Paradise FM
Paradise FM is a disco radio station featured in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.
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| Genre: | Post-disco |
| Appearance(s): | Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories |
| DJ(s): | None |
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The station's existence in 1984 Vice City reflects changes seen in the disco genre five years after the commercial "death" of disco music. As opposed to playing pre-1979 disco music, Paradise FM predominantly plays American post-disco music from the early 1980s, which are marked by the increased use of electronic musical instruments.
Not including station identification, this is not only the first non-stop music station since the Grand Theft Auto III rendition of Rise FM, but quite possibly the first one since the first in any GTA game without a DJ. This radio station is favored by the Cholos as it can be heard whenever the player enters a Cholo Sabre.
The name of this station is probably a reference to the legendary Paradise Garage club in New York, as the music is very representative of that club's soundtrack at the height of its popularity.
Genre: post-disco
Playlist
- Unlimited Touch - "I Hear Music in the Streets" (1980)
- Plunky & the Oneness of Juju - "Everyway But Loose" (Larry Levan remix) (1982)
- Geraldine Hunt - "Can't Fake the Feeling" (1980)
- Raw Silk - "Do It to the Music" (1981)
- Jimmy "Bo" Horne - "Is It In" (1980)
- Exodus - "Together Forever" (1980)
- Jackie Moore - "This Time Baby" (1979)
- Class Action - "Weekend (Tonight Is Party Time)" (1980)
- Gwen Guthrie - "It Should Have Been You" (1982)
- Thelma Houston - "You Used to Hold Me So Tight" (1984)
- Sister Sledge - "Lost in Music" (Special 1984 Nile Rodgers Remix) (1984)
- Donald Byrd - "Love Has Come Around" (1981)
- Change - "The Glow of Love" (1980)
Trivia
- Class Action's "Weekend" is also featured as a house music remix by The Todd Terry Project in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, appearing on the SF-UR house radio station.
- Exodus' "Together Forever" is also sampled in Eddie Amador's song "House Music" on the house music station Rise FM in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories.
- Finally, Jackie Moore's "This Time Baby" is featured as a house remix by Freemasons on Vladivostok FM in Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City.
See also
- Fever 105, a radio station in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City which plays post-disco music.
- K109 The Studio, a radio station in Grand Theft Auto IV which plays disco music.
- Space 103.2, a radio station in Grand Theft Auto V which plays post-disco music.