Contributor: Dave Wiseman (currently celebrating 65 years on the go..)
Here we go then, with the second part of my music mix@65 tracklist..
31-40 Nineties:
1993 ‘Show Me Love’, Robin S.(Dubdogz remix) : Another infamous, fave sample and dance track from the 90’s. Addition of horns here makes this into a recent bangin remix. But that ten note sample has been sampled a million times since. Always remember hearing this in an almost empty ‘Pacha’ in Ibiza (having got there far too early) and being blown away by how it works and sounds in a huge space. I might have been a bit out of it too.
1994 ‘Hold that Sucker Down’, OT Quartet, (reworking live): Another classic dance choon that absolutely blew you away in a club. Fave ever version: The Fridge in Brixton one Saturday when when I swear we all saw God. This is a pretty spirited live rendition though nevertheless.
1994 ‘Atomic’ dance remix’ (2013 Strauss remix) Blondie: for some long time this was my fave dance track of all time (it was no 2 on my list of 40 at my 40th party) specifically the Diddy remix from the Blondie remix album released in 1994. However maybe this newer version now sounds fresher and a tad more interesting to me. But overall I love the track still: the ultimate mix track.
1977/1995 ‘Always Touched by your presence Dear’, Annie Lennox version of Blondie song: Always loved this song , loved Annie Lennox and so put the two together and you get this classic cool interpretation of Blondies song. Nice!
1995 ‘Something for the weekend’, Divine Comedy (karaoke) . Never was the novelty song so cool. Another early Duckie favourite we all sung & danced along to at the tops of our lungs. Shoutout to the lovely and sweet Ilya.
1995 ‘Common People’, Pulp (iamxl Art meetz Beatz remix) To my mind, still the best of all the Britpop classics, with its clever, concise, witty lyrics by the legend that is Jarvis Cocker. The way it gets faster and faster as it moves along is absolutely, completely sublime. And its impossibly long late hook too. And another one to sing and dance to, like the world was going to end tomorrow. When living and breathing in the UK was cool. RIP to those times. We miss you.
1995 ‘He’s on the phone’, St Etienne (Primax Bungee mix): loved this group through the nineties and this track in particular still has an oomph value about it. From an era when ‘the phone’ wasn’t always on hand. Actually itself a remix of a song called ‘Weekend a Rome’ by Etienne Daho.
1996 ‘Missing’, Everything but the Girl (live) This has been a grower on me and over the years I’ve come to appreciate its quiet simplicity and sentiment with Tracey Chapmans’ beautifully clear vocals pulling it all together. The Todd terry remix here is the ultimate mix but there have been a number of others in its time..
1980/1997/2017 ‘Xanadu’, Olivia Newton John & ELO. (Barry Harris 2017 enhanced club mix, video) In 1997 came LGBTQI night ‘Duckie’ at the RVT and a whole host of indie pop Saturday nights in this packed Vauxhall venue, with its mostest host Amy Lame. The last track played by the Readers Wives DJ’s would always be this. ‘Right you fuckers’ they would announce, ‘this is the very last one your getting tonight’. And the place would always go wild, as you put every last ounce of energy into dancing to this song. Joyous times. I can still feel them now just by listening to this song.
1997 ‘History repeating’, Propellerheads ftg Shirley Bassey (video) : Aping the legendary sixties BBC 2 show ‘Jazz625’ this video presented a knowing faux rewrap of styles by bringing together the legendary Shirley Bassey with the then new wave sound of the Propellerheads. Cool as jazz on hot summer day.
41-50 New millenium:
1997 ‘Trash’, Suede (Hedflux mix) And along with Xanadu came a host of classic Britpop songs from this era, like this, Suedes Trash from their third album ‘Coming Up’. Never was trash so glamorous. And, according to Brett Anderson, so cooky. Great stuff.
1999 ‘Sandstorm’, Darude (interpretation by the Auckland Symphony Orchestra live): One of the all time most famous samples by Sandstorm. If you don’t know the name of the track you’ll definitely know the riff trust me. Sounds best in a big, big club.
2000 ‘Lovely Head’ , Goldfrapp : I think it was Alison Goldfrapp that has helped me keep my sanity when all around me were losing it. The sublime essence of Will Gregory’s synths and oh, her lovely voice are a constant delight. And ‘Lovely Head’ is a tune I can listen to again and again and get lost in. Escaping into that fantasy land. Wish Alison Goldfrapp would do covers from the ‘Sound of Music’. Can you imagine how wicked they would turn out?
2003 ‘Strict Machine’ , Goldfrapp (instrumental mix ) Excuse me while I go and dance. More completely sublime sublimeness from Alison & Will’s camp. I used to go to a club called Subline in Brighton in which they never played Goldfrapp once, even though the place cried out for it. Notice the huge Giorgio Moroder tribute on this track too.
2003 ‘Black Cherry’, Goldfrapp (karaoke). Did I tell you I liked Goldfrapp? No lyrics guide but you can sing them almost anywhere and they fit..
2005 ‘Ride a White Horse’, Goldfrapp (video). You know what I mean? To the disco, obviously.
2013 ‘A Forest’, The Cure (Bollywood remix, Olly & the Bollywood Orchestra, video) Always a Cure fan this is a classic track from their 1980 album release ‘Seventeen Seconds’ that has become more than the sum of its parts by reworks like this one, giving it a flavor that’s quite different from its original but none the less hugely enjoyable. If youde asked me whether a Bollywood version of ‘the Forest ‘ would work I’d have thought no way. But there you go, somehow it all fits together .. and the sitar suddenly sounds like a completely obvious instrument to choose, to play it.
2017 ‘All over the World’, ELO (mixed live performances). And suddenly all that cheesy stuff from the late seventies sounds coolio. Cool enough to create a flash mob. Like this.
2017 ‘Open your Mind’, USURA (remix, video): surely time for a remix of this classic isn’t it? Let’s put in Putin. And that PM what’s his name, from that island too. Hey!
2019 Blinding lights, TheWeekend (cover video )Tasty indian curry remix.
51-60 Here ‘n now (mas o menos):
2020 ‘A-Ha’ v the ‘Weekend’ (mix). Suddenly we find we can mix these together and ‘hey’, it sounds pretty good, yes?
2020 Batacluda (video) It sounds great here, how about putting this sound at the front of a Pride march? Oh yeh, in Almeria: they did ! Nice! 😉
2020 ‘Mi Danza’, Fuel Fandango (video): saw these two live last year at the Almeria Feria. Nice!
2020 ’23rd June’, Vetusta Morla (video). On in a beach festival in Malaga in September . Vamos?
2020 ‘Los ojos de Pablo’, Algora (video), whilst Victor Algora is still making music like this, I’m happy man.
2020 ‘Dioses y Hombres’.Algora (video). Hola Victor!
2022 ‘As it was’, Harry Styles (karaoke) Sing a long version. Wonder if they can remix this both with Aha and Blinding Lights? Oh, it’s been done already? Drat.
2022 ‘Running up that hill’, Kate Hill (Stranger Things remix)
2022 And how about doing a ‘Footloose’ riff on Netflixes Umbrella Academy? (video) Think band, think wagon, Nice!
2018-2022 Así suena ‘Nosotrxs Somos’ (video), con música y letra de Víctor Algora, que resume en acordes y palabras cuatro décadas de activismo LGTBI en España; una larga lucha en la que no sirve bajar la guardia
2022 Mmm, yeh, I’m still thinking about the last one..
