Mixtape

Roy Thode

Saint

NON-STOP

Groove

May 15th marks the birthdate of one of our favorite DJs - Roy Thode. Technically masterful, pioneering some of the most progressive methods in DJing whilst manifesting an exceptionally educated and tasteful selection of music, Roy Thode is truly an artist when it comes to the craft of DJing. Personally, as DJs, we've learned so much from listening to Roy Thode, 40 years later he continues to inspire us in such relevant ways. 

Roy Thode, a native New Yorker from Long Island, moved to the city in his early 20’s after establishing his DJ skills as a young man growing up in Wantaugh. Roy was perhaps best known for being the DJ for “Saturday Nights at the Ice Palace” in Cherry Grove. His NYC DJ career was highlighted with residencies at both Studio 54 and The Saint however it was the Long Island Gay club scene that fueled and created the foundation for Roy’s illustrious career as perhaps one of the best technical DJ’s of his era.

This mix was recorded at the Ice Palace - in many ways, his home. Being able to share this previously unreleased mix is a tremendous honor for us and we hope you can appreciate this as much as we do. A huge thank you to Marsha Stern for working with us and making this little project a reality.

Roy's Birthday Celebration May 15 2021 with Sound Metaphors

ROY THODE’s Birthday Celebration at the Ice Palace Fire Island - Recorded May 16, 1981

Now live at the Blur Podcasts the Berlin DJ - Almost Famous!

Together with a couple of friends, he organizes and hosts ‘Disko, No Disko’ and 'Not In My House', a recurring club night at Humboldthain Club in Berlin.
Though bringing joy to people on the dance floors of Berlin is what initially drove his love for mixing music, he adapted to the current circumstances by starting to contribute to more and more guest mixes for house and disco lovers to enjoy, wherever they are.

He's our guest for the 45th edition of the Blur Podcasts which is now live on our Soundcloud and Youtube pages!

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Happy Valentine’s Day!
Today it’s a huge honor to be able to share yet another special moment in dancefloor history eternalized by this recording from Roy Thode’s archive, all made possible thanks to his dear friend, Marsha Stern.
Recorded at the Underground on February 14th, 1981, this mix has been stored for just over 4 decades, to think that a spool of microscopic magnetized metal particles will give us the opportunity to re-experience what Roy Thode brought to the floor that night years before many of us were even born is goosebump inducing for us to say the least. At this point there should be no introduction needed to explain the virtuosity of this dancefloor maestro. Roy was a true Disc Jockey in essence, this is what he did, and his unique love for the craft can be heard loud and clear. Undoubtedly one of our biggest inspirations to us as DJs today.
We hope this mix takes you to a very special place because it surely came from one as Roy had self-titled this night “Music From My Heart”.
Let us all be Roy’s Valentine today - Love ❤️

Music From My Heart - Broadcast file

DJ Roy Thode Valentine's Mix - Music From My Heart - The Underground, NYC, 14 Feb, 1981

“Homecoming” is another of the few nights that Roy named. Recorded on the 28th of July at the Ice Palace Disco in Cherry Grove, it commemorates Roy's return to his Fire Island DJ booth after an unfortunate accident landed Roy in the hospital the night before the iconic Beach '79 party in the Pines, which he was scheduled to share the DJing responsibilities for with Howard Merritt and Jim Burgess. I offer this musical journey as a companion to Episode 10 of my The Heartbeat Of The Dance Floor podcast as we delve into this story and many others with a very special panel assembled to Remember Roy Thode on the 40th anniversary of his passing, May 21st 1982.

Roy Thode "Homecoming" Ice Palace Fire Island, Cherry Grove NY July 28, 1979; companion to HBOTDF episode # 10

Roy Thode "Homecoming" Ice Palace Fire Island, Cherry Grove NY July 28, 1979

Here's a mix I did to help ease my post Croatia blues. This year was a particulalry special one for me. I've included a selection of tracks played on the Crazy P vs. El Diablo's Social Club Boat party at The Garden Festival and my Barbarella's set at Electric Elephant where I played alongside the legendary Chez Damier and Rahaan...

TRACKLISTING -

Frank Booker - The Sun - Whiskey Disco Black Ops
André Laos - Detour (Session Victim Remix) - Let’s Play House
Skylevel - Mellow June - Skylevel
Limited Search - Disco & Boogie Classics Vol. 5 - Giant Cuts
Sure Thing - Holding you tight (Instrumental) - Defected
Tim Green - Cherry - Rebellion
Emperor Machine - RMI is all I want - Southern Fried
Popular People’s Front - Arpin On - PPF
Neil Diablo - Give it up - Paper Disco
My Rules #1 - More Fry - My Rules
Lonely Boy - I like disco (Emperor Machine Remix) - Futureboogie
Ghana - Dorsia (HNNY remix) - Loft Records
KZA - Want no other (Musk Remix) - Endless Flight 
DJ Rocca - Let’s go party - (Brioski Disco Remix) - El Diablo’s Social Club
Space Machine - Macumba - Space Machine
Psychemagik - What a funky night - Discotheque Wreckers
Jamie 3.26 & Cratebug - Hit it n quit it - Lumberjack in hell
Soundstream - Inferno - Soundstream
General Ludd - Woo Ha - Mr Saturday Night
Sir Victor Uwaifo - Ohue (Frankie Francis & Sindab Edit) - Sofrito

Neil Diablo - Garden Festival & Electric Elephant Blues Mix

peace to the homie Slot -A for the samples. Joined his group on fb called #BEAT and getting inspired from the heat on there. Enjoy!!! also the new album Bakers Dozen dropped today on Fat Beats

Samurai bump[87]#lo-fi social

SHXCXCHCXSH

SHXCXCHCXSHは結成以来、メンバーの名前や年齢、性別などいっさいの情報を公開せずに、徹底して匿名性にこだわった 活動を行っている、スウェーデン東部のかつての工業都市、ノルチェピング出身のテクノデュオ。ある時ストックホルムで再会を果たした 2人は、互いにテクノのダークでエクスペリメンタルな領域への愛情を共有し、すぐに自然ななりゆきによって、制作活動を共にしながら 自分たちの音楽を進化させていく。彼らの音楽的バックグラウンドは、ヒップホップからロック、ポップスまで広がり、その多様な知識と 経験から形成された、彼ら特有のサウンドとアイディアは、ノイズ、ドローン、グリッチ、ブロークンビーツ、インダストリアルミュー ジックなどの要素の入った、徹底的に妥協なくシリアスなSHXCXCHCXSHテクノを生み出すに至る。
その後SemanticaやSubsistといったレーベルから散発的に作品を発表していたSHXCXCHCXSHは、やがて ShiftedとVentressによるレーベル Avianをリリースの拠点とし、何枚かのEPのリリースでシーンの注目を集めた後、2013年に自らの発音しにくい名前をエッチングしたデビューアルバ ム「STRGTHS」を、続く2014年にはセカンド・フルアルバム「Linear S Decoded」を立て続けにリリースする。とりわけ「Linear S Decoded」は、これまでに彼らが培ってきたパワフルでスリリングなテクノサウンドを少しも損なうことなく、素晴らしく複雑で優れた感受性を湛えた、 新たなるSHXCXCHCXSHの世界を提示、この作品のリリースによって、彼らのシーンでのユニークな位置づけは決定的なものと なった。以後もSHXCXCHCXSHはLIVE PAを中心に精力的に活動を続けており、もうすぐ待望の新作のリリースも噂されている。


-Interview-

-このミックスはどちらで収録したものですか？
自宅でPCを使って制作しました。


-このミックスのコンセプトを教えてください
空を飛んでいる時に聴くミックスかな？


-最近の活動を教えてください。
もうすぐリリースするニューアルバムの制作を除くと 一番やっていたのがライブセット、いろいろあって忙しく過ごしてるよ。


Clubberia Podcast

CB 257 - SHXCXCHCXSH

Getting back from such a great festival you always have lots of great music buzzing around your head. I decided I get these out of my head and on to a mix. It's a selection of tracks which either I played on the House of Disco Boat party or I tracks I heard around the beach stage, the olive stage, Barbs, boats and the excellent sunrise sessions.

TRACKLISTING

KHRURANGBIN - PEOPLE EVERYWHERE (MARIBOU STATE REMIX)
BRAND NEW HEAVIES - STAY THIS WAY (DAVID MORALES LUNAR DUB)
MR FINGERS - WHAT ABOUT THIS LOVE
WHOMADEWHO - KEEP ME IN MY PLANE (DJ KOZE HUDSON RIVER DUB)
ILJIA RUDMAN - IN HER EYES
BELABOUCHE - DEEP SLEEP
SELVAGEM & CARROT GREEN - BRONSKI IN RIO EDIT
MARVIN & GUY - MAKING LOVE
NAPOLEON - STEP ON
PONZU ISLAND - SUPER KOTO
SKATT BROS. - WALK THE NIGHT 
RON&NEIL - YOU FEEL IT
SHMLSS - STAND
DITONGO - WALK BETWEEN THE RAIN
SELVAGEM - CHITTY DISCO
FRANK AGARIO - THE LATER THE BETTER
RAFFAELLO & PALERMO - THE SPIRIT
VO - MASHISA
VAGGIO - DON’T YOU WANT SOME MORE
KRYWALD & FARRER - INNACAMO
RED RACK’EM - WONKY DISCO BANGER
FLIGHT FACILITIES - FEELIN
HUBIE DAVISON - SANCTIFIED
NEAL HOWARD - THE GATHERING
MIDLAND - FINAL CREDITS


LOVE INTERNATIONAL COMEDOWN MIX - NEIL DIABLO

Been a long time, been a long time...

For your ears only...

Enjoy :D



Burn After Listening

Dans La Maison

+++ posted with kind permission of Marsha Stern (copyright holder) +++
...an epic 6.5 hour DJ set by legendary DJ Roy Thode at the even more legendary night club "The Saint" where dance music history was written. This is a special, so-called "morning music" set.

Quote from Tim Lawrence about this:
Robbie Leslie: "At around 6:00 AM, in a ritual that was not replicated in other venues, the DJ would let the final record of the peak set fade, accept applause from the crowd and acknowledge the work of the lighting person and the generosity of the crowd (if indeed the applause was enthusiastic, which wasn’t always the case). After that, the DJ would take the tempo right down and play a set that was commonly referred to as “sleaze” or “morning music”."
[taken from "The Forging of a White Gay Aesthetic at the Saint, 1980-84"]
http://www.timlawrence.info/articles2/2013/7/2/the-forging-of-a-white-gay-aesthetic-at-the-saint-1980-84-dancecult

...and Barry Walters on RBMA:
"As the night progressed, the tempo and intensity increased by tiny, nearly imperceptible increments until climaxing around 6 AM, when the DJ would stop the music and the still-sizeable crowd would applaud as if giving a Broadway cast their standing ovation.

Then the DJ would resume, but at a somewhat slower tempo, and in a more lyrical and romantic style known as “morning music.” In a morning music set, the tempo of the tracks might build again, but typically not their intensity. Instead, DJs programed morning sets to ease dancers off stimulants and take them down an ethereal, more relaxing and soulful path for several more hours. Then the jock would usually take another encore, henceforth playing what many call “sleaze.” Sleaze might be overtly sexual, like Skatt Bros.’ “Walk the Night,” but usually not; its foundation was openhearted R&B; songs of longing, or regret, or sorrow or unmitigated joy.

This misnomer – Leslie emphatically objects to it – was especially deceptive because quintessential “sleaze” selections like Sharon Ridley’s “Changin’” or Viola Wills’ “Somebody’s Eyes” ranked among the evening’s most sensitively arranged tracks. Even when club music lost much of its compositional sophistication as the decade progressed, a “sleaze” set always radiated class. "
[taken from: "Nightclubbing: New York City’s The Saint"]
http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2015/07/nightclubbing-the-saint

Roy Thode - Morning Music at The Saint (6.5 hours!) NYE 1981/82

Originally scheduled to play Paloma March 25th

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finally got around to recording a bedroom session, so dance with your dog... or a safe 6 feet away from others  

cheers!

dancin' with your dog

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Roy Thode - Paradise Garage - 20.10.1979

Part 1 of 4. Midnight to 4:00 AM. Recorded live at Roseland Ballroom, February 14, 1998. Music Joe D'Espinosa. Lights Richard Sabala. 2020 Remaster.

Part 1 | The Saint at Large presents The White Party 1998 | DJ Joe D'Espinosa

Part 2 of 4. 4:00 AM to 8:00 AM. Recorded live at Roseland Ballroom, February 14, 1998. Music Joe D'Espinosa. Lights Richard Sabala. 2020 Remaster.

Part 2 | The Saint at Large presents The White Party 1998 | DJ Joe D'Espinosa

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Come Into My House

Roy Thode - Morning Set at The Saint - 31st Dec Part 1

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We are joined this week by Rhode & Brown, a Munich based DJ and producer duo. Discovering their love for music separately at young age they joined forces in 2010, and they’ve been prominent figures of the House scene ever since. Breaking through with their hit single ‘Wave 100’ in 2018, they’ve been spreading their good vibes and immaculate production globally, touring from Paris to Moscow. And now they’re here to give us a session on the dance floor.

Always looking forward but never forgetting the past we bring you the best in contemporary house and disco. This is Future Disco.

Future Classic 
Tool 2 - Digi

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Birdee featuring Angela Johnson - Something About You

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Future Disco Radio - 045 - Rhode & Brown Guest Mix

For the occasion of my 50th birthday, we hosted a dance party called "Fifty Shades of Neon: Back to the 80s." For three of the four hours, Brandon Hogstad delighted our guests with a nostalgic eighties set. But I couldn't help stepping onto the decks for a portion of the event. I chose to make a nod to the vibe I most enjoyed playing back in the day on an occasion when friends and family came from far and wide to experience the paradise we call The Pines. I was as happy as can be looking out over the beauitful group at The Pines Club on the bay, coming together in dance and celebration. Enjoy!

A Classic Fire Island Vibe | DJ Joe D'Espinosa

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ROY THODE’s Birthday Celebration at the Ice Palace Fire Island - Recorded May 16, 1981

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