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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

Myocyte #132: October 15 01:oo UTC

I collected these tracker music tunes over several years from Mazemod, a Flash-based website where songs could be streamed (it hasn’t worked in my browser for a couple of years — this may be Adobe-related). Mazemod had three flavors of streams: Bass, Acid, and Chip. I took all mine from the Acid category, which mimics ’90s house, techno, and jungle styles.

The songs can all still be found as .mod files (see, e.g., https://modland.com/pub/modules/Protracker/) but at the time I saved these, Mazemod had no archive of the streams (that I could find). However, the player would allow you to backtrack to just-played songs, and using this feature I recorded my favorite tunes on a PC, writing down the titles as I went.

As anyone who watched the film 8-Bit knows (recently released as $2.99 stream on Vimeo), not everyone loves chiptune music, especially when made on the Gameboy. Chiptune is more of a flavor than a lifestyle, best heard in small doses. (Less is not always more.) Tracker music, however, which includes game-like music as a subset, adapts the 8-bit ethos to more fully-fleshed-out club tunes, giving an appealing lightness and speed to the music it seeks to emulate. It’s essentially played on spreadsheets, with note-on commands triggering an inboard library of highly compressed, low-res samples, which fire out of the speakers like machine gun bullets. It may be an illusion but it just feels lighter, because the samples load so quickly. There is a raspy, gritty quality to the sounds because of all the shed bytes. Many of these solutions for playing rave tunes in an Excel-like piano roll are ingenious. How do they make those 303 runs, turntable scratches, and delays sound so spontaneous? There is humor, life, and sheer joy in these songs, making them infinitely listenable.
Below is a list of the tracks, with footnotes for a few recognizable vocal samples.

Apologies for any errors in this hastily handmade metadata:

00:00 The Fox II, “Groovedoos”
03:25 Group (?) “The Celsius” (Justice 96 Remix)
07:28 Raatomestari “More Life” (1)
11:19 Raina, “Smile”
12:41 Tang, “Narhim”
15:57 Revi, “Frozen 35”
19:12 Dupont and Dopegroove, “The Love Is Gone”
25:46 Jean Nine, “Jean Learns to Race” (2)
29:35 Zetor, “Trippin”
32:02 MEFIS, “Connection Busy”
37:04 Fakiiri, “Bumblebi”
41:17 The Fox II, “Naihanchida Remix” (3)
45:52 Orlingo, “Live and Uncut”
49:38 Tarmslyng, “Goodbymetal”
55:13 Pekka Pou, “Trip to Ahtaruup”
58:07 Voicer, “Lollypop”

1. Rutger Hauer saying “I want more life,” from Blade Runner
2. From Reservoir Dogs: “This is a hard job.” “So’s working at McDonalds’s but you don’t feel the need to tip them, do you?” and “You kill anybody?” “A few cops.” “No real people?” “Just cops.”
3. Martin Luther King, “This must become true,” “Let freedom ring,” etc

–Tom Moody

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Myocyte #130: October 1 01:oo UTC

Disco and “hard rock” were once poised as arch-enemies but tonight’s mix suggests a continuum where they exist side by side and even cross-pollinate. Postpunk music (new wave, synthpop, hardcore, etc) overlapped disco in ’77-’85 but the genres mostly stayed within their market niches. The first part of the mix skews towards “rock” and the second “dance” but the intent is to imagine them intertwined.

Tin Huey was an Akron OH band that only put out one LP, Contents Dislodged During Shipment (1978) on Warner Brothers. Many would categorize it as prog-rock but it’s also hard-rocking in the manner of fellow Akronites DEVO and The Bizarros. With its emphasis on horns, strident vocals, and sometimes forced-sounding zaniness, it could also be called a “Midwest Oingo Boingo” — though I prefer the Hueys’ music. Guitarist Chris Butler went on to fame and fortune with The Waitresses (“I Know What Boys Like,” “Christmas Wrapping”) but the “auteur” of the band arguably is Harvey Gold, who has a songwriting credit on 7 out of 11 songs.

Tonight’s mix begins with Gold’s “Armadillo” (1978), a 7 inch single release under his own name. The song shifts gears from prog to country to folk to avant garde, reveling in its own refusal to take itself seriously.

(As a biographical note, I have heard that several Hueys were in college at the time of the Kent State massacre and were deeply affected by that event. Much late ’70s “underground” music has an anger and nihilism that took the form of almost militant absurdity. Gold’s and Tin Huey’s singing wears its heart on its sleeve, but sarcastically: the lyrics are smart and cynical and frequently nonsensical.)

Next up is a 7 inch version of Tin Huey’s “Puppet Wipes” (1977), co-written by Gold and Ralph Carney, who also went on to later success, as a sought-after session “reed man.” A catchy, herky jerky DEVO-ish beginning is interrupted by a rockin’ middle section where Gold barks out barely-comprehensible phrases like an enraged street person ranting to himself.

Another cult band of this era is Tuxedomoon, which launched in San Francisco and then relocated to Belgium as arty expatriates. “Driving to Verdun” is a pretty synth dirge from their Belgian phase. This track is followed by Stuart Argabright, who had some club recognition with “The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight” (“women beat their men,” “the men beat on the drums” etc) from 1984. Tonight’s mix features Argabright’s later score for a 1989 CGI animation made by IBM, “Tipsy Turvy,” demonstrating Pixar-type effects, pre-Pixar. Synthy arpeggios flutter in the background as rubberized dinnerware sneezes, bounces, and crashes around on a tabletop.

Next we briefly detour into some jazzy prog from the UK that was going on at the same time as postpunk and disco and belongs in our imaginary de-genre-fied conversation. Canterbury duo Hugh Hopper and Alan Gowen perform “Elibom” (1980), on bass and keyboards, then ex-King Crimson percussionists Michael Giles and Jamie Muir join Flying Lizards leader David Cunningham for the gamelan-like “Cascade” (1983). These tracks mesh pretty well with Aksak Maboul’s Odessa (1984), another pretty synth dirge with an Eastern flavor, which cycles us back to Belgian art rock.

Rounding out our postpunk exploration are tracks by Chrome (Nova Feeback, 1977), The Bizarros (Lady Doubonette, 1976) and MX-80 Sound (Cry Uncle, 2005). Each features psychedelic guitar wailing and warbling, divorced from the hippie romanticism of psychedelia and placed into a harder, more cynical context. The overall sound of MX-80 changed between 1977 and 2005 from garage rock to pseudo-hiphop, but a constant has been Rich Stim’s relentlessly sardonic vocals.

“Pseudo-hiphop” might also cover the next track, “Let’s Glo” (1995) by Glo, an offshoot project of UK space-rock pioneers Gong. The “Gong vibe” can still be heard in the Tim Blake-esque analog synth sweeps and Gilly Smyth’s whisper poetry but otherwise this is a dance track falling somewhere between later New Order and UK triphop.

The “disco” section of the mix kicks off in earnest with a Chic produced track by Carly Simon (!) from 1982, titled “Why.” Bernard Edwards’ poppin’ funk bass and a haunting melody almost make us forget this is Carly Simon. Next up is some vintage Italodisco, Tullio De Piscopo’s “Stop Bajon” (1984), with a driving beat and catchy horns. And lastly, “disco” gets the deconstructionist treatment in Losoul’s “Remember Your History” (2000), with its various elements — four on the floor kick, bassline, rhythm guitar vamping — broken into segments, layered, and scientifically analyzed in the laboratory of German tech-house.

–Tom Moody