Roland TB-303
Last weekend DJ Flex Rock hosted the show and laid down an anthology of acid that went well into overtime. Behold the many moods and squelches of the Roland TB-303 masterfully mixed by Flex Rock:
DJ Flex Rock – Live @ CKLN – Jan.31, 2010
Tracklist:
Fatboy Slim - Everyone Needs a 303
Phuture - Acid Track (Plump DJs Edit)
Hugg & Pepp - Stacy
D.I.M. - Is You (Brodinski Remix)
Kebacid - Felafellows
Alexkid - Come with Me (Tiga’s Aciddeathrave remix)
Tiga - Mind Dimension 2
Armando - 100% of Dissin You
Maurice Joshua - This is Acid (Boys Noize)
Tyree - Videocrash
Adrian Forciniti - A1 – Unknown White
Adrian Forciniti - A2 – Unknown White
Steve Hurley - Jack Your Body (Hardfloor Remix)
Martin Brothers - Dumb (Hookers & Blow Shortbus Acid Mix)
Abe Duque - Acid
Armando - Land of Confusion
Avenue D - You Love This Ass (Pete Loves The Acid Remix)
Dapayk Solo - Acid Ponofski
DMX Crew - Bass Drop
Dahlback & Dahlback - Forsberg Loves the Acid
Alexi Delano - Space for Bass (Jesper Dahlback Remix)
D.I.M. - Sysiphos
Robert Armani - Circus Bells (Hardfloor Remix)
Josh Wink - Higher State of Consciousness
Rehab Purple – Lightsaber
Kebacid - Bass Intruder
Tiga - Sex o’clock (Playgroup Remix)
Heib - Cash on Acid
Miss Kitten - Requiem for a Hit (Abe Duque Remix)
Snoop Dogg - Drop it Like It’s Hot (Snoop’s Acid Drop by Les Visiteurs)
DMX Crew - Acid Cow
Computer Juice - Computer Juice
Amusing Duck is amused by Mike Gleeson's Bump'n Go Action.
Back in December Kris and Mike Gleeson took over In My Room and Mike laid down a solid, bumpin’ tech house mix embellished with on-the-fly samples and acapellas for the last show of 2009. Funky, deep, and techy with a whiff of cheese: great stuff!
Mike Gleeson – Live on In My Room @ CKLN 88.1FM – Dec.27, 2009
Tracklist:
01. Ken Nordine – Green [Asphodel]
02. Sis – Uhhhh [Cocolino]
03. 3rd Face – Canto Della Liberta(Acapella) [Classic]
04. Justin Martin – Beat that Bird(Donk Boys Remix) [Dirtybird]
05. 3rd Face – Canto Della Liberta(Acapella) [Classic]
06. Wighnomy Brothers – Guppipepitsche [Freude Am Tanzen]
07. Ken Nordine – Green [Asphodel]
08. David August – Trumpets Victory [Stil Vor Talent]
09. Sean Smith – Cloud 9 [Smooth Agent Records]
10. Native Soul – A New Day(Spencer Parker’s Remix) [Junior Boys Own]
11. Moody Man – Emotional Content [White]
12. Kris Wadsworth – Direct [NRK]
13. Ken Nordine – Green [Asphodel]
14. Galaxy Group – Out of Control(Asad Remix) [Loveslap]
15. Shipyard – Cargo [Mo's Ferry]
16. Jurassic 5 – Work it Out(Acapella)
17. Justin Martin – Cicada [Dirtybird]
18. Akabu – I’m Not Afraid of the Future(Acapella)
19. Ibex – Love’s Better [Rush Hour]
20. Christian Malloni – Pow Wow [Undertones]
21. Jacob London feat. Joyce Muniz – Poem [CDR]
22. 2020 Soundsystem – Sliding Away(Johnny D Mix) [2020 Vision]
23. Caliman – Bacon Mohican [Tak Records]
24. Chez Damier – In and Out (Derrick Carter Mix) [Om]
25. Sebastien Leger – Venus [Mistakes Music]
26. Doobie Brothers – What a Fool Believes(Special 12″ Mix) [Warner]
27. Jesse Rose – Pop Yer Pop [Dubsided]
28. Daniel Steinberg – Es La Vida [Formatik]
29. Green Velvet feat. Kid Sister – Everybody Wants [Cajual]
30. Green Velvet feat. Kid Sister – Everybody Wants [Cajual]
31. Denace 2 Society – Second Dimension [Galvanic Germany]
32. Oxia – Whole Life [8bit]
33. Anthea & Celler – Down With G.O.D. (Sneak’s Mix) [Tuning Spork]
34. Jake Island – Real Love(Rocco Dub) [Toolroom]
35. Peter Funk – I Dreamed of You [I! Records]
January was a tough sonofabitch on me so I apologize for the delay. Check back later in the week for last Sunday’s Acid trip with DJ Flex Rock.
EG is back on a throwback tip for our first party of the year on Friday, January 29: LOOSE – NEON Edition!
Beat the winter blahs by rockin’ some bodacious neon biz!
DJs:
gl.tch
Kris Hernandez
Chiclet
And special guest: Justin Tyce of Tight Knit!
oh ya, as always…it’s FREE!
JUSTIN TYCE:
With just over 9 years of Djing and 10 years of promoting under his belt Justin Tyce has learned how to rock a floor. From warm up to banger the bases are always covered. Currently he resides as 1/4 of the infamous Tight Knit Djs, a crew known for their versatility. Always expect a set that goes from high to low taking you on a journey, and catering to what you wanted to hear (even if you didn’t know it).
P.S. I’m gonna close the night with an oldschool/rave/classics set. Get out the fat pants!
Here’s a flashback to ‘96 to get you hyped courtesy of the Toronto Rave Mixtape Archive:
Welcome back!
Over the break I discovered my newest favorite Toronto producer: Mindtransit.
He recently released 1992 & All That on Toronto-based Intellegenix Records and once I read the promo piece I knew I had to check out the album:
Mind Transit is an independent producer/remixer from Toronto, mainly influenced by old school Rave, Acid, and Ambient House. Ignoring technological advancements, MT uses 90’s samplers, keyboards and recording techniques to make old-school UK-style techno that sounds at the same time current and classic.
Mindtransit is the goods.
The album explores the hardcore old school rave sound and his talent really shines in how well he can authentically replicate the techniques and the sounds of the era.
The whole release is amazing and, if you’re a fan of the old school sound, I highly recommend you get the album.
Some of the gems on 1992 & All That include: “Use It!”which opens with a vintage disco hit before launching headlong into the pitched piano revlery often found at hockey games between plays. On the track “New Rave is Dead,” he takes a jab at the current trend in dance; “Blackmarket Polyphony,” is an odessy through hyper vocals, pitched pianos, big beat drums and insistent robots, and my personal fave “Rave da Roof,” is a tough steppin’ bastard cousin of jungle with huge sweeping acid lines.
Here’s a taste of what the dude can do:
Kids on TV – Cockwolves (MindTransit’s “Lovewolf Remix)
Holy shit eh?
Yes, you heard Human Resource – Domniator in there…
PLUR buddy!
Came across this article posted on the Guardian and thought I should share. I also really love the term “Noughties” for the first decade of the new millenium.
Simon Reynolds’s Notes on the noughties: The changing sound of the underground
In this decade of webbed connectivity and media supersaturation, the divide between underground and overground has steadily dissolved
Recently I went to my local magazine store only to find the music section, which is dense with titles but rather cramped, completely occupied by emo fans. The teenage threesome were flicking through mags, mocking particular bands (like Paramore) and pointing out others they thought were cool, while playing tunes to each other off portable players (sharing earbuds, a sweet if insanitary habit). Waiting for them to finish, I overheard their conversation, including some playful joshing about who had heard a hot new band’s big song first. The banter went something like: “I heard it on MySpace”, “Nah, you heard it on a commercial”, “Nah, you heard it on Disney.”
What struck me about this exchange was the sense of a hierarchy in terms of the medium via which you discovered music. MySpace was cooler than a TV ad, but a commercial seemed to be superior to RadioDisney (presumably because it equates with Miley Cyrus-style teen pop). What I took away from this accidental field research is the impression that for many young people the idea of “alternative” – music that bypasses the commercial and corporate, that fans engage with in an active way that transcends consumerism – still has a strong romantic appeal. Yet MySpace’s parent company, Fox Interactive Media, is owned by News Corporation, the world’s second biggest media conglomerate (behind only Disney, actually) and third largest entertainment conglomerate. Strictly speaking, finding out about a group through MySpace ought to be no more “underground” than hearing a song on Clear Channel or buying a CD made by a Big Four music corporation like Universal.
In the noughties, the idea of “the underground” in music seemed simultaneously to wither and to flourish. This paradox – the underground as an eroded/outmoded concept yet a strangely persistent and relevant practice – has something to do with the peculiar properties of the medium through which music culture increasingly organised itself as the decade progressed: the web. [Read the full article here]
Last weekend I recorded a new dj mix devoted to showcasing some choice cuts of Italo, Nu-Disco and Electrofunk. I enjoy digging through the history of electronic music and I’m happy I had the time to put this together.
This set was fun and somewhat challenging to make as the older tracks don’t always follow the structured song format that most releases adhere to today.
- Olav Brekke Mathisen & Sideshow Jøgge – Elektromotor [Discfunction 2003]
- Knightlife – Crusader [Cutters 2009]
- Kano – Don’t Try To Stop Me [Mirage 1981]
- Serge Santiago & Tom Neville - It’s a War! (Instrumental Re-edit) [Santiago 2004]
- Patrick Cowley – Megatron Man [Unidisc 1981]
- Mr. Flagio – Take a Chance [ZYX Records 1983]
- Magic Men – Popcorn [Out 1983]
- Scotch – Penguin’s Invasion (Hot Version) [American Disco 1983]
- Gino Soccio – Remember [Atlantic 1982]
- Charlie – Spacer Woman [Mr. Disc Organization 1983]
- The Immortals – The Ultimate Warlord [RCA Victor/Unidisc 1979]
- Lindstrøm- Another Station (Todd Terje Remix) [Feedelity 2006]
- Sinema – Confusion (Hacker Remix) [Hot Banana 2003]
- Alden Tyrell – Mindless [Clone 2006]
- Hypnotic Samba – Stop-Watch [ZYX Records 1984]
- The Juan Maclean – Happy House [DFA 2008]
FYI: I’ve included the release dates along with the label info.
After nearly a year-long hiatus, my radio show “In My Room” is back on the airwaves at CKLN 88.1FM in Toronto. Regardless of all the drama that went on at the station over the past two years, I’m still happy to part of the campus-community radio station and I look forward to resuming my monthly residency.
On my first show back, Kris Hernandez and DJ Flex Rock, aka Summitt of the Trashed and Bootymove parties, joined me in the studio for a 3-way showcase of Tech-house, Electro-house, Minimal, B-More, Old School Booty, and Mash-ups.
gl.tch, Kris Hernandez, Flex Rock – Live on CKLN – Nov.29,2009
- U -Tern – Roll The Dice
- Oliver $ – Watcha Gonna Do ?
- Renaissance Man – What Is Guru
- The Bulgarian – Check To Check Millionnaire feat. Oh Snap!
- Femme En Fourrure – Pull Out
- Zyntherius – Synthesizer feat. The Dove
- Daniel Haaksman (ft. Mc Miltinho) – Kid Conga (The Deficient Remix)
- Tittsworth – WTF (Sammy Bananas Remix)
- Starkillers – Bitch Ass Trick
- Bon Johnson – Slumber Party Massacre
- Rodion - Electric Soca (Crookers Remix)
- Congorock – Hybro
- French Fries – Coconut
- R.I.V.E.R. - Fairycide
- Zoo Brazil, Adam Sky – Circle Jerk
- Jon Kennedy – Get Faded feat. Mr. Eyez
- Saeed Younan – Backroom Honey
- Big Hair – Arseholes (New Wipe Mix)
- Souljah Boy – Get Silly 2007 (Dj Chaos Breakbeat Remix)
- Kid Sister vs. Black Box – Right Hand Up [Tommie Sunshine Edit]
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix)
- Hostage - I Get High
- The Beach Boys – Good Vibrations (Stanton Warriors Remix)
- Breakdown – Play With It feat. Whiskey Pete & Julz (Gigi Barocco Mix)
- 2 Live Crew – Sally (That Girl)
- Sonic 86 + Syntonics - Milk (Monksee Bassline mix)
- Thunderheist – LBG (Alias Remix)
- Brodinski & Noob – Peanuts Club (Flex Rock Actually Prefers Cashews Remix)
This episode is dedicated to Weng Weng
P.S.
Over the next few weeks CKLN will probably re-jig it’s schedule a few times and I’ll be sure to post up any changes to the time slot – but for now you can catch me, my friends at EG, and guests on the 4th Sunday of each month from 1-3am. Or, you could just save this handy image to your computer’s desktop so you never forget….
…it just gets a little dusty.
I’m working on a new dj mix of classic Italo, Disco, Funk, Boogie, Nu-Disco, and Electro House.
Here’s a preview of some of the sounds I’m feeling:
Motion – Don’t Stop (1983)
Giorgio Moroder - The Chase (theme from Midnight Express)
Perhaps the most well-known italo song…
Cerrone – Supernature
Another pop italo piece:
Kano – I’m Ready
Old school electro boogie!
Note the fusion of funk and italo:
Midnight Star – No Parking on the Dancefloor
Love that boogie!
Lifelike & Kris Menace – Discopolis
Some Nu-Italo and a butt that just won’t quit!
DAT ASS.
Knightlife – Crusader
Funk flavoured Nu-Disco!
Mick Wills – Calling All Boys
Italo-sampled Millenial Electro House goodness:
Catch up with me at Toi Bar tonight…..
Promo text to follow:
Friday, November 6th
Toi Bar
577a College Street
FREE ALL NIGHT
Honestly, we’ve never really liked set times. Not because we usually get stuck with the opening slot at other parties and we’ve finished playing before you’ve even left the house but because they don’t really create a nice tight party vibe.
No DJ likes looking at the clock when they’re playing while the ‘headliner’ stands behind you tapping his feet impatiently waiting for you to mix in your last track. We’ve always liked to keep it loose. The DJ wants a fresh beer? Why not tag in the next guy for a few tunes. Hot woman in the V-neck been giving you the sex eye since you dropped that Lady Gaga remix? Throw the headphones to your buddy and go promise her some Katy Perry in exchange for a phone number. That’s how we roll at Trashed and we know you love us for it.
To help us round out the field this time we’ve hired two of our favourite dudes to join us in this disc jockey royal rumble. Gl*tch and Rich Hope have both strapped on the ear goggles for us before but to our knowledge they’ve never been on the same bill. That qualifies this night as A WORLD EXCLUSIVE! Pretty kick ass eh?
So join us as this musical man-cordian of DJs ‘drops some science’ as Dad might say.
