I've just recently found this one out: Italian Super Value-edit series is hosting pretty much all their songs on their Soundcloud page. Some of you might still remember that we featured their Boogie Over the World on one of our earlier mixes. The rest sound real dope too.
Here's a little confession: I've been overdosing on music since I was 18 or something. I've never really kept the thing under control since, listening music nearly all the time I've been awake. Of course, for me, music genres have come and go. Last year or so, I've been drawn more and more to disco - which seems to be the trend in modern dance music in general, as well.
And what is really strange: suddenly this music, a music that is nowhere near to being recognized as something other than a funny fad that your parents went through before settling down, seems like an endless well of good tracks. Every week I discover a few amazingly constructed, rhythmically sound and incredibly humorous/touching songs. It was a weird era, all the amazing jazz and soul players coming together to make extremely functional and liberating music. Of course, a lot of campy watered down pop with a disco beat was produced too, but you really can't play crappy stuff like that to a dancefloor. Maybe a dancefloor didn't make the distinctions between where the music came from, but it certainly did regarding to how good and danceable it was - if you feel it then you dance, simple as that, no excuses, no reasoning how respectable the artist was. People think doing disco gave a free pass to do crappy stuff with a monotonous beat, but that's faaar from the truth.
Here's a little rundown of late disco-veries:
And this last I just had to include here, for all the haters:
It's always good to start a blog post about communication between a dj and audience with a referential post title only a handful will get.
I wonder this a lot: what do people get out of these songs I post here and what do they get when we play our records in a club? I mean, we really are playing some disco and house records that used to have really big significance back then for the dancers who were seeking to dance/jack away their worries and find some kind of safe haven in the socially mixed dancefloor. People tend to say disco/house records aren't saying anything, but they're taking them out of their context. On the dancefloor they meant a lot, a possibility to enjoy freely your body outside the restraints of oppressive and depressive world.
I'm by no means saying I would personally totally get what the songs we pump are seriously_really_about. And of course the times have changed, too. Still, quite an interesting question. Here's Greg Wilson telling about the old times.
These must be some of the themes the late night radio djs are also wondering. "Is there anybody listening? Are they getting something out of this music?"
Dammit, I always find myself in the same situation at the end of the month: a few days to hustle some big money to cover my bills. Yeah, this is the life when you have no real job but shitloads of low paid freelance oddjobs, combined with studying and organizing this collective dj effort.
Here's a well known rare rap classic I listen to when I feel like today. From the Iceland CD which goes around 60 bucks nowadays. That's one of the things I can't hope to afford.
We'll be hosting a Pro Evolution Soccer tournament with the chiptune pioneers of Turku. They run a gaming/game-related monthly club called Lisäelämä (1 UP). So, after and before the tournament we'll be joining forces with them in the dj booth. It's all free fun and we'll pitch in a special prize for the winner of the tournament as well.
We are probably going to dig deep into our more electric stuff to go with the chiptune/electro tunes the Lisäelämä guys master. Maybe I'll go somewhere between this and this.
I had an OMG-level disco experience last weekend. I promise to do a blog post about it later on!
Well, today I thought about posting something else than disco/house. This one's a definite soul piece with a slow burning, hasteless feeling. I love how it envelopes you in the sweetness.
It's gonna be a hectic September, I tell you. We're looking at a month when we'll be delivering a gig once a week around Turku and Helsinki. It's pretty much we're we wanted to be, so big thanks to all the good promoters who have put faith in us.
The first gig is gonna be already next Saturday. The good people of Zondag are organizing a screening of Saturday Night Fever in Turun Klubi and they kindly asked us to come and spin some disco for the evening. Of course we accepted.
I've been talking to Ripatti about the evening and we're both pretty juiced to be able to focus just on old disco favorites and cult classics. I definately feel it'll be a good chance to show a different, more interesting side of disco to the glossy world of SNF.
