WXLI Weekend

Six Hours Rebuilt from Timestamps and Warm Rain

July 25, 2026 7:04 AM – 12:58 PM 10 tracks

Start with what's certain: 7:04 AM, Praise Cats, Shined On Me. Five minutes later, Defective Disco. Between those two tracks — a crash on SR-826 South, Road Rangers already on scene, a bridge lifting on SR-9. The city reorganizing itself around obstacles while the session just begins.

There's a six-minute gap between Donna Summer's Last Dance and Metronomy's The Look. Something happened at 7:43 that the Masters At Work remix understood — a Saturday morning that hadn't fully committed to being awake. By 7:50, the Fred Falke remix answered. The gap between them is where someone's coffee finished brewing.

At 8:34, Studio 45's Freak It landed. DJ Gabrielle said someone stepped onto their balcony. Four minutes later, New Vision. The gap between electro-house and dance-pop is exactly the width of a sliding glass door opening to humid air. Eighty-four degrees. Light rain still falling.

The nine o'clock hour carried news — ChatGPT down globally, Formula One qualifying in Hungary — but the tracklist kept its own time. Change and Tanya Michelle Smith at 9:06. Byron Stingily at 9:19. Thirteen minutes apart, both pulling from the same soulful root system. Erasure at 9:23 — four minutes after Stingily, which is barely enough time to register the shift from gospel-house to synth-pop nostalgia. That's where the programming reveals itself.

By 11:33, Sister Sledge was thinking of you on Collins Avenue. Eighty-eight degrees now. The rain hadn't stopped but the temperature kept climbing. Sade arrived at 11:47 — fourteen minutes later — and the Ben Watt remix stretched like the city taking a longer breath before noon hit.

The last fragment: 12:49 PM, Miguel Migs, So Far. Ninety-two degrees, few clouds. Five minutes remaining. DJ Gabrielle said make them count. The gap between that track and Limitless at 12:58 is where the whole Saturday pivoted — from curated sound to open afternoon, from session to memory, from fragment to something you'll try to reconstruct later from a title and a timestamp and the heat you remember on your skin.

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Tracks Played 10
  • 7:04 AM
    Praise Cats
    Shined On Me
  • 7:09 AM
    Defective Disco
    Disco Revolution (Original Mix)
  • 7:57 AM
    Musclecars & New Past
    Water (Mark Francis Remix)
  • 8:47 AM
    Martha Wash feat. RuPaul
    It's Raining Men
  • 9:32 AM
    Soulsearcher
    Can't Get Enough
  • 10:29 AM
    Marc Evans & DJ Spen
    Back To Your Place (Crackazat Remix)
  • 11:12 AM
    Pete Heller
    Big Love
  • 12:10 PM
    Ian Pooley feat. Rosanna & Zélia
    Coração Tambor
  • 12:58 PM
    Mery Blue & Indeep Noise
    Limitless
  • 1:04 PM
    Groove Armada
    Just For Tonight