― researching ur life (grady), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 03:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 05:41 (seventeen years ago) link
No dis to your skills Dan. I have one of your earlier mixes from a few years ago.
I want a straight beardo comp.
― hector (hector), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 05:54 (seventeen years ago) link
but it's so hard to license! (i justify mix CDs as ethically better then bootlegging for the above reason). Anyway, you mean the Golden Limo mix? That was kinda goofy and rushed but fun. I have plans for like 4 more mixes that I've just been too lazy to get to.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link
Its all about the return on the investment I guess.
― hector (hector), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― researching ur life (grady), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― matt2 (matt2), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link
Now for the real question: Is it I GET RaViNG? I GET RoViNG (for some reason this is what I always say in my head, strangely)? I GET ReVeNGe? Nothing at all?
― matt2 (matt2), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link
Side note- Is there some kind of deep/funky house track that samples Munich Machine's "Get on the Funk Train"? The last two times I saw Harvey spin he played something that had the same Female voice talking at the begining of Trip One, and the same Whistle sample, but otherwise sounded pretty different. But a great track nonethless!
― researching ur life (grady), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link
also: Dan, how will yr next mixes be available? through RVNG or Acute?
― Robert Acosta (Rob 77), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 00:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 06:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 08:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― HUNTA-V (vahid), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 08:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― HUNTA-V (vahid), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 08:46 (seventeen years ago) link
oh man this is good
― HUNTA-V (vahid), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 08:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 09:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 09:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 09:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Robert Acosta (Rob 77), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― HUNTA-V (vahid), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link
ohpleasephpleasohplease let this be the one with "Hallelujah" on it.
― researching ur life (grady), Thursday, 2 November 2006 01:07 (seventeen years ago) link
mike simonetti - 7/18/2005 12:41 AM how DARE you mention Selzer as your DJ hero and not mention ME. i quit.
mike simonetti - 7/18/2005 12:42 AM Larry Levan? i'm better than him too...
― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 2 November 2006 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― hector (hector), Thursday, 2 November 2006 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link
beardo = doing promotional mixes for lifestyle brands
― manute lol (sanskrit), Thursday, 2 November 2006 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― dmr (Renard), Thursday, 2 November 2006 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― researching ur life (grady), Thursday, 2 November 2006 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― gaseous (gaseous), Thursday, 2 November 2006 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 2 November 2006 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link
they were more like a party promoter or something. until recently. aside from the mix CDs, flying squad is the first record they put out I think.
― dmr (Renard), Thursday, 2 November 2006 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― researching ur life (grady), Thursday, 2 November 2006 23:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― dmr (Renard), Thursday, 2 November 2006 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 2 November 2006 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― hector (hector), Friday, 3 November 2006 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― researching ur life (grady), Friday, 3 November 2006 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― dmr (Renard), Friday, 3 November 2006 02:28 (seventeen years ago) link
I made all that up.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 3 November 2006 05:16 (seventeen years ago) link
http://vivaitalians.blogspot.com/
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 3 November 2006 05:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― hector (hector), Friday, 3 November 2006 06:01 (seventeen years ago) link
-- manute lol (mikeoptin...), November 2nd, 2006 2:34 PM. (sanskrit) (later)
hip is where the hipsters are
― HUNTA-V (vahid), Friday, 3 November 2006 06:54 (seventeen years ago) link
voodoo 1 = CRAZY AWESOME
is it bad form to ask how much of that is the original and how much is tweaked? I haven't heard it so I can't tell ....
― dmr (Renard), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 01:36 (seventeen years ago) link
The Story of the Italian Cosmic sound in 2 minutes:
Italy, 1976: In a luxurious discotheque on the Italian Adriatic coast, every weekend two American DJs called Bob and Tom play records that are just making history in their hometown NYC at the legendary „Loft“. Bob and Tom are resident DJs at the „Baia Degli Angeli“, a gigantic club with various floors, fountains, swimming pools and lots of glitz of the Jet set. After the Baia closes due to a drug raid, Daniele Baldelli, inspired by the „Baia Sound“ starts DJing in a new club called „Cosmic“ in Lazise.
Not only he´s beat-mixing Funk, Soul and early Disco - Baldelli´s sytle is unique: songs are mixed perfectly in a superslow tempo of 80-105 BPM. Cosmic is like a wild LSD trip: Afro mixed with German electronics, percussion solos, Bolero with delay effects, 12“s on 33 instead of 45, 70s Krautrock, Industrial... This way of playing records is absolutely new, and Daniele gets quickly famous. A whole wave of DJs and clubs get inspired by his mixtapes, and soon the whole of northern Italy calls it „Cosmic Sound“.
Unlike Italodisco, Cosmic or „Afrofunky“ was never exported broadly; it has always stayed a local party phenomenon. That’s one of the reasons why it wasn’t really exploited commercially yet like many other 1980ies genres. Today producers as Lindstrom, Prins Thomas or DJ Harvey caught the spirit and labels like Gomma, or Eskimo are deeply inspired and now try to create dance tracks that have a similar atmosphere.
This compilation is a collection of the original music that was actually played at Discoteca Cosmic. It is playful, experimental, harmonic and most of all it is dance music.
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 01:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 01:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 04:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 04:27 (seventeen years ago) link