Finn Johannsen – Stop Your Good Time Dancing
Posted: August 18th, 2004 | Author: Finn | Filed under: Mixes | Tags: Finn Johannsen, Mix | No Comments »The sad truth about going out in the 80s in a small coastal town: Even if you read all the right magazines, had knowledgeable and smilarly enthusiastic friends, and kept on digging all the time. It just did not mean that you could actually dance in a club to what you just discovered. That does not mean the DJs were bad, but a lot of them were a bit lazy. If a sequence of songs worked, it was repeated for quite a while. And music was played in topical blocks. You had an italo disco round, then maybe a goth round, new wave, 2 tone, synthpop. If you came in and you just missed your preference you had to wait. Thankfully a lot of music at the time was good and interesting enough to make that bearable. But there was so much incredible music coming out, it was just frustrating that you could only hear a fraction of it in the clubs you had most frequent access to. I must admit I compensated that for many years, playing as much different music on the same occasion as I could, and often it did not make much sense. In any case a lot of mixes I did were some kind of ideal party that rarely happened, for a particular style of music or several at once. This mix is a good example, even if at the time I recorded it my situation in those aspects had already changed quite a bit. But it seems I could still remember…
Pere Ubu – The Modern Dance
The Flying Lizards – Her Story
Hot Gossip – Geisha Boys And Temple Girls
Telex – Raised By Snakes
The Bollock Brothers – The President And The Showgirl
New Order – The Perfect Kiss
Strawberry Switchblade – Since Yesterday
Holger Czukay/Jah Wobble/Jaki Liebezeit – How Much Are They?
The Fun Boy Three – Life In General
Visage – Anvil (Night Club School)
The Residents – Diskomo
The Stickmen – Do Get Down
Devo – Freedom Of Choice
Yello – Base For Alec
Human League – The Sound Of The Crowd
Heaven 17 – (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
Matia Bazar – Elettrochoc
Cabaret Voltaire – Nag Nag Nag
Tuxedomoon – No Tears
Suicide – Dream Baby Dream
John Cale – I Keep A Close Watch
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