Let me drop a Top 10 for tomorrow

Peffis Disco Top 10 for November

Ju Par Universal Orchestra - Funky Music
San Ul Lim - It Was Probably Late Summer
Kirka - Liikaa Stadiin
Kid - You Don't Like My Music (Vocal)
Manolo - Night Rhythm
Mungolian Jetset - Moon Jocks n Prog Rocks - Montezuma`s Revenge Version
Dennis Parker - I'm a Dancer
Midnight Movers - Follow The Wind (Danny Krivit edit)
Two Tons O' Fun - Just Us
Ma.gi.c. - Shampoo 12" (vocal)

Lot of funky disco old & new, from all around the globe. Let's disco rock tomorrow.

- Peffis

Party triathlon

Still recovering from last weekend at Flow (and from a nasty flu). Let's hope for a speedy recovery since we have a three days of DWTF activity ahead. Party triathlon if you will.

Tomorrow (Thursday) we have U-lympialaiset, a completely new set of outdoor activity near Kioski. Come there and listen to the music and try to top the scores in 6 games.

Here's the facebook for that. Completely free, loads of good artists/djs and funny games.

Then Friday we have the more pop-oriented gig at Bar Kuka where Yellowbrenda will charm us with their live set. We've had a good run of poppy easylistening nights there, so I'm expecting it'll work like jam on toast.

Facebook yourself here.

Then to top it all of on Saturday, we have our own night at Dynamo. Disko goodness all night long. Reserve places for yourselves here. I'll definitely play this Danny Krivit edit there:



If I see someone doing the full routine from Thursday to Saturday with us, I'll offer him/her a beer or something nice. We have much <3 for our hardcore fans. - Peffis

Love is the message

I did an interview Tuesday for a local paper. It's a series called "Record shelf raid", so I dug out some of my favorite records and talked about the role of music in my life. I also answered a lot of questions about disco, and these two of the questions got me thinking: "do you see any social messages on the music you play" and "what about the aspect of irony regarding disco".

I'm not a good interviewee, so I answered that it's problematic to just see social messages in song lyrics. I tried to refer to classic views on how disco music brought people together in the dancefloor and helped loose the relations between people from different backgrounds. It was a way too theoretical answer to give, but there's some logic behind it: there's not that much of deeper meaning to be found on disco lyrics - there are some exceptions of course - but I firmly believe there's loads of meaning and massive amounts of talent in the musicianship behind disco cuts. Those musicians were from hardworking jazz backgrounds and had the possibility to pursuit a full-time musical career - made less and less possible today by file sharing -, so I doubt we will see as talented generation of music any time soon. Even if I love to dig the weirdest and dumbest disco - and people who go out to a club want to listen to those cuts to loosen up -, I still like to emphasize the musical aspects of the good disco. Next time you listen to a disco cut, go ahead and listen if every instrument takes turns in jamming it out on the beat - a bit like in jazz.

Here's a prime example and quite aptly named. Edited by the great Danny Krivit.



Man, I should get this record, it's not aging at all.

- P-Funk