New mix number 2 - this time from Magic Waves' Casionova. As you might expect it's a blend of Italo, old and new. You can download this mix, but hurry as it's nearly at its limit!
01. B.B. BONSAI - Prince Of The Night 02. STEVE EDEN & PAUL JAMES - Memories Emotions 03. FRED VENTURA & ALDEN TYRELL - Memories 04. CASIONOVA - Shoreham Harbour Blues (Ali Renault Remix) 05. XENON - Symphony 06. TOPO & ROBY - Under The Ice (Instrumental) 07. BAMBERS - Baby-Funk (Instrumental) 08. TOMMY KELVIN - Jungle Bow Wow 09. CAT GANG - Locomotive Breath (Special Cat Version) 10. LEE MARROW - Mr Fantasy 11. BRIAN AUGER - Night Train To Nowhere (Instrumental) 12. STEEL MIND - Bad Passion 13. B.W.H. - Stop 14. D.J. LOOK - Capita 15. MONO BAND - Ghost Town (Ghost Version) 15. ANGELA - I Gotta Little Love 16. CLOCK ON 5 - Furyo 3rd 17. MENTION - Strange World (Instrumental)
Couple of new mixes to share with folks - the first is from one of our Manchester friends (now living in London) and resident at the now defunct night Terrorist (site of the Niallist's first gig in Manchester) Wes Baggley. You may know Wes if you are a user of the hook-ups site Recon. Well, you might not know his face but you'll have seen him... ;-)
1. Moodymann - Dirty Ol' Vinyl 2. Toby Tobias - Love Papers 3. The Tortoise - Lovin You 4. Pop & Eye - Spinach Spaceship 5. Pional - Where Eagles Dare 6. Art Dept feat Soul Clap and Osunlade - We Call Love (DJ Harvey Mix) 7. Benoit & Sergio - Principles 8. Rob Mello - Where Are You? 9. Deep Space Orchestra - Lo Pan 10. Todd Terje - Ragysh 11. System Status - Montparnasse 12. Locussolus - I Want It (Lindstrom and Prins Thomas Mix) 13. Dajae - U Got Me Up 14. Freaks - Conscious of my Conscience (Henrik Schwarz Mix)
I have put the Menergy MARY POPPERS mix up on Soundcloud so people can download it. My previous Menergy mix CYBERNETIC LOVE has almost reached 700 downloads, which is great!
ZSA ZSA NOIR - Hey Lean Diggy Doggy DEN HAAN - Gods From Outer Space PATRICK COWLEY - Mind Warp GOLDFRAPP - I Wanna Life (Niallist MNRG edit) SCISSOR SISTERS - Invisible Light FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD - Welcome To The Pleasuredome MIA v PINEAPPLES - XXX Come On VANITY 6 - Nasty Girl (Chuck Hampton Edit / Original) SAM SPARRO - Pink Cloud HARD TON - Food Of Love MADONNA - Burning Up (Demo Mix)
Here's something a bit different from me - a mixtape I put together for the Manchester gay alt/pop club Bollox. It's a little bit disco, a little bit electro, a wee bit pop and a we bit rock. Enjoy!
Dusty Springfield - That's The Kind Of Love I've Got For You Christeene - Fix My Dick Britney v Kelly - Gimme More Shoes Men - Credit Card Babie$ Bad Taste Barbies - Working Up A Sweat (Niallist PumpMixx) Lio - Banana Split Polysics - Memorabilia Silverclub - The Goldener Reiter Yo Majesty! - Party Hearty Den Haan - Release The Beast MIA v Pineapples - XXX Come On Saltylips - If Ur A Bear (Niallist Mixx4Nick) Gift Grub - Where's Me Jumper? The Stone Roses - Elephant Stone Schneider TM - The Light 3000
Another new mix, only this one ain't so new. It's an old vinyl only mix by May's live guests DEN HAAN, and as I think you'll agree, it's pretty awesome:
Patrick Cowley - Primitive World Skatt Bros - Walk The Night Bb Band - All Night Long Jago - I'M Going To Go Koto - Visitors (Alien Version) Kano - Another Life (Instumental) College Club - College Amin Peck - Suicidal Doctor's Cat - Feel The Drive Bizzy & Co. - Take A Chance Moonbase - Waiting For A Train Bob Salton - Starknight Patrick Cowley - Goin' Home Paul Parker - Right On Target Free Enterprise - Make It On My Own Sylvester - Do Ya Wanna Funk Bb Band - That Special Magic Plutton & The Humanoids - World Invaders Cori Josias - Taking It Straight Patrick Cowley - Give A Little Prince - Contro (Wish We Edit) Tantra - The Hills Of Katmandu Gino Soccio - Remember David Zed - Iam A Robot Karen Finley - Ass Man Gazuzu - Go Gorilla
ELO - Don't Bring Me Down (Disco Beard Re-Edit) Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son Rockets - On The Road Again Edwin Starr - The Rock Chilly - For Your Love Kiss - I Was Made For Lovin' You Tantra - Hills Of Katmandu (Patrick Cowley Mix) Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love (Acapella) Material - Bustin' Out ZZ Top - Legs (Metal Mix) Giorgio Moroder - Evolution Macho - Not Tonight (Dimitri From Paris Re-Edit) Skatt Bros - Walk The Night (Album Version) Queen - Another One Bites The Dust David Bowie - Stay Wings - Goodnight Tonight (Trippy Disco Edit)
DISCO CONNECTION Born To Be Alive FLEXI COWBOYS Domination Instrumental AVALANCHE Travelling (Space) X-RAY CONNECTION Replay (Space Mix) PET SHOP BOYS It’s A Sin (Disco Mix) X-RAY CONNECTION Replay (Special Freak Mix) TAFFY I Love My Radio (USA Mix 86) SUZY Can’t Live Without Your Love (Double Dub Mix) MAN TWO MAN Who Knows What Evil (Nightmare Dub Mix) LIME Angel Eyes CAMARO’S GANG Ali’s Shuffle CYBER PEOPLE Void Vision ALISHA Beat All Night FANCY Play Me The Bolero (Dub) GINO SOCCIO So Lonely RONI GRIFFITHS That’s Rock’n’Roll
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.
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
ZSA ZSA NOIR - Hey Lean Diggy Doggy DEN HAAN - Gods From Outer Space PATRICK COWLEY - Mind Warp GOLDFRAPP - I Wanna Life (Niallist MNRG edit) SCISSOR SISTERS - Invisible Light FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD - Welcome To The Pleasuredome MIA v PINEAPPLES - XXX Come On VANITY 6 - Nasty Girl (Chuck Hampton Edit / Original) SAM SPARRO - Pink Cloud HARD TON - Food Of Love MADONNA - Burning Up (Demo Mix)
Just a little something I threw together as a precursor to Menergy's invasion of the Vic Bar this Saturday, with some modern Italo and House and a wee tribute to the late Casco:
Chose Chaton - Teenage Love Mark Du Mosch - Now Or Never Hercules & Love Affair - I Can't Wait Cnut - Talking to the DJ (Frenchbloke Remix) Alden Tyrell - Hills Of Honolulu Den Haan - Universal Energy Skatebard - The Party Trap (Sferro Remix) Hard Ton - Food Of Love Sam Sparro - Pink Cloud Casco pres Blackway - New Life
SILVERCLUB Fine Print LCD SOUNDSYSTEM I Can Change TIGA Shoes ARMAND VAN HELDEN Witchdoktor SHITROBOT I Found Love (Edit) DIRTY DISCO YOUTH Minds Off (Tommii Sunshine & Figure Mix) STEVE POINDEXTER Work That Motherfucker (Chuck Hampton Edit) RÓISÍN MURPHY Momma's Place EURHYTHMICS Love Is A Stranger (Coldcut Mix) HARD TON Losers THE COUNTACH Melvin Made Me Do It (Clouded Vision RMX) CE CE PENISTON Finally (Jemex Remix) SAUVAGE Release The Fashion THE NIALLIST ft PRINCESS and BEN BUTLER & MOUSEPAD I'm Avoiding You MGMT Congratulations
Stuart McLean is better known by his alter-ego Frenchbloke, reknowned electronic disco producer, remixer of "Talking To The DJ (While He's Trying To Mix)" by Cnut, father of "Son" (or not) and who has this year been bringing out some fine music via Seed Records.
Knowing he was a fan of Hi-NRG, we contacted him recently to do us a guest mix. Frankly, we're blown away by the result. This is probably the best guest mix we have had yet, and fits Menergy so perfectly it's uncanny. It's a reminisence on a youth spent hanging out at Bennets in the mid 80s so he could hear good music - Hi-NRG, electro and early house (imagine going to Bennets now to HEAR GOOD MUSIC!!), Stuart has this to say about the mix:
"A snapshot of sorts, of an era where a young Frenchbloke went to clubs where men danced with men, ladies danced with ladies, people danced on their own or with each other to a curious electronic beat."
Richard X - You (better let me love you x 4) tonight - featuring Tiga Wood Allen - Airport 89 (club mix) Scotch - Man to Man Animotion - Obsession Atelier Folie - No Rhyme No Reason (dub version) Digital Emotion - Get Up, Action Antoni Maiovvi - Tokyo Ultra Funk Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax (from soft to hard) The Flirtations - Earthquake Nitzer Ebb - Murderous (instrumental) Evelyn Thomas - High Energy Fancy - Slice Me Nice (extended version) Trans X - Living on Video MG - Boogie Tonight Mike Mareen - Love Spy Maria Vidal - Bodyrock Giorgio Moroder - Utopia - Me Giorgio Gina X Performance - No G.D.M (dedicaed to Quentin Crisp) My Mine - Hypnotic Tango Patrick Cowley - Menergy (Extended) Hazel Dean - Searchin' (I gotta find a man) Elvin - You Set My Heart on Fire Man2Man meets Man Parrish - Male Stripper Divine - Shake It Up (Extended mix)
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
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
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'.
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
HOT MESS resident DJ bot Simonotron has sent us a new mix to share with all you lovely people! Featuring a very tasty bunch of coconuts, you can download the mix from HERE.
Tracklist: Science 2012 - Clock Keeps Turning De Lacy - Hideaway (Deep Dish remix) Prince - Controversy (Purple mix) Vernon Burch - Get Up Azoto - San Salvador (Acid edit) Street Corner Symphony - Symphonic Tonic Mount Rushmore - You Better Editechnique - Dirty Kissing Fun Boy Three - Our Lips Are Sealed (re-edit)
And remember Hot Mess is TOMORROW - if you are in the Edinburgh area we INSIST you head down to the Wee Red Bar to experience the thrills and spills. And maybe make a little Hot Mess of your own...
Our resident graphic designer and all-round polymath Gregor Laird has done his very first mix for us here at Menergy!
It includes some of my all-time favourite tunes, and is well worth a download here.
The Flirts - All You Ever Think About Is Sex Savage - Don't Cry Tonight Pet Shop Boys - One More Chance (Hurricane Mix) Divine - Alphabet Rap (Hyper Go Go Mix) Alex Party - Read My Lips Pet Shop Boys - It's A Sin Man 2 Man - I Need A Man The Flirts - Passion Cappella - U Got To Let The Music Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman Corona - The Rhythm of the Night Billie Ray Martin - Passion My Friend Sam & Viola Wills - It's My Pleasure Sabrina - Boys
As another little musical promo/taster for tomorrow night's Heathers party at the Flying Duck, I have put together a forty minute set of uptempo modern hi-nrg. See you tomorrow bitchiz!
Sebastian Tellier - Sexual Sportswear Gold Blood - Don't Waste My Time Detachments - Holiday Romance (T&A Remix) Dana & Siriusmo - Meine Welt Ist Wunderbar Dolby Anol - Heather I'm Dry (Edit) Sabrina - Boys (Future Shock Less Vocal Mix) Annie - Two Of Hearts (Skatebaard High Energy Mix) Hard Ton - Flawless Lady Gaga - Telephone (Niallist 86 Mix) The Niallist - Big Man (Male Vocal)
If you can't wait til Friday 17th September and simply MUST have a preview of the music that'll be getting played NOW, then wait no more, for super guest DJ Teamy's done us a mixtape special!
Big up to all the folks at Radio Magnetic, where this is hosted as part of the Wrong Island show:
Another bit of shameless self-promotion. Tomorrow night sees the Discopia Fundraiser party at the Admiral on Waterloo St (Glasgow) with guest DJs Billy Woods (Supermax), Andrew Pirie (Melting Pot), Teamy (Wrong Island, Fun Size), David Barbarossa (Curious Curious, Fun Size), and myself and Ally McLeod (Discopia).
Discopia was a disco/house music website we started in 2005 (after already being a print fanzine) and featured folks like Greg Wilson, Daniel Wang, David Mancuso, Nicky Siano, JD Twitch, Alden Tyrell, I-F, Legowelt, Metro Area, Maurice Fulton, Prins Thomas, Cosmo, Daniele Baldelli, Beppe Loda and loads more. We're currently trying to raise funds to bring the website back better than ever, and to start a record label to promote some of the talented local house producers we know. It will be fun - oh yes it will be fun!
I've put together a special disco mix to mark the occasion too, 69 minutes of late 70's soulful, uptempo, original disco. You can download it from this link: http://www.sendspace.com/file/k6241y The tracklist is:
* TWO TONS OF FUN Do You Wanna Boogie, Hunh? * CELI BEE Fly Me On The Wings Of Love * FARRARI Love Attack (12" Mix) * SYLVESTER Dance (Disco Heat) * P'ZAZZ I Heard It Through The Grapevine * INNER LIFE You Got Me Dancing * THE LOVE UNLIMITED ORCHESTRA My Sweet Summer Suite * THE VILLAGE PEOPLE San Francisco * NIGHTLIFE UNLIMITED Dance, Freak and Boogie (Remix) * UNIVERSAL ROBOT BAND Dance & Shake Your Tambourine * EROTIC DRUM BAND Action '78 (Edited Version) * GOODY GOODY #1 Dee Jay
Damn these straight boys infecting our blog with their homotastic Hi-NRG mixes! Here's another one from Mr Teamy, this time in association with a fella called Aylwyn, who is mega-gay in everything but orientation. Well, no-one is perfect!
1) Alter Ego - Rocker [Italo Dub] 2) Black Devil Disco Club - The Devil In Us 3) The Immortals - Ultimate Warlord 4) Cyber People - Void Vision 5) Divine - Native Love [12" Version] 6) Freddie Mercury - Love Kills [More Oder Rework by The Glimmers] 7) Headman - It Rough [Chicken Lips Dub] 8) Deee-Lite - What Is Love [Holographic Goatee Mix] 9) Yellow Magic Orchestra - Behind The Mask
Aldous Huxley interview excerpt They Came From The Stars I Saw Them - The Unstoppable Kite (Hatchback remix) Loopside - Starman edit Subway - Satellites Truffle Club - Gone Blue Atmosphere - Swedes Scandal (Wood version) Tamiko Jones - Can't Live Without Your Love Fern Kinney - Love Me Tonight (Disco Bloodbath edit) Sensitive - Don't Stop Expansives - Life With You Cafe Society - Somebody To Love
