This is the music-related blog for Jonathan (Scooter) Clark, also known in the electronica world as DJ Bolivia, a producer and DJ from Atlantic Canada. I listen to (and produce) a lot of folk, indie, rock, and hip hop music too!
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If you want to check out any of the documentaries (I'm working my way through them right now), here are embedded links for each of the ten. However, the Beatport article/link above also has a few words about each video:
Here's a mix that I've been working on, in bits and pieces, for about two years now. It's a four-hour mix of classic dance tracks from the late 1990's and early 2000's. Many of the tracks were club mega-hits. The majority are house music and what was, at the time, top40 music. A couple (near the end) are more trancy, and were played more at parties than in mainstream clubs. A lot of these tracks bring back some great memories for me, of the period when the club that I was running was having its best years, and when a bunch of my staff and friends used to constantly go to parties together every weekend after work. We'd go to cities all over New Brunswick and Nova Scotia about every second weekend, sometimes not even arriving at the parties until 6am. As Dylan Thomas said, we did not go gentle into that good night. Or as Neil Young put it, it's better to burn out than it is to rust.
As I mentioned, it's taken a long time to put this mix together. I had to talk to a couple dozen of my friends to dig through their memories, so I could come up with a good track listing. I wanted to do a really good job on this one. About half of the tracks in this mix were ones that I picked out myself, and the rest were by suggestion. Once I had a list of songs that I wanted, I had to go through my old music collections to find everything. If you've got a good ear, you'll notice that the sound quality isn't always perfect: some of these songs are straight from vinyl.
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Here's a track listing:
01. Faithless, "Insomnia."
02. Dirty Vegas, "Days Go By."
03. Afro Medusa, "Pasilda"(ATFC Remix).
04. Daft Punk, "Around The World."
05. Cher, "The Music's No Good Without You."
06. EBTG vs Soul Vision, "Tracey In My Room."
07. Johnny Corporate, "Sunday Shouting"(B Boys Shouting Dub).
08. Mousse T vs Hot 'n' Juicy, "Horny"(Hamburg Gets Horny Mix).
09. Faithless, "God Is A DJ"(Monster Mix).
10. Mr Oizo, "Flat Beat"(Bonus Track).
11. Soulsearcher, "Can't Get Enough"(Extended).
12. Modjo, "Lady."
13. Madison Avenue, "Don't Call Me Baby."
14. Sneaker Pimps, "Spin Spin Sugar"(Armand's Dark Garage Mix).
15. Grace Jones vs Funkstar Deluxe, "Pull Up To The Bumper."
16. Madison Avenue, "Who The Hell Are You."
17. Paul Johnson, "Get Get Down."
18. Porn Kings, "Up To No Good."
19. ATB, "9pm, Til I Come"(Sequential One Remix).
20. Everything But The Girl, "Missing."
21. Fragma, "Toca's Miracle"(Miracle Extended Mix).
22. Cleptomaniacs, "All I Do"(Original).
23. Tom Jones & Mousse T, "Sex Bomb"(B2 Beach House Mix).
24. Basement Jaxx, "Jump & Shout."
25. Basement Jaxx, "Red Alert."
26. DJ Sneak, "Fix My Sink."
27. Byron Stingily, "You Make Me Feel Mighty Real"(Don Carlos Remix).
28. Eiffel 65, "Blue"(Red Planet Extended Remix).
29. Iio, "Rapture" (Tribal House Remix).
30. Byron Stingily, "Get Up, Everybody"(Steve Mac Club Mix).
31. Stereo Bomb vs Tom Jones, "Black Betty"(DJ Husainoff & DJ Kinetik Remix).
32. Black & White Brothers, "Put Your Hands Up."
33. Love Connection, "The Bomb."
34. Basement Jaxx, "Where's Your Head At."
35. Armand Van Helden, "My My My"(Original Club Version).
36. Phats & Small, "Turn Around."
37. Olive, "You're Not Alone"(Rollo & Sister Bliss 12 Inch Mix).
38. Nalin & Kane, "Beachball"(Joris Voorn Remix).
39. Ann Lee, "2 Times"(Original).
40. Novy vs Eniac, "Pumpin"(Original Radio Edit).
41. Porn Kings vs DJ Supreme, "Up to Tha Wildstyle"(Spencer & Hill Rmx).
42. Groove Armada, "If Everybody Looked The Same"(STH 3205 Mix).
43. Brooklyn Bounce, "Get Ready To Bounce."
44. Armand Van Helden, "You Don't Know Me"(12 Inch Mix).
45. Eyes Cream, "Fly Away, Bye Bye"(Car & Ollo Mix).
46. Love Inc, "You're A Superstar"(Xenomania Club Mix).
47. Wisdome, "Off The Wall, Enjoy Yourself"(Pussy 2000 Club Mix).
48. Alice Deejay, "Better Off Alone."
49. Paul van Dyk, "For An Angel"(PvD Remix).
50. Madelyne, "Beautiful Child"(4 Strings Vocal Mix).
51. Delerium, "Silence"(Airscape Remix).
52. Darude, "Sandstorm."
53. Art Of Trance, "Madagascar."
54. Solar Stone, "Seven Cities"(Armin van Buuren Remix).
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I played a track for an old friend of mine (Ian) last night. It was by a collaboration that goes by the name of "Duck Sauce," and is composed of Armand van Helden & A-Trak. If you were DJ'ing or clubbing in the 90's, you'll know Armand quite well, for releasing track such as "The Witch Doctor," "My My My," "The Funk Phenomena," "You Don't Know Me," and dozens of others. I have tons of his vinyl kicking around my studio. You'll also recognize the name A-Trak if you read this blog fairly regularly - he was the 1997 world DMC champion, and the brother of the lead singer from Chromeo (whom I featured here a couple weeks ago).
Anyway, the song is called "Barbara Streisand," and it came out back at WMC in March, which of course is the launch point for a huge number of dance floor anthems. Here's a link to the video:
Anyway, when I started to play it, Ian got pretty excited. Ian is a child of the disco era, and he recognized the tune. It took him about five minutes to place it, but in the end, he nailed it. Check out this older recording of "Gotta Go Home" by Boney M:
The disco era was essentially comparable to "The Macarena," if I could use that comparison. Immensely popular for a while, then it got to be so predominant that there was a backlash and people started to detest it. The beginning of the end of the disco era was Disco Demolition Night at Chicago's Cominsky Park in the summer of 1979. However, with the number of remixes of disco classics that are coming out these dances and rocking the dance floors, you might start to think that the disco era was simply ahead of its time.
Put a comment here if you can think of any disco classics that you'd like to see sampled (or even remade) as a modern day track.
I'm Jonathan Clark, known online as DJ Bolivia. Do you want to learn more about DJ'ing and music production? If so, visit:
