MENERGY ANTHEM Lisa "Rocket To Your Heart"

Big up to Kid Zipper for dropping this on Saturday and tearing the roof off! This is one of my ALL TIME fave Hi-NRG records - big thanks too to everyone who came down and made Menergy Pride one fo the best parties we've ever had!

Countdown to the LAST VIC PARTY #15 New Mix from Kid Zipper MNRG # 2

We're starting a countdown to the LAST EVER VIC BAR PARTY - here's a new promo mix from Kid Zipper, selected and prepared with love, for your aural pleasure.

Mnrg # 2 by Philip Mceachen on Mixcloud

Bottoms Up - Cure Me
Jarle Brathen - Takras
Autodeep & Romorri - Make You Mine
Cottam - ‘Cottam 3’
Lullabies In The Dark - Song For Marie And Elise (Aeroplane Remix)
Mark Du Mosch - The System
Sound Stream - All Night
Norm Talley - In Yo Soul
Unknown - Italo Jonson 02
Appel Roland - Cold Blooded
Tbd - What Is This?
Technose Distrikt - Technose Distrikt
Lone - Pineapple Crush

Countdown to MENERGY @ The Vic Bar Part 6: Lady Munter @ Vogue Brawl in Disorder Magazine!

Club Review of Vogue Brawl in Disorder Magazine, by Karen Potter!

Kid Zipper 2010; A Reflection.

2010 was a bit of a mixed bag of things to say the least. Optimo and RPZ as weekly events will be sorely missed and every promoter I speak to in Glasgow says that club attendance is down right across the board. Menergy had its ups and downs too but we have (fiercely) weathered the storm and finished our year in disco with The Fierce Ruling Divas Ball at Che Camille which was probably my proudest moment in my wee short DJing life. Rather than do my top 10 tunes of the year, I thought it better to widen my enquiries to the music that has crossed my path in 2010 as it happened. These tunes are in no particular order and cover the sort of music that isn’t often aired at Menergy. Links are provided if you fancy a bit of youtubage.

Oni Ayhun "OAR03B"

You may know Mr Ayhun as Olaffaetheknife and although he is on his own, the outfits are certainly no less special. Seeing a ghost white chap with a Ramones wig and a shoulder padded PVC jump suit bop around was a nice change to the usual t-shirts and jeans techno stylings that you normally get. I was lucky enough to catch his live show in Berlin and Glasgow this year and was blown away twice.



Emeralds "Candy Shoppe"

Taken from the amazing Does It Look Like I’m Here? album on Editions Mego, I have become annoyingly evangelical about this record to anyone that will listen. Candy Shoppe is probably my favourite moment on the album; lush, melodic and enveloping. Responsible for some of my messier moments in the last twelve months, especially in the summertime.



Oneohtrix Point Never "Returnal"

Another one for those elusive eyes rolling back on the couch moments. From the album of the same name which was a late entrant for this 2010 retrospective as I didn’t hear it in its full glory until Hogmanay. Not sure what the guys is on about but I’m sure its very cosmic.



Actress "Maze"

B side to the amazing and strange, Paint Straw and Bubbles single, I used this tune on a promotional mix for Menergy’s Italo Horror Party back in May. Between technical problems and scary Paisley burdz, the less said about that party the better! Menergy, bringing horror to the dancin’ since 2009.



Fever Ray "Triangle Walks (Rex the Dog Remix)"

I’ve been hammering this at Menergy since the start. Like her brother, Ms Dreijer is supa-fierce and likes a good costume. My best memory of playing this was the first time we guested at Lock Up Your Daughters. It has been amazing to work with the ladies what munch this year and the first Menergy v LUYD party was a riot. I remember Triangle Walks drawing even some of the more sceptical lesbian fidget-heads in from the edges of the floor. Follow the youtube link to experience chewing on the
bannister for yourself.



Ferenc "Yes Sir I Can Hardcore (Michael Mayer Remix)"

There isn’t much to say about Optimo that hasn’t already been written this year. What I will say is I’m unlikely to queue for 5 hours to get into a club ever again. It was however, very worth it. This was my favourite tune of the evening.



Magnus International "Kosmetisk"

I had lots of love for Full Pupp records in 2010 and this tune in particular which went down very well at our Hyperpride party in July. I’d like to think we put on a better show than the three members of 5ive that turned up for the actual pride party in George Square. Nein danke.



Leonnore O’Malley "First Be A Woman"

We owe a lot to Horsemeat Disco, dedicated as they are to the industry of human happiness. They did not disappoint in this regard at Melting Pot this year and this was my highlight. TAPS AFF.



Diana Ross "Love Hangover"

The Fierce Ruling Divas ball was, like, the Best Fun Ever. Its anarchic climax was captured by Style Scanner on the below linked video. The tune played at this point was not in fact a slightly rubbish New Order song but the epic Love Hangover which I am at pains to point out.



Jus Ed feat June April "No Pain"

If I had to choose, this would probably be my tune of 2010. I have went back to this over and over and I think its message is simple and apt, especially if your 2010 was a bit on the shitty side. Jus Ed was kind enough to record this footage of his gig from the Subby this year where I heard No Pain for the first time and it was purty magic.



Well, that was that. Lots of Menergy happenings coming your way in 2011. We’ll be in touch.

Happy Halloween! Free spooooky mixes

Crosspost from Shallow Rave.

Yes, its that time of year again, when darkness spreads across the land and the midnight hour is close at hand, etc etc. Due to the venue we had hired going out of business, we have been forced to cancel this years Rock'n'Shock festivities, which is a shame, but there's lots of other options for Samhain revelling (personally I highly recommend the Cry Parrot Art School party with Gary War, Ben Butler & Ultimate Thrush, and the return of Optimo Espookio). To get you in the mood, here are some free spookilicious download-able mixes.

The first two are from our own Menergy gang. We made these mixes back in May to promote the Italo Horror Party, but they seem more relevant at this time of year. Mine is a comp of all your favourite disco versions of horror themes while KZ's is a more brooding, modern take on John Carpenter atmospherics. But with some gay disco thrown in for good measure.



Halloween II - John Carpenter
Cannibal Ferox - Fabio Frizzi
Zombi - Goblin
Amityville Frenzy - Lalo Schiffrin
Prom Night Theme - Zaza & Zitter
Phantasm - Captain Zorro
Phantasmagoria / Silver Sphere Disco - Fred Myrow & Malcolm Seagrave
NYC Theme - Budy-Maglione
Demons (Disco Beard Edit) - Claudio Simonetti
Friday The 13th Part III - Manfredini & Zager
Lust - Rinder & Lewis
Doin' It In A Haunted House - Yvonne Cage
Disco Blood - The Vamps
Soul Dracula - Hot Blood

THE NIALLIST Disco Argento Mix by Menergy Mixes



Actress- Paint Straw and Bubbles
Tobe Hooker- Haddonfield Fear Factory
Mr Pauli- The Crunch
Black Devil Disco Club- Timing, Forget The Timing
Pat Hodges- Fly By Night
Telespazio – Galileo – Rodion Mix
Goblin- Tenebre
Lory D – Bank Robbery
Bunker 2 – Dark Side of The Moon
Gique- Fulci's Rotting Children
Patrick Cowley – They Came At Night
Ajello and Daniele Baldelli – Cosmogony
The Immortals- Ultimate Warlord
Goblin- Suspira
Solenoid- Suspiriosm
Porn Darstellar- Holocaust

KID ZIPPER Cannibal Italocaust Mix by Menergy Mixes

Next up we have a special festive mix from our chums at the disco/house blog Feel My Bicep. The whole thing is three hours long and available from their website. There are loads of great tracks up on the to download too, so get over there and get clickin'.



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HORROR MIXTAPE by Bicep

And finally here's an epic four hour mix from the producer Frenchbloke. Put together for a friend of his who had only just discovered Cabaret Voltaire, it features lots of cold-wave and minimal electronics form the early 80's. This is not specifially Halloween themed, but it is great, and some of these tunes are deliciously creepy!



xeno & oaklander - saracen
psychic youth - the future is now
ciaran harte - love is strange
deux - felicita
nightmoves - transdance (uk disco mix)
fad gadget - the box
the eurythmics - take me to your heart
metal urbain - panik
robert rental - a.c.c
rude 666 - the 1000 year storm
palais schaumburg - telefon
victrola - maritime tatami
rema rema - instrumental
the normal - warm leatherette (mathew stone remix)
cabaret voltaire - seconds too late
das boomerang - suzanne
oppenheimer analysis - the devil's dancers
futurisk - poison ivy
missing scientists - big city, bright lights
hiroshima chair - tu
eddie and sunshine - lines
moderne - indicatif
dark day - no, nothing, never
gorilla aktiv - spiegelbild
monte cazazza - kick that habit man
the passage - xoyo
ami marie - spiel mit mir
our daughters wedding - lawnchairs (dance club version)
daf - kebabtraume
blah blah blah - in the army
john bender - 06-27b4 (rainy day sunshine girl)
martin rev - mari
conrad schnitzler - auf dem schwarzen kanal
severed heads - adolf a carrot
emak - tanz in den himmel
soft cell - bleak is my favourite cliche
der plan - rot grun rot
the gist - iambic pentameter
yello - there is no reason
bourbonese qualk - lies
das kabinette - the cabinet
die krupps - goldfinger
klinik - moving hands
hula - poison (club mix)
chris and cosey - october (love song)
he said - a.b.c.dicks love
neon - lobotomy
portion control - go talk
john foxx - 20th century
front 242 - operating tracks
i start counting - my translucent hands
kas product - loony bin
spk - metal field
silicon teens - sun flight
dorothy - i confess
hard corps - je suis passee
daniel miller & boyd rice - cleanliness to order
malaria! - tod
holger hiller- jonny (du lump)
heaven 17 - i'm your money
voice farm - sleep
die doraus und die marinas - fred vom jupiter

The re-education of cartelmike by frenchbloke

Kid Zipper: Cannibal Italocaust Mix

The Kid works his magic with some new and old (yet true) Italo Horror sounds:

Actress- Paint Straw and Bubbles
Tobe Hooker- Haddonfield Fear Factory
Mr Pauli- The Crunch
Black Devil Disco Club- Timing, Forget The Timing
Pat Hodges- Fly By Night
Telespazio – Galileo – Rodion Mix
Goblin- Tenebre
Lory D – Bank Robbery
Bunker 2 – Dark Side of The Moon
Gique- Fulci's Rotting Children
Patrick Cowley – They Came At Night
Ajello and Daniele Baldelli – Cosmogony
The Immortals- Ultimate Warlord
Goblin- Suspira
Solenoid- Suspiriosm
Porn Darstellar- Holocaust

http://www.sendspace.com/file/afqs7n

Menergy on Radio Magnetic

A few months ago The Niallist and Kid Zipper did a two hour radio show for Little Rock Records on Radio Magnetic, as a Menergy precursor, and excuse for general self-whoredom. The kids liked it so much they started taking their clothes off - Tiga even dropped by to have a naked oil wrestle with Kid Zipper while The Niallist and Dalai Dahmer go-go danced on either side in shiny silver thongs.

Here's the tracklists:

Niallist track list:

Patrick Cowley – Menergy (Reprise) – Megatone
Mark Du Mosch – Now Or Never – Cyberdance
Azari & III – Hungry For The Power – I’m A Cliché
Ben Butler & Mousepad – Infinite Capacity – LOAF
The Paraffins – Something Good (Ben Butler & Mouse Pad Remix Edit) – Ear Spook
Tiga – Mind Dimension – Turbo
Walter Murphy – Toccata & Funk in D Minor – Valentino Production Music
The Dark Esquire – Situation 7 Mix – Thisisnotanext
Detachments - Flowers That Fell (Gold Blood Remix) – Thisisnotanexit
A Number of Names - Sharevari (Instrumental) – Strut
Simian Mobile Disco - Cruel Intentions (Greg Wilson Remix) – Wichita
Milton Hamilton – Crystalized – Strut
6th Borough Project – Planets (The Revenge Lost Groove) – Instruments of Rapture
A Made Up Sound – Sun Touch

Kid Zipper in the mix:

Von Spar – Hybolt – Italic Records
Trus’ Me – Sweet Mother – Prime Numbers
Diskjokke – Cearadactylus – Full Pupp
Guit.ar – Love Started to Shine
Runaway – Black Lable Honey (TBL Remix) – On The Prowl
Donna Summer – Lucky (Horsemeat Disco Edit)- HMD 02
Dorothy’s Fortress – Silencer – Destroy All Planets
NCAM – Handle This – Mystery Meat Records
Luca Belloni presents Cellophane – Music Colours Part 3 – Cellophane 1
Lisa – Rocket To Your Heart- Carrere
Le Jete – La Cage Aux Folles – Megatone Records
Combi – Tangled – Combi 05
Messalina 4 – Big Brown Eyes (Easy Lee’s DJ Edit)- Messalina

Here's where to go to listen to or download the show. Leave a comment bitchez!
http://radiomagnetic.com/shows/little-rock/menergy/

Kid Zipper: Power Top / Vocal Bottom mixes

Et voila - Menergy resident Kid Zipper shows you how it's done. With not one but TWO saucily named mixes. Take your pick, or if you're feeling versatile why not take both?

KID ZIPPER Power Top Mix



1.By The Riverside – Appleblim and Komonazmuk Remix
2.HarmoniaModerat – Rusty Nails- Shackleton Remix
1.Stereo Image – Dark Chapter
2.Caribou- Niobe
3.Magnus International – Mandass Morran Blus
4.Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood -Summer Wine- Accidental Instrumental
5.Fleetwood Mac - Big Brown Eyes – Easy Lee DJ Edit
6.Efedmin – Acid Bell- Martyns Bittersweet Remix
7.Burial and Four Tet – Wolf Cub
8.Arthur Russell – Keep Up
9.The Teardrop Explodes – Tiny Children
10.Goblin – Suspiria
11.Tunng – The Pioneers
12.Golden Panda – Back Home

KID ZIPPER Vocal Bottom Mix

1.Magnus International – Undulat
2.Cellophane Edit – Misalluba
.Dorothy's Fortress- Coupe De Ville
4.My Mine- Hypnotic Tango
5.Runaway- Black Lable Honey – TBD Remix
6.Invincible Scum – Rise of Invincible Scum
7.Motor City Drum Ensemble- Breath Control
8.Azoto- Exalt
9.Donna Summer – Lucky Me- Horsemeat Disco Edit
10.Lindstrom and Prins Thomas- Tirsdagasjam
11.Goblin- Tenebre- SSUK Edit
12.Depeche Mode- New Life
13.Mr Pauli- Le Crunch
14.Magnus International- Kosmetik
15.Alden Tyrell- What Your Eyes Can Do
16.Elton John – Funeral For A Friend