Seattle dance hits radio station C89.5, the world’s longest-running dance music radio station, shared with Dance Music Northwest their two new shows to get listeners moving and grooving this summer. We sat down for a conversation with C89.5 and DJ Lady Love, who sets out to kick off the weekend fun with her new show “It’s A Vibe”.
The show airs every Friday from 8-9 p.m., sandwiched between Harmony Soleil’s “Weekend Windup” and DJ Randy Schlager’s “Powermix.” The genre-blending party is advertised as a space “where funk meets disco, house grooves collide with hip-hop, and R&B blends seamlessly with Afrobeats!”
When asked about what the energy she thought the new show would bring, DJ Lady Love told us that she hoped it would be a sort of meal prep for listener’s Friday nights: “So the vibe is fun. The vibe is just, it’s Friday. It’s the end of the last day of the week, you had to work or school or whatever you had to do, and you just want to come and just be like, oh, take off the workload. And let it hang out. And that’s what I’m there to do. Just come in and be like, Lady Love. What you got for me today.”
DJ Lady Love started out her career in New York, as one of the first female hip hop DJ’s in the 70s. She started out as DJ Sexy, before she was ushered toward a name change by a friend standing outside a NY club one night. At the exact right moment, a boat by the name of Lady Love rolled down the avenue, and a name was born. She says it took until the 2010s that the name really started to grow on her, and grow with her. And as someone who loved music before she could walk, DJ Lady Love tells us that much like her name, she’s not going anywhere.
“I’m not letting it go until they tell me Lady, you gotta go. Then I’ll go.”
“It’s A Vibe” is just another example of C89.5’s ambition to represent as many different genres, voices and styles of music that come under the banner of dance as they can. They see the dance music scene as a sort of Disneyland, saying about their station, “What world is missing? What ride do we need to take our listeners on that we haven’t yet?”
The Groove Gallery hosted by Walt Deez hopes to fill another gap as a midweek escape, crafted for listeners to kick back and hang with some laid-back house music from 8-9 p.m. every Wednesday. “From funky beats to soulful melodies, each episode is a journey through the diverse world of rhythm and sound. Whether you’re into jazz, hip-hop, soul, or Lo-fi, unwind with the Groove Gallery.”
The show plays right before DJ Tamms’s well-established three-hour trance show “Nocturnal Transmission”, and follows a dance-forward live show hosted by Harmony Soleil, whose fierce passion for c89.5 shines through in everything she does.
Set the tone for summer by tuning in to the mix with C89.5’s new shows.
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