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Phonica Mix Series 84: Young Marco

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Swedish label Studio Barnhus comes through with all star lineup Axel Boman Bella Boo and Kornél Kovács to get your Saturday night started right. Good vibes and fun times ahead!

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This mix is all music from 1984. It is a special live vinyl mix that I recorded on July 19, 2011 as a promotion for the A.D. (After Disco) series of parties here in Chicago.  The mix has been hosted for a few years on the Loves Podcast and I decided to upload it here to my Soundcloud for the first time.  Here’s a few words I wrote to go with the mix:  

1984 is an amazing year in music. At the time, "house" was still a colloquialism for the music played by Frankie Knuckles at the Warehouse. House was not yet a music form in its own right. "Fresh," on Vince Vince Lawrence’s fledgling label Precision, is the only house-qua-house track on the mix. The other tunes are properly considered proto-house -- the music which formed the milieu of dance music which we now describe (rather clumsily) as:

*Electro (e.g., Solo – “Girls, Girls” produced by John Robbie; JellyBean – “The Mexican”); 
*Garage (e.g., Circuit - "Release the Tension" a Timmy Regisford production; Colonel Abrams – “Music Is The Answer”); 
*Italo (e.g., Stop – “Wake Up”; Pancho Ballet – “Dancing Shoes”); 
*Synth and industrial dance (e.g., 52nd Street – “Can’t Afford” produced by New Order’s Stephen Morris; Palais Schaumburg – “The Beat Of Two” produced by Gareth Jones who also produced Depeche/Nitzer Ebb); and 
*Post-disco (e.g., Stephanie Mills – “Medicine Song”).

This music from 1984 is ‘proto’ in the sense that it was establishing the necessary elements of house – e.g., use of certain instruments (drum machines, synths, samplers) – but there are some stark differences.

Although much of the music in 1984 was released on small independents and remained quite underground, there were major successes for dance music at the time and investment in dance music by major labels. There was A&R structure at all record labels and radio play. "Trapped" (1985) by Colonel Abrams sold over 5 million copies worldwide. Earon’s “Land of Hunger” hit the top 40 on the soul singles chart. John “JellyBean” Benitez placed nine songs in the Top Ten of the U.S. Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.

The democratizing force that would be house music had not been fully realized. It was still expensive to make dance music. For example, most of the tracks on the mix feature vocalists, session players or a full band. Although the epic ensembles of the disco era had long passed in fashion and economic viability, dance records were still recorded in professional studios and engineered by individuals like Bob Blank and Herb Powers. The E-max Sampler hit the market in 1984, but the studio standard were samplers like the Fairlight and Synclavier (which had more than $100,000 price tags), each of which were prohibitively expensive for use by most musician/producers.

By 1984 the relatively inexpensive Roland gear was just finding its way into the hands of Chicago, Detroit and New York’s new roots musicians. A year before, Larry Sherman acquired Musical Product’s pressing plant, the only one in Chicago. Ron Hardy was playing "Penthouse and Pavement" by Heaven 17 and "DumDum" at the Music Box. Dance music was about to fall off the edge, for better and for worse.

1984 Track List:

1. Citispeak Featuring Jeanne Harris – I Don't Need Your Handouts (Inst.) – Partytime Records 
2. Pancho Ballet – Dancing Shoes (Instrumental) – Best Record 
3. Jellybean – The Mexican (Funhouse Mix) – EMI America 
4. Nuance Featuring Vikki Love - Take A Chance (Dubapella) - 4th & Broadway  
4. Samson & Delilah – I Can Feel Your Love Slippin' Away (Long Mix & Inst) – Saturn Records 
5. Hugh Masekela – Don't Go Lose It, Baby (Stretch Mix) – Jive Afrika 
6. Colonel Abrams – Music Is The Answer (Dub Version) – Streetwise 
7. The Earons – Land Of Hunger (Extended Version) – Island Records 
8. Wet – That's The Game (Instrumental) – Bellaphon 
9. Circuit – Release The Tension (Dub) – 4th & Broadway 
10. Stephanie Mills – The Medicine Song (Dub Version) – Casablanca Records 
11. Anne Clark – Our Darkness (Remix) – Ink Records 
12. Solo – Girls, Girls (Ah-Ah-Hi) - Next Plateau Records Inc. 
13. 52nd Street – Can't Afford – Profile (on license from Factory) 
14. The Bridge – Love Dance (Industrial Mix) - Second Vision 
15. Stop – Wake Up – Damabi International 
16. Fresh – Dum Dum – Precision 
17. Palais Schaumburg – The Beat Of Two (Extended Version) – Mercury


1984 After Disco (A.D.)

I recorded a mix for Mr. Tong's "Essential Mix" radioshow and it will be sent straight into the heart of your ears this Saturday! 👂🏻👂🏼👂🏽👂🏾👂🏿

Really happy to say at least a third of the mix consists of music made or released by friends - a constant inspiration in my life! ❤️

I also wanted to give a bit of context, as I had two inspirations for this mix:

1. The beginning of an Auden poem called "On This Island" 🏝

"Look, stranger, at this island now
The leaping light for your delight discovers,
Stand stable here
And silent be,
That through the channels of the ear
May wander like a river
The swaying sound of the sea." 🌊

2. The mix starts with a song called "White Bird" by June11 and there is a beautiful background story to the song, that stayed with my during all the dreaming i was doing during the recording. 🕊

"White Bird was inspired by the story of the biplane L'Oiseau Blanc, that took off from Paris in 1927 and vanished on its way to New York. The pilots, Charles Nungesser and Francois Coli, were never seen again. Their PL.8-01 sea plane, made of wood and cloth, is thought to have broken upon landing. Nobody knows what really happened. I think L'Oiseau Blanc is still floating somewhere in the endless sky, with its ghosts, doing aerobatics. Maybe their plan was to have no plan, but to gracefully get away from darkness, time, madness, crowds." 🕊

👉🏿👉🏾👉🏽👉🏼👉🏻  this mix is dedicated to all the birds and people with dreams. 👈🏻👈🏼👈🏽👈🏾👈🏿

Tracklist:
1. Hiroshi Yoshimura - Creek [Air Records]
2. June11 - White Bird [Stroom]
3. Martin Kornberger & Volker Kuhn - Violet Jewels [Syntape]
4. Andy Rantzen - Will I Dream [Efficient Space]
5. Karamika - Ton 6 [ESP Institute]
6. Paschen’s Law - Magnifying Transmitter [Walhalla Records]
7. Bufiman - Peace Moves [Dekmantel]
8. Senyaka - Bayanyonyoba [Rush Hour]
9. Unknown Artist - Untitled (Jonny Rock Edit) [CockTail d’Amore Music]
10. Albion - Midnite Magic [People Must Jam]
11. Carlos Cutaia - Operativo [Emotional Rescue]
12. Frak - 888 [Kontra-Musik]
13. S.O.N.S. - Acid Dreams (Trance Jungle Mix) [S.O.N.S.]
14. Daywalker & CF - Easter [L.I.E.S.]
15. Beck, Nash, Reyenga - Metaclaw (Gilbert Cohen Remix) [Offen Music]
16. Kalbata - Al Shark (Part Two) [Fortuna Records]
17. Thee J Johanz - Move Your Butty (Thee J Johanz Rework) [Ballyhoo]
18. Haruomi Hosono - Laugh-Gas [Epic]
19. Automat - Rise / Advance / Genus [Harvest]
20. Aborted at Line 6 - Mammut (Extended Version) [Off Course]
21. Sociedades en Tetra Brik - Tempo Limite [Tetra Brik]
22. Aubrey - Data Block [Out-Er]
23. Pieces of Pensive State of Mind - Echoic [U-Trax]
24. Heiko Laux - Moved (Ricardo Villalobos Remix) [Kanzleramt]
25. Unknown Artist - Untitled B2 [NDATL Muzik]
26. Robbie Cee - Beautiful People (Instrumental) [Z Records]
27. Brighter Side of Darkness - Disco Ball [Magic Touch]
28. Closencounter - Let Yourself Go [Numero Group]
29. Kallaloo - Star Child (Long Version) [IDA]
30. Rodrigue Gauthier - Bon Conseille [R. Francis Entertainment]
31. Stanislas Tohon - Owhaaou ! (Raphael Top-Secret Edit) [Rush Hour]
32. Unknown Artist - Unknown Title
33. Jorge Reyes & Antonio Zepeda - Wawaki [Emotional Rescue]
34. Skandal - Fe Ca Ki Bien [Flarenasch]

Much love to every 💕 friend 💕 who has send me, shown, given, teached and told me a story about 🎶  music 🎶 . You are the map 🗺  to my island!  🏝

HUNEE - ESSENTIAL MIX (April 2017) [radio free version]

For Eris’s mixtape “Raving Disco Breaks Vol. 1”, she uses old records to create a new style out of fragments. Many of the selections have been featured heavily in her live DJ sets, including her b2b sets with Octo Octa. Eris accumulated these records slowly, over decades, but it wasn’t until touring last year that she realized a “sound” coalesced in her bag. What does a rave at the disco sound like? Kinda like everyone took ecstasy at the roller rink. On her ecstatic mix, Eris colleges together a genre by scratching-in breaks with horn samples, mixing Disco House with broken beats, dropping Miami Bass jams with Boogie keys and blending Rave tunes with disco vocals. On the mix Eris utilizes turntable techniques such as “doubles” tricks and “hot mixing”—a fast-paced mixing style inspired by her beloved B96 Mixmasters, Chicago’s most popular 1990’s radio DJs. Like all of Eris’s mixes, she weaves strong narratives of embodiment, defiance, cultural transcendence and personal triumph (a classic disco emotion) into a flow of body rockin’ beats, scratches, drops, and sweet melodies. The result is a bass heavy summertime house mix for the psychedelic bad girls, boys and enbys. 

A limited run of Raving Disco Breaks Vol. 1 cassettes are available now exclusively from the label’s Bandcamp - http://t4tluvnrg.bandcamp.com

 The recording can be streamed on the T4T LUV NRG SoundCloud for free and hi-resolution versions are available for download on the label’s Bandcamp (donation requested). All profits  from Eris’s mix will be donated to the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP), which works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine their gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination, or violence.

Eris Drew Raving Disco Breaks Vol 1.

Big thanks to Hopkins Creek for letting me take it home for this years amazing festival <3 <3 <3

Image credit Dave Smiley :)

Tornado Wallace @ Hopkins Creek 24.11.2019

For the 77th entry in the Honcho Podcast Series, we welcome Lakuti (@uzuri )& Tama Sumo (@tama-sumo)! Anyone lucky enough to meet these two knows how special their energy and presence truly are. Lakuti, runs the Uzuri Recordings label, as well as Uzuri Artist Bookings & Management agency. Tama Sumo is a longtime resident at Berghain's Panorama Bar. Everyone loves to champion the hot new thing, however, it's important to honor and value those who paved the way for the rest of us. The pair has lovingly crafted a 90 minute mix of house, funk, and soul. Enjoy!

Honcho Podcast Series 77: Lakuti & Tama Sumo

@nabihahiqbal’s music is informed by a much wider world of reference than most. The pioneering artist has a Masters in Philosophy focused on African history, has studied ethnomusicology and has experience working in human rights law in South Africa. She has an academic approach to the way she builds her music - and her vital NTS radio shows - that unites strands of sound from all over the world into woozy pop lullabies, late night synth soothers and heartbreaking, guitar licked vocal dreamscapes. A new album was due from her in 2020, but a studio break-in meant Iqbal lost a whole heap of music.

The album will now come in 2021, but in the meantime she has given us a snapshot of where she is at with a one hour mix that is truly pan-global. It’s a characterful selection of party sounds featuring pop music and Sade covers, worldly funk and 80s synth jams that sound familiar but are never quite what they seem. This is a mix with the unmistakable stamp of Nabihah Iqbal’s very unique musical identity running all the way through it.

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Dekmantel Podcast 311 - Nabihah Iqbal

A follow up/ prequel to a mix I recorded 2 years ago called "As The City Sleeps" (https://bit.ly/3ax7l5H). A collection of songs that have kept me company over this odd year and hopefully may keep you company during the late hours of the night, with some field recordings I took on my travels. Download link below the TL.

A love letter to getting new speakers after 16 years. 


Tracklist 

Yumiko Morioka - 潮風
Nina Simone - Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair [Live In New York/1964]
Nick Wales & Stereogamus - Learning Year
Kitchen Cynics - Beads Upon an Abacus
Fred Neil - Faretheewell (Fred's Tune)
Bill Withers - Make a Smile for me
Carlo Rustichelli - Erotycon
Car Culture - Club Soda ft. Dan Bodan
The Beach Boys - Surf's Up 1967 (Solo Version) 
Nancy Sinatra And Lee Hazlewood - You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin’
Miriam Makeba - Quit It
>>> Excerpt from Interview with Miriam Makeba (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wONkMpbl7N8)
The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes for You
Bastion - Molitva
Janet Jackson - Someday is Tonight 
Patrick Cowley - Mockingbird Dream 
Torch Song - Shine on me
Massive Attack - Protection ft. Tracey Thorn (The Eno Dub) 
>>>Excerpt from the Phantom Thread 
Jonny Greenwood - Never Cursed 
Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd - Why do you Love me
10cc - I’m not in Love (Midland Dream Within a Dream Version)
Mary Lattimore  - Silver Ladders
Hamlet Gonashvili - Tsintskaro
Brian Eno  & Harold Budd - Lost in the Humming Air
>>> Excerpt from an Interview with Harvey Fierstein (https://youtu.be/osp1FN5-aVE)

Download - https://bit.ly/2N6xcbX

As The City Rests, a mixtape [February 2021]

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Dekmantel Podcast 311 - Nabihah Iqbal

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