I recently got back from Europe and it was a bit of a life changing journey. I was reminded that the majority of the world are not Americans. I hadn’t left this country since Bush came into office and I think that I had just lost all hope in humanity since he showed up. But the rest of the world exists! And its beautiful and old and full of wonderful, kind, compassionate people who just get it. What a relief.
I ran into this wonderful man in Berlin named Inox Kapell. He showed my friend Camalo and I his Insekteum, a storefront space that had giant plastic insects everywhere, old analog synths, organs and a thrift store too. There was even a really cute music venue in the basement. As you can guess, I was pretty into the synths so I asked him about them and he told me he was a musician, loved the old electric organs dearly, and would I like his CD? Of course, I said, and thanked him. I carried it with me for the rest of the trip, through Sweden and back to Holland. When I got home to Brooklyn I popped it in the player, and oh my god I loved it! He’s got many projects but this one is called Puckstörn and I included one of my favorite tracks in this mix.
Tragically, I just read on his website that the Insekteum is closing!
“4 years of subculture art, music and insect discovery is over now.”
Wow, what a shame. I’m so glad I got to see it! If any of you live in Berlin and want some very very cool shit he’s putting all of it on clearance this month. Damn, I wish I was there. The Insekteum is located at Plügerstrasse 70 in Neu Kölln.
For those of you that can’t see the place for yourselves, there is a video on YouTube about the Insekteum and an interview with Inox in German.
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Tracklist:
1. Oskar Sala – Concertando Rubato
2. Puckstörn – Basura Del Mundo
3. Antena – To Climb the Cliff
4. Elisa Waut – Russia
5. Can – Oh Yeah
6. Tuxedomoon – Desire
7. Soft Cell – Persuasion
8. The Actor – Inside Out
9. Hypnobeat – Can God Rewind?
10. Klein & M.B.O. – Wonderful (instrumental)
11. Rex The Dog – Gecko
12. Crystal Castles – Vanished
13. Hypnotic Samba – Hypnotic Samba
Filed under: Music | Tags: download, electro-magnetism, Faceless Mind, Geinoh Yamashirogumi, Ghentlon, in trance 95, Judgement of Paris, Jupiter Black Ft. Fred Ventura, Kano, mp3, new beat, Nightmoves, resurrection, Rygar, Shakti, Silvia, Visage, Vita Noctis
And you thought Electro-Magnetism was dead, buried in the ground after so many months. But nay, she has been resurrected from the depths. Magic incantations and all, this time through the help of my (trusty?) laptop.
Yes indeed I have completely switched to laptop mixing, and oh how bad I am at it! I don’t find it particularly fun yet so I haven’t been practicing and I’m sad to say it shows. Hopefully the content will make up for it…
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Tracklist:
1. Geinoh Yamashirogumi – Winds Over Neo-Tokyo
2. Judgement of Paris – Answer
3. Silvia – Zuerst Ich
4. Vita Noctis – Alone
5. Nightmoves – Nightdrive
6. Visage – Move Up
7. Jupiter Black Ft. Fred Ventura – Hold Me (Vocal Extended Version)
8. Rygar – Sonic Mission
9. Kano – Ikeya-Seki
10. Faceless Mind – Slowcat
11. Ghentlon – Cheebala
12. Shakti – The Awakening
13. In Trance 95 – Warm Nights Driving on Wet Streets
Filed under: Music | Tags: august, Brooklyn, casey spectacular, djs, free, friday, gothic beach party, jeffo!, lark, minimal synth, new wave, outpost lounge, punk, queer fun times, skittles, video
I took a little hiatus at Skittles last month to go to Penland School of Crafts. It feels great to be back in the city once again, especially because our insane little darkwave queer party Skittles is on this Friday night.
The theme this month: Goths in the Sun. Vaseline in the sand. Blood in the water. OMG, its a gothic beach party- who said black isn’t a summer color? Wear your smeared eyeliner and dark beachwear to The Outpost on August 7th!
We spin a lovely assortment of beloved and obscure new wave, synth and post-punk for your dancing pleasures.
Rad and freakish video projections all night by our host Casey Spectacular.
Come dance in the dark every first Friday of the month. We’ve got a gorgeous back yard, cheep beer, and no cover of course!
The Outpost @ 1014 Fulton St. Brooklyn NY 11238
9pm – Forever.
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This month I am going to make the jump to laptop DJing, I swear. Though every month I say that. And every month it doesn’t happen. But hopefully this will be the last mix with CDs and such. I have so much awesome music on my laptop that at this rate will never make it onto these mixes unless I use software to access them. I am attempting to admit to myself that iTunes has completley taken over the way I access and browse music and that I need to embrace it or be eternally frustrated by how archaic browsing physical music has started to feel to me.
I don’t want this to be the case, but it just is.
So there are a bunch of bands I’ve been really loving lately that I just couldn’t play on this mix because they were trapped inside my laptop and couldn’t get out. And that is a crime.
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Tracklist:
1. Experimental Products – Dreamworld (Live City Gardens 6/12/1983)
2. Alphaville – Romeos (Demo 1)
3. In Trance 95 – Brazilia
4. Epee du Bois – Exits
5. ADN’ Ckrystall – Ovanescent Nocturne
6. Chris Carter – Electrodub 2
7. Xeno and Staccato – Cara’s Kiss
8. Bergheim 34 – Oscillations
9. Schleimer K – On the Odd Again
10. A Certain Ratio – Back to the Start
11. Weltklang- VEB Heimat
12.Modeselektor – Sucker Pin
13.Goudron – Basmatine
14. MDNR – C.L.U.B. (Instrumental)
15. N.O.I.A. – True Love
Filed under: Music | Tags: Brooklyn, casey moran, casey spectacular, darkwave, Dirty Knees, DJ Jeffo, goth, lark, minimal synth, NYC, punk, queer, skittles, The Outpost
A little advanced notice never hurt anyone. I just finished this flyer…pretty happy about it. The June party’s theme is “painted babies” so I tried to work that in there. Something to do with the freakishness that is the pageant baby industry and Casey’s obsession with JonBenét Ramsey. I couldn’t bear the idea of using her face on the flyer, so well, I didn’t. Phew.
We spin a lovely assortment of beloved and obscure new wave, synth and post-punk for your dancing pleasures.
Rad and freakish video projections all night by our host Casey Spectacular.
Come dance in the dark every first Friday of the month. We’ve got a gorgeous back yard, cheep beer, and no cover of course!
The Outpost @ 1014 Fulton St. Brooklyn NY 11238
9pm – Forever.
Filed under: Music | Tags: cabaret voltaire, Ceramic Hello, Cormac mcCarthy, de fabriek, download, electro-magnetism, electro-pop, ensemble pittoresque, Guyer's Connection, Men Without Hats, mp3, Music, Neeva, noise, OMD, oppenheimer analysis, podcast, Ruth, Shanghai Au Go Go, skinny puppy, soft cell, synthesizer tunes, The Hafler Trio, The Petshop Boys, the road
Alright, this mix was:
1. a backlash against the non-stop dreary rain we’ve been suffering through.
2. part train-wreck noise explosion, part synthpop daydreams.
3. some sort of bewildering response to reading half of The Road by Cormac McCarthy in one sitting.
4. a bunch of other stuff.
5. I have to get out of town.
6. and finish reading The Road as soon as possible.
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Tracklist:
1. De Fabriek – Launch My Olive
2. Cabaret Voltaire – Automotivation
3. Ceramic Hello – Footsteps In The Fog
4. OMD – The Messerschmitt Twins
5. Oppenheimer Analysis – Men in White Coats
6. Men Without Hats – Moonbeam
7. The Petshop Boys – Where The Streets Have No Name
8. Neeva – Walking on Air
9. Ensemble Pittoresque – Urban Catastrophe
10. Guyer’s Connection – Arabia
11. Soft Cell – Facility Girls
12. Shanghai Au Go Go – I Cried All Winter
13. Ruth – Polaroid Roman Photo (Instrumental)
14. The Hafler Trio – A Thirsty Fish
15. Skinny Puppy – Unovis on a Stick
16. The Hafler Trio – The Dirty Fire
17. Skinny Puppy – Film
Filed under: Music | Tags: Brooklyn, casey moran, casey spectacular, darkwave, Dirty Knees, DJ Jeffo, goth, lark, minimal synth, NYC, punk, queer, skittles, The Outpost
It’s time for another Skittles party! I’ll be playing all my favorite obscure dance tracks from the 80’s.
@The Outpost
1014 Fulton St. Brooklyn NY 11238
Our next party is May 1st
9pm- forever
Admission is FREE!
DJs Jeffo!, Lark and Dirty Knees
Video Projections Casey Spec
Filed under: Music | Tags: bakterielle infektion, Beirut, Black Turtleneck, electro-magnetism, experimental products, Goudron, I Satellite, Jeunesse Fantôme, lowfish, minimal, mp3, NYC, podcast, Reducer, robot music, skanfrom, sleeparchive, solvent, Stephan Bodzin, synth-pop, wierd
Is it really here? After so many false starts? The trees say yes, but I’m pessimistic. It’ll never come! Ever!
Well it’s sunny out, though I haven’t felt it on my skin yet since I’ve been trollishly indoors all day. I am heading out in a minute after I post this. I swear.
My original intention with this mix was to incorporate a theme. I wanted to celebrate the fact that one of my all time favorite musicians, Solvent, is performing April 29th at Wierd at 131 Christie. What a treat! Based in Toronto, Solvent (aka Jason Amm) has been hugely influential on my tastes in music and my attempts to make my own. Its unique even within the realm of synthesizer pop and after exhausting all his material I struggled to find other bands similar enough to him to fulfill my analog bleep-filled desires. There really weren’t any others that quite hit the spot! What to do? I explored a little and discovered his label Suction Records which is now kaput but offered me Lowfish, his other project Black Turtleneck and the Snow Robots compilations (though most of the tracks I love on the comps are side projects of his).
Shortly thereafter I came across the music of Roger Semsroth, aka Skanfrom and now Sleeparchive. He was also the synth mastermind behind Bakterielle Infektion. His music in B.I. and Skanfrom, melancholy and dark synthetic pop sometimes verging on noise, has really grown on me as has his new minimal material. Lovely.
So my choices for this mix today all stem from my fascination in some way with the instrumental-meticulous-analog-synth-warm-yet-chilly music of Solvent. I think. Well, a lot of it does anyway. And some of it I just thought was pretty and threw in for good measure. Like “Who is Kip Jones?” by Experimental Products. I am totally obsessed right now! That song has become a daily ritual….
Enjoy!
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Tracklist:
1. Stephan Bodzin – Bremen Ost
2. Sleeparchive – QCD
3. Bakterielle Infektion – Verbindung
4. Jeunesse Fantôme – Księżyc
5. Solvent – Operating Ease
6. Lowfish – Fric Frac
7. Goudron – Art School Fuckheads
8. Skanfrom – My New 7″
9. Black Turtleneck – Step Sequencer
10. Reducers – Airways
11. Solvent – Wish
12. I Satellite – Bubbleboy (Instrumental)
13. Skanfrom – In 17
14. Beirut – No Dice
15. Experimental Products – Who is Kip Jones?
Filed under: Music | Tags: chris & cosey, download, duet emmo, electro-magnetism, electro-pop, i start counting, james figurine, linear movement, medio mutante, minimal synth, mix, mp3, opera, perspects, podcast, synth-pop, the future
Hello my beloved listeners where ever you may be. It’s been a minute here with the podcasts/mixes…Thanks for holding out! I have come through at last with a new little mix. It’s rather short, but I was running low on time so, well, there it is. I hope you enjoy it. I’ve had some awesome positive responses about the mixes and I really appreciate it! It makes me feel like someone is actually listening to them. And not only just listening to them, but enjoying them, hearing new things, old things, loved things. Thank you!
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Tracklist:
1. Perspects – The Accumulators
2. James Figurine – Stop
3. Opera – Emotion
4. I Start Counting – Still Smiling
5. Duet Emmo – Or So It Seems
6. The Future – Blank Clocks
7. Medio Mutante – Another Land
8. Chris & Cosey – Talk to Me
9. Duet Emmo – Friano
10. Linear Movement – The Linear Way
(Title explanation– I mentioned I was low on time. And then Audacity decided to get all buggy on my ass and cost me another hour. Me wants to smashy smashy with annoyance!)
Filed under: Music | Tags: Brooklyn, casey spectacular, dancing, DJ, jeffo!, lark, Outpost, queer, skittles
Thanks to everyone who came out! I am definitely looking forward to next month. May 1st!
And I promise to post a new podcast soon. I have been really busy with my new job and I no longer have my luxuriously long free days to make mixes! Ack! Soon though, soon…
