Freeload: Roy Davis Jr + Frankie Knuckles Live Sets
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When we were young we used to catch bits and pieces of Friday night dance mix shows on radio stations like Z100, and by bits and pieces we mean the time it took to walk to the bathroom during commercial breaks from TGIF to drain out all the fruit punch from our bladders. It was always on some Euro-trance nonsense and since we weren’t familiar with clubs or bars yet, getting down with some good friends in your living room or automobile seemed like a great way to spend a Friday. Since we still (kind of) think it’s a great idea, here are two mixes perfectly suited for Friday night living-room-raving, courtesy of Chicago house gods Roy Davis Jr and Frankie Knuckles. Roy’s mix is from his performance in Brooklyn this past Sunday at Sunday Best—a lengthy ride of uptempo soulful house—while Frankie’s mix, taken from a WBMX show in ‘86 which we found at Eli’s Outside Broadcast, is slower and full of more classic disco jawns. No track lists, but put them on hi-fi back to back and dance the night away on your coffee table and you won’t care tomorrow morning.
Download: Roy Davis Jr. Live at Sunday Best, May 25, 2008
Download: Frankie Knuckles On WBMX November 21, 1986
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posted on May 30, 2008 in MP3 / STREAMS tags electronic/dance, Frankie Knuckles, freeload, Roy Davis Jr
Housin’ The Gowanus: Sunday Best
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This Sunday, the Sunday Best series kicks off at The Yard in Brooklyn. If you’ve never been there, we’ll say it right away – The Yard sits right on the polluted-ass Gowanus Canal. Yet somehow the setting ends up more bucolic than bubonic, thanks to leafy trees, nuff BBQ, and reliably great events – which, in the case of Sunday Best, is provided by a tasteful selection of DJs, from legends (Bambatta, Kevin Saunderson) to stalwarts (King Britt, Metro Area) to relative new-schoolers (Pilooski, Riton, Trus’me). It’s like a night at APT but with cheaper drinks and circulating air! The debut edition of the party features Chicago don Roy Davis Jr, who destroyed it at Winter Music Conference this spring and has a great Scion Radio show. You should go! There’s no work Monday! If you think that “awesome dance music” is somehow not “your thing,” pretend it’s another Indy sequel. Quest For The Soulful House, or something. Time for love, Dr Jones!
