WXLI Weekend

Donna Summer at Sunrise, Björk by Brunch

May 02, 2026 7:01 AM – 12:58 PM 10 tracks

Seven-oh-one on a Saturday, light rain ticking against the Design District, seventy-eight degrees and climbing. DJ Gabrielle opened with Artone and rolled straight into Donna Summer's Love To Love You Baby — the record that basically invented the extended form — and the weekend clicked into place. Robin S. at 7:16 in that sunrise gray made a kind of perfect sense only a dance track at dawn can make. By 7:55, backyard grill smoke was curling into the humid air over Convention Center traffic, Boogie Pimps fading into Real El Canario.

Weekend Stories turned the temperature up. Todd Terje's Strandbar slid into Daft Punk's Fresh, and by 8:39 Gabrielle was telling the Studio 54 story — Chic turned away on New Year's Eve '77, Le Freak born from the rejection — right as the clouds broke over eighty-one degrees. Prydz, Alcazar, that heartbreak-on-the-floor paradox rolling into Hot Since 82.

Then the curve ball at 10:19. Gabrielle dropped a trivia challenge chasing a 1997 Scandinavian blueprint — orchestral strings welded to digital production. Eleven listeners took the swing. Guesses floated in: Moroder, Rodgers. Nobody landed Björk's Homogenic. The reveal came during Time Travel, Citizens!'s True Romance still in the room, before Michael Jackson's Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough reset the floor.

Lisa Stansfield and France Gall carried the rooftop into noon. By 12:20 it was eighty-nine degrees, light rain still threading through, and All the Weekend Energy was pouring out everything it had — Modjo, Tiger Stripes, Miami Horror. Gabrielle closed at 12:58 with Power House's What You Need, a nod to James Jamerson's bass line as the backbone under all of it, and Majestique's Must Get There still rolling into the next hand.

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Tracks Played 10
  • 7:01 AM
    Artone & C-mo
    Handle That (Art Of Tones Remix)
  • 7:06 AM
    Donna Summer
    Love To Love You Baby (Giorgio Moroder feat. Chris Cox Remix)
  • 7:51 AM
    The Lisa Marie Experience
    Keep On Jumpin' (De Soffer Remix) [Extended Remix]
  • 8:43 AM
    Defective Disco
    Disco Revolution (Original Mix)
  • 9:34 AM
    Lindstrom
    Eg-ged-osis (Todd Terje Extended Edit)
  • 10:31 AM
    Afro Medusa
    Pasilda (Club Mix)
  • 11:27 AM
    Michael Jackson
    Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough (2003 Edit)
  • 12:08 PM
    Studio 45
    Freak It!
  • 12:57 PM
    Power House feat. Duane Harden
    What You Need (Full Intention Radio Edit)
  • 1:01 PM
    Majestique
    Must Get There (Original Mix)