Hola! Me llamo 'Erik'...

My very first Disco Horror post! How exciting, amirite? Just want to say thanks to Ash and Max for welcoming me aboard the discohorror.blogspot.com company yacht, even though I already blew that Best Buy giftcard on the new Lionel Richie album (it has Akon on it!). Anyway, I figure I need to introduce myself a bit 'round these parts, but sometimes you can only express yourself through SONG. So allow me to introduce you to my new favorite jam, one that will no doubt end up as the soundtrack to epic summers around the world this year, the Tiedye mix of DJ Kaos' "Love the Night Away".

DJ Kaos - Love The Night Away (Tiedye Mix)

DFA and Rong recently issued the 12" vinyl release, which includes the original- a solid nu-disco banger in its own right, an instrumental version of the original, and this magical yachted-out Tiedye mix. You may remember Tiedye from their "Nothing Else Matters" 12 inch, or their remix of Rubies' "I Feel Electric," both released last year on Italians Do It Better. All of the mixes are good, but the Tiedye remix puts those gruff crooner vocals in their proper context- which happens to be a champagne-drenched balearic beach party. The lyrics are so ridiculous I can't help but smile on each listen and wish that I was actually listening to the tune on a sunrise-lit beach somewhere in the Spanish Riviera.

Another mega-jam of mine this past month or so comes from Beautiful Swimmers, a DC-based outfit with a slammin 12" out on the Future Times label. One side of the vinyl is designated for a theme-song of sorts, "Swimmer's Groove," which I swear samples "Wax the Van" by Lola (feel free to correct me here anyone) and can also be found on their excellent 'Lifeguardians' mix at the Future Times site. However, the side I favor the most holds a tune by the name of "Oh Yea" and features some great slo-mo new-beat drums and fx.

Beautiful Swimmers - Oh Yea

The duo have also prepared an excellent, rather psychedelic, exercise-themed music video for the track, which really drives the whole thing home if you ask me.

Finally, in order to fully introduce myself to Disco Horror readers out there, I have included a recent mix of mine that you all may very well dig. I did it solely with vinyl, and it's veers between EBM, oddball disco, slo-mo edits, and italo- here's the tracklist:

BEARDOBEAT Mix

Unfinished Business – Out of My Hands (Revenge Edit)
James Carmichael + Instant Funk – I Got My Mind Made Up (Instrumental)
Chocolette – Tell Me (That You Like It) (Party Mix)
The Popular People’s Front – My Baby Stays Out All Night
Les Edits du Golem – Eden Rock
The Tribe – Jungle Rock
Mark Shreeve – Legion (Space Mix)
Chris + Cosey – Arkade
Pankow – Girls + Boys (Betty Botox Edit)
Laid Back – White Horse
Severed Heads – Greater Dub (Hardway Bros. Edit + FX)
Tiger + Woods – Come Down
It’s A Fine Line – Woman (A Makhnovschina Reposession)

Love is all you need

Forgive the hippie title, but I was getting tired of Happy blah blah blah holiday titles for blogs and felt like being cheesy. But that's besides the point, I finally managed to get a recording I'm moderately pleased with of this mix I've been conjuring up over the last few months. It has a few shaky mixes, but it's chocked full of some of my favorite tracks, disco edits and originals with some newer material thrown in for good measure. It was one of those annoying mixes where I starting stringing tracks together and then spiraled into something completely different about a hundred times before I chose the tracklist. This one is meant for the more upbeat bearded nights so enjoy!

Fear The Beard Mix


Jacques Renault - Bad Skinned Effect // RVNG
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Please Mrs. Henry // Polydor
Hell Vice - Crawfish (Pilooski Edit) // Dark & Lovely
Soft Rocks - Slowdown // Soft Rocks
L.E.B. Harmony - Feeling Love // Elaste
Sylvia Love - Extraterrestrial Lover (JAZ Edit) // Beard Science
Mighty Pope - Sweet Blindness // Warner Bros.
Gordon's War - The Rock Is Gonna Get You // Rusty's Dusty Disco
Douglas Sound - Do Right // Wurst
C. Denner - Not The Indian // Moxie
Loud-E - Y.O.Y. // Ambassador's Reception
Bonar Bradberry - Tumbledown // Mindless Boogie
Jackmaster Dahle - Vesuvio (Prinsens Disko Deluxe) // Full Pupp
Mudd & Pollard - Scaffold // Claremont 56
Nite Jewel - Artificial Intelligence // Gloriette Records

Gobble Gobble

Before I sit down and enjoy my turkey dinner I would like to share with you a mix I made last week for my good friend Randell's radio show at UCSD. He is a strong ally to the balearic, disco and house contingent, playing great tracks weekly. He is particularly a fan of all things Daft Punk (in fact we attended the church of robots in Vegas last October together), regularly posting their remixes and all sorts of other music that Bangalter and Guy-Manuel have conjured up over the years. A short while ago Randell asked me to put a mix together and so I came up with this downtempo disco-rockish minimix and I thought I would share it with you on this day to give thanks. Randell played the mix on his show on Monday (his show is every Monday at 3-4pm and you can stream it here), but for those of you who missed it or would like to listen again here it is, enjoy and have a lovely turkey day!

Blow It Slow Minimix

Tracklist:
1. Woolfy vs. Projections - Carry On / Permanent Vacation
2. Les Edits du Golem - Pyramide / Golem
3. The Salsoul Invention - Soul Machine (Additional Edits by Dølle Jølle) / Eskimo Recordings
4. Major Swellings - Swingende Bjeller / Noid Recordings
5. Ian Hunter - Bastard (A Mountain Of One Rework) / Not On Label
6. Lovefingers - Kentucky / RVNG Intl.
7. Unknown - Sir Mr Dr Love / Golf Channel Recordings
8. Vangelis - Let It Happen / Vertigo

Most of these tracks are edits or reworkings, and for those interested "Pyramide" is an edit of Ahmed Fakroun's "Nisyan" and "Swingende Bjeller" is an edit of Hot R.S.'s "Slow Blow". I'm pretty sure the Lovefingers track is an edit, but I do not know the original and I am also not sure of the original of "Sir Mr Dr Love", so if you can help with identifying them I would be much appreciated!

Sunset Stands Still Mix

Even though I've posted this on facebook already, I originally wanted to begin the blog with this short mix I made about a month ago.

Sunset Stands Still Mix

1. Kuniyuki - Touch (A Mountain of One Peyote Mix) / Mule Musiq
2. Reverso 68 - Piece Together (Todd Terje Spinning Star Mix) / Eskimo Recordings
3. Tony Allen - Nepa Dance Dub / Compost
4. Talking Heads - Slippery People (Remix Extended Version) / Sire Recordings
5. Rollmottle - Take A Break (Maurice Fulton Remix) / Sonar Kollektiv
6. Low Motion Disco - Things Are Gonna Get Easier (Windsurf Remix) / Eskimo Recordings
7. Mock & Toof - k-choppers / DFA
8. Ytre Rymden Dansskola - Afterski (Magnus International Remix) / Full Pupp
9. Tullio De Piscopo - 'E Fatto 'E Sorde! E? (Maxessa Edit) / Strut
10. Sammy Barbot - Mexico (Lovefingers Barrio Edit) / Blackdisco
11. Mark E & Dragon - Good Times (Prins Thomas Diskomiks) / Internasjonal
12. Farah - Law of Life (Midnite Remix) / Italians Do It Better

Also check out the RA podcast this week by Heartbreak. It's a mix of italo, old-school techno, horror pic samples, and other danceable goodness.

More mixes to come...