castle playlist 3/26/10

An extra long night because the castle opened early to host the first annual toga pub crawl, brought to you by the people who brought you santa pub crawl

toga tunes

crystal castles - crimewave
felix da housecat - we all wanna be prince
moby - dream about me (booka shade mix)
greater than one - learn with pleasure
goldfrapp - i wanna life
nouvelle vague - master and servant
lenny kravitz - let love rule (justice remix)
skeelo & hutch - unkown
copycat -fade to pretty vacant
CCC - tax jam pollution
blondie v lilly allen - fair of glass
mr scruff - donkey ride
parov stelar - fleur de lille
daft punk - daftendirekt
alex gopher - time
wolfgang press - going south
gorillas - 19-2000 (soulchild remix)

regular night

golden palominos - ride
massive attack - pray for rain
placebo - pure morning (les rhythmes digitales mix)
garbage - the trick is to keep breathing
bjork - army of me (remix)
gary numan - are friends electric? (andy gray mix)
meat beat manifesto - now!
PIL - rise
the cure - hot hot hot
blaqk audio - stiff kittins
tegan and sara - hell
metric - help im alive
the big pink - dominos
mgmt - time to pretend
vex - it could be sunshine
jesus and mary chain - head on
david guetta - this is not a
love song
futureheads - skip to the end
the whip - blackout
fat boy slim - in heaven
the illuminoids - get it on at le disko
coburn - we re-interrupt this program (jan driver mix)
autokratz - always more
audio bullys - we dont care
copycat - a smalltown monday solution
deadmau5 - hi friend
NIN - only (richard x mix)
the smiths - bigmouth strikes again (david starfire mix)
kmfdm - more and faster
yer man - fast lane
coburn - papa stoned
dj not I - more cowbell
faithless - we come one
brainbug - nightmare
dj lobsterdust - pussycats gone to heaven
way out west - we love machine
goldfrapp - rocket
abc - the look of love (1990 mix)
fischerspooner v pink floyd - never win against the wall
green day - brain stew / jaded
rancid - ruby soho
cherry poppin daddies - zoot suit riot
puffy amiyumi - boogie woogie #5
billy idol - dancin with myself
kinds of leon - sex on fire
new v nirvana - smells like compton
beastie boys - sabotage
eurythmics v lady gaga - dance dreams
kylie v new order - cant you out of blue monday
claude von stroke - vocal chords
everyones a crook - love will tear us apart
sisters of mercy - lucretia
the cure - close to me (closer mix)
len - steal my sunshine
johnny cash - ive been everywhere

castle playlist 3/19/10

after a 2 week hiatus (fatherhood and all)

future sound of london - isdn sessions
future sound of london - my kingdom (part 1)
massive attack - pray for rain
fun da mental - mother india
gramatik - just chillin
gary numan - are friends electric (andy gray mix)
dave gahan - bottle living
future bible heroes - death opened a boutique
the chemical brothers - leave home
meat beat manifesto - now
jeans team - keine melodien
junkie xl - reload (xtd loaded mix)
the whip - blackout
the ting tings - shut up and let me go
franz ferdinand - take me out
tegan and sara - hell
kings of leon - use somebody
plastic bertrand - major tom
the damned - jet boy jet girl
generation x - ready steady go
dead kennedys - holliday in cambodia
mgmt - kids
fischerspooner - never win
metric - help im alive
everyones a crook - love will tear us apart
muse - supermassive black hole
the prodigy - poison
modeselektor - cash
autokratz - always more
fukkk off - rave is king
baby ford - children of the revolution
kurd maverick - blue monday
coburn - we re-interrupt this program (tonka mix)
boys noize - transmission
depeche mode - personal jesus - (dirty south mix)
lords of acid - i sit on acid
gruesome twosome - hallucination generation
vex - it could be sunshine
stereo mcs - connected
dj moule - come with us and shout
ladytron - predict the day
eurythmics v lady gaga - dance dreams
team 9 v stereogum - small town apology
white stripes - 7 nation army
clash v the killers - somebody rock me
black eyed peas v boston - ive got more than a feeling
the smiths - bigmouth strikes again (david starfire mix)
16b - escape (driving to heaven) ignas main mix
junkie xl - cities in dust
jean elan - wheres your head at (klaas mix)
doors v goldfrapp - la la love her madly
rare earth - i want to celebrate (remix)
mr scruff - music takes me up
dazz - brick
ohio players - love roller coaster

Baby's first playlist

My wife and I have welcomed a new life into the world. It has been a joyous exhilarating and tiring experience. Through it all, I knew I wanted to expose him to music even at the earliest age, even in a sterile environment like a hospital. Thanks to technology that has been an easy task.

Pandora radio through the iphone has been a godsend while trapped in the hospital. Pandora allows you to create a "station" from any artist or song you like, playing songs similar in style to that which you've chosen. There are also genre specific stations. I started with a couple of different genres, settling into an ambient/lullaby station for most of the time in the hospital. In fact, some of baby's first songs he heard out of the womb included:

Thievery corporation. Treasures
Underworld. Two months off
Sasha - Wavy gravy
Stereo mcs - Connected
Clash - Should I stay or should I go?
Pixies - Wave of mutilation
Sex pistols - God save the queen

Another source of music has been the Rockabye Baby series, featuring lullaby renditions of songs from the Cure, Nirvana, the Pixies, the Beatles, U2 and more. We're planning on putting all of them on an ipod and playing them as he sleeps.

castle playlist 2/26/10

Lemon jelly - Space walk
lou reed - perfect day
flaming lips - yoshimi battles the robots
moby - new dawn fades
massive attack - splitting the atom
frankie goes to hollywood - war
love and rockets - no big deal
dead kennedys - holiday in cambodia
the clash - the magnificent seven
cake - short skirt long jacket
juliana hatfield - my sister
beastie boys - sabotage
tommy sparks - shes got me dancing
primary 1 - hold me down
elastica - connection
chicks on speed - euro trash girl
ladytron - seventeen
the dandy warhols - she sells sanctuary
moondog - birds lament
mr scruff - get a move on
x-press 2 - lazy
jackson 5 - dancin machine (steve aoki mix)
hot chip - hand me down your love
dj y alias dy - shut up and take me out
dj lobsterdust - pussycats gone to heaven
aggro1 - strange cocaine
depeche mode - enjoy the silence (rob dust rmx)
the chemical brothers v rammsteain - du hast mich again
peter murphy - cuts you up
peter schilling - major tom (xtd mix)
love and rockets - haunted when the minutes drag
autokratz - always more
fortran 5 - persian blues
sebastein leger - the people
coburn - we re-interrupt this programme (jan driver mix)
daft punk - harder better faster stronger (deadmau5 mix)
benny benasi - i love my sex
joey beltram - slice 2010 (carl cox redub)
funkagenda - nobody listens to techno
the bloody beetroots - warp 1.9
dusty kid - mantrakoma
crookers - remedy
the kleptones - welcome back
BT - love peace and grease
NIN vs george michael - i want you closer
deadmau5 v duran duran - ghosts on film
paul van dyk - nothing but you (vandit club mix)
the cube guys - baba o'riley
jean elan - wheres your head at
chemical brothers - hey boy hey girl
dj morgoth - youve got another firestarter comin
sneaker pimps - spin spin sugar (armands dark garage mix)
vex - it could be sunshine
PIL - rise
frankie goes to hollywood - two tribes
power station - some like it hot
connie francis - who's sorry now

The lost 80's

Playing music at the Castle almost every week is, for the most part, a joy. Last week, a pretty woman approached me requesting 80's music, a genre I play sparingly for several reasons. The main reason is that I lived through it and I've heard all the new wave classics so many times I'm sick of them. Instead, I try to play remixes. So when I played a remix of an 80s song instead of the original, she almost got belligerent. I know I shouldn't be so critical or elitist as this girl looked young enough that

The end result is that it set me on a nostalgia trip of 80's music that is simply no longer heard. Not at clubs. Not on 80s retro shows. Not even on Sirius XM. Perhaps on internet radio stations such as flashback alternatives

My vinyl collection is one way to feed that nostalgia fix. Another way these days is youtube. I'm thankful that there are enough people out there with enough spare time on their hands to upload music videos that I haven't seen in years, if not decades. Below are a few songs I discovered on my last trip.

Bourgeous Tagg- Mutual Surrender

You may know this band from their Beatles-esque song "I Don't Mind". This one came first and I liked it better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLgp9yHc07c

Pseudo Echo - Listening

Before this Aussie band had a new wave semi-hit with a cover version of Lipps Inc's Funkytown, they This particular song actually got a rockier face lift on their second album

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDrJKmrOo2s

The Models - Out of Mind out of sight

This was the only song I knew this song from them...I liked the horns. Another Aussie band....props to nzoz you has several youtube channels devoted to Kiwi and Aussie 80s music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7dnvxvcGRc

Love and Money - Candybar Express

Somewhere on a tape I had the Models song and this tune back to back, therefore they will always be that way in my mind. Plus they both sound similar to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSKTbnWCj7I

The next time I have a hankering for some obscure 80s I'll be sure to share.

Soundtrack to a Saturday afternoon

Yesterday I had another opportunity to DJ out in front of the Tampa Museum, providing music for museum patrons as well as the park. It also gave me an opportunity to play a lot of great loungy downtempo stuff that I don't get to do a whole lot of.

I had the opportunity to play for the grand opening of the museum two weeks ago on the 6th as well...it was a blast, but I didn't have the wherewithal to jot down my playlist.

With this and my gigs at the Tampa Theatre, I guess I'm becoming the "arts" DJ....now all I have to do is get in with the performing arts center and Tampa is mine!!!

noebe adani and wolf - no one in this world
jehro - all i want
gabin - la maison
groove armada - at the river
dzihan and kamian - streets of istanbul
$uperchrome - archenova
mark oakland - sunny
mylo - valley of the dolls
peace orchestra - who am I?
dabrye - hyped up plus tax
kid koala - third world lover
mo horizons - remember tomorrow
dj cheb i sabbah - ganga dev (bedouin ascent mix)
patato - descarga en faux
mexican institute of sound - para no vivir desesperado
mexican institute of sound - escribeme pronto
mark rae - lavish (deadbeats mix)
the fort knox fivethe brazilian hipster
the baldwin brothers - funky junkyard
rodney hunter - work that body
bobby hughes combination - clive the runner
esquivel - mini skirt
sarah vaughn - tea for two (chris shaw remix)
trouble makers - electrologe
gotan project - last tango in paris
chris joss - drink me hot
jackson 5 - never can say goodbye (neptunes mix)
propellerheads - history repeating
hal 9000 - bay bay bay
carlos jean - mr dabada
ed royal - born to funk
mr scruff - get a move on
mr scruff- cheeky
thievery corporation - bario alto
thunderball - the panther
parov stelar - love part 1
martha and the vandellas - heatwave (david elizondo mix)

castle playlist 2/19/10

thanks to mike carlton (aka sumatra 71) for helping out

four tet - angel echoes
bjork - hidden place
fatboy slim - the weekend starts here
luke vibert - fly hawaii
placebo - pure morning (les rhythmes digitales mix)

hot chip cd release party
hot chip - thieves in the night
hot chip - hand me down your love
hot chip - i feel better
hot chip - one life stand
hot chip - brothers
hot chip - alley cats

portishead - wandering star

sumatra71 in the house

desire - if i cant hold you tonite
the fitness - chauffeur
men - simultaneously (lauren flax mix)

vex - it could be sunshine
kings of leon - use somebody
muse - supermassive black hole
david gahan - bottle living (t raumschmeire full vocal mix)
blaqk audio - stiff kittens (jnrsnchz blackout mix)
the whip - blackout
aha - the sun always shines on tv
depeche mode - personal jesus (kris de angelis mix)
the cure - hot hot hot
peter schilling - major tom (xtd version)
no doubt - its my life
siouxsie - sexy peek a boo

sumatra 71

deadmau5 v duran duran - ghosts on film
daft punk - technologic (alex clark mashup)
modeselektor - cash
sebastien leger - the people
shiny toy guns - le disko (boys noize mix)
peaches v tone loc - wild thing
whodini - freaks come out at night
tupac - california love
beach boys - california girls
bran van 3000 - drinking in LA