BEARDO DISCO (finally fixed for vahid) - not idjuts / lindstrom - harvey, rub'n'tug, map of africa

anybody have any good candidates for beardo mix of the year?

i mentioned stuff on Cool in the Pool from Västkustska Ryggdunkarsällskapet and Soft Rocks as faves of mine elsewhere

waitasec, waitasec ... someone saw danny wang dj in san francisco and it was "really really gay"? holy shit! go figure!

i'm all for corny italo, diva singers, the drag show before wang djed and a bit of schmaltz, but this was way over the top love boat action. maybe you have to take away my beardo membership card, but i'm not really a fan of the whole tom moulton sound

I get where yer comin from but I don't think "Tom Moulton sound" is a good catch-all for "gloopy disco w/ strings." I'm not a huge fan of say "Love Is the Message," but he's got a bunch bad-ass songs. (BT Express, "Moonboots," Loleatta Hooloway .... )

anyway this is gettin less beardo-disco and more disco-disco ,,,,

* Holloway

LOLeatta HoLOLoway

lol wang

danny wang is awful. let's just come to grips with the fact that the dude has spent the last 10 years bitching in interviews instead of making good music, and that his taste in disco is, if anything, even more awful than metro area's.

daniel wang will never have a beard

LOL his wang is smallll

agree w moon about wang. his mixes are pretty much everything that i DON'T like about disco, however he did put out some good records in the 90's.

i saw him spin at some gay club down here, it was really good! not too schmaltzy. he should definitely stop with the interviews, tho.

yeah i missed danny wang, but he was on BIS a little while ago and all he played was schmaltzy shit. granted it wasnt a mix and he spent most the time flirting with Tim, he played some cool stuff and some uber boring shit. i know his reference was to a live show, but him and greg wilson, who i saw on halloween, are not beardo by any means IMO. the only song i really like of wang's is "like a dream I cant stop dreaming" and that's more housey than disco

also i love "love is the message" especially at the beginning of Harvey's bbc essential mix from 1999

not beardo, but SF disco heads will be interested in the new DC Recordings compilation, Death Before Distemper 3 - A Fistful of Ferrets, mixed by the Idjut Boys, is now in stock at Amoeba SF, and it's a North American exclusive. the only place you can get this is through Phonica and Juno in the UK (i believe Piccadilly is importing copies from Japan), Colette in Paris and direct from Japan. I believe it's around $20. If you're out of the area, call the store, we'll do mail order!

just picked up bumrocks, will swing by amoeba and ask about the DC recordings, thanks for the heads up

just got that bumrocks too, it's quite good (on first listen). also, that new Loud-E (Y.O.Y.) makes me want to lose my minddd

and i agree, wilson is not beardo either

what is that Y.O.Y. ???? i know it but i can't place it and it is bugging me beyond belief.

i dunno but it reminds me a bit of that "crawfish" edit or eddie gale in that it has some seriously freaky/groovy female vocals really high in the mix, but in this amazing electro-boogie context and it just kills

the b-side is amazing, too. there's a loud-e full length on the way, or so say the folks at dj history http://www.djhistory.com/forum/showthread.php?t=39732&page=2

all this "crawfish" talk leads me to gush about this edit that Thom from RnT played on Friday night at the No Ordinary Monkey party of Slim Harpo's "Shake Your Hips." ridiculously simple but effective, he mostly doubled up everything so that the effortless boogie goodness lasted twice as long as the original.

new phantom slasher edits cd...

http://images.juno.co.uk/full/CS328838-01A-BIG.jpg

http://images.juno.co.uk/full/CS328838-01B-BIG.jpg

it came out in late september, but i missed the boat until now. it's pretty damn great, it includes a lot of the recent phantom slasher eps (albeit with certain tracks named differently) and new material too. too bad it's a cd-only thing

idjut boys droid is like whoa, but its techno, not beardo.

That CD is NOT techno!

yeah phantom slasher may be idjuts, but it ain't techno. there's talk of them upthread from last year

guys read his post

beardo techno

idjut boys droid fyi

aka idjuts going erotic discourse

i picked that idjut boys up this past weekend along w/ the rong "promo only" comp. i was gonna post about it here but suddenly got busy. the skinny is that it's the best thing on noid since the first phantom slasher album "puddle & spout". my only substantive observations are that 1) looks like they're trying to assert their status by aggressively out-dubbing everybody else ... this set has some of the most aggressive echo manipulation i've heard in the whole edit scene and that 2) the track choices are a little less obscure than usual, i think i could name 10 out of 12.

i did not buy "cosmic balearic beats" at amoeba, still trying to figure out whether it's worth it.

not at all. it's so boring. makes me start to hate "nu-balearica". it's all sounding like shitty software made ambient house. only good track is that lovelock track

yeah it introduced me to a few good track i didn't know about both otherwise boring and worthless

well the only track i *really* liked on preview (actually i dl'd and burned a disc) was the first one ... "stratus"?

everything else sounded like the warmed-over crap that ends up on the "leftfield" review page in dance mags. stuff like fila brazilia (good, but c'mon, it's 2008), groove armada (bad) and plantlife (execrable).

the track that drove it home was the one that had the dude saying "everyone gonna grow dreads, SMOKE WEED and not go to work" right before the break. i was like ... fucking nerds.

yeah that's coyote for you... i actually dig that track, but i can definitely see why someone wouldn't.

the homerun, maelstrom, and lovelock track are nice, and i like the brendan moeller vinyl-only track, but on the whole computer incarnations for world peace vol 2 is better

hmmm how good would you say CIfWP 2 is, on the whole?

shaddap

the answer= hella good

vol 1 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> vol 2

CIfWP 2 >>>>>> CBB for sure

but at the same time, CIfWP 1 >> CIfWP 2

hah xpost

yea but then you're talking about older tracks vs. newer ones, obviously volume one would be better. vol. 2 represents some pretty good contemporary balearic cuts, or at least contemporary re-workings of balearic cuts.

q was not sarcastic

oh, well i apologize! i am quite the bitter one, apparently.

anyway, i'm getting quite a bit of mileage out of that computer incarnations volume 2 comp. the project sandro track is one of my favorites of the year, and the maurice fulton remix of rollmottle is no slouch, either. it's one of my favorite comps this year, along with the claremont originals cd and rong's promo only mix. worthy of money, indeeeed

and maybe throw that phantom slasher disc in there too

is this the claremont originals set you're talking about?

i wasn't completely crazy about rong's promo only set ... i found it to be a little muddy sounding?

the fred deakin MoS "nu balearica" thing must be mentioned here because it murders both the eskimo and sonar comps

cosmic balearic beats did nothing for me with the way it wafted from one track to the next; surely the appeal of this stuff - at least, seeing it in a good DJ set - is that it strays all over the map, like that 'cosmo galactic prism' prins thomas mix from last year. or the fred deakin thing, there's so much more variety in the sounds on that (though they're much more drawn from the 'scene').

yeah, that's the one (the claremont 56 originals set). there's absolutely nothing 'muddy' on there, even though i definitely don't mind/hear it on the rong disc. i've only had it for a week or so but it keeps growing on me, some pretty blissed-out picks to be found for those who enjoy other stuff on the claremont label

personally, i think the original tracks themselves on nu balearica are better, but not the way they're mixed in that set. it completely killed the fun of mugwump's "boutade," and the 'paul and mike get stoned and go to the beach' mix used that quiet village remix of mudd to much better effect

are any of the tracks on the fred deakin mix even exclusive? it should kinda be considered a different type of mix when it's working with well-established favorites

it seemed like a bit of a primer for those not in the know, which is ok i think.

'boutade' is EASILY one of the best records of 2008.

The Original Disco Beardo

http://www.discomusic.com/images/photos/mancuso-david/mancuso-david-loft.jpg

David Mancuso started the whole disco movement in America when he threw communal dance parties in his loft (The Loft) in the New York City of the late '60s. Mancuso was a total hippie and a lot of the stuff he played came out of the late '60s hippie/psychedelic scene. The connection between hippies and disco was ignored for years, however Tim Lawrence and Peter Shapiro draw some nice parallels in their respective books Love Saves the Day and Turn the Beat Around.

Check out the following tracks:
Titanic – “Rain 2000” and “Sultana”
Everyday People – “I Like What I Like”
Barrabas – “Wild Safari” and “Woman”
Cat Mother and the All-Night Newsboys – “Track in ‘A’ (Nebraska Nights)” (produced by Jimi Hendrix)
Brian Auger & the Trinity – “Listen Here”

You’ll find most of these at www.dsco.libsyn.com in the first two podcasts

^^ suggest ban