QUEEN SAMANTHA - TAKE A CHANCE

Beautiful rare canadian production from 1979. A bubbling, heavily percussive disco burner with hints of a 303 tweaked in an acid fashion alongside an awesome bassline and the soaring psychedelic soul vocal.

queen samantha - take a chance

TURTLE PIZZA CADILLAC - YAM WHO? REWORK

Yam Who? Proudly present their new record label ISM & its debut release from the Parallel Dance Ensemble. Already getting major attention and rightly so the PDE have all the potential to be 2009's underground crossover act. The brainchild of Robin Hannibal from Osuwu & Hannibal fame on Ubiquity Records this is his penultimate creation. Slightly reminiscent of the 80's groups Tom Tom Club, Pop Group and the Bush Tetras but sounding totally futuristic like MIA & or those upstarts the New Young Pony Club please take the time to check out the disco lazer sci-fi jungle video created by multi talented Aleks Sakowski on Youtube. Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFztieTu0H4. Robin's unique talent for quirky catchy & cool as hell perfect pop first caught our attention via the Osuwu & Hannibal 2006 album release on the American West Coast Ubiquity records. When we first heard Robin's new project PDE we flipped as its encompasses all the last 30 years of oddball, manic, funky, progressive & unique music that we admire & love so much. 'Pizza Turtle Cadillac' features Coco Solid, a New Zealand born MC & already a star in her own right who is currently on a worldwide tour. This independent MC has been rocking the airwaves for some time whilst also performing alongside the likes of Sway, Spankrock and SA-RA. The hilarious tongue in cheek joint 'Weight Watchers' again from Coco Solid has all the hall marks of the early Soft Cell material with Cindy Ectasy. Slightly sinister, funny as hell, with a funky lyrical flow and damn sassy too! Rounding up the package are the Yam Who? reworks. Ruff electronic disco funk is the only way to sum up their production for PDE. Retro, futuristic with touches of magic cosmic love dust and already receiving play from James Murphy (LCD), Maurice Fulton, Horse Meat Disco, Faze Action, Lindstrum, Prins Thomas, Metro Area & Daniel Wang.

turtle pizza cadillac - yam who? rework

Monday December 14 - Purple Lounge - Standard Hollywood

BUMBLEBEE UNLIMITED

Bumblebee Unlimited was a studio concept of producers/songwriters/arrangers Gregory Carmichael and Patrick Adams that merged hot disco music with sped up vocals to suggest singing bugs. One track even makes a sly reference to "Fly of the Bumblebee." The vocalists who get "bug-a-zied" include Leroy Burgess and Carmichael.

bumblebee unlimited - i got a big bee

DO IT TO THE MAX

The second release from The Revenge’s limited label imprint ‘Instruments Of Rapture’ brings 6th Borough Project back to cement their edit credentials. "Do It To The Max” is some heavyweight, slo-mo, sleaze funk. The flip sees the vinyl release of “Just A Memory” which was previously only available on 6th Borough Projects L.E.S.S. Productions CD promo. The finale takes The Revenge back to revisit 6th Borough Project’s Jisco Music nugget “Planets” for a stripped-back special 12” disco version.

6th borough project - do It to the max (instruments of rapture)

MIDNIGHT PROWLER MIX

Wendy Carlos & Rachel Elkind - The Shining (Main Title) (edit)

Depth Charge - Castle Of Doom

Gique - Fulci's Rotting Children

Coil - The Hills Are Alive

Dave Ball & Genesis P. Orridge - Sex & the Married Frog

Giorgio Moroder - Lost Angeles

In Flagranti - We Make Love In A House Made Of Glass

Black Devil Disco Club - An Other Skin (Dub Version)

Padded Cell - Triple X Sindrome

Ennio Morricone - Magic And Ecstasy

Cerrone - Supernature

Throbbing Gristle - Hot on the Heels of Love

Patrick Cowley - X-Factor

mr. goodtimes - midnight prowler mix

TALK DIRTY MIX

Del Shannon - Gemini (Pilooski Edit)

Black Disco - Fuego (Lee Douglas Edit)

Canyons - Blue Snakes

Force Of Nature - To The Brain (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)

Alaxander Robotnick - Problèmes d'Amour (Original)

Wide Boy Awake - Slang Teacher

Shit Robot - Simple Things (Work It Out) (Todd Terje Version)

The Dells - No Way Back (Black Cock re-edit)

Loose Joints - It's All over My Face

Giorgio Moroder - Evolution

Roni Griffith - Spys

Rogue Cat - Magic Journey (Todd Terje Remix)

mr. goodtimes - talk dirty mix 6.22.09

SIMPLE THINGS

After the release of “Chasm” and “Wrong Galaxy,” Shit Robot (Marcus Lambkin) had listeners’ ears burning for more.

“Simple Things (Work It Out)” is his much-anticipated new single to be released by his good friends at DFA Records. Born in Ireland, Lambkin was instantly drawn to music, where he augmented his punk rock education of the Buzzcocks and the Dead Kennedys with nights spent wholly entranced with Acid House in the late eighties. Relocating to New York City in ‘92, Lambkin was well on his way to becoming one of the top DJs in New York City when he chanced into meeting future discopunk don James Murphy. Even after Lambkin returned to the continent, his friendship with Murphy continued to develop, evolving into Shit Robot along the way.

In the fine DFA lineage of “Losing My Edge” and “Casual Friday,” “Simple Things” upholds the tradition of DFA ‘talkies,’ coupling body-pulverizing bangers with brain-tickling diatribes. The new track is no different, as it features the steely-eyed

rant of Washington D.C. based iconoclast Ian Svenonius, who has been the voice of such bands as Nation of Ulysses, The Make Up, and Chain and the Gang. Spleening and screeching throughout about robots, singing machines, and the loss of innocence, Svenonius gets matched every step of the way by Lambkin, who shadows that singular voice with an elegant yet gritty array of synthetic genius.

When it came to the task of remixing such a totemic track, Lambkin enlisted two very different men, Serge Santiago and Todd Terje, for the task. For the UK pressing, Santiago --a British based record producer whose talent can most recently be heard on the newest Goldfrapp single-- strips everything down to the acid bassline and a telltale drum tock, pressurizing every component to the point of meltdown, before dropping in a classic piano line to stabilize everything. Originally hailing from Oslo, nu-disco edit-master Terje showcases his remix skills. His subtle yet deft touch here makes his “Simple Things” remix the lynchpin of any disco fanatic’s play list.

With a steady heart-throbbing bass line and an array of startling acidic sounds that build up the dancefloor brick by brick, Shit Robot’s “Simple Things” offers us a glimpse of a futuristic new world, one built not merely by robots, but by Shit Robot.

shit robot - simple things (work it out) (todd terje version)

I LOVE BLACK COCK!

Black Cock Records was the label organized by DJ Harvey and Gerry Rooney back in 1993.

Originally a pair of rave DJs, they stumbled into the white label scene that year with these quirky records which were seminal, and rare disco hits, remixed and pressed on pirate vinyl.

The lift you got in a rave when one of the tracks on the first set of Black Cock Records, The Mystic Slot E.P., was played was incredible. On "No Way Back", a Re-Edit of The Dells original, the vocal refrain of "go out and stay out all night" was akin to having your parents tell you it was alright to freak and party all night long, just like they did 20 years earlier. Brilliant.

The records only got better and better and Harvey and Rooney became legends of the scene. Now Harvey runs the amazing night, Sarcastic Disco, in LA and looks like a degenerate hippy you'd kick as you step over him to walk into the club night, which is one of the hottest out there.

The next Sarcastic Disco party is June 27th! Check here for info and secret location.

the dells - no way back (black cock edit)

SARR BAND - DOUBLE ACTION (SDC RE-EDIT)

"When you think about a Social Disco Club, you inevitably think of people gathering together around disco music. So it was with little surprise that Humberto picked it up as his musical alterego. Being a dj since he was a teenager, Humberto fully understands the ease with which people gather around music, talking, partying, and letting themselves go. He also knows the way that a dj can convey his music to those in front of him, setting a vibe, maintaining a groove. Looking at djs like Larry Levan for inspiration, he soon realised that the message was really in the music. It was the music that made those people gather around. And the music, well, was disco. Disco, especially disco, seemed to express exactly what he wanted to say.

So when it came time to sit down and actually make music, the choice was easy. For Humberto, disco still has a lot to offer and the technological breakthroughs of music production have actually helped to bring disco into the 21st century. Taking advantage of those tools, Social Disco Club's music is now focused on bringing forgotten disco to a new audience, adding his own personal disco touch to it. Be it made in 1970 or 2009, the message is always in the music."

sarr band - double action (sdc re-edit)