The Tuesday DiScussion: Deafened by Death From Above? Submit your own indie mixes...
So that’s that: Death From Above (1979, Mr Lawyer Man) are dead, kaput, over, broken, splintered, terminated, destroyed, whatever… you can read about it here. Perhaps it’s natural that the pair, whose chosen brand of rock ‘n’ roll was so combustible anyway, burnt out in such a flash of brilliance after only one album of dance-floor fillers, though – the standouts from You’re A Woman, I’m A Machine were never likely to fade into to the back pages of indie DJ compact disc wallets. They always have been, and will continue to be, right in the thick of the action, as essential to the party as anything plugged into next week by this week’s NME.
'Course, fifty per cent of said outfit also operates as half of MSTRKRFT, the pair responsible for club-friendly remixes of the likes of Metric, Panthers, Bloc Party, The Kills and The Gossip. It seems that indie-rock has never been quite so easy to bust a move to.
Which brings us neatly(ish) to this week’s Tuesday DiScussion: the indie club mix-tape DiScussion. Many a DiSser can be found week in, week out, playing records (okay, CDs mainly) to assembled punters at clubs both within the M25 and beyond it – hopefully you’ve noticed DiS’s involvement with I Fly Spitfires in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, Dom and Jordan’s DiS Nottingham nights at The Social, our last-Saturday-of-the-month slots at Unit 22 in Southampton, and our monthly Barfly shindigs in London’s Camden Town. There’s more to come, too – watch this space. For today, though, we’re thinking along High Fidelity lines… what’s YOUR ideal indie club top ten?
Here we present the current top tens of three DiSsers, a.k.a. whatever we remembered, off the top of our heads, we’d played recently. Please dissect them as you like, and add your own top tens as comments below. So, Monkey!!! Knife!!! Party???
Mike Diver…
Q And Not U ‘Beautiful Beats’
Death From Above 1979 ‘Romantic Rights’
CSS ‘Let’s Make Love And Listen To Death From Above’
Jason And The Astronauts ‘Passé Disco’
The Fucking Champs ‘Policenauts’
Islands ‘Where There’s A Will There’s A Whalebone’
Radiohead ‘Idioteque’
At The Drive-In ‘One Armed Scissor’
Les Savy Fav ‘The Sweat Descends’
Broken Social Scene ‘Fire Eye’d Boy’
Sean Adams…
Feist ‘Mushaboom’ (Postal Service Remix)
The Flaming Lips ‘The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song’
Yeah Yeah Yeahs ‘Cheated Hearts’
David Bowie ‘Let’s Dance’
Interpol ‘PDA’
Michael Jackson ‘Beat It’
Primal Scream ‘Swastika Eyes’
Metric ‘Monster Hospital’ (MSTRKRFT Remix)
Phoenix ‘Too Young’
The MC5 ‘Tutti Frutti’
Colin Roberts…
The Knife ‘We Share Our Mother's Health’
Klaxons ‘Atlantis to Interzone’
Beastie Boys ‘Intergalactic’
The Unicorns ‘I Was Born (A Unicorn)’
Architecture in Helsinki ‘Do The Whirlwind’ (Metronomy Remix)
Bearsuit ‘Chargr’
Hot Chip ‘Over & Over’
Germlin ‘Yeah!!!’
The Walkmen ‘The Rat’
Weezer ‘Buddy Holly’
So, which set would you dance to? Wanna book us for your kid’s birthday? Your granddad’s funeral? Game of Crisco Twister, anyone? Reckon you can do better? Go on then…
DiScuss…
- Our 66: 20 that missed the cut
- The Tuesday DiScussion: Deafened by Death From Above? Submit your own indie mixes...
- Death From Above 1979 split
- DFA1979 read your Romantic Rights, again
- DFA1979: New LP in March
- Death From Above 1979 - Black History Month
- Death From Above 1979 - Black History Month
- Death From Above in a Venue Near You
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DiScover: The Insect Guide
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In that photo..
is Lamaq (sic?) saying:
"Who's this twat?"
i'd probably dance most to Mike's one.
i'd play summin like this
Plastic Bertrand "Ca Plane Pour Moi"
Professor Murder "Champion"
Nelly Furtado "Maneater"
!!! "Pardon My Freedom"
Gay Against You "Greased Lightening"
1/2 Japanese "Bogue Millionaires/Cool Millionaires"
Lucky Dragons "Mercy"
Animal Collective "The Purple Bottle"
Audiogarde "Mardi Gras"
Black Sabbath "War Pigs"
I'd dance to Mr. Diver's set
Purely because of At The Drive-In. YEAH!!
mmmmmmmmmm
Exit Ten - Resume/Ignore
thisGIRL - Cartwheels
Lamb Of God - Omerta
Kelly Clarkson - Because Of You
36 Crazyfists - Felt Through A Phoneline
Mastodon - Capillarian Crest
Slayer - Catatonic
Ray LaMontagne - Trouble
Rammstein - Sonne
Disco Ensemble - First Aid Kit
.................
off the top o me head...
Flaming Lips – She Don’t Use Jelly
Teenage Fanclub – Discolite
Electric Soft Parade – Theres a Silence
Actress Hands – Half an Hour
Mclusky – Who You Know
Euros Childs – Hi Mewn Socasu
Suburban Kids With Biblical Names – Funeral Face
British Sea Power – Remember Me
Vincent Vincent & The Villains – On My Own
Eddie Cochoran – Something Else
oh and
Hundred Reasons - I'll Find You
36 Crazyfists - Slitwrist Theory
Biffy Clyro - 57
Idlewild - When I Argue I See Shapes
Coheed & Cambria - Three Evils
System Of a Down - Stealing Society
Brand New - Sic Transit Gloria...Gloria Fades
Weezer - Surf Wax America
At The Drive-In - Invalid Litter Dept
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
hmmm
the sonics - the witch
neutral milk hotel - holland 1945
walkmen - the rat
morrissey - suedehead
velvet underground - i'm waiting for the man
stooges - search and destroy
go team - panther dash
clap your hands say yeah - the skin of my yellow country teeth
black mountain - no satisfaction
sonic youth - 100%
10 songs to get your boogaloo on to
Jarcrew - Paris and the Black Maths
System - Chop Suey
Hundred Reasons - If I Could
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression that I get
Rocket From the Crypt - On a Rope
Rancid - Timebomb
Mad Caddies - Monkeys
Jurassic 5 - Jayou
DJ Shadow - Organ Donor
Belle and Sebastien - Boy with the Arab Strap
With you
on The Rat and The Sweat Descends....
I'd throw in Electioneering as well.
I reckon...
Blood Brothers - Fucking's Greatest Hits
Beep Beep - I Am The Secetary
Forward Russia - Nine
The Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control (Le Tigre Remix)
The Faint - Glass Danse
Ladyfuzz - Oh Marie
Blown Paper Bags - Politik Dance
MIA - Galang
Pink Grease - Fever
Cream vs The Hoxtons - Sunshine Of Your Love (I found this in the HMV bargain bin for 99p and have taken GREAT PRIDE in playing it ever since)
Andrew WK - Party Hard
Andrew WK - Party Hard
Andrew WK - Party Hard
Andrew WK - Party Hard
Andrew WK - Party Hard
Andrew WK - Party Hard
Andrew WK - Party Hard
Andrew WK - Party Hard
Andrew WK - Party Hard
Andrew WK - Party Hard
Oooo...
Giant Drag - This Isn't It
Sonic Youth - Dirty Boots
Foals - Two Steps Twice
Deerhoof - Panda panda panda
Hella - Republic of rough and ready
Islands - ...Whalebone
Jeniferever - Magdeleno
Ride - Drive Blind
The Gossip - Dont Make Waves
Battles - Hi/Lo
diver wins!
mine:
broken social scene - hotel
the dismemberment plan - do the standing still
the dismemberment plan - gyroscope
beck - nicotine & gravy
q and not u - wonderful people
new pornographers - july jones
enon - disposable parts
a.c newman - the town halo
a.c newman - on the table
minus the bear - spritz!!!spritz!!!
css - let's make love..
jens lekman - another sweet summer's night on hammer hill
metric - dead disco
spoon - take the fifth
I'd do Colin's. How about that!
Belle And Sebastian - Legal Man
Helen Love - Debbie Loves Joey
Kenickie - Punka
Violent Femmes - Blister In The Sun
Girls Aloud - Love Machine
Pet Shop Boys - Always on my mind
Pulp - Lipgloss
Vincent Vincent And The Villans - Blue Boy
Orange Juice - Blue Boy
XTC - Generals And Majors
I'm listening...
to that last choon at the moment but its usually too long for us to play so usually its IPT-2 or Tras if we're feeling extravagant.
10 Skinny Jean Seam-Busters...
Le Tigre - Deceptacon
Shy Child - Technicrats
Echo & The Bunnymen - Back Of Love
TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me
Dizee Rascal - Stand Up Tall/Fix Up
Patrick Wolf - Tristan
Depeche Mode - People Are People
The Faint - Worked Up So Sexual
Primal Scream - Miss Lucifer
!!! -Pardon My Freedom
Nirvana - Tourettes
this stuff
Dead Kennedys - Police Truck
Death From Above 1979 - Pull Out
Services - Elemental Danger (MSTRKRFT Remix)
LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk Is Playing At My House (Soulwax Remix)
Atari Teenage Riot - Into the Death
Head Automatica - I Shot William H. Macy
Winnebago Deal - Manhunt
Refused - New Noise
Less Than Jake - Danny Says
Rocket From The Crypt - Born in '69
Good call on 'Monkeys' by Mad Caddies, IndieAndy_Jones!
!
Colin Roberts set would definatley be the stand out.
Though there is no need for anything by Weezer!
mine's the best
really! it is!
how could i foeget...
The Fall - Theme From Sparta FC
Super Furry Animals - Something 4 The Weekend
Gorkys Zygotic Mynci - Poodle Rockin
im liking the look of the one with Kenickie and Helen Love!
!
God of Traffic- Blackwire
Sugar Kane-Sonic Youth
Blood on our hands-DFA1979
White Devil-The Icarus Line
We Share Our Mothers Health-The Knife
The Walkmen - The Rat
The Lovecats- The Cure
Violet-Hole
F**k Forever-Babyshambles
Fried My Little Brains-The Kills
This gets my booty shaking...
Minus The Bear - Spritz!!! Spritz!!!
Interpol - Slow Hands
The Rapture - House of Jealous Lovers
The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
Franz Ferdinand - Michael
The Walkmen - The Rat
DFA 1979 - Romantic Rights
The Faint - Dropkick The Punks
Islands - Rough Gem
Bloc Party - Helicopter
*dances*
My set
Muse - Muscle Museum (Soulwax remix)
Vitalic - La Rock 01
LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge
Daft Punk - Da Funk
Ladytron - Seventeen
DOSE - Inch
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Y Control
Sonic Youth - Nic Fit
Hot Chip - Over and Over
Belle and Sebastian - Lazy Line Painter Jane
!!! - Pardon my freedon
The Faint - Agenda suicide
Metric - Monster hospital
Ladytron - Sugar
Death From Above - Black history month
Interpol - PDA
Fischerspooner - Emerge
Vitalic - My friend dario
Architecture In Helsinki - Do the whirlwind
Jamie T - Salvador
You need only play one song....
....to get my booty shakin':
Absinthe Party At The Fly Honey Warehouse - Minus The Bear
Awesome! Has to be said though, it is dissapointing not to see more MTB listed in peoples selections.
Mine pwns
Kanye West - Goldigger
Yeah Yeah Yeah - MEGAMIX!
M.I.A - Galang
Le Tigre - Deceptacon
Prince - Pussy Controll
Los Campesinos! - You Me Dancing
Justice Vs Simian - We Are Your Friends
Pixies - Debaser
CSS - Lets Make Love And Listen To Death From Above
Kim Wilde - Kids in America
This little beauty
wins the day for me!
My Bloody Valentine - Thorn
Madness - The Prince
Les Incompetents - How It All Went Wrong
The Specials - Rat Race
The Holloways - 2 Left Feet
The Flatmates - Shimmer
The Field Mice - Sensitive
Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere
Thousand Yard Stare - No Score After Extra Time
Klaxons - Atlantis To Interzone
sfa - receptacle for the respectable
finntroll - trollhammeren
e.l.o. - mr blue sky
daft punk - harder faster stronger
the skatalites - guns of navarone
the white stripes - blue orchid
mr scruff - fish
germlin - youth pixxel
petula clark - downtown
dresden dolls - girl anachronism
that's ten. off the tip of my head
Wisgaard wins.
It's not a too-cool for school battle kids. indie discos - no matter how cool they are, are meant to be about songs people know and dance to. Don't leave the kids on the sidlines, kids.
Ten that would make me rock:
The Gossip - Listen Up! (MSTRKRFT Mix)
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out (Daft Punk Mix)
Phoenix - Too Young
Michael Jackson - Bad
The Cure - Love Cats
Bloc Party - Banquet
N-Trance - Set You Free
Hot Chip - Over and Over
Maximo Park - Apply Some Pressure
Queen - Don't Stop Me Now
Wut, this isn't the G-A-Y forum?
Rachel Stevens - Sweet Dreams My LA Ex
Nelly Furtado - Maneater
Justin Timberlake - SexyBack
Pipettes - Pull Shapes
Supremes - You Keep Me Hanging On
Primitives - Crash
Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills
DJ Mei Lwin - Jesus Walked And He's Black
Andrew WK - Party Hard
Annie - Chewing Gum
Sound<>System
World Of Twist – The Storm
Hot Chip – Over & Over (Devolve Vs Solid Groove)
Lupine Howl – Vaporizer (Massive Attack Mix)
The Who – The Seeker
AC Newman – 35 in The Shade
Cut Chemist – Metrorail Thru Space
Incredible Bongo Band – Let There Be Drums
Swervedriver – Rave Down
Manic Street Preechers – Motown Junk
My Bloody Valentine – Soon
Hear it this Thursday at the Summer Sundae opening party, Firebug Leicester all monies to LOROS.
Haha! Cheers. That list of mine was actually one of my dj sets once, I think. Mutual appreciation: excellent choice with the Phoenix track. That song makes me groove like a motherbitch.
World of Twist!!!!
Cracking tune that. Didn' their singer die last week or something?
Ooooh fun thread!
Neutral Milk Hotel - Two Headed Boy (Part 1)
!Forward Russia! - 13
Spraydog - Get this Way
Mew - Apocalypso
Beirut - Postcards from Italy
Broken Social Scene - 5/4 Shoreline
Radiohead - There There
We Are Scientists - The Great Escape
My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes
Million Dead - Living the dream
:o)
it makes me dance...
Lust in The Movies - The Long Blondes
Hella Good - No Doubt
Stutter - Elastica
Helicopter - Bloc Party
The 1234 - theSTART
Trash - The Whip
Echoin' - The Clerks
The Way That I Found You - Ladytron
Are You Feeling Fashionable - Help She Can't Swim
Dead Disco - Metric
are we aloud more then 10 here...i could carry on all day and dance...
Sadly..
he died in July announced in August. And they made a secodn album that was supposed to be yards better than the first. Tony Ogden destroyed the masters in a row with their record label.
If your local on Thursday get down with it. LED, MISTERLEE & The Dirty Backbeats are playing.
na na na na na na na na
slow down your gonna cra...ah..shhh. Tracey Tracey, so blond they named her twice.
I choose Colin.
Because of The Unicorns.
this thread roolz
love is all - busy doing nothing
css - lets make love
annie - chewing gum
new young pony club - ice cream
tom tom club - wordy rappinghood
long blondes - separated by motorways
talking heads - girlfriend is better
bloc party - shes hearing voices
new order - blue monday
the smiths - this charming man
some tunes to please me, some to please the people. ish. ive just noticed the first 6 songs all have girls singing, make of that what u will.
and for my encore...
ladytron - paco!
soulwax - much against everyone's advice
the go! team - ladyflash
i could go on for ages...!
.
!!! - Dear Can
Metric - Monster Hospital
The Roots - The Seed 2.0
The Fall - Telephone Thing
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Y Control (Faint Remix)
Radiohead - Idioteque
Malcolm Middleton - No Modest Bear
Arcade Fire - Power Out
Patti Smith - My Generation
Kraftwerk - Europe Endless
That's off the top of me head, like.
Good lord, this is a tricky one
As of this moment:
Victorian English Gentlemens Club - The Tales Of Hermit Mark
Wire - Ex Lion Tamer
The Fall - Big New Prinz
ESG - Dance
Goodbooks - Passchendaele
Los Campesinos - You! Me! Dancing!
Architecture In Helsinki - It'5!
Sleater-Kinney - Get Up
Stump - Buffalo
Clinic - Monkey On Your Back
WHO IS THAT HUNK IN THE PIC?!
Oh Steve Lamacq.
Yeah
I'm aiming to be at that one.
^^ LOL ^^
*sulk*
Last time I Djed at the Old Blue Last I played
'War Machine' - Part Chimp
'The Sweat Descends' - Les Savy Fav
'Unfair' - Pavement
'Sugar Kane' - Sonic Youth
'Sugarcube' - Yo La Tengo
'School' - Nirvana
'Bed For The Scraping' - Fugazi
'Arc Arsenal' - At The Drive-In
'I Was Born (A Unicorn)' - The Unicorns
'El Scorcho' - Weezer
'Idioteque' - Radiohead
'Worked Up So Sexual' - The Faint
'Gold Mine Gutted' - Bright Eyes
'Over and Over' - Hot Chip
'Escape Artist' - Sage Francis
that is a good DJ set, oh yes
but are you actually Diver in disguise?
Indie clubs are for utter wankers. If I was in charge
I'd ban them. But I'm not.
Metronomy - Black Eye/Burnt Thumb
Kissy Sell Out - Her
MIA - URAQT
Cut Copy - Going Nowhere (Whitey Remix)
Veto - You Are A Knife
Ladytron - Playgirl
Shit Robot - Wrong Galaxy
MSTRKRFT - Paris
Polysics - Ceolakanth Is Android (MSTRKRFT)
Editors - Munich (Cicada Remix)
wow, what a crap piece
seriously, the point of it?
The current 10 songs...
rocking Cambridge's Club Goo's early set are as follows:
Cansei de Ser Sexy - Let's Make Love (And Listen Death To Above)
Coco Electrik - Apple Pie (Skylab remix)
Clinic - Monkey On Your Back
The Cramps - Bikini Girls With Machine Guns
Elton Motello - Jet Boy, Jet Girl
Princess Superstar - Coochie Coo
Fannypack - Smack It Up
The Knife - We Share Our Mother's Health
The Prodigy - Girls
Piney Gir - My Generation
v,v,r
We're the kind of people who were making up fantasy XI's when we were 7. Except now its tunes, not football players.
My mix tape
Would probably have quite a lot of not-indie on it.
Oh fuck it here goes, based almost entirely on recent itunes statistics:
Kerrier district - Disco Nasty (Luke vibert rmx)
DAT Politics - What's DAT?
Kleenex - Hedi's head
Matthew herbert - Moving like a train
Copy - it's a little too late
De-regulator - Manifest destiny
Classified - No mistakes
Jogger - Spider eyes
Girls are short - Spelling
Cadence weapon rmx beastie boys ch-ch check it out
Ain't that hot shit.
no
although, just browsing this, it's well funny how quite a few people would play similar songs. Nowadays wouldn't play something like 'Over and Over' - great tune it may be and undoubtedly Hot Chip's best dancefloor song, but you hear it everywhere nowadays.
songs2makeMeDance
prettyGirlsMakeGraves- speakers push air
bloc party - banquet
deftones - street carp
Muse - hysteria
yeahYeahYeahs - date with the night
q and not u - wonderful people
saul williams - list of demands
runDMC feat... - its like that
Elvis Costello - pump it up
pearlJam - rearviewmirror
I noticed as soon as I posted that comment to Gareth!
And suddenly realised I'd shake my arse just as hard to the songs on your list as I would to Colin's. Just a shame about Diver's really... :p
dancedancedance
We Share Our Mothers Health - The Knife
Disease - Numbers
Rocket Ride - Felix Da Housecat
Who'll Be Next In Line - The Kinks
All Night Disco Party - Brakes
Motor Crash - Sugarcubes
Free The Bee - Melt Banana
Talking Heads - The Lady Don't Mind
Enon - The Power Of Yawning
Abominable Snowman - Unicorns
i was going to put css - lets make love and listen to death from above, but i've spotted it FOUR times so far
(subject)
So true.
Wow
There are such thing as indie clubs?
7?
I'm still doing it...
WOO YEAH!
Concentration Face wins! ...but then i would say that...
Diver i thought it was all about Kylie and Justin?!
if they would let me play
it might be something like this:
Velvet underground - sweet jane
JAMC - Some Candy Talking
Gloria Jones - Tainted love
The ronettes - be my baby
Al Wilson - the snake
Run Dmc - it's tricky
Lecrolux - the house is surrounded
Le tigre - deceptacon
Metric - monster hospital
bright eyes - let's not shit ourselves
then again, it might be different.
Summat like:
Metric-Monster Hospital (MSTRKRFT Remix)
The Knife-We Share Our Mother's Health
Orange Juice-Poor Old Soul Part One
Klaxons-Atlantis to Interzone (NightMoves are boom mix)
Justice-Waters of Nazareth (Erol Alkan re-mix)
Fleetwood Mac-Everywhere
The Only Ones-Another Girl Another Planet
Grace-Not Over Yet (Perfecto Mix)
Gang of Four-Damaged Goods
Express Yourself-NWA
Would be fun
Ehhh!
Lies Are Much More Fun-The Grates
Yellow Country Teeth- Clap Your Hands
Busy Doing Nothing-Love Is All
Kennel District-Pavement
Avantcore-Busdriver
Hidious Towns-The Sundays
Shout Out Louds-Very Loud
The Shins- So Says I
After Hours- Rilo Kiley
Jump- Kid Carpet
wow, what a crap post
seriously, the point o... etc.
Colin wins, pwns and generally ought to be editor or something, LOOK AT THAT LIST!!!!! (If you ignore the Klaxons. but saying that, have you heard the remixes though? My ears might have melted with joy.)
WOW
and WOW.
Mine
Les Savy Fav - Yawn, Yawn, Yawn
Le Tigre - Nanny Nanny Boo Boo (Junior Senior remix)
Sonic Youth - Ca Plane Pour Moi
Liars - Mr You're On Fire Mr
Yeah Yeahs Yeahs - Cheated Hearts
Les Rythmes Digitales - Jacques Your Body (Makes Me Sweat)
Spank Rock - Rick Rubin
The Faint - I Disappear
The Tough Alliance - Silly Crimes
and then Les Savy Fav - Yawn, Yawn, Yawn again, because it's amazing.

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