Audio from the video recorded for Intergalactic FM Streaming Festival 2021.

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Video by Alex Noelke // IG: marn3n


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Sharlese @ Intergalactic FM Streaming Festival 2021

cheeky summer all wax bumpty bumpty
90s digs, some 2ks, new music by friends
forthcoming (no idea when) JT track rmx by Jamie BIGZ Enns
lots of djm900 echo dubbs n backspins
out 2 all crews
miss sweating w everyone!

DrainoMIXjun.22.2021

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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Produced and written by Zho 
Mixed and mastered by Neve
Back up vocals Angel

Heven (Ft. Angel)

For the third instalment of “Cowboys And The Sounds Of,” an Editorial mix series from longtime contributor @napmusick , we’re treated to the sounds of sad country music and trains passing by. The combination is unexpectedly heart-wrenching, as if the sound of trains bring us back to an era of long goodbyes and far distances. Three years in the making, Rincon’s two hour collection of cosmic country and folk is a testament to the enduring heartbreak and beauty of the genre. 

Daniel Rincon makes music under the moniker @napmusick ,  is one half of Ambein Baby and La Fe, and runs an experimental electronic label @sonidoisla out of Montreal.

Artwork by Rebecca Ladds

Cowboys And The Sound Of Trains - Daniel Rincon

http://blowinguptheworkshop.com/project/ccl

A re-imagination of a mixtape I never finished.

I started putting the pieces of this mix together in early 2018, and stopped after a head injury that made listening to music painful. These songs have gotten me through some of my darkest times, I hope this trip can provide you with some solace in 2020. 

Re-imagined, reorganized, re-edited songs, personal recordings, voice memos, bits of books...from “before,” from now. 

Recordings and music from: Amazondotcom, Ash Ra Tempel, ASMZ, Barefoot, Babyfather, Beautiful Pea Green Boat, Beat Happening, Carmen Maria Machado, CCL/Cecu, COH, Cocteau Twins, The Congos, Drome, The Durutti Column, Echium, Faye Wong, Freeway Fusion, Graham Lambkin, Jana Rush, Jake Muir, Jonathan Fitoussi & Clemens Hourriere, Koñca Taniec, Kelsey Lu, Kuedo, M. Geddes Gengras, Madteo, Miles Davis, Mark Van Hoen, Mark Clifford, Nat, Sky High Diamonds, Second Woman, Siete Catorce, Sun Araw, Tricky, Ulf Lohman, Vince Watson, Wilson Tanner

Blowing Up The Workshop

111 ◆ CCL

Moods welcomes livwutang to the family (@livwutang), a Seattle-based DJ and organizer known for their work with TUF Seattle and blistering, acidic sets. liv takes us downtempo for these long and humid summer nights. For the full tracklist and interview, head to our archive here: https://moods.substack.com/p/moods-27-livwutang

This mix was curated by Crystal Gause. Moods is community-curated and community-supported. By helping us out, you're helping pay for artist commissions, curator fees, merchandise, and materials for parties. Give us a buck, four, or twenty a month here:
https://substack.com/@moods

Tracklist:

Blue Iverson - Jenna’s Interlude
Space Afrika - oh baby
KeiyaA - I Want My Things!
Pink Siifu - step out (prod. deleon)
Dean Blunt - Punk
Shabazz Palaces -  Swerve... the reeping of all that is worthwhile (Noir not withstanding)
Shawty Pimp - Play No Playa (feat. Reddog)
De La Soul - Dog Eat Dog
Ol’ Dirty Bastard - Drunk Game (Sweet Sugar Pie) 
Slum Village - Ooo Wee
Da Brat - Funkdafied 
Cibo Matto - Sunday Part I
Sade - Flow
Zhane - Sending My Love
Erykah Badu - Green Eyes
To Zion - Lauryn Hill

We've paired their work with Sable Elyse Smith, an emerging visual artist based in NYC whose work prods, pricks, and picks apart masculinity and its failure to show up for women, nonbinary, and trans folk. It's a pair we've been waiting to make happen on Moods for quite sometime. To learn more about Sable Elyse Smith, head here: http://sableelysesmith.com/

Moods 27: livwutang

Alias: Dj SCS (@djscs420)
Pronouns: She/Her
Location: Portland,Oregon

Influences: Early rave music, Dune,
Current music Actress, Uniiqu3, 

Affiliations/Residencies/Projects: Uwu Pdx

Favorite Quote:  “When I dare to use my strength in the service of my vision — then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” Audre Lorde

Advice for the DJs, artists and producers of our community: “Why not you?” Even though you may not be represented in something that you are interested in. It doesn’t mean you aren’t worthy or you shouldn’t pursue your dreams. If others are reaching for things you want you should reach too. Why not you?

With this mix please learn more about and consider donating to: 
Snack Bloc (https://snackbloc.party/)
Taking Ownership PDX (https://takingownershippdx.com/)
Tournament Haus (instagram.com/tournament.haus)

Daisychain

Daisychain 134 - DJ SCS

Late Sept edition of Fifth World just in time for Fall featuring a guest mix from my boy Matt Lawson aka @secret-colors - who brought some heaters starting at :20. Enjoy :)

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