I played a set at this open air party on the hottest summer day in Berlin that year, in a wooden shack without ventilation. It was hardcore. But for the circumstances, quite a good set!
Second part of the remix service special.
Skatt – Walk The Night (Disconet)
September – The Lover In Me (Razormaid)
Sharon Brown – I Specialize In Love (Disconet)
Nathalie – My Love Won’t Let You Down (Razormaid)
Hazell Dean – They Say It’s Gonna Rain (Razormaid)
Brenda Taylor – My Heart’s Not In It (Disconet)
Janet Jackson – When I Think Of You (Disconet)
Stephanie Mills – Pilot Error (Hot Tracks)
Donna Garraffi – I’ve Got You Covered (Disconet)
Regina – Baby Love (Disconet)
Skyy – Show Me The Way (Disconet)
B. B. Band – All Night Long (Disconet)
Chas Jankel – Glad To Know You (Disconet)
The Human League – Fascination (Hot Tracks)
The B-52’s – Girl From Ipanema Goes To Greenland (Hot Tracks)
Tanz Waffen – Subversion (Razormaid)
David Bowie – Let’s Dance (Disconet)
Kid Creole – Caroline Was A Drop-Out (Razormaid)
Telex – Raised By Snakes (Razormaid)
New Order – Bizarre Love Triangle (Hot Tracks)
Depeche Mode – Strangelove (Razormaid)
Vivien Vee – Blue Disease (Razormaid)
Section 25 – Looking From A Hilltop (Razormaid)
Tantra – A Place Called Tarot (Disconet)
The Love Unlimited Orchestra – Welcome Aboard (Hot Tracks)
Golem was a really nice basement club in Hamburg, which sadly closed down.
Recorded live at Woodwork, Golem, Hamburg, March 27, 2015.
Pic by Katja Ruge
Short mix with Japanese house tracks for 10Trax
Kouji Nagahashi – 2 (Last Dance Over Me)
Bocca Grande – Adlibitum
Shinichi Atobe – Butterfly Effect
Soichi Terada – Alright
Takuya Matsumoto – Jump Rope Music
Nokko – I Will Catch U
Nami Shimada & Soichi Terada – Sunshower
Kyoko Koizumi – Drive (Extended Version)
Kyoko Koizumi – Drive (Gota Re-Mix)
Yukihiro Fukutomi – A New Morning
Joanna Law – Love Is Not Enough (Mix D’Ambience)
Dusty Springfield – Nothing Has Been Proved (Dance Mix)
Dusty Springfield – Nothing Has Been Proved (Instrumental Version) 82
Carlene Davis – Dial My Number (Morales Club Mix)
Nikki – Summer Breeze (Club Mix)
Adeva – Beautiful Love (Instru-Mental)
Adeva – Beautiful Love (Classic Club Mix)
Carlton – Love And Pain (Drum & Bass Mix)
Luther Vandross – The Rush (Morales 12″ Mix)
The Cover Girls – Wishing On A Star (12“ Mix)
The Chimes – Stronger Together (Red Zone Mix)
Pet Shop Boys – How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously? (Mo Mo Remix)
The Pasadenas – Reeling (Daytime Dance Mix)
Soul Family Sensation – I Don’t Even Know If I Should Call You Marshall Jefferson (Piano)
Soul Family Sensation – I Don’t Even Know If I Should Call You Marshall Jefferson (Symphony)
Azizi – Don’t Say That It’s Over (The Classic Club Version)
Banderas – This Is Your Life (Less Stress Mix)
Mica Paris – Contribution (Peace Out Mix)
Drizabone – Brightest Star (David Morales Classic Club Mix)
Victoria Wilson-James – Through (Classic Club Mix)
The Family Stand – Ghetto Heaven (Remix)
Saint Etienne – Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Kenlou B-Boy Mix)
Loose Ends – Hangin’ On A String (Frankie Knuckles Club Mix)
The Sounds Of Blackness – Optimistic (12″ Never Say Die Mix)
Swing Out Sister – Notgonnachange (Classic Club Mix)
Alexander O’Neal – All True Man (Classic Club Mix)
Richard Rogers – Can’t Stop Loving You (Morales Sleaze Mix)
Frankie Knuckles – It’s Hard Sometime (D.M Red Zone)
Frankie Knuckles – It’s Hard Sometime (F.K. Classic Club Mix)
Rufus & Chaka Khan – Ain’t Nobody (Hallucinogenic Version)
These mixes are an admittedly self-indulgent excursion that is a very personal sentimental journey. Going back, way back, back into time etc. A time where I was over twenty years younger, the early 90’s. The music you are about to hear is what we listened to at friends’ places before hitting the club. Every weekend we were dead certain that tonight will be THE night, even better than THE night the weekend before. We were young, handsome, carefree and everything that mattered was imminent. We knew there were hours of dancing to the most wonderful music lying ahead, and we actually could not really wait. In those days the club night began timely, and it had an end. We did not even think of being fashionably late, because there could have been so much we could have missed out on. But still, there was some time left. So beers open, cigs lit, talks, laughter, scheduling phone calls, dressing up and of course, the music. The music had to be perfect. But the music also had to be different to what we would dance to later on. We are not talking about music that should not distract, quite the opposite. It should be involving, fuelling our anticipation, but not exhausting it. Of course sometimes were were out buying the latest records earlier on, and we were playing them to each other. But sooner or later the dominant sound of getting ready was mellow, slick, lush, warm, elegant, fluid, flowing, smooth, soothing, emotional, DEEP.
It was the sound pioneered by in Chicago by artists like Larry Heard and Marshall Jefferson and many others, then developed further in New York by artists like Wayne Gardiner, Bobby Konders, the Burrell Brothers and also many others. Do not mistake their music as being designed for home listening purposes. The DJs would use them, too. As a gentle introduction, or as a moment of regeneration during peak time, or as the best possible way to ease the crowd out again in the early morning, so that not a single glorious moment of what just happened was tainted by something less. A lot of these tracks had enough kicks to have you working at any time, but they also seemed to be created for special moments, closed eyes, embraces, disbelief evoked by sheer beauty.
The musical programming of that era was quite different to today. It was not steadily going up and up, it was going up and down. There were detours, breaks, constant pace shifts, even pauses. Surprises welcome. A single style was not mandatory. Changes were expected, and fulfilled, at best unexpectedly. There was a flow, but it was not built-in, it had to be achieved.
A lot of these tracks have tags like Ambient or Jazz in their titles and credits, but they did not really try to be either. The artists involved liked to display their musicianship, and their ability to establish a mood and an atmosphere. They knew how to write a melody, they knew how to arrange their layers and instruments, they were determined to sound as good as their means would allow.
One reason why I wanted to record these mixes is that I sometimes miss club music artists being musicians. And music oblivious to floor imperatives and mere functionalism. The other reason is that I was interested how these tracks would sound or even hold up if you did not just inject this feeling inbetween something else, but you pull it through, for HOURS. Would it be too much? You decide.
I’d like to dedicate this to the Front Kids, wherever you may roam. You rule.
Hip Hop mix for Phonographe.
Pablo Gad – Hard Times Dub
Achterbahn D’Amour – Königsstr. (SW. Remix)
Willis Anne – Untitled
Lena Willikens – Mari Ori
Reckonwrong – Hansie
C.C. Not – Untitled
Lohhof – Midway Moodswings (Terekke Remix)
X – Untitled
The Maghreban – Green Apple
Florian Kupfer – Discotags
Kai Alcé – Rockin K-Tel
Orson + Skratch – Untitled
Leigh Dickson – Praise (Baby Ford Mix)
Perbec – Chaser
Translate – City Slicker
Marquis Hawkes – The Way
Isanlar – Kime Ne (Ricardo Villalobos Version 1)
Hashman Deejay – Samba
DJ Sprinkles & Mark Fell – Insights
Ken Gill – Love Moon
DJ Sotofett – Nimbus Mix
Simone White – Flowers In May (Kassem Mosse Version)
Stump Valley – Caruso
Plaza – Night Lines (Moon B Extra Nocturnal Mix)
Aphex Twin – diskhat1
Patrick Cowley & Jorge Socarras – She Had Her Nerve
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