Disco and synthpop for the last mix of 2020. Music for the New Years Eve
party in my head.
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- Patrick Cowley / Sea Hunt 00:00
- Daniel Wang / Berlin Sunrise (Die Nacht) 04:02
- Susumu Yokota / Re: Disco 09:31
- Gino Soccio / Remember (again again INST) 14:05
- Giorgio / I Wanna Rock You 15:40
- Polygamy Boys ft. Lindsay-J / Mystic Eyes 19:42
- Synths Versus Me / Goodbye Horses 25:07
- Oppenheimer Analysis / The Devil's Dancers 29:13
- The Conservatives / Loneliness 31:52
- Legowelt / Hazy City Nights 35:41
- Orgue Electronique / Panic At Charles De Gaule 39:40
- Unit 4 / Bodydub (Freak Electrique Acid Dub Remix) 43:22
- Freak Electrique / P.H.A.S.E.R. 49:13
- Twilight Ritual / Webbmen (Indecs Edit) 58:23
This mix is primarily inspired by the 2004 CBS Top 100
countdown. Track 4 Remember by Gino Soccio (presented here edited
and slowed-down), track 9 Loneliness by The Conservatives, track
12 Bodydub (Freak Electrique Mix) by Unit 4, track 13
P.H.A.S.E.R. by Freak Electrique, and track 14 Webbmen by
Twilight Ritual were all featured in that countdown. The CBS countdowns
always happened right around December 25th, but for some reason I
strongly associate them with New Years. The 2004 countdown in particular
is important to me, as it was the first time I had heard a lot of
Italo Disco. The CBS (and I-F's Mixed Up In The Hague)
seem to have had a wide-ranging impact, exposing a lot of folks like me
to Italo.
There are a few outliers in this selection though, some not-quite-disco
music. Synths Versus Me's very nice cover of the famous Goodbye Horses
by Q. Lazzarus is one, I believe I first heard that at one of the
Serious Moonlight parties. The Devil's Dancers by Oppenheimer Analysis
is another, old Minimal Wave reissued by Minimal Wave Records.
Both big tracks, hits that I've been meaning to play for a while now.
But the biggest track by far is Freak Electrique's P.H.A.S.E.R.
(PHoton Amplified by Stimulated Emission of Radiation), released 2003
on Viewlexx. I've been waiting a decade or more to play it,
waiting for an appropriate New Years Eve set. It was worth the wait.
I skipped the first third of the song here, the wonderful ambient portion,
and so I strongly recommend listening to the full (16 minute) track
on Youtube, kindly made available there by Viewlexx. It never fails to
make me move.
And that's MTT 201; that's the end of 2020. Thanks for listening; please
pardon some mushy mixing in this hour. I will say, in closing, there's
one song notably missing from this selection: Mr. Flagio's
Take A Chance. I'd have played it but unfortunately I don't have
a copy. Give it a listen on youtube, call it a bonus track.
I have no idea what to play next week; that's a 2021 problem, and I'm
still in 2020 while writing this. I'll be back with another upload on
Thursday though.
MTT 196 / How Much To Take, How Much To Give
Posted 2020-11-26. Permalink. Tagged ambient, audio download, disco, dj mix, downtempo, electro, idm, mixcloud, movement through thought, music.
Relatively mellow beats for this last Thursday of November. Disco, electro,
IDM. Floating in space at a tempo of about 110 BPM.
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- Danny Scrilla / Mechanical Fruit 00:00
- Zwart Licht Kommando / Waiting For You 01:53
- DJ R21 / Wired 05:58
- Mas 2008 / Fragile 09:10
- Kan3da / Romanticist 12:04
- XY0815 / The Square Of Any Planet 16:17
- Secret Frequency Crew / Neon Bridge 20:01
- Dune / Not Blue 24:23
- Metamatics / Dope For The Robot 27:27
- Jega / The Girl Who Fell To Earth 31:14
- The Sentinel & Miss Memory / R=V/I 34:37
- Aardvarck / Nozum (Attica Blues RMX) 37:40
- Ben Businovski / Song For A Cybernetic Amazon 42:33
- Phase For Stereo / Kensington Runestone (Cache Hauptland Remix) 45:11
- Raiders Of The Lost Arp / Bridge 48:23
- The Parallax Corporation / (Searching For A) Cybernetic Lover 51:27
- Trisomie 21 / Take The Shock Away 55:37
- Legowelt / Warm Technology Cottage 60:14
Dope For The Robot is played here from the original Ep.02
on Clear records. I've linked to a re-release compilation album that
contains the song in the tracklist above. Metamatics are on my mind
because they just put out a new album of old 96-98 material called
Vogue Casio 96 over on their bandcamp. I've listened through
Vogue Casio once and it seems very good, so I'll probably be playing
some cuts from it on this program over the next few months.
The Traffic II compilation on Combination Records is a
record I turn to whenever I'm out of ideas. The idea it presented
to me this time is Aardvarck's Nozum (as remixed by
Attica Blues). It appears that Nozum was first released
as an EP on Delsin records in 2001; that's one I'll
have to pick up if I ever see it used.
Trisomie 21's Take The Shock Away is from their 1989 LP
Plays The Pictures. It's been a favorite of mine for a long
time, a song I like to end sets with. The whole LP is full of short
odd ambient sketches, with Take The Shock Away being the one outlier.
I've played it a lot down at Ground Kontrol Arcade in Portland over
the years, and I'm happy to see that Trisomie 21 have a digital version
for sale on their website.
That's November done. This show was produced, and these show notes were
written, in a slightly bigger hurry than normal. I hope nobody minds
too much. I'll be back next week with something faster, as is my habit.
(And be on the lookout for the annual tracker mod mix coming in three
or four weeks).
Techno, house, and disco for a change of pace. A mishmash of Dutch, Detroit,
whatever I had laying around.
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This post was updated on 2020/10/13.
- Hadamard / Earth Is An Oasis 00:00
- Raiders Of The Lost Arp / Arrival 01:50
- Legowelt / The Soul Of A City 05:08
- Coil / The Snow 09:57
- $tinkworx / Calimari 12:54
- D.I.E. / Dutch Friends 17:08
- Luke Hess / There Is Hope 20:35
- Omar-S / Flying Blind 23:47
- Transparent Sound & Scape One & Karoshi / Solid Grooves 28:11
- Will Hofbauer / Idris 31:46
- Zwart Licht Kommando / The Other One 36:32
- Orgue Electronique / Panic At Charles De Gaulle 40:15
- Juan Atkins / I Love You 42:53
- Men Of Science / Acid Dawn 47:01
- Skatebård / June Nights South Of Siena 50:17
- Galaxy Toobin' / The Day Of The Duel Is Approaching 55:05
Not too much to say about this one. I think the only new(ish) track here
is the bouncy Idris by Will Hofbauer from 2018's NV017 on
Neo Violence. The rest of this mix is old favorites.
Legowelt's Soul Of A City, The Snow by Coil,
The Day Of The Duel Is Approaching by Galaxy Toobin', to name a few.
Dutch Friends by D.I.E. (Detroit In Effect) is what
probably inspired this mix. I love that track, and I love its video,
but only just recently picked up a digital copy of it on Clone WCS MAP 003.
I've never seen any of the original M.A.P. vinyl in record stores in Portland,
not sure why.
And that's what I've got this week. I'll be back on Thursday the 30th
(in my timezone, anyway) to play something chill.
Shoutout to the Men Of Science.