OM JAG HADE VINGAR

2009 is creeping up on us, and I would like you to celebrate like I will, with this 19 year old Swedish power pop song by Niklas Strömstedt.

MP3 Niklas Strömstedt - Om! (Alt. Link)

RUN RUN RUDOLPH

For a rockin´ Christmas Eve:

MP3 Chuck Berry - Run Run Rudolph (Alt. Link)

LET IT SNOW

Vaughn Monroe first recorded this yuletide classic back in the 40´s, and it has since been covered by everyone from Old Blue Eyes to Boyz 2 Men and Jessica Simpson.

The second track was made famous by the timeless classic Christmas movie Home Alone and is a rockin´ firecracker of a tune.

Happy Chanukah!

MP3 Vaughn Monroe - Let It Snow (Alt. Link)

MP3 Brenda Lee - Rockin´ Around The Christmas Tree (Alt. Link)

FOR YOUR LOVE

I´ve been listening and loving this song for a while now. It´s the disco version or cover version (if you will) of that Yardbirds song I posted a week or so ago. It´s the perfect dance tune, and it works with every crowd be they hipsters or hiphopers.

MP3 Chilly - For Your Love (Alt. Link)

PATTERNS IN THE SKY

The Dog´s favorite Canadian person U-Tern just added another funk filled musical journey to his Booklyn Radio show:

"A One Day Later Radio special presentation, this is part one in a two part series of boogie-funk jams I've collected over the last year or so, consider it "Body Work 2.5" a prelude if you will. Part one is mid-tempo funk and boogie, part two will feature uptempo disco-boogie. Enjoy and subscribe to the Podcast..."

MP3 U-tern - Patterns In The Sky...a boogie funk experience... (Part 1)

TRACKLIST

Will Powers - Adventures In Success
Active force - Give Me Your Love
Tashan - Read My Mind
Tom Tom Club - Pleasure Of Love
Change - Take You To Heaven
Natasha King - AM-FM
Pink Rhythm - Melodies Of Love
Junior - Too Late
Tululah Moon - If You Want My Love
Mindless Bogie - La Nuit Le Nuit (Skinny Joey Edit)
Tourist - Hooked On You
Ebonee Webb - Here My Love Is
Le Club - Un Fait Divers Et Rien De Plus
Odyssey - Together
Aurra - You and Me Tonight
De De - S&M (Sexy Music)
Circle City Band - Magic
Touche - Wrap It Up
The Graingers - Shine Your Light
Gladys Knight & The Pips - When You're Far Away (Inst)
Willie Hutch - In and Out
Rahmlee - Think
S.O.S. Band - For Your Love
Superior Movement - Wide Shot
Donald Byrd - Love Has Come Around
Midnight Express - Danger Zone
Imagination - Changes (Larry Levan Extended Remix)
Surface - Falling In Love
Rah Band - Messages From The Stars (Astro Mix)

Courtesy of One Day Later...

´TIS THE SEASON TO BE MERRY

The inevitable Christmas post. I´m gonna keep it short and sweet.

Have a holly jolly Christmas!

MP3 Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime (Alt. Link)

Go over to The Leather Canary to get pretty much every Christmas song ever made. Good lookin´out!

THE HAMMER SONG

Written by Pete Seeger, first preformed by The Weavers, bought by none, made famous by Peter, Paul & Mary, rest is history.

MP3 Peter, Paul & Mary - If I Had A Hammer (The Hammer Song) (Alt. Link)

OH HEAVENLY DOG MIX SERIES - THE HOLIDAY EDITION

DOG favorite and loyal follower and friend Jens alias Me Are The World blessed the DOG with a holiday season greeting in form of an eclectic mix. A few welcome Norwegian numbers and some electro pop gems serve nicely as a warm up to the busy season ahead. The mix will work perfectly in the background while you wrap up your daddies Black-n-Decker or mummies nicotine patches, or just as a friend to warm you up along with your heavily spiked eggnog.

Also check out Jens´s duo project Forest Fives for more of that Christmas spirit.

MP3 Jens - Jule Mix For The Dog (Alt. Link)

TRACKLIST

Emile the Duke - Camera
Fougner/Skaansar - Variasjon 4-Harpe
ME are the World - Feliz Navidad
Åge Aleksandersen & Sambandet - Fire pils og en pizza
Rondo Veneziano - La serenissima
Hans Rotmo - Åsgårdreia
Hypnolove - Mademoiselle
Cutting Crew - I just Died In Your Arms Tonight
Zeigeist - Cuffs
Mariah Carey - All I want for Christmas
The Pouges - Fairytale of New York
The Knife - Neverland
Shout Out Louds - Impossible (possible remake by studio)
Chopin - Op 10 No 1 C major (Preformed by Boris Berezovsky)

BONUS:

M4A Me Are The World - Feliz Navidad (zshare)

MP3 Forest Fives - The Cosmopolitan (Alt. Link)

THOSE ENGLISH KIDS

"Those English kids," (Sonny Boy) Williamson famously said of the Yardbirds and other British blues groups like the Animals and the Stones, "want to play the blues so bad—and they play the blues SO bad". (from wiki)

MP3 The Yardbirds - For Your Love (Alt. Link)

TYRELL

The Netherlands seems to be a breeding ground for itlao-disco inspired electro funkers. One of which is Alden Tyrell. He stays true to the rules of ol´ time electro and takes it beyond into the future where it was originally heading before other people (who won´t be mentioned here) retrofied it.

MP3 Alden Tyrell - Knockers (Alt. Link)

MP3 Alden Tyrell - Digger (Alt. Link)

Plus a mix he did full of beautiful italo with Moustache Records head honcho David Vunk courtesy of Valerie.

MP3 Alden Tyrell & David Vunk - True Love

Plus Plus a couple of aces italo tracks from the wonderful Confuzed Disco compilation.

MP3 Fawzia - Please Don´t Be Sad (Alt. Link)

MP3 The Stupid Set - Don´t Be Cold (In The Summertime Love) (Instrumental) (Alt. Link)

Shop for this release at itunes.

WOODEN SHJIPS

Wooden Shjips is a psychedelic rock band out of San Fran (!!). They try their best to sound like the doors, and succeed in my opinion in sounding better (I´m not really a fan of The Doors). So enjoy this 60´s throwback jam.

MP3 Wooden Shjips - We Ask You To Ride (Alt. Link)

Get their EP´s and whatnot on itunes.

EGG & CHIPS

Rough Drawings are two gentlemen from London, England who make music and dj (as many of us do). Their myspace does not have any productions up yet, but they say the tracks are coming soon. They have even been nice enough to agree to do an exclusive mix for this blog, and even send some of the tracks over when they´re done.

The exclusive mix will be coming up in January or February of next year, until then you might enjoy this mix they did as a little taste of things to come.

MP3 Rough Drawings - Egg & Chips Mix (zshare)

TRACKLIST

Metro Area – Let's get…
Arturo Capone – Teate
Bot'Ox – Grand Central
Holy Ghost – Hold On (Mix 3)
Padded Cell – Konkorde Lafayette (edit)
Motor City Drum Ensemble – Raw cuts 2
Joakim - I Wish You Were Gone (JK dub)
Simian Mobile Disco – Hot Dog (Cosmo Vitelli remix)
Zongamin – Painless
Tensnake – Hanselstadt
Mock & Toof – Brown bred
Poni Hoax – Involutive star (Joakim remix)
Telespazio – Telemetric
Eine Kleine Nacht Musik – Feuerprobe (Rory Phillips remix)
Kuniyuki – Earth Beats (Chateau Flight remix)

STUDY HARD

I´ve been hitting the books pretty hard lately since I have my exams coming up (I have one tomorrow actually). Anyways, I´m one of those people who can´t read without music in the background (or foreground). The music has to be music that can blend in nicely and be overlooked (so not too much vocals). So I decided to do a mix I could have in the background whilst I studied. It´s a kind of spacey mix with hints o disco, house and Johnny Cash. So if you´re like me and needs your tunes at all times, please download and enjoy.

MP3 Chevy Chaser - Study Hard Mix (Alt. Link)

TRACKLIST

Black Leotard Front - Casual Friday
Stratus - Footprints
Bot´Ox - Grand Central
DMX Krew - I Won´t Forget
Hitmeyer, Inc. - Itune Aline
Homerun - The Killer Storm
Maelstrom - Petrichor
Leroy Hanghofer - Pin (Jaques Lu Cont Remix)
Allez Allez - She´s Stirring Up (An Optimo Drum Attack Mix)
DJ Sneak - Acid Talks
Osbourne - ´Bout Ready To Jack
Golden Bug - Captain Shaker
Chilly - For Your Love
Simian Mobile Disco - Hot Dog (Cosmo Vitelli Remix)
Johnny Cash - Get Rythem (Tomboy Remix)
Italcimenti - Somewhat You Need
Azoto - San Salvador (12" Instrumental Mix)
Ian Pierce - Superfuzz (Disco Mix)
Wall Of Voodoo - Ring Of Fire

This other mix is even more understated. It´s what the soundtrack to my imaginary movie would sound like, where Lindsey Buckingham, Beethoven, Angelo Badalamenti and Stevie Wonder go hand in hand like gay lovers.

MP3 Chevy Chaser - Study Hard Mix Pt. 2 (Alt. Link)

OUT OF TOUCH

1984 is the year and Darryl Hall & John Oats are at the top of their game. On the album Big Bam Boom one song sticks out, it is of course "Out Of Touch".

MP3 Hall & Oats - Out Of Touch (Alt. Link)

VALERIE CHERIE

I must be humble and admit that I´m a shameless follower of fads (well, only when it comes to music). I was all over B-More and the whole hip-hop meets dance craze, as was I excited when I saw that there were people out there who shared my obsession with cheesy 80´s music and aesthetic. They were ofcourse the Valerie mob. They put the roaming synths of 80´s movies and TV-Shows back on the musical map, not that people hadn´t drawn inspiration from this before, but not in a shameless way like the Valerie kids did. I did a post on it almost exactly a year ago and called it "a new electronic movement", which it kind of was at that time. However lack of originality and forward thinking made all these guys sound very much alike. They had a few intoxicating hits, but I couldn´t tell one from the other after a while, and kind of lost interest.

Now over a year after their "breakthrough" Valerie releases its first album, by Valerie blog founder College called "Secret Diary". I´m doing this post because I like the cover (which is very much inspired by Brian De Palma´s unforgettable 1984 classic Body Double) and because Anoraak and himself are playing here in Oslo on Friday. 8 months ago I would be truly excited, but now I´m so so.

I´m posting a track I posted before by Tangerine Dream, because it´s kind of the same sound only better. If you want College go to the Valerie blog and buy his album here.


MP3 Tangerine Dream - Logos, Pt. 1 (B) (Alt. Link)

WHO NEEDS SLEEP TONIGHT?

Germany´s Silicon Soul (not to be confused with UK´s Silicone Soul) released this gem originally in 1981, but it got renewed interest a few years back and was signed to and re-released on Disko B. The title pretty much says it all, it´s a groovy repetitive beat that might make some sleepy, others annoyed and some people might just wanna dance.

MP3 Silicon Soul - Who Needs Sleep Tonight? (Alt. Link)

Buy the album at itunes.

IN A MANNER OF SPEAKING

Those of you who downloaded the stellar Sleepwalk mix will recognize this track from there. It is a beautiful and moving song which is stripped of bass and only left with a guitar and piano and Winston Tong´s beautiful vocals.

Tuxedomoon released the album Holy Wars in 1985, and the track is taken from there.

MP3 Tuxedomoon - In A Manner Of Speaking (Alternative Link)

Buy the album at itunes.

MIXED UP IN DER HAAG

I-f the Deutsch electro machine behind Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass mixed it up in the Hague probably not too long ago. It´s a collection of electro, freestyle, disco and house, but all on a very mechanical (in a good way!) level. Also it´s very old school as you can see from the tracklist.

MP3 I-f - Mixed up In Der Haag vol. 2 (zshare)

TRACKLIST

Material - Don't Lose Control
Junior Byron - Dance To The Music
Strafe - Set It Off
Night Moves - Trance Dance
Mirage - Woman
BWH - Stop
Kid Frost - Terminator
Project Future - Ray-Gun-Omics
Steel Mind - Bad Passion
Pete Shelley - I Don't Know What It Is
IMS - Nonline
Gino Soccio - Dancer
Electric Funk - On A Journey
Cellophane - Gimme Love
'lectric Funk - Robot Is Systematic
Sparks - Beat The Clock
Heather Parisi - Disco Bambina
The Parallax Corporation - Anti Social Tendencies
Models - Jr Robot
Scotch - Penguin Invasion
Brand Image - Are You Loving?
Thanya - Freedom
Goblin - Tenebrae

Buy vol. 1 from Clone.

IN LOVE WITH A MACHINE

Loud E did an edit of Love Robot´s 1978 disco banger Slaves Of Pleasure. He called it "Robot Love".

MP3 Loud E - Robotlove (Alternative Link)

If you´re in the money, you can buy it at Juno.

DAFT PUNK ESSENTIAL MIX 1997

Over ten years have passed since Daft Punk did the coveted Essential Mix, and a lot has changed in that time. Daft Punk have become electronic pop music icons who hide behind robot masks and have been the basis for the change that has occurred in recent years not only in house and electronic dance music, but also in pop music as a whole.

The mix is a great selection of tunes from house music past, and a reminder that everything was better before distortion.

MP3 Daft Punk - Essential Mix 1997

TRACKLIST

1. Daft Punk - Essential Info - Daft Trax
2. Paul Johnson - Summer Heat - Peacefrog
3. Armand van Helden - Funk Phenomena - Henry Street
4. CZR - Chicago Southside - 1HR
5. Oliver Cheatham - Get Down Saturday Night - Dance 6
6. Remix Delux #1 - Dees Knots (remix) - Delux
7. Parris Mitchell - Ghetto Shout Out - Dance Mania
8. Daft Punk - Teachers - Daft Trax/Virgin
9. Martin Luther King - I Have A Dream - 20th Century
10. The Godson EP - Drum Patterns and Memories - KDJ
11. Jammin Gerald - Get The Ho 94 - Dance Mania
12. DJ Attack - Da Way U Work - UC
13. Thomas Bangalter - Spinal Scratch - Roule
14. Tha West Siders - Waxscratch Trax - Dance Mania
15. Fantom - Faithful - Source
16. I Cube - Disco Cubizm - Versatile
17. Daft Punk - Rock N Roll - Daft Trax/Virgin
18. Cajmere - Only 4 U - Cajual
19. Trankilou - Champagne - Kif SA
20. ? - And Da Beat Goes On - Dance 6
21. DJ Funk and Gerald - Hold Up - Universal Funk
22. Ween - Freedom Of 76 - Flying Nun
23. Zdar and Boombass - Foxy Lady - Cassius
24. Gusto - Discos Revenge - Bumble Beats
25. Deeon - Deeon Doez Disco - Dance Mania
26. Sweet - Somebody Is Watching - White
27. Da Mongoloids - Spark Da Meth - Strickly Rhythm
28. Roller Rink 2000 - Stining - Kumba
29. Roy Davies Jr - Gabrielle - Large
30. Robert J Hairston - Preacher Man
31. Daft Punk - Around The World - Daft Trax
32. Kenny Dixon Jr - U Can Dance If U Want 2 - KDJ