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My dear friend (and much better beat-matcher than I), Matt and I are starting a San Francisco dj business. I helped play at a Laughing Squid hoiday party on Saturday, where, while I probably played a little too much disco (suprise), I also didn't get any spider eyes shot at me from across the room, so perhaps this thing's got a chance.
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Hercules and Love Affair's 2008 record was a serious sack-of-anthems for me and greatly contributed to my developing a Zeno's paradox between me and disco. I'm Achilles. No, I'm probably the tortoise.
Hercules and Love Affair - I Can't Wait (In Flagranti Remix)
I wrote you off. Hard, shamelessly, and willingly.
I'm not sure why; I adore the Smiths. Even my favorite Smiths record (right now) is Strangeways Here We Come, which is pretty much the Steven Patrick show anyway. Perhaps it's because I've had all four on the floor nearly exclusively since sometime in '07 and since then been slowly replacing stuff that I couldn't dance to on my pittifully scarce hard drive.
I heard You Are The Quarry in highschool back when I'd consume just about anything that garnered the pitchfork spotlight for one reason or another. Eh, not for me, or at least not for the me I was at 15.
Anyway, yesterday, my good golspel-spreading coworder Ron shared with me three records which he thought would be good lumping points from which I can leap. And I'm in. And that is all.
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Great piece :) I love PBS
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I'm almost certain that if Bette Davis were around today, she'd be into the perfectly-arp'ed and mellow regular beats of Fred Falke's remixes, though I can't see any student of John Murray Anderson dancing disco for the sake of disco.
Music Go Music is a cool pop outfit on Secretly Canadian with an album out earlier this season that's decent enough without the Falke touch. This track just hit the 'sphere and it's an 8-minute-plus playground for roland TR beats and classic trotting synths.
Music Go Music - Warm in the Shadows (Fred Falke Remix)
It's probs way too late to write a Hot Chip post now, but when I first came accross this little bijou, I couldn't stop listening to it. It's still great.
Hot Chip - Colours (Fred Falke Remix)
For a while there, you'd type in "little" into the youtube searchbox, and the machine would auto-fill in titles for videos from this English electro-pop vixen. This time Falke brings in some more of his french house infusion and creates one of the perfect car-ride-home-from-the-discoteque tunes.
Little Boots - New in Town (Fred Falke Remix Vocal)
Embrace by Pnau was one of those songs that I heard everywhere and kinda hated each time. Falke to the rescue (at least for my 125 bmp lovin ears). He loops in ABBA'y electro group from down under to dream it out. I don't know who's creation the badass 4-dimentional bassline is, but it's great.
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