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

I've heard Harvey talked about round here but I think the only thing I have of his is a great remix of Extended Family's "Ulysses" from back in the day (er, 1998). On a Jon Carter mix so I had long assumed he made hard-edged tribal house or something. Would his Ministry of Sound mix be the one to get or is that too old to be representative?

anyway it was called Musica Obscura presents Cosmic Disco. I thought the sound quality was maybe a little iffy, though. I didn't buy it.

his current sound is sort of like theo parrish meets joey negro or something. he runs towards the spacier, murkier, more deconstructed end of the disco re-edits spectrum. like an andrew weatherall (circa rehab, mid 90s sabres sound) type take on the idjut boys re-edits sound.

i LOVE the rub'n'tug mix on eskimo. as much or more than the dj naughty mix! it's similar in vibe to the glimmers dj kicks mix, except w/ much more vintage stuff and much less current stuff.

it's also way noisier than you'd expect, in the "noise annoys" sense. the opening track is like full-on tribal drumming a la 23 skiddoo or something. lots of the other tracks are tweaked w/ filters or played too loud into the red (very much like theo parrish does on his live mixes, but w/ more abrasive source material the end result is ... quite bracing!)

anyway to repeat: i LOVE the rub'n'tug mix!

could a mod maybe change the thread title to BEARDO DISCO, especially since i think we are (inevitably, since even so much of the "new" stuff is covers and re-edits, see map of africa) going to swerve into a discussion of vintage beardo disco, sooner or later.

Chromeo mix is like it's polar opposite - anal, neat 80s stuff. Exactly as you think it'd sound. (Although I've only listenen d to it once so far so I may be wrong)

Out of the two I'd say go for the R'n'T first.

Are there any stores in the US that stock this stuff? I know me and everyone I talk to in NY orders from Flexx and Picadilly and the like.

Yeah this sounds like exactly what I was hoping for. I like the way that all these different Eskimo-related comps seem like stars that form different parts of a larger constellation, each distinct and individual but forming part of a larger vision/mission.

With Campfire I'm imagining something like a more a rustic version of the awesome peak in The Glimmers' DJ Mix that goes "Feel Like I Feel" --> "Impi (Dub)" --> "The Groove Machine (Idjut Boys Mix)" --> "Cassette". Is that off-base?

check the ysi thread

not sure if you're talking about the bootlegs or the newer stuff, but I saw the Cosmic Disco boot at Mondo Kim's

some other related but not quite beardo stuff like Lee Douglas (Rong), Padded Cell, Emperor Machine I've found at Turntablelab. I guess that's more like the "idjuts / lindstrom" side of things. I'm not 100% clear on where the line is being drawn here.

The thing I love so much about Cosmic is that it represents a similarly broad taste in music and a sort of meaningful eclecticism that I always try to put into my DJ sets. The ability to play weird new wave records mixed with classic disco, african percussion, italo etc and create this vibe is just so beautiful. Gomma doesn't seem to be hosting the mixes anymore, so I'll YSI one or two.

Lee Douglas starts his new party tonight with Duane from Other Music. Basically, we killed off Alldisco and split saturdays at Capones with past guests/friends. 1 saturday a month will be Jeremy who started Alldisco, one will be Duane and Doug, 1 will Be Dan Balis and Eugene Cho (Dan has house records out and I think plays on the Lee Douglas record, as well as one of the Metro Area 12"s) and I forget who gets the last saturday.

http://flexx.org/mix/tutu33.mp3

and I'm uploading one of the gomma-hosted mixes to YSI now.

http://web.tiscali.it/mix_archives/?

http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=31GI1HJDH4D203MQ0ITNHB3AQ9

The Emperor Machine - "Aimee Tallulah Is Hypnotised" - just can't stop listening to it.

2 quiet village 12"s. i'm not so hot on these. quiet village is matt from radio slave and joel martin.

2 map of africa 12"s. both of these are great with 'dirty lovin' of the first one being a particular fave. as far as i know, map of africa is thomas bullock and harvey though i heard the second one doesn't feature harvey. 'black skin blue eyed boys' sounds as if a young lemmy is doing the singing

2 bobbie marie 7"s. bobbie marie is thomas and some other guy. the first 7" is a really stoopid punk funk track with lots of farmyard noises. the second one has a great track on it that sounds a bit like suicide jamming with the gun club.

the last releases is by otterman empire and is a re edit thingie with a doors edit on one side and a dire straits on the other!

i keep hearing how hard these are to pick up but they seem to have reasonably good distribution in the uk.

1. Prins Thomas-Goettsching (Full Pupp)
2. Stratus-Looking Glass (Reverso 68 Mix) (Klein)
3. Jungle Wonz-The Jungle
4. Chicken Lips-Sweet Cow (Lindstrom Mix)
5. Greenman-Discotheque (Soul Jazz)
6. Kohib-Truger (Beat Service)
7. Black Dice-Smiling Off (Luomo Mix) (DFA)
8. Sebastian Tellier-La Ritournelle (Jake Bullit Mix) (Lucky Number)

Sad to hear about the Alldisco split, Dan. You guys DJ'ing together was always guaranteed fun.

can someone YSI this?

Also, someone should mashup "Maps" with some José G, somehow, and make us lame indie kids' year.

some of my favorite unexpected things that have popped up on the cosmic mixes from the tiscali site:

jj cale at 45
dave mason - wervin' (with r. wyatt on vocals) (you can dl another track from that lp as my track of the day at the newly minted http://www.dreamchimney.com/tracks/profile/captain it'll be up 'til monday). there's a few other dudes on there that post some great stuff if you don't know.
art of noise - paranoia
papa's got a brand new pigbag at 33

as far as that campfire mix, i guess it's kind of "rad" that they left all their crap mixes and skips and yanking all the volume levels up and down in there, but it's pretty unlistenable to my ears. they play some great stuff, no doubt, but it doesn't have much continuity for home listening. i'm sure it was a different story if you were there and i'm sure those guys could give a fuck...

i much prefer the piles of baldelli and loda mixes currently on my hd (courtesy of the tiscali site, where all the flyers came from). check out baldelli's interview at
http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/LECTURERS.95.0.html too. great stuff.

the capone's saturday schedule now is as follows:

1st saturday: k. life walks + friends - tons of connects in the mid-late 80's miami bass scene. him and a bud did the tape edits on the beat club "security". nowadays he plays sweet disco and club classics.

2nd saturday (tonight) get into somethin' w/doug lee aka lee douglass + duane (negroclash). plus twilite tone and a live performance by black spade this week.

3rd saturday me (jeremy campbell) + guests. this week matt radune.

4th saturday: cabaret featuring escort (dan balis, eugene cho and darius mahgen who have a record coming out on environ). darshan from metro area plays with them this month.

i am listening to the dj loda mix that dan linked to above now. cosmic is definitely the right word!! excellent set...

i play this soundtrack a lot, but i've never seen the film. needless to say, tv volume is real high right now.

i don't know if that's "beardo house", but Carpenter certainly falls within that bumrocksy "LES dollar bin" aesthetic.

I have an Escape From LA UK 12" of drum and bass versions of the theme in my out pile at the minute. It's crap.

Nice one.

feeling a bit beardo tonight

need to watch Northern Disco Lights one of these days
in the meantime, enjoying the soundtrack: https://paperecordings.bandcamp.com/album/northern-disco-lights-soundtrack

rub n tug campfire mix is so classic

Listening to Andrew Hockey's History of Rock in 500 Songs, the patreon bonus episodes and got the UK psyche/rock band The Smoke and he mentions member Mick Rowley's later "disco with homoerotic album art" so of course I had to check that out. Produced by Keith Forsey. Main track is a version of I'm a Man that's similar to but totally inferior to the Macho version of course.

But on the b-side we get a synth-string laden balearic chugger version of It's All Over Now Baby Blue. Is it in the canon?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqJGS9WQPf0

wow, really good!

hawt

incredibly, last night i put on Idjut Boys Radio at my job at the gym, and everyone was really digging it...and so i came to this thread to find a fresh revive.

really feeling this kind of music recently.

it’s good music for the summer

it is.

there's also an INSANE Spotify playlist called "DJ Harvey's Record Box" that is hundreds of hours long, and is full of wild gems that I had never even heard of...like this track, which literally had me running toward the computer at the desk to see what it was, just insane music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6HQEvViSXY

incredibly, last night i put on Idjut Boys Radio at my job at the gym, and everyone was really digging it

do you mean one of those algorithmically assembled spotify playlists, or something else?

"this is idjut boys"

so, not actually "idjut boys radio"

i don't use spotify at home, admittedly warming up to it because of that DJ Harvey playlist

I always wondered if this Woolfy/Projections tune was an unofficial sequel to Captain Starlight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcFxW01n3D0

that harvey playlist sounds fucking dope, will check it out

this definitely sounds like a sequel!~!

"Captain Starlight" was on that Kaos / Sal P 'Collectors' Series 2: Danse, Gravite Zero' mix which was (a) an opportunistic to the point of cynicism rip-off of DJ Harvey's sets; and (b) also fucking amazing, perhaps even better as an unofficial 'beardo disco best of' than Sarcastic Disco 2.

And yeah I always assumed "The Return of Starlight" (which I love) was an unofficial sequel. There was on an amazing Peter Visti DJ Mix from 2007 (one of several) which very sadly I lost several computer deaths ago and now appears not to exist that started with it, so it reminds me intensely of that era.

What I didn't know until quite recently is that there was an amazing Invisible Conga People remix of "The Return of Starlight" which unsurprisingly pushes the tune into a deep house meets krautrock astral field.

ooooh have to look that up now

that Mick Rowley cover is amazing.

salute table for picking the exact track to recommend a playlist for me to check out!

I knew “captain starlight” from its use in Harvey’s “sonic disco #1” which is in the canonical top three Harvey mixes for me with the 98 essential mix and sarcastic disco 2… while I appreciate the Spotify Harvey playlist as a resource I think if you haven’t heard the available Harvey mixes first that’s a preferable way to be exposed to this stuff!! Sonic disco #1 also has his blend of Steve miller band’s macho city with the beastie boys, lol

And yeah I always assumed "The Return of Starlight" (which I love) was an unofficial sequel. There was on an amazing Peter Visti DJ Mix from 2007 (one of several) which very sadly I lost several computer deaths ago and now appears not to exist that started with it, so it reminds me intensely of that era.

fwiw I'm pretty just found an mp3 of this mix if it's of interest...

sometimes I come across a tune and I’m like “this could fit on a potential sarcastic study masters 3”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6fypBdE9E0

This Dj Harvey spotify playlist is everything in the world

it's so good, i put it on again today and even the twinkie college kid camp counselors were shaking their booties.

Btw… while looking for more Dj Harvey playlists I bumped into the profile of a producer/dj called Jason Oermann (ever magenta) and he might be legit insane. He has very meticulous and long archival playlists of djs like Dj Harvey, Kerri Chandler, Theo Parrish, Eli Escobar… anyways there’s a lot of music to unpack in there but thought it might be of interest in here:

https://open.spotify.com/user/joermann

I think he’s connected to House of Yes and Nowadays which are bars in NYC which I don’t know at all, but ilxors from nyc might recognize.

not sure what the algorithm has against me but i tried that playlist on shuffle and literally got this, sweet jesus...

bee gees 'more than a woman' > eagles 'hotel california' > st etienne 'nothing can stop us' > will smith 'welcome to miami' > elton john 'rocket man' > bee gees 'how deep is your love'

abba 'gimme gimme gimme' up next, does this harvey guy do weddings?

Sounds like you got a very wrong playlist as I noticed in searching that there are several ones with similar titles, but none of the ones I found fit the description of being both hundreds of hours long and having that "Captain Starlight" song on it (or having a Will Smith song on it for that matter). Can someone drop a link to the real one?

pretty sure i had the right playlist but suspect that smart shuffle was doing a bit of adlib

I went to a Nowadays day party when I visited NY five years ago and had a great time, twas all strictly rhythm diva house fields back then

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yeah, I don't use Spotify much due to its algorithmic nonsense so you may be right, but suffice to say that sequence is about as unrepresentative of a DJ Harvey set as you could come up with.

lol Spotify appears to have three (3) playlists called “DJ Harvey’s Record Box” and another one called “Record Box: DJ Harvey (V2)”.

OTOH having seen DJ Harvey again recently back in June, I wouldn’t really put it past him to play any of the songs NickB mentioned - though he certainly would not play them in succession.

This is the dj harvey spotify playlist table mentioned:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3Gl6lTWGIZKGRh0bg1gztN

This is another one I found which I believe is mostly the same:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6oBkQAOZEcWx6XEyB8lKb6

I think on table’s playlist it’s better to pick a starting point and turn shuffle off as they seem to be added as played in his sets. So if you find some disco soul track you like un-shuffle and the following 6/7 tracks will be in that style.

something bothers me abt finding dj harvey songs off playlists rather than the mixes themselves

although obviously I myself take complete advantage of them

often the tracks are his own edits or he's using two copies, or mixing a dub into an instrumental or whatever. v often i've heard one on spotify and it's been good but not the same as hearing a version that goes on for fifteen minutes.

for instance he either has an edit or always mixes helen zanzibar instrumental into the dub and back again, ime.

but tbh, and i'm not just saying this, i don't think there is an online dj harvey mix that reflects the best of what he's been playing live in the last decade or so.

i'd caveat that by saying he's not been quite as good the most recent times i've seen him, but still a lot of what he does is only in the live sets.

over the years have dug out a few of these with some friends - this is a good one, by thomas bangalter's father!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTKMCNCHMKA

this is another massive one, spent years trying to find it but it got a rerelease a little while ago, the main riff would come into my head for several years. that's one plus with harvey, the edits are so long that you will remember the tune even after a heavy night :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8kecKpXH7U

one more, a more recent one - i should prob make a playlist tbh, don't want to bust the thread with videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsb7vivat2g

I saw him last year in miami at Space and considering half the crowd seemed completely oblivious to who he was he kind of crushed

he closed with this song (2am-6am set) really fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQXbuFaLaUM

ah lovely, he will often end with something a bit different. duran duran - ordinary world or whatever.

he's playing in london next month, will prob go tho the venue sucks a bit. it's him all night and even the worst sets i've seen him do are fire.

i do kinda mourn for the sets he was doing four/five years ago tho. one night in london i decided to go at doors open and it was the one time he was basically there solo at 10pm. played until 7am or so the next morning. it was amazing watching him warm it up and build it. the last few times i thought he phoned it in a bit even tho still better than most.

i do find the house/techno in the middle a bit boring also. like he's a good dj in any style i just don't really care about hearing him play stuff other people could play. his sets in pikes in ibiza are p great in that it's just disco and balearic all night in a tiny room.

also seen him end with this - absolute showstopper:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuA6dWqKKqU

Hi LocalGarda!

yeah i absolutely turn the smart shuffle thing off when I play that playlist, fwiw. i don’t use spotify at home or anywhere other than work so haven’t fiddled around too much with any of it’s functionality

the gym at my work yesterday plays Spotify on shuffle and it played The Rolling Stones “Paint It Black” 4 times within the span 20 minutes. Then followed it the GnR’s “Welcome to the Jungle” twice with “Seven Nation Army” sandwiched between.

haha!

thanks for the hypno dance LG, loved that one

It is so great! Takes me back to a lot of good nights out.

And hi table! I have been on the Elden Ring thread a bit but eventually had to pop in here for some Harvey discussion, keeping it positive, lol.

probably for the best lol