Last Night a DJ Saved My Life - Warehouse Top 50 (Bill Brewster)

From FACT:

News of Frankie Knuckles’ unexpected death sparked an outpouring of affectionate tributes from around the world this morning, with all in agreement that his sets at Chicago’s Warehouse club around the turn of the ’80s helped define the direction of house music. To pay tribute to the Chicago legend, RBMA and dance historian Bill Brewster have pieced together a YouTube playlist that recreates a typically eclectic Knuckles set on his home turf, featuring ESG, Chaka Khan, Roy Ayers, Yello, Giorgio Moroder and disco, funk, electronic and jazz cuts from across the spectrum.

Actually, the playlist counts 49 tracks. Listen to them on YouTube or (41 tracks) on the Spotify playlist below.

Enjoy.

Previously on the nightclubbin' side of Spotirama:

The Last Optimo Waltz 

Philly's Making Time 10th Anniversary Playlist

Pete Tong's Top 20 Dance Tracks of Last 20 Years (2011)

LAST NIGHT A DJ SAVED MY LIFE - WAREHOUSE TOP 50

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Full list

Strikethrough tracks (8/49) are not available on Spotify. Some tracks may be not available in all countries.

1. Ashford And Simpson – It Seems To Hang On
2. Roy Ayers – Running Away
3. Peter Brown – Do You Wanna Get Funky With Me
4. Donald Byrd – Love Has Come Around
5. Candido – Thousand Finger Man
6. Change – Paradise
7. The Clash – The Magnificent Dance
8. Tony Cook – On The Floor (RockIt)
9. Dinosaur L – Go Bang!
10. Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band – Deputy Of Love feat. Fonda Rae
11. Ecstasy, Passion & Pain - Touch & Go
12. ESG – Moody
13. DJ Marley Marl – Work That Body
14. Eddy Grant - Time Warp
15. Gwen Guthrie - It Should Have Been You
16. Jimmy Bo Home - Spank
17. Geraldine Hunt feat. Freddie James & Rosalind aka Cheri – Can't Fake the Feeling
18. Imagination – Burnin' Up
19. Indeep – Last Night a D.J. Saved My Life
20. Inner Life – I'm Caught Up - In a One Night Love Affair
21. Howard Johnson - So Fine
22. David Joseph – You Can't Hide (Your Love From Me)
23. Kat Mandu – The Break
24. Chaka Khan – Ain't Nobody
25. Chaka Khan – I'm Every Woman
26. Klein & M.B.O. – More Dirty Talk
27. Patti LaBelle – Music Is My Way of Life
28. Loose Joints – Is It All Over My Face
29. Machine – There But for the Grace of God Go I
30. Gwen McCrae – Funky Sensation
31. Sergio Mendes – I'll Tell You
32. MFSB – T.S.O.P. (The Sound of Philadelphia)
33. Giorgio Moroder – E=MC2
34. The Originals - Down To Love Town
35. Phreek – Weekend
36. Positive Force – We Got the Funk
37. Powerline – Double Journey
38. Diana Ross – The Boss
39. Paul Simpson Connection – Use Me, Lose Me
40. Skatt Brothers – Walk the Night
41. Slave – Party Lites
42. Gino Soccio – Dancer
43. Sparque - Let's Go Dancing
44. Nick Straker Band – Little Bit Of Jazz
45. Su Ku Leu - Tantra
46. Harry Thumann – Underwater
47. Two Man Sound – Que tal America
48. Unlimited Touch – In the Middle
49. Yello – Bostich

Philly's Making Time club nights 10th anniversary playlist

This playlist has a sweet and pretty responsible: Nina Persson. I read the news (today oh boy) about the anniversary of Making Time, a kind of clubnights-parties-liverock-djthing taking place on Philadelphia for exactly 10 years. I wanted to know something more about it, I googled a little, and I landed on the website of RVNG Intl., the people behind Making Time nights. There I found a section named with the magical word: playlists. I was not sure of what doing with it... I wanted to taste some of the Making Time sound, maybe even making a mixtape of it, but the playlists looked crazily caleidoscopic and not always straightly linked to the MT thing. So I just started to check some of that music on Spotify and... ka-boom!... the blues took me. But it was a good blues. Actually, The Blues: a collaboration between an act called The Primary 1 and Cardigans' Nina Persson. Suddenly I fell in love with it. I facebooked the song to my friends and I decided that if someone at RVNG had the divine inspiration to make me know that, well, they would have surely deserved something from me, too. And the mixtape was born. So, here it comes the monster: a huge collection of songs taken from those playlists. I don't know if this is the real sound of Making Time party nights in Philly. Let's assume it is, at least partially. Take it as a Spotirama filtered (& Nina Persson inducted) sound of Making Time. It's a really crazy mix, with industrial boings boings, John Cale, indiepop little darlings, Phoenix, avantgardesque pieces, Grace Jones, incredibly obscure (to me) tropical & dance stuff, tons of remixes and even some absurd Italian pop tunes. Not all the RVNG songs are available on Spotify... but if you like the mix, go check their website for all the MP3s to download. 

Enjoy! And if you like some of this music, say thanks to lady Persson... :o) 

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The Playlist

(129 tracks, about 10 hours)

Health – Die Slow
Silver Columns – Brow Beaten (Joe Goddard Remix)
Primary 1 – The Blues [featuring Nina Persson] (yep... that's the song...)
Roll the Dice – The New Black
The Stranglers – La Folie
Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Sports Spootnicks
Gary Bartz – Funked Up
Geza X – Isotope Soap
A.R. & Machines – Come On, People
Faust – Jennifer
Cocteau Twins – Fifty-fifty Clown
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti – Round And Round
Kelis Featuring Smoke – Aww Shit!
DJ Du Marcel – Tribal sound
Liars – Proud Evolution
John Cale – Paris 1919
Charlotte Gainsbourg – IRM
The Oscillation – Comatone [Part One]
Den Haan – Release The Beast
Late of the Pier – Blueberry
Yeasayer – O.N.E
The xx – Islands
SALEM – Redlights
Phoenix – Lisztomania
Turzi – Buenos Aires
39 Clocks – Test The Beat
The Horrors – Sea Within A Sea
House Of House – Rushing To Paradise (Walkin' These Streets)
Jean-Luc Ponty – Wandering On The Milky Way
The Phenomenal Handclap Band – The Martyr
Grace Jones – Pull Up To The Bumper
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – The Floppy Boot Stomp
Alexander 'Skip' Spence – Furry Heroine
Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Volunteered Slavery
Sonny Sharrock – Blind Willie
Psychic TV – Money For E...
Daniel Wang – Berlin Sunrise - Die Dämmerung
Junior Byron – Dance To The Music
Bernard Fevre – Dali
Tommy Seebach – Bubble Sex
Twice A Man – Observations from a borderland
Brainbombs – No Guilt
The Temptations – Zoom
The Timelords/The KLF – What Time Is Love? [The Klf Original Version]
Kraftwerk – Neon Lights
Lee Perry – Words
Basokin – Mulume
The Sonics – Psycho
Oneida – Brownout In Lagos
Fever Ray – Triangle Walks (Tiga's 1-2-3-4 Remix)
The Flying Lizards – Glide/Spin
Twisted Wires – One Night At The Raw Deal - Guitar & Vocal
Camera Obscura – French Navy
Passion Pit – The Reeling
Franz Ferdinand – No You Girls (Noze Remix)
Tiga – Sex O' Clock
Wire – The 15th
Crazy P – Love On The Line (Pete Herbert edit)
Amon Düül 2 – Fly United
Efdemin – April Fools
Higamos Hogamos – Major Blitzkrieg [Mickey Moonlight Remix]
Alan Sorrenti – Serenesse
Spirit – My Friend
Squeeze – Cool For Cats
Tiga – Shoes
Midnight Juggernauts – Ending Of An Era
Sensations Fix – Do You Love Me?
Popol Vuh – Through Pain To Heaven
Sébastien Tellier – Kilometer (Aeroplane 'Italo 84' Remix)
Kris Menace – Scaler
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Everything With You
Black Dice – Earnings Plus Interest
The Zombies – Girl Help Me
Grace Jones – Williams Blood (Aeroplane Remix Dub)
Gui Boratto – No Turning Back
Space System – Raja Rawa
Woolfy – Oh Missy - In Flagranti’s Meat-packing Mix
The Juan Maclean – One Day
Dragons Of Zynth – Anna Mae
LoOp – Arc-lite (sonar)
Harry Pussy – Showroom Dummies
Psychic Ills – Meta
Psychic TV – Starlit Mire
Martin Phillipps – Evadene
Gang Gang Dance – House Jam
Brian Eno – Needles In The Camel's Eye
Ariel Pink + Haunted Graffiti – Evolution's A Lie
Animal Collective – My Girls
Mock & Toof – Underwater - Demo Version
Family Fodder – Film Music
Late of the Pier – Bathroom Gurgle (Duke Dumont Remix)
Crystal Stilts – Departure
Tiga – Mind Dimension 2
Prince Jammy – War In The Asteroid Belt
Crystal Stilts – Spiral Transit
Liquid Liquid – Optimo - Optimo Remix
Neil Young – The Way
The Beach Boys – Just Once In My Life
Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Cutting Branches For A Temporary Shelter
Sparks – Whippings And Apologies
Nico – I'm Waiting For The Man
Lykke Li – Little Bit [Loving Hand Remix]
Iggy Pop – Sister Midnight
Echo And The Bunnymen – All That Jazz
Padded Cell – Word Of Mouth [Gilmmers Disko Drunkards Dub]
David Bowie – Up The Hill Backwards
Alter Ego – Fuckingham Palace (Modeselektor Remix)
The Chap – Ethnic Instrument - Joakim Mix
The Fall – Wings
Stereolab – Nous Vous Demandons Pardon
Simon Baker – Plastik (Todd Terje Türkatech Remix)
Tony Esposito – Pagaia
Flying Lotus – Comet Course
Nite Jewel – What Did He Say
Bo Diddley – Elephant Man
Ladyhawke – Paris Is Burning - Cut Copy Remix
Fleetwood Mac – That's All For Everyone
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult – Kooler Than Jesus
T. Raumschmiere – E
Arthur Russell – Make 1,2
Padded Cell – Triple X Syndrome
Spiritualized – Borrowed Your Gun
Dennis Wilson – Farewell My Friend
The Long Blondes – Century
Daniel Wang – Like Some Dream I Can't Stop Dreaming
Little Boots – Stuck On Repeat
Times New Viking – Drop-Out
These New Puritans – Swords Of Truth
Hercules And Love Affair – You Belong (Riton Rerub)

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Previously nightclubbin' with:
Scotland's Optimo

The Last Optimo Waltz (a wild goodbye dance under the Scottish electro-stars)

"Founded in 1997, it's almost difficult to overstate the impact Optimo (Espacio) has had on Scottish clubland. Beginning as a Sunday night slot during an atmosphere of techno overkill, Twitch and Wilkes decided to do things their own way. Over the course of a decade or so, their painstaking yet irreverent approach to DJing would become hugely influential. Matching R&S Records to Led Zeppelin, DFA to Madonna the club has stood far ahead of the curve almost since its inception. Optimo was there as electroclash emerged, as the post-punk revival started, as nu-disco got off the ground and as UK Funky reared its head." (read more on Clash Music).

Sunday night, Optimo made their last dj show at Sub Club in Glasgow. Few days before, they published a "very, very, very long list" of the 250 most sounded and relevant tracks of their 13-years long residency: a crowdsourced list, mainly made by people's comments on Facebook. I'm not a strong nightclubber, my dancing skills don't go further than a ridiculous smells-like-teen-spirited head-moving with a beer in one hand, and I never had the pleasure to feel the air of Glasgow (except, maybe, in some B&S and Mogwai songs...). Yet, I loved this story and this list: the way it mixes disco & techno, rock & pop, Rapture & Madonna, electroclash and even some classical, it's a very varied collection. So I spotified it, finding about 65% of the songs. Good for a crazy tribute party-night, for a personal self-guide of nice djcrafting, for a drunk northern-oriented cheer, for whatever use you can make of it...  Enjoy!

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(163 tracks out of 250, 65,2%, 13.1 hours)

Loose Joints – Tell You (Today)
Dinosaur L – Go Bang!
Arthur Russell – This Is How We Walk On The Moon
Arthur Russell – Home Away From Home
Grace Jones – LA Vie En Rose
Divine – Native Love
Mekons – Where Were You?
Q Lazzarus – Goodbye, Horses
The Slits – I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Creedence Clearwater Revival – I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Khan – Say Goodbye
Madonna – Into The Groove
Madonna – Hung Up
Bumblebee Unlimited – Lady Bug (I Just Wanna Be Your Lady Bug)

Ram Jam – Black Betty
Chris & Cosey – Sweet Surprise
Joubert Singers – Stand On The Word (Larry Levan Mix)
Basic Channel – Phylyps Trak II/I
Joakim – I Wish You Were Gone
Tuxedomoon – In A Manner Of Speaking
League Unlimited Orchestra – Things That Dreams Are Made Of (Instrumental) (Remix)
Lindstrøm – I Feel Space
The Ronettes – Baby, I Love You
Karen Young – Hot Shot
Roxy Music – Virginia Plain
Prince – When Doves Cry
James White & The Blacks – Contort Yourself
James Chance & The Contortions – Contort Yourself
Alter Ego – Why Not?!
Gavin Russom – Relevee (Carl Craig Remix)
Edwin Starr – War
Tchaikovsky – 1812 Overture Op.49 - Finale
The Only Ones – Another Girl Another Planet
Faze Action – Good Lovin'
The Specials – A Message To You Rudy
Max Romeo – I Chase The Devil
Suicide – Dream Baby Dream
Crème De Menthe – Plastique
Angelo Badalamenti – Twin Peaks (Falling) (Theme)
Sun Ra – Space Is The Place
Delta 5 – Mind Your Own Business
Bush Tetras – Snakes Crawl
E.S.G. – Moody
E.S.G. – UFO
E.S.G. – Dance
Cutty Ranks – Limb By Limb
Shabba Ranks (feat. Chevelle Franklin) – Mr. Loverman
Jacqueline Taieb – 7 Heures du Matin
Farley Jackmaster Funk – Love Can't Turn Around
Fever Ray – Triangle Walks (Rex The Dog remix)
The Rapture – House Of Jealous Lovers
Hercules – 7 Ways To Jack
C Cat Trance – Shake The Mind
Sons And Daughters – Dance Me In
Richie Havens – Going Back To My Roots
Faze Action – In The Trees
Sean Paul – Like Glue
Sean Paul – Temperature
Joy Division – Transmission
I-F – Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass
David Bowie – Station To Station
Cristina – Is That All There Is?
The Knife – Silent Shout
Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers – Egyptian Reggae
Peaches – Fuck The Pain Away
Hot Chocolate – Heaven Is In The Back Seat Of My Cadillac
Echo Park – Suicide Commando
The Velvet Underground – All Tomorrow's Parties
Frankie Knuckles – Your love
TLC – No Scrubs
Material – Bustin' Out
Herbert – Moving Like A Train (Smith N Hack Remix)
Johnny Wakelin – In Zaire
Man 2 Man – Male Stripper
Whirlpool Productions – From: Disco To: Disco
Console – 14, Zero, Zero
Vitalic – La Rock 01
Den Haan – Release The Beast
Midnight Star – Midas Touch
The Stooges – No Fun
The Stooges – I Wanna Be Your Dog
The B-52's – Planet Claire
Beirut – Nantes
Baccara – Yes Sir, I Can Boogie
Gloria Jones – Tainted Love
Blondie – Atomic
Blondie – Rip Her To Shreds
Blondie – Shayla
Blondie – Heart Of Glass
Blondie – Hanging On The Telephone
The Rolling Stones – Under My Thumb
Human Resource – Dominator
This Mortal Coil – Song To The Siren
Public Enemy – Rebel Without A Pause
Sweet – Ballroom Blitz
Bobby O – She Has A Way
Ramones – Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
Shirley & Company – Shame, Shame, Shame
Aaliyah – Try Again
Nitzer Ebb – Join The Chant
Nitzer Ebb – Murderous
Depeche Mode – Enjoy The Silence
Depeche Mode – Behind The Wheel
Os Mutantes – A Minha Menina
Fleetwood Mac – The Chain
Gang Of Four – Damaged Goods
Gang Of Four – At Home He's A Tourist
Dueling Banjos – Duelling Banjos
John Murphy & David Hughes – Zorba The Greek
The Philadelphia Orchestra – The Blue Danube
Tiefschwarz – Ghostrack (Blackstrobe Remix)
Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Raffaella Carrà – Black Cat
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band – The Faith Healer
Hot Butter – Popcorn
H. Truman – Underwater

The Flirts – Passion (Canada Re-Mix 1991)

Liquid Liquid – Optimo
Liquid Liquid – Cavern
Liaisons Dangereuses – Los Ninos Del Parque

Amnesia – Ibiza
Soft Cell – Sex Dwarf
Boney M. – Rasputin
Sylvester – Do You Wanna Funk (Italian Boy Remix)
Desire – Don't Call
Colourbox – Baby I Love You So
Nina Simone – My Baby Just Cares For Me
Nina Simone – Feeling Good
Beyoncé feat. Jay-Z – Crazy In Love
Wayne Smith – Under Me Sleng Teng
Banbarra – Shack Up
Ramones – Baby, I Love You
The Flirtations – Nothing But A Heartache
Foremost Poets – Moonraker
Hot Chip – Over And Over (Naum Gobo Remix)
Shirley Ellis – The Clapping Song
Motörhead – Ace Of Spades
Black Sabbath – The Wizard
Sister Sledge – Lost In Music
Talking Heads – Psycho Killer
The Juan Maclean – Happy House
The Meters – Just Kissed My Baby
Gui Boratto – Beautiful Life
Doctor Alimantado – Born For A Purpose
Mount Rushmore – You Better
Johnny Cash – Personal Jesus
Audion – Mouth To Mouth
The House Master Boyz & The Rude Boys Of House – House Nation
Dead Kennedys – California Uber Alles
LCD Soundsystem – All My Friends
The Birthday Party – Sonnys Burning
Grinderman – No Pussy Blues
Fela Kuti – Zombie
Tina Turner – Come Together
Cerrone – Supernature
Giorgio Moroder – Chase
Donna Summer – I Feel Love
Nathan Fake – The Sky Was Pink (Holden Remix)
The Sonics – Shot Down
The Cramps – New Kind Of Kick
The White Stripes – Truth Doesn't Make A Noise
Question Mark & The Mysterians – 96 Tears
D.A.F. – Der Mussolini

(for the complete Optimo 250 list, go here)

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