Mike Francis – Let Me In Claudja Barry – Love For The Sake Of Love Delegation – 12th Home Lamont Dozier – Take Off Your Make-Up Phyllis Hyman – Kiss You All Over Bardeux – When We Kiss (Sex Mix) Hong Kong Syndikat –Too Much ((Rio-Sugar-Hat Mix) Beverly And Duane – Take A Ride Gene Chandler – Make The Living Worthwhile (Disco Version) Bionic Boogie – Dance Little Dreamer Loose Ends – Hangin’ On A String (Frankie Knuckles Mix) Switch – Keeping Secrets Arnie’s Love – I’m Out Of Your Life Karl Frierson – Walkin’ In New York Delegation – Where’s The Love (We Used To Know) Tina Turner – Let’s Stay Together Viola Wills – Somebody’s Eyes Stevie B – Midnight Music Technique – (Looking For Someone To Love) Tonight B.W.H. – Stop Voyage – I Surrender Pointer Sisters – Automatic Bucks Fizz – I Hear Talk Demis Roussos – Love Is Detroit Spinners – Ghetto Child (7” Boilerhouse Remix) Fine Young Cannibals – I’m Not The Man I Used To Be Tafuri – What Am I Gonna Do About Your Love? (Extended Vocal) Orange Juice – Flesh Of My Flesh (Long Version) Fashion – Love Shadow (Smokey Dialogue) Kissing The Pink – Big Man Restless Blancmange – The Game Above My Head Talk Talk – Such A Shame (US Mix) Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill The B-52’s – Deep Sleep It’s Immaterial – Heaven Knows Dhuo – Walkin’ The Carpenters – I Won’t Last A Day Without You Southern Exposure –On Our Way
Another mix with old and new faves, for another now defunct blog. And they say that the internet never forgets. Well, sometimes only if you drop a reminder.
Isolée – Brazil.com Raudive – Paper I-F – Energy Vampire DJ Sprinkles – Masturjakor (Masturmix) U2 – Lemon (Bad Yard Club) Terence FM – Stay Around (Cajmere’s Black Hole Mix) Oneiro – Oneiro Say Shhh! (Slide On The Wild Side) Losoul – Brother In Love Dave Angel – Fever Roy Davis Jr. – My Anthem (Plant Life Mix 1) Paul Johnson – My Free Feelings Gemini – Le Fusion Raudive – Brittle Theo Parrish – Solitary Flight Terre Thaemlitz – In The Style Of Terre Thaemlitz Untitled Tape Recording Age 10 Pt. 1
So true funny how it seems always in time but never in line for dreams head over heels when toe to toe this is the sound of our soul
Lani Hall – Hello It’s Me Melissa Manchester – Talkin’ To Myself Carly Simon – Tranquillo Martha Velez – Up To You Joe Jackson – A Slow Song Maria McKee – Show Me Heaven Dusty Springfield – Nothing Has Been Proved (Dance Mix) Youssou N’Dour & Neneh Cherry – 7 Seconds Jim Diamond – I Should Have Known Better Heart – Alone Anita Baker – Sweet Love Laibach – Across The Universe Matt Bianco – More Than I Can Bear Simply Red – Holding Back The Years Style Council – Long Hot Summer (Tom Mix) Billy Idol – Eyes Without A Face Martika – Love Thy Will Be Done Sophie B. Hawkins – Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover Eurythmics – It’s Alright Linda Di Franco – T.V. Scene Any Trouble – Touch And Go Amii Stewart – Friends Spandau Ballet – True Dee Dee Bridgewater – Lonely Disco Dancer Hi-Gloss – You’ll Never Know Johnny Bristol – Take Me Down Andy Gibb – Shadow Dancing Robert Palmer – Mercy Mercy Me / I Want You Palais Schaumburg – Beat Of 2 Banderas – This Is Your Life Bee Gees – How Deep Is Your Love Richard Ace – If I Can’t Have You Dionne Warwick – Heartbreaker Barbra Streisand – Woman In Love
Promomixes was a website conceived by Todd L. Burns. The concept was that DJs do an application tape for a club they would have loved to play at. My choice was Front club in Hamburg, of course. The site had a number of incredible mixes, but is sadly defunct.
Dream 2 Science – My Love Turns To Liquid (Original Mix) (Power Move) Foremost Poets – Reasons To Be Dismal? (City College Mixes) (SBK) Lovechild – Sweet Ambience (Club Mix) (Strictly Rhythm) Logic – The Final Frontier (Acoustic Mix) (Strictly Rhythm) The Utopia Project – File #1 (Nu Groove) Orbital – Chime (JZJ Oh Ya Mix) (FFRR) Circuit Feat. Koffi – Shelter Me (Digital Mix) (Cooltempo) Da Posse – In The Life (Keys Mix) (Republic) Nexus 21 – Self Hypnosis (Network) Heychild – Heychild’s Theme (Network) Nicolette – Single Minded People (Shut Up And Dance) Rhythim Is Rhythim – The Beginning (Transmat) Break The Limits – Hypnotizer (Break The Limits) LFO – LFO (Remix) (Warp) N.Y. House’N Authority – Forty House (Nu Groove) BFC – It’s A Shame (Fragile) Octave One Feat. Lisa Newberry – I Believe (Vice Mix) (Transmat) Baby Ford – The World Is In Love (Dub) (Sire) The Beloved – The Sun Rising (Norty’s Spago Mix) (Atlantic) Electronic – Getting Away With It (Extended) (Factory) Sister Sledge – Thinking Of You (Atlantic)
This mix was inspired by a very memorable Macro label night we did in Paris. Peter Kruder, Stefan Goldmann and me were invited by Hardrock Striker. Of course drinks in Paris clubs were expensive and it was Halloween, so everybody with a costume had reduced admission. Which led to a whole crowd in costumes. I messed up a few mixes because I laughed so much about the guys dressed as teletubbies in the front row. See photos below.
Odd Machine – Phase Out Instra:mental – Leave It All Behind Zomby – Tarantula Stress – Down In The Dungeon Shake – Indagoo Dread & Fred – Warriors Advance Posthuman – Callisto Paul Du Lac- Blow Back Ricardo Jefferson – The Egg (Part One) Patrick Cowley & Jorge Socarras – Memory Fails Me (Oni Ayhun Remix) Mark Grusane & Mike Cole Feat. Deanna – Time & Space (Vocal) Marcello Napoletano – Space Voodoo B.D.I. – City & Industry Anthony “Shake” Shakir – Arise The Oliverwho Factory – Disco Nights Rennie Foster – Good Time Charlie Octave One – A World Divided (Jupiter II Mix) Gesloten Cirkel – When It’s Late Iamthatiam – Inri Moderat – Seamonkey (Surgeon Remix) Patrick Cowley & Jorge Socarras – Soon (KiNK Remix) Ben Klock – Ok (Kenny Larkin Remix) Optic Nerve – Origins Oni Ayhun – OAR003-B San Proper – December 10th Dan Curtin – Other Tama Sumo & Prosumer – Alien Mutts Kirk Degiorgio – Isidora Roska – Sheppard Lowtec – Angstrom Peter Kruder – After The Dawn As One – Freefall Newworldaquarium – The Force (Âme Remix) dBridge – Wonder Where Kinf Midas Sound – One Ting (Dabrye Rmx)
For me, there are two approaches to recording a mix. The first is to take a lot of time in thinking of a smart and coherent concept, to then carefully select the according music and plan its transitions, and later, record the whole thing and make it public. There are plenty of my sets on the internet where I have done exactly that, with quite some variety of styles and ideas, and for a variety of reasons and purposes, too. These mixes are often schooled by the mixtapes I compiled for as long as I can remember (for girlfriends, friends and maybe some yet invisible target audience). My mixes of that kind have gotten more refined over the years. At some point, I started to mix music, and the amount of people such a set finally reaches has grown considerably. But the method, more or less, has stayed the same.
The second approach is to record a set while you’re playing in the club. Of course, the selection and execution in that context is different. I usually bring as many records as possible that I would like to dance to if I would be attending the club that very night, and then I combine them as it makes most sense to me in the given situation of the party. I try to avoid repeating combinations with each gig. For me, the fun part of mixing is to try and test new sequences. This can run the risk of a hit-and-miss in outcome (often depending on how inspired or concentrated I am), but in my mind, the possibility of failure is far less uncomfortable than relying on playlists of which I have already explored or experienced the success or functionality of. In short, I try to stay open to the surprises the music has on offer, and I try to pass that on to the crowd.
As Modifyer asked me for a guest mix, I quickly thought of doing something I had never done before: a combination of the two approaches mentioned above. At the time, there were no concepts left in my mind waiting to be released in a set (and admittedly, I also had so many other things to take care of that I found it difficult to come up with another or a better idea). If such ideas don’t strike you right away, they are mostly not worth being carried out anyway. What I did spend some thought on, however, was the music I wanted to play at Macro’s imminent label residency at Panorama Bar on the 10th of October 2009. I decided to leave the records in my box in the exact order I would play them at the gig, and re-record the set as soon as possible, with the memory of the proceedings still vivid. And thus I did, a day later. Naturally, the way the set now sounds is different to the live situation of the club; the mixing is tighter in parts, probably less frantic, and I could already tell where to mix in from what I could still remember of playing the music as it happened. Still, it was very interesting to repeat the experience, and it was also very interesting to take a second look at the choices I made in the intensity and immediacy of the night.
The night itself was a wonderful experience. We had just released the album “Catholic” by Patrick Cowley & Jorge Socarras and its accompanying singles. For the occasion, my label partner, Stefan Goldmann, and I invited Serge Verschuur from Clone Records and our friend Hunee to play. We knew that both would deliver the dynamic diversity we had in mind to celebrate what we had worked on for so long. I was due to play the last set, from 8 a.m. to 10.30 a.m. Unfortunately, I had a severe cold resurfacing, so I took some hours rest before arriving at the club at around 4 a.m. I could tell right away that the vibe of the club was a bit different to other nights there. Dubfire was on for Berghain, and judging from the queue I passed on my way to the entrance, the people interested in hearing him play seemed other than the regular crowd. I didn’t mind that at all, but as I made my way through Berghain, I kept running into friends who were telling me that there was more trouble at the door than usual. The music was different, too. I paused to listen to Dubfire’s set. While the monolithic pulse of the techno sound associated with Berghain was there, it somehow lacked the tension and groove that I need to lock me. I went upstairs to Panorama Bar to check what was going on there instead.
Serge was in the midst of a blinding set of classic and contemporary house and techno. The crowd was well into it. Hunee followed suit marvelously, steering the proceedings to more cheerful shores, and adding some classic disco and anthemic vocal moments. There were smiling faces enough, familiar and unfamiliar, to convince me that the night turned out to be what we hoped for, and then some. As I took over, I had the feeling that I should take another direction musically. I felt very tired and numbed by the fever the flu brought along. To start, I thought that I should kick myself into action with the music, hoping that the dancers would follow my way. Picking Heaven 17 to follow up Hunee’s last record, Code 718’s blissful “Equinox”, was admittedly a bit bold and therefore received some confused looks, but then in the course of the set, things quickly fell into line. Flicking through my box, every next record seemed to be waiting in place, already offering its services to make the night one to remember. When I left the club, near Sunday noon, into the same mean cold drizzle I entered from several hours before, the music continued to thump in my head and there were indeed a lot of wonderful memories to keep. On Monday, I refreshed myself, had a good breakfast and then recorded this set right away in one take, in order to not let any of those memories slip away.
Welcome to the final chapter of the Druffalo Rave Chronicles. In sharp contrast to the usual brouhaha surrounding the city’s contributions to club music history there is no particular reason why we conclude the series with Chicago. It’s just the one we still had left for release, and we wanted to stop before we were even tempted to invent rave scenes that don’t really exist (given that all of it was a very subjective D*ruffalo take on the rave phenomenon anyway). So, as sad as it may be, we would like to kiss the rave goodbye with some real Windy City classics, and this is the way we jack the house…
K.A. Posse – Dig This (Underground) Robert Armani – Circus Bells (Dance Mania) The Housefactors – Play It Loud (Black Market International) Armando – We’re On The Move (Warehouse) DJ Pierre- Drive Me In Your Car (Jive) M.D.3. – The Pressure Cooker (Underground) 326 – Falling (Muzique) Brian Harris – H2O (Chicago Underground) Lil’ Louis – Music Takes U away (Dance Mania) Qx-1 – On A Journey (Rhythm Beat) Pizarro – Suelta Mé (Gosa-Lo) Mix Masters – In The Mix (DJ International) Liz Torres – Payback Is A Bitch (Jive) Lil’ Louis – Frequency (Dance Mania) Steve Poindexter – Computer Madness (Muzique) Vitamin B – You Make Me Feel (Rhythm Beat) Two For Soul – The Music’s Taken Over Me (Future Sound) 2 Houss People – Baby Wants To Move You (Gherkin) Myoshi Morris – Muzik (Rockin’ House) Armando – 100% Of Dissin’ You (Warehouse) Steve Poindexter – Work That Motherfucker (Muzique) The Dance Kings – Climb The Walls (Dance Mania) Terry Hunter – Madness (Muzique) Risque 3 – Essence Of A Dream (Stride) Mike Dearborn – New Dimension (Muzique) Ron Trent – The Afterlife (Djax) Da Posse – In The Life (Republic) North/Clybourn – O Ban 1 (Gherkin) Fingers Inc. – Bye Bye (Jack Trax)
Another mix with some record store techno/house finds.
Posthuman – Monsters Exist H.O.D. – Alive And Kicking Moderat – Rusty Nails (Shackleton Mix) DJ Gregory – Head Dubbing Marcel Fengler – Twisted Bleach Wax 20002 – Untitled Hunch – Travel The Earth Agoria – Solarized The Tetrode Sessions – Large Crowd Orlando Voorn – Love Break (Chopped) Prosumer & Murat Tepeli – U & I Hunee – Rare Silk Boo Williams – Home Town Chicago John Beltran – Placid Angles
“Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember.” (Burt Bacharach)
Mel Tormé – Walk On By Dionne Warwick – Who Is Gonna Love Me Lou Johnson – The Last One To Be Loved Jimmie Rodgers – The Windows Of The World Jackie DeShannon – A Lifetime Of Loneliness Johnny Mathis – Odds And Ends Dionne Warwick – Walkin’ Backwards Down The Road Pitney – Fool Killer Jimmy Radcliffe – (There Goes) The Forgotten Man Burt Bacharach – I’ll Never Fall In Love Again Gene McDaniels – Tower Of Strength Dionne Warwick – Window Wishing The Cyrkle – It Doesn’t Matter Anymore Stephanie Mills – Loneliness Remembers (What Happiness Forgets) Dionne Warwick – Are You There (With Another Girl) Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’77 – Walk The Way You Talk Burt Bacharach – And The People Were With Her Stephanie Mills – Living On Plastic Burt Bacharach – Don’t Go Breaking My Heart Dionne Warwick – Do You Know The Way To San José Anita Harris – London Life Dionne Warwick – Looking With My Eyes Burt Bacharach – When Will You Bring Your Sweet Love To Me Dionne Warwick – As Long As There’s An Apple Tree Stephanie Mills – Please Let Go Dionne Warwick – Paper Maché The 5th Dimension – Living Together, Growing Together Burt Bacharach – Something Big Dionne Warwick – I Say A Little Prayer The Searchers – This Empty Place Burt Bacharach – Pacific Coast Highway Burt Bacharach – My Little Red Book Jill O’Hara – Knowing When To Leave Buddy Greco – Always Something There To Remind Me Dionne Warwick – Promises, Promises Burt Bacharach – Monterey Peninsula Burt Bacharach – The Things I Will Not Miss Bobby Vee – Be True To Yourself Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass – Theme From Casino Royale Burt Bacharach – Freefall Tom Jones – Promise Her Anything Burt Bacharach – Reflections Burt Bacharach – The World Is A Circle Burt Bacharach – The Sundance Kid Burt Bacharach – South American Getaway
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