MORNING MUSIC, SLEAZE, THE SAINT, THE TROCADERO TRANSFER AND HORSE MEAT DISCO

I still have a few more morning music selections in my Ebay store. You can check them out by clicking the title of this post. I'll be adding more soon.

In the meantime the guys at Horse Meat Disco are dedicating one side of their latest compilation to the genre of sleaze. A beautiful sound made legendary at The Saint and The Trocadero Transfer and at beach resorts like Fire Island and Provincetown it's a sound that is becoming harder and harder to here at parties. Hopefully their compilation will bring attention to this much loved genre.
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Horse Meat Disco Talk About Sleaze
A Conversation With DJ History On The Disco Sub-Genre

Horse Meat Disco III July 5th (digital) July 19th (physical)
http://www.horsemeatdisco-thealbum.com/

The entire second disc of Horse Meat Disco's latest mix on Strut focuses on the after-hours disco sub-genre known as Sleaze, made popular at seminal NYC night clubs like The Saint. Not familiar? See what the guys have to say below in an interview with the mighty djhistory.com. Both discs of HMD III are likely to soundtrack more than a few parties this summer.

Horse Meat Disco On The History of Sleaze

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Horse Meat Disco III mini-mix
Wham- "Love Maker" (Horse Meat Disco re-edit)


Acclaimed London DJ collective Horse Meat Disco return in June with the third installment in their essential compilation series bringing together rare disco, ‘80s boogie, electro, fresh edits and all-new dancefloor discoveries. Mixed by resident DJs James Hillard, Jim Stanton, Severino and Filthy Luka, this new edition packs in 28 incendiary tracks for guaranteed dancefloor heaven.

CD 1 brings the peak time selection and features a spread of Salsoul classics re-worked by some of the current masters of the re-edit including Todd Terje and Stupid Human, alongside Ron Hardy’s famed and previously bootleg-only cut-up of First Choice’s “Let No Man Put Asunder.” UK producer Andy Williams aka Yam Who? cuts a brand new version of Sha-Lor’s house classic “I’m In Love” and also features as bandleader of Fuzz Against Junk on the Harvey remix of their Talking Heads cover “Born Under Punches” from the ‘90s heyday of Nuphonic Records. New productions feature from the stables of Smalltown Supersound, Rush Hour and more.

CD 2 takes us to the early hours with a hazy mid-tempo sleaze mix, echoing the spirit of infamous New York havens like The Saint. Tracks include the Factory Records classic “Reach For Me” by the late Marcel King and the rare “Lovemaker” by Wham (no relation to the George Michael group), re-issued here for the first time. ‘80s grooves from Miquel Brown from the peak days of ‘80s hi-energy and T.S. Monk’s boogie classic “Candidate For Love” rub shoulders with hand-picked mid-tempo beauties from Sylvester and original Weather Girls incarnation, Two Tons Of Fun.

Now into their eleventh year, Horse Meat Disco have continued to lead the way with packed residencies at their HQ at The Eagle in London’s Vauxhall, Lux in Lisbon and Tape in Berlin. Inspired by the music and inclusive ethos of New York’s club scene during the ‘70s and ‘80s, the collective have garnered a unique reputation for amazing parties and unmatchable sets, the quartet of DJs each mixing their own quality blend of disco juice.  During 2011, as well as playing their annual UK festival dates at Glastonbury and Lovebox, they will be spreading the love to some of the world’s leading festivals including Vivid in Sydney, Electric Elephant, Bestival and San Francisco’s Pride. (see bottom of email for full tour info)

Horse Meat Disco III is mixed by the Horse Meat Disco residents with mix bundle and all unmixed tracks available to download. Also available as unmixed 2LP set. The package features a selection of photos taken at Horse Meat’s events worldwide and exclusive sleeve notes by New York DJ and journalist Daniel Wang.

CD 1

1. JIMMY BRISCOE AND THE BEAVERS – INTO THE MILKY WAY (Felix Dickinson Edit)
2. LEFTSIDE WOBBLE – GRAPEVINE BOOGIE (Leftside Wobble Edit)
3. CLAUDJA BARRY – SWEET DYNAMITE (Todd Terje Edit)
4. FUZZ AGAINST JUNK – BORN UNDER PUNCHES (Harvey remix)
5. MUNGOLIAN JETSET – MOON JOCKS ‘N’ PROG ROCKS (Full Length version)
6. DIMITRI FROM PARIS and; DJ ROCCA present ERODISCOTIQUE - DOWNTOWN
7. SUZY Q – I CAN’T GIVE YOU MORE (DC Edit)
8. BILLIE RAY MARTIN – SWEET SUBURBAN DISCO (Severino Dub remix)
9. AVA CHERRY – YOU NEVER LOVED ME
10. FIRST CLASS – LET NO MAN PUT ASUNDER (Ron Hardy ‘Baby, Baby, Baby Aw Shucks’ Edit)
11. WILD GEESE – MACHO DISCO MASTER
12. TOM TRAGO – SHUTTERS (Extended 12” mix)
13. YAM WHO? – I’M IN LOVE
14. RAPHAEL CAMERON – TOGETHER (Stupid Human Edit)

CD 2

1. IDRIS MUHAMMAD – FOR YOUR LOVE
2. SYLVESTER – GIVE IT UP
3. FEVER – TOLD YOU NOT TO MESS WITH HIM
4. SALSOUL ORCHESTRA feat. LOLEATTA HOLLOWAY - SECONDS
5. TAMBI – YOU DON’T KNOW
6. MARCEL KING – REACH FOR LOVE (Mark Kamins remix)
7. BAISER – SUMMER BREEZE
8. MIQUEL BROWN – CLOSE TO PERFECTION
9. WHAM - LOVEMAKER
10. T.S. MONK – CANDIDATE FOR LOVE
11. ROSE LAURENS – AMERICAN LOVE
12. B.L.T. – TIGHTEN IT UP
13. GENE CHANDLER – I’LL MAKE THE LIVING IF YOU MAKE THE LOVING
14. TWO TONS OF FUN – JUST US

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http://www.horsemeatdisco-thealbum.com/

MAX BERLIN'S IS JEAN PIERRE CERRONE'S BROTHER, SEVERINO PANZETTA SERVES UP SOME HORSE MEAT STYLE DISCO IN ROMA...AND I LIVED

To know me is to know that I complain about the club scene in my city of Roma.  I've turned into a curmudgeon because if I do go out I don't have fun.  So I don't.  And when you've got clubs in your veins that ain't easy.

So my friend DJ Hugo Sanchez posts this Facebook thingy about an event he's having in his studio.  Not long ago I had been to one that my New York DJ friend Ryan Smith spun at.  It was an intimate affair, low-key but great music and cheap drinks so I figured what the hell.  So I get there around 6 PM (I love those tea dance hours) and I don't see anyone going in or coming out and I'm like almost too paranoid to knock on the door wondering if it's been canceled.

So I get up the nerve to go in and there are a few people sitting around chatting with some lovely music playing in the background.  Soon after Hugo introduces me to Severino Panzetta the London based DJ.  He smiles and we are practically instantly intimate.  A truly warm person.  He motions for me to sit on the couch next to him and basically it turns out to be an interview with he and the people present.  His whole story about leaving Monza in North Italy 18 years ago and his experience in the scene up there (Riccione, Cattolica, Radio Azzura etc.) previous to immigrating is very fascinating.  Italians always love to hear when one of theirs does well, since it's so hard to get anything done in this country.

                                             Here we are, bears getting to know each other

Of course I am eating it all up cause it's years that I've been dying to go to Horse Meat Disco.  I just really want to see in person the fact that there are people today really dancing to disco and I mean fierce disco not that Holiday Inn bar I will Survive kinda tragedy.  It seems like every time I'm in New York it's not the right weekend and I haven't had the coins to go to London in a spell.

So Severino started to spin a little in Hugo's studio but the whole affair remained low key enough that I decided to split and have dinner with my EX.  Though there was a part of me that kept wondering if I was missing something and after dinner I contemplated going back.  But it was a cold weekend in Roma and I am 50 now so it doesn't take much to get me lazy and yearning for coziness.  I called my boyfriend who was at a dinner party figuring I'd join him and maybe we'd all go to Company for a drink and a laugh but he didn't hear the ring so I went home and moped a little.  Mostly I wondered if Severino kept spinning and if it had transitioned into an actual party or not.

So the next night Hugo is holding another event.  This time at a Centro Sociale Circolo Arci called Fanfulla in the oh so trendy Pigneto area.  But those bear Monday guys, (currently Roma's hottest bear promoting team), were having an event at Piper and they were sort of implying that Patty Pravo would be there since it's the 50 year anniversary of the club.  Meanwhile my boyfriend and his crew were at a competing buffet/party in the Colle Oppio at Club O which I definitely didn't want to go to because the DJ there plays freaking Katy Perry and Britney Spears and the queens dance like they are at Studio 54 while I roll my eyes and look at my watch.

Turns out it was only a drag queen doing a Patty Pravo impersonation after another doing a Tina Turner impersonation and I'm like well I've seen this before haven't I?  So I break out.

Then I get there (Tropicantesimo was the name of the party) and one of the first songs is this tasteful delight by Max Berlin's from 1987.  Here I provide it for you including two newer edits in addition to the original as is the tradition here on my blog.
ELLE ET MOI
And it continues in that vein one fabulous record after another.  Severino himself is transmitting such a positive energy he is seriously dancing while he spins, throwing his arms up in the air and in general having a kiki and the young crowd who surely don't know these songs are fully enamored with the whole event.  In fact there was a bit of that EDM scene let's just stare at the DJ spinning thing going on, but in a way it was cute, fresh and innocent in an Italian way, so it didn't even annoy me.  Then I'm getting my drink on, 5 euro Long Island Ice Tea's are cute to say the least.

At one point I realize I am sobbing.  That kind of thing just happens to me.  I'm Italian, I'm emotional.  It's happened at The Loft in New York and it just means that I'm letting myself get transported.  There was only one other time in the 17 years that I've lived in Rome that I've had more fun at a club.  It was at a party at Forte Prenestino in the late 90's.  But this joy is almost purely because of the music and that is my favorite type of fun.

So then Severino says something to this kid, a real centro sociale type, you know the kind with the stretched ear lobes who rolls his own cigarettes.  Then the kid gets on the mic.  Now this could have been totally naff but it wasn't AT ALL.  This boy was not only cute and butch but he had soul.  I later found out his name is IGINO.  He was literally singing old house lyrics over the beat and it sounded great.  The levels were perfect too because they didn't overpower the music.

Then later on this androgynous creature got on another mic and she started doing it too.   Hugo later told me her name is LOLA KOLA. That was also sweet but at this point I was getting fatigued.  I haven't had my ass on a dance-floor this long in ages and by then Hugo Sanchez took over for the last hour.  And as much as I enjoy his spinning style he lives here and I will have other opportunities to hear him play.

Now I just have to haul my ass to London.  My buddy Fabrizio, a Roman transplant to London actually lives a 5 minute walk from The Eagle where they hold Horse Meat Disco on Sundays.  I've got no excuse other then the $ so let's hope some people buy my records on eBay BUY MY VINYL I POST NEW STUFF EVERY FEW DAYS  And my fingers are crossed that I get some new students to teach English to here in Rome.  Feel free to leave your cell number below fellow Romans looking for an English teacher and I'll text you back.