Had a re-commitment to house music recently; time to narrow the EDM scope and dig a little deeper into one sound for a while. And the new podcast does just that — some deep house for my homey Nick down in Portland this summer. Holler at your boy.

PODCAST 26

Track Listing:

Lusty Legs - Travel Down the Grid
Stardust - Music Sounds Better with You (Archie Hamilton remix)
Howard Sessions - Leeds Infection
Mikkael - Black Swann
D’Experiment - History
The Neighbours Project - Disco
Dan Drastic - Behind a Green Door (Chris Lattner remix)
Dirk Dreyer & Pierre Deutschmann - House of Pain (Sami Wentz remix)
Marco Resmann - Sao Paulo Lights (Ramon Tapia remix)
Romano Alfieri - Moved Muff

Out of reverence for those who have been serious about the scene long before it blew up, I don’t plan on dabbling in the dubstep now that it has. UK Funky and all the splintering subgenres are more than I can even keep up with now…

But my passion for bangers runs strong and always fun to explore new sounds, so here is a little mix that dances around that half-time / double-time tempo. More electro, less wobble.

Out of Controller - Slow Bangers Mini-Mix, 7/10/10

Track Listing:

Blackalicious - Deception (intro acapella)
R/D - Space Radio (Deru remix)
Rustie - Keesha Resmak
The Glitch Mob - Drive it Like You Stole it
Jazzsteppa - Sweet Tooth
Harmonic 313 - Battlestar feat. Phat Kat & eLZhi
Matty G - West Coast Rocks (The Glitch Mob remix)
Beastie Boys - Sabotage (Alex Metric remix)
Metallica - Seek & Destroy (Bassnectar remix)
Jayou - Don’t Cheat, Don’t Steal feat. Laney
Drake - Forever (Nosaj Thing remix)

E scored a sweet new job at Gensler and they needed some down tempo grooves for an employee appreciation event at their downtown office. I was happy to oblige!

Was great to get her back, as well as actually play out a lot of these mellow beats that are usually just podcast material.

Here is the first hour…

Out of Controller - Live @ Gensler, 6/15/10

Track Listing:
Nightmares on Wax - Morse
DJ Food - Half Step
Grover Washington Jr. - Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Zero 7 - Polaris
Aim - Good Disease
Thievery Corporation - The Time We Lost Our Way feat. Loulou
Soul Village - Everybody Loves The Sunshine
The Dining Rooms - You
Nightmares on Wax - Finer
Sergio Mendes - For What It’s Worth
Roy Ayer’s Ubiquity - The Boogie Back
Chris Joss - Drink Me Hot
Clifford Gilberto - The 10th Victim
Rae & Christian - Spellbound
Thievery Corporation - The State Of The Union
Peace Orchestra - Double Drums (DJ DSL Remix)
Greyboy - Genevieve feat. Bart Davenport
Alex Gopher - Time

A couple head-bobbing minimixes that seemed to seemed to pair well enough. One slower, one faster, both groovy.

Had been tooling with the down tempo playlist for a minute, and the release of Juan Maclean’s new DJ-Kicks album got me in the mood for a house-tastic mix as well. Pick your poison…

(It’s ok to pick both. Encouraged, in fact.)

PODCAST 25 - down

Track Listing:

Super Value - Untitled
Rayko - Brownie
Grover Washington, Jr. - Mister Magic
Keenhouse - Ari-es (Hemingway remix)
Chromeo - I Can’t Tell You Why (Eagles cover)
Beautiful Swimmers - Swimmers Groove
Mai Tai - History
The Cardigans - Erase Rewind
The Avalanches - Electricity (DJ Harvey edit)

PODCAST 25 - up

Track Listing:

Jamtech Foundation - Too Fast (Zombie Disco Squad remix)
David Keno - Wait for More
Telonius - Hit Me (Ian Pooley dub)
Hot Natured - Electric Jones
Pase Rock - Nights (DJ Spider remix)
Alex Metric - Holding
Joe & Will Ask? - Merry Go

Two years of amassing epic 80s tracks in the event I come across an 80s party, and the stars aligned last Saturday for a truly epic night. The outfits were amazing and the booze was flowing, gradually built up the hype — I think the biggest dance floor I’ve slain to date.

So much fun, and I even won an award. It’s a shame to have to throw the piano key tie to the back of the closet for the foreseeable…

(A little over three hours worth, so the file is on the large side.)

Out of Controller - Live @ 80s Prom, 5/22/10

Track Listing:

Mr. Mister - Broken Wings
Miami Sound Machine - Bad Boy
Paula Abdul - Straight Up
Billy Squier - My Kinda Lover
Tina Turner - What’s Love Got to Do With It
Men Without Hats - Safety Dance
Tears For Fears - Shout
Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days
Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian
Laura Branigan - Self Control
Level 42 - Something about You
Eric Carmen - Hungry Eyes
New Kids On The Block - You Got It
Simple Minds - Don’t You (Forget About Me)
Dan Hartman - I Can Dream About You
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
David Bowie - Let’s Dance
Michael Jackson - Rock With You
Madonna - Lucky Star
Michael Jackson - Rock With You
Don Henley - All She Wants To Do Is Dance
Animotion - Obsession
New Order - True Faith
Billy Ocean - Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car
Human League - Don’t You Want Me
Huey Lewis & the News - The Power of Love
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Debarge - Rhythm Of The Night
Phil Collins - Sussudio
Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want to Have Fun
New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
Erasure - Chains Of Love
Journey - Don’t Stop Believin’
Belinda Carlisle - Heaven is A Place on Earth
Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
Nena - 99 Luft Balloons
Billy Ocean - Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car
Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
A-Ha - Take on Me
Kenny Loggins - Footloose
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Right Round
Spandau Ballet - True
Billy Idol - Mony Mony
The Cure - Just Like Heaven
A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran (So Far Away)
Billy Idol - White Wedding
The Beastie Boys - No Sleep Till Brooklyn

Some wicked beats from Eliot Lipp, from a live set last year. I first heard Mr. Lipp on the overhead at the Hollywood Amoeba Records, and apparently he’s from up here in Tacoma originally. My boy!

Eliot Lipp - Live from the Beat Bunker

Track Listing:

Nosaj Thing - Heart Entire (Eliot Lipp remix)
Mux Mool - Lost & Found (Eliot Lipp remix)
Eliot Lipp - Sentinel
Eliot Lipp - Restrictor
Eliot Lipp - Beamrider
Jasia 10 - Mindblowin’
Hudson Mowhawk - Overnight
The Alchemist - Calmly Smoke (instrumental)
J Todd - Luxxxurious
Alex B & Big Gigantic - Sneakers
Dam Funk - Sidewayz
Black Milk - Bounce
Prodigy - Cold World
Michna - Believe in It (Eliot Lipp remix)

This mix comes from a group I’ve started to see pop up a lot this year, beginning in the trusty Aeroplane monthly mixes. Villa have been putting out very solid remix productions, and their disco/house synths are very groovy. Belgians apparently have a fine taste for the house music.

Lots of good stuff up on their soundcloud page, too…

Villa - Dance Mix, March 2010

Track Listing:

Emperor Machine - Monkey overbite
Pop on Acid & Jeff Solo - Crowded Disco
Daniel Wang - Not Feeling It
Ashford & Simpson - Found a Cure
Debbie Jacobs - Hot Hot
Bebu Silvetti - Spring Rain
Kink - Blueprint
Azari & III - Reckless (with your Love) instrumental
Slice & Soda - Year of the Dragon (Villa remix)
JXL - Heart of Darkness
Friendly Fires - On Board (Joakim remix)
Sygaire - Always for the Breaks
Serge Santiago - Atto d’Amore
The Golden Filter - Thunderbird (Villa Dub remix)
Gorillaz - Stylo (Alex Metric remix)

This one starts with more soulful and old school house, evolves into some of the new sounds from Hot City and Julio Bashmore that I’ve been enjoying lately.

I hope there weren’t dibs called on Breakfast. “You lookin’ mighty tasty…”

Out of Controller Detroitish Mix, 05/01/10

Track Listing:

Underground Resistance - Transition (G-Qas remix)
Ulysses - I’m Leavin’ You
Consistent - Instant
Akufen - Jeep Sex
Hot City - If That’s How I Feel
Sekta - Peterpan feat. Spoek Mathambo (Julio Bashmore remix)
Roska - Hey Cutie
Le Le - Breakfast
Kid Kaio & Lucky Charms - This Sound Is (Homework remix)
Miike Snow - Silvia (Sinden remix)

The Essential Mix on Radio 1 had its 500th act last Saturday, with over 900 Saturdays and 900 sweet dance music sessions — and none other than Aeroplane were selected to man the decks.

The occasion got me digging back through my pile of old EM’s, and this one by Massive Attack is the oldest one I have. Reminded me of the era of 1990s hip hop that made me fall in love with the genre. Funky breaks and good flows. Why can’t hip hop be like this anymore… Anyhoo, enjoy.

Massive Attack - Essential Mix, 12/21/94

No track listing — it’s 15 years old! (Two hours long — big download)

Something a bit different this week — one of FACT magazine’s excellent podcasts from back in January. They have so many mixes from so many great artists that it is hard to keep, and Deadboy was new to me. Have since been seeing his name pop up around the blogosphere.

Flip flops around between house and two-step beats, pretty mellow. Good stuff.

Deadboy - FACT mix 112

Track Listing:

1. Three Chairs – No Drum Machine Pt.2
2. Deadboy – Brock Lee Riddim
3. Deadboy – Heartbreaker
4. Theo Parrish – Soul Control
5. Martyn – For Lost Relatives
6. Julio Bashmore – Footsteppin
7. Scott Garcia – It’s a London Thing
8. Deadboy – Lingua
9. El-B – Assassin
10. Cassie – Official Girl
11. Smokin’ Beats – Dreams
12. Joy Orbison – J.Doe
13. D-Malice – My Joy refix
14. Deadboy – U Cheated
15. Burgaboy – You and Me
16. Deadboy – If U Want Me