ATLectro is going on hiatus, but we will return with regular updates and a new site design in the not-so-distant future. In the meantime, check out A Brooklyn Life Radio for weekly mix fixes from Bethany, Jon G., Adam Smith, and other special guests.
’till then,
ATLectro, signing off!
Subscribe to the A Brooklyn Life Radio Podcast or visit A Brooklyn Life to download Apocalyptic Well-Being, featuring a laid back mix of classics from Raw Silk, edits by Greg Wilson, Chicago house classics by ESP and Rickster, dreamy disco from Hott City and chilly deep techno from Swedish masters Cari Lekebusch as Mr. James Barth, Jesper Dahlbäck and Sebastian Ahrenberg as Sunday Brunch, and Jesper Dahlbäck and John Dahlbäck together as Hugg and Pepp.
Every track from Fram’s Unnatural High to Mr. James Barth’s Music is the Key puts me in that dreamy state of well-being that the mix title refers to. Try not to let your disbelief that Alexander Robotnick’s Dark Side of the Spoon was actually written and recorded in 1983 disrupt your musical high, and keep an eye out for more Svek on the A Brooklyn Life Radio horizon - rumor has it that two of the DJs have an all-Svek series up their collective sleeves.
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When my pals at A Brooklyn Life asked me to make a mix for their new podcast, I couldn’t resist mixing in a little nod to my dearly missed New Yorker and soon-to-be New Yorker friends. Maybe it’s a little cheesy, but certainly no worse than working our beloved hometown’s airport code into the title. Subscribe to the A Brooklyn Life Radio Podcast or visit A Brooklyn Life to download ATLien In My Pocket, featuring tracks and edits by Roboterwerke, Todd Terje, Vera, Azoto, Terrace, Faze Action, Idjut Boys, Lindstrøm, Lindbaek, and more.
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• Heady, elegant new mix from former Atlantan Jena Paradies, featuring a surprising mid-mix appearance by Salamandos, Legowelt’s dirty Chi-town alias:
[download - Last Nacht - mixed by Jena Paradies - .mp3]
• Fantasticly titled fun new electrohouse and party rock mix from Atlanta’s own Jon G. I wish any listeners luck keeping the first track from taking up permanent residence inside their heads:
[ download - Mr. Fantastic Still Dances - mixed by Jon G. - .mp3]
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• Richie Hawtin composes music for 2006 Winter Olympics opening ceremonies in Torino, Italy (via Protien)
• Three great mixes from DFA’s Juan McLean and James Murphy, available for a limited time only at DFArecords.com
• Four Four reviews highlights of the the 2006 CBS Top 100, which is available for download at Elektrosonik
• Yet another compelling reason to try digital: Submerge opens Detroit Digital Vinyl offering digital versions of Submerge-distributed releases
• Download Todd Terje’s Iron Kukkuru mix courtesy of Bear Entertainment
• Excellent new mix by Seattle’s DJ Misha - download Chance of Snow
• Busy-ish week at ATLectro: Cleaning Up the Dirty South @ Bazzaar on Thursday and Lovegun @ Vinyl Saturday
Innovating DJ, pioneer of the ‘quick-cut’ edit method, music historian and producer Greg Wilson retired from DJing in 1984 after a career in clubs and radio that some credit with introducing electronic music to the UK. He has since returned to DJing and has released Credit to the Edit (tracklisting), an anthology of his favorite re-edits.
Download:
[ Greg Wilson- Live @ Electric Chair pt 1 .mp3 ]
[ Greg Wilson- Live @ Electric Chair pt 2 .mp3 ]
Recommended reading:
When Punk Met Funk by Greg Wilson @ discostyle.com
What Did It All Mean? by Greg Wilson @ discomusic.com
Credit to the Edit is available now on CD and Vinyl, along with I Was a Teenage DJ, a limited-edition 12″ containing four of Wilson’s recent cut-ups and disco edits.
update: Greg himself wrote ATLectro with a couple of corrections: the mixes above are not from APT in October as previously reported, and they were not recorded on a reel-to-reel. Rather, a reel-to-reel was used as medium in the making of the live set. I also took the liberty of copying the sets to ATLectro’s webserver. Thanks again to Colin Nagy for hosting them originally, and to Greg, looking forward to the APT set!
For those of you lucky enough to live somewhere with access to starry skies, I highly recommend going outside on a clear night, finding a comfortable place with an unobstructed view, and listening to Philippo’s Non Stop Canana Disco Audio Entertainment Thing megamix while gazing at the cosmos. For 14 minutes and 57 seconds you’ll swear you’ve died and are on a rocket making your way through the galaxy towards disco heaven.
[download - CBS MEGAMIX #5 - PHILIPPO - The Non Stop Canada Disco Audio Entertainment Thing - .mp3]
Spaceship Crashing and Timetravelling are two excellent new mixes from Belgium’s Der Haack. Spaceship Crashing’s title is a bit fatalist, but the mix of house, space disco and italo from the likes of Lindstrom, Lime, Mr. Fingers and Common Factor is quite sultry and optimistic. Timetravelling is a rocking party mix of classic house, acid, and electronix by Putsch ‘79, Luke Vibert, Company B and more. The way he works the Joe Church acapella over Alden Tyrell’s Disco Lunar Module and Lolita Strap’s My Dance is magic!
[download - Spaceship Crashing mixed by Der Haack - 88MB .mp3]
[download - Timetravelling mixed by Der Haack - 94MB .mp3]
Love Magic is… disco and disco-edit love from Prins Thomas, Gary’s Gang, Easy Going, Jimmy Ross, John Davis and the Monster Orchestra and more. Don’t fight the feeling - download today!
[ download Love Magic - .mp3 - 71mb ]
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· Williamsburg’s finest disco & 80s pizza parties, AllDisco and The Beat Club, now deliver their playlists direct to you via podcast. If you don’t have iTunes set to get more than the 4 latest episodes then you’ll miss a really stellar 3-part set by Scott Zacharias, Jeremy Campbell and Dan Selzer from the July 16th AllDisco. Go download it the old-fashioned way here.
· Rob T. of the Dorkwave crew in Detroit kindly passed this four-part, two-hour Kirk Degiorgio disco edit mix our way:
Kirk Degiorgio London Xpress part 1
Kirk Degiorgio London Xpress part 2
Kirk Degiorgio London Xpress part 3
Kirk Degiorgio London Xpress part 4
· Maestro is a documentary four years in the making that explores the history of House in New York City and includes footage from the Paradise Garage, the Loft, the Gallery and interviews with Francis Grasso, Larry Levan, Frankie Knuckles, David Mancuso and Nicky Siano. Criminal Records in L5P as of 7:09 this evening had one left in stock.
· Is your city a sucker? LCD Soundsystem graces Atlanta with their presence on November 12 @ Earthlink Live.
