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
This is post on a new remix I have finished, and the story behind it. Sadly, last month saw the passing of the legendary Manchester gay scene character Nick "El Beardo" Elliot. I didn't know Nick for a very long time, but I found him to be super-friendly and a genuinely nice guy. He came to Joe and I's screening of "Paris Is Burning" and we bonded over a love of the film and vogue culture.
Nick was the dancer for the band Saltylips, who had asked me to remix one of their tracks ages ago. I had heard "If Ur A Bear (Put Ur Hands Up In The Air)" and liked it, but it was the passing of Nick that made me pull my finger out and get the remix done. I have had to put a bunch of other work to the side to get this finished, but I think it has been worth it. It's a bit housey, it's a bit garagey, a bit booty and ever so slightly voguey. I am happy with it. My intention was to make something that Nick would have danced to, and Saltylips have thankfully informed me that this is the case.
This link is only going to last for 7 days, so if you want it, download it now.
Even though it is months away yet (next January, Joe and I have decided), at the next Vogue Brawl we will be introducing a special "beard" category so people with facial hair can compete against each other. The category will be named in memory of Nick El Beardo, and seems a fitting tribute to a man who is much loved and missed.
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
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 a wee mash-up by Menergy resident The Niallist. It's MIA's "XXXO" vocal over Pineapples "Come On Closer". Fierce bitches and Italo - two of our favourite things!
Growler & Niallist are doing their own special tribute night in Manchester at the end of this week - not to Bowie but to PRINCE, the only other performer who could match Bowie step by step for classic tunes, outrageous performance and androgenous sexuality! There's a stellar line up of Manc queens involved, including Kurt Dirt as "MINCE"! Growler as "SHEENA BEASTON"! The Niallist as "MORRIS GAY"! Sheela Blige as "SHEELA E BLIGE"! And presenting the live debut of all star drag queen girl group "TRANITY 6"! Myte Bubbles will supply a non stop 5 hour Prince (and Prince related) soundtrack. This is gonna be a blast, so if you are in Manchester on Friday do drop by the Purple Pussycat. To get you in the mood, here's Apollonia 6 with "Sex Shooter":
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
Here's my 100 minute comp of my favourite tunes of the last 12 months. Ok, so this isn't fully Menergy-tastic, but it does feature a wee bit of synth-disco and to be fair, I have given you loads of mixes this year! This comp features more abstrakt-y elecronica, a smattering of punk and choir boys, and of course a bit of four-four. Most of the tunes are smothered in lashings of synths, so it should be agreeable to sir or madame. For more info I have notes and links on the acts over at www.niallism.com.
TRACKLISTING:
Silverclub - Your Headphones Ben Butler & Mouse Pad - Electric Bamber-Boo Divorce - Bloody Horn Fox Gut Daata - Frontal Skull Jamz (Cupp Cave Remix) Tyler The Creator - VCR/Wheels Mungo's Hifi - Belly Ska (Dubatak Mix) Sad City - Sister Ben Butler & Mouse Pad ft The Niallist - Infinite Capacity (Fulgeance Remix) Dam Mantle - Purple Arrow Horse MacGuyver - Nod Detachments - Flowers That Fell (Niallist ColdMixx) Goldfrapp - Hunt Areil Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Fright Night Nite Funk - Am I Gonna Make It? Space Dimension Controller - The Love Quadrant Lindstrom & Christabelle - Baby Can't Stop (Idjut Boys Remix) Brassica - New Jam City LCD Soundsystem - You Wanted A Hit Gold Blood - I Dreamed A Dream Liberta - The Fountain
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
My forthcoming single "I Came" (ft Ms Mac D) is released next week, and before that ace music blog THE BEAT are giving away on download the icy-cool Italo remix by producer Brassica, aka one half of Gold Blood Mike Wright. Click here to get it...
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
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)
A few weeks ago Che Camille had their debut fashion show at Edinburgh's Fringe Festival. Both Lady Munter and the Niallist performed as part of the show, to some RAVE reviews no less! Fashion blog Bee Wait For No One had this to say: "It really was the extra touches that really set this apart from other fashion shows on the fringe. The Niallist performing "Rock the Shop" was pretty magnificent....and I can't lie, a wee cheeky Ru Paul reference from the uh-mazing Lady Munter (YOU BETTER WORK!) kind of made it for me." Read the rest of the review here.
For more photos (and info on the show) check out the Che Camille website. With 14 designers and 10 models involved, it was truly epic, and as usual Camille pulled it off with aplomb. The show was streamed live over the internet, and you can watch it in it's entirety right here:
More horror disco in the area, this time the Niallist's selection of disco covers of horror themes (and one really blatant Michael jackson rip-off).
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 Holiday Du Zombi - The Evil Eye Doin' It In A Haunted House - Yvonne Cage Disco Blood - The Vamps Soul Dracula - Hot Blood
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
