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
senor coconut - chocolatina
mouse on mars - saturday night world cup fieber
kraftwerk - taschenrechner
u-ziq - salsa with mesquite
buffalo daughter - 303 + 606 = acid
4 hero - mr. kirk's nightmare
boytronic - brilliant
lords of acid - i sit on acid
la style - james brown is dead
set 4
cure (cult heroes) - i dig you
joy division - she's lost control (alternate take)
gang of four - to hell with poverty
meat beat manifesto - 10x faster than the speed of love
stendhal - 4th passenger
ministry - stigmata
add n to (x) - sheeez mine!
le tigre - en guarde! (on the guard remix)
underworld - moaner
set 6
mae-shi - judges go dancing
brainiac - radio apeshot
modest mouse - shit luck
unrest - UFO (ESG cover)
clinic - sunlight bathes our home
can - moonshake
suicide - sufferin' in vain
silver apples - confusion
devo - uncontrollable urge
delta 5 - mind your own business
gino soccio - remember
berlin - the metro
soft cell - sex dwarf
sugarcubes - fucking in rhythm and sorrow
altered images - little town flirt
the vapors - turning japanese
felony - the fanatic
vibrators - whips and furs (request)
echo & the bunnymen - lips like sugar