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Through the Clouds

MIKE FEEL LOVE

Midnight or Late Afternoon

A.P.O. - O' Superman  (Mike Simonetti's rejected remix)

free download by popular demand



MIKE SIMONETTI & JOHNNY JEWEL
Albuterol Cd
Italians Do It Better 2008

In December 2007, We threw a huge gala on a cold & rainy Friday night in Portland with Chromatics & Glass Candy. Mike came out to spin the party...the after party...and the party after the after party... We spent the next three days recovering, working on a mix, & trying to find a place for Mike to lay his weary head. The damp & grey climate is great if you're writing Wipers lyrics...but if you left your prescription asthma medicine (Albuterol) in Jersey, you're pretty much screwed. Day 1 : Mike stays with Me at chez Ruth / Daphne & Ruby (the sister cats) fur all over the apartment causes Mike's asthma to flair up even worse. Day 2 : We decided to relocate Monsiuer Simonetti to Ida's Candy Castle / Marlon's (the stray cat) tiger stripes almost close Mike's eyes forever. Day 3 : Adam & Natty offer him a warm bed...but Pimp C's (the cat freed from a shelter on the same day the UGK poet was released from prison) dander just about closes Mike's windpipe. Then it occurs to us...there's no cats at the studio, so we spend two days & nights listening to crates of killer cuts from Mike's library in New Jersey. Starting with around 80 songs and slowly narrowing it down to 10 traxxx that really complimented each other. Step 1 : Burn all the records to disc through analog preamps ... Step 2 : Edit the traxxx live using 3 cdjs. Step 3: Take the best edits and blend them all together in one long take live to tape. No computers were harmed on the set of this recording. At Italians Do It Better, we love our computers... But for a mix this dirty, with almost all live drummers, it just felt better doing it by hand. The end result runs the gamut of rock, disco, proto house, boogie, swedish glam, bizarre italo, soul, & some odd things in between. Not to mention the entire mix is slightly pitched down. Most likely due to exhaustion & Mike's almost comatose state. It just sounded heavier this way. The weekend came & went, & it was time for Mike to fly home... On our way to the airport, Ida chased a Fed Ex truck down Hawthorne. Just in time for the flight, the Albuterol finally came. Mike took it & all was well. There was so much confusion that weekend, I forgot to label the tape. It got lost in the shuffle. Tours came & went. New records were being made, & we forgot about it. Five months later Mike found a rough mix of it on his ipod & ripped a really lo fi version for the blog. The mix exploded (20,000 downloads & counting), but no one could guess the full tracklist. A couple of months ago we started Perseo & around that time I found the original mix in Portland. Here it is ...the way it was meant to be heard. Fully remastered back through tubes.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Dead Of Night 
2. Pitched Down Pugh (Gothenburg Boat Mix)
 3. The Downside Of Gentrification
 4. Found You In The Dollar Bin 
5. Syntheseized Throbbing Baleric Italo Track With Guitar Solo
 6. School's Out Forever
 7. Her Magic Spell
 8. Pulasky Skyway To Zanzibars
 9. Super Sensitive 
10. Disconet Dilemma

Total Running Time (50:31)

MIKE SIMONETTI & JOHNNY JEWEL - ALBUTEROL cd

released on 12" on Perseo in 2010 - - - FREE DOWNLOAD

pre- louis ck

Mike Simonetti  - Louie Louie edit

recently rediscovered old mix of mine from a very long time ago  Was deep in my feelings here.  emo house before it was cool

Mike Simonetti - Echo Park Mix 2012

Track 1 from the Capricorn Rising ep out now on Italians.... 

a summer shoegaze jam for you. 

"When The Stars Align, We'll Be Ready When The Time Is Right" 
-lyrics and vocals by Sam Sparro
-music produced by Mike
-hand claps by Johnny Jewel
-mixed and nurtured by Chris Burns in DC

Mike Simonetti (featuring Sam Sparro) - The Third Of The Storms

2MR/2015
thanks to Claude and Edwige


RIP Edwige.  free download

Pale Blue - The Math

lyrics by Bruce Springsteen
Dedicated To New Jersey
free download

record is out today - - - -  go buy it , or download it from torrent sites . whatever- as long as you listen to it

Pale Blue - Tougher

Priest / Groove (Acid Crashed)

Priest

Groove (Acid Crashed)

unearthed an old mix from the Italians Do It Better days, 15 years ago.  All vinyl obviously

Mike Simonetti - Dazed Mix from 2010 (all vinyl obviously)

ole remix i thought i lost.  i relaly liked this one.  enjoy

LEMONADE - Orchid Bloom (Mike Simonetti Remix)

MIKE SIMONETTI - BOSSA NOVA CIVIC CLUB BOOTLEG

mike s and jamie xx goes back to back, each playing 2 songs each.  Mike starts it off.  recorded live at Bossa Nova Civic Club  Brooklyn. 

JAMIE XX and MIKE SIMONETTI  back to back at Bossa Nova Civic Club summer 2015  - 4 hours

Mari Posa - Royaume A Stockholm (Mike Simonetti Remix)

Release Your Body To The Best/Slave

Release Your Body to the Best

This song was recorded in 2011 at my house in New Jersey, and released in 2013 on the After Dark 2 compilation,  on Italians Do It Better (the record label i used to own) ..  Often imitated, but never duplicated.   i hereby decree this track as a free download.  click the little box with three dots and a drop down will show up so you can download it.

Mike Simonetti - The Magician

this used to be a classic at The Red Zone back in 1989, back when rap and house were together in harmony.   So i made a little re-edit of it and added the JB's for a little extra. free download. please share!

Mike Simonetti - Red Zone dj tool

new edit picture disk 12" entitled "Mike Simonetti’s Circadian Rhythms" -out soon on Public Release 

Mike Simonetti - Giving and Living edit

Mike Simonetti  - Everybody Dub edit

music by Mike Simonetti 
vocals and lyrics by Monty Luke 
New Jersey 12" 
out in the future

New Jersey is Mike's other new label

Billions & Billions - The Dance

track #14 on After Dark 2 .  i wrote this song . dont be swindled

This remix hasnt been made available for years, and is not online anywhere. So, here it is!  free download enjoy!

Mike Simonetti

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