I’m drinking from a tiny bottle of whiskey, which makes me feel even more giant than I already am. One day I’m just going to get wasted and walk around Tokyo whilst vocalizing the Godzilla theme.
Wait, I think that already happened.
Anyway, hey Halloween is coming up! And I actually have some spooky scary songs planned so stay tuned for that. In the meantime, here’s some synth-pop and hip-hop.
Depeche Mode
Suffer Well (Tiga Dub)
According to my relatively in-depth and well-organized cataloging system, I haven’t posted a Depeche Mode track on this site for over two years. That blows my mind. Used to be that this site could’ve been named “That MP3 Blog that Posts Erasure, Depeche Mode and New Order.” Eventually it just got hard to keep that up as A) Depeche Mode finally started releasing their old remixes digitally and B) Look, you seriously have no clue how much Depeche Mode I posted. It was a lot. Seriously.
I still have some honest-to-goodness rare Mode on this hard drive somewhere, maybe someday I’ll get around to posting it. This remix is from a 12″ single. It’s got a good beat.
Sir Mix-A-Lot
One Time’s Got No Case (Bass Mix)
One Time’s Got No Case (Instrumental)
I bought this last year when I was visiting my mom in Oregon. I think 90% of all Sir Mix-A-Lot records currently in circulation can be found in the Pacific Northwest. I like to imagine that Mix-A-Lot himself hawks some off to second-hand shops whenever he’s short on cash. Of course, that’s probably not often right now thanks to the mad “Anaconda” bucks he has to be pulling in.
I really hate that song. But the last time I ranted about that I got called a sexist racist. So let’s move on and discuss Swiss electronic music.
Yello
Live At The Roxy  N.Y. Dec ’83
I’m going to be real and admit that I know absolutely nothing about this. My knowledge of Yello is limited almost entirely to “Oh Yeah,” because even I can’t know everything about every electronic act from the early 80s. I’m sorry. Maybe once I’m done exhuming forgotten Japanese 80s music I’ll move onto Europe. I assume this is some sort of medley, but I really couldn’t tell you. It’s fucking weird though, I can say that much.
I really like it. Shit, does this mean I have to start buying Yello albums?
Hey did anyone ever do a Yellow Magic Orchestra/Yellow mash-up? The could’ve called it Yello Magic Orchestra. This shit writes itself. Someone combine “Behind The Mask” with “Oh Yeah.”
Over two years without a single Depeche Mode track on Lost Turntable? No way… where the hell does the time go?
I’d recommend Lost again from Yello, one of their earlier singles. There’s a Moby remix of it which is very good too. If I can round all the various mixes up I have of it, I’ll post a link
In 84 I bought a 12″ with four tracks from Yello’s album “you gotta say yes to another excess”. I loved these four tracks, and found that they were a perfect primer for all things Yello. while I loved MUCH of their later works, these four songs remained, for me, THE MOST AWESOME Yello tracks ever. Since you and I have such similar tastes in 80’s til now dance music, I implore you to know these four:
Lost Again, I Love You, Bostich, and Pumping Velvet.
Just sayin…
Yello perfectly fits into your Depeche Mode – Erasure – New Order row… you should give them a try. Boris Blank – the musical mastermind – recently released “Electrified”, the result of cleaning up his hard-drive. Weird stuff. More on the Pop side I would recommed Lost Again, The Race, Vicious Games, Call it Love and The Rhythm Divine (with Shirley Bassey). They were massive and probably as influencing as Kraftwerk.
Regards from Switzerland!
Andy
Yes, you need to start getting Yello albums. I don’t think you’ll regret it.
Just take two hours and listen to their first albums “Solid Pleasure”, “Claro Que Si” & “Another Excess”, it most certainly will add a huge jigsaw piece to the puzzle of early electronics. Boris Blank is one of a few unique innovators, a hermit who has never been influenced by any other artists at all.
Do you remember the blog you once wrote you were envious of? I d/l less than one in twenty from burningtheground, but I did take the four Yello 12″-es. Highly recommended, to begin with.
While I won’t begrudge anyone who goes to that site, I hate it and refuse to support it for his willingness to share things that are commercially available, obvious digital clean-up on his files, and his excessive requests to ask for donations.