Black Box Disco
just got this in the mail today (new mix by dan selzer and mike simonetti) and have already played it three times. mmm... very nice.
one of the reasons i love djs and buy their mix cds is that they are such wonderful information processing devices. there is soooooo much music out there, and even in the genres i'm really into there is no way i'll even get close to listening to it all. so in some sense that's what the dj/mix cd is to me: a black box, an obscenely tasteful selection & filtering mechanism whose inner workings i don't understand but who's output i most definitely do. and hot damn did this one do it for me.
actually, lately i've been ambushed by a buch of killer mixes: caps&jones on lemon-red, that old hollertronix tape, freeform five's misch masch, ronan's backlash minimize 05... i feel like i can't even keep up with the amount of pre-filtered output i consume, let alone the ocean of 12"s out there.
back to the selzer/simonetti joint: it is great. 90% of the tunes on there i had never heard before and probably never would have, and now i can't imagine living without them; i can see how one might get addcted to crate-digging rare disco & postpunk. also, the mix peaks on my new favorite song ever, so extra points for that. seriously, this shit is great and IT'S FOUR DOLLARS! tonto, jump on it.
if you feel like getting a taste for what the mix is like but are too goddamn cheap to shell out four bucks, dudes did a set on beats in space (april 28th), i think it's still up.
if you're too much of a little bitch to even download the free mix, at least listen to this song, which i caught on there and was taken with enough to track down.
one of the reasons i love djs and buy their mix cds is that they are such wonderful information processing devices. there is soooooo much music out there, and even in the genres i'm really into there is no way i'll even get close to listening to it all. so in some sense that's what the dj/mix cd is to me: a black box, an obscenely tasteful selection & filtering mechanism whose inner workings i don't understand but who's output i most definitely do. and hot damn did this one do it for me.
actually, lately i've been ambushed by a buch of killer mixes: caps&jones on lemon-red, that old hollertronix tape, freeform five's misch masch, ronan's backlash minimize 05... i feel like i can't even keep up with the amount of pre-filtered output i consume, let alone the ocean of 12"s out there.
back to the selzer/simonetti joint: it is great. 90% of the tunes on there i had never heard before and probably never would have, and now i can't imagine living without them; i can see how one might get addcted to crate-digging rare disco & postpunk. also, the mix peaks on my new favorite song ever, so extra points for that. seriously, this shit is great and IT'S FOUR DOLLARS! tonto, jump on it.
if you feel like getting a taste for what the mix is like but are too goddamn cheap to shell out four bucks, dudes did a set on beats in space (april 28th), i think it's still up.
if you're too much of a little bitch to even download the free mix, at least listen to this song, which i caught on there and was taken with enough to track down.
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