Fresh Meat Danceteria

Sometimes belief becomes stronger knowing what you believe in isn’t really there.

Track list
1. Addis Ababa Children & The Upsetters - Well Dread (Version 3) - Trojan Records
2. Lee Scratch Perry & The Upsetters - Croaking Lizard - Island Records
3. G.G. All Stars - Love Of Jah Jah Children - Trojan Records
4. The Aggrovators - Jah Jah Dub - Trojan Records
5. Devon Irons - When Jah Come - Locks
6. Lee Perry & The Mad Professor - Man Man Dubwise - Trojan Records
7. Sly & The Revolutionaries - Marijuana - Trojan Records
8. The Gladiators - Time - Black Art
9. Scientist - Miss Know It All - Trojan Records
10. Burning Spear - Jah No Dead (Original Film Mix) - Hip-O Records
11. Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey - Hip-O Records
12. David Isaacs - Since You’re Gone - Trojan Records
13. Juks Dread & Big Youth - 23rd Psalm - Black Art
14. King Tubby - Straight To Trojan Head - Trojan Records
15. King Tubby - Straight To Brad’s Head From New York - Trojan Records
16. I Roy - High Fashion - Trojan Records
17. Rhythm & Sound w/ Tikiman - Never Tell You - Burial Mix
18. Mad Professor - 6 Million Dub - Ariwa
19. Noel Davy - Version - Pressure Sounds
20. Dawn Penn - You Don’t Love Me (No No No) - Greensleeves Records

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
2. Better by the Minute -Glass Pyramid
3. You Are My Number One -Katie Kisson
4. I'll Do My Best -the Ritchie Family
5. It's All Yours (shred one shrEDIT) -Starpoint
6. You Can't Run From My Love -Stephanie Mills
7. Special -Dolette McDonald
8. I"m on the Real Side -Lisa Hill
9. Mind Up Tonight -Melba Moore
10. I Choose U -Confection
11. Pass the Dutch (instrumental) -Miss E
12. Play it by Ear -Cojo
13. Use Me Loose Me -the Paul Simpson Collection
14. Love (is gonna be on your side) -Firefly
15. You Don't Care (about our love) -China Burton
16. The Very Best in You -Change

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
1. Meat Beat Manifesto - Echo In Space Dub - Run Recordings
2. Johnny Clarke & The Aggrovators - Dub On My Pillow - Attack
3. Luna City Express - Floripa - Moon Harbour Recordings
4. Michoacan - 2 Bullets (DJ Harvey's Masterdata Remix) - Grayhound Recordings
5. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds - Capitol Records
6. Black Cock - Shine On - Black Cock Records
7. South West Seven - Mels Pockets - Carry On
8. Mike Monday - Fun With A K - Playtime
9. Saints Go Machine - Pinned - !K7
10. Aeromaschine - Serenades For Simple Brains - Baalsaal Records
11. Herbie Hancock - Chameleon - Columbia

This past Valentine's Day I was reflecting on the human experience of
love. "Songs About Love" is an unmixed collection of love songs meant
to represent all aspects of the emotion. Feelings of anticipation,
lust, infatuation, trust, distrust, jealousy, regret and longing, not
necessarily in that order. These are a few of my favorite songs about L.O.V.E. love.

xo

Samone

Intro by Sydney Omarr Astro Records 1969
"Wishing On A Star" by Rose Royce Whitfield Records 1977
"Don't Let It Go To Your Head" by Jean Carn Philadelphia International Records 1976
"You'll Never Know" by Hi-Gloss Prelude 1981
"Don't Look Any Further" by Dennis Edwards Motown 1984
"Touch Me (All Night Long)" by WISH feat. Fonda Rae KN Records 1984
"I Love You More" by Rene' & Angela Capitol 1981
"This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)" by Talking Heads 12" Mix Sire 1983
"Plane Love" by Jeffrey Osborne A&M Records 1983
"Thanks To You" by Sinnamon Becket Records1982
"You're Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else" by The Jones Girls Philadelphia International Records 1979
"Love Injection" by Trussel Elektra 1979
"Teardrops" by Womack & Womack Island 1988
"Without Love" by Peter Brown Drive Records 1977

The idea came to me around 1995 to do a 12 volume mix tape series and call it ‘Opiate’. I would gradually addict an audience to the music I made and played. By number 12 in the series I imagined I would have a large group of people into what I was doing. I planned on doing one mix a month - so after one year the addiction would be complete.

It took 4 years to do the series. The experiment was somewhat of a success although a number of my audience have since been to rehab. This is volume 5 of that series.

This very special “Let’s Go Swimming” is a live mix by Chicago’s Karl Meier. We originally decided to go with the “Let’s Go Swimming” format in honor of Karl’s amazing eclectic dj sets. Although Karl is known for being an excellent techno dj, he is also greatly respected for his knowledge of modern electronic music generally and for performing esoteric sets like the one presented here. Karl recently played with Silent Servant and DVS1 and will be djing with Surgeon in March at Smart Bar. He has a release forthcoming on Remnant records (feat. a remix by Monolake) and currently manages Saki, a record store in Logan Square.

1. YELLO "Great Mission" (Stiff/Vertigo, 1983)
2. LES VAMPYRETTES "Menetekel" ( ? / EMI/Electrola, 1981)
3. THROBBING GRISTLE "Debris Of A Murder" (Power Focus, 1982)
4. CONRAD SCHNITZLER "Auf Dem Schwarzen Kanal" (RCA, 1980)
5. WILL POWERS "Adventures In Success" (Island, 1983)
6. PSYCHIC TV "Ov Power" (Some Bizarre, 1982)
7. GRACE JONES "Private Life -- Dub Version" (Island, 1980/1998)
8. CZUKAY/WOBBLE/LIEBEZEIT "How Much Are They?" (Island, 1981)
9. DAVID BOWIE "Abdulmajid" (Ryko, ?)
10. STEPHEN MALLINDER "Del Sol" (Doublevision, 1985)
11. WALLS "A Virus Waits" (Kompakt, 2010)
12. THIS HEAT "Radio Prague" (Rough Trade, 1981)
13. THE FLYING LIZARDS "Trouble" (Virgin, 1979)
14. OMD "Time Zones" (Virgin, 1983)
15. SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES "Red Over White" (Polydor, 1980)
16. DEMDIKE STARE "Bardo Thodol" (Modern Love, 2010)
17. ZELIENOPLE "All I Want Is Calm" (Type, 2009)
18. JOEY BELTRAM "Land Of Oceans" (Visible, 1994)
19. WOODENTOPS "Steady Steady" (Rough Trade, 1985)
20. WIRE "Go Ahead" (1979, Harvest)
21. IKE YARD "Beautifully Terrible" (Phisteria/Desire, 2010)
22. ROBERT ASHLEY "Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon" (Lovely, 1979)
23. CHRIS CARTER "Resonance" (Industrial/Mute, 1980/1991)
24. THOMAS KONER "Nuuk (Air)" (Big Cat, 1997)
25. TIM HECKER "Blood Rainbow" (Kranky, 2006)

Two ways to take this week’s episode of Fresh Meat Danceteria. Either you can think of it as a purist ‘David Mancuso’ style set with no beat matching, songs played mostly from beginning to end and at the original tempo they were recorded in; tracks included purely for their message, mood and atmosphere. Or you can think of me as a lazy DJ who wanted to play some of his favorite tracks back to back and share them with you not having to wrestle with the technical details of beat matching, sound effecting and post production editing. This exercise reminded me of mix tapes I made for friends back in grade school.

1. Curtis Mayfield - Sweet Exorcist - Curtom Records
2. Debarge - Stay With Me - Bellaphon
3. Two Tons Of Fun - Just Us (Re-Edit) - BDA Records, Inc.
4. T.S. Monk - Bon Bon Vie (Gimme The Good Life) - Mirage Records
5. Montana Sextet - Heavy Vibes - Philly Sound Works
6. The Next Movement - Let's Work It Out (Instrumental) - Prelude Records
7. David Bendeth - Feel The Real (Special Disco Remix) - Epic
8. C.J & Co. - Devil's Gun - Westbound Records
9. Cerrone - Love In "C" Minor - Atlantic
10. Candido - 1000 Finger Man - Rams Horn Records
11. Vincent Montana Jr. - It Looks Like Love - Atlantic
12. Chaka Khan - Clouds - Warner Bros.
13. Luther Vandross - Never Too Much - Epic
14. Jermaine Jackson - Let's Get Serious - Motown
15. Daryl Hall & John Oates - I Can't Go For That - RCA
16. Shuggie Otis - Freedom Flight - Luaka Bop

This week's Danceteria is an "Out of Print" vinyl mix recorded by Mazi in 1998 at his apartment on Hoyne in Wicker Park, Chicago. "Opiate 3" was the 3rd installment of a seminal mix tape series that Mazi did in the 1990's. Enjoy!

Fresh Meat Danceteria’s latest Let’s Go Swimming is by Chicago’s Jason Patrick. Jason is known for playing a heady mix of techno and house, but he took a break from the floor to record this mix of dub music for the Danceteria. Here Jason explores connections between the techno of his hometown Detroit and early dub experiments in sound, especially the creative use of reverb and echo. Enjoy this wicked selection of tunes mixed with overdub effects in the dub style!

1. King Tubby - Country Gal Dub
2. Prince Douglas - Jam Love Dub
3. Wackies - Hot and Cold
4. Sly & Robbie Meet The Mad Professor Feat Dean Fraser - Cool Dude
5. The Twinkle Brothers - Zion Dub
6. Wackies - Addis Ababa Dub
7. Sly & The Revolutionaries - Cocaine
8. Cottonbelly - Intense Dub
9. Prince Far I & The Arabs - Hello, Love Brother
10. Barrington Levy - Under Mi Sensi
11. King Tubby - Hungry Belly Dub
12. Dub Specialist - Lost In Dub
13. Rod Taylor - Stand Up Firm
14. Dubspeed Killa - Goodbye To The City (feat Jazz'min)
15. Charlie Chaplin - Diet Rock
16. Paul St. Hilaire - Sound System Fm Special Jingle

I attended a fantastic Christmas party at Smart Bar this past Wednesday and it put me in a friendly mood. Mixing this set last night for Fresh Meat Danceteria I wanted only to play music by people I know and love. As is always the case, a couple tunes jumped into the mix from individuals who I frankly have never met. I rationalized playing these ‘tracks by strangers’ thusly: either they were written by people who I’m sure I’d get along with famously or in a style fitting the friends I already hold dear. Either way, here is an hour long mix inspired by a night of food, drink, music, atmosphere and close friends. Hope it keeps you warm through these Winter days.

1. Nick Harris - BizzaRIO (Restless Natives Rework) - Fresh Meat Records
2. Crazy P - My Love - 2020 Vision
3. Sasse & Phonogenic - Tangential ft. James Teej - My Favourite Robot Records
4. Tornado Wallace - Twirl And The Beanstalk - Delusions of Grandeur
5. Shonky - Cluborama - Freak n Chic
6. Joshua Iz feat. Diz - It Iz What It Iz (JT Donaldson Remix) - Vizual Records
7. Kev Obrien - Solo Yet So High - Brown Eyed Boyz
8. Elef - Draw - Dirt Crew
9. MANIK - She’s Slow Motion - Ovum
10. Alexander East - Supposed 2 Be (Audio Soul Project Remix) - 3345 Music
11. Duky - Let Me Take You - Antiqua Recordings
12. Audio Soul Project feat. Nathan Drew Larsen - Never Go Away - Fresh Meat Records

This week’s Dance Music, “Hard Times,” is another wicked live disco mix from Chicago native Samone Roberts, Fresh Meat's resident Disco DJ. Here is what Samone has to say about the mix:

This mix is a collection of songs that address the sometimes difficult issues in life: work, money and love. It’s about getting over, getting through and moving on. The past few years have been a difficult journey for a lot of people including myself, my family and friends. I hoped this mix would provide a sentimental reflection of 2010, while looking towards the future and all of the possibilities it holds. So here’s my toast to new beginnings and opportunities in the universal language of disco and funk.

1. Afro Cuban Band - Something's Got To Give (Todd Terje Rekutt) 2010 White Label
2. Steve Parks – Movin’ In The Right Direction 1981 Solid Smoke Records
3. Donald Byrd - Think Twice (Edit De Prince Language) Editions Disco
4. William DeVaughn - Be Thankful For What You Got (DJ Day Edit) 1974 Chelsea Records
5. Leonard Seeley's Heritage - Feel It (U-Tern Edit) 1981 Zoo York
6. Blackbuster - Shack Up 1976 RCA
7. Fonda Rae - Over Like A Fat Rat 1982 Vanguard
8. The Valentine Bros. - Money's Too Tight (To Mention) 1982 Bridge Records
9. Universal Robot Band - Barely Breaking Even 1982 Streetwave
10. Shock - Shock Talk (U-Tern Disco Mix) 1981 Fantasy
11. James Brown - Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose (Samba Remix)
12. Kid Creole & The Coconuts - Endicott 1985 Sire Records
13. Candi Staton - Victim 1978 Warner Brothers
14. Sons Of The Kingdom - Modernization (7 Samurai Edit) 2007 G.A.M.M.

This is a DJ mix I recorded in 1994 at a loft I lived in at 120 North Green Street here in Chicago. My roommates were Jon, Mani, Roxanna, Farrah and Evrim. Before we moved in the name of the place was Red Nail and a few other DJ friends lived there. Our neighbors, in adjoining lofts, were musicians and DJs too or just the type of people who slept little and listened to loud rhythmic music at all hours. This was the period at which I decided to make a living from DJing and writing music alone. The walls to our rooms did not go high enough to meet the ceiling. My bedroom opened into a freight elevator. It was a naïve and wonderful time.

Phillip Stone is one of our friends, a Chicago native and a damn fine DJ. He mixed the very first episode of Fresh Meat Danceteria and we're pleased to have him back for episode 17. Here Phil gets deep and funky.

1. Almost live but definitely plugged (move d rmx)
2. Lauhaus "varna vibes"
3. "the voice from planet love" phil re-edit
4. Lee curtiss "smoking mirrors"
5. No regular play"smiling faces"
6. Mirco violi rmx
7. Unknown
8. El comandante track
9. Alex picone "Mina"
10. LBYJ (phil edit)
11. Lawnchair generals "believe in me" (Shaun edit)
12. Mofo #2
13. break you (phil edit)
14. Deniz kurtel "yeah"
15. "hold me tight" (shaun reeves & guti rmx)

Whale Time is the imagined way in which a massive ocean mammal, like a humpback whale, hears or makes music and sound; a detour in perception attempted by slowing down time far enough to change the texture of auditory information. Male humpback whales sing songs that, much like classical music, consist of various themes developing and building over the span of their lives. The idea arose to slow down certain songs like Sun Ra's "The Sun Myth", Martin Hannett and Vini Reilly's "Second Aspect of the Same Thing" or my own "Dig Up" and mix them with human-time tracks of a certain matching character. The result seems to have plunged the human tracks into oceanic chasms sometimes full of emotion and other times murky enough to be eerie. I peppered the mix with jazz (melodic and atonal), a touch of dub, one honest to goodness funk classic and some electronic creations that stretch like phantasms into the outer reaches of sound design. I included a few tracks like Sun Palace's "Rude Movements" and Miles Davis' "Yesterdays" as life rafts to help get our heads above water for a breath before diving back in. Some of these moments are fierce with energy and top heavy with chaos; entropy as a natural byproduct of elemental forces crashing against one another. Hopefully this experiment resonates with enough life to echo the phrasing of our largest mammal brothers.

1. Martin Hannett - Second Aspect of the Same Thing (Whale Time) - Unreleased
2. Luna City Express - Magic Bubbles - Moon Harbour
3. Martin Hannett - Second Aspect of the Same Thing - Factory
4. Sun Ra - The Sun Myth - Happy Bird
5. Talking Heads - Drugs - Sire
6. Section 25 - Red Voice - Les Temps Modernes
7. Audio Soul Project - Dig Up (Sans Beat Whale Time) - Unreleased
8. The Model - Stargate Interlude - Underline
9. David Duriez - Acid Waste - Duriez
10. Martin Hannett - Second Aspect of the Same Thing (Whale Time) - Unreleased
11. Rhythm & Sound with Tikiman - Ruff Way - Burial Mix
12. LFO - Groovy Distortion - Tommy Boy
13. Sun Palace - Rude Movements - Passion Records
14. Gil Scott-Heron - Home Is Where The Hatred Is - Flying Dutchman
15. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Open Heart Surgery (Whale Time) - Unreleased
16. Sun Ra And His Astro Infinity Arkestra - Strange Strange - Saturn Research
17. Miles Davis - Yesterdays - Columbia
18. John Coltrane - Venus - Impulse!
19. Sun Ra - The Sun Myth (Whale Time) - Unreleased

This week's deep mix for the Danceteria is by Chicago's The Cushion. Here is what he has to say about the mix:

First off, I am honored to have this mix selected by Fresh Meat for their podcast series. Its the first mix I've recorded in some time and I really wanted to put something together that was as much for me as anyone else. I wanted to select tracks that didn't sound dated but reminded me of the sounds I heard bouncing off the cement walls in Detroit factories in the early & mid 90's. Its my goal to always play music that has a timeless quality, and is simply good for being good and with that in mind while making the mix I wanted to give the tracks time to breathe and develop in order to portray the producer(s) full thoughts and ideas. Too many DJs these days are using a quick mixing style that supports and nutures their audiences short attention spans by trying to cram as many tracks as they can into one hour and 20 minutes. While that style may have a place, I believe in music and its ability to overcome a short attention span with a solid soulful groove, intriguing movements and absorbing sounds. As far as programming goes, I wanted what I always want which is to take the dancer/listener on a journey. I always want my sets/mixes to be something where the listener finds themselves lost in the music with no concept of the passing time or of the shifting of energy between the tracks. Hopefully this mix accomplishes all of that in a fun and interesting way, but I guess you get to be the judge of that.

I make and play music that both hits your soul and moves your feet.

My mixes are always done live, by hand using vinyl records and/or vinyl control records and Serato Scratch Live. The only post production added are drops and mastering. NOTHING IS EDITED OR PIECED TOGETHER. What you hear is what you get if you come see me play.

I want people to dance because they FEEL the music again, not just because they hear it and think they should be dancing.

1. Be - When You Left - Prime Numbers
2. I:Cube - Falling - Versatile
3. Trickski - The Warm Up (CB Funk Remix) - Delusions Of Grandeur
4. Jori Hulkkonen - I Am Dead [Feat. Jerry Valuri] (Herules & Love Affair Remix) - Sugarcane
5. Rick Wilhite - Ruby Nights (Gilb-r Solo Flight Remix) - Third Ear
6. Hunee - Took My Love - Drumpoet Community
7. Tornado Wallace - Paddlin' (Linkwood Remix) - Delusions Of Grandeur
8. Motor City Drum Ensemble - Raw Cuts #6 - MCDE/Faces
9. Craig Smith & The Revenge - The Soul Part II - Delusions Of Grandeur
10. Rene Breitbarth - Le Groove Rhodes - Dessous
11. Runaway - Broken Man (Brennan Green Remix) - On The Prowl
12. Andre Lodemann - Vehemence Of Silence (Atjazz Perspective) - Room With A View
13. Wavetest - Schmusiman - Drumpoet Community
14. Azuni - Can't Forget - Sthlmaudio
15. Osborne - Wait A Minute (Arto Mwambe Remix) - Spectral Sound
16. Moodymann - Freeki Mutha F cker - KDJ

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