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working on Marfa blog post. A more epic undertaking than originally planned. Using it as an excuse to also set up wedding site. Hopefully in the next few days.

In the meantime, I'll be playing music on WNYU tonight at 9pm. It's a "psychedelic" show and I'll be stretching that. May play some 60s stuff but thought it might be more fun to play 60s-esque post-punk.

had lunch with a friend who also visited marfa/alpine just a few weeks ago and we picked his brain about it. we're excited. with all the good advice coming to us, we'll really enjoy it i'm sure.

marfa blog post coming soon, promise.

in the meantime, last monday on WNYU radio:

http://danecdotes.com/post/57272216435/wnyu-radio-plastic-tales-from-the-marshmallow

awesome set dude

dan can u tell me about the 70's disco label emergency records? i've been slowly accumulating their catalog on soulseek but a lot of it isn't turning up, do they get a lot of props? is vinyl sought-after or rare/$$$? what's your favourite single? most stuff i've heard so far is pretty fantastic and i've always found italo to be super hit or miss idk

More of an 80s label. I think they were one of the New York labels that specialized in licensing/importing euro stuff. There's a whole narrative there about the american gatekeepers like Emergency and Importe/12 that defined "euro-disco" for americans (and later I'd say the same about the chicago Hot Mix DJs).

Kano's I'm Ready/Holly Dolly, Electra's Feels Good were big and influential on house and techno bigtime. (Sharivari = Holly Dolly).

American club stuff like MIchelle Wallace or Chemise She Can't Love You are classic, the latter a floor-filler I used to always hear Danny Wang play when I started DJing.

Most of the records aren't worth much because they're pretty common, certainly in NY at least.

But Emergency switched focus to freestyle, which they helped pioneer with Shannon's Let the Music Play, C.O.D. In the Bottle etc.

I didn't realize they put out a pressing of IMS's Dancing Therapy. That's not so easy to find, at least I still don't have a copy!

Electric Mind's Pick Me Up(Can We Go)/Zwei is a classic, I play that a lot. Early evening warm-up track.

I used to love playing Bo Boss's Tequila, but it's a bit silly. Actually listening again now...it's pretty damn hot.

I see they kept with the euro stuff later on. I'm a big big fan of Taffy's Midnight Radio, which, chronologically, is about as late as I'd dare get with italo. It has that later mid 80s italo sound, more digital, not as lo-fi or spacey, but is super catchy.

Then there's electro/freestyle stuff like Nolan Thomas, which I've never particularly dug...you can't walk down a street in NYC with tripping over a dozen copies of Yo Little Brother.

but because I was an electro-funk fan before I discovered italo-disco, this is always the first record that comes to mind when I think of Emergency...

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

Just noticed Emergency released Capricorn and Easy Going, both Claudio Simonetti related (Goblin) and was looking for Easy Going's Fear and realized that came out on Importe/12. Interestingly Importe/12 also released most of the Man Parrish stuff, though he was involved in COD. Looking at Importe/12's catalog it's like a little version of Emergency. A bunch of Man Parrish electro/hi-nrg stuff amidst euro licenses like Tantra, Rama, Easy Going. And Elton Motello? There's a ubiquitous compilation Called Prime Cuts 1 The Double Dance Album which is everywhere and features Sunbelt's "Spin It" and one of my all time faves, Show Me Yours by Corruption. One of those weird songs that i don't think was ever released outside of that compilation and a disconet compilation. And NOBODY ever plays it but it's totally killer. Really raw and analog, with awesome female vox.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEmwLZeRZy4

60 minutes is rerunning the Marfa piece right now, pls to post writeup.

awesome, thanks! yeah the chemise track was what led me to initially investigate em, such a killer track

oh man, Chemise, COD, this is great, more recommendations please Dan!

(Sharivari = Holly Dolly)

ha I never thought of it that way. I need a better copy of that 12", mine is beat up, more so on the Holly Dolly side so I don't listen to that track much. I'm Ready is awesome.

word is that the detroit club kids would double up the break of Holly Dolly, which is pretty long. I don't love that song though. I'm Ready however is all-time.

Here it is:

http://www.danplusnicole.com/travel/

I kind of feel that we totally didn't cover it well enough and this is just a pleasant post with some ok pictures. We didn't want to get too catty about things, but we cover some of the options. Check it out and I'll expand on it later here, with more specific thoughts/advice.

cool post, danplusnicole! can't wait to get some brussel sprout haystack in my belly in october.

Thanks.

met caek friday for beers when he was here in little rock and chatted with him some about it as well. we're super excited.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3848975/tandem9-21.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3848975/ides_11-30-13.jpg

will try to git there

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done

Is this thing on?

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3848975/artoween2.jpg

early shift at New Year's Party, 10:30 till 11:45 or so...

https://www.facebook.com/events/1532387603700201/

just got in. see you there.

your set was great. your bud's post countdown Stand On the Word was sublime, great start to 2015.

stand on the word is a great start to basically everything

I have mixed feelings about Tom's using Stand On the Word, was kind of funny but also kind of made me think he wished he wasn't there!

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The Joubert Singers were performing the song live at the Good Room party with No Ordinary Monkey and Peaking Lights. I might've chosen to celebrate New Years somehow differently! It sounded great and was a great choice obviously, but being bitter that I couldn't be two places at once, I might not wanted the reminder!

ha, yeah that's arch.

wha? had no clue they were doing that, what a great idea. i go out to disco things once every 18 months so was quite content with The Graham,

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ansuhg1rr9fa1p0/a_record_halloween_2015_blue.jpg?dl=0

i used to know how to do that.

http://i.imgur.com/rtMbZif.jpg

thanks

is there anything more played out than a Blue Note homage?

parody clash cover

baby/child photo?

thought of you when i saw this - feels like it's http://i.imgur.com/Vk972ds.jpg

but it could be that goth/techno store from a few years back: https://newjersey.craigslist.org/emd/5512013148.html

There were a few stores. There was Crazy Rhythms and then there was Cafe Soundz (an Industrial Café!) and TwinTone(TwoTone?) which was next door and they merged. There was also a more indie-rock store who's name I can't remember which was someone from Venus records, and later on long after I'd left NJ another vintage store w/ record section.

tell us about your birthday plans, dan

Dinner at Lexington Candy Shop. The place that still makes coke by mixing syrup with seltzer by hand.

new york has only one selzer mixing expert as far as i'm concerned

Or. Roll-and-Roaster. Haven’t decided.