Finally getting back to practicing before this year’s Norwescon! The usual randomness, slower for the first hour, faster for the final half hour.
Peter Murphy
Norwescon 45 Multiverse of Music
Recorded live on Thursday night at Norwescon 45: After opening ceremonies, get moving at the Multiverse of Music with DJ Wüdi, spinning dance tunes crossing decades, styles, and genres with something for everyone. From con standards to pop hits, dance floor classics to modern mashups, new wave to dark wave, enjoy an evening of eclectic tunes chosen to keep the dance floor moving.
Norwescon 39 Thursday Night Dance
Now that I’m prepping to DJ the Thursday night dance at Norwescon 45 in a couple months, I realized that I’d never posted my Norwescon 39 Thursday night dance recording here. Whoops! So here it is, a few years late — four and a half hours of music from the opening night of a science-fiction and fantasy convention. As is standard for me, it’s a mix of all sorts of stuff. Enjoy!
Difficult Listening Hour 2020.10.27
Week thirty-one of my unplanned, unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants goofing around. As a way of getting back into practice and doing something regularly, I’ve started doing regular Twitch broadcasts, now on Saturday afternoons. These are the results. Anything goes.
Difficult Listening Hour 2020.09.12
Week twenty-eight of my unplanned, unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants goofing around. As a way of getting back into practice and doing something regularly, I’ve started doing regular Twitch broadcasts, now on Saturday afternoons. These are the results. Anything goes.
Difficult Listening Hour 2020.05.02: Birthday Edition
A rare pre-planned set; I selected this set of tracks just because tomorrow’s my birthday and these are some long-time favorites that I wanted to play. Back to the usual unplanned randomness next week!
- Shakespear’s Sister, Stay
- Peter Murphy, I’ll Fall With Your Knife
- Soft Cell, Seedy Films
- The Normal, Warm Leatherette
- Renegade Soundwave, Renegade Soundwave (Leftfield)
- Lo-Fidelity Allstars feat. Pigeonhed, Battle Flag (Radio Edit)
- The Cardigans, Erase/Rewind
- Thompson Twins, You Take Me Up (12)”
- The Art of Noise feat. Tom Jones, Kiss (Art of Noise)
- Figures on a Beach, Accidentally 4th Street (Gloria) (Remix)
- LaTour, Allen’s Got A New Hi-Fi
- Eurythmics, Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four) (Extended)
- DJ Tripp, Express This Way
- The Azoic feat. Seabound, Obsession
- Sunscreem, Love U More (A Version)
- Pet Shop Boys, It’s a Sin
- DJ Wüdi, Just Can’t Get Flexible in 1999
- Information Society, Going, Going, Gone (Razed in Black)
- Psychic TV, I.C. Water
- Diane Birch, This Corrosion
- Marilyn Monroe, Happy Birthday to JFK
Sounds From the Lost Abbey 10
Back in February, I took up a challenge from one of my friends (prompted by the Gigs mix I posted) to create a mix based around songs that I’d have played at the Lost Abbey, during the mid- to late-1990s. To get a little help putting together the playlist, I put out a call for requests on Facebook, and ended up with something around 14 hours of possible songs, almost entirely pulled from requests by people who used to see me spin at the Lost Abbey.
Since 14 hours is far too long to do as a single mix, I’ve broken the requests up into multiple 80-ish-minute playlists. Here’s the tenth in the series!
Sounds From the Lost Abbey 07
Back in February, I took up a challenge from one of my friends (prompted by the Gigs mix I posted) to create a mix based around songs that I’d have played at the Lost Abbey, during the mid- to late-1990s. To get a little help putting together the playlist, I put out a call for requests on Facebook, and ended up with something around 14 hours of possible songs, almost entirely pulled from requests by people who used to see me spin at the Lost Abbey.
Since 14 hours is far too long to do as a single mix, I’ve broken the requests up into multiple 80-ish-minute playlists. Here’s the seventh of quite a few to come!
Sounds From the Lost Abbey 05
Back in February, I took up a challenge from one of my friends (prompted by the Gigs mix I posted) to create a mix based around songs that I’d have played at the Lost Abbey, during the mid- to late-1990s. To get a little help putting together the playlist, I put out a call for requests on Facebook, and ended up with something around 14 hours of possible songs, almost entirely pulled from requests by people who used to see me spin at the Lost Abbey.
Since 14 hours is far too long to do as a single mix, I’ve broken the requests up into multiple 80-ish-minute playlists. Here’s the fifth of quite a few to come!
Blast from the Past
Something I never realized before — apparently, the person in this iconic ad for Maxell audiocassettes…
…is none other than then-Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy. Nifty!
(trivia via Cult of Mac, image from Stangbangers, clumsily Photoshopped together by me — sorry, my Photoshop-fu isn’t good enough to remove the horrid moiré pattern from the original scan)
“Sister of Night” by Depeche Mode from the album Ultra (1997, 6:04).