Archive for September, 2009
Chart update 9/25/09
I just posted my Top 25 Dance Chart for the week on my web site. You can read the whole chart by clicking that link, but here’s the Top 10 this week:
| TW | LW | Artist | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | The 808′s | Sweet Child of Mine | Central Station |
| 2 | 2 | David May feat. Moises Modesto and The Verve’s ”Bittersweet Symphony” | Superstar | ABKCO |
| 3 | 8 | Italo Brothers | So Small | Robbins |
| 4 | 3 | Jus Jack with Phil Garant feat. Matina Parisi | Smoke | Moda |
| 5 | 21 | Mia J | Headlights | Robbins |
| 6 | 4 | Carol Hahn | Take Me and Dance | Beagle Boy |
| 7 | 23 | Caroline Lund | Move Your Body | Caroline Lund Music |
| 8 | 9 | Jessie James | Wanted | Mercury |
| 9 | 12 | Carefree | Broken Strings | Nervous |
| 10 | 5 | Pepper MaShay | Freeway of Love | CAPP |
Added this week are three hot new tracks added to my regular playlist:
- Radka with Hey Boy.
- Depeche Mode with Perfect.
- Candice Alley with Before You Go.
Playlist for Friday Night House Party Mixshow #48 (9/25/2009)
Here’s the playlist for last Friday’s DJ Wesley Friday Night House Party mixshow:
- Italo Brothers – So Small (Dave Ramone Mix)
- Jada – American Cowboy (Mike Rizzo Funk Generation Club Mix)
- MSTRSS feat. Deborah Lee – Danger (Extended Mix)
- Novaspace – Dancing Into Danger (Groove Police Club Mix)
- Candice Alley – Before You Go (DeMarkol Club Mix)
- Radka – Hey Boy (Love to Infinity Club Mix)
- David May feat. Moises Modesto – Superstar (Marquito Remix – Extended Version)
- The 808′s – Sweet Child of Mine (Club Mix)
- Depeche Mode – Perfect (Roger Sanchez Extended Vocal Mix)
- Georgie Porgie – Brand New Day (Josh Harris Club Mix)
- Pleasure Center – If I Sound Excited (Original Club Mix)
- Jade Ewen feat. Bashy – My Man (Cahill Club Mix)
- Ash – True Love 1980 (Timothy Allan Remix)
- Alcazar – Burning (Cahill Club Mix)
- Carol Hahn – Take Me and Dance (Wesley King Extended Mix)
- Pepper MaShay – Freeway of Love (Dany Wild Club Extended)
- Mia J – Headlights (Soul Seekerz Club Mix)
- Bananarama – Love Comes (Riff & Rays Club Mix)
- Andrew Spencer and the Vamprockerz – Zombie (Dany Wild Club Remix)
- Raen – Honey (7th Heaven Club Mix)
Thanks for listening, and I hope you can catch the show this Friday.
NOTE: Effective this Friday, October 2, the show will be one hour in length, and will now be pre-recorded. Look for the show to come to other media outlets in the near future, but you can always find it on iDanceRadio.fm at 10 Eastern, 7 Pacific, every Friday.
Mixshow changes starting this week
For nearly a year now, I’ve been doing a live, two-hour mixshow on iDanceRadio.fm. While I enjoy doing it live, it takes a valuable weekend night away from me. It’s also largely prevented me from syndicating the show to other outlets.
Beginning this Friday, October 2nd, the DJ Wesley Friday Night House Party will be trimmed back to one hour (a customary length for mixshows), and I’ll be pre-recording it sometime during the week. I’m sure that most listeners to iDanceRadio.fm will hardly notice the change, but I wanted to give everyone a head’s-up.
Thanks for listening, and I hope you continue to catch the new, shortened show each Friday night, starting at the same time—10 Eastern, 7 Pacific.
Chart update 9/11/09
I just posted my Top 25 Dance Chart for the week on my web site. You can read the whole chart by clicking that link, but here’s the Top 10 this week:
| TW | LW | Artist | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | The 808′s | Sweet Child of Mine | Central Station |
| 2 | 3 | Jus Jack with Phil Garant feat. Matina Parisi | Smoke | Moda |
| 3 | 2 | Bananarama | Love Comes | Fascination |
| 4 | 4 | Pepper MaShay | Freeway of Love | CAPP |
| 5 | 6 | Carol Hahn | Take Me and Dance | Beagle Boy |
| 6 | 5 | Novaspace | Dancing Into Danger | Redstick |
| 7 | 7 | David May feat. Moises Modesto and The Verve’s ”Bittersweet Symphony” | Superstar | ABKCO |
| 8 | 20 | Velvet | Come Into the Night | Bonnier Amigo |
| 9 | 8 | Rico Bernasconi | Love Deep Inside | CAPP/Starshit |
| 10 | 15 | Jessie James | Wanted | Mercury |
Added this week are four hot new tracks added to my regular playlist:
- The talented Caroline Lund brings us Move Your Body, a great track introduced to me by Nevik at ISV. (Thanks, bud!)
- Robbins Entertainment has two adds this week that are great… Mia J with Headlights, and Italo Brothers with So Small, the latter a remake of the country hit from American Idol’er Carrie Underwood.
- I really like some of the alt rock remixes that come out from time-to-time, and Carolina Liar’s Show Me What I’m Looking For works remarkably well with a dance treatment.
Playlist for Friday Night House Party Mixshow #46 (9/11/2009)
Here’s what played in last Friday’s DJ Wesley Friday Night House Party:
- Backstreet Boys – Straight Through My Heart (Jason Nevins Mixshow)
- Carmen Reece – Right Here (Dave Aude Club Mix)
- Wale feat. Lady Gaga – Chillin’ (Bimbo Jones Full Remix)
- Beatnik Castle feat. Francillia – Will U B Mine (Lenny B Extended Club Mix)
- Alkatraz feat. Jennifer Hershman – Can’t Go On (Original Mix)
- Whitney Houston – Million Dollar Bill (Freemasons Club Mix)
- Vincent Medugno – The Reason (Wesley King Extended Mix)
- Damien.S feat. Femke – Stars Collide (Original Mix)
- The 808′s – Sweet Child of Mine (Extended Radio Mix)
- Italo Brothers – So Small (Dave Ramone Mix))
- Jade Ewen feat. Bashy – My Man (Cahill Club Mix)
- Georgie Porgie – Brand New Day (Josh Harris Club Mix)
- Dragonette – Pick Up The Phone (Richard X Remix Rhythmic Pop 12 Inch)
- Natalie Imbruglia – Want (Buzz Junkies Club Remix)
- Paradiso Girls feat. Lil Jon & Eve – Patron Tequila (Bimbo Jones Club Mix)
- Beyonce – Sweet Dreams (Groove Police Club Remix)
- Novaspace – Dancing Into Danger (Groove Police Club Mix)
- Kinky Roland feat. Alec Sun Drae – Confide In Me (Original Mix)
- Rico Bernasconi – Love Deep Inside (Original Club Mix)
- Carol Hahn – Take Me and Dance (Wesley King Club Mix)
- Kelly Clarkson – Already Gone (Bimbo Jones Club Mix)
Hope you enjoyed the show, and “see” you again this Friday for another two hours of great dance music, mixed live!
Playlist for Friday Night House Party Mixshow #45 (9/4/2009)
Here’s what played on last week’s DJ Wesley Friday Night House Party:
- Georgie Porgie – Brand New Day (Original Club Mix)
- Robin S & Corey Gibbons – At My Best (Original Mix)
- Kinky Roland feat. Alec Sun Drae – Confide In Me (Original Mix)
- Carefree – Broken Strings (Sebo Reed Electro Mix)
- Sneaky Sound System – It’s Not My Problem (Stockholm Syndrome Club Mix)
- Jus Jack with Phil Garant feat. Matina Parisi – Smoke (Club Mix))
- Vincent Medugno – The Reason (Wesley King Extended Mix)
- Kelly Clarkson – Already Gone (Bimbo Jones Club Mix)
- David May feat. Moises Modesto and The Verve’s ”Bittersweet Symphony” – Superstar (Phonatics Remix)
- Jacinta – Can’t Keep it a Secret (Dave Audé Big House Club)
- Velvet – Come Into The Night (Pitchline Remix))
- Cindy Gomez – Again and Again (Bimbo Jones Vocal Mix))
- Jada – American Cowboy (Mike Rizzo Funk Generation Club Mix)
- Backstreet Boys – Straight Through My Heart (Jason Nevins Mixshow)
- MSTRSS feat. Deborah Lee – Danger (Extended Mix)
- September – Until I Die (Jason Nevins Remix)
- Pepper MaShay – Freeway of Love (Dany Wild Club Extended)
- Novaspace – Dancing Into Danger (Groove Police Club Mix)
- Passion Pit – The Reeling (Groove Police Remix)
Tune-in this Friday for another two hours of great dance music, mixed live!
Chart update 9/4/09
I just posted my Top 25 Dance Chart for the week on my web site. You can read the whole chart by clicking that link, but here’s the Top 10 this week:
| TW | LW | Artist | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 | The 808′s | Sweet Child of Mine | Central Station |
| 2 | 1 | Bananarama | Love Comes | Fascination |
| 3 | 3 | Jus Jack with Phil Garant feat. Matina Parisi | Smoke | Moda |
| 4 | 2 | Pepper MaShay | Freeway of Love | CAPP |
| 5 | 4 | Novaspace | Dancing Into Danger | Redstick |
| 6 | 12 | Carol Hahn | Take Me and Dance | Beagle Boy |
| 7 | NE | David May feat. Moises Modesto and The Verve’s ”Bittersweet Symphony” | Superstar | ABKCO |
| 8 | 8 | Rico Bernasconi | Love Deep Inside | CAPP/Starshit |
| 9 | 6 | Naturi Naughton | Fame ’09 | Universal |
| 10 | 5 | Nick Lachey | Patience | Jive |
Added this week are four hot new tracks added to my regular playlist:
- The legendary Georgie Porgie is back with his latest single, Brand New Day. Georgie is often known for impactful, meaningful lyrics, and he doesn’t disappoint this time around.
- Kelly Clarkson, who can just do no wrong in my book, has a great set of dance remixes for Already Gone. Great song, great vocals, and the usual polished dance production.
- Velvet returns with Come Into the Night; really digging this one, and a great follow-up to her string of previous hits.
- Toronto electro-poppers Dragonette bring us a slick new dance track in Pick Up the Phone. It just works on so many levels.
Lettin’ the cat outta the bag
On the heels of the release this coming week of Carol Hahn’s Take Me and Dance, which includes a remix from yours truly, I’m pleased to let the cat out of the bag on the next remix… The Reason, from New York’s Vincent Medugno.
Medugno (pronounced “muh-DOON-yo”) is a new artist whose first release, We Are Meant to Be, hit the Billboard charts within the past few months. He’s got a strong tenor voice, and a bright future.
This next release is a cover of a rock ballad, originally from Hoobastank. The Reason is a lyrically beautiful song, and it struck me as a very unusual choice for a dance cover when I first received Vincent’s acapellas. In fact, my first reaction was something along the lines of, “What the heck am I gonna do with this?”
But, it didn’t take long to sort it out, and I’m very proud of the end result. Reason takes a different route from Dance, and while still very much dance music, you could say it’s mellower and perhaps more mainstream. The arrangement is rich, and Vincent’s amazing vocal shines through the mix nicely.
You’ll hear it show-up during the DJ Wesley Friday Night House Party mixshows starting today (September 4th), and I’ll be posting previews soon. It’ll be out in the next few weeks on Casa Records, and as always, I’ll keep everyone posted here on the blog, as well as on Facebook, Twitter, etc.
I hope you enjoy it.
Playlist for Friday Night House Party Mixshow #44 (8/28/2009)
Here’s what played on last week’s DJ Wesley Friday Night House Party:
- MSTRSS feat. Deborah Lee – Danger (Extended Mix)
- Passion Pit – The Reeling (Groove Police Remix)
- Consoul Trainin’ feat. Joan Kolova – Nothing Compares To You (Agent Greg Extended Mix)
- Novaspace – Dancing Into Danger (Groove Police Club Mix)
- Bananarama – Love Comes (Ian Masterson’s Extended Mix)
- Sirens – Dreams (Tony Arzadon & Nathan Scott Extended Remix)
- Lauren Hildebrandt – Boyshorts (Aaron Paetsch Remix)
- The 808′s – Sweet Child of Mine (Extended Radio Mix)
- Tom Noize feat. ST – Spinning (Tom Noize 2009 Remix)
- Elena Baltagan – Before I Sleep (Danny D Club Mix)
- Jim Davis Jr. – Lady (Dan The Man Club Mix)
- Plasco – Stay (Maxi Mix)
- Filo & Peri with Eric Lumiere – Shine On (Club Mix)
- Carol Hahn – Take Me and Dance (Wesley King Extended Mix)
- Just Jack with Phil Garant feat. Matina Parisi – Smoke (Club Mix)
- David May feat. Moises Modesto and The Verve’s ”Bittersweet Symphony” – Superstar (Phonatics Remix)
- Tod Miner – Totally Numb (Original Club Mix)
- Madonna – Celebration (Paul Oakenfold Remix))
- Gathania – Blame It On You (Wideboys Club Mix)
- Pepper MaShay – Freeway of Love (Dany Wild Club Extended)
- Gary Go – Open Arms (Michael Gray Remix)
Tune-in this Friday for another two hours of great dance music, mixed live!
Chart update 8/28/09
I just posted my Top 25 Dance Chart for the week on my web site. You can read the whole chart by clicking that link, but here’s the Top 10 this week:
| TW | LW | Artist | Title | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Bananarama | Love Comes | Fascination |
| 2 | 2 | Pepper MaShay | Freeway of Love | CAPP |
| 3 | 8 | Jus Jack with Phil Garant feat. Matina Parisi | Smoke | Moda |
| 4 | 12 | Novaspace | Dancing Into Danger | Redstick |
| 5 | 3 | Nick Lachey | Patience | Jive |
| 6 | 17 | Naturi Naughton | Fame ’09 | Universal |
| 7 | 9 | Lauren Hildebrandt | Boyshorts | Red Wallet |
| 8 | 4 | Rico Bernasconi | Love Deep Inside | CAPP/Starshit |
| 9 | 16 | Sneaky Sound System | It’s Not My Problem | Whack (Australia) |
| 10 | 13 | Carmen Reece | Right Here | Real MF |
Added this week are five hot new tracks added to my regular playlist:
- The 808′s are back with a great new cover of Sweet Child of Mine. With an authentic vocal, and an amazing rock/dance crossover mix, it’s a strong track that the crowds are responding to.
- Nervous Records offer-up Carefree’s Broken Strings, another strong track that’s getting a lot of attention. Add me to the list.
- Madonna’s Celebration is an add this week, and unsurprisingly has been getting plenty of attention as well.
- Rockers “Cobra Starship” are pulling the usual audience-grab of offering dance remixes of their single, Good Girls Go Bad—and it’s to good effect.
- With incredible model looks and a voice to go with it, Jessie James’ Wanted is a strong track I’m really digging.
