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... I'm very well aware that my blog is falling apart. I'm trying guys but with the new radio show and remixing stuff and trying to finish my album it's kinda been hard. Actually if you really wanna blame anyone it would have to be my new bff Roku. Holy shit this thing is too good to be true! Anyways there are some new radio shows up for you to check out. Last week was really fun, Stretch and I played a bunch of old rap demos by some groups you may have heard of. Apparently the true Hip Hop fans out there were less than impressed and up in arms over our gayness, but most of you out there, I hope, will have a blast listening to this . We'll be back on Monday night of course playing new music again.
Here are some good new songs I've been into lately. Go out and buy them! I promise your life will greatly improve if you go to a record store at least once a week (or buy a Roku).

Mr. K Alexi

The newest edition in the Muzic Box Classics series is still floating around various vinyl shops and I can't recommend it highly enough. It has a great (I believe until now unreleased?) track by Mr. K Alexi called "Domino". Here's his most well known jam. "Essence of a Dream".

ESSENCE OF A DREAM

HERE'S THE DUB

DELANCEY MUSIC SERVICE 10/26/09

So the people over at EVR have asked me not to post up the shows. If you guys wanna hear old shows you'll have to stream them off the EVR website. If someone calls you on the phone or your Chinese takeout comes, don't pause the stream because it'll start from the beginning again when you press play.
ELI'S SET
Hot Toddy - I Need Love (MOrgan Geist's Love Dub)
Palermo Disko Machine - Theme Of Palermo Disko Machine
Kasper Bjorke - Young Again (Serge Santiago Italo Boot Mix)
Azari and iii - Hungry For The Power (Runaway Remix)
LCD Soundsystem - 45 33 (Paded Cell Remix)
Phenomenal Handclap Band - 15 To 20 (Bim Marx Remix)
1gnition - Secret Sunday Lover (Greg Wilson Edit0
Da Hardy Boyz - I Want To Be There
DA HARDY BOYZ INTERVIEW
Da Hardy Boyz - Here I Am (Runaway Remix)
STRETCH TAKES OVER
Will Eastman - Feelin' (Tittsworth Remix)
Malente - I Like It (Riva Starr Remix)
Bit Thief - Untitled For Now
Rejected - Let's Go Juno (Harvard Bass Mix)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll (A Trak Remix0
Peaches - I Feel Cream
Drop The Lime - Set Me Free (Zombie Disco Squad Remix)
Passion Pit - Little Secrets (Jackbeats Remix)
Dave Nada - Inner Midget (Nadastrom Remix)
Here's The Link

Delancey Music Service 10/19/09

Enjoy!
Eli's Set
Pet Shop Boys - Rent (FK Remix)
Black Meteoric Star - World Eater
Art Of Tones - Call The Shots (Motor City Drum Ensemble Remix)
Jackson 5 - Life Of The Party (Moxie Version)
Special Guest Omar Doom Interview
Omar Doom - Too Much
Osborne - The Count
Still Going - Spaghetti Circus
Eli Escobar - Good Time
Dances With White Girls Interview
Exclusive Dances Set No Tracklist SORRY
STRETCH TAKES OVER
Bit Thief - Untitled
Club Feet - Count Your Lovers (Bit Theif remix)
Nic Sarno - Perculator
Tittsworth - Here He Comes (Stretch and Jaimie Fanatic Remix)
DELANCEY MUSIC SERVICE 10/19/09

Delancey Music Service 10/12/09

OK so here's the deal, I will be putting our show up for download every week since EVR has discontinued with podcasting. Stretch and I still hope many of you will listen live though for the true radio experience! Here's our first show...
Eli's set:
Phoenix - Fences (Eli Escobar remix)
Retro/Grade - Moda
Canyons - Fire Eyes
Colonel Abrahams - Trapped (Eli Escobar Edit) coming soon on TTL
Floating Points - Vacuum
Santos - Beat The Knuckles
Crazy P - Caught Up (Still Going Remix)
Popular People's Front - Ruf Dug
Amanda Blank Interview
Stretch's set
Holy Ghost! - I Will Come Back (Classixx Remix)
Dre Skull - I Want You (Dre Skull Remix)
The Glass - Superhero (Bit Thief Remix)
Clubfeet - Count Your Lovers (Boltan Remix)
Dances With White Girls - And How We Live
Munk - Down In L.A. (Fantastadon Remix)
DJ Wool - Strobelight
Tittsworth - Here He Comes (Nadastrom Remix)
Dirt Nasty Interview
Amanda Blank - Speak Big
DELANCEY MUSIC SERVICE 10/12/09

Delancey Music Service

Tonight is the kickoff of me and Stretch's new show, Delancey Music Service! Monday nights at 10pm on Eastvillageradio.com. Tune in!

RIP SIR JUICE.
RAP ATTACK WBLS 1988

EVR NEWS

So I'm pretty excited to announce that starting next Tuesday night, Stretch Armstrong and I will have our own show on EVR every week. Details are still being sorted out but what I can tell you is it will be a mixed format show with plenty of new and, of course, old music, guests and perhaps some sardonic New York City banter thrown in for good measure. In any event, yesterday I played a set on the station's show "On The Fly" . You can stream it here. Unfortunately EVR has changed its website a bit and downloading shows is no longer an option. Once Stretch and I get started with our show I will put up the podcast address which is the ideal way to archive EVR shows. Stay tuned!
Playlist:
Phenomenal Handclap Band - 15 To 20 (Bim Marx Remix)
Da Hardy Boyz - I Want To Be There
Wide Awake Boy - Slang Teacher
Phoenix - Fences (Eli Remix Rough)
Downtown Party Network - Heartbreak Dancing
Crazy P - Love On The Line (Unabombers Version)
Five Special - Why Leave Us Alone (Eli Escobar Edit)
Plastic Mode - Baja Imperial
Supersonic Lovers - Motor City Blues
Jaun Maclean - Human Disaster (House of House Remix)
Soft Cell - Memorabilia
Thompson Twins - Lies
Still Going - Spaghetti Circus
Supermen Lovers - The Howling Session Pt 1
Japan - Life In Tokyo
Midnight Passion - I need Your Love
Shit Robot - Simple Things (Serge Santiago Mix)

ATOM ROCK

I just got back from an amazing trip to Russia and I have to tell you that if I lived there I don't think I would ever sleep, ever. The nightlife is just on another level of awesomeness and I can definitely add DS Bar in Moscow and Bar Druzhba in St. Petersburg to my list of favorite nightclubs in the world (along with Red Rum in Helsinki and Brukbar in Trondheim). I can't believe how open minded the people there are and the music that I heard and got to play... it's unreal! I was actually still a little sweaty when I got to the airport at 7:30am from dancing (I left the club in St. Petersburg at 6:15 it was packed and going strong). I always think about how lucky us New Yorkers are that our clubs stay open til 4-5am but now even that seems absurd. Maybe it's time to move!

Anyways I want to thank Oleg, Alex, DJ Orange and Konstantine for being such great hosts and I hope to see you guys soon.
Check out this video of DJ Orange playing my David Bowie edit early morning at DS Bar.

This is not America from Equivoguer on Vimeo.

By the way, ST. Petersburg is the most beautiful city I have ever been to. It's sort of like Venice except not all old people and tourists and you want to stay there more than one day. I walked around in the light rain listening to this on repeat in my ipod...
FLEETWOOD MAC - BROWN EYES (MAULONGATED VERSION)

KON BENEFIT AT SANTOS

Thanks from the bottom of my heart to everyone who came out and made the night such a success!! It was an honor to dj with old friends Amir, Spinna and Rich Medina, my main homie Cosmo Baker and the legendary DJ Scratch. New York City at its finest.

THURSDAY NIGHT

This is going to go down as the worst summer ever, especially for a lot of my friends and music lovers. All we can do is try and help and support those we care about while we are here. In the spirit of friendship we being you this event for Kon who is sick right now. Besides the fact that this is a benefit for a good friend and great dj, I would think the line-up alone would be worth coming out for! Hope to see some of you out. Here's a sure shot mix from the homie Kon.
Tracklisting
FRANKIE KNUCKLES/ YOUR LOVE
KON/ SUMMERTIME ( KON'S 1ST TAKE )
FRANCE JOLI/ FEEL LIKE DANCING ( EDIT )
CHOW DADDY/ NEVER FADE ( RONNIE LAWS EDIT )
EWF/ RUNNIN (KRIVIT EDIT) INTO EWF/ FELA ( HAUL & MASON EDIT)
L.T.D./ LOVE TO THE WORLD ( KONS LIVE EDIT )
ROY AYERS/ CANT YOU SEE ME ( CUBEISM EDIT)
GARY DAVIS/ GOTTA GET YOUR LOVE
WOOD BRASS & STEEL BAND /FUNKANOVA ( K*DOPE/ TODD THE GOD MULTI TRACK REMIX)
SYLVESTER/ OVER AND OVER
THE JACKSONS/ LIVING TOGETHER ( RON HARDY TRIBUTE EDIT)
TEDDY PENDERGRASS/ MADD LUCK ( DIMITRI FROM PARIS EDIT)
JESSIE GOULD/ OUT OF WORK ( CUBEISM EDIT)
GQ/ LIES ( THEO PARRISH EDIT)
MICHAEL JACKSON/ GET ON THE FLOOR ( KONS LIVE LOOP DE LOOP )
NARD/ MOVE YOUR BODY
SHALAMAR/ TAKE THAT TO THE BANK ( KON LIVE LOOPS )
EVELYN KING CHAMPAGNE/ LOVE COME DOWN ( ELI ESCOBAR EDIT)
VICKI DEE/ THIS BEAT IS MINE
TOM BROWNE/ FUNKIN FOR JAMAICA
CHANGE/ GLOW OF LOVE
ASHFORD & SIMPSON/ STAY FREE ( DIMITRI FROM PARIS DUB) UNRELEASED !!! I HAD TO PUT A TON OF FX ON THIS ***
SLAVE/ JUST A TOUCH OF LOVE/ ( KON MULTI REMIX ) UNRELEASED !!! MORE FX AGAIN !! ***
THEO PARRISH/ CHEMISTRY
PEPE BRADOCK/ DEEP BURNT
QUENTIN HARRIS/ LETS BE YOUNG
DREAMER G/ I GOT THAT FEELIN'
KERRI CHANDLER/ ATMOSPHERE DUB
SHARON REDD/ CAN YOU HANDLE IT ( CANADIAN 12" MIX )

Download here.

ANOTHER A.M. MIX

So I've been going through all the live sets and mixes A.M. shared with me over the years. I always told him my favorite type of set he would do was the really poppy, hit-filled type. Ones that sounded like WPLJ in 1987 or something. I think this surprised him but I love pop music and he played it really well. I don't know if he shared this mix publicly but I do know that it was one of the rare cases where he was actually happy with a set. With good reason... hope you guys enjoy this. Music really can help heal wounds. It's amazing.

On a side note, this mix has a staggering amount of random edits that I've made over the years. Some good, some not so good. Like why did I think putting a house beat over "Maps" was a good idea???
Also, FYI these pictures are from when A.M. signed his record deal with Interscope. He was going to make an official mix cd. We were at my house and he goes "Bro, you gotta bring your camera. I gotta have pics of me signing my record contract! It's a dream come true!" Like a kid in a candy store.


DJ AM - OLD NAVY MIX

I'm writing this at 3am in my hotel room in San Francisco. I haven't really been able to talk to anyone yet or really deal with what happened today. Before I talk about anything else, first and foremost, I lost one of my best buddies today and that is what hurts the most. But this blog is about music and djing and A.M. was so passionate about both. And such a master of his craft. A trailblazer and a role model to so many young dj's and party people. And at the end of the day it all boiled down to his love of music.

We would spend hours going through new music, and talking about what songs went well together and comparing our set lists. I remember taking a three hour limo ride home from Atlantic City at 4am and, instead of doing what any logical person would do (sleep), trading the music we had heard each other play that night, the whole way home.
A.M. once told me how he felt it was important for working class dj's to get the same kind of respect (and money) in the industry that dance music producers were getting, and I think it is a certain fact that he achieved this. He kicked down doors and let a whole new generation of dj's follow him in. Gladly let them in I might add. He was ambitious as they come and made himself a star, but he also did it because he wanted to see other dj's get what they deserved.
I can count on one hand the amount of people who have unconditionally believed in me and my talent and he was definitely one of them. He exposed my music and edits to more people than anyone else. Even as recent as last week, he would hit me up on BBM and tell me he was playing some edit I made 4 years ago that no one else had and how much he loved it. I don't even know how he got some of those god awful songs!
This brings me to a really important thing that I don't think many people realize... A.M. might have existed in a more mainstream world than some other dj's but I think if anything he probably did more to get underground music heard by the masses than anyone else could have. The truth is, he was one of the biggest dj's in the world and he used that status to introduce people to the underground music that he loved. It takes guts to play music you believe in for a crowd that doesn't necessarily care and he did that every night he played. And like Diplo pointed out on the Mad Decent blog, he never put himself above any situation. When Stretch and I were trying to get our 205 party off the ground and A.M. was in town on a Wednesday he said to me "I'll dj tonight if you think it would help get people out" and we had an amazing night sure enough. This is the difference between a dj's dj and a "celebrity" dj or a superstar dance music dj. He loved what he did more than any other dj I've ever met and until the end he strived to be better and to learn.
The first time I ever dj'd with Adam is a night I'll never forget. It was at Crobar for Bill Spector and for probably the biggest crowd of people I had ever played for at that point. It was for the most part a normal gig until about 10 minutes before his set, I looked in back of me and about 15 of New York's biggest dj's were all standing there waiting to see him go on. He showed up, humble as ever, took over and my jaw proceeded to hit the floor for the next two hours. This was before people were making mash ups or edits for Serato and he was doing every little trick, every blend and every clever routine completely on his own. He worked so damn hard from the minute he started that I really almost felt embarrassed for the way I had been playing before hand. Most importantly though, the energy in the room sky rocketed. And to the most eclectic all over the place non traditional set. It was one time where I knew my position that night had been played. I could have never followed up this man. It really was breath taking and it will stay with me forever. I closed for him and was home by 5am on the phone with Sizzahandz on some "Yo and then when he did that..." or "how do you think he did that?" shit. We would play together tons more after that but that one night will forever remain magical in my mind.
There are so many more amazing memories, spending a week at his beautiful house working on our Weezer remix and not going out or djing at all, just kicking it with his cat Mugsy and eating crappy food at 3am, going sneaker shopping in New York, going to our favorite parties on nights off like the Do-Over or Eclipse and Primo at Apt, and mostly just having great talks and discussions. The last time I saw him was shortly after Michael Jackson died and we were trying to remix a shitty song by the Ting Tings and feeling really uninspired. So we ended up talking about growing up in the 80's, the almost unbearable yearning that heavy nostalgia can bring on and he seemed almost totally consumed by it. I tried to point out that we would probably look back at THIS time in our lives in 20 years and never be able to believe we had it so good. I hope I got through to him on some level and I hope I did all I could. I never thought I wouldn't see him again.

Recently I've been collecting dj sets from the Do-Over. It's a great way to hear dj's from all over the world playing the way they want to play and in a sense, a rite of passage. I emailed Adam and asked him to upload his set for me and of course the first thing he says is "Why? You would wanna hear that?" Of course I would Adam. We all would. Listen to this mix and know it was the man playing music he truly loved, for free, for fun and for the love of djing.
Rest in peace friend.
DJ AM AT THE DO-OVER

MY SINGLE IS OUT

Out on Beatport Aug. 28th (with a bonus track) and vinyl is out now! Check out the XXXChange remix here.

Ok so for the past year or so I've been getting a ton of emails regarding "Heavenly Break" which is a beat I made like 7 years ago or something. Then this video of A Trak playing it at the Do-Over showed up and now the emails have gotten out of control. They all say things like "I have traveled far and wide and scoured the Earth in search of this song. PLEASE HELP!!!!!" Anyways I just did a google search and found it in 2 seconds. Soooooo here ya go internet experts.
THE RAREST PART BREAK EVER!!!

Retro UK

This is a cool video I found the other day. Someone's Super 8 footage of Soho in the 80's. I stayed in Soho a few years ago and it was nothing like this! The background music is Soft Cell's "A Man Could Get Lost" aka the best song ever created.

This is a great deep track from a couple of years back.
Clarisse Muvemba - Roses (Bangana Mix)

Scion Radio 17 Monthly Presents: Treasure Fingers, Eli Escobar, Roy Davis Jr, Cosmo Baker from Scion A/V on Vimeo.

New Amanda Song

So I hope you all checked out Amanda's album last week, it's been a long time coming! Here's a link to my remix for "Make It Take It" which is the second single and probably the best song on the album. I don't have any problems wearing my influences on my sleeve and when I made this joint I was obsessing over the 1999 album and in particular, "All The Critics Love You In New York" which is such a good example of less being more. Also when I saw Amanda open for Santi in New York she rapped over "The Metro" and I thought it sounded dope as fuck so I kinda was going for that also. Anyways hope you guys dig it. It will be on the mixtape Amanda and I are working on...
AMANDA BLANK - MAKE IT TAKE IT (ELI ESCOBAR REMIX)

There was this weird time in New York between the downfall of the dope classic clubs and the rise of bottle service where lounges were really popular. Places came out left and right that looked like the Cantina in Star Wars and had house-classics dj's galore. Especially in the East Village. This was around the time I started working 5 or 6 nights a week and really busting my ass. I feel like a lot of the music I was playing in those days hasn't aged too well but there are some exceptions. Like this joint for instance, Ron Trent killing it on the dub...
AMEL LARRIEX - GET UP (RON TRENT DUB)

Supersonic Lovers

The Supersonic Lovers have a great new song out. Get it here. Beatport has waves for it also but I can't figure out how to direct link to it.