And I'm back on the air

Well whaddaya know? I'm back on the air.

Thought I'd kick things off with a little edit I made the other day. Nothing too grand, or special, or even that interesting really. Just something to keep me amused as the winter starts to take hold.

But you know what? The sun is out and shining for me now. And I wanna know what love is.

Soggy Disco Biscuit -- Volume 39

The Greatest Video in the World

I love it. My wig is wet!

Jo Jo Zep - Taxi Mary (BLB Missing 12 Inch Mix)

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There was a small period there in the early 80s when Australian music went all calypso. The Models wanted us to go to Barbados. Mental as Anything were rocking Hawaiian shirts and singing "If You Leave Me" The rest of the world was embracing New Romanticism or Yacht Rock in 1982, and we were stuck listening to bloody steel drums on Countdown on a Sunday night.

Even Jo Jo Zep got in on the act, no doubt fuelled by coke, dance floor dreams, and blow jobs from Jane Clifton.

Check out this ripper of a remix by Butch le Butch. Don't let the bubble burst.

Soggy Disco Biscuit LIVE @ Howler Bar -- Friday 15 November 2013

It's good fun playing at this venue. Come on down next time. Here's what I played last night.

Ambrosia - How Much I Feel (Digital Visions Re-Edit)

DJ Freddy G is a good bloke. He's a smooth, smooth DJ and remixer based in NYC and goes by the name Digital Visions. I've been pinching his remixes for ages now and playing them quite a bit. But this one caught my attention immediately.

You just know this silky smooth edit will get the summer started right. Oh, and if you ask nicely, he might even send you a free download. But ask nicely, and tell him I sent you!

Soggy Disco Biscuit -- Volume 32

Hey y'all. Summer is here. eh? You can smell it. Smells tasty. 

I've locked in a regular set at Howler in Brunswick. You all should totally come down every second Friday from 5pm to 8pm and settle in for some smooth tunes. Don't come on the other Friday. Just every second Friday. 

Here's this month's mixtape.

November, 2013

--tracklisting--

"Chewing Gum Prayer" -- World's End Press
"Glass Off" -- Bernie Leadon
"Aqua Marine (Deep Spirits edit)" -- Santana
"Hypnotized (Zambon Edit)" -- Fleetwood Mac
"NightTrain (LeoZeroEdit)" -- Steve Winwood
"Soft Illusion" -- Andras Fox
"The Ghetto (The Supermen Lovers Remix)" -- Donny Hathaway
"Love Thang (Genius of Time edit)" -- First Choice
"You are (Otti Edit)" -- Lionel Richie
"Need You Tonight (GM's Reconstruction)" -- INXS
"Lounging" -- Disco Syndicate
"Clair De Lune (Philosophy Of Sound Remix)" -- Flight Facilities

DJ Soggy Disco Biscuit shakes up the hipsters of Brunswick

Well the good news is that I've found another venue to take on my Yacht Rock remixes and AOR Disco classics. Come on down to Howler in Brunswick on Friday night from 5pm to 7pm. I'll be out in the beer garden playing some Hall and Oats.

Check out the details here

Dancin' in the Moonlight -- The Keane Brothers

Everything about this version is 'yes'.

Van Morrison's version ... um ... no.
Toploader's version. Bloody, hell, no!
The original King Harvest version ... maybe.
The Baha Men ... bahahahahahaahhaha

The Keane Brothers ... yes please.

See, disco makes everything better.

Lionel Richie - You Are (Otti Edit)

Lionel Richie has a lot of good songs. This might be his best one. Yeah, I know. There's always "Hello" and that big clay head. But this one goes alright, eh? How's the little edit by Otti, too?

Shags -- The Dinner Set

Shags has decent taste in music. He used to be in The Smallgoods. Now he's in Lost Animal. And sometimes he DJs and this is what he plays. Glitchy electro mixed with some soulful grooves. Tribal beats and some ambient, swirly fusion.

It's the kind of thing I'd imagine Giorgio Moroder would play if he was hungover.

Guy Uppiah -- Keep Vinyl Alive

You probably don't know who Guy Uppiah is. The man was a DJ legend in Melbourne almost a decade ago. Shit, maybe two decades ago! God knows where he is now. Probably having dreams about Freakazoid. I used to catch a few sets of his at a club called Checkpoint Charlie back in the late 80s. All disco, with a little bit of a new style called House seeping through.

Check this mix. Strictly rhythm, strictly vinyl.

Anyone who drops Alison Limerick's "Where Love Lives" is alright by me.

Slow Ass Jolene (Soggy Disco Biscuit Edit) -- Dolly Parton

A few weeks back, I stumbled across a new verison of Dolly Parton's "Jolene". Not that new, really. Someone had come up with the idea of slowing it down from 45rpm to 33rpm. And the result was amazing. It now sounded like some hipster alt-country dude singing about his gay lover. Awesome!

So I made a little edit of it to make it a bit more DJ friendly and something I could use in my set.

Enjoy!

Soggy Disco Biscuit -- Volume 30

No tracklisting this month. See if you can guess all the artists and songs here.

Summer is about to come around down here in Melbourne so this month I put together a bit of a mixtape demo. I'm gonna take it around the pubs and bars around town to see if I can get another Yacht Rock night going like I did last year.

So, if you own a pub or bar in Melbourne, drop me a message on the facebook page.

Robbie dupree - Steel away (Gorka extended edit)

This might be the greatest yacht rock song of all time. I'm glad to finally find an edit that extends it a bit. It makes it a bit more DJ friendly.

So, as summer looks like it might sneak up on us, it's time for DJ SDB to start looking for some beer gardens to play in. If you need some smooth, smooth tunes to get the punters drinking pina coladas and jugs of Pimms, then I'm your man.

Hit me up, yo!
 

Gat Decor - Passion (Alkalino re-edit)

This is it! This, to me, is the song that captures everything about the early 90s sound that was filling my mind and moving my feet in the clubs of London.

The build, the hook, the break, the chords. Everything about this song just works. You'll know it when that piano comes in! You'll feel it. Can You Feel It!!!!?????

This new reworking by Alkalino does.

Men At Work - Down Under (Chuck Norris Dub)

This is ridiculous. It's rank and wrong. You know you love it.

Just the sort of thing I'll play on the weekend.

'A fifth of Beethoven' -- Walter Murphy (soulwax edit)

Is this a remix of a remix of that Beethoven track? what daffeck!

If I played this, would you go home? Or would you keep on dancing?

Fuck it, I'm playing it, anyways.

Soggy Disco Biscuit -- Volume 29

Seriously, aren't you getting bored of this shit yet? How much disco can you handle in a month? 

Okay ... so you'll no doubt hate this mixtape, too. It's chock-full of crappy goodness.

I'm starting to get the hang of this mashup caper. Just in time for 2002, eh? Maybe I can bring back the mashup, retro revival. Anyways, the start is all mashup. Everything from Lou Reed to Alex Lloyd. Yeah, it's as crap as that sounds.

Then, disco .. some more disco .. then M.A.R.R.S, because they're ace, and some more disco, maybe some Eagles (fuck!) and Sade to finish coz she's hot.

Hit play, yo!

(fuck me .. look at the size of my head below .... snigger!!)

Midnight Oil - Power & The Passion (Solid Light edit)

Remember Midnight Oil? Remember when Peter Garrett actually had some skerrick of credibility and you could watch him without thinking that one day he'd sell out and become everything he claimed to hate. Remember that?

Nah, me either!