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January 21, 2005
That's Right, Put In Work, Move Yr Ass, Go Bezerk
Three months ago Mark D. and I were throwing around potential dates for the next round of Hell dance parties...and I remember thinking that January 21st might be perfect for a big post-Kerry-inauguration party with a Gerald Ford-derived "our long national nightmare is over" theme. But alas, we just inaugurated the wrong dude again. So I will have to settle for remembering 01/20/2005 as the date of WXYC's "Best of 2004" dance party at Local 506. Which isn't such a bad thing. I was worried about how last night's weather was going to impact the turnout but the crowd was bigger than I expected and I think the whole thing went pretty well. Kudos to my fellow DJs and big thanks to everyone who came out to dance on a wintry Thursday night!
I never post my DJ setlists online for all sorts of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that I never write them down and it would be way too hard to remember a multi-hour set. But I was only on for about 50 minutes last night and I put a lot of advance thought and work into this one-night-only 2004-themed set. So here it is, an odd assortment of body-movers from the past year:
- Ciara/Petey Pablo - "Goodies"
- Usher/Lil' Jon/Ludacris - "Yeah!"
- Franz Ferdinand - "Take Me Out" (sans pre-groove intro)
- Ghostface/Missy Elliott - "Tush"
- N*E*R*D - "She Wants to Move" (DFA remix)
- DJ Zeph - "Floorwax"
- The Go! Team - "Bottle Rocket"
- Elephant Man (w/ Twista, Youngbloodz, Kiprich) - "Jook Gal (Wine Wine)"
- Nina Sky - "Move Ya Body"
- Jacuzzi Brothers - "Bright Tiger"
- Kanye West - last part of "The New Workout Plan"
- Girl Talk - "Touch 2 Feel"
- Lil Wayne - "Go DJ"
- Jay-Z - "Dirt Off Your Shoulder" acappella excerpt over "Go DJ" instrumental
- DJ N-Wee - "Zurich Your Shoulder" excerpt
- Jay-Z - "Dirt Off Your Shoulder" excerpt
- Federation - "Hyphy"
- J-Kwon - "Tipsy"
- M.I.A. - "Galang"
I had a lot of fun with this set of music, it was a definite challenge to try and figure out how to fit certain "puzzle pieces" together. I was most psyched to find a way to drop a Bandwidth track in the midst of some jamz with which it could actually be beatmatched. Since I never blogged about this Jacuzzi Brothers track last November while I was hyping various Bandwidth cuts, I will take this opportunity to encourage people to download "Bright Tiger" (5.95 MB) to their new iPod Shuffle or whatever. And to all you advertising agency creative types out there in the digital ether, you gotta check out the Jacuzzi Brothers. If Four Tet can appear in luxury watch ads on cable TV and as theme music for an NPR show, then maybe a hot Jacuzzi Brothers track could serve as the driving-around-curvy-roads soundtrack to a Mazda ad or some such thing? C'mon, t-shirt sales alone are not going to send Jacuzzi's newborn son to college!
Posted by Tim at January 21, 2005 04:24 PM
Comments
You will find that Franz Ferdinand was one of my top ass-shaking songs of the year as well on the CD I left in your SILS folder.....
Posted by: robin at January 25, 2005 05:37 PM