• SESSION 1514: WORLD GALAXY 09.29.13

    Mixed by Takaya Nagase

    01. John Abercrombie – Timeless
    02. Lonnie Liston Smith – Sais
    03. Francis Bebey – Super Jungle
    04. Bob Chance – Jungle Talk
    05. WAR – Flying Machine
    06. Cassandra Wilson – Traveling Sdrceress
    07. Atmospear  – Too Spaced Out (Francois K. Ambient Mix)
    08. Todd Terje – Snooze4love
    09. Kuniyuki – Earth Beats
    10. From Heaven
    11. Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill
    12. isolée – beau mat plage
    13. Land of Light – Isle of Tears (Tiago Remix)
    14. Bugge Wesseltoft – Yellow Is The Colour
    15. Robert Glasper – Dillalude #2

  • SESSION 1513: GLOBALSESSION 09.26.13 ITALY

    Mixed by Luka Bernaskone

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  • SESSION 1512: A1 IN STORE 09.13.13

    Mixed by Douglas Sherman (The Loft / Joy)

    “Adventures in Flight”

    01. Space time continuum Flure Sence EP
    02. Hazme Sonar (Ambient Remix by Peter Vriends)
    03. Pacific Horizons
    04. Pablo Bolivar – Reflect
    05. Todd Terje – Rag Ysh
    06. Henrik Schwarz – Headphone Silence
    07. Was (Not was) – Listen Like Thieves (Vandal Dub)
    08. Kevin Yost – Round Bout Midnight
    09. Weekender – Sunday Session
    10. Frankie Kunckles & Adeva – Whadda U Want (From Me) (Frankie’s Deep Dub)
    11. Robert Owens – I’ll Be Your Friend (inxec & Matt Tolfrey’s Falling Down Mix)
    12. Robert Owens – Walk A Mile In My Shoes (Henrik Schwarz Mix)
    13. Herbest Moon – Blow Your Body (FK Atmospherics)

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  • SESSION 1511: A1 IN STORE 09.07.13

    Mixed by Elbin Reyes

    01. Vakula – New Romantic
    02. Vakula
    03. Black Rox – Fi Low (Soft Rocks Mix)
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    05. Jose Monuel feat.Charlotte LaRouge – Les Regrets (Cosmic Metal Mothre’s)
    06. Enjebeje – Medicine
    07. Suroh – Sentimientos
    08. Auntie Flo – Water of Life
    09. Lonesome Echo Strings (Joe Remix)
    10. Ron Trent – Manifesto
    11. Arno E.Mathieu – The Cycle Project Part II
    12. Vakula – Still Time
    13. For One Hour – Paradis Remix
    14. Mickey Moon Light – Interplanetary Music
    15. Everyday People – I like What I like
    16. Winners – Get Ready Fir The Future
    17. Temptations – Law Of The Land
    18. Round Tree – I Want To Spend A Moment With You
    19. Parlet – Pleasure Principle
    20. High Energy – The Supremes
    21. Trammps – People Of The World, Rise
    22. Kool & The Gang – Get Down With The Genie (JCG ReEdit)
    23. Kevin Yost – It’s Getting Bigga
    24. Karma (JCG Edit)
    25. The ReFlex – Wheel Spin

  • JOHNNY DYNELL GLORY OF 80S NY CLUB SCENE

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    Sean Manning – The Awl

    Mark Kamins died of a heart attack at age 57. The legendary DJ and producer—who worked with David Byrne, the Beastie Boys and Sinéad O’Connor—was best known for producing Madonna’s first single, 1982’s “Everybody,” and helping sign her to Seymour Stein’s Sire Records. Around that same time, Kamins produced another popular single, the dance-rap track “Jam Hot” by Johnny Dynell. (The song was featured in the iconic 1983 graffiti documentary Style Wars, and its lyrics—”Tank Fly Boss Walk Jam Nitty Gritty/You’re listening to the boy from the big bad city”—were sampled in the #1 U.K. single “Dub Be Good To Me” by Beats International, the 1990s electronic group led by Norman Cook, a.k.a. Fatboy Slim.)

    Dynell’s recording career was quickly eclipsed by his work as a DJ. For the last three decades, he’s manned the decks at every New York City club of note—Mudd Club, Danceteria, Limelight, Area, Tunnel, Palladium, Roxy, Crobar, Greenhouse, XL, Le Bain. With wife Chi Chi Valenti, he also operated the iconic clubs Jackie 60 and Mother, helping transform the Meatpacking District into a nightlife mecca. These days Dynell is as busy as ever: DJing four nights a week; providing the soundtrack to such gala events as the AMFAR Cinema Against AIDS party at the Cannes Film Festival; and organizing with Valenti for this year’s Stevie Nicks fan fest “Night of A Thousand Stevies.” We spoke over dinner at Café Orlin on St. Marks Place.

    Sean Manning: Is it inappropriate to ask how old you are?

    Johnny Dynell: Yes. Don’t ever tell anyone your age because they’ll treat you that way. [Read More]

  • SESSION 1510: A1 IN STORE 09.07.13

    Mixed by Donald Lassiter

    01. Little Kirk – Man In The Mirror
    02. Little Kirk – I’ll Be There
    03. Donald Byrd – Gold The Moon, White The Sun
    04. Refus & Chaka – Any Love
    05. Marvin Gaye – All The Way Around
    06. Marvin Gaye – You Sure Love To Ball
    07. Brainstorm – loving Just You
    08. Al Green – L.O.V.E
    09. Al Green – – Dream
    10. Young & Company – Mellow Mood
    11. Positive Force – Tell Me What You See
    12. The Impressions – Preacher Man
    13. Mtume – So You Wanna Be A Star
    14. MFSB – Is It Something I Said
    15. T.C James & The Fist-O-Funk – Bumpsie’s Whipping Cream
    16. Instant House – Awade (Joe’s Raw Afrika Dub)
    17. Ethyl Meatplow – Queenie
    18. Mike Sharon – Can You Feel It
    19. Those Guys – Tonite
    20. Power House – My Woman
    21. World Power – I’m Happy
    22. Dance Lessons – U’juswanna
    23. The Neville Brothers – Fly Like An Eagle (MAW Mix)
    24. African Dream – Dream
    25. Logic – Hold Me
    26. Intimacy Feat James Faith – Want You 2 Want Me
    27. Essence – Moments In House
    28. Sade
    29. Soft Illusion
    30. L’Amour – Let’s Make Love Tonight

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  • SESSION 1509: FUNKY SLICE 09.02.13

    Mixed by DJ Monchan

    01. Stevie Wonder
    02. Kool and The Gang – Little Children
    03. Minnie Riperton – Every Time He Comes Around
    04. Slave
    05. Barrabas – Wild Safari
    06. Odyssey – Roots Suite Ajomora Going back to My Roots
    07. One Way Feat. Al Hudson – Music
    08. Unlimited Touch – Searching To Find The One
    09. Colors – Am I Gonna Be The One
    10. The Strikers – Body Music
    11. One Way – Shine On Me
    12. Caspe/Nathanson – Fade (feat.Kimblee)
    13. 280 West feat.Diamond Temple – Love’s Masquerade (Rude Awakening Mix)
    14. Carioca Soul – Bossa Nuova Sugggestions
    15. Papa Blue
    16. Sun Sun Sun
    17. MoodyMann
    18. The Untachables
    19.
    20. What A Mistry
    21.
    22. Richard Payton
    23. Three Generations Feat.Chvell – Super Lover
    24. Chrome – Finger Trip Theme
    25. MAW – Voices in my Mind
    26. Push/Pull

  • LIMELIGHT : THE CHURCH OF 90’S RAVE/TECHNO

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    by Michaelangelo Matos – NPR Music

    On Friday, a documentary ostensibly about the rise and fall of a one time club king named Peter Gatien opened in New York (it opens around the country next month). In the early to mid-1990s – the height of rave culture in the U.S. – Gatien owned the biggest clubs in New York City, including Limelight, which lived in a deconsecrated Episcopal Church in the Chelsea neighborhood. Today Gatien lives in Toronto, where he was deported in 2003 after pleading guilty to tax evasion. And Limelight has . It calls itself a “Festival of Shops.”

    Much of the story told in Limelight will be familiar to readers of , a book chronicling mid-’90s nightlife written by Frank Owen, who covered Limelight at its height and followed its scandalous end in the pages of local alternative weekly the Village Voice. It certainly was to the documentary’s director, Billy Corben, who read the book as he was pursuing another documentary about the man who ran the biggest club in Miami in the mid-’90s. Owen appears frequently as a kind of expert witness in Limelight.

    “I had read Clubland because of our interest in Chris Paciello and Liquid in South Beach, and the Miami angle,” says Corben, best known for 2006’s Cocaine Cowboys. Corben and producing partner Albert Spellman still intend to make a movie about Paciello. But first, they’ve made Limelight, which focuses on Gatien, the eye-patched Canadian nightclub impresario who owned Limelight, Palladium, Tunnel and Club U.S.A., who was brought to trial by the City of New York under mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s mid-’90s crime crackdown, alleging that Gatien was overseeing a massive drug ring in his clubs. [Read More]