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

New DJ set thinking of raving bodies under the techno or house disco ball. I have dropped all these tracks one way or another in my live DJ sets in the last 6 months or so. Tracklist and podcast below. Slippy Body is also available on E-Trash's site (Username: apollo, Password: feelingfree).

Labels: #BaileFunk, #Bass, #DJ, #DJSet, #House, #Music, #Techno

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

So here is another DJ set I played live on twitch on February 21, 2021. This was a Sunday lounge set, a mood driven by euro soundscapes, from Space to Italo Disco and French touch, but also House music and very much still on the groovy side of things. Somehow the imagery from Roberto Rossellini's L'Amore with Anna Magnani and Federico Fellini fits. Again, sort of like a first set at the Riot Bootique, at least up to my mash-up of Digitalism with ABC; it windsdown into eurotarsh land from there for the end of the night :) Hopefully, at some point DJ Angst and E-Trash, will return to our cybernetic DJing whenever possible. Tracklist and podcast below. Lumière D'Amore is also available on E-Trash's site (Username: apollo, Password: feelingfree).

Labels: #DJ, #House, #ItaloDisco, #Music, #SpaceDisco

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

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

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

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

I went for a Pop Lift for the first set at the last Riot Bootique. Taking things to where melody, groove and vocals meet to lift our spirits up---not forgetting a good bang at the end. Since this was the first set of a night that started slow, it starts mellow but it delivered the dance floor. Played 2 or 3 more tracks after this, but they were all included in the last On Fire set. DJ Angst and E-Trash, will return to our cybernetic DJing next month. Tracklist below, podcast Pop Lift on E-Trash's site (Username: apollo, Password: feelingfree).

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

It turns out I am really happy about the first set I played at the last Riot Bootique. There were mixed signals from the crowd but after listening to it, I really think it came out a club blast---minus a live accident on a Bowie segment which has been removed here. DJ Angst and I played some spanking new tracks which can leave some in the crowd unmoved. But by summer time when Reinier Zonneveld, Bakermat's Games Continued, Cassian's rework of Sinnamon's Need U now, Soulwax/Erasmus and others are all Club hits, you can say you heard them at the Riot Bootique first Bloomington! This set is all about fire on the Dancefloor; a celebration of letting go that only techno and house goodness delivers. DJ Angst and E-Trash, will return to our cybernetic DJing next month. Tracklist below. You can listen to or download On Fire from E-Trash's site (Username: apollo, Password: feelingfree).

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

Simply a mix of tracks I tend to play live only very late at night or not at all. Deep beauty. Perhaps inspired by periods of intense grant writing and being home sick for a week. Played this in one go at home, so some glitches remain. Podcast and tracklist below. You can also access a higher quality file for Deep at home on E-Trash's site (Username: apollo, Password: feelingfree).

Labels: #Chill, #Home, #House, #Love, #Techno