Ahhhh. No time for posts lately. However, this is worth noting.
This Saturday at Logo, another round of the monthly party dedicated to playing a proper assortment of dance music all night without damaging your ears.
DJ Cavia - China DMC champion - unstoppable on the vinyl and also China’s number one Frank Zappa Fan. Cutting up electro, hip hop, and rock on vinyl.
Evil Einsteins - Dance rap from the future. Stacks of original tracks.
Heatwolves - Hip hop, Mega Bass Party Jams, and Disco to make your girl dance, plus a late night dubstep set.
Some seriously sexy, deep grooves and really proper cocktails. Yes, they do a fine whiskey sour.
Half off before 10PM, best deal in town.
Lots of fine, fine new music out lately. Loving this track…summer vibes.
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Baths - Aminals
Though we’ve got mad love for the lighthouse and we’re throwing another party there next month, I’m proud to announce we’re doing a pool party next weekend.
The first pool party of the year at Mandarin City’s giant outdoor pool. We’ve got a proper soundsystem and you’ll feel the bass even at the bottom of the deep end.
RMB140 with two drinks, swim all day.
RMB80 swimming only.
Music selected and mixed by some of Shanghai’s finest party starters The Ughhh, Mau Mau, and myself.
788 Hongxu Lu, near Huaguang Lu. You can take metro line four, three, or ten to Hongqiao Lu and get a cheap cab from there. Line ten may have a closer stop as well…not sure.
So far the biggest summer track of the year for me. Really looking for a WAV of this…
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Foals - This Orient (Starkey Remix)
but no fireworks allowed in the new hood, damn.
and, the outdoor party in the park today got cancelled, by the man.
i’m hiding somewhere between the air conditioner, with its invisible shower of particulate matter, and the hot air monster lurking outside my building and on my balcony, so unforgivingly humid.
but don’t everybody love the sunshine?
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Roy Ayers - Everybody Loves the Sunshine
Working in the office these days.
Can’t blog from there, hence the sparse posts lately.
I’m going to see Caribou tomorrow at the Dream Factory for sure. If you don’t know Caribou, start with this mix at pitchfork. Interesting dude from the interviews I’ve read. PhD in math who cooks up eccentric and often extremely danceable jams.
Cool animal name choice too. Not played out like panda or something.
And here’s a track from his latest album.
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Caribou - Sun
This post is dedicated to Nocturnal Disco Aardvark (the nice lad from Bristol and his equally genial girlfriend). Kid put me onto a lot of good tunes, including this Talking Heads track I’d never heard before.
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Talking Heads - Pull Up The Roots
Despite the rain, another amazing rooftop party yesterday. We had an awning.
More people asked me about this track than any other I played yesterday so I’ll post it. I like this much more than the original, fits way better into sets.
Sleigh Bells - Run The Heart (Bassnectar Remix)
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I never even knew “Sexy Dancer” existed until I bought Prince’s debut album on vinyl at the top-secret record store in SH. Now I’m confused about why this track never made it onto his three-volume “hits” collection when tons of wack songs did. “Strange Relationship” didn’t make that album either!!
Anyway, it’s an unbelieveable track.
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Prince - Sexy Dancer
I’ve also included a newly-released remix of one of my top Prince songs - “I Wanna Be Your Lover.” Though I much prefer the slower, funkier original, if this one can introduce the ADD generation to Prince, I’m all for it. Plus I’ve got mad love for the label, Solid Bump Records. Enjoy the filter workout, kiddies.
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Prince - I Wanna Be Your Lover (White Girl Lust’s Solid Bump Beat)
bigger and better, starts at noon. don’t be one of those kids who turns up after dark like “wtf, did i miss the party?”
Holidays in China work differently than in the West. For example, although workers and students can rest next Wednesday and Thursday for the Dragonboat Festival, they need to work this Saturday and Sunday to make up those days. In the States, at least in school, we just add those days onto the end of the semester before summer vacation.
I used to hate this when I taught high school here, but it’s super fortunate for throwing a dance party on a Tuesday night. So come down to LOGO for proper tracks, starting out a little bit disco/hip hop then getting into some harder ish and dubstep later in the night. I’m joined by Nocturnal Disco Aardvark from Bristol (UK) as well as MC One Consciousness.
Can’t get over how amazing the Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti album is. I know I posted “Frightnight (Nevermore)” a few weeks back, but this album deserves another mention. Now go buy it!
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Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - Bright Lit Blue Skies