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!

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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!

  1. Shakespear’s Sister, Stay
  2. Peter Murphy, I’ll Fall With Your Knife
  3. Soft Cell, Seedy Films
  4. The Normal, Warm Leatherette
  5. Renegade Soundwave, Renegade Soundwave (Leftfield)
  6. Lo-Fidelity Allstars feat. Pigeonhed, Battle Flag (Radio Edit)
  7. The Cardigans, Erase/Rewind
  8. Thompson Twins, You Take Me Up (12)”
  9. The Art of Noise feat. Tom Jones, Kiss (Art of Noise)
  10. Figures on a Beach, Accidentally 4th Street (Gloria) (Remix)
  11. LaTour, Allen’s Got A New Hi-Fi
  12. Eurythmics, Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four) (Extended)
  13. DJ Tripp, Express This Way
  14. The Azoic feat. Seabound, Obsession
  15. Sunscreem, Love U More (A Version)
  16. Pet Shop Boys, It’s a Sin
  17. DJ Wüdi, Just Can’t Get Flexible in 1999
  18. Information Society, Going, Going, Gone (Razed in Black)
  19. Psychic TV, I.C. Water
  20. Diane Birch, This Corrosion
  21. Marilyn Monroe, Happy Birthday to JFK

Difficult Listening Hour 05 (100BPM)

Finally! The first (and hopefully not the last) of a new series of long-form mixes! There’s no real particular theme to this mix, and likely won’t be for the next few mixes — primarily, I’m working on getting back in practice and getting used to my new equipment. As I do this, I’m recording what I’m doing, both so I can later listen to it and critique myself and so, if I think they’re good enough, I can upload them here. This was mixed “live” using djay with the Numark iDJ Pro controller and has no post-processing or editing work, so while it may not be perfect, it’s honest! ;)

Well, okay, there’s one light theme: Every song in this mix is between 95 and 105 BPM.

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Songs, A-Z

Well, I didn’t read the rules of this game after I saw D’s list, so this list might seem a little odd. Rather than just list songs that start with a letter, I chose songs that I have in my .mp3 library, and where both the song title and the artist started with the respective letter of the alphabet. Uff!

The only times I couldn’t get a match for both were for X and Z, so I listed two songs, one for the song title that matched the letter, and one for the artist.

A: Ain’t Goin’ to Goa by A3
B: Bela Lugosi’s Dead by Bauhaus
C: Codeine, Glue and You by Chemlab
D: Destillat (VNV Nation Mix) by Das Ich
E: Emanuelle by Ex-Voto
F: Fired Up! (Club 69 Future Mix) by Funky Green Dogs
G: Games Without Frontiers (Massive D/B Mix) by Peter Gabriel
H: Hernando’s Hideaway (from The Pajama Game) by Carol Haney
I: The Indigo Swing by Indigo Swing
J: Jane Says by Jane’s Addiction
K: Kylie Said to Jason by The KLF
L: Lucy’s F*ck*ng Sky by Lords of Acid
M: Moonbeam by Men Without Hats
N: Ninety-Nine Red Balloons by Nena
O: Only A Lad by Oingo Boingo
P: Point Blank by Pigface
Q: Quad City Funk by Quad City DJs
R: Renegade Soundwave (Leftfield Mix) by Renegade Soundwave
S: Stay by Shakespeare’s Sister
T: Twist in my Sobriety by Tanita Tikaram
U: Until the End of the World by U2
V: Vengababes from Outer Space by The Vengaboys
W: Wimoweh by The Weavers
X: Dear God by XTC (or) Xhemikals by DJ H. Geek
Y: Your Horoscope for Today by “Wierd Al” Yankovic
Z: Living Dead Girl (Subliminal Seduction Mix) by Rob Zombie (or) Zeros and Ones by Jesus Jones