Tiger & Woods, Tornado Wallace, Mark E, Matthew Dear
Hope everyone has been having a great year so far, things have been as busy as ever as I enter the spring semester of my first year at Parsons, while also balancing my extra-curricular activities. I’ve been DJ’ing more around NYC and Philly in the new year, and now host a weekly at Coco66 on Fridays with Jakub Alexander (aka Aarnio). We play a well-curated mix of sounds ranging all sorts of genres, all upbeat and drenched in style, we’re calling it “.” Anyway, I have been finding my tastes for deep disco growing from within my love for house music. Here’s a selection of hot cuts that bring disco into the 10’s (as in 2010’s) with style and grace.
Tiger & Woods – Gin Nation – Caddy Shag EP
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have been making mysteriously delicious tunes, which have, until recently, slipped under my radar. I first saw their name on , but it wasn’t until I received the recommendation from my friend AJ while DJ’ing in Philly that I gave a couple of their tracks a listen. This track features a heavy, hard-hitting low-end, with the kind of sampled loop that I absolutely love, it creates a motion and groove that is hard not to move with.
Polygon Palace – Tokyo Getaway (Tornado Wallace Remix) – [single?]
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My obsession with has not abated one bit, and I’ve been blown away by this remix he did in 2009 for on a single that features quite a few remixes from some of Australia’s indie dance/pop’s young and rising stars. It is clearly evident that was a formidable one on this track. There are two drops at 2:30 and 4:15 or so, respectively, that completely blow the roof off the floor. When I heard Matthew Dear throw this tune down in Brooklyn late last Wednesday night at Atomly’s birthday, I started twirling my shirt through the air.
Mark E – Special FX – 12″
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If you’re going to look at deep disco, you won’t be able to ignore the sounds of pioneering producer , whose imtimate knowledge and prodigious vision regarding the re-engineering and combination of sample and original production, is evident even in his earliest works. I’m not quite sure when this tune came out, but it’s completely dirty, and is among a swath of classics with a shelf life like fine bourbon, you can play it out again and again over years and it will still rock.
Matthew Dear – Little People (Black City) (Mark E Remix) – [single]
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Speaking of Mark E and , if you have still yet to listen to Dear’s newest album Black City, you need to stop denying yourself a musical privilege. You might also be into Mark E’s remixes he submitted for the title track on Black City. The sort of rolling, meandering blissful stuff that sort of harkens to Dear’s sound on Asa Breed, Mark E seems to be attempting to re-align Matthew Dear’s surprisingly upbeat original mix with the more familiar dark side, without skimping on a contribution from Mark E’s own palette of aural flavor.
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on 24 Jun 2011 at 12:11 pm # Agnès, Homework, 6th Borough Project, Mark E | Blog.H34 : Music, Design, Culture
[…] but not without throwing the ole dog a bone. This re-worked version of Special FX (original version posted here) had me smiling with guilt, I really do prefer this stuff. Is it not permissible to be a sampler if […]