Hey City Zen!

A collection of bits from several live DJ sets of the past 6 months or so at Roterdao Clube on Lisbon's Pink Street (Cais do Sodré). This is all about preaching unity via the dance floor, under the disco ball. More than ever, We don't need that fascist groove thang! Tracklist and podcast below. Unity is also available on E-Trash's site (Username: apollo, Password: feelingfree).

Labels: #Disco, #DJ, #DJSet, #House, #Pop, #SynthPop, #TechHouse

Have been wanting to do this for a while and finally had a chance. A DJ set to celebrate New Order's Blue Monday. A lot of 4-track DJing in three parts to cover the tracks that influenced Blue Monday (Part I: Origins), those that it inspired (Part II: Reaction), and those that were tapping the same influences (Part III). Many more tracks could be included, but I did not want to make this long. Tracklist and podcast below. is also available on E-Trash's site (Username: apollo, Password: feelingfree).

Labels: #80s, #Disco, #Eurodisco, #IndieDanceMusic, #IndiePop, #NewOrder

Have not posted a set in a while, so here is the first hour of a live DJ set last July at Roterdão Club in Lisbon's Pink Street. It starts with respect for the great Tina Turner, setting the tone for a party aimed mostly at shaking the booty. Tracklist and podcast available on E-Trash's site (Username: apollo, Password: feelingfree).

Labels: #Disco, #DJ, #Funk, #House, #Pop

I really loved going back to live DJing in 2022, mostly at Roterdão Club in Lisbon's Pink Street. Here is a mix of various bits from those sets I collected the bits most inspired --- but not exclusively --- by 80s electro-disco from New York City. Tracklist and podcast below. What a Street Feeling! is also available on E-Trash's site (Username: apollo, Password: feelingfree).

Labels: #80s, #Disco, #DJ, #Electro, #Funk, #House, #Music, #NYC

I had forgotten to post this live set, which I did in December in Madrid for the cocktail reception at the Complex Networks 2021 conference. It goes from Deodato's Jazzy/Groovy take on Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra to techno (the set went on to a few more techno tracks ommitted here), but strongly grounded on Disco/Funk/EuroDisco. Tracklist below. Also Sprach the Jam is available on E-Trash's site (Username: apollo, Password: feelingfree).

Labels: #Disco, #DJ, #Eurodisco, #Funk, #Jazz, #Music, #Techno

This has been an almost ethereal year, largely locked at home. The day we enter a new lockdown, I feel that someday soon we will be free and again together on the dancefloor. So here is a DJ set I played live on youtube om January 15, 2021, already seeing a light at the end of this pandemic tunnel, when we can be with those we love. Somehow the aquatic neo-baroque photographic art of Christy Lee Rogers beautifully captures the mood again. This set has a Soul vivem stepping up to Disco, House and Afro-House. Again, sort of like a first set at the Riot Bootique. Hopefully, at some point DJ Angst and E-Trash, will return to our cybernetic DJing whenever possible. Tracklist and podcast for Some day available on E-Trash's site (Username: apollo, Password: feelingfree).

Labels: #Disco, #DJ, #Funk, #House, #Music, #Sould

This has been an almost ethereal year, largely locked at home. As we are about to enter new lockdowns, I miss the dancefloor. So here is a redo of DJ set I played "live" on youtube in September, dreaming of dancefloors where we can dance (house music all night long) with somebody who loves us. Somehow the aquatic neo-baroque photographic art of Christy Lee Rogers beautifully captures the mood of being safe at home, but longing for the connection of the dancefloor---we are one World under the roof, ain't that the truth! This set pretty much follows the typical crescendo of a first set at the Riot Bootique. Hopefully, at some point DJ Angst and E-Trash, will return to our cybernetic DJing whenever possible. (House Music All Night Long) With Somebody and tracklist are available on E-Trash's site (Username: apollo, Password: feelingfree).

Labels: #Disco, #DJ, #Funk, #House, #Music

Still missing DJing in clubs live, so when I have the time I started to DJ live online (unfortunately youtube blocks some parts of it). This was the first time I did a youtube set in a long time, there were a lot of errors. But I played a wide range of tracks from the 80s to now. The set was all about changes that are coming and which I am very excited about. So many changes in styles as well, basically covering some sets I played for family during the summer trying to please many age groups :) A bit of a warning, tracks contain adult language... Hopefully, at some point DJ Angst and E-Trash, will return to our cybernetic DJing whenever possible. Changes! and its tracklist str available on E-Trash's site (Username: apollo, Password: feelingfree).

Labels: #Dance, #Disco, #DJ, #Funk, #HipHop

In these quarantine days, the last time I DJed live already feels like an eternity ago, but the last Riot Bootique party in Bloomington was only a month ago. We were supposed to host it again tomorrow night, but, alas, all clubs are closed and for good reason. Instead I am posting one of the two sets I played at the last party, errors and all. It was a great Funky seduction, with a full house of people from all over the World. DJ Angst and E-Trash, will return to our cybernetic DJing whenever possilble. I (E-TRASH) am supposed to DJ at Roterdão Club in Lisbon with DJ Gabe on May 22nd, but let's see how the pandemic unfolds. Tracklist and podcast below. Funky Seduction is also available on E-Trash's site (Username: apollo, Password: feelingfree).

Labels: #Disco, #DJ, #Funk, #House, #Music

During the last Riot Bootique parties in Bloomington I have been playing with new gear and mixing 4 tracks at the same time (including ripping off Purple Disco Machine a little). Here are parts of sets from April and May with some of those experiments, errors and all. Overall a feel good set emphasizing the diversity of self that makes us all up. DJ Angst and E-Trash, will return to our cybernetic DJing next Fall, DJ Angst will keep the flame alive during the summer in Bloomington, while E-Trash will be grooving in Lisbon. Tracklist and podcast for Soy Yo! Love Will Find a Way is available on E-Trash's site (Username: apollo, Password: feelingfree).

Labels: #Disco, #DJ, #Funk, #House, #Techno

I first got a hold of Camille Paglia's Sexual Personae in Binghamton (Camille Paglia went there as undergraduate and I went there for my PhD much later). That book influenced my thinking a lot, I even used it as inspiration for the ability of users to select different "personae" in the recommender systems I developed in the 90s and 00s. Years later I realized how much in sync I was with her naturalized approach to identity and the importance of art in expressing and playing physically with identity. Or maybe was just her disco-punk attitude and interest in Bowie and Patti Smith and Madonna alike that resonated with me. The recent article by Mark Bauerlein is one of the best I have read recently explaining her relevance today---when issues of identity can quickly become more like religion and nothing like true academic scholarship. A True Force of Nature to be taken seriously:

Labels: #Disco, #Indentity, #Paglia, #politics, #Punk

At the last Riot Bootique in Bloomington I decided to do a 30 Year Challenge, playing one set (the second of the night) with new stuff, and another set (a late night set) with tracks from 1989 in honor of the Summer of Love. My time in the UK around that time was very formative in my taste for dance music and many other things. 30 years later I am still at it and loving it! As Janelle Monáe says in the opening track, "A little crazy, little sexy, little cool, Little rough around the edges, but I keep it smooth, I'm always left of center and that's right where I belong, I'm the random minor note you hear in major songs. And I like that. I don't really give a fuck if I was just the only one (I am not). I never like to follow, follow all around, the chase is on." 30 years later I still Like that. DJ Angst and E-Trash, will return to our cybernetic DJing next month. Tracklist and podcast below. Summer of Love: #30YearChallenge is also available on E-Trash's site (Username: apollo, Password: feelingfree).

Labels: #30YearChallenge, #AcidHouse, #Disco, #DJ, #Funk, #House, #Music, #Techno

The last Riot Bootique in Bloomington was great fun even with the first winter storm of the year in the middle of the government shutdown. Here is my first set which set the tone of Jamming to Love and open doors:Love Not Walls. I was playing live for the first time with my new equipment... DJ Angst and E-Trash, will return to our cybernetic DJing next month. Tracklist below. Podcast for Love Not Walls is also available on E-Trash's site (Username: apollo, Password: feelingfree).

Labels: #Disco, #DJ, #Funk, #House, #Techno

The latest Riot Bootique in Bloomington was a great party of pure love. Here is my first set which set the tone of freedom, love and feeling good for the night, even though it starts a bit dark:Free Love. DJ Angst and E-Trash, will return to our cybernetic DJing next month. Tracklist and podcast below. Free Love is also available on E-Trash's site (Username: apollo, Password: feelingfree).

Labels: #Disco, #DJ, #Funk, #House, #Music, #Techno

For the latest Riot Bootique in Bloomington I decided to do a homage to Aretha Franklin, the absolute Queen of Soul. The idea was to make it super open, spanning many genres and all about Unity---which we need more than ever. Here are the two sets I played assembled together:Summer Unity---the first set of the night plus my second set, after DJ Angst's own set (not included). Its long, and it covers all the Riot Bootique bases and more! From Soul Music to Drum & Bass, and including Disco, House, Techno and Funk. As always, the Riot Bootique is a chance to celebrate all people, this time in celebration of Aretha. DJ Angst and E-Trash, will return to our cybernetic DJing later this month. Tracklist below, podcast for Summer Unity is also available on E-Trash's site (Username: apollo, Password: feelingfree).

Labels: #ArethaFranklin, #Disco, #Drum&Bass, #Funk, #House, #R&B, #Techno

Labels: #Computing, #Disco, #DIY, #Informatics, #Music, #Punk

We have been doing the Riot Bootique in Bloomington again since the Summer, including a transcontinental edition. They have been wonderful parties full of love with great people---the best antidote to the current political realities. The two sets from last Friday are here in the Funky Dancefloor on Fire---well, the first set plus a lot of the second set. I wanted it funky (given Bootsy Collins' recent visit to Bloomington), and it is. But it covers all the Riot Bootique bases: from Disco to House and Techno via Funk. Since I have been busy to post these through the winter, here is also an assembly of various sets during Fall 2017 and Winter 2018: No Walls Spirits, to celebrate The Riot and its people; all kinds, all colors, all types of love. DJ Angst and E-Trash, will return to our cybernetic DJing next month. Tracklists and podcasts below. Funky Dancefloor on Fire and No Walls Spirits are also available on E-Trash's site (Username: apollo, Password: feelingfree).

Labels: #Disco, #DJ, #Funk, #House, #Techno

The Riot Bootique returned to Bloomington after more than a year away. It was a wonderful Party full of love with people who came to celebrate with us the reunion. I wanted to celebrate what is best about Bloomington and the US and deride what divides us. House of Love is my first set (plus first track of second set), with some political overtones but all about inclusion (first set of the night before DJ Angst). The Riot was full of people; all kinds, all colors, all types of love. DJ Angst and E-Trash, will return to our cybernetic DJing next month. Tracklist and podcast for House of Love available on E-Trash's site (Username: apollo, Password: feelingfree).

Labels: #Disco, #DJ, #Funk, #House, #Music, #Techno

The categories of identity politics are exactly the same as those of racism and sexism, just turned upside down on the scale of intentions. What is truly revolutionary is to erase these categories. The rock revolution of Presley, the Beatles and the Stones was all about blending race. The revolutionary blast of the New York Dolls and Glam Rock was about blending gender. Bowie, of course, did it all, which was continued by (post-Young Americans) Disco and all of his 80s children, including Prince, as well as all electronic music that derived (interestingly, Rock became a reactionary white affair, a bit like Jazz before it).

We're all individuals. "I've got a face, not just my race". Too bad academics and most political parties don't seem to accept that revolution and breakout of these categories.The point is that Identity Politics, rather than working to erase the categories of racism/sexism/homophobia, worked to enhance them, albeit with good intentions. The problem is that those linguistic categories have maintained and indeed enhanced the discourse of racism/sexism/homophobia itself---the good intentions of Identity Politics are a bit like how Graham Greene describes the good intentions of Alden Pyle, the Quiet American: "Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm". If civil rights had instead fought to erase the categories themselves (which many people like Gore Vidal for years have suggested), focusing on individual- rather than group-freedoms, we would not have created monsters like Trump. That is my opinion, anyway. Perpetuating these categories offers no solutions, simply entrenches distinctions among groups of (diverse) people.

Labels: #Bowie, #Disco, #Gender, #House, #IdentityPolitics, #Music, #Prince, #Race

The last Bootique was our last riot before our European hiatus. It was a wonderful Party full of love with people who came to celebrate with us the last few years of the Riot, as well as people who came for the first time. I wanted to celebrate Prince and deliver a Party, and that's what we got. PartyUp is essentially my first set, (second of the night after DJ Angst), which ends with Prince's 1999. But since the Bootique kept the Riot up beyond closing time with amazing people, I also added the last few tracks of the night that I played at 3AM. DJ Angst and E-Trash, will return to our cybernetic DJing somewhere in Europe during the next year, and back in Bloomington sometime in 2017. Tracklist below, podcast for PartyUp on E-Trash's site (Username: apollo, Password: feelingfree).

Labels: #Disco, #DJ, #Funk, #House, #Prince, #Techno