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tatyXm
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 Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 5:23 pm Post subject: what's up with Alegria??? |
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I would like to request music in this so listened channel (Alegria), but there's no way how to  . I would like to send an email to Karla Rodriguez- MAXIMA music, and ask her how does she comes up with the music she puts, because she should get some advise. I always hear/see Jackie Velasquez & Alejandro Fernandez, more than 3 times a day with the same song. Lets be more diverse. Karla let us hear different things!!!!! You should have an e-mail  if your are the voice of a radio station right?????
I want to request music in Alegria!!! I insist Me gusta la musica latina pero no quiero escuchar la misma! |
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tdevine
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| Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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XM's Latin channels seems to be very caotic. Example, here is what Alegria is suppose to play:
| Quote: | The Latin Pulse
Come in and enjoy the continual synthesis of sounds from the Americas. Blues and rancheras, pop and baladas, rock and Caribbean rhythms, cumbias and hip hop, or any combinations thereof, converge on a hip, cutting edge rotation of globally networked sounds from Sergio Arau, Shakira, Luis Miguel, Kinky, Joaquin Sabina, Alejandro Sanz, Ednita Nazario and others. |
Seems like spanish top-40, right ?? I did a song search for Daddy Yankee's "Gasolina", which is a huge spanish hit. It fits on Alegria because it is spanish hip hop, noted above. According to song search, never been played on Alegria. Has had some airtime on Caliente, which is also fitting for the song. But baffling how XM's spanish top-40 misses it.
I think XM has a lot of potential with it's Latin stations, but the 3 attempt to cover EVERYTHING spanish on only 3 channels. I don't think this can be done, my digital cable has like a dozen spanish music channels and even that doesn't cover it all !!! I think XM needs to condense the music libraries of these channels so people know what to expect when they tune in. Specialty shows are fine, and I would encourage that. But right now the channels are "eclectic" at best, a train-wreck at worst.
XM needs to put more focus on the latin channels. It's obvious they are understaffed and have no direction. I say this as a listener who wants XM to grow, and the hispanic population will only help XM grow to that break-even mark 
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Dave_A
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 12:41 am Post subject: |
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Gasolina is Reggeton, not neccesarily Hip-Hop, so that format doesn't fit on Alegria (btw - Alegria is Happiness in Spanish), only on Caliente which sometimes gets some Reggeton play.
But yes, XM lacks great Latin programming. Alegria is all over the place.
Maybe if they brough back a Latin Rock channel that would leave Alegra with the Pop hits. I know there was a Rock En Espanol in the past but I think it was deleted when XM went commercial-free. So I'm guessing it wasn't an in-house station.
But the "Pop hits" concept doesn't work too well since Latin music is too diverse. They should leave Alegria with only Pop ballads (a Spanish version of The Heart), Ricky (to complete the I Love Lucy circle) with Latin Rock, Agulia with Mexican, and leave Caliente and Luna alone. |
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tdevine
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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I thought Reggaeton = spanish hip hop ??
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Dave_A
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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| tdevine wrote: | | I thought Reggaeton = spanish hip hop ?? |
Well some consider it "hip-hop" but I consider it a sub-genre of the Latin Hip-Hop scene. Cypress Hill is perhaps the most famous Latin Hip-Hop group of all time.
I don't know why Alegria describes itself of playing hip-hop because they don't.
As a whole, Latin Hip-Hop is....
Rap from the Latino community has been around since rap's beginnings, but it didn't break into the pop mainstream until much later. The twin successes of Mellow Man Ace's "Mentirosa" and Kid Frost's "La Raza" in 1990 brought Latin Rap hallmarks -- rapping in multilingual "Spanglish," Latin rhythms, and images of urban Latino lifestyles -- to the pop charts. Mellow Man Ace's brother, Sen Dog, is a founding member of the most famous Latino rap act, Cypress Hill.
Reggaeton is a sub-genre:
Reggaeton is characterized by rough, monotone rapping (in Spanish) and driving dancehall riddims, and it's rapidly becoming the dance music of choice for a generation of young Latinos. While only recognized as a style in the 1990s, reggaeton has its roots in the '70s, when Jamaican workers moved to Panama to work on the canal and brought reggae music with them. Reggae's popularity grew in Central America and the Caribbean at the same time that American rap was finding its way south. The landmark development came in 1985, when Vico C released Puerto Rico's first Spanish-language rap album. It was only a matter of time before producers linked Latin rap with Jamaica's hard dancehall sounds. All they needed was to add a few native Puerto Rican touches like the bomba and plena rhythms (better known from salsa), and presto: a new genre. Reggaeton finally spilled over Puerto Rico's borders in the 21st century, as artists like Tego Calderon, Don Omar, Ivy Queen and Hector y Tito gained currency abroad. Even boy bands like Aventura climbed aboard the bandwagon, emulating a defanged reggaeton and signaling the genre's growing appeal.
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tatyXm
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 10:25 pm Post subject: [color=#9a00ff]hi again[/color] |
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Well I think that in general the music at Alegria is fine, it is just too repetetive. In the morning I drive and I hear a song right? and then after 1 hour I hear the same one, when it is not even the song of the week. I like all songs, but not all singers. I guess I just have to deal with it. Caliente is mych better, I can listen too a lot much better variety. Reguetton is included; I don't like this genre as much but is still cool now days. Aguila is just mexican, and I'm not, so I don't get it. Luna is ok.
In other words Alegria should improve. Alegria should let us send them emails/messages to make suggestions, cause I really like the idea that Alegria exists specifically for Spanish hip-hop and rock, (where else can you find that???) but I think is somethimes BORING.
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tdevine
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| Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 12:59 am Post subject: |
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| Dave_A wrote: | | Well some consider it "hip-hop" but I consider it a sub-genre of the Latin Hip-Hop scene. Cypress Hill is perhaps the most famous Latin Hip-Hop group of all time. |
I can see where that's confusing. So Reggaetion is a sub-genre of spanish hip-hop, but to someone like me would make it hip-hop. I just know the local spanish top-40's in DC, "El Zol" and "La Mega" play Gasoline quite a bit. I even see the music video on a top-10 countdown show !! I don't think I have ever heard it on XM's latin stations. Now I don't expect them to program the song all the time, but it just seems an actively programmed latin station would program a fair share of these hit songs. But I think we've already established XM needs to redefine and more actively program the latin channels. Thanks for the reggaetion eduction 
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slocko
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| Well the new format change to Alegria has ruined it for me. You could be in a groove listening to some nice soft songs and all of a sudden a harsh reggaton song comes in ruining the groove. They should have expanded reggaton on caliente where there is more of a party groove than Alegria |
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stealthone
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rude
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wakeup
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| Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 3:35 am Post subject: |
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| tdevine wrote: | | I thought Reggaeton = spanish hip hop ?? |
NO!
Reggaeton isn't hip hop.
Do you can listen spanish hip hop in mp3 section of
http://www.hhdirecto.net |
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