The Elevator Club

I’ve posted a new live mix from July 5th, 2008 here (right-click and choose “Save Link As…” to download).

Tracklist:

1. Mark Knight & Funkagenda - Man With The Red Face [Original Club Mix]
2. Oliver Huntemann - La Boum
3. Fukkk Off - Rock, Paper, Scissors [Original Mix]
4. Steve Lawler - 21st Century Ketchup [Original Mix]
5. King Unique - Hinode [Fergie Remix]
6. Kris B & Nosmo - One For The Road [2008 Tiger Stripes Dub]
7. Par Grindvik - Do Us Part [Len Faki Remix]
8. Act. Sense - Arritmia [Original Mix]
9. Nick Muir - Airtight [Monaque Remix]
10. Skylark - Movin’ [Joris Voorn’s Rejected Rave Dub]
11. Winona - Without You [Matthew Dekay Remix]
12. James Harcourt - Invasion [Kriece Remix]
13. Fergie - Ireland [Original Mix]
14. Luke Chable - The Shepherd [Original Mix]
15. James Harcourt - The Trinity [Original Mix]
16. Koen Groeneveld - Wake Turbulence [Original Mix]
17. TC Maniak - Hellbent [Logiztik Sounds & Mauricio Duarte Remix]
18. Dave Robertson - One Dunk Wonder [The Electric Re:Press]
19. PQM - You Are Sleeping [PCM Meets Luke Chable Vocal Pass]
20. Mark Brown - New Heights [Christian Smith & John Selway Remix]

(You can also find many of these tracks on beatport.com)

Mixed live on two turntables with a Nuo Ecler 4 mixer and Serato.

- mike
elevatorclub.com
…:: step inside ::… listen.

OK, so after a few last-minute changes (I’ll miss you, Bruce Hornsby) here’s the final playlist for my high school reunion:

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1. George Michael - “Faith”
2. The Cure - “Why Can’t I be You?”
3. Robert Palmer - “Addicted to Love”
4. Steve Winwood - “Back in the High Life Again”
5. Bon Jovi - “Livin’ on a Prayer”
6. INXS - “New Sensation”
7. Peter Gabriel - “Sledgehammer”
8. Club Nouveau - “Lean On Me”
9. Talking Heads - “Stay Up Late”
10. Tracy Chapman - “Talkin’ Bout A Revolution”
11. R.E.M. - “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It”
12. Duran Duran - Girls on Film [Night Version]
13. Madonna - “Like a Prayer”
14. Grateful Dead - “Touch of Gray”
15. Belinda Carlisle - “Heaven Is A Place On Earth”
16. Guns n’ Roses - “Sweet Child O’ Mine”
17. Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes - “(I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life”

- mike
elevatorclub.com
…:: step inside ::… listen.

My 20th (!) high school reunion is coming up soon, and we’ve been working on a CD of music from the era. Here’s where we’re at:

We’re missing Madonna and Michael Jackson, but I can’t decide if we need ‘em.

- mike
elevatorclub.com
…:: step inside ::… listen.

I listen to a lot of music.

I discard most of it and keep the best. Then I go home and load the tracks I love onto my turntables and see what they sound like when they’re performed. It’s basically practice, but I try to make the sets as tight as I can. The only catch is that I’m not completely familiar with what I’m playing so sometimes the energy dips in strange places. I record these sets and listen to them on my iPod so I can hear what works and what doesn’t. This makes me better over time.

Here’s a recording from the other weekend that turned out really well (right-click to download the mp3 file to your computer).

- mike
elevatorclub.com
…:: step inside ::… listen.

One of the highlights of Sander Kleinenberg’s set on the Space Terrace was a remix of Elton John’s “Rocket Man”. It’s been the talk of many WMC bloggers but no one seems to know the remixer.

- mike

elevatorclub.com

…:: step inside ::… listen.