spacid [dj mix]

A convergence of convergences: I was talking briefly last night with fellow Yes+er Teen Video about the recycling of club/dance culture and (specifically) that amorphous genre of "electro." It seems like every few years, as late, there's a resurgence of this style. Track the development from the late 70s purity of disco to the early 80s "electro-funk" of Afrika Bambaataa through Ibiza and rave culture to the early 00s and the "formation" of electroclash and the preponderance of weekly electro nights at clubs from Echo Park to Lawrence, KS. Seems like good ol' Fischerspooner and Miss Kittin fell off slightly, then, for a few years (as rock music "returned"), but we've happily seen the re-return of electro in the past several months from diverse areas of Europe. Ed Banger is a hero to the disaffected youth with their American Apparel jeans (I'm not a hater; I too rock the AA jeans). Fists pump once again to the boom-chick-boom-chick.
Why the convergence? A night prior, I'd been using this mix for background music while kickin' it casually. Ed Banger kids, I suggest you check out the roots of your passion: italo-disco to the max, some of it from up to 25 years ago. None of it would sound out of place at a 2007 East LA warehouse party...World Premiere, Claudja Barry, Anita Ward, Starsound...I wish there was a tracklist for these 59 minutes of glory. How we love zee Germans and their DJ skillz. Peep his myspace also for more mixes of old disco and acid house from the US and Europe. Classikz.

Spacid dj mix [from Good for Nothing]