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Erol Alkan and Still Going Resident Advisor Mixes

story Matthew Schnipper
photo Leonie Purchas (F58)

In our minds, Resident Advisor is the dude who still goes to the rave but poopoos the glowsticks and low quality of today’s E. He was there in 1987 when Daft Punk played in the Wisconsin woods without masks to fruit bats and three Scandinavian tourists; he was there when Jeff Mills was a baby and first heard the ringing of church bells and hit his little baby hand against the lid for his peach baby food and in his tiny eyes he heard the future of all music; and he was there when Robert Moog, Nigel Rogers and David Byrne ate acid while listening to Silver Apples and did long division to figure out the highest BPM your body can handle before going into ecstatic overdrive. So it is pleasing to see the OG techno heads tread on FADER territory and feature two artists we’ve written about with love in their most recent podcasts, Erol Alkan and Still Going. Both are peppy mixes from the disco-obsessed musicians. In an internet mix, there’s no pressure to bring a sustained dance, and while they’re certainly not shying away from anything 4/4, there is space in both mixes to breathe. And, for Erol Alkan at least, space to feel kind of like you watched a lot of horror movies with girls in bikinis lately. He’s really riding that seedy/seductive line with the Miami bass/dramatic synths tracks.

Download: Erol Alkan Resident Advisor Mix

Download: Still Going Resident Advisor Mix

posted on Sep 15, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS, MUSIC tags electronic/dance, Erol Alkan, Still Going

Premiere: Still Going, “Spaghetti Circus” MP3

story Matthew Schnipper

In the spring of 2008, as part of our our DFA Reboot story in FADER #53, we spoke to Eric and Liv of Still Going, who at that point had released just one 12-inch single on DFA. They played us beginnings of new songs, some not much more than sketches, some half-finished up to the chorus and then nothing, one fully-finished remix of something Japanese. They said then that the Japanese thing would be released imminently, but until the recent “Spaghetti Circus” single, they’d fallen quite behind with their jaunty disco output. We understand the business—Eric’s always been DJing internationally as one half of Rub ‘n’ Tug, and Liv as half of the recent jetset duo House of House—but understanding doesn’t fill the void. To make up for the gap in love, Still Going put together a radio edit of “Spaghetti Circus,” and answered a few questions to get us up to date and fill in the mysteries behind song. Buy the single here, get the edit below and read the interview after the jump.

Download: Still Going, “Spaghetti Circus (Radio Edit)”