with a photo by me!
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Smart and Swishy PURE HIGH DISCO from DJ DiscoNRG
This DJ knows what time it is. This mix is one of the best I have heard in a long time. It’s so great to find a disco mix without the elementary disco party crap like “Shame” or “Knock On Wood.” There is no “YMCA” in this mix. “Dancing Queen” will not be found. This DJ understands this genre of Disco perfectly – his segue from the ultra insane “Romeo and Juliet” by Alec R. Constandinos into Cerrone’s “Give Me Love” is cerebral because Constandinos actually produced “Give Me Love!” I stopped on the sidewalk and threw my arms up shouting, “double-play!,” when I heard “Pride” by Grace Jones and yes there IS Amanda Lear in here.
This mix reminds me of very expensive Italian slip-ons and a whiff of fine French cologne. Easy dancing with a beautiful partner somewhere in mid-town. To me, this kind of disco is like a silk charmeuse lining – it skims over your body and heats up with a little motion. HEAVEN
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Bring Me Love (The Bomb) – Andrea Mendez produced and remixed by Frankie Knuckles
The state of the house music B-side in 1985 is defined in this often forgotten Frankie scandal. The vibe, you call it “cha-cha.” These beats are causing it. Everyone is going up. The juxtaposition of the ostinato bass line against the smiling jazzy vocal lick creates an un-easy tension in your white ass. It’s “goya oh boy-a” time at the club and you are getting scared. Some ghetto puta is threatening to cut you. (Hey, bad trips were part of it too you know.) Coats are being stolen to this track. Your friends left and you’re in danger of being battled by a Ganza. All around you it’s bugged eyes and duck lips (con one eyebrow up) for some deranged modeling. “Ay lobe it too mush.” ¡Escandalo!
Frankie knew the latin rhythms inside out, backwards, upside down and around the corner into a box. Ahhkay? ¡Goza!
Now you know what everybody means when they say, “The music in the clubs was so much better then.”
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Another Video I Got In The Mail From Pat Dry
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Pat Dry knows great videos.
Pat Dry – She’s known for her eyes.
Pat Dry Sure Does Find Some Interesting Videos
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Jim Morrison’s House
It’s mindless, it’s robotic, it’s a hamster wheel for your mind, it’s house music and it’s pretty great for bopping along to. This is the true boom shaka-laka.
Rider’s On The Storm from a mix by Ahmet Kilic.
Shave The Date – Douglas Demille PREMIERE Radio Program
Photographer Derek Ridgers on London’s Youth Tribes in the 70s & 80s
The Pompeii Room
“I’m the only person here I’ve never heard of.”
Please bury me there.
I feel like maybe I was there about twenty-eight years ago. Were you there?
Viva Suzzane Charny! Best frug ever, Best Ponytail Work in modern history.
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Real Love – Driza Bone featuring Dee Heron ( DJ S Extended Sax re-mix)
Tight. Movin’ all night.
Let’s Get Right On Down To It
the REAL nitty gritty now.
Nitty Gritty now one, two.
Nitty Gritty now yea, boom!
VERSION!
…and the lovely Shirley Ellis is the original double beater.
Boom Bop Ba Da Boop Boop
The Nitty Gritty.
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theladymisskier: it’s not nice to fool with mother nature …. climate change day ..sept.20th,2014…Billy Beyond made me this outstanding sign for the Climate change awareness march .
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P’s I Got
I got my peeps
I got my polaroids.
I got my precious Perez Prado.
I got my pass.
I got my paraphernalia.
And, oh yeah, I got my authentic Cher switchplate given to me by Molly…priceless.
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