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Some mixes recorded and published between December 2005 and March 2006
2005-12-06 Jackin' Planets Radio Show (@Shouted FM)
A guy asked me if I could provide a guest mix for his show Jackin’ Planets at a Berlin radio station called shouted.fm. Sadly I forgot his name, but he asked me very politely and I liked both the name of his show and the name of the station, so I agreed. To be honest I might have been in the mood to record a mix of some old school techno faves, and I just jumped to the occasion. Anyway, here is the result.
LFO- Freeze
Constant Ritual – Hard Way To Come
Paperclip People – Jerry Lewis (Mayday Mix)
Mark Imperial – I Can Feel The Music (Chicago Street Mix)
Eddie Flashin’ Fowlkes – Liquid Disaster
Gemini – Festival
Cybersonik – Revelation 928
Adolfo – Do I (Ivan Iaccobucci 4 A.M. Mix)
Psyance – Andromeda’s Dance
Laurent X – Drowning In A Sea Of House
KC Flightt – Planet E (Acid Drop Mix)
Chrome – My Reflection
Prince – The Future (Remix)
Octave One – Black On Black
Yazoo – Bring Your Love Down (Didn’t I)
N.Y. House ‘N’ Authority – Fort Green House
Metro – Straphanger
Urban Tribe – Eastward (Forme Remix)
Model 500 – Pick Up The Flow
ABC – The Greatest Love Of All (Mayday Mix)
2006-02-09 The Boo In My Boogie (@Deep Groove)
Some fine folks in the Ruhr area ran a website called Deep Groove, which indeed was a hub for all kinds of deep grooves, and included a lively message board and a good guest mix section. When they asked me for a mix I decided to give them a disco treat. I remember that the mix was pretty popular then, and I am also still really happy with it. It is a good snapshot of the kind of disco I played around Berlin’s disco circuit at the time, which after years of hibernation was growing stronger and stronger. If I may say so, the intro is really something. Mad skills!
Oh, and if you wonder about the title, I nicked it from a George Michael documentary I saw with my friend Stefan Goldmann that year. I liked some early Wham! stuff but I was never too much into his solo career. The only place showing it was a small gay cinema in Berlin-Schöneberg and Stefan persuaded me to join, because he really liked the song Freeek, which I did not like at all. After the film my opinion on George Michael really changed though, and I still have a lot of respect for him. But my favourite moment in the documentary were two elder female fans who were asked what they liked about him. “He’s the boo in my boogie!”, one replied. I could relate to that.
Sinnamon – I Need You Now (Acapella)
René & Angela – I Love You More (Mr. K Edit)
Brenda Taylor – You Can’t Have Your Cake And Eat It Too (Greg Wilson Edit)
The Staple Singers – Slippery People
Dan Hartman – We Are The Young
The System – You Are In My System
The The – Giant
It’s Immaterial – Space (He Called From The Kitchen…)
Thelma Houston – You Used To Hold Me So Tight
Cameo – Back And Forth (Dub Mix)
ABC – The Night You Murdered Love (The Whole Story)
Sleeque – One For The Money
Surface – Falling In Love (Special Extended Danny Krivit Extended Re-Edit)
Evelyn King – I’m In Love
Montana Orchestra – Sal Sold My Beats
Donny Hathaway – String Segue
Arnie’s Love – I’m Out Of Your Love
Michael Wycoff – Looking Up To You
Tafuri – What Am I Gonna Do About Your Love? (Silk On Steel – Extended Mix)
Tony Silvester & The New Ingredient – Verry White
The 5th Dimension – Magic In My Life
2006-02-11 Music From The Crisis Detention Center 1-3 (@Silence Is A Rhythm Too)
Michael, a music enthusiast I got to know on the Discogs message board, had a now defunct blog called Silence is a Rhythm too and asked me if I could provide a mix with something I did not usually publish. So I came up with the idea to do three mixes that contain sad or melancholic songs. The mixes are structured so that they start out really depressing than get a bit less depressing, and end in something vaguely conciliatory. Jan Rikus Hillmann, the art director of de:bug magazine, told me they were world class, which caught me so off guard that I still remember it.
Tuxedomoon – The Cage
Lee Hazlewood – The Night Before
The Prisoners – Mourn My Health
R. Dean Taylor – Sunday Morning Coming Down
Yazoo – Winter Kills
Simon And Garfunkel – So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright
Pet Shop Boys – Your Funny Uncle
Paddy McAloon – Sleeping Rough
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 – Pradizer Adeus (To Say Goodbye)
Liza Minnelli – For No One
Kissing The Pink – All For You
Coldcut – Autumn Leaves
Rose Royce – Love Don’t Live Here Anymore
Jesus Loves You – I Specialize In Loneliness
Dee C. Lee – See The Day
Human League – Louise
The Colourfield – Sorry
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – I’m Glad
Matt Monro – And We Were Lovers
The Zombies – I Remember When I Loved Her
The Carpenters – Rainy Days And Mondays / Goodbye To Love
Walker Brothers – I Don’t Want To Hear It Anymore
Sammy Davis Jr – Love Is Just A Meaningless Word
The Fun Boy Three – Alone
Soft Cell – Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
Issac Hayes – Ike’s Rap II / Help Me Love
Everything But The Girl – Fascination
Julian Cope – Me Singing
Pretty Things – Trust
Echo & The Bunnymen – The Killing Moon
Robert Wyatt – Shipbuilding
Chapter & The Verse – Lorraine (Memphis Listen To Her)
Was (Not Was) – Zaz Turned Blue
Richard Ashcroft – Check The Meaning
Glenn Gregory – Wichita Lineman
Mr. Fingers – Survivor
Style Council – My Ever Changing Moods
Beach Boys – Disney Girls
The Free Design – Memories
Telly Savalas – Looking Back At Thirty
David Bowie – Changes
Bomb The Bass – Winter In July
Marden Hill – Bardot
Go-Betweens – Bachelor Kisses
Cocteau Twins – Cherry Coloured Funk
Elvis Presley – Bridge Over Troubled Water
Aphrodite’s Child – Break
Terry Callier – Love Theme From Spartacus
Rance Allen Group – Ain’t No Need Of Crying
Barry White – Let The Music Play
Ultra Naté – Funny (How Things Change)
Roxy Music – A Really Good Time
It’s Immaterial – Homecoming
Carole King – Home Again
Carly Simon – Coming Around Again
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – The Power Of Love
Madness – One Better Day
2006-03-06 Live At Betalounge
My first appearance at the seminal Betalounge, live at its premises in Hamburg. I was scheduled to play an old school house/disco night in town so I played what I prepared for that. The location was a place were people were usually hanging out in the afternoon before they hit the nightlife, but I had the whole place dancing at some point. I was particularly honoured that many friends and other DJs showed up, including Vienna’s hip hop legend DSL, whom I always really admired.
You really cannot underestimate the impact of the Betalounge. Operating from San Francisco and Hamburg they were the Boiler Room of those days. Just check their vast archive and you will know what I mean.
New Deep Society – Warehouse (Days Of Glory) Acapella
2 House People – Move My Body
Master C & J – Face It
Kym Mazelle – Useless
Willie Colon – Set Fire To Me
Blaze – What’Cha Gonna Do
Denise M – Do You Love Me?
Ulysses – Magic Wand
Raww – Don’t You Try It
Slingshot – Do It Again/Billie Jean
Shirley Lites – Heat You Up (Melt You Down)
Madonna – Physical Attraction
Mark Imperial – The Love I Lost
Set The Tone – Dance Sucker
Alexander O’Neal – Fake
Jamie Principle – Waiting On My Angel
The Puppets – Way Of Life
Heaven 17 – Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry
Victor Romeo – You Can’t Fight My Love
Liz Torres – What You Make Me Feel
J.M. Silk – Music Is The Key
S.O.S. Band – No Lies
Sharon Redd – Love How You Feel
Nightlife Unlimited – Peaches And Prunes
Raz – Amour Puerto Riqueno
Mario Reyes – What Ever Turns You On
Quando Quango – Love Tempo
Change – Angel In My Pocket
Raze – Let The Music Move U
John Rocca – I Want It To Be Real
Pete Shelley – Homosapien II
Mark Imperial – I Can Feel The Music
Rocky Jones – The Choice Of A New Generation
Colonel Abrams – Music Is The Answer
Lime – On The Grid
Blancmange – Blind Vision
Mark Imperial – J’adore Danser
Le Jeté – La Cage Aux Folles
Soif De La Vie – Goddess Of Love
Eastbound Expressway – Primitive Desire
Miquel Brown – So Many Men, So Little Time
J.M. Silk – I Can’t Turn Around
Christian Alexander – Body & Spirit
Kraze – The Party
On The House – Pleasure Control
Rickster – Night Moves
Irving And Romeo – Brighter Day
Sterling Void – Set Me Free
Sterling Void – It’s Allright
The Nightwriters – Let The Music Use You
Victor Romeo – Love Will Find A Way
Shalamar – Right In The Socket
Change – Glow Of Love
Paris Brightledge – Learn To Love
2006-03-28 Train Wreck Mix (@RBMA)
Guest mix for Red Bull Music Academy Radio. I knew people working there and had mixed feelings about contributing, as I was mainly writing for de:bug, which remained independent and limited in terms of budget throughout, whereas the sponsoring of RBMA offered whole other possibilities of content. In short, I was a bit envious of that but would not admit it, and stuck to prejudice. But to be fair, they really made good use of the money. And of course I thought having a mix there would make me instantly famous. It didn’t.
Yoko Ono – It Happened (Edit)
Andy Stott – Long Drive
Precession – Sandcastle (Mike Huckaby Remix)
Isolée – Bleu (Dixon Edit)
Dolby A – Klang
Voom Voom – Oggi
Mute – Basics
As One – The Electric Hymn
Smoke City – Aguas De Marco (Restless Soul Instrumental)
Carl Craig – Butterfly
Foremost Poets – Reasons To Be Dismal (Instrumental)
Romanthony – Make This Love Right (A Parte Ante)
Material – Memories