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PRETTY TITTY
I've been wanting to make a disco mix for a really long time and this seemed like the perfect opportunity. I've been feeling all these classic disco tracks lately and was really obsessive about making something that wasnt obvious (a la I Will Survive and Ring My Bell). I really can't imagine what it was like to play this music to a room full of people freaking out but if I squint I get close. I picture lots of glitter, sweat, feathery hair, druuuuuugs, etc. etc. but I'm probably way off. I bet it was way cooler than that before the Bee Gees took a dump on everyone. Anyway, here's my fantasy disco utopia.
Lasagne for 10 - Phantom Slasher: Not sure what original track this is because this is a re-edit by the Idjut Boys or something and they dont name the tracks they use. Kind of lame. Awesome track in it's entirety but I just used it as an intro.
What You Want - Konk: I love all that post punk / post disco dancey stuff from the early 80s. Contortions, Bush Tetra's, Kid Creole, etc. but Konk was especially on it musically as in: they delivered on the chops.
Problemes d'amour - Alexander Robotnick: This doood's Italian and so am I. We I-talians like to help each other out. He's had it rough the past couple years so I threw him on this mix to maybe give him a little boost. Stay up Robotnick!
Reputation or Notoriety - In Flagranti: I love this newer disco stuff that sounds like it's made by a bunch of people dressed up like Clan of the Cave Bear and covered in dirt. Sooooo weird! All their tracks sound like they were recorded on an 8 track tape machine or an ADAT machine that someone poored a cup of wet cigarettes on. I love you In Flagranti!
Lady Bug - Bumblebee Unlimited: I just threw in the intro for this to transition in to Movin' because the whole song is just too amazing and I want to selfishly hoard it to myself. Not that it's a real rare track but it's just one of those songs you dont want to ruin by listening to too much.
Movin' - Brass Construction: The horns on this are so tough and it has that awesome ethereal disco thing going on in the background of all the breakdowns with the rhodes getting all twinkly. Apparently this was THE jam in my imagined disco utopia!
Tell You (Today) - Loose Joints: I am an obsessive Arthur Russel fan. Everything from the singles to World Of Echo to Indian Ocean. It's amazing that the amount of unreleased material from him dwarves what he actually released. I just found this song recently and have been listening to it non stop for a week. Every part of this is mind-bottling, the intro with the skronky horns, the chorus and the beautiful harmonies. Just so amazing!
Action 78 - Erotic Drum Band: First single from this Canadian Disco group that apparently flopped on release. I never get past how cool the intro is so I just threw that on here.
Take A Chance - Mr. Flaggio: Italo-disco! The music of my people. I was reading somewhere that young French people hate the Italo tracks because it reminds them of the parties their lame parents used to throw when they were kids. My parents listened to the Eagles. Weird.
Hot Shot - Karen Young: Classic.
Let's Go Another Round - Rainbow Brown: Tom Moulton Re-Edit!!!!!!! This guy was king of the remixes back in disco town and definitely has quite a discography. Classic track with the staple strings and tinny guitar solo.
Kiss Me Again (Pretty Titty Edit) - Dinosaur: I made this re-edit to de-emphasize the cello part and just let the vocals carry everything. It's an extremely rough performance all around but it definitely lends a really great song a lot of charm. Again with the Arthur Russell. Sorry.
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LUCA BACCHETTI
When I am in the studio, my process for making a track or recording a mix are usually totally different. In both cases, I always have an imaginary crowd in front of me...it's a crowd that gives me inspiration.
Rationalism is more present when making a studio mix while intuition is essential during a live performance (and also an important part of it). It can depend on the club, on the people, on the location...It's like there is an alchemy between myself and the audience.
During a live set I try to take people on a journey. From the warm up to the pick time, musical waves bring different moods and give movement to the set.
" I'm a dj, I am what I play, I play what I am."
01. Prosumer & Murat Tepeli ft Elif Bicer I Turn Around I Osgut Ton Cassy I Soul Savior I Perlon
02. Audio Werner I Before I Hello? Repeat
03. Sven Uk & Andomat 3000 I Salt & Pepper I Platzhirsch
04. Lauhaus & Chaptal I Freedom Fries I Remote Area
05. Plastikman I Nostalgik 3 (Guido Schneider Remix) I Minus
06. Hosh I Drums of Spring I Diynamic
07. Quenum I Alacanto I Orac
08. Ds I Orangefood (Jens Zimmermann Rmx) I Snork
09. Ricardo Villalobos I Can't Sleep (Zoexenia Remix) I Connaisseur
10. Shindoe I Feel the Space (Julien Chaptel Remix) I 100% Pure
11. Goldseries 3 I Promo
12. Federico Molinari I Enerverende (Damian Schwartz Remix) I Oslo
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LITTLE WHITE EARBUDS
The struggle between man and machine defined how my Process mix came into being. When I first got the "assignment" I thought I would be able to crank something out straight away. That is, until I realized how complicated mixing with a laptop can be. Most notebook soundcards are not built with more than two channels for sound, and Traktor doesn't work with additional soundcards. So I bought a Presonus Firebox, which has six channels which can be assigned any number of ways. Of course, it helps knowing how to get a device like the Firebox to play nicely with Traktor, which took many moons to figure out. To say that I'm not great with technology would be an understatement.
The actual recording was done in my bedroom, facing my new old stereo, with my laptop, Firebox and mouse on an old tray table I took from my parents' house. Even though I had spent a few hours (over the course of a few days) learning the ins and outs of all the tracks, the movements I needed to make, I still found myself hindered by having to mix with a mouse instead of a proper mixer. You just can't get both hands working at once, so EQing (or EQing while mixing) is a real pain. Add another item on the wishlist, I suppose. While the longer tracks played out I read Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, which is a horrifically depressing historical document (and a great book).
Because I didn't get to work on this mix until somewhat recently, the tracklisting has changed significantly since the first mental draft. And yet, many of the tunes that ended up on the final mix are generally ones that I've returned to often throughout the course of the year. In a way, this mix chronicles my year in music -- both new releases and releases that were new to me -- and technology; and what a year it was.
01. Round Two, "New Day" (Club Vocal Mix) [Main Street Records]
02. Julien Jabre, "Swimming Places" (Jerome Sydenham Remix) [Defected]
03. Sleeper Thief, "Freefall" [Sixty Four Records]
04. Ripperton, "Tainted Words" [Connaisseur Recordings]
05. Paul Kalkbrenner, "Altes Kamuffel" [BPitch Control]
06. Rodamaal, "Insomnia" (Âme Remix) [Buzzin' Fly Records]
07. Harri & The Revenge, "Lunar Tune" [Five20East]
08. Tiger Stripes, "Hooked" [Liebe*detail]
09. Argy, "Love Dose" (Luciano Remix) [Poker Flat Recordings]
10. Thomas Brinkmann, "128 Rua Villalobos" [Cmyk Musik]
11. Fabrice Lig, "X-Slaves Who Changed the World" [Versatile Records]
presentism...
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...:::...dr. pangloss was a gray stuffed seal my father used to keep on his pillow when i was little. i remember him tossing it high into the air and i would watch from my child-vantage point as it would climb and then slow to almost hang suspended for a moment before re-accelerating and falling back down to land with a soft, dead-weight on the ground. perhaps that is one of my earliest memories of gravity in effect...
i've been reading stumbling on happiness over the past month and have been wonderfully overwhelmed by the vocabulary it has given me to apply to thoughts i've had about where i am and where i am going. daniel gilbert (the author) uses voltaire's dr. pangloss (who was a very different creature by the same name as my father's stuffed seal (he was a 'metaphysical-theologo-cosmolo-nigology' who thought he lived in the best of all possible worlds. he believed things like noses were made to support glasses...that legs were made for pants...that stones were made to be shaped into houses...)) as a baseline to describe how we often gloss over the unwanted things in our worlds...
he writes, "There are more ways to think about experience than there are experiences to think about, and human beings are unusually inventive when it comes to finding the best of all possible ways. And yet if this is true, then why aren't we all walking around with wide eyes and loopy grins, thanking God for the wonder of hemorrhoids and the miracle of in-laws? Because the mind may be gullible but it ain't no patsy. The world is this way, we wish it were that way, and our experience of the world - how we see it, remember it, and imagine it - is a mixture of stark reality and comforting illusion. We can't spare either."
the idea of presentism (which is a word historians use to describe how the past is often interpreted through today's perspective) fits into all of this not so much in how i think about the past, but more in how i imagine the future. "Because predictions about the future are made in the present, they are inevitably influenced by the present...The reality of the moment is so palpable and powerful that it holds imagination in a tight orbit from which it never fully escapes. Presentism occurs because we fail to recognize that our future selves won't see the world the way we see it now." (-dg)
the most interesting thing about all of this for me is that i get to experience multiple feelings...i have first the psychological experience of imagining the future, and also the physical experience of actually being in it when i get there...the thing i think i am most certain of is this: that things always change (i am rich with it)...i remind myself of this when i find i am doing more imagining then participating. when every time i put a pen to paper the lines come out grotesquely wrong...or every time i open my mouth the words tumble out and melt into some confused phonetic sound with absolutely no meaning...there are so many possibilities to imagine and marry to experience. i have been learning to look for the sight lines between them. my eyesight is improving...:::...
download: 071107-modyfier-part01
carl craig – twilight (live in paris) feat. mad mike, wendell harrison and kelvin sholar : oct 2007 on planet e communuications
rocha & lewinger – miles davis : aug 2007 on minimo records
sascha dive – bdown variation 7 (spoken words at neva dug disco (dallas)) : aug 2007 on deep vibes
tiefschwarz – original (drama society remix) : oct 2007 on souvenir music
szenario – pleaseasy (raudive remix) : oct 2007 on leftroom records
jan driver – kardamoon : aug 2007 on grandpetral recordings
gui boratto - the rivington (martinez remix) : oct 2007 on galaktika records
kabale und liebe – mumbling yeah : oct 2007 on area remote
delon & dalcon - academy : sep 2007 on boxer recordings
maurizio – candegina : oct 2007 on sk recordings
oliver gregoire - empechment : oct 2007 on systematic
alejandro vivanco – dissolved : oct 2007 on cadenza
burial – near dark : oct 2007 on hyperdub
download: 071107-modyfier-part02
andy cato (groove armada) - uppers on the south downs (andy cato's hot head rermix) : oct 2007 on pack up & dance
grand theft auto – keep moving : oct 2007 on persona
upz – noiz feat. rasu (abical soul jah mental mix) : oct 2007 on objectivity
blake baxter & marc romboy - underground thang version 2: sep 2007 on systematic
fusiphorm – green chocolate (kolijah’s exploding cake remix) : sep 2007 on minimood
len faki – my black sheep (radio slave remix) : oct 2007 on figure
lump – all in your mind : oct 2007 on rrygular
robosonic – die blechtrommel : oct 2007 on diskomafia
legowelt - disco rout (freeformreform) : oct 2007 on cocoon
october – three drops : oct 2007 on caravan
jamie loyd – what we have (…is a zwicker remix) : oct 2007 on future classics
pier bucci – chiloe : oct 2007 on crosstown rebels
quio feat. afia, kwaku, nanie, lampapa & dr. data – chillaine : sep 2007 on agf production
james brown – it’s a man’s world (henrik schwarz remix) : oct 2007 on k7 records
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DREI FARBEN HOUSE
Upholding and Losing
Berlin, 29 October 2007
When Rayna asked me to make a contribution to her Modyfier project I originally intended to make something very conceptual in order to correspond to the layout of the project. But when I finally started working on the track I quickly moved away from that idea and complied with my current moods and feelings towards my music. I realized that I was currently longing to make some classic House music and to sort of create an old-school feeling without actually sounding like the legendary predecessors. To me nothing captures the feeling of House like those harmonic pads and chords which have been used by Mr. Fingers as well as Maurizio, by Mood II Swing as well as Matthias Tanzmann to name just a few. So I created a track which revolves around pads and chords and added a few percussive elements to make the track interesting rhythm-wise. Over all, I tried to keep it simple and not to add too many layers which is not easy since I often find myself tempted to use too many different patterns.
As I said before I do not intend to sound like classic Chicago House or something. This is something which does not interest me. Instead, with this track I tried to recreate vibes and moods which to me are synonymous with a good night out dancing to House music. Still, the sounds and melodies that I use are not identical with traditional House tracks. To me with this particular track it was more important to keep the balance between creating something unique with its own musical language and remaining in the vein of the big idea of how House music has traditionally sounded. I hope you all enjoy my quest for this balance.
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POPNONAME
i am happy
so why not show it?
everything seems to be open
everything seems to be endless
everything seems to be so near
i could be everywhere...
life is referring
i respect nothing
and respect everything
you stand for it
the seasons remain not the same
you don't either
surrounded by the weather
changing time
we see the cruelty
and we see love
01. indie me (unveroffentlicht)
02. liebe / propendeck pnn rmx (unveroffentlicht)
03. hoheit (unveroffentlicht)
04. troubleboy (unveroffentlicht)
05. auf deutsch / tanzmusik pnn rmx with michael heydebreck (corbid)
06. cloud 7 / alessandro crimi pnn "back to earth" remix (italic)
07. loose control feat. ansorge (firm - i want you for popnoname)
08. ferry sponge theme (italic - you are popnoname)
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