More Smoke Repost

Repost: My friend Phil and I would often go to concerts in the Bay Area. We have similar tastes in some music. We disagreed on a few things, but usually we were pretty much on the same wave length. Although he would rather listen to old Velvet Underground or Brian Eno rather than listen to new stuff if he had the choice, he was open to new music every now and again. When we drove to concerts, many times I would drive and since I had a CD player in my car, I would make a CD that had songs that I figured he would like if he heard them. Anyway one day I had tickets to see a band that he did not know (My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult). We had a drive from San Jose to the I-Beam in San Francisco and I put together this pick to play on the drive. A few bands he knew (but not these songs) and some he didn't know. I ended up naming it More Smoke, because the I-Beam show had so much smoke that you could barely see the band. I won't even talk about drunken-ness and Back Seat Betty's, but that happened.

More Smoke

01 Red Zone - News From The Red Zone

02 Frank Zappa - Variations On The Carlos Santana Secret Chord Progression

04 The Sisters Of Mercy - Emma

05 Pop -O- Pies - Fascists Eat Donuts

06 Nina Hagen - Hare Krishna

09 Devo - Mongoloid

10 Yoko Ono - Why

11 Quiet Sun - Mummy Was An Asteroid, Daddy Was A Small Non-Stick Kitchen Utensil

12 Wall Of Voodoo - Dance You Fuckers

13 My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Kooler Than Jesus

14 Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name Of

Mixmag 25 Years 2 Repost

This is the repost of the second half of the Mixmag pick of 25 years of dance club hits and mixes. It'[s their pick and I just found all the mixes and compiled them for my use. All in BPM order per disc. Now that it's a playlist you can reorder it as one and I did give you a playlist as separate discs and as one. Just add to yesterday's post and it's all there. It was never a mainstream magazine, but one known to DJ's and clubbers. Now the mag doesn't exist except online. Use as your guide to a nice set of classic mixes. 

Mixmag 25 Years Disc 2 

13 Frankie Knuckles featuring Jamie Principle - Your Love (12 inch)

14 Orbital - Chime

15 Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You

16 Underworld - Rez

17 Mylo - Drop The Pressure

18 Age Of Love - Age Of Love (Jam & Spoon Watch Out For Stella)

19 Laurent Garnier - The Man With The Red Face

20 Josh Wink - Higher State Of Consciousness

21 Energy 52 - Cafe Del Mar '98 (Original Three N' One Mix)

22 The Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up

23 Paul Van Dyk - For An Angel

24 System F - Out Of The Blue (Original 12'' Version)

25 Tony De Vit - The Dawn (Paul Janes Remix)

Mixmag 25 Years 1 Repost

Repost: Mixmag was a magazine for dance music and clubbing. Unless you are completely in to that or are a club DJ you probably didn't subscribe. Now they are online only. They put out yearly lists and reviews of club songs and mixes. Sometime in their history they put out a list of 25 years of mixes. I collected them all and made two CD's worth of music. So kind of my pick, but really theirs. They are each in order of BPM, so you could use two discs to mix the whole thing. Today I post the first disc, and tomorrow the second. Great for a dance club set.

Mixmag 25 Years Disc 1

01 Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy

02 Felix Da Housecat with Miss Kittin - Silver Screen Shower Scene

03 Daft Punk - Around The World

04 Faithless - Insomnia (Monster Mix Edit)

05 Tori Amos - Professional Widow (Armand's Star Trunk Funkin' Mix)

06 Groove Armada - Superstylin'

07 New Order - Blue Monday

08 Layo & Bushwacka - Love Story (Vs Finally)

09 Liquid - Sweet Harmony

10 Motorcycle - As The Rush Comes (Sweeping Strings Remix)

11 Sasha - Xpander

12 Underworld - Born Slippy Nuxx

New Beat

New Beat crawled out of the late 80s at a tempo that dared you to dance to it anyway. There is always a sense with this music that the drop is coming, just not yet. Maybe later. The acid squelches and industrial edges in this pick lean into that tension, the kind that never fully resolves. It shares DNA with house, but the relationship is complicated in ways that are hard to explain without just playing the record. But here it is part of my house cleaning.

New Beat

01 Code 61 - Drop The Deal

02 Amnesia - Hysteria

03 Dirty Harry - D-Bop

04 Rhythm Device - Acid Rock

05 Explorers Of The Nile - We Are All Egyptians

06 L&O - Even Now

07 Acts Of Madmen - The Dream

08 Confetti's - Sound of C...

09 Taste of Sugar - Hmm Hmm

10 Tribe 22 - Aciiiiiiied (12' Version)

11 Lords Of Acid - I Sit On Acid

12 Tragic Error - Tanzen

13 Langsam - Straks (Two Years Behind)

14 A Split Second - Flesh (The Original Mix)

15 Erotic Dissidents - Move Your Ass & Feel the Beat

16 The Concrete Beat - I Want You!

Workout Class Physique

Another one from the workout class files. These were made years ago for a friend who ran a fitness center. She was not worried about offending anyone. Brutally honest, ran a tight class, and apparently fine with whatever this pick turned into. It starts like a normal workout and slowly goes sideways. By the time Dean Martin shows up you have completely lost the plot. The energy is right though. Hard to argue with the tempo when your heart rate is already up. Check out the other workout class picks if you need more. 

Workout Class Physique

01 Touch And Go - Would You...

02 The B-52's - Work That Skirt

03 Wreckx-N-Effect - Rump Shaker

04 Ministry - Work For Love (Sex Slave Edit)

05 Divinyls - I Touch Myself

06 KC And The Sunshine Band - (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty

07 AC-DC - Touch Too Much

08 Kylie Minogue Vs New Order - Can't Get Blue Monday Out Of My Head

09 Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah!)

10 Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch

11 Peaches And Herb - Shake Your Groove Thing

12 MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This

13 Tubes - Don't Touch Me There

14 Hugh Cornwell - Touch Touch

15 Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right

16 Fabulous Poodles - Bionic Man

17 Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It

18 Mariah Carey - Touch My Body

19 Nina Sky featuring Jabba - Move Ya Body

20 Dean Martin - Hey Good Looking

mzG

The title is three letters because that is how these get named, as usual. Hit the keyboard, see what comes up. Leftover tracks needed a home and enough of them piled up to justify a post. At least one track was a suggestion by one of you for another post. Finally got on here. The Three Letter Mixtape series always gets a spiral of some sort on the cover, that part is easy. What I actually spent time on this week was trying to find a decent spirograph video, failing, trying to make one with AI, and failing again. Completely unrelated. My pick for a set that came together cleaner than the artwork research did.

mzG

01 Marshall Jefferson - Ride The Rhythm (Remix)

02 Kraftwerk - The Mix Medley (Razormaid Mix)

03 Sole Patrol - Step On It

04 DJ Funk - Work That Body

05 Debbie Gibson - Electric Youth (Deep House Mix)

06 DJ Polinate - Ready, Fire, Aim

07 Paula Abdul - Cold Hearted (House Mix)

08 2 Men a Drum Machine & a Trumpet - Tired of Getting Pushed Around (Mayhem Rhythm Remix)

09 Jaxine - Jack Me Free (Less Summer Mix)

10 Pink Coffee - Another Brick in the Wall

11 Coldcut with Yazz & the Plastic Population - Doctorin' the House

12 House Engineers - Hit the House

13 Rhythim Is Rhythim - It Is What It Is

Whoesque

Everyone knows the textbook formula for chasing that classic Mod violence. Crank the amplifiers until the tubes melt, swing your arm like a windmill, and let the rhythm section play like they are trying to break through a brick wall. But if you are looking to dig past the mid-sixties blueprint and find something that actually mirrors the massive, synth-driven, heavy-bellied swagger of a track like Who Are You, you are going to be looking for a very long time. Nobody else really possesses the structural engineering required to balance that kind of high-concept arena theatricality with raw, street-level dirt without the whole thing collapsing into a pretentious mess. This particular pick does not bother trying to clone the impossible, choosing instead to tear through the entire genetic family tree of bands who took those chaotic British cues and ran them straight into the red. It is a loud, incredibly arrogant sequence of tracks that holds its ground perfectly, even if it leaves you hunting for a ghost that nobody else could ever actually capture. If you want to trace how these thematic sonic experiments usually turn out when people try to borrow a legendary blueprint, you can check out the previous Zeppelinesque entry to see the path, but don't expect anyone on this list to suddenly pull a synthesizer out of their back pocket.

Whoesque

01 The Attack - Any More Than I Do

02 Cheap Trick - He's A Whore

03 Spacehog - In The Meantime

04 Buzzcocks - Harmony in My Head

05 Thunderclap Newman - Something in the Air

06 The Pretty Things - Don't Bring Me Down

07 Small Faces - Tin Soldier

08 The Birds - You're On My Mind

09 Raspberries - I Don't Know What I Want

10 The Sorrows - Take a Heart

11 Les Fleur De Lys - Mud In Your Eye

12 Mott The Hoople - Violence

13 The Poets - That's The Way It's Got To Be

14 The Creation - Making Time

15 Alarm - Sixty Eight Guns

16 The Action - I'll Keep Holding On (Original 1966 7 Mono Single Version)

17 Eyes - When The Night Falls

18 The Move - Brontosaurus

19 The Jam - Standards

20 Faces - Pool Hall Richard

21 Nazz - Open My Eyes

22 The Clash - 1977