Spent about 16 hours painting the apartment this weekend, and I’m beat… Driving back and forth across Lake Washington, these two popped up sequentially in the shuffle and it felt post-worthy. Love this stuff — I was calling it ‘disco punk’ earlier, but seems like ‘nu disco’ has seemed to stick.
Disco:
The Fresh Band - Come Back Lover
Nu-Disco:
Curses! - The Deep End (Holy Ghost! remix)
Got a number of podcast potential playlists swimming through my head, but no time for now. Sigh. A little longer.
Now that I can time warp old tracks that my software couldn’t quite handle before, I have been determined to explore some of the not-quite-so EDM music that I have been collecting and filing away in favor of the latest electro remix of the week. It’s liberating to feel like I can mix anything now, so things are likely to get pretty eclectic for a minute while I venture down some different directions.
This disco/house/funk session spans more than three decades of groovy vibes, and I wanted to weave the classic dance tracks together with the modern stuff to see how not far things have come over the years.
On a side note, why doesn’t disco get more respect? It’s brilliant. As a registered house head, I always had reverence for my ancestors, but it wasn’t until I got the album A Night at the Playboy Mansion by Dimitri from Paris back in college that it really clicked for me. All the things people profess to not like about disco are precisely why it’s so great…
Maximum respect to Disco Delicious btw, where I got pretty much all of the smooth house jams below. One of the most reliably solid music blogs if house is your bag.
Track Listing:
Chic - Hangin’ 1982
Sumy - Funkin’ in Your Mind 1982
David Rubato - Circuit (Siriusmo remix) 2009
Alicia Keys - No One (Pierce remix) 2008
Pierce - Good Friends 2008
Deodato - Keep on Movin’ 1982
Donna Summer - Bad Girls 1979
Chateau Flight - Prism 2000
Con Funk Shun - Fun 1977
Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood (12″ version) 1981
Holy Ghost! - Hold On (Mock & Toof remix) 2008
The Rapture - Sister Savior (DFA dub) 2004
[Scenario Rock - Skitzo Dancer (Justice remix), a cappella]
Zongamin - Painless 2003
Cansei De Ser Sexy - Let’s Make Love and Listen Death from Above 2006
Jamiroquai - Feel So Good 2001
Sebastien Tellier - Kilometer (A-Trak Main mix) 2009
Goddamn, everything these guys get their hands on is pure gold. Love love love them. And their original stuff is just as hot. I’m tempted to do a fanboy mix of all Twelves tracks… I hope someone I know went to their recent LA show.
The only problem for blogland is that they know they’re awesome, and usually only toss 128 scraps our way. These are actually decent quality though. Rock and roll.
Erlend Oye - Sudden Rush (The Twelves remix)
Radiohead - Reckoner (The Twelves remix)
Zeitgeist - Humanitarianism (The Twelves remix)
The Twelves - Works for Me
Another year, another killer Five-Headed Birthday. Brian came up clutch and scored a sweet venue in Hollywood, perfect size and great layout. SnakPak was in full effect up on the VIP balcony, with Wonderwood and me raining down beats and B$ on the visuals. Great fun and great to see all the LA homies.
Was pretty pleased with the xponent and confirmed my feeling of reaching a new level on the digital mixing capabilities. Hardly even touched the jog wheels actually, and I could have totally used two more decks. So I think an Ableton adventure is indeed in my future. But, like any epic Out of Controller set, I didn’t record a second of it. Will have to be carried on in the oral tradition. Here is the playlist though.
Warmup:
Beck - Ghettochip Malfunction (Hell Yes) (8bit remix)
Vyle - Possible
Montell Jordan - This is How We Do It
Cansei De Ser Sexy - Music Is My Hot Hot Sex
Grand Popo Football Club - Men Are Not Nice Guys
Quannum feat. Lyrics Born & The Poet of Rhythm - I Changed My Mind
(Stereo MC’s remix)
MGMT - Electric Feel (Aeroplane remix)
Groove Armada - Groove Is On
Aerosmith & Run-DMC - Walk This Way
Chromeo - You’re So Gangsta
The Cardigans - Erase/Rewind (Kleerup remix)
Justin Timberlake - My Love (DFA mix)
Round 2:
The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter (Streetlab mix)
Golden Bug - Bisco
Chromeo - Tenderoni
Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 (OoC club edit)
DJ DStar - Aerodynamic
[Daft Punk & Adam Freeland - AerOBAMA a cappella]
Madonna - My Baltimore Angel (Excelarator revisited mix)
Private - We’ve Got Some Breaking up to do (Zebo club edit)
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams VS. Yazoo - Situation (12″ Mix)
The Twelves - Works For Me
Soulwax - NY Lipps
Christopher Just - Popper (Shinichi Osawa distortion disco edit)
[Lipps Inc. - Funky Town a cappella]
Dizzee Rascal feat. Calvin Harris & Chrome - Dance Wiv Me (Shazam remix)
Kaiser Chiefs - Never Miss A Beat (Cut Copy remix)
Kap10kurt & Original Hamster - Burning Down The Haus
Cutting Crew - (I Just) Died in Your Arms Tonight (OoC club edit)
Round 3:
The Crystal Method - Busy Child VS. The Clash - Rock the Casbah
Calvin Harris - Vegas
Meterhead feat. Emma Lucia - Blue Monday
Matt & Kim - No More Long Years (Radioclit remix)
Heart - Barracuda (Fuse & Hiratzka remix)
Wang Chung - Everybody Have Fun Tonight
Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want to Have Fun (OoC club edit)
MGMT - Kids (Pet Shop Boys synthpop mix)
Treasure Fingers - Cross The Dancefloor (Lifelike remix)
Manfred Mann - Blinded By The Light (DJ Donna Summer mix)
MSTRKRFT feat. NORE - Bounce (A-Trak remix)
Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf
[Justice - Phantom Pt. II a cappella]
The Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control (Tronik Youth mix)
Phonat - Learn To Recycle (4 To The Floor mix)
The Rapture - House Of Jealous Lovers (Tenderlions remix)
Mystery Jets - Half In Love With Elizabeth (Delorean remix)
I hope the silly edits pop in your iTunes shuffle later and bring back memories of the awesome evening!
I hope everyone is enjoying the feats of strength and bearing of grievances this morning…
I grew up being read bible stories, so I am familiar with the names and characters. I think our picture bible was set in 1975 America — a bunch of white guys with beards and sandals. Anyway, I recall Shadrak, Mishak and Abednigo from the stories, so “Shadrak, Mishak and a bad negro” was particularly amusing.
Smooth spoken word over groovy new wave. Merry xmas, ya’ll.
Gary Numan vs. Jemini - Jesus was a B-Boy (Ben Mono’s Holy Rerub)
Another pre-planned playlist that was great on the ipod but frustrating to implement on the decks, and I lately I’ve been hell-bent on learning new Torq bells and whistles like effect snapshots. So when my head was sufficiently sore it finally occurred to me to get back to basics with some of the good ol’ indie vibes that have been neglected as of late in favor of bangers.
Key word here: smooth. I had separated the indie genus into ‘dance indie’ and ’synth indie’ species, so I tried to weave those together. I also had a theory brewing that indie beats would blend well with french house, so I tossed in a couple tracks to test. Theory proved!
Track Listing:
Miami Horror - Make You Mine
Cut Copy - Hearts On Fire (Polygon Palace Remix)
Klaxons - As Above, So Below (Justice Remix)
The Rapture - First Gear
Chromeo - Tenderoni
Askine - Black Lips
Death From Above 1979 - Romantic Rights (Girls Are Short Remix)
The Virgins - Rich Girls (Tyler Fedchuk’s 1/2ALIVE easy disco edit)
Wonky Pop AllStars - Digital Love (Daft Punk cover)
The Young Punx & Super Mal - Bigger Than Fire
Mylo - Otto’s Journey
Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream
Andre 3000 ain’t got shit on a PacNW winter. It isn’t technically even winter yet, but has been pretty wintery for this SoCal transplant. I saw the snowflake icon on my dashboard for the first time (looks like pac-man above) and scraped snow off my car for the first time.
I didn’t think I needed to clear off the hood or roof because it would just blow off when I was driving. This was correct, but the handiness wore off quick when I got on the freeway and all the snow made a mini-blizzard on my windshield. Funny to write here, but was a bit panic-inducing for a minute. Good thing everyone drives 55 on the freeway up here. (not really)
<cheesy transition>Good thing I have some red-hot house music to keep me going!</cheesy transition> Not much to say about 4 to the Floor or Pierce since they are new to me, other than they rock. Hard. And I’m lazy.
Phonat - Learn to Recycle (4 to the Floor remix)
Pierce - Love Conga
Time to throw another log on the fire.
Been getting caught up on blog haus now that all the school crap is done, and here are a few tastey grooves to expedite your weekend. First up, a breezy jam by Vyle, produced by wunderkind, Shazam. A special shout-out to my homies in San Diego on this one, makes me think pool party all the way. Maybe just wishful thinking since Seattle will have a HIGH of 36 tomorrow…
Not to preach to the choir, but how blowing up is Little Boots?!? As much as I dug Stuck on Repeat, I didn’t pay as much attention to Meddle once everyone and their mother started posting remixes. That is, until Treasure Fingers worked his magic. I think watching several videos of her singing in various living rooms won me over — Little Boots is the girl next door of house music.
Aww yeah. JBL just came out with their new Eon model, so I picked up these 15P-1’s for like half price since Guitar Center is looking make room for the new ones. Been looking to add a PA and complete the mobile setup, and these bad boys are both more powerful and still in my price range. One more gig to recoup for these, then it’s subwoofer time. Then look out.
Note the beer for context. That is a tallboy, my friends — dwarfed by the 15″ers. Can’t wait to play the new-ish (I’ve been busy) Tiga leak on them.
This final quarter of classes is over next week, which means final exams and research projects are upon me. This also means that I have been spending time on a new podcast instead, naturally.
Been digging hard on this remix by Klumpfisk lately, which kind of set the vibe for the mix. Give it about a minute of build and then it blows the fuck up.
Studio - West Side (Klumpfisk remix)
oh ah oh, oh oh, ah ah ah oh, oh ah, ah ah oh oh oh, oh ah ah ah oh….