Echo Beach New Year’s Eve
3 mixes by DJ Fuck Yall (me)
I was gonna make one three hour long New Year’s chiller mix but I decided to split them it up into three mixes you can play in whatever order you like. I was thinking of when Shania Twain and Mutt Lange put out three simultaneous versions of Up! where each CD was a different color and production style, and the styles were country (green), pop (red), and Bollywood (blue). Shortly thereafter their marriage imploded when Mutt cheated on Shania with some friend of theirs, and then after they split up Shania ended up with the cucked husband of the woman she’d been cheated on with. Some real Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice stuff. Isn’t life funny? Anyway these mixes have different tracklists and themes but they’re spiritual triplets. They’re also inspired by my brother recently posting a lot of little video game environment GIFs lately with captions specifying a city and year. He also made GIFs that I screencapped in this post because I have no idea how to use tumblr anymore. This is also in the spirit of the Glass Bricks mixes he and I made together, which were about our nostalgia for our late 80s/early 90s Los Angeles childhood, probably subconsciously as a mental escape from how horrible 2016 is. And very inspired by “San Junipero” which made me think about what mind-clubs I like to go to. All the first dance clubs I went to were 80s nights, so this is a loving tribute to 80s Night at Club Hell in Providence (RIP) and the 80s room at Club Bang, especially late in the game when Bang stopped being hip and was all Valley bridge and tunnel kids like me dancing to Yazoo. Los Angeles 1983 is inspired by that weird cusp of the end of the 70s turning into the 80s. London 1985 is inspired by the Batcave club and all the goth nights it launched. Tokyo 1988 is the Sophistipop mix I’ve wanted to make forever but finally did, in honor of New Year’s being the most sophistipop holiday. Celebrate New Year’s Eve in my Echo Beach of the mind.
(Disclaimer: the songs in each mix aren’t all from the year listed, and might spill over. Also some of them are fuzzily ripped but just consider it part of the vibe.)
Los Angeles 1983 (70s Rock & West Coast Jazz)
“I Feel Like Dying” - Larry Norman
“Sentimental Lady” - Bob Welch
“Indiana Wants Me” - R. Dean Taylor
“Heartbreaker” - Nantucket
“Blue Lady” - Elliot Lurie
“Dr. Jesus” - Michael and Stormie Omartian
“Eye In The Sky” - The Alan Parsons Project
“Long Distance Runner” - De Garmo & Key Band
“No One There” - Eric Tagg
“Let’s Get On With It” - Barry Manilow
“Never Turnin’ Back” - Bruce Hibbard
“Who’ll Be The Fool Tonight” - Larsen/Feiten Band
“Is It You?” Lee Ritenour ft. Eric Tagg
“(Baby) This Love That We’ve Found” - Heat
London 1985 (Darkwave & Synthpop)
“Pale Shelter” - Tears For Fears
“Echo Beach” - Martha And The Muffins
“Another Time Another Place” - U2
“Safety Dance” - Men Without Hats
“Let’s All Make A Bomb” - Heaven 17
“I Could Be Happy” - Altered Images
“I Love You Too Much” - The Human League
“Cities In Dust” - Siouxsie And The Banshees
“Frozen Faces” - Propaganda
“State Of The Nation” - Industry
“Music That You Can Dance To” - Sparks
“Uncertain Smile” - The The
Tokyo 1988 (Sophistipop & New Wave)
“Windswept” - Bryan Ferry
“Hand To Mouth” - George Michael
“Eyes Of A Stranger” - The Payolas
“Wishful Thinking” - China Crisis”
“Message To My Girl” - Split Enz
“Steppin Out” - Joe Jackson
“Tinseltown In The Rain” - The Blue Nile
“Something About You” - Level 42
“Wood Beez (Party Like Aretha Franklin)” - Scritti Politti
“Things Can Only Get Better” - Howard Jones
“Hey Little Girl” - Icehouse
“The Worst Year Of My Life” - The Wild Swans
“Everything She Wants” - Wham!
“Oblivious” - Aztec Camera
“Last Time Forever” - Squeeze
