should i post audio samples??

tim and jacques both mentioned that i should post audio samples of the songs... what do you think? post some comments and we'll see how it goes. if enough of you want audio maybe i'll add audio. but if noone comments, i'll continue as it is. peace in the middle east.

KILLER KUTS #16

I always preffered the 7" version of "Bellhead" over the album version. It was re-recorded a while after the 12" came out. Its much tighter and a little faster, and more "groovy" (what a lame word!!), but definitely has more of a groove. the b-side is a re-recorded version of "Push" that is also a little faster. The story behind this 7" is that there was a local NYC bar with a jukebox and Liquid Liquid wanted their record in the jukebox, so they re-recorded these songs and pressed a few up. Legend has it 150 copies were pressed, and only about 20 have the small hole, since most were punched out for jukeboxes. The catalog # is 99-11EP7, for all you nerds out there.

BUT- this isnt the only Liquid Liquid 7" out there. There is a 7" by the band "Liquid Idiot", which is pre-Liquid Liquid, and is more of a noise record (its not on 99- its self released). Maybe i'll dig it out and scan that shit for you as well.

KILLER KUTS #15

So, Benguin was at my house and he was looking through my shit and he pulls this out and he's like "this is good!" and i was like "yeah, it is, but i have too many records and i lose track of shit".
Well, Ben was right. This shit smokes hard. People tend to label this 'Latin Disco', but to be honest i dont really get it. Granted, Guarare is indeed related to the Guarare Orchestra- the Latin combo that was popular in the 60's and 70's.. But this is pure 100% heavy and hard driving disco! The break in the middle has one hell of a sick bass line. The bass line is HARD, and it goes on for a long time. OK, i hear the Latin influence, but it is definitely more disco to me.

GLASS CANDY / CHROMATICS live in NYC this weekend!!!!

hello NYC:
come out to these shows. we had to add a second show since the first one was pretty much sold out. there is a Brooklyn show and NYC show. go to both, expect 2 different sets. pick up th enew tour cdrs by both bands...

Fri Sept 29 at Don Hills NYC - tim sweeney and mike simonetti djing. $10 almost sold out
Sat Sept 30 at Studio B in Greenpoint (Banker St btwn Calyer and Meserole)- mike simonetti, jdh, and jacques renault djing. $5 to get in!!! cheap door for the punks.


Studio B has a killer soundsystem, btw.

KILLER KUTS #14

Do a Google search on these dudes, its a mile long. I have been on a huge Rinder & Lewis binge lately. Can't get enough of them. They wrote some of the greatest disco songs of the time. Plus, all of their records have a similar cover scheme... Extremely prolific, they recorded under many names: El Coco, Le Pamplemousse, Sweet Potato Pie, Tuxedo Junction, Saint Tropez, In Search Of Orchestra (They wrote for the TV show 'In Search Of')... There was a single from this album (Envy/Lust), but this record deserves to be recognized as a whole. Their sound is smooth and mature, and complicated without seeming so. Their sense of melody was brilliant, and it evokes emotion, something that was missing from most dance music of the day. Although these dudes were from LA, their music is very European, and Italo djs tend to sweat them a lot. Their sound is very "Italo", or "cosmic", or whatever you want to call it. But the music definitely speaks for itself,

KILLER KUTS #13

One of those one-man bands of the early 80s, Snowy Red pretty much defined the minimal synth / cold wave scene based out of Belgium. This particular man, Micky Mike ( aka: Marcel Thiel) was also in one of the first Belgian punk bands Chanisaw - whose single is great as well. Released on Dirty Dance Records, this record is an intense experience. Besides the usual cold-wave tendencies, this particular record sometimes hits the synth-disco territory. But more importantly, its a good record to show off to your friends- because it looks so fucking cool!

Back On My Feet Again

so the back pains have subsided. i actually djed this weekend for 7 hours straight without incident. in the downtime, i realized how amazing glass candy and chromstics new songs are. go to their myspaces and check out their new shit:

myspace.com/glasscandy
myspace.com/chromaticsmusic

KILLER KUTS #12

This is a special "I threw out my back and cant move off the couch" edition. The Kinks are in my top ten all time favorite bands, so i had to add this one. Like pretty much every band of the late 70's, the Kinks had their disco song. Like "I Was Made For Loving You" by Kiss, the Kinks sound absolutely awkward playing a disco song, and that's why this rules so hard! Its pretty rockin' for a disco song, but i like that kind of shit... You can almost hear the Arista executives hanging out in the studio tapping their watches as Ray Davies attempts to become the next Blondie! That, and the fact that I haven't been able to stand upright for the last 4 days.. I wish i could STAND like Superman... Maybe it's the painkillers talking, but this track is killer!

Willie Ninja RIP

Nov 9, 1990

upon cleaning out my shit, i found a box of my old flyers from my club-kid days of the early 1990s. i used to host a party called "Friday Night Feever" at Mars. It was all disco music, and it was weird because there weren t many other disco parties in the city at the time, so it was sort of a novelty. the residents for our party were Dj Duke Of Denmark and Freddy Bastone. Duke is a legend- do a google search. Freddy is still a dj, and pretty high profile with the Euro set. my co-hosts were B-Dave, who was really insane (in a good way), and i believe he ended up being in the movie Kids with all the rest of the people who hung out with us at Mars. Pollyn was a friend of mine from Jersey City, and we used to drive to work together at Mars. The party ended when Mars ended. Towards the end , there was way too much violence for a peaceful disco party, and we all got the fuck out of Mars when people started getting stabbed. If you want to see more fliers, let me know via comment area.

mikes upcoming dj gigs of note:

Saturday Sept 16- Rubulad (with Chris)- email mike@troublemanunlimited.com for info

Friday Sept 22- Lit NYC downstairs 12-4am (you can dance again) http://www.villagevoice.com/nyclife/0635,romano,74306,15.html

Friday Sept 29 - Nite time at Don Hills NYC (Glass Candy/Chromatics gig) w/ Tim Sweeney

KILLER KUTS #11

***guest review by Dan Selzer

I used to hate dance music. I was into weird
industrial and guitar noise bands. Dance music was for
guidos and drunk girls. I bought Renegade Soundwave's
Soundclash because it was weird, electronic and on
Mute. I was playing the songs tacked on the end of the
CD at summer camp and this ridiculous dude from like
Staten Island, or Long Island, was like "I love this,
this song is the shit! I used to dance to it all the
time!" I was all like, "no way dude, this is some
weird underground electronic music, not dance music"
and he responded "whatever dude, they play that shit
at the Tunnel all the time." And that's how I learned
to love dance music. Renegade Soundwave did come out
of some wierd post-punk industrial shit, namely 4ad's
pioneering Rema Rema, and had some great weird
pop/dub/industrial minor-hits, but it was the club
bangers in the late 80s/early 90s they're remembered
for. This one, The Phantom, is rightly regarded as
both a "rave classic" and a major influence on Big
Beat. Well don't hold those things against it. It's
just amazing, dubby, spacey, dance music, all
percussion, synth-bass, subtle samples and the iconic
vocals, which I used to think were saying "Till
doomsday, till doomsday, a neon world;" they weren't.
This 12" features the Phantom, it's remix, the dub of
Space Gladiator and the Phantom Turntable Scratch Mix
which shows where RSW was really coming from...the NYC
school of hip-hop influenced house music. I used to
think all that scratching and editing on the Scratch
Mix was amazing until I heard Todd Terry, namely The
Chase by Royal House, which comprises about 60% of
this mix. This 12" also features RSW's usual bizarre
art, and was dedicated to Chuck Yeager. The Phantom,
It's in there....

contact Dan:
danselzer@yahoo.com

KILLER KUTS #10

This can go in the "weird Salsoul" category along with Megatrone Woman and the awesome Charo record. This appears to be the only Destroyers record, as far as i can tell. At only 3:56, " 'Lectric Love" is way too short. Perhaps that is why Rong did an edit of this track? It needed to be extended-- it ends before it even gets started! Musically, it sounds like disco made by a rock band. There's something about the vocals that remind me of an AM GOLD era song. Nevertheless, it is safe to say that 1977 proved to 'cosmic' year for Destroyers. Everything down to the killer moog solo and spacey vocals (and lack of a cheesy string section) make this record a classic and must own.

links to an old Mike Simonetti mix...

...on Beats in Space last year in October with his cousin Chris Catalyst. Listen to Mike make fun of Madonna, and take dance music WAAAAY to seriously (not!)... Part one is Mike starting with some dancey post punk stuff and then going deep into the oddball foriegn space disco and Italo--- sped up on purpose to show backlash to the cosmic trend that has taken over the world. Part two is Mike and Chris playing electro and bass stuff. Dont forget to turn your bass EQ up nice and high so it blows out your speakers!!!

http://www.beatsinspace.net/audio/2005/oct25/bis102505part1.mp3
http://www.beatsinspace.net/audio/2005/oct25/bis102505part2.mp3