This is another one of those rambling late-night posts where I catch up on a few things…but I’ll try to make it quick.

First we’ve got two cool Czech bands in the states, the prog-punk Rock In Opposition stylings of Uz Jsme Doma, one of the Czech Republics leading underground bands since the mid 80s. Playing with them is the all female Zuby Nehty, previously known as Dybbuk, who have a definite late 70s/early 80s Rough Trade meets ReR vibe going on. They are playing friday night at the Rock Shop in Gowanus, Brooklyn, New York, USA.

Also Friday night, the fine folks behind the No Wave cinema documentary Blank City will be screening a few of the movies only featured as snippets in their film for Raw Stock: No Wave Films from Downtown NYC, 1976-1984 at a space in Brooklyn called Louis V E.S.P. A few on the 1st, and some more next friday on the 8th.

What else is going on in Brooklyn? Oh just the first live appearance in years and years in NYC of the totally amazing and awesome band Ut! Early next month, art historian Branden W. Joseph and squirrel bait David Grubbs are curating a three-day event called Theoretical Music: No Wave, New Music, and the New York Art Scene, 1978-1983 at the ISSUE Project Room at the Old American Can Factory, also in lovely Gowanus, Brooklyn. Wed Nov 3 features film screening and talk with filmaker James Nares (who will also have work in Raw Stock), Thursday Nov 4th is panel discussions with a bunch of No Wave scenesters and superstars and finally Friday Nov 5th will be a live performance by Ut with Talk Normal opening up. Details here.

Finally, wanted to plug Cucumber the recent release by Scotland’s The Sexual Objects, featuring front-man Davey Henderson, previously of The Fire Engines, Win and The Nectarine No. 9. True to form, this is one hell of a record from one hell of a band. I don’t even know how to describe it, just go buy it. See what Tim has to say. More on the band on facebook.

Too tired to post pictures, check back in a few days!

Totally forgot to post about my latest Pyjamarama show yesterday. It was appropriate as it’s tangentially related to last night’s FAC OFF party, which featured some pretty hip factory stuff before devolving into banging techno classics (how many nights out will you hear A Full Rotation by Repetition and Jupiter Jazz by Underground Resistance? Maybe just a few). Anyway, nothing too shocking here, but a real rollicking good time.

1. Beak> – Wulfstan (saw these guys a few weeks ago in NY. They were totally awesome)
2. Joy Division – Digital
3. The Lines – Two Split Seconds
4. Digital Dance – Hospital Dance
5. Rapid Dance – Hidden So Well
6. AA – Suicide Fever
7. Josef K – It’s Kinda Funny
8. The Wild Swans – The Iron Bed
9. The Names – Nightshift
10. Simple Minds – Glittering Prize
11. Thomas Leer – Memories of Reason
12. Red Turss To… – Deep Sleep
13. Fad Gadget – The Box
14. Justus Kohncke – Old Man
15. The Durutti Column – Tomorrow

Excited to be DJing this free party tuesday night at Santos. DJ William, who has been hosting the Joy Division/New Order night at Trophy Bar for a few months with Justin Miller is starting a new weekly party called FAC OFF (IT’S HACIENDA NIGHT). Now those who have known me for more then a while know I have a longstanding habit of being involved in Factory/Hacienda tribute parties. There were my first Factory tributes as part of my Transmission party at Plant Bar. There was the Hacienda party at Spa hosted by Record Camp. Tony Fletcher’s Step On party in Brooklyn. Aux Armes at Black and White, and so on.

What is the appeal to someone too young and too foreign to have ever experienced it? The ideals and fantasies of the Hacienda always hit home. New Order sitting in the Paradise Garage and wondering if their music would ever get played there…then wondering if they could recreate it. The Durutti Column playing to an empty room. Cabaret Voltaire funking it up.

It’s the culture clash of british post-punk/new wave and american club music through the 80s. In Mick Middles’ From Joy Division to New Order, the Factory Records story, there’s a list of the top 50 records of the Hacienda of 82 or 83, where Party Fears Two by the Associates sits next to D-Train’s You’re the One For Me. A time when New Order were listening to Donna Summer and Klein + MBO and producing club records like 52nd St’s Can’t Afford To Let You Go. A Certain Ratio and ESG are recording in New Jersey. New Order’s working with Robie and Baker and Quando Quango’s getting mixed by Mark Kamins while Section 25’s Looking from a Hilltop becomes a proto-freestyle breakers classic at the Funhouse. New York disco and electro-funk meets italo-disco and british New Wave.

Fast-forward a few years and the forward thinking DJs of the Hacienda start importing Chicago House and Detroit Techno records. A younger generation of post-post-punks raised on or with New Order arise, The Happy Mondays, 808 State featuring Graham Massey from Biting Tounges, A Guy Called Gerald. T-Coy. House, techno, acid-house, madchester, RAVE.

So that’s a lot of buzzwords…but it’s a good shorthand for a large amount of the music I like to DJ and listen to. Post-punk and new wave, disco and electro, house and techno.

I’ll be joining DJ William and Jacques Renault, whom I’ve had the honor of DJing with in the past.

Tuesday Sept. 14, Santos Party House. 100 Lafayette a block below Canal. Free. 21+. And upstairs at the same time, a very cool party hosted by Spencer Sweeney, folk from Gang Gang Dance and a bunch of their art-world friends.

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