Are Radio One forgetting about a genre of music

Are Radio One forgetting about a genre of music

From harderfaster.net:

Think of 4/4 dance music on Radio 1 and a familiar catalogue of shows and DJs instantly spring to mind. You have the immortal Pete Tong, the loved and loathed Judge, The swagger of Fergie, the Funky Seb, Yousef and ‘dangerous’ Dave Pearce amongst numerous esteemed others. Each is or is fast becoming an institution in the industry of dance music; they retain excellent listening figures each week from clubbers who have grown up watching them play and buying their cds. Other forms of dance music are also more than adequately represented by big hitters. Hip Hop has Tim Westwood, D’n’B has Fabio and Groove Rider and UK Garage has the Dream Team. Radio 1 does indeed make a determined effort to encapsulate the beebs no. 2 value of “Audiences are at the heart of everything we do”. Or does it?

In its effort to cover all the generic bases in dance music Radio 1 has managed to omit a genre that tends to return to its roots as a form of inspiration rather than convince itself of infinite popularity by plugging the same Superstar DJs. Hard dance in all its forms has hardly any representation on Radio 1, and for no apparent reason either. While Jon Peel will always remain a hero for daring to playlist acid techno and a lab 4 live set, this, as contended in the recent hardcore release by CLSM, is not enough. Stating assets such as a hugely passionate and diverse demographic of clubbers, the most forward thinking producers and DJ’s, regular events up and down the country with production values and scale that dwarf other dance music events, the most up for it party vibe around and the most powerful sound in dance music is not enough of a case to warrant a dedicated slot or even so much of a mention on the Beebs flagship.

Why is there no Hard Dance on Radio 1? If the Beeb honour their core values (as on its website) they should have no choice but to have hard dance on its airwaves.

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There's no hard dance on radio one as hard dance is shit.

aye he has he said that in a interveiw on sum gk dvd i had

Radio 1 should play more trance IMO

they're missing out on lots of genres.
i dont think having hard dance on R1 would add value to the station, IMO.

Hard dance isn't that big a scene. It might be to its dedicated followers but not in terms of the population

bobby t' has had a guest mix on dance anthems a few times..

personally i wudnt wana hear karims latest being nailed by chris moyles...

There are shows like the Breezeblock,Annie Nightingale, John Peel, Gilles Peterson which cover a lot of different styles of music

i love the breezeblock and annie nightingales shows
lots of breaks

Summs up my thoughts exactly!

The BBC isn't allowed to put anything offensive on, and Hard Dance is extreamly offencive, deffo more offencive than the word **** and they can't even say that on Radio1

and mine

Well fuck me!!!!!!!!
I didn't know that **** was to offensive for here as well.

i find hard dance offensive

What martin sed...yeah they have had bobby T on a couple of times...but hardly ever. Who cares though really...put a cd on

They've got the essential mix, that gets a pretty varied selection, although it's only once a week, and it's not amazingly varied tbh.

Would take loads of work booking a guest mix every night, maybe they can't be arsed.

Yeah about 50% of the tunes Annie N plays are breaks