Welcome to the feathered brotherhood who join me today for Episode 47 of the Radio Owlsnest syndicated blockbuster world dominating songwriter podcast series … Ahhh - not really.  In truth, it’s remained an intimate, small, close knit village concern which has been lovely for me to host over the last few years.  So thank you to you “OwlHeads” who have given me your ears so consistently and graciously.

 I’ll start proceedings off by playing a very rare demo I wrote with fine female lyricist Terry Cox, which surprised me how ‘Elton John’ it sounded after all these years.  I was beginning to write with Bernie Taupin at that time and I think the aesthetic was rubbing off on me a little.  Dusting this demo off after all these years was illuminating to me.

I’ll spin a track I’m preparing for volume 3 of my, “The Poetry of Collisions” demo/odds and sods compilation series/releases; a song title that refers to the suffering-laden cyclic nature of death and reincarnation - no beginning no end … Bugger me, that sounds heavy and fun!  But have no fear my friends, my song relates to a beautiful woman and lover.

And it’s my great pleasure to play a track in progress - an unheard song I was writing with the great Wang Chung man Jack Hues.  I was watching the Beatles, “Get Back” documentary recently (again), and was fascinated at how Paul McCartney conjured up the song, “Get Back”, from nowhere; It made me remember a track I was writing with Jack - how we were creating it ‘live’ and organically on the spot.  It’s called “Big Cathedral” and it’s a great track we never finished; I’ll play you it’s very birth, warts and all.  It’s a great illustration of how inspiration hits as you jam - improvise - perform.

My motivational talk this month is about just that, ‘Motivation’!  What motivated me to be a songwriter?  What drove me on,  what inspired me to dig deep and to make my dream materialize;  what made me never give in when disappointment reigned - what was the essence of my desire.  I think a few of you budding song crafters out there might find this section of the show a touch interesting.

Scurrying around the dark song archives, I found a terrific demo I wrote and recorded with the mighty Clif Magness, a track eventually recorded by Eric Martin for a movie soundtrack.  It’s hard to believe it’s an 8 track analog demo - such is Clif’s magnificent production values and lead singing.  Sometimes the demo beats the master!

And amongst other ditties from my demo song vaults, I’ll play a brand new song I’ve just finished for a forthcoming solo album I’m preparing.  I’m very proud of this new piece - it has a personal psychological spirit about it ... I hope you like it.

It’s time for you to become an “OwlHead” again.
Settle back - enjoy the show.
Martin 🦉

Radio Owlsnest Episode 47 - On Air with Martin Page

This is the fifth of a multi-volume journey through my earliest musical memories - tracks that I loved or made an impression on me while growing up.

These polished memories are from High School and early college years mostly. I went from a New Wave kid to a full on punk in these years. Had a Mohawk and loved Dead Kennedys but still woke up to the radio and MTV was going strong and playing only videos.  At Colgate I DJ'd for four years on WRCU alternative radio.

After each track I credit the underlying work and the year of its release.

I am a House DJ, so all of the tracks I have acquired over the years, be it vinyl or digital, are remixed at dance floor bpm so get up and dance!

Let me know what tracks are your favorites. Enjoy the white labels, remixes, and bootlegs that you won't find anywhere else.

DOWNLOADS ARE ON!  Share with family and friends.

Dedicated to my kids, Michael, and Charlotte. I hope they find joy in the music and fond memories of me and their own childhood in this collection.

Don't Sleep!!!

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Memories vol. 5
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New Order "Bizarre Love Triangle" (Shep Pettibone 12" Remix) (1986)
Acraze "Funky Town" (Extended mix) - reworks Lipps Inc. "Funkytown" (1980)
Company B "Facinated" (re-recorded & remastered) (1987)
Whitney Houston "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" (Iriso Studio mix) (1987)
INXS "Need You Tonight" (Insider Traitors remix) (1987)
Love and Rockets "So Alive" (Original mix) (1989)
Depeche Mode "I Want You Now" (Kaskade remix) (1987)
808 State "State Of The Future”9 - remixes 808 State Pacific State (1989)
The Human League "(Keep Feeling) Fascination" (Kaskade remix) (1981)
Dino Lenny, The Housemartins "Flag Day (Change The World)" (West London Deep remix) (1986)
Talk Talk "It's My Life" (Stunk of Punk remix) (1984)
Wang Chung "Dance Hall Days" (Kim and Buran Disco mix) (1983)
2 People, ABC "The Look of Love" (2 People House Mix) (1982)
Talking Heads "This Must Be The Place (Native Melody)" (Kaskade remix) (1983)
Inner City "Good Life" (Pure Filth 2003 remix) (1988)
A Guy Called Gerald "Voodoo Ray" (Original mix) (1988)
Living In A Box "Living In A Box" (Funk Bangers remix) (1987)
Lervis! "West End Girlz" (Lervis! Vocal) - remakes Pet Shop Boys “West End Girls” (1986)
Ready For The World "Oh Sheila" (re-recorded and remastered) (1985)
Sade "Smooth Operator" (White Label) (1984)

Memories vol. 5

DJ Matt e Starr - Memories vol. 5

Artist: Wang Chung
Album: "Points on the Curve"
Original Release Date: 1983

I do NOT own the rights to this material, nor do I claim to do so. Copyrights belong to their owners. We only spread their work, without any commercial spirit.
Thank you and enjoy it!!!!

To learn more material from this DJ/Producer, I invite you to activate the # Johnson Somerset tab.

Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days (Johnson Somerset Remix)

BOILD-011

Wang Chung - Let's Go(Bootleg2023 Remix)

80's MIX VOL. VIII - JOURNEY BACK IN TIME SESSIONS (EPISODE 35)

igor botur - lazy monday xxix

After 37 years, Baxie finally gets to set the record straight with Jack Hues of Wang Chung! After being forcibly ejected from a Wang Chung show in 1987 speaks with Jack about that night and how he was unfairly implicated by The Beastie Boys!  Jack then talks about the band, the hits, UFO's, new music, and about the "Abducted by the 80's Tour" (with Naked Eyes, The Motels, Animotion, and Men Without Hats).  It's an amazingly stirring redemption tale that you should not miss!  Available on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, Spotify, and on the Rock102 website!

Brought to you by Metro Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram of Chicopee!

(Ep. #178) Jack Hues from Wang Chung/Interview

After 37 years, Baxie finally gets to set the record straight with Jack Hues of Wang Chung! After being forcibly ejected from a Wang Chung show in 1987 speaks with Jack about that night and how he was unfairly implicated by The Beastie Boys! Jack then talks about the band, the hits, UFO's, new music, and about the "Abducted by the 80's Tour" (with Naked Eyes, The Motels, Animotion, and Men Without Hats). It's an amazingly stirring redemption tale that you should not miss! Available on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, Spotify, and on the Rock102 website!

Brought to you by Metro Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram of Chicopee!

Baxie's Musical Podcast: Jack Hues from Wang Chung

Lyrics by Wang Chung

Meet me in a restaurant
Meet me on the top of the world
Meet me and we'll talk
The language of love

I'll meet you anywhere you want
I'll meet you on a ballroom floor
Meet me and we'll float
To a level above

I wish you'd drop
What you're doing
And get on the case
We could blow this existence
Right out into space
And share a sweet isolation

Let's go there today
Go today, go today
Every way, anyway

Oh, let's go
Let's go, baby
Let's go, baby, come on
Let's go, baby
Let's go, baby, come on

Take your cue from now
I'm saying, baby, let's go
Will you listen to me
I'm saying, baby, come on now
Let's go 'cause
We can't hold back no more
There's no way

Meet you on a mountain top
I'll meet you at the end of the block
As long as we can talk
The language of love

I'll take you in my arms again
I'll take you to the edge of time
Together we can reach
For the heavens above

I wish you'd drop what you're doing
And get on the case
So we could blow this existence
Right out into space
And share a sweet isolation

Let's go there today
Go today, go today
Every way, right away
Oh, let's go
Let's go, baby
Let's go, baby, come on
'Cause baby I want your love
Let's go, baby
Let's go, baby, come on
'Cause baby I'm sayin'

Take your cue from now
I'm saying, baby, let's go
Will you listen to me
I'm saying, baby, come on now
Let's go 'cause
We can't hold back no more
There's no way

Meet me on the dance floor
And we'll dance to the rhythm
(Dance to the rhythm)
Get your feet in motion
And we'll dance to the rhythm
Dance to the rhythm
Dance to the rhythm of love, whoa

Oh, let's go
Let's go, baby
Let's go, baby, come on
'Cause baby I want your love
Let's go, baby
Let's go, baby, come on
'Cause baby I'm sayin'
Take your cue from now
I'm saying, baby, let's go
Will you listen to me
I'm saying, baby, come on now
Let's go 'cause
We can't hold back no
Let's go 'cause
We can't hold back no
Let's go 'cause
We can't hold back no more
There's no way

Let's go, baby
Let's go, baby, come on
Let's go, baby
Let's go, baby, come on

Let's go, baby
Let's go, baby, come on
Let's go, baby
Let's go, baby, come on

Let's Go

Are you captivated by the synth-driven tunes of the 80s and the visionary world of ‘Blade Runner’? Imagine, for a moment, Wang Chung’s ‘Dance Hall Days’ reverberating through the neon-lit, rain-slicked streets of that dystopian universe. That’s precisely the soundscape I’ve endeavored to recreate. This project, born out of sheer curiosity and a dash of nostalgia, is my ode to an era and a film that continues to inspire. Dive into this auditory adventure, and I hope it resonates with you as much as it does with me.

Wang Chung Dance Hall Days Deconstructed

MIXED/PRODUCED BY JUSTIN VAUGHN SCHWEIGERT
9/29/2024

THE SONGS SAMPLED IN THIS ARE:

SISQO "THONG SONG"
*NSYNC "POP"
CHIC "LE FREAK"
MICHAEL JACKSON "SMOOTH CRIMINAL"
BILLY OCEAN "GET OUTTA MY DREAMS, GET INTO MY CAR"
BEE GEES "YOU SHOULD BE DANCING"
HADDAWAY "WHAT IS LOVE"
BILLY OCEAN "CARRIBEAN QUEEN"
PET SHOP BOYS "SHOPPING"
THE PROCLAIMERS "500 MILES"
WANG CHUNG "EVERYBODY HAVE FUN TONIGHT"
PET SHOP BOYS "WEST END GIRLS"
BONE THUGS N HARMONY "THUGGISH RUGGISH BONE"
RICK ROSS "HUSTLIN"

Mainstreams Vol. VIII - 9/29/2024

1982 Revisited. Tommy is still recovering from yet another autoimmune disease, but he’s asked us to rethink his sax licks for Huang (sic.) Chung’s ’Dance Hall Days.’ He never got the credit deserved for his contribution to that hit from the 1980s, made up on the spot when he arrived late for a recording session. C’est la vie, C’est la guerre, C’est le Rock’n’Roll. Without Tommy’s ‘steam saxes’ he and Dáithí have had to rely on Yamaha YDS-150 and YDS-120 digital saxes to create the horn section. Nothing of them is quantised or sequenced, which is why one of them plays a bum note on the outro, but we liked it, so kept it in. Forty-three years later we’ve taken a harmonically and stylistically different approach to these licks, recalling the popularity of dub reggae back in our formative years, not forgetting ubiquitous tape echo and ever-present threats of racist violence. Even the Huang’s used the Roland RE-201 Space Echo for their earlier live shows, before digital took over. Springs and magnetic tape – Ah! those were the days. Before that we used to rig up two Revox machines to create tape delay for our electroacoustic dub experiments at the Edinburgh Fringe and Albany Empire in 1979. Tommy assures us that these and the other musical quotes (Spencer Davis Group and Cream) are legally unproblematic as either he owns the copyright (uncredited) or the music can be readily compared with ‘prior art’. This adapted title is ever so clever, huh!

Dancehall Days

Flürb is a House & Techno goblin.

Flürb is Mark L. Bennett & Matt Yankovich.

Portland, OR is home to Flürb.

Flürb is love.

"𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔" 🎶


🎼 ENGLISH : In this site, you'll find new remixes and reworks of 70's, 80's and 90's classics. And some  surprises about new music! 🎵
The idea is to show the work of talented DJ's and independent producers of all over the world 🌎
We upload content weekly, hope you enjoy it! 🎧

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"𝑳𝒂 𝒎𝒖́𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒂 𝒆𝒔 𝒎𝒂́𝒔 𝒔𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒒𝒖𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒔" 🎶

🎼 ESPAÑOL : En este sitio encontrarás nuevos remixes y reelaboraciones de clásicos de los 70, 80 y 90. ¡Y algunas sorpresas sobre nueva música! 🎵
La idea es mostrar el trabajo de talentosos DJ's y productores independientes de todo el mundo 🌎
Subimos contenido semanalmente, ¡esperamos que lo disfrutes! 🎧

Baxie talks to music legends, up and coming artists, producers, authors, record executives, and more! Listen on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, Spotify, and on Rock102.com!

Rock 102 Morning Show Podcasts - Rock 102 - 102.1 WAQY-FM Springfield, Ma!  Bax & Nagle Daily Show Podcast, Baxie’s Musical Podcasts, Steve Nagle Minds Your Business.

Marabi O'Hare: born in Cape Town but of Irish and Breton origins. Keyboard player, trombonist, former civil engineer (failed), merchant seaman, Celtic activist and teller of tall tales about his sojourns in New Orleans, Liverpool, Macau and psychiatric hospital.

Tommy Hogg: sax player and clarinettist with Don Rendell's Big Band back in the 1970s, before joining the original lineup of Huang Chung, jumping ship when they sailed West and went Wangy. Anglo-Irish Republican. Retired Professor of Music & Multimedia at the Royal College of Music, an institution for which he has barely-concealed contempt.

Dáithí Ó Dubhghaill: bass guitar, sax and music production, now struggling with hearing loss and a gammy leg. Irish Republican activist of Viking origins from the 11th Century. Licensing enquiries to Dáithí at: daveydoyle263@gmail.com

The banner is a painting by Percy French, who in his youth composed the music-hall song 'Abdul Abulbul Amir'... . Tiocfaidh ár lá

Join MARTIN PAGE, world-renowned hit songwriter and singer/solo artist (“We Built This City”; “These Dreams”; “King Of Wishful Thinking”; “In The House Of Stone And Light”), for this revealing hour-long “behind-the-scenes” songwriter podcast. Martin delves into his extensive song archive to play you rare versions of his hit songs, as well as previously unheard demos, various “odds and sods”, wild sonic experiments and even brand new material! Hear all the stories behind the songs and the intriguing tales of his collaborations with the “who’s who” in the music business - from the 80’s right up until now.
 
A must for any serious fan of the “craft of songwriting” and the sheer joy of creating, come hibernate with Martin in the OwlsNest.

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