuring six upcoming club DJs presenting six shows each on six week rotation. 'The Residency' takes over from the Dreem Team's garage based 'Soulful Session' slot between 3am and 5am Sunday mornings and will be covering genres including acid house, trance, hardcore and house, the station announced this week. Eddie Halliwell (trance), Jon O'Bir (progressive) The Trophy Twins (house), Criss (jungle), Nic Fanciulli (techno) and Kutski (hardcore) are the first six DJs selected for the new show which starts on May 1st. "The addition of this slot will make our specialist music schedule the most exciting listen possible," said Radio 1 chief Ian Parkinson this week. "The line-up have exceptional talent and cover genres that will appeal to a huge cross-section of our audience." Each presenter will be guaranteed just six shows per run with Radio 1 stalwart Pete Tong reviewing the entire line-up every 36 weeks. "I feel proud to be involved in 'The Residency' from start to finish, the plan with the show is to stay fresh and react to what's hot out there," The Essential Selection broadcaster explained. "Nic and Eddie were made Radio 1 Residents a year ago and have played at many of our live events, they've now got the chance to shine as broadcasters for the first time. The other DJs are equally promising and will cover genres across both underground and mainstream dance. I look forward to watching them grow over the next 8 months or so," he added.
eddie on trance :spangled: jon o'bir on progressive (slow trance then ) fanciulli on techno wtf it might be a case that whoever wrote that doesnt have a clue, but either way they could have picked much better people, trophy twins doing house, cummon
most of them are pretty muddled tbh, theres a trance dj on prog, a hard dj on trance, poor house djs on house lol a house dj doing techno lol dunno what the crack is
Pretty sure they've got something to do with tidy trax but i dunno what. I'm sure i've seen loads of flyers about where they play the backroom at sundissential and stuff like that- I might be wrong but i reckon they'll be proper shite- house music for the harder generation
basically each dj will just play their own style, radio1 always fuck the genres up, they described adam sheridan as a "trance & hard dance dj" on his essential mix it shud read.... Eddie Halliwell (trance & tecno) Jon O'Bir (trance) The Trophy Twins (funky house) Criss (house & techno) if it is the dj criss as in christian thier Nic Fanciulli (house) Kutski (hardtrance & hardstyle)
Seems as odd calling Halliwell hard as it does calling him trance. Last time I heard hard set, rather than the occasional hard tune in a set from him was 3 years ago. Whatever anyone thinks of the DJs though, at least it is a positive step in the right direction for a neglected set of genres!
lol how, hes a hard dance dj, everytime ive seen him play his played hard stuff, from HH to hard trance etc.
Re: Radio 1 Sign Up Six New Dance DJs It doesnt seem that long ago all them lads were starting out so it is really great to see them get to this chance, it really is good to see. Never herd of them, will give Criss a listen but I will deffo be a sleep when Kutsi is playing
Re: Re: Radio 1 Sign Up Six New Dance DJs i agree with you, but it would also be nice to see them play the music they're known for aswell tho
Re: Re: Re: Radio 1 Sign Up Six New Dance DJs Listen to the shows first rather than go off a press release that was more than likely put together by an Oxford PR graduate who has a surname that sounds like Gardner-Bowen
