James Ruskin on Radio 1..Fergies show

What I find odd is that everyone slags off the Fergie show yet everyone seems to tune in !!!!
I never listen to anything remotely techno on the radio as I know it's like finding a needle in a haystack. I'm a Jazz FM man when it comes to the radio. All the pirate stations in London just play the usual garage / jungle / ragga and anything else legal is just pants.

I must admit if Fergie asked me to do a guest mix I think I would have to do it because at the end of the day its great publicity for my music & label where you wouldn't get that sort of coverage and i'm sure 70% of Fergie's audiance would hate it or just find it too hard. I think people should stop giving these Techno dj's a hard time because these are hard times for getting any airplay in the UK and if we can get more people buying our music then surely that's a good thing ?

The thing in the UK is that the country is full of music snobs that like to cut there nose off dispite there face and basically this is why the country is full of empty techno clubs.

Techno DJ's play on the Fergie show - so what !!! get over it guys.

That's my rant over with.

P.

Looked at the tracklisting for Ruskins' set on the R1 website and although
he played 1 Bailey tune the rest of the mix was mostly Coda/Blueprint/Surface material.

Seems to me, as Mr. Langley says, he stuck to his guns and presented his own sound to a larger audience. Nowt wrong with that really when he could've just mixed up a load of Ignition Technician tunes and gained himself a few moneyspinning sets with Fergie down Gatecrasher.

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Originally Posted by JACKSTAR

What I find odd is that everyone slags off the Fergie show yet everyone seems to tune in !!!!
I never listen to anything remotely techno on the radio as I know it's like finding a needle in a haystack. I'm a Jazz FM man when it comes to the radio. All the pirate stations in London just play the usual garage / jungle / ragga and anything else legal is just pants.

I must admit if Fergie asked me to do a guest mix I think I would have to do it because at the end of the day its great publicity for my music & label where you wouldn't get that sort of coverage and i'm sure 70% of Fergie's audiance would hate it or just find it too hard. I think people should stop giving these Techno dj's a hard time because these are hard times for getting any airplay in the UK and if we can get more people buying our music then surely that's a good thing ?

The thing in the UK is that the country is full of music snobs that like to cut there nose off dispite there face and basically this is why the country is full of empty techno clubs.

Techno DJ's play on the Fergie show - so what !!! get over it guys.

That's my rant over with.

P.

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I'm there with you, by your side man. I am too having this problem at the moment, getting booked at some slightly more commercial clubs than I'm used to and I'm afraid to say that we all need to spread our message or we all die. **** the music snobs.