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| Lit NYC Lit, New York US Cost: free Description: Mike Simonetti djs: 12-4 am downstairs March, 30 2007 at Mike Simonetti dj-ing as it is an "outlaw" type party and we cannot advertise it (and the pigs keep coming). im djing from 2-7 A.M. all by myself, my partner Chris is out of town. | |
| 04/06/2007 11:00 PM - Mike Simonetti dj-ing | |
| POUSSEZ! POUSSEZ! party @ Zoobizarre Montreal, Canada Cost: N/A Description: at Zoobizarre, 6388 St-Hubert, Montreal www.zoobizarre.org myspace.com/zoobizarre | |
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| SEVENTH HEAVEN @ White Orchid (Basement) Toronto, Canada Cost: cheap Description: 812 Dundas St W IN THE BASEMENT | |
| 05/16/2007 11:00 PM - Mike Simonetti dj-ing | |
| Hurrah! @ Upatairs at Sals Philadelphia, Pennsylvania US Cost: N/A Description: 12th and Walnut Philly. | |
| 06/29/2007 10:00 PM - Glass Candy / Chromatics / Mike Simonetti dj-ing | |
| Nightclubing party at Holocene Portland, US Cost: N/A Description: with glass candy and chromatics! | |
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| more info soon L.A., California US Cost: N/A Description: with glass candy / chromatcs | |
I picked this up for 59 cents at the Salvation Armycontact Patrick:
on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg a few months ago.
Who would have thought that you could find good, rare
italo right in the bustling epicenter of all things
hipster?
This is produced by Giancarlo Meo of Capricorn/Goblin
/Easy Going fame, only this time without his partner
Claudio Simonetti. Meo really shines here as both sides
of this are top-shelf italo disco.
The a-side is a fantastic paranoid look to the future...
10 years into the future that is the wonderous world of
1993! The lyrics are all about being lost in technology...
a "maze" of "computer days". Then there's lots of "space"
and "universe" terminology thrown in. It's not really clear
what they are getting at but apparently in 1993 we will all
be either living in outer space or inside computers.
The b-side is the real gem and probably of the most interest
to italo collectors. It's a cover version of the Chaplin Band's
"Il Veliero" entitled "Love On The Rocks". It's got gorgeous
female vocals with more great lyrics like "Love is on the
rocks, love's a hurricane". It's pretty true to the original
Chaplin Band version, although a bit more polished and dreamy and
definitely less quirky. I like it. Thanks Salvation Army!
*** guest review by Jacques Renault
This is something Mike and I can agree on. Disco LPs.
Singles are great but they don't always have cheeky
artwork and they don't let YOU decide what the hit is.
This LP is a great example. Anytime or Place was the
single on Modulation (so I have the Canadian version -
don't judge me because I don't have it on Italy's Vedette
Records and this is I.D.I.B.) and then there's the Rams
Horn remix and everything - big hit whatever. ANYWAYS, the
real winner for me is Soft Emotion. It kinda just hits where
you want it to. It's a little more upbeat: a true party gem
with great vocals. Not that Anytime or Place doesn't feel
good too tho - don't let me lead you in the wrong direction.
It's just nice to know that you can't be shy of LPs - you
may never know what you'll bump into.
*** guest review by Emily Ryan
QUESTION: when was the first time you heard this track?
i heard it for the first time on KMEL jams in the east
bay back in the day - the clean FUNK DAT mix - sometime
in high school, and it wasn't until my friend darren gave
me the 12 inch two years ago was i able to hear the RAW/
EXPLICIT mix, originally purchased new from a random bay
area record store at the time of release...perhaps Streetlight
but more likely Rasputin? It's one of those tracks that is
immediately memorable for his conversational delivery and the
way he pronounced "reh-dee-OH." well i couldn't believe how
scathing the REAL MIX IS! He sounds like someone you know's
relative blasting the following dinner topics: mainstream
radio, rave flyers,relationships, and race relations, in the
wake of rodney king. Each verse is followed by a recognizable
horn sample in a 60's reject blue note vein. also - this
single is legendary for inspiring tons of record and club
reviews that started with "why is it, that every ! time i turn
on the radio, the dj is playing the SAME five songs fifteen
times a day for three months...FUK DAT," each review thinking
that it was the first one to reference it! another interesting
note: the clean version takes out the references to whoopi, jay
leno and crack.
contact Emily:
www.emily-ryan.nu
I used to hate dance music. I was into weirdcontact Dan:
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....
