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Fresh Meat Danceteria 43 Loves - Specter at Changes Live
March 30, 2012 07:25 PM PDT
This episode of Loves is a mix by Specter live from the inaugural “Changes” party in Chicago on March 2, 2012. Changes is a new monthly dance music event created and hosted by Samone Roberts of Loves Records. The party is about dance music of the past and present with a focus on the art of mixing, Chicago’s unique heritage of eclectic DJ programming and uniting the many amazing artists spread throughout Chicago’s diasporic dance music scene. Specter is a Chicagoan known for his deeply-rooted vinyl sets and earthy machine music. He has released music on labels such as Tetrode (which he runs with Damon Lamar) and Theo Parrish’s Sound Signature. Specter’s talent for merging the old and new while playing across styles is just our thing! We hope that you enjoy this set as much as we did the first time around. http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/specter The next Changes party is Friday, April 6th at Beauty Bar Chicago.
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January 08, 2012 03:42 PM PST
Sassmouth is a good friend of ours and a phenomenal DJ. We asked her many moons ago for a mix for Fresh Meat Danceteria and she has delivered a beautiful exclusive for our podcast. Her set here is representative of how she plays live, moving effortlessly through time, genre and temperament. This is a talent we feel you should know more about so we’ve quoted a line here from her biography that exemplifies her approach and perspective, ”...using her musical training and diverse experience performing live as both a member of string quartets and punk bands, she has aggressively attacked the techno question throughout the first decade of the millennium. Sam’s DJ sets reflect her love of dialectics - a tribute to her early explorations into musical yin and yang. Stripped down sounds mutate into jacking funky house, punchy techno, and beautiful sub bass lines and melodies.” Amen! Track List:
December 02, 2011 11:21 AM PST
Josh Zeitler aka Blue J is a Chicago House compadre of ours. Blue J works at the best dance vinyl shop in the city, Gramaphone Records, and is resident of the Acid Test monthly at Smart Bar. According to the Acid Test credo, “...absolutely no CD's or laptops are permitted in our mixes. We are vinyl addicts bringing it back to the basics playing what we love most.” Blue J exemplifies this ethos spending hours digging through the shop to find vinyl gems for his collection. His mix for this Loves edition of Fresh Meat Danceteria is no exception. Here he puts together over one hour of deep psychedelic House grooves and disco influenced cut ups. This is modern music with an old soul filtered through the discerning mind of a Chicago audio gourmet. Track List:
Recorded 03/31/11 - Live unedited vinyl mix Fresh Meat Danceteria 40 "Out of Print - Tyrel Williams @ dotbleep"
November 11, 2011 09:49 AM PST
This is Tyrel Williams’ second DJ mix for FM Danceteria. Tyrel has been a mainstay of Chicago’s underground House scene for years. He began mixing records in 1999. Soon after he landed a job at Gramaphone Records where he spent the last decade building a mighty collection of 12” dance records. He spent 2010 and 2011 building his Acid Test residency at Smart Bar, which is an ongoing all vinyl House / Techno weekly dedicated to the true art form of DJing. Guests included Miles Maeda, Joshua (IZ), Derrick Carter and Tevo Howard. Tyrel has recently moved to San Francisco. This episode of Out of Print highlights over 1 hour of Tyrel’s last set at the legendary and didactic dotbleep monthly at Smart Bar. Justin Long, the purveyor of dotbleep, has been a big supporter of Tyrel through the years. We here in Chicago are upset that SF has lured away yet another of our talented DJ luminaries. We already miss the man...but at least we have his music. This is Tyrel Williams. This is acid. This is House. Fresh Meat Danceteria 39 "Climate - Mazi Fall Blend"
September 15, 2011 03:05 PM PDT
I mixed these thirteen songs together in my living room. That’s where the turntables, mixer, Yamaha amp and Technics ghetto blaster speakers are set up. I started with one of my favorite MK dub’s - the one for Bizarre Inc’s “Love In Motion”. The loosely glued together rough arrangement of MK’s Dub, peppered with outtakes from vocalist Yvonne Yanney, always surprises me with it’s contours even though I’ve heard it dozens of times. The first blend was into the Two Armadillos Remix of Jovonn’s “A Definition Of A Track”. I couldn’t envision a better way to get the blood flowing. Smith and Dawson have struck such an intense and emotional groove with Two Armadillos that I am nearly a dogmatic follower of their music at this point. From track 3 to 13 my cerebral cortex, more or less, switched off. Things just naturally happened. New tracks played nice with older ones; songs about luv called to the dance floor, exhalations echoed and bit by bit came chirps, twangs, bumps, breezes, strings, pianos, bass, drums and studio magic. The atmosphere got colder outside and I sweat in the living room, headphones on, dancing as beats melted together. 1. Bizarre Inc - Love In Motion (MK Dub) - Columbia
August 10, 2011 01:47 PM PDT
This episode of Loves is all music from 1984. It is a special live vinyl mix by Chicago's Nathan Drew Larsen that he recorded as a promotion for the A.D. (After Disco) party at SubT in Chicago on Friday, August 12. For details about the party, visit www.afterdisco.com. Here's what Nathan has to say about the mix: 1984 is an amazing year in music. At the time, "house" was still a colloquialism for the music played by Frankie Knuckles at the Warehouse. House was not yet a music form in its own right. "Fresh," on Vince Vince Lawrence’s fledgling label Precision, is the only house qua house track on the mix. The other tunes are properly considered proto-house -- the music which formed the milieu of dance music which we now describe as: *Electro (e.g., Solo – “Girls, Girls” produced by John Robbie; JellyBean – “The Mexican”);
This music from 1984 is ‘proto’ in the sense that it was establishing the necessary elements of house – e.g., instruments (drum machines, synths, samplers) – but was also different from house. For example, the songs are still songs. Only the dubs incorporate starker more house-like arrangements. Although much of the music was released on small independents and remained quite underground, there were major successes for dance music at the time and investment in dance music by major labels. There was A&R structure at all record labels and some radio play. "Trapped" (1985) by Colonel Abrams sold over 5 million copies worldwide. Earon’s “Land of Hunger” hit the top 40 on the soul singles chart. John “JellyBean” Benitez placed nine songs in the Top Ten of the U.S. Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. The democratizing force that would be house music had not been fully realized. It was still expensive to make dance music. For example, most of the tracks on the mix feature vocalists, session players or a full band. Although the epic ensembles of the disco era had long passed in fashion and economic viability, dance records were still recorded in professional studios and engineered by individuals like Bob Blank and Herb Powers. The E-max Sampler hit the market in 1984, but the studio standard were samplers like the Fairlight and Synclavier (more than $100,000), each of which were prohibitively expensive for use by most musician/producers. By 1984 the relatively inexpensive Roland gear was just finding its way into the hands of Chicago, Detroit and New York’s new roots musicians. A year before, Larry Sherman acquired Musical Product’s pressing plant, the only one in Chicago. Ron Hardy was playing "Penthouse and Pavement" by Heaven 17 and "DumDum" at the Music Box. Dance music was about to fall off the edge, for better and for worse. Please check out the other A.D. mixes on their Soundcloud (http://soundcloud.com/afterdiscochicago/after-disco-005-nathan-drew), including 1982 by Danceteria regular Samone Roberts(http://soundcloud.com/afterdiscochicago/after-disco-003-samone-roberts). 1984 Track List: 1. Citispeak Featuring Jeanne Harris – I Don't Need Your Handouts (Inst.) – Partytime Records
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July 14, 2011 10:35 AM PDT
September of 2010 Marc Cotterell booked me to play at Touch Supper Club in Cleveland. While having dinner, before the gig, we talked quite a bit about music. We talked about the 90s House music we love. The good meal and nostalgic conversation caused me to play quite a few of my favorite classics while playing that night; accompanied by tracks from now that echo the raw energy of those older songs. Here is a little less than one hour of the set. 1. Abe Duque - What Happened? - Abe Duque Records
June 24, 2011 05:24 PM PDT
The latest Danceteria is a new all-vinyl mix by Chicago's Nathan Drew
"I recorded this all vinyl mix one night on the fly a few weeks ago
1. Metro – Brownstone Express (New Groove Records) 1990
June 15, 2011 08:29 PM PDT
Starting with this episode of FMD we’ve swapped our Dance Music show for a new series called Loves. This new venture celebrates our vinyl only label of same name. For the inaugural Loves outing we’re excited to welcome on board Lono Brazil of Cottage Groove fame. Lono is curator of the tasteful Disco Unusual Social Club events and clothing line. What exactly is DUSC? It is a rare state of mind; it is a way of life. And Mr. Brazil, the maestro behind DUSC, is truly a man of musical mystery and intrigue. For this “UNLIMITEDITions” set Lono lets loose with a series of his signature Disco edits dripping with the glam and timeless aesthetic of the late 70s and early 80s. Coincidentally, the second slab of vinyl on our Loves imprint just happens to feature three edits by Mr. Brazil - get it now at your favorite record shop. This is dance music we love, full of emotion and joy that brings people the world over back to the disco. Chicago - 2011 Fresh Meat Danceteria 34 "Let's Go Swimming - Studio Nova in Dub"
May 29, 2011 08:50 PM PDT
Sometimes belief becomes stronger knowing what you believe in isn’t really there. Track list
April 30, 2011 09:08 AM PDT
This month's Climate is a mix of new tunes by New York dj and
"This mix is dedicated to spring... after a long cold winter here in
01. Zoe Xenia - Right Here Feels So Good (Original Mix) [Suara]
April 20, 2011 07:45 PM PDT
Sheila (aka Shred One) is relatively new to Chicago by way of San Francisco. This West Coast native has been warming up local dance floors with disco, funk and boogie, and I knew a podcast from her would be a nice compliment to the Fresh Meat Danceteria Dance Music show. Shred One has a unique style of mixing that draws influence from both hip hop and funk, using scratches and cuts to augment her creative mixing. Shred has been invited to play such notable parties as the Root Down and Funkmosphere, as well as being a member of RRS Feed. The Fresh Meat family is pleased to welcome her talent to our city and the show! Enjoy! 1. 2 Win U Back -the Jones Girls
April 08, 2011 03:12 PM PDT
S.O.S. is a Friday night weekly that several of us do together at Martini Ranch in Chicago. There is something special about playing with closest friends. On the 3rd of March this year Nathan and I played the whole night from 10PM until 4AM going back and forth every few records. This is about 90 minutes of what we played. 1. Crazy Penis - Do It Good (Crazy P Remix) - Paper Recordings
March 27, 2011 04:54 PM PDT
FM Danceteria turns 30 with a freeform blend of music celebrating Spring and the hustle it brings back to the streets of the Second City. This is the soundtrack playing in my headphones as I walk through Humboldt Park wrapped in an audio cocoon of favorite songs. When does the bus get to North and Kedzie? Track list
February 25, 2011 11:05 AM PST
February is now in our hearts, and here’s a brand new Q-Burns Abstract Message DJ mix for your consideration. Once again it’s an eclectic selection though we spend the first three quarters in a housier realm. Everything in this mix is brand new or about to hit the shops…there’s so much good music already out in 2011 it’s been hard fitting everything in. Just check out the action packed track list below. Lee Webster – Portal Nou – Digital Delight Barcelona Records
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