Echo Beach New Yearâs Eve
3 mixes by DJ Fuck Yall (me)
I was gonna make one three hour long New Yearâs 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 sheâd been cheated on with. Some real Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice stuff. Isnât life funny? Anyway these mixes have different tracklists and themes but theyâre spiritual triplets. Theyâre 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 âSan Juniperoâ 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 Iâve wanted to make forever but finally did, in honor of New Yearâs being the most sophistipop holiday. Celebrate New Yearâs Eve in my Echo Beach of the mind.
(Disclaimer: the songs in each mix arenât 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)
âI Feel Like Dyingâ - Larry Norman
âSentimental Ladyâ - Bob Welch
âIndiana Wants Meâ - R. Dean Taylor
âHeartbreakerâ - Nantucket
âBlue Ladyâ - Elliot Lurie
âPrime Timeâ - The Tubes
âVan Nuys Blvd.â - TKTK
âDr. Jesusâ - Michael and Stormie Omartian
âEye In The Skyâ - The Alan Parsons Project
âLong Distance Runnerâ - De Garmo & Key Band
âNo One Thereâ - Eric Tagg
âLetâs Get On With Itâ - Barry Manilow
âOpen Upâ - James Felix
âNever Turninâ Backâ - Bruce Hibbard
âWhoâll Be The Fool Tonightâ - Larsen/Feiten Band
âIs It You?â Lee Ritenour ft. Eric Tagg
â(Baby) This Love That Weâve Foundâ - Heat
London 1985 (Darkwave & Synthpop)
âPale Shelterâ - Tears For Fears
âPassionâ - The Flirts
âEcho Beachâ - Martha And The Muffins
âSexbeatâ - Sexbeat
âAnother Time Another Placeâ - U2
âMetalâ - Gary Numan
âState Farmâ - Yazoo
âSafety Danceâ - Men Without Hats
âLetâs All Make A Bombâ - Heaven 17
âI Could Be Happyâ - Altered Images
âI Love You Too Muchâ - The Human League
âCities In Dustâ - Siouxsie And The Banshees
âFrozen Facesâ - Propaganda
âState Of The Nationâ - Industry
âFacesâ - Clio
âMusic That You Can Dance Toâ - Sparks
âUncertain Smileâ - The The
Tokyo 1988 (Sophistipop & New Wave)
âWindsweptâ - Bryan Ferry
âHand To Mouthâ - George Michael
âEyes Of A Strangerâ - The Payolas
âWishful Thinkingâ - China Crisisâ
âMessage To My Girlâ - Split Enz
âSteppin Outâ - Joe Jackson
âTinseltown In The Rainâ - The Blue Nile
âSomething About Youâ - Level 42
âWood Beez (Party Like Aretha Franklin)â - Scritti Politti
âThings Can Only Get Betterâ - Howard Jones
âHey Little Girlâ - Icehouse
âThe Worst Year Of My Lifeâ - The Wild Swans
âEverything She Wantsâ - Wham!
âObliviousâ - Aztec Camera
âCherry Pieâ - Sade
âLast Time Foreverâ - Squeeze
âRainâ - Bob James













