remember the time

My DJ set of 90s / 00s remixed pop. Some unapologetic cheesiness ensues.

bad girls tu(n)esday!

Happy playlist day!

A fresh Luxxury remix of Donna Summer's "Bad Girls" kicks things off.

tu(n)esday!

disco tu(n)esday!

Rapture...

Like melting ice on the sun...

Love2loveu...

Tokyo beach...

In paradisum...

Turn the music up...

The runner...

She wore blue...

AOR disco mixtape! Tracklist here.

Do that dance...

bad girls

Gigamesh injects new life into a Donna Summer classic.

looking for mr. goodbar

Just scored this soundtrack from Kim's Video for 2 bucks.

It's pretty amazing. Some classic disco songs.

Read my review of the film here.

backrolls? mixtape

Some beats to help your day and night.

Backrolls? by Jdbrecords on Mixcloud

sunset strip billboards

Robert Landau took some of these photographs of billboards for record and movie ads along the Sunset Strip in the 1970s.

via LA Weekly.

fresh tunes of the week!

I wanna go to Lanzarote...




She's alright / I'm alright...




Pretty...




Lead to your heart...




I feel loveee...




She don't love me ... that's news to me...




Gothic french-pop....

cherry bomb

Anna Fidler's new collection Cherry Bomb features acrylics & colored pencil portraits of female rock legends such as Heart, Stevie Nicks, and Karen Carpenter.  Their images are wavy, almost distorted.  She describes her work as "referencing topics such as photosynthesis, electricity, binaural rhythm patterns and their relationship to lucid dreams."  The paintings here and the patterns within are hypnotizing.  Currently on display at Pole Drift in Seattle, WA. 

may farewells

Sad to see the passing of two disco legends in one month: Donna Summer and Robin Gibb.

bad girls

Donna Summer is well-known for her overplayed hits on her epic album Bad Girls (the title track and "Dim All the Lights"). The modern audience may be a bit tired of her. We've seen and heard it enough. We watched her in a black pantsuit on a well-performed but calculated VH1 performance that lacked any of the gloss or excess of the Studio 54 era. "Hot Stuff" conjures the image of Pizza Hut stuffed crust pizza. And too, disco still gets a bad rap from some music snobs. This excellent article by Simon Price points out how disco has inspired many acclaimed indie and alternative music acts.







Yet, Donna Summer's Bad Girls still sounds great and relevant today, especially in an era of a lot mindless pop, and the album's influence is everywhere. New Order's "Blue Monday" riffs off of the stuttering beat of "Our Love." It's a long record for the period (over 70 minutes and 2 LP's) and a varied one to boot. Aided by the skilled production and songwriting of Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, the songs blend seamlessly into each other. Besides the singles, which were played on many radio formats including rock, the album is a bit sparser on orchestrations than one would expect of a disco record. Harold Faltermeyer provides some memorable tunes including the country ballad "On My Honor." And then there's Summer's voice, which has remarkable moments of height and some quiet restraint. On one of her own penned songs, "My Baby Understands," she seems to blur the line between assurance and fear. It's a late night album (the streetgirl image, which inspired the title song, of the album art is quite appropriate). My favorites are the final trilogy of songs: "Our Love," the shimmering "Lucky," and the rhythmic finale of "Sunset People" which makes me think of a bygone era.