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
everything but the girl - protection
moloko - day for night
information society - lay all your love on me
raimundo navarro - james brown has sex
altern-8 - evapor-8
smart e's - sesame's treat
revolting cocks - beers, steers, & queers
cabaret voltaire - (#9)
lords of acid - i must increase my bust
set 3
talk talk - talk talk (razormaid mix)
raincoats - pretty
x-ray spex - plastic bag
vibrators - disco in moskow
gang of four - damaged goods
medium medium - hungry so angry
a certain ratio - shack up
delta 5 - you
chicks on speed - mind your own business
the slits - heard it through the grapevine
b-52's - moon 83
set 5
peaches - hot pink, hot sex
le tigre - en guard! (on the guard remix)
ministry - jesus built my hotrod
buzzcocks - orgasm addict (alternate version)
madness - night boat to cairo
the streets - don't mug yourself (request)
bauhaus - kick in the eye
joy division - transmission
bjork - pagan poetry (shades of blue remix)
depeche mode - sometimes i wish i was dead
set 7
pulp - disco 2000
pet shop boys - suburbia
elastica - stutter
romeo void - never say never
blondie - hangin' on the telephone
yeah yeah yeahs - yeah new york
glass candy - johnny are you queer
bis - clockwork punk
hot hot heat - paco pena
the contortions - design to kill
coati mundi - como esta usted
unrest - ufo
kid creole & the coconuts - endicott