I first heard this when I moved to Illinois in the winter and was on repeat. It still gets played every winter. Thank you Jason

I saved this mix before and it's not the same... I loved the real one 😭

Lovely selection and vibe, really good set!!! <3

For the 109th entry in the Honcho Podcast Series, we welcome San Francisco's @carrieondisco! Summer is back and the kids are OUT! Carrie has spun together a beautiful, sun soaked mix for your ear holes! Carrie had a few words to say about the mix: 'I made this mix for lazy summer days or chillin' with friends at the after party, a mixture of disco, funk and downbeat. Artwork by the ever amazing Blake Cedric!'

https://www.instagram.com/cedricsofhollywood/

Honcho Podcast Series 109: CarrieonDisco's 'Tim Strongs You're Doing It Wrong' Mix

"Working my ass off, to be honest," is how Eli Escobar starts our interview  below. That basically sums up his vibe. The New Yorker might not have the same household name status of other DJs who have been soundtracking Manhattan clubs since the early '90s, but he certainly deserves it. Any New York resident worth their salt should have him near the top of the list of their favorite local DJs. He plays anywhere and everywhere in the city, and he can play pretty much anything he wants to, as his RA Podcast will attest.

When it comes to his own music, Escobar puts out records equally informed by disco, hip-hop and house—in other words, a very New York sound. He hasn't been producing as long as he's been DJing, but his albums and EPs for labels like Classic, Night People and Razor N Tape are full of the soul, humor and talent of someone who knows dance music inside out.

As Escobar says below, he doesn't really have any one type of sound. His DJing varies greatly from night to night, and he's always adding to his considerable collection, so no one set is quite the same as another. For his RA Podcast, put together painstakingly with many specially edited tracks and recorded in a hotel room in Colombia, he strikes a relatively reflective tone, but it's still eminently danceable. He moves gradually through two hours of house and disco that ranges from celebratory to muted, from minimalist to rich with live instrumentation. It's the sound of New York dance music as passed through generations, from one of its best and most beloved musical storytellers.

@eliescobar

Read more: https://ra.co/podcast/839

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RA.839 Eli Escobar

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.)

As part of RA2122, our ongoing celebration of 21 years of club culture, we'll be featuring some of our favourite DJs from around the world, highlighting the parties or clubs most important to their lives in dance music. First up we have Tama Sumo and Lakuti, both residents at Berlin's Panorama Bar, the house-focused room upstairs at Berghain. Panorama Bar has played host to thousands—if not millions—of people's most formative dance floor experiences, with an unparalleled vibe, near-perfect sound and window blinds that have taken their own place in dance music mythology. 

The duo's mix highlights the style that Tama Sumo and Lakuti have brought to the club and represents its anything-goes energy, mixing tracks from iconoclasts like Hieroglyphic Being (including one of his best-ever tracks) in with old-school favorites from Reel By Real, Larry Heard and even Ministry, moving from house to industrial to disco without batting an eyelid. Tama Sumo and Lakuti's loose but impeccable flow ties together house music history with a deep love and knowledge of all genres and, perhaps most importantly, the desire and know-how to just make people dance. We couldn't be more thrilled to feature Tama Sumo and Lakuti for the first mix in our birthday series, and we hope that you enjoy it as much as we do.

Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/853

RA.853 Tama Sumo & Lakuti

Resident Jason Kendig's three-hour set at Buddy Buddy on October 1, 2022.

Jason Kendig at Buddy Buddy

En esta nueva entrega de la serie Fun Fun Mix presentamos al dj Jacob Meehan, con este increíble mix grabado en vivo en el Zenner Club de Berlín el día de año nuevo de 2023. Después de mudarse de Chicago a Berlín en 2016, Jacob ha estado produciendo y alentando algunos de los eventos queer más queridos de su ciudad adoptiva, particularmente Buttons @radio-buttons y el Whole Festival. Su experiencia multitudinaria con la producción cultural, (ha sido anfitrión de una radio comunitaria, manager de restaurantes y de una galería de arte contemporáneo, vendedor de discos en una legendaria disquería, director de sesiones de meditación guiada y organizador de fiestas disco en un teatro porno gay), demuestran su atención al detalle para lo experiencial y lo efímero, demostrando que la creatividad está en todas partes. El tiempo de inactividad durante la pandemia le dió a Meehan la oportunidad de sumergirse más en la producción musical; Esperen nuevos lanzamientos de él en este 2023!

For the 39th entry in the Fun Fun Mix series, we present dj Jacob Meehan, delivering this amazing mix recorded live at Zenner Club in Berlin on New Year's Day 2023. After relocating from Chicago to Berlin in 2016, Jacob has instigated some of his adopted city's most beloved queer events, particularly Buttons @radio-buttons and WHOLE Festival. His multitudinous background with cultural production - hosting community radio, managing neighborhood restaurants, operating a contemporary art gallery, selling records at a legendary record shop, leading guided meditation sessions, & throwing disco parties in a gay porn theater - inform his attention to detail for the experiential & ephemeral, proving that creativity is everywhere. The downtime of the pandemic afforded Meehan the opportunity to dive further into music production; expect new releases from him in 2023!

Soundcloud: @jacob-meehan
www.instagram.com/jdmeehan/
www.instagram.com/buttonsberlin/

Fun Fun Mix 39 - Jacob Meehan (Live at Zenner Berlin)

A portion of @sprklbb's closing set recorded at H0L0 in Ridgewood, Queens, NYC.

November 12th, 2022

Favorite Flavor: Coffee

MS 07 - SPRKLBB at Mizz Softee 12 November 2022

Artwork by the ever amazing www.instagram.com/explore/tags/blakecedricart/

Jorge's Saturday Morning Jams

Dublab 08/11/23 - Planet Love w/ James Axon & Chris Cruse

Recorded during the winter solstice. 

Track list:
Regelbau - My Boys Walk [Regelbau]
Kai Alce - I Can Feel It… Now [NDATL Muzik]
Harold Bjork - Sabor Latino (Suzanne Kraft Remix) [Studio Barnhus)
Fort Romeau - Diana [Cin Cin]
Savile - 1pm Morning [North Side '82]
Tom Trago - Avenido (Young Marco Remix) [Rush Hour Music]
Scott Fraser - No Word Of Truth (Mystic Bill Mix) [DX Recordings]
Antenna - Harpy Dance [Royal Oak]
Tuff City Kids - Potion No. 4 [Potion]
B12 - It's My Blood [Delsin]
Shanti Celeste - Strung Up [Future Times]
Stephen Lopkin - Theme From SAPL [Bokhari Records]
Elliott Thomas - Sirius [Voyeurhythm]
Jeroen Search & Dimi Angelis - Emotional Times [Stockholm LTD]
Dauwd - Jupiter George [Kompakt]
The Afrodizzyact - BJ 1994 [Rainy City Music]
FYI Chris - Banana Bread [Lumberjacks In Hell]
Oona Dahl - High Eyes [All Day I Dream]
Acasual - Spring Theory (Move D Remix) [Blind Jacks Journey]
Unknown Artist - #AA00FF B [Ode]

Jason Kendig - Winter Mix [2015]

Octo Octa is an artist for the heads. Maya Bouldry-Morrison's creates a finely-tuned marriage of exquisite compositional flare, meticulously-sculpted sonics, and primal dance-floor functionality. Based in Brooklyn, she's been pushing her unique sonic perspective and shimmering club-ready earworms since 2011 with releases on Running Back, 100% Silk and Argot. 

She's put together a mix for the 26th Good Room Podcast ahead of her live set at the club on February 12 saying "It's kind of funny because it's not what I DJ a lot, but it's what I listen to the most at home. I mostly DJ vocal house, probably carry a few too many Chandler records".

Octo Octa is playing at Good Room with Session Vicitim, Honey Soundsystem and JKriv & Aaron Dae (Razor-N-Tape) on February 12. Tickets - http://bit.ly/1JPhetS

For more information on Octo Octa you can check out her interview on RA here - http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?2640

Good Room Podcast 026 - Octo Octa

Originally inspired by the music electrifying Detroit’s airwaves, Jason Kendig has been collecting and mixing a broad range of dance music for well over two decades. From his first residency at Detroit’s infamous club Motor in the late 90's he went on to become an integral member of San Francisco's Honey Soundsystem and a resident at Smart Bar in Chicago. Kendig's touring schedule has brought him to dance floors around the globe where he never fails to make others move through his ability to reference dance music's past while keeping an ear tuned to the sounds of the future.

Jason Kendig - Winter Mix [2015]

Jason Kendig

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