All The Excess! exclusive: Satellite radio veteran and once youthful dance music programmer Maxwell House has returned to the audio spectrum as one of the hosts on Internet station Radio Danz.The reclusive and imbalanced House, original architect of XM Satellite Radio's Dance Hits BPM channel, will host the "Danz 20," a countdown show available to listeners at RadioDanz.com, Fridays at 6pm ET with an encore Sundays at 8pm ET. He's hopeful that a return to the microphone signals better days ahead.
"Since leaving XM I've been living in a flimsy cardboard box near New York's South Street Seaport with a couple of feral cats," House told us. "I'm hoping I can upgrade to a nice abandoned refrigerator carton now, and maybe get a used bicycle. PD Bernardo Passariello and the Radio Danz gang have been really nice to me, but it sure ain't Ryan Seacrest money."
The award-winning BPM was one of the few XM channels kept when two companies merged to become Sirius XM (direct competitor of MOFO Discount Satellite Radio, subject of many All The Excess! articles), but soon after the shotgun wedding, BPM was budget cut to a shadow of its former self. Refugees from BPM have been flocking to Radio Danz, says House, and more are likely to join, as Radio Danz expands on the original BPM programming formula.
After departing XM, House tried his hand as a music producer with modest success.
Though House's mental age is pre-teen, his physical age is a closely guarded secret. It is widely believed that his joining Radio Danz is a positive sign for career radio people approaching their twilight years. "Get that carbon-14 dating gear away from me," the curmudgeonly House barked to our inquisitive All The Excess! reporters. "If I had a lawn, I'd tell you to get off that, too."
Unabashedly blatant plug: Radio Danz is also available to iPhone owners who download the free Radio Danz application here.
