Shocking news, I know. Actually, I don’t DJ as much as I used to but I hope to remedy that. Like I remedied my computer. You see, I got back from a week and a half in California to a computer that didn’t want to start, so I’ve spent the last week fixing it. Between the vacation and that, you can see why I haven’t kept up with my “one post a week” rule. But I’m back…with a vengeance. And this time it’s personal. Got some ideas for posts coming up, including a recap of my trip and a discussion of some of the records I bought out there. But that will have to wait, pretty busy this week, as you can see. Dazzle Ships with the aforementioned Tim Sweeney on Wednesday and Thursday night I’m joining Rok and DJ Jaclyn of the awesome Bangers for Bassment Bangers at 205 Club. Wednesday is for listening, Thursday is for dancing. Friday and the rest of the weekend is for recuporating because you know, weekends are for amateurs. Full details after the flyer.
Full details about this weeks parties…
Hey, I’m djing in San Francisco next Saturday. My records are less on the acute records post-punk angle and more on the italo hi-nrg gay frisco disco WBMX hot mix five tip, but I may slip in some surprises, some post-punk funk, NDW, new wave classics, hip-house or just Patrick Cowley and Sylvester all night long. I really love the Hot Mix Five, who were the pioneering Chicago DJs in the mid to late 80s. It was that period when house music wan’t a specific sound, but was a term that described all the different kinds of music that Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy would play in the clubs and these guys would play on the radio. They’d mix 80s new york electro-funk and club music with European New Wave, Italo-disco and the earliest house and techno coming out of Chicago and Detroit. The connections of those threads pretty much defines most of my favorite dance music, so I’ve always felt a real affinity for their mixes. You can download some of their classic radio shows on Deep House Page. Just do a search for WBMX, or “Mickey Oliver”. I’ll probably post more about them and maybe highlight a specific show in the future.
Anyway, if you’re in the bay area, spread the word and come down. Check out the flier below, which they designed to fit right into this blog, no doubt, and here’s the details:
No Fucking Requests Ever and Club Donuts Present
DJs Dan Selzer (NY), M3, Ryan Poulsen, Cle and Alona with visuals by AC
Saturday August 11th, 2007
222 Hyde, San Francisco
9pm-2am
222 Hyde btw Eddy and Turk
21+ 5$ or free before 10pm
The Nightingales, with special guests Christy & Emily, are touring Europe this summer. Full details and some more thoughts after the fold.
I’ve contributed some records to an art show taking place over the next month in lovely non-colonial Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Apologies to those not in the NYC area. more after the fold
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Was just forwarded this amazing Severed Heads clip that’s well worth watching. They (really, he) have (has) long been a favorite of mine, ever since that faithful day in my sophomore year of High School when I declared to my only college-radio listening peer that “I think Severed Heads have surpassed Joy Division as my favorite band”. Strong words, I know. Let me try to explain…
A few weeks ago I had the awesome pleasure of being a guest DJ on Tim Sweeney’s Beats In Space radio show. We had been talking about early industrial music, Fad Gadget and the early days of Mute, so he invited me on to play some of that kind of stuff. I had last played on his show in 2005 as part of the Crazy Rhythms DJ duo with Mike Simonetti of Troubleman Unlimited and now Italians Do It Better(nice neo-italo/new-wave stuff). You may want to check that show out…I started with a bit of a post-punk set, opening with Paul Haig’s Mad Horses, a song I’d been playing since discovering the Fruit of the Original Sin compilation in college, but had never even thought of it in a DJ context untill Trevor Jackson sampled it on the Playgroup album and now Prins Thomas has posted it on Bumrocks. Anyway, Mike and I trade off, and later on after some italo-disco, I play Robert Fripp, Love of Life Orchestra, Haircut One Hundred, The Dragees, etc, then Mike, Tim and I all start switching off. You can see that playlist here. Anyway, I want to go into some details about the more recent show, because I have a blog now, and I can go on and on and on about whatever I want. More about Beats In Space, Tim Sweeney, Industrial and Minimal Synth music, Plant Bar, etc!
Hey! Welcome to the Acute Records blog, which is short for Acute Records Web-Log. I know what you’re thinking, why a blog? I thought it would be really cool to have a forum to discuss music, but actually it’s just a way to try to get people to check out the website on a regular basis. Just so you know, this isn’t the first time I’ve had a blog… (more…)
