Gay Marvine - Bath House Etiquette mix

Free downloadable tribute to the fallen icon we so surprisingly lost this week, for you to play this weekend. Always a visionary, we will never forget him.

Gay Marvine - Years Golden (angel)

Artist: Gay Marvine
EP Title: Bath House Etiquette Vol.2
Label: Bath House Etiquette
Cat: BHE-2


Gay Marvine presents 
Bath House Etiquette Vol.2


A
33 RPM

1 Don't Call The Preacher         5:46  122 BPM
"Love Hangover", Dianna Ross, ,1976

Hypnotic mix of a hypnotic classic. The music references jazz from before WWII and the beat includes second line rhythms, some of Dianna's best vocals, so sultry, almost invoking Bessie Smith. This record has been used since its inception to take people to another plane, where time is eternal, and you are right there in the middle of the groove. This mesmerizing mix highlights the timeless facets of a timeless classic.

2 I Need You Bassgroove         7:13    123 BPM
"I Need You (unreleased Tom Moulton mix)", Sylvester, 1980

This is about as Gay Marvine as it gets. First it was a song, a single, even has another remix single released years later, but still this mix never was officially released. Presumably the original source is a reel to reel, recorded to acetate, later recorded by someone who that acetate was not made for and unofficially released as a "promo mix". A very memorable string pattern and wonderful groove from Sylvester highlighted in a monster bass groove with a glorious arrangement by the legendary Tom Moulton, and edited and remastered by Gay Marvine for your ears and dancefloors here.

B
33 RPM

3 Disco Daily        5:06       130 BPM
"Daily Disco", Yello, Claro Que Si, Raplh, 1981

One of those kind of incredible groove pieces with a slightly wavering pattern that makes you want to climb the walls, driving the energy of the dance floor over the edge and into their minds. Kind of like Yello's take on Pink Floyd's "On The Run", reshaped and remodeled from the original release on the Resident's label.

4 Emerald City           6:04   123 BPM
"Emerald City Sequence", Quincy Jones etc, 1978

Psychedelic symphonic soundtrack disco at its finest. One part of a 3 color sequence, Gay Marvine has highlighted an often forgotten Quincy Jones classic from the original soundtrack to the motion picture of the Broadway musical The Wiz, and transformed it into a psychedelic disco masterpiece.


A1 Don't Call The Preacher

A2 I Need You BassGroove

B1 Disco Daily

B2 Emerald City

Artist: The Fantasy
EP Title: Vol. 14
Label: Secret Mixes / Fixes
Cat: FIX 14

A1 Summer Night in Harlem       6:16
"Harlem", Bill Withers, USA,1971

One of the finest songwriters America has ever seen, Bill Withers crafted this song while he was still working at the factory. Recorded for his debut album, this song was regrettably recorded and arraged according to 1971 standards, with the bass drum almost inaudible, and the arrangement code of pop and soul keeping the song to a criminal 3 minutes. This mix attempts to reverse engineer a Tom Moulton mix of a song that never had one, but deeply deserves that kind of love.

1 Summer Night in Harlem

Artist: The Fantasy
EP Title: Vol. 14
Label: Secret Mixes / Fixes
Cat: FIX 14

A2 If You Want Your Fantasy         6:32 
"Come on People", A.R. & Machines, Germany, 1971

An often overlooked Kraut Rock gem from 71, with a kind of Bo Diddley beat to it. It is possible to listen to the original 3 minute version over and over all day long, so we just made a mix that better facilitates all day listening, as well as the ability to play it on ridiculously powerful sound systems.

2 If You Want Your Fantasy

Artist: The Fantasy
EP Title: Vol. 14
Label: Secret Mixes / Fixes
Cat: FIX 14

B1 I'm Warning You        5:59
"Gardens of the Pure", Chris & Cosey, England, 1984

If you aren't from Chicago, you might not know the original jack groove came from this Throbbing Gristle offshoot. I can only imagine Ron Hardy melting the minds of the Music Box with the original of this. This mix attempts to unleash the full power of the insane monster inside the original of this song. Freaky. And ultra hypnotic.

3 I'm Warning You

Artist: The Fantasy
EP Title: Vol. 14
Label: Secret Mixes / Fixes
Cat: FIX 14

B2 I Like What I Like           7:52
"I Like What I Like (Because I Like It)", Everyday People, Canada, 1971

From the inception of disco, it was pioneering DJs playing 2 copies of this intro to extended it out forever, to get lost in this strange Sly Stone inspired Canadians known as Everyday People tribal jungle intro to "I Like What I Like". Well we like about every song that references Sing, Sing, Sing or Gene Krupa, so this lost gem was begging for a Fantasy reshape, highlighting their weird bird-call-lost-in-the-psychedelic-tribal-rock-soul-eternal dawn of disco moments.

4 I Like What I Like

Secret Mixes Fixes is an "edits" label, classics and obscure gems reshaped and recontextualized for the dance floor. These releases exist as DJ tools.

Secret Mixes Fixes began as an experiment in fixing and editing songs for extended Ableton sets. The idea was to take as many disparate influences that make up the momentum of the Detroit Techno sound, or Midwestern Hot Box DJ sound, that became the Detroit House sound and what not. There is something in there, these unexpected collisions from a city that is already an absurd culture clash, these sparks that give more light to how we got to where we are at now. And instead of being historical, treat this music as it is: fully alive. With the context of the type of DJ sets they were to be, songs, tracks, any weird archival piece that would bring back that feeling of discovery. Like when you first heard "Shari Vari" and were blown away by its unexpected italo influence, Kraftwerk smoothness over the unsteady beat that already sounds like the DJ is finger braking the platter that gives it that total rawness. Secret clues to a fantasy past.

Or maybe like the fifth time you heard "No Way Back" Adventure 2 by The Dells remixed like the Ron Hardy tapes had it mixed. We all want to live in this fantasy past where Larry Levan is playing some Danny Krivit tape edit of some Arthur Russell song that doesn't actually exist.

History should not be dead, the great ideas should continue and mutate. Thus Secret Mixes Fixes gave way to utilitarian fixes of ridiculously off time editing or drum machines and then reshaping songs into new shapes, to be used as DJ tools, just to keep these great ideas alive on the dance floor.

As the label continued, the original intent of documenting some highlights from this DJ sonic collage phase ended. The bizarre energy unleashed from Gay Marvine's deceptively direct edits began to take on their own life -- and for the past few years, Secret Mixes Fixes has served to showcase his ever growing talents and ever more absurd choices for originals that he somehow always manages to turn into total gems that last in your head far after the party is over.

BATH HOUSE ETIQUETTE

Bath House Etiquette is a manual on how to handle Gay Discos. Everyone needs a little inside information. Follow the stairs to the basement, wait on your knees by the sling and wait for Mr. Marvine (to you) for further instructions.

Bath House Etiquette emerged from the cult edits label Secret Mixes Fixes. Secret Mixes Fixes focuses on diverse selection of music towards the larger goal of recontextualizing music that inspired a whole midwestern sound. Bath House Etiquette showcases master editor Gay Marvine's burning Disco side, his journey through the pleasures and perils of gay nightlife.

How do I look in control in only a towel? What do you do with a young lover that is beautiful to look at but trecherous to converse with? Where are all the red hanky bottoms? Best timing for a popper? The right leather harness for your body shape? What do you do when you go to leather party but everybody is dressed up as puppies sniffing each others asses?

Through that exploration and his endless refinement, he gives us his fantasy sound track for that experience. Tracks perfect for rocking the floor, boot blacking, crisco based disco sling fun and other hedonistic orgiastic endevors...

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