DJing a party for dudes who seem to like nothing but the Faint, Ladytron, and Postal Service. What do I play to appease them?

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I'm going to play some Cut Copy and Miss Kittin and, um, "danceable" Radiohead as well. What else do I need?

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Saturday, 19 February 2005 03:18 (twenty years ago)

Play'em some Prong.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 19 February 2005 03:21 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps also some Ursula 1000?

― brilliant young and angsty (thatguy), Saturday, 19 February 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps some the Faint, Ladytron, and Postal Service?

― Mickey (modestmickey), Saturday, 19 February 2005 03:32 (twenty years ago)

Really, Junior Boys are kind of similar to the Postal Service. I like them both. Notwist?

― Mickey (modestmickey), Saturday, 19 February 2005 03:32 (twenty years ago)

ahh yes Junior Boys, of course.

but seriously, anything new wavey and sort of trendy, perhaps stuff not very good.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Saturday, 19 February 2005 03:38 (twenty years ago)

Yaz, B-Movie, Lansing-Dreiden, Orange Juice

― charleston charge (chaki), Saturday, 19 February 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)

Here's a completely off kilter suggestion: Kraftwerk

― donut debonair (donut), Saturday, 19 February 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

Devo "Through Being Cool"

― donut debonair (donut), Saturday, 19 February 2005 03:50 (twenty years ago)

ELIMINATE THE NINNIES AND THE TWITS!

― donut debonair (donut), Saturday, 19 February 2005 03:50 (twenty years ago)

New Order "5 8 6"

― donut debonair (donut), Saturday, 19 February 2005 03:53 (twenty years ago)

Soft Cell "It's A Mug's Game"

― donut debonair (donut), Saturday, 19 February 2005 04:01 (twenty years ago)

styrofoam, fischerspooner, schneiderTM, solvent... start there and work your way into stuff on Kompakt. They'll like it.

And don't underestimate the "ironic" 80s tracks like "sunglasses at night" etc. The kids love that shit.

― robot mark (robot mark), Saturday, 19 February 2005 04:03 (twenty years ago)

Pet Shop Boys
LCD Soundsystem or DFA-related tracks

Score the Buffalo Bill in drag synth dance track from "Silence of the Lambs"

plus what everyone else said and you'll be fine.

― Star Hustler, Saturday, 19 February 2005 04:16 (twenty years ago)

xpost Good idea... don't play "Mr. Roboto"..

Play "Too Much Time On My Hands" instead.

― donut debonair (donut), Saturday, 19 February 2005 04:19 (twenty years ago)

dmx krew!!

― charleston charge (chaki), Saturday, 19 February 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)

Oh shit yes, DMX Krew. Espescially "Glass Room" and (if you can get your hands on it) "Denki no Merodi." Also Hot Chip, though they may be a bit too slow...

― Telephonething, Saturday, 19 February 2005 04:41 (twenty years ago)

The Bravery, new Perfect Circle?

― don, Saturday, 19 February 2005 04:57 (twenty years ago)

figurine, electronic tomato, stereo total

― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 19 February 2005 05:02 (twenty years ago)

just loop fischerspooner's mix of 'come into my world' and lock the doors. let them shoot the DNA around a bit.

― irrigation can save your people, Saturday, 19 February 2005 05:21 (twenty years ago)

play them led zepelin. backwards.

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Saturday, 19 February 2005 06:03 (twenty years ago)

Solvent, Covenant, and I know you're dying to throw in some Saint Etienne, so play "Like A Motorway".

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 19 February 2005 06:13 (twenty years ago)

Dead Milkmen 'Instant Club Hit' seriously...

― tylero (tylero), Saturday, 19 February 2005 06:24 (twenty years ago)

you can even mix it into 'losing my edge'

― tylero (tylero), Saturday, 19 February 2005 06:25 (twenty years ago)

New Order "5 8 6"

I just needed to say that for the past couple of weeks I have obsessed with Power, Corruption, and Lies, and that the first two and a half minutes of this song are maybe the worst two and a half minutes of music i have ever heard. I hate it. Every thing is redeemed when they come in with "Danger, danger, danger, danger!"

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 19 February 2005 07:27 (twenty years ago)

visage!
japan!
human league!
soft cell!
associates!
numan!
etc.

er, and 'does it really happen' by Yes... at least, I've always wanted to try playing that

― Brandon Mitchell (A.H.), Saturday, 19 February 2005 09:52 (twenty years ago)

and of course give 'em what they want with ladytron

and I bet they'd be into vitalic and some of his aliases

― Brandon Mitchell (A.H.), Saturday, 19 February 2005 09:54 (twenty years ago)

an obvious suggestion - Dntel

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 19 February 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

yeah yeah yeahs - y control (tommie sunshine brooklyn refix)
out hud - it's for you
2raumwohnung - spiel mit (alter ego remix)/sex secret (moguai remix)
m83 - don't save us from the flames (superpitcher remix)
lfo - freak
the killers - mr. brightside (thin white duke remix)

― jermaine, Saturday, 19 February 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

cowboys international - thrash. they'll flip. and killing an arab.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Saturday, 19 February 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

Also similar to the Postal Service, they may be like the newest Windsor for the Derby LP on Secretly Canadian. secretlycanadian.com has some free MP3's.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Saturday, 19 February 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

if you play the Notwist, play "Pilot"; it's easily the most danceable and catchy thing they've done

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 19 February 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

Jermaine speaks the truth. Play the Soulwax mix of 'Daft Punk Is Playing At My House' as well.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 19 February 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

What about the new DAFT PUNK?

Takako Minekawa is sort of twee in a Postal Service way....

― Fat Anarchy on Airtube (ex machina), Saturday, 19 February 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

last time I DJed a party at this house, I ended up playing "Into the Realms of Junior M.A.F.I.A." mixed w/ "Frontier Psychiatrist" about 3x in a row because I was bored and everyone was shitty.

These are all good suggestions!

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Saturday, 19 February 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

Tracy & The Plastics, W.I.T., Cornelius (nod to Jon for suggesting C's wife; I'd go with anything he produced or remixed for her especially), Polysics, Plus-Tech Squeeze Box, Cooler Kids, Jacques LuCont and Zoot Woman, Richard X, Rex The Dog, some Tiefschwarz remixes (Chicks On Speed, Spektrum), Erlend Oye and Prince (see Erlend Oye). If you need anything gmailed, just ask.

― B4rim4 @ Apple Store, Saturday, 19 February 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

New Order "5 8 6"

That's why you play the vastly superior Peel Session version.

I suggest Cristina's "Disco Clone", Lizzy Mercier Descloux's "Funky Stuff", and Scritti Politti's "Sex".

― Ian Riese-Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 20 February 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

The Knife!

― mike h. (mike h.), Sunday, 20 February 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

robots in disguise!

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Sunday, 20 February 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

"missing the moon" by the field mice

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Sunday, 20 February 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

anything off "cool as ice"

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Sunday, 20 February 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

If you want the party to continue: Erasure
If you want the party to end abruptly: Cannibal Corpse and Dangerous Toyz

― cdwill, Sunday, 20 February 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

Anything off Felix da Housecat's Glitz album
Miss Kittin & Golden Boy - Rippin' Kittin (especially the Glove Tension mix)
Mekon & Marc Almond - Please Stay (Royksopp mix)
The JLC remix of Britney's Breathe On Me
Waldorf - Fashonist (disghost mix)
Chemical Brothers - The Golden Path
Bjork - Hyperballad (LFO mix)
Kylie - Slow (Chemical Brothers mix)
Madonna - Nobody Knows Me (Mount Sims mix)
Telex - Moscow Disco
Anything by Client
Or Swayzak
Or Venus Hum

― davidsim (davidsim), Monday, 21 February 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

robots in disguise!
Fantastic suggestion. Why do I still not have that album?

― Let's keep the afterbirth and throw Ian Riese-Moraine away! (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 20 March 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

So, how'd it go?

― Telephonething, Sunday, 20 March 2005 05:57 (twenty years ago)

New Order "5 8 6"

Ooh, is this the one with the vocoder? So OTM if so.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 20 March 2005 06:00 (twenty years ago)

Bis: Eurodisco
Superheroes: Johnny and I
Momus: Akiko Masuda
Fat Truckers: Superbike
Clonherz: Three Girl Rhumba

I always play these songs when I'm DJ-ing and the same kind of Faint-loving audience likes it.

― zeus, Sunday, 20 March 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

Annie, obviously!

Also:
http://www11.nrk.no/urort/user/?id=4580

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 20 March 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

I'd go with some Goldfrapp - Strict Machine "ewan pearson mix"
soulwax "e-talking (tiga's disco drama mix)"
mylo- "muscle car (alter ego mix)"
prince - "erotic city"
beck -"mixed bizness (LRD Remix)" - it's Lu Cont's artist moniker
metric - "dead disco (kylie kills mix)"
bjork- "it's in our hands (soft pink truth mix)"
soft pink truth - "promo funk" or "HOMO- SEXUAL"
alter ego - "rocker (blackstrobe mix)"
bloc party - "banquet (disco phones mix)"
le tigre - "i'm so excited"
magnet - "on your side (optimo mix)"
the fitness - day job
fischerspooner - "never win"
princess superstar - "do me like a robot (dj hell mix)
annie - 'the greatest hit"
eric prydz - "call on me (mylo mix)
zoot woman " it's automatic (paper faces mix0

― zeropointDL, Sunday, 20 March 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

Play some PigBag and see if anyone asks you if it's the new !!! single.

― I.M. (I.M.), Sunday, 20 March 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

Really, Junior Boys are kind of similar to the Postal Service.

OMFG

― stephen, Monday, 11 August 2008 00:47 (seventeen years ago)

8======D

― gr8080, Monday, 11 August 2008 00:58 (seventeen years ago)

ElectroLOL

― san frandisco, Monday, 11 August 2008 18:10 (seventeen years ago)

gr8080 otm, ILM full of dicks

― bnw, Monday, 11 August 2008 18:19 (seventeen years ago)

Play'em some Prong.

OTM

― rockapads, Monday, 11 August 2008 18:21 (seventeen years ago)

gear's own electrosoul thread

― deej, Monday, 11 August 2008 18:31 (seventeen years ago)

pretty sure this party never actually happened

― omar little, Monday, 11 August 2008 18:34 (seventeen years ago)

i think i just ended up giving the dudes a mix cd in the end

― omar little, Monday, 11 August 2008 18:35 (seventeen years ago)

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