Month: October 2021

If you happened to be in New York City in the year 2000 and hung out at Chinatown’s Good World Bar & Grill on a Wednesday night, you may have heard the tunes in this mix. The Bowery Boogie website remembers Good World as a happenin’ place and lamented its passing a few years later:

Just like CBGB’s, Max’s Kansas City, Studio 54, Danceteria, The Mud[d] Club, Twilo’s, The Saint, The Sound Factory, Tonic, The Crobar, 8BC, Club 57, The Paradise Garage, The Peppermint Lounge, Save the Robots… The Good World Bar is now just a memory. And we loved being a part of it and will always miss it…

“The first alternative restaurant below Delancey” (as the owners described it in their goodbye notice) is now an ugly glass building. Bowery Boogie remembers:

It was a Scandinavian-inspired cool kids hang which got its start in 1999 when co-owners Annika Sundvik and John Lavelle converted a sketchy Chinese barbershop (i.e. brothel) into Good World. New York Magazine called it a “pioneer” in the area, championing its “long beer list, house cocktails, and rear courtyard.” All under the watchful eye of a stuffed caribou.

Annika and John invited me to spin records on Wednesdays and generously gave me a cut of the bar. I started off playing my own collection and then became obsessed with finding current music suitable for a place where people were eating and drinking (and occasionally illegally dancing — this was the Giuliani era of crackdowns on fun). From January to November I gradually built up a collection of “deep house” vinyl scarfed at places like Satellite Records and Throb. Near the end of my tenure one of the co-owners complained “you started out great and now you’re just like all the other DJs playing this damn stuff.” Considering my learning curve I took it as a compliment but I wasn’t around much longer after that conversation.

For this mix, I used the original wax and did a “rough cut” using two turntables and a mixer. All the sounds were eventually digitized and timestretched to compensate for my mediocre beatmatching skills. There is some mashing up, too. Most of these are “deep house” or “deep tech house” tracks released the year I was DJ’ing. It was a fun year. People were still smoking in restaurants back then and the place was always full.

00:00 Dan Electro “I Hear Music in the Air” (Better EP)
06:16 Phunky Drakes “Guilty (Classic Rework)” (12″)
12:44 Noisy Beach “Stax Music” (Where’s Montpellier? EP)
19:37 Harley & Muscle, “Friends and Enemies” (House Church EP)
25:41 James Flavour “Full Flavour” (If the Pimp Calls Back EP)
28:05 Forme “Instant Space” (Aqua-note EP)
32:18 B-Funk Production “Ladies and Gentlemen” (Ladies and Gentlemen EP)*
32:18 Steve Bug “Magic 120” (B_Series Vol.1 EP)*
37:52 Sascha Funke & Djoker Daan “Yachad” (Doppelpass EP)**
37:52 Leandro Fresco “Amor International” (Amor International EP)**
40:40 Scott Findlay “Untitled” (The Modern Dance EP)
44:34 Fish Go Deep “Sweeter” (Flying Funk EP)
47:40 Betamax Crew “Abrasera” (The Betamax Crew EP)
51:21 Cozy Creatures “Wanna Sing” (12″)
56:54 [Reprise/filler] Steve Bug “Magic 120” (B_Series Vol.1 EP)

*B-Funk and Bug are mashed up, hence the duplicate start time
**Funke and Fresco are mashed up, hence the duplicate start time

–tommoody

Back in May of 2020 before I took a few months off from aNONradio, I did two episodes where we explored and listened to some 8-tracks. You might enjoy these episodes; I hold the microphone up to the player so you can hear the cartridge loading and program switching sounds of the machinery.

The two episodes start with an mp3 while I am still setting up, and then the fun begins. You will enjoy hearing a big hit single being split across two programs of the tape (a common flaw with 8-tracks), and me joke about how the wow and flutter was so bad it changed the key of the song (because it really did, haha! 🙂 )

Happy listening!

Digging through my old playlists (which are available as 2015-2017 and 2018-2020) I found an episode from February 6th, 2016 made in honor of Maurice White who had just passed away in 2016. I think you will enjoy it too, as there are a lot of awesome rare album cuts, long jam sessions, and new material you may have never heard before from the kozmigroov funk band Earth, Wind & Fire.

Also contained in this episode is a snippet of aNONradio history, as I mention at the end of the episode the upcoming shows for the day, which was Saturday and so it was DGC, The Soundshow, IGWM (which I mention is my favorite show on all of aNONradio 🙂 ), and Asia Culture Adventure with Hong Tudou. Hey, that’s still pretty much the line up!

Here is the playlist:

Feb 6, 2016
Earth Wind & Fire Special
EWF – Serpentine Fire – All ‘n All – 1977
EWF – Runnin’ – All ‘n All – 1977
EWF – Getaway – Spirit – 1976

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EWF – Guiding Lights – Now Then & Forever – 2013
EWF – Show me the way (feat Raphael Saadiq) – Illumination – 2005
EWF – Imagination – Spirit – 1976
EWF – Jupiter – All ‘n All – 1977
EWF – Keep your head to the sky – Head to the sky – 1973
EWF – KYHTTS/Devotion – Gratitude (1975) the eternal dance (1992)
EWF – Sun Goddess feat Ramsey Lewis – Alive in ’75 (2002)
EWF – Power – Last Days and Time – 1972
EWF – Fan the fire – EWF – 1971

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EWF – Sign On – Now then and forever – 2013
EWF – Hold Me – The Promise – 2003
EWF – After the love has gone – I Am – 1979
EWF – Let Your Feelings Show – I Am – 1979
EWF – And Love Goes On – Faces – 1980
EWF – See the light – That’s the way of the world – 1975
EWF – Faces – Faces – 1980

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EWF – Fill You up – In the name of love – 1997

Gene Harris – Theme for Relana
Typhorns – Nightlife
The Diddys feat. Paige Douglas – Intergalactic Love Song – Gilles Peterson Digs America 2 (Ubiquity/Luv ‘n Haight)
Incognito – The Smile of a Child – Jazz Funk
Hall & Oats – Sara Smile
Quiet Boys feat. Greg Franks – Inside Your Mind
The Brand New Heavies – A Day at the Seaside

Terry Callier – I Don’t Want To See Myself (Without You)
Skunkhour – Up To Our Necks In It
GURU – Trust Me
Gangstarr – Who’s Gonna Take The Weight

Patrice Rushen – Number One
Hubert Laws – Family feat. Debra Laws – Family (1980)
Sonny Rollins – Harlem Boys
Hank Crawford – Sugar Free
Stanley Turrentine – Sugar

Paulinho Da Costa – Love till the End of Time

George Benson Quartet with Lonnie Smith – Benson’s Rider – The George Benson Cookbook
Lonnie Smith – Dancing In An Easy Groove – Lost Grooves (Blue Note)
Lonnie Smith – I Can’t Stand It – Live at Club Mozambique
Dr. Lonnie Smith – Your Momma’s Got a Complex – Too Damn Hot
George Benson Quartet with Lonnie Smith – The Borgia Stick feat. Ronnie Cuber – The George Benson Cookbook

George Benson Quartet with Lonnie Smith – Jumpin’ With Symphony Sid feat. Bennie Green – The George Benson Cookbook

Lou Donaldson – The Scorpion – Lost Grooves (Blue Note)
Lonnie Smith – Impressions – Live at Club Mozambique