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Phonica Mix Series 84: Young Marco

The big Essential Mix without the radio droplets. 
Aired: May 22, 2021. 

Recorded live at Partok's apartment in Berlin. 
2x CDJ 2K Nexus. 1x Xone 92 mixer. 1x TASCAM recorder. 

Thanks for everything. 

1. Shiro Sagisu - Tokyo 3 (Milan Records)    
2. Oklou - Fall (Self-Released)    
3. Max Richter - Spring 1 [Nathan’s Vaballsy Edit] (White label)    
4. Auratekh - The Silence (Tursiops)    
5. Dance 2 Trance - We Came In Peace [’91 Mix] (Mega Records)    
6. Visnadi - H-Y-D-E [First Mix] (UMM)   
7. Moonstone - Spectral (Blue Moon Released)    
8. Dum Dum - One Earth Beat [Rhythem of Life Mix] (Whoop! Records)    
9. Alanis Morissette - Uninvited [Brotheres In rhythm Remix] (Warner Sunset)   
10. Momu - Breaker’s Delight (Looq Records)    
11. John Johnson - Impact [Van Bellen Remix] (Marc et Claude’s)    
12. séverine - LOOK HOW HARD IM INTO YOU (Self-Released)    
13. Miss Yeti - La Pression Innovative [Goamix] (Liquid Rec)    
14. Space Safari - Extended Sun (Free Form)    
15. Grain - Does Jesus Have Buddha Nature? [Sømeøne Remix] (Fragrant)   
16. Sawheadz - Don’t Go (Hardline)    
17. Nathan Micay - The Canadian Shield [Loon Song] (Original Schvitz)    
18. Tapestry of Sound - Warp of a Woman (Step Ball Chain)   
19. Instinct - Together (Instinct)    
20. MJ Cole - Sincere [Vocal Mix] (AM:PM)   
21. Westbam & Nina - Oldschool Baby [Piano Mix] (Low Spirit)    
22. Bjork - All Is Full of Love [Howie’s Version] (Elektra)   
23. Analogue Dear - Better Off Alone (Self-Released)    
24. Vanegelis - Tear In Rain (EastWest UK)    
25. Nathan Micay - Industry [Green Light/Fun Night Breaks Mix] (LuckyMe)   
26. Dj Plead - Shoulder Pop (Nervous Horizon)    
27. Endian - Finish Me (secretsundaze)   
28. Cornday - Telemicus (Blox Music)    
29. The Morning After the Rave
30. Sasha - Xpander (Deconstruction)   
31. Reflekt ft Decline Bass - Need To Feel Loved [12’’ Club Mix] (Positiva)    
32. Yuji Nomi - Take Me Home, Country Roads (Studio Ghibli)

Nathan Micay BBC R1 Essential Mix

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.)

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