Happy Pride

Happy Pride weekend! Here is an old school mix using two turntables and a mixer. I remember playing with a lot with different acapellas and experimenting throwing things together. I'm surprised how well this mix holds up to this day and I'm loving the analog quality of the sound. Enjoy!

Glamjack Vinyl Mix 002 by Dj Glamjack on Mixcloud

Erase You Revised

 Here is a mix that I "revised" from the vaults called "Erase You".  Upon listening, I decided to change the order of the songs and came up with a new revised version.  This mix contains various  acapella's which are sprinkled here and there for added interest.  Overall the feel of this mix is eclectic with some touches of world music from the other worldly voice of Ustad Nustrat Fateh Ali Khan doing some  Sufi Qawwalis layered over the genius of Lindstrom and Prins Thomas with some campy calypso styling.  Then the mix takes a turn to some deep jungle house, disco and post punk.  I hope you enjoy this renewed listening as much as I do. Enjoy

Erase You (Revised) - Dj Glamjack

Track List

   1.    Lindstrom,  Prins Thomas, Mamie Van Doren &  Ustad Nustrat Fateh Ali Khan - Number Fire En (Glamjack's Go   

          Calypso Qawwli Treatment)

   2.    Afrikali - Out of The Jungle (Dancing Flute)

   3.    Saint Tropez - Fill My Life With Love

   4.    Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Fury

   5.    Raze - Jack The Groove

   6.    Africanism - Call It Jungle Jazz ( Glamjack Paradise Garage Treatment)

   7.    Virgo Four - Take Me Higher

   8.    Erase You-   ESG

On A Rien A Perdre

It is freezing out and it finally feels like Winter is here in our beloved city.  So to warm you up, here are some truly astonishing disco tunes from Saint Tropez.  Taken from the 1978 album Belle de Jour,  "Fill My Life With Love" will inspire you to well,  fill your life with love, specially during those cold winter nights.  Enjoy!

Fill My Life With Love - Saint Tropez

Like many disco groups of the '70s, Saint Tropez was a producers' creation, in this case of American producers Laurin Rinder and W. Michael Lewis who had already been successful with disco groups El Coco and Le Pamplemousse.  Saint Tropez was composed of a female menage-a-trois of three hot ladies doing some Lesbian chic.  Belle de Jour was the follow up after the success of Je T'aime which gave Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin's well know classics some pornesque disco symphony treatments. My personal favorite from Je T'Aime is the feel good "On A Rien A Perdre" (It Has Nothing To Loose), a song that is entirely sung in French but sometimes the chorus sounds like they are questioning themselves if they are "..am I in a better mood" so here it is so listen for yourself and see if this can  put you in a better mood.  Enjoy!

On A Rien A Perdre - Saint Tropez

Mondo Disco

I has been a crazy week with lot's of work and to top that I decided to go wireless with my Internet connections resulting in not posting much this week. So I'm happy to be back and glad to go wireless now. Today I'm featuring an amazing song by cult disco favorites W. Michael Lewis and Laurin Rinder, who produced, arranged, wrote, and played all the instruments on the vast majority of their material. Their distinctive sound was partly a result of their jazz training, which showed up not only in their arrangements and chord progressions, but in the overall musicality and sonic imagination. Rinder and Lewis produced their own tracks in 1975, issuing the LP Caravan under their fictitious group name El Coco (a drug reference). Mondo Disco followed in 1976, as did Let's Get It Together, the point where they really hit their stride. "Let's Get It Together" became a substantial club hit, breaking them on the disco scene. The title tracks on 1977's Cocomotion and 1978's Dancing Paradise were also successful. Following this success they became issuing side projects with such guises that included Tuxedo Junction, Saint Tropez, le Pamplemousse, Rinder & Lewis and the Rinlew Allstars. All amazing releases!

Enjoy!

Mondo Disco - El Coco