After celebrating the bootylicious rollerskate jams of the 1980s, we decided we needed to change things up a bit and try something new. With the help of DJ SAT 1600, Chatty Cathy and I threw three Death Disco parties at Silk City Lounge.
Death Disco combined the darker, more machine-like elements of the 70s and 80s up to the present year, and we tried to cross genres and include experimental tracks that were meant for the clubs.
Starting with avant-garde Krautrock innovators like Can and Neu, we snuck in tracks by punk-electronic freaks such as Suicide, Throbbing Gristle, and Einsturzende Neubauten and worked our way up to Orbital and Add N to (X). We played around with mixing Cabaret Voltaire, arty punk (Devo, Buzzcocks), New Order, Mantronix, Gino Soccio and freaky film soundtracks (Jerry Goldsmith, Yoko Kanno). We played stuff from the first wave of "No Wave" artists like the Contortions, ESG & Mars with current bands inspired by them: the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Glass Candy, Clinic, etc.
partial playlist - dj trishylicious
set 1. 9:30-10:30
Jerry Goldsmith - Logan's Run - The Dome, the City, the Nursery
Sweet Trip - Come to Me, Follow Me
Leftfield - Phat Planet
Orbital - Halcyon and On
Buffalo Daughter - Autobahn (Kraftwerk cover)
Throbbing Gristle - Convincing People
LFO - L.F.O.
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult - Apollo 69
Radioactive Goldfish - L.S.D. is the Bomb
Erotic Dissidents - Move Your Ass and Feel the Beat
Boytronic - You (Dancefloor Mix)
Meat Beat Manifesto - 10X Faster than the Speed of Love
Einsturzende Neubaten - Ende Neu - Jon Spencer Remix
Stendhal - 4th Passenger
Suicide - Suffering in Vain
Tones on Tails - Go!
set 3. 12:45/50-close
ESG - UFO
James Chance & the Contortions - Roving Eye
Brainiac - Hot Metal Dobermans
DNA - Not Moving
Devo - Uncontrollable Urge
Wire - 12xU
Talking Heads - Cities
PIL - Death Disco (theme song)
Magazine - Philadelphia
Can - I Want More (rs)
Silver Apples - I Have Known Love
Throbbing Gristle - Hot on the Heels of Love (ra)
Material Issue - Valerie Loves Me (rs)
Cex - Call Me When You Need Some (Tender Love/ Force MDs cover)
Schneider TM - The Light 3000 (Smiths cover)
Orbital - Are We Here?
Add N to (X) - Adding N to X
Yoko Kanno - Stray Dog Strut
Can - Mushroom
Bent Leg Fatima - Cup and Saucer
Hot Hot Heat - Circus Maximus
Clinic - Cement Mixer
Suicide - Las Vegas Man (ra)