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Clearance Rack Classics Retro 80s and 90s Dance Mix by DJ Tintin

DJ Tintin

80s and 90s retro dance adventures of a boy and a cheap mixer

  • 1 hour 14 minutes
    Episode 3: CRC RETRO MIX #59

    1. Relax (Ollie J Remix) - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
    2. If You Leave (Hot Tracks Remix) - OMD
    3. Wild Boys (Wilder Than Wild Boys Extended Mix) - Duran Duran
    4. The Sun Rising - The Beloved
    5. White Horse - Laid Back
    6. Blue Monday (Razormaid! Mix) - New Order
    7. Stop! (12" Remix) - Erasure
    8. I Confess - Vicious Pink
    9. Breakaway (Popper Mix) - Big Pig
    10. Riding Into Blue (Razormaid! Mix) - Inga Humpe
    11. Change - Celebrate The Nun
    12. Carpe Diem (Razormaid! Mix) - Umo Detic
    13. Shame (Mix Two) - Nitzer Ebb
    14. World In My Eyes (Razormaid! Mix) - Depeche Mode
    15. World Without Love - Anything Box

    Notes and other random things:

    Good day, all! I tagged this explicit due to b*tch in "White Horse" by Laid Back. Happy Listening!

    1. FGTH:  Holly Johnson, Paul Rutherford, Mark O'Toole, Brian Nash, Peter Gill; Trevor Horn producer; #1 UK; #10 US; 1983

    2. OMD:  Andy McCluskey, Paul Humphreys, Martin Cooper, Stuart Kershaw; #48 UK, #4 US; Pretty in Pink soundtrack; 1986

    3. Duran Duran: Nick Rhodes, Simon Le Bon, John Taylor, Roger Taylor, Andy Taylor; #2 UK; #2 US; 1984

    4. The Beloved: #26 UK; produced by Martyn Phillips; 1989

    5. Laid Back: John Guldberg, Tim Stahl; #26 US; 1983

    6. New Order: Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, Gillian Gilbert; #1 UK Indie; #5 US Dance; best selling 12-inch single of all time; 1983

    7. Erasure: Andy Bell, Vince Clarke; #2 UK; #98 US; remixed by Mark Saunders; 1988

    8. Vicious Pink: Josephine Warden, Brian Moss; backing vocalists for Soft Cell; produced by Tony Mansfield; 1986

    9. Big Pig: Sherine Abeyratne, Tony Antoniades, Neil Baker, Nick Disbray, Tim Rosewarne, Adrian Scaglione, Oleh Witer; #89 UK; #60 US; Chuck Jackson cover; 1987

    10. Inge Humpe: written & produced by Trevor Horn; Mixed by Joseph Watt; #93 UK; 1990

    11. Celebrate The Nun: H.P. Baxxter, Rick J Jordan, Britt Maxime; formed Scooter in 1993; 1991

    12. Umo Detic: Andreas Tomalla (Talla 2XLC), Markus Nikolai (Jallokin); 1990

    13. Nitzer Ebb: Douglas McCarthy, Bon Harris, David Gooday; produced by Flood; remixed by William Orbit; 1989

    14. Depeche Mode: David Gahan, Martin Gore, Andrew Fletcher, Alan wilder; #17 UK; #3 US Dance; 1990

    15. Anything Box: Claude Strilio, Dania Morales; produced by Gareth Jones; 1992





    9 August 2024, 10:36 pm
  • 57 minutes 19 seconds
    CRC Retro Mix #58

    1. Age Of Consent - New Order
    2. (It's Not Me) Talking - A Flock Of Seagulls
    3. Careless Memories - Duran Duran
    4. Sleepwalk - Ultravox
    5. New Life (Remix) - Depeche Mode
    6. Go! (Club Mix) - Tones On Tail
    7. Dancing With Myself - Generation X
    8. Disorder - Joy Division
    9. Bates Motel - The Hitmen
    10. Chamber Of Hellos - Wire Train
    11. The Noah Plan - Peter Schilling
    12. Infected (12" Mix) - The The
    13. Close To Me - The Cure
    14. Modern Love - David Bowie
    15. Late Show - Book Of Love

    Notes and other random things:

    Happy Memorial Day to everyone! Thanks to all those who sacrificed so much so that we may live freely. I thought I'd play around in a higher BPM range for this episode.  I also included a bit more guitar-influenced retro than usual. It's shocking how much the beats per minute can vary in a rock song over the duration without a click track, even with a world class drummer manning the kit. Makes beat matching a challenge. Still, lots to like in this episode with some eminently familiar tracks, some deeper cuts and I'd wager an unfamiliar track or two for all but the most learned retro music experts. 

    Happy Listening!

    1. New Order are: Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, Gillian Gilbert - from the album Power, Corruption & Lies (1983)

    2. AFOS are: Mike Score, Ali Score, Frank Maudsley, Paul Reynolds - from the album Listen "...more moody, and dark...more electronic...more out-there" - Mike Score; #22 UK (1983)

    3. Duran Duran are: Simon LeBon, Nick Rhodes, John, Roger & Andy Taylor (no relation); Produced by Colin Thurston; #37 UK  (1981) 

    4. Ultravox (in this iteration) are: Midge Ure, Warren Cann, Chris Cross (RIP), Billy Currie; from the album Vienna; #29 UK (band's first Top 40 hit); (1980)

    5. DM (in this iteration) are: Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, Andrew Fletcher, Vince Clarke; from the album Speak & Spell; #11 UK and an appearance on Top of the Pops; (1981)

    6. Tones on Tail are: Daniel Ash, Glenn Campling, Kevin Haskins; Go! originally released as a B-side of "Lions"; became a huge club hit in Germany and US; used in lots of movies and commercials since; (1984)

    7. Generation X (1st Gen) are: Billy Idol, Tony James, Bob "Derwood" Andrews, Mark Laff; first band to play at The Roxy in London and one of the first punk bands to appear on Top of the Pops; #62 UK; (1980)

    8. Joy Division are: Ian Curtis, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris; Disorder produced by Martin Hannett; No singles on the album Unknown Pleasures, but now regarded as one of the best albums of all time by NME, AllMusic, Select, Rolling Stone, and Spin; (1979)

    9. The Hitmen are: Ben Watkins, Pete Glenister, Stan Shaw, Neil Brockbank, Mike Gaffey; were known as the London Hitmen in Australia due to naming conflict; Shaw was replaced by one Alan Wilder, future member of Depeche Mode; (1981)

    10. Wire train are: Kevin Hunter, Kurt Herr, Federico Gil-Sola, Anders Rundblad; were signed to 415 Records founded by Howie Klein of future Sire/Reprise records fame; (1983)

    11. Peter Schilling is regarded as a one-hit wonder in the US with song Major Tom, but had success globally; Michael Cretu produced the title track to his last English album "The Different Story (World of Lust and Crime" (1982)

    12. The The are: Matt Johnson, Zeke Manyika, Tessa Niles, Guy Barker, Dan Brown, Louis Jardine, David Palmer; Johnny Marr from The Smiths was part of the band's lineup from 1988-1994; (1986)

    13. The Cure are: Robert Smith, Lol Tolhurst, Porl Thompson, Simon Gallup, Boris Williams; Horns credited to Rent Party; #24 UK; #32 US Dance; From album "Head on the Door"; (1985)

    14. David Bowie "Modern Love" #2 UK; #14 Hot 100 (1983)

    15. Book of Love "Late Show" written by Ted Ottaviano and Jade Lee; (1986)

     



         

    28 May 2024, 3:41 am
  • 1 hour 8 minutes
    CRC Retro Mix #57

    1. Goodnight - Covenant
    2. Amigo (Razormaid! Mix) - The Shamen
    3. Love Is A Stranger - Eurythmics
    4. Oh L'amour (The Funky Sisters Remix) - Erasure
    5. Have In Mind (Kalimba Mix) - Cetu Javu
    6. Radioactivity (Mix) - Kraftwerk
    7. You're The Answer - Seven Red Seven
    8. Hand In Hand (Looking For Sweet Inspiration) - Opus III
    9. Penthouse And Pavement (Tommy D's Master Remix) - Heaven 17
    10. World (Brothers In Rhythm Mix) - New Order
    11. Faith & Healing (Club Mix) - Ian McCulloch
    12. The Great Commandment (Strauss Remix) - Camouflage
    13. Behind The Wheel / Route 66 (Megamix) - Depeche Mode
    14. 24 Hour Party People - Happy Mondays
    15. The Walk (Razormaid! Mix) - The Cure

    Notes and other random things:

    Let me begin by saying THANK YOU! to my faithful listeners. Hey, and thank you to my fly-by-night, just-happened-to-find-this-by-accident-because-I-was-watching-a-meme-about-a-cat-that-plays-the-synthesizer listeners too. I truly appreciate your patience awaiting this new edition of CRCRetro. It has been a long time coming ... about a year-and-a-half to be exact and that's much too long. I'd say it's good to be back, but I always say that and then I disappear for long periods of time only to resurface and say it's good to be back. So, I'm not going to say that this time (though it's good to be back).

    They say absence makes the heart grow fonder and that scarcity pushes demand and all that. I don't know who "they" are but I'd wager they spend a lot of time alone. Let's just say life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while you could miss it. Hey! That could be a movie quote! So, what does any of this have to do with music? Well, nothing really. I can only hope that rambling is part of the newest Google algorithm geared toward search results. 

    So, music-wise we have some business to attend to. First up, is a band I know very little about. The group is Covenant, not to be confused with the Swedish electronic band of the same name. So, here's what I do know: a lifetime ago, when I worked in a record shop, I came across this compilation of songs by bands that appeared at South By Southwest (SXSW). At the time, SXSW was a cute little "fest" held in Austin, TX every year and it had just finished its 7th or 8th annual edition. On this compilation was a song called "Reflection" by this Covenant group. I loved the track. Shortly after, I stumbled across an 8-song album by the band, which was released in 1995 on the Celestial label. The album was called "Sentience". Along with the aforementioned track, "Reflection", it had some other great tracks like "Possess Me" and the lead off track here, "Goodnight". I can only assume that the group was from Austin as the album was mastered in Austin and their "Covenant Collective" P.O. Box has an Austin address and fax number. Along with other Texas electronic acts from the era and area, like Channel 69 and T-4-2, Covenant's music has received a lot of airplay in my world and I'm hoping you enjoy a little taste of their musical contributions. Would love to provide more info if anyone out there knows something more. So, if any of the band members, Robert Badger, Paul Wilson, Chris Schaucherer or John DiGrazia are out there reading this or listening, please hit me up. And, if any of you feel inclined to reach out via snail mail to the Covenant Collective to see if it's still active or to tell them how much you love their music, you can always send a note to:

    Covenant Collective
    P.O. Box 684884
    Austin, TX 78768-4884

    Not sure if you'll get a reply, but you never know!

    It appears that my dissertation-length write-ups are now being limited in character length, so I'll have to rework these in a more efficient fashion for future episodes. Glad to have you all as listeners!

    Merry Christmas to you all!




     

    29 October 2023, 3:50 pm
  • 1 hour 6 minutes
    Episode 2: CRC Retro Mix #56

    1. A Victory Of Love - Alphaville
    2. Save Our Love (Razormaid! Mix) - Escape From N.Y.
    3. Hang On Now (Extended Mix) - Kajagoogoo
    4. Precious Little Diamond - Fox The Fox
    5. It's Alright (Remix) - Pet Shot Boys
    6. Snappy (The Spice Has Risen Mix) - Erasure
    7. Lucky Bag - Electronic
    8. Regret (Fire Island Mix) - New Order
    9. Lose Him (Razormaid! Mix) - I Start Counting
    10. Pretty Boys And Pretty Girls (Extended Mix) - Book Of Love
    11. I Don't Know Why - Red Flag
    12. Flexible (Remixed Extended) - Depeche Mode
    13. I Dream Myself Alive - a-ha
    14. Too Pieces - Yaz
    15. Space Age Love Song - A Flock Of Seagulls

    Notes and Other Random Things: 

    Greetings, everyone! Back with another retro episode. Lots to like in this one with a few ultra-familiar ditties like "Space Age Love Song" by AFOS and "Regret" by New Order, some lesser-known, but great tracks from some brilliant albums like "Too Pieces" by Yaz and "I Dream Myself Alive" by a-ha, and one or two that you may not be familiar with like "Save Our Love" by Escape From N.Y. 

    I've been really horrible about providing notes about the songs lately, but I'm doing what I can just to get new episodes up, which is really the point when all is said and done. Hope you like it! Happy Listening!






    14 March 2022, 5:23 pm
  • 1 hour 10 minutes
    Episode 1: CRC Retro Mix #55

    1. Pedestrian's Adventures - Camouflage
    2. Deeper And Deeper (Long Version) - The Fixx
    3. A Little Respect (12" Remix UK) - Erasure
    4. Relax (New York Mix) - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
    5. Date Stamp - ABC
    6. Pleasure Boys (Razormaid! Mix) - Visage
    7. Who'll Stop The Rain? (Special Dance Mix) - Heaven 17
    8. Confusion - New Order
    9. American - Soviets (Cameron Paul Mix) - C.C.C.P.
    10. Brave New World (Razormaid! Mix) - Moskwa TV
    11. All Day - Ministry
    12. Behind The Wheel (Shep Pettibone Remix) - Depeche Mode
    13. Planet Earth (Night Mix) - Duran Duran
    14. The Things That Dreams Are Made Of - The Human League
    15. Computerlove (Remix) - Kraftwerk

    Notes and Other Random Things: 

    Hello, everyone! It's nice to be here. I've come so far to see you all ...

    Finally, another podcast for your listening pleasure. It appears even this 'cast is not immune to supply chain snafus. Immediately after my last podcast, my 12-year old computer bit the dust. I spent a lot of time picking out parts for my new build, but could not find a suitable video card to save my life. Took many months and a bit of luck to get the last piece of my silicon puzzle and then a couple weeks to find enough time to put it all together. But, I did and it works! So, here we are. 

    Lots to like in this one and hopefully I'll get to provide some tidbits about some of the songs in the near future. For now, enjoy the music. Great to be back!


    15 November 2021, 4:37 pm
  • 1 hour 11 minutes
    CRC Retro Mix #54
    1. Idiot Country - Electronic
    2. Rising Sun - The Farm
    3. Patience (Razormaid! Mix) - Celebrate The Nun
    4. Soul On Fire - Anything Box
    5. The Walk (Everything Mix) - The Cure
    6. LSI (Love Sex Intelligence) (Beatmasters 12" Mix) - The Shamen
    7. What Can You Do For Me - Utah Saints
    8. Blue Monday (Hardfloor Mix) - New Order
    9. Channel Z (12" Rock Mix) - The B-52's
    10. Sea Of Sin (Razormaid! Mix) - Depeche Mode
    11. You Think You Know Her (The Deception Mix) - Cause & Effect
    12. One In Ten (UB40 Vocal) - 808 State
    13. Red Hills Road - Candyflip
    14. Give Me Your Hand (Razormaid! Mix) - Red Flag
    15. Tasty Fish (Pascal 12" Mix) - The Other Two

    Notes and other random things:

    I hope everyone is staying busy and safe during the current craziness. I really assumed that lockdowns and stay-at-home-orders early in the spring would be a boon for my podcasting opportunities, but alas it was not. Still, I finally managed to get around to recording this line up of tunes yesterday that I assembled a while ago. So there's that. If you're a 90s dance music fan there is lots to love here, most of which has not appeared in a #CRCRetro podcast prior to today (I'm looking at you Anything Box, Electronic, The B-52's, The Farm, Cause & Effect and Candyflip). One thing that stands out is a full third of the tunes here are album versions and not remixes. Much like the more you learn the more you find out you have yet to learn, the same applies to my music collection. Seems like the more stuff I collect, the more I realize how much I have yet to get. Because I have no desire to repeat things too often in this 'cast, I assume nobody will have issues with hearing album cuts of some songs strategically placed among the mixes. But, it certainly makes mixing more challenging. Thank God for looping!

    A second thing that stands out is that three songs here are from the New Order evolutionary tree. "Idiot Country" (a personal fave of mine) from the super-group Electronic featured Bernard Sumner from New Order, Johnny Marr from The Smiths/The The, and Neil Tennant from Pet Shop Boys. "Tasty Fish", from 1991, is by The Other Two: New Order drummer Stephen Morris and New Order keyboardist Gillian Gilbert. Of course, then there's the 1995 Hardfloor Mix of "Blue Monday", the original of which still sounds cool and futuristic all these years later, and is still the best-selling 12" dance single of all-time. Considering I'm currently reading Peter Hook's book "Substance Inside New Order", which is his take on the phenomenon that was/is New Order I suppose I had them on the brain while assembling this podcast. Nonetheless, there's a lot of good, upbeat vibes in this edition and really we could all use a little more of that these days.

    More to come ...
    30 August 2020, 2:59 am
  • 1 hour 18 minutes
    CRC Retro Mix #53
    1. Animal Magic (Dance Vocal) - Belouis Some
    2. If You Leave (Hot Tracks Mix) - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
    3. Obsession (US 12" Mix) - Animotion
    4. Chant No. 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On) (12" Version) - Spandau Ballet
    5. Poison Arrow (US Remix) - ABC
    6. Kiss Me - Tin Tin
    7. It's A Miracle / Miss Me Blind (US 12" Mix) - Culture Club
    8. Love & Pride (USA Summer Mix) - King
    9. Shack Up (Radio Edit) - A Certain Ratio
    10. Change Your Mind (Razormaid! Mix) - Gary Numan
    11. Hold Back The Rain (Remix) - Duran Duran
    12. Can You Hear Me? (Razormaid! Mix) - Visage
    13. But Not Tonight (Extended Remix) - Depeche Mode
    14. Talk Talk (Extended Version) - Talk Talk
    15. Leave Me Alone - New Order

    Notes and other random things:

    I assembled this podcast while selecting songs for my previous podcast and thankfully had time this week to record. So for anyone keeping track that's two new podcasts in roughly a month! Not bad for someone who has been on the quasi-semi-biannual recording schedule for some time. I'll add some notes at some point, though I haven't even finished the notes from my previous 'cast. I figured you all would want the music more than my ramblings anyway. Enjoy!

    7 February 2020, 7:45 pm
  • 1 hour 19 minutes
    CRC Retro Mix #52
    1. Lust For Love - Images In Vogue
    2. Shake The Disease (Remixed Extended) - Depeche Mode
    3. Heartbreak Beat (Extended Mix) - The Psychedelic Furs
    4. Burn For You (12" Remix) - INXS
    5. Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order
    6. New Religion - Duran Duran
    7. Memorabilia (12" Mix) - Soft Cell
    8. We Came To Dance (12" Version) - Ultravox
    9. Goodbye Seventies - Yaz
    10. Run From Love (Razormaid! Mix) - Bronski Beat
    11. The Love Parade (12" Mix) - The Dream Academy
    12. Love Is A Shield (Extended Mix) - Camouflage
    13. Million Headed Monster (Listen) - I Start Counting
    14. Symmetry (Extended Mix) - The Spoons
    15. Sex (I'm A ...) (Extended Version) - Berlin

    Notes and other random things:

    Happy New Year to everyone! My gift to you: a NEW PODCAST! Ring in 2020 and the new decade in glorious retro style, but please play responsibly. That goes for everything else tonight as well! I'll be back with some tidbits about the bands when I get a chance. In the meantime, Happy Listening!

    Much the same as other "almosts" like B-Movie and The Danse Society, bands whose promising beginnings were marred by disappointing recording sessions at crucial developmental stages, Images In Vogue's trajectory seemed poised to deliver better overall results. After forming in 1981, moderate success found them early with the 1982 release of two EPs: the 3-song "Pre-Release" and 5-song "Educated Man", plus an opening gig for Depeche Mode. Supported by relentless touring and and opening slot for Duran Duran in 1984 the band signed with Warner Canada. Setting to work on their first full-length album, the label execs suggested "Dream Weaver" singer Gary Wright to oversee production. The resulting sessions produced dismal results for the band who decided to shelve the project. The album would eventually be released by the label on the strength of the single "Call It Love" which was getting regular rotation on college radio throughout North America. Touring demands in Toronto prompted a move across country from their home in Vancouver. Ironically, the rigors of travel caused friction among band members. Simultaneously, band member Kevin Crompton (later known professionally as cEvin Key) remained in Vancouver to focus on his bourgeoning side project, Skinny Puppy. Further fracturing caused the band to slowly lose their momentum and Images In Vogue went on official hiatus in 1991. Renewed interest in retro music and fan demand has reunited members for various tours and appearances including a 2012 appearance with the next band I'd like to mention: The Spoons.

    The Spoons formed in Burlington, Ontario Canada in 1979. Taking their name from the famous utensil while eating Alphabet Soup at the home of band member Brett Wickens, the group originally followed a prog rock template, but found more success as pioneers of the Canadian electronic music scene. After recording an early single in 1981, Wickens left the group to focus on design. Originally working with Peter Saville, designer for the Factory Records catalog of bands, he has since carved out an exceptional career in brand identity, having directed work for major companies such as Adobe, Coca-Cola, Sony, Viacom and for all the major Hollywood Studios. He is responsible for designing the Sopranos logo. Without Wickens, the band came to prominence beginning in 1981 with the release of "Stick Figure Neighborhood", one of the earliest new wave albums to be engineered by the great Daniel Lanois. Their next album, "Arias & Symphonies" earned the collective a Most Promising Group Award and saw "Nova Heart", the first single from the album hit the Canadian charts. The b-side to that song was the one here, "Symmetry". A live favorite at early gigs, lead singer Gordon Deppe said of the song, "We went into the studio fully intending it to be our first single release. Little did we know that the lesser known B-side "Nova Heart" would take on a life of its own and become the A-side midway through recording. It took us all off guard." So, "Symmetry" was almost a hit. Strangely enough, the song didn't even appear on the "Arias & Symphonies" album. Members of the band reunited in 2010 to record their sixth album and appeared alongside Images In Vogue in 2013 to co-headline the "Rewind The Tape" tour. They are still active today.

    The Dream Academy almost never happened. Singer/Guitarist Nick Laird-Clowes, formerly in a band called The Act, keyboardist Gilbert Gabriel and multi-instrumentalist Kate St. John combined forces with the notion of creating music with a diverse and rather unorthodox set of instruments and sounds. Moving counter to the power pop acts of the day, their demos were rejected by every record label over the course of a two-year period before before getting signed by Warner Brothers thanks to a fortuitous relationship with Geoff Travis of Rough Trade records and Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, who went on to produce Dream Academy's first two albums. As luck would have it David's brother Mark had played guitar in The Act with Nick. The track here, "The Love Parade", was the fourth single from the group's eponymous debut album. It eventually peaked at #36 in the US, but was viewed as disappointing by record execs who had hoped for more in the shadow of the runaway hit "Life In A Northern Town". Reflecting on production for "The Love Parade", the only song on their first album not produced by Gilmour, on the 35th Anniversary of the release of their first full-length, Nick revealed:

    "What happened was, we had a pretty good demo for “Love Parade,” and we loved it, and when we made the record with David, somehow we never got 'round to it, and he always said, “Well, the demo's pretty good, and it's not really my kind of thing, and it's good what you've got.” And I said, “Well, okay.” But at the end of the album, when we listened to it, it wasn't good enough. But we still all adored the version, so Geoff Travis from Rough Trade, being a really canny music-loving thinker, said, “What about [Alan] Tarney? He did 'We Don't Talk Anymore,' by Cliff Richard.” And we all loved that record. There was a touch of irony about it, because we knew this was coming from right field instead of left field, and we thought, “Well, that's a really inspired idea, because nobody would think of us working with Tarney.” So it was really interesting, and we said, “Well, let's see what he thinks.” And he said, “No, I'd love to do it!” It wasn't like I could say, “I want this, I want that.” I did a lot of that, and he walked out a couple of times because of that. And it was right back to that old thing which had happened every time when I'd worked with anyone before David. It was just silly things like, “Can I just get on the faders and push the keyboards like this and put more echo on the voice?” But it was always happening to me. [Laughs.] So it was brilliant, and… Well, no, it wasn't brilliant, but he did it, and then we mixed it again, and it was great. But he taught us a lot. I mean, he didn't triple-track vocals. He tracked them up about 12 or 15 times! He had real special techniques, and he also had quite strong ideas. So he was wonderful, but he just came at things from a totally different place. He was pure pop, and he was very, very brilliant at it."

    As a side note: Alan Tarney also produced "Take On Me" by A-ha.







    31 December 2019, 11:08 pm
  • 1 hour 6 minutes
    CRC Retro Mix #51
    1. Regina - The Sugarcubes
    2. Mysterious Ways (Solar Plexus Club Mix) - U2
    3. Tom's Diner (DNA Mix) - Suzanne Vega
    4. Hippie Chick (Flower Power Mix) - Soho
    5. Space (Funny Mix) - Candyflip
    6. Perpetual Dawn - The Orb
    7. X,Y & Zee (The Intergalactic Mix) - Pop Will Eat Itself
    8. I Want Your (Hands On Me) (Razormaid! Mix) - Sinead O'Connor
    9. Cloud 8 (Future Mix) - Frazier Chorus
    10. King For A Day (Extended Mix) - Thompson Twins
    11. Secret (Original 12" Mix) - OMD
    12. Thieves Like Us - New Order
    13. Nothing (Zip Hop Mix) - Depeche Mode
    14. I Touch Roses (Full Bloom Mix) - Book Of Love
    15. Universal Daddy (Aquarian Dance Mix) - Alphaville

    29 July 2018, 7:04 pm
  • 1 hour 13 minutes
    CRC Retro Mix #50
    1. Bag Lady (I Wonder) - Ebn-Ozn
    2. Electric Barbarella (Tee's Club Mix) - Duran Duran
    3. Sub-culture (Razormaid! Mix) - New Order
    4. (Set Me Free) Remotivate Me (Release Mix) - Depeche Mode
    5. Music That You Can Dance To (Razormaid! Mix) - Sparks
    6. Love Glove (Full Version) - Visage
    7. Clear Trails - Shriekback
    8. European Son (12" Version) - Japan
    9. Let's Go To Bed (Extended Version) - The Cure
    10. When Smokey Sings (Detroit Mix) - ABC
    11. No Stars (Unreleased Original Remix) - Figures On A Beach
    12. Blue Savannah (Razormaid! Mix) - Erasure
    13. Disenchanted (12" Version) - Communards
    14. No Gift Refused (Extended Version) - Until December
    15. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Simple Minds


    Notes and other random things:

    50 episodes! Kind of a nice accomplishment, if I may say so. Not sure why 50 is any more important than, say, 47 or 5 or 19. I certainly don't want to be numerically discriminatory or anything like that, but maybe if those other numbers were divisible by something other than themselves and 1 they might get more publicity. So, I'll celebrate reaching the 50-episode milestone because not only is 50 equal to half a hundred, but it is divisible by lots of other cool numbers. On to the bands ...

    The first band I'd like to mention here is the first band in this podcast: Ebn-Ozn. Many of you are probably aware of the excellent "AEIOU Sometimes Y", which also appeared on CRC #28, but most of you may not be aware of their tune "Bag Lady", which was a Top 40 Club hit and minor radio hit. Both songs appeared on the group's only full-length album called "Feeling Cavalier", which is notable for being the first album to be recorded entirely on a Fairlight CMI sampling keyboard. That makes Ebn-Ozn one of the true pioneers of the sampling culture which was just starting to take hold in the early 80s. If you haven't seen the video to "Bag Lady", it featured one Imogene Coca, better known as Aunt Edna in National Lampoon's Vacation movie. Go take a look. I'll wait ...

    Okay, we're back live.


    20 May 2018, 5:21 pm
  • 59 minutes 15 seconds
    CRC Retro Mix #49
    1. Heartbeat City - The Cars
    2. All Roads Lead To Rome - The Stranglers
    3. I Die: You Die - Gary Numan
    4. Auto Music (Razormaid! Mix) - Our Daughter's Wedding
    5. To Cut A Long Story Short (12" Version) - Spandau Ballet
    6. Fun City (12" Mix) - Soft Cell
    7. 8:15 To Nowhere - Vicious Pink
    8. Telecommunication - A Flock Of Seagulls
    9. New Life (Remix) - Depeche Mode
    10. Devil Inside (12" Remix) - INXS
    11. Still Angry - Book Of Love
    12. Today (Extended Version) - Talk Talk
    13. A Forest (Tree Mix) - The Cure
    14. The Metro (Extended Version) - Berlin
    15. Take On Me (Tony Mansfield 12" Version) - A-ha


    Notes and other random things:

    So, hello again! Nice to make your acquaintance. Good to finally carve out an evening to record another podcast. I swear, these days I blink and three or four months go by. I suppose, relatively speaking, the same could be said for this episode as it is officially the shortest podcast in CRC history, clocking in at just under one hour. "So, Mr. DJ Tintin," I'm sure you're saying to yourself, "for all my patience waiting for you to give me some new tunes you reward me with LESS music???" It seems that way. You still get the requisite 15 songs, but many of these were single or album versions as opposed to remixes. That's the only defense I have. BUT, look at this artist and track list! Those of you looking for some stuff you haven't heard before may have just hit the mother lode. The Stranglers? Our Daughter's Wedding? Not exactly household names. "Fun City", "Heartbeat City", "Still Angry"? Not exactly the songs anyone would recall off the top of their heads by Soft Cell, The Cars or Book Of Love, respectively. But enough justification. On to the bands ...

    So, why were the 80s so great? A loaded question to be sure. But ask yourself how many bands in recent memory could have a member, who owned a hair salon, rent out a space above said hair salon, form a band, get discovered by Bill Nelson of Be Bop Deluxe fame, decide upon wearing women's clothes for a video shot in three days on a shoestring budget and become superstars thanks in some part to a fledgling music network called MTV and a now-famous hairstyle? Such was the fate of A Flock of Seagulls, a band that certainly helped alter my musical trajectory and, with the song I Ran (So Far Away), created one of the most iconic and lasting songs of the decade. THAT is the greatness of the 80s - the fact that music was not yet paint-by-number. There was room for experimentation. Sure, you had to be marketable, but the definition of marketable was fluid. And the rules were fluid. As long as someone in the know heard something they liked or saw a creative spark it was sometimes enough for a label to take a chance on you. Spoken like someone who thinks the music they grew up with is the best, I know. But I ask again: could that backstory exist today? Perhaps, but I just don't see it. As for the song in this podcast, "Telecommunication", it is sort of a cult hit at this point and probably an accidental one at that. "(It's Not Me) Talking" was the first single release by AFOS in 1981, but it was the futuristic lyrics and "wall of sound" energy, later praised by uber-producer Phil Spector, that propelled "Telecommunication" into the clubs and into hearts of new wavers. The tune still sounds cool and futuristic even today and reminds me of a moment in time when musical possibilities were still limitless.

    "No sequencers were used" reads the liner notes of Our Daughters Wedding's first EP, "Digital Cowboy". Layne Rico (electronic percussion / synth), Keith Silva (vocals / synth) and Scott Simon (synth / saxophone) wanted everyone to know that their electronic wizardry and sleight of hand was due entirely to coordination and skill and not programming and triggers like many of their contemporaries such as Depeche Mode and OMD, two groups to which ODW was often compared after their switch over from punk rock and guitars to new wave and synths. And while the group, who sang about lawnchairs and made frequent appearances on MTV with Martha Quinn in the early days of the network, somewhat ironically dismissed DM and OMD as being too "gimmicky", the group did score opening slots for some of the giants of the day including Duran Duran, Talk Talk, Iggy Pop, The Psychedelic Furs and U2. They even worked with famed producer Colin Thurston to record the aforementioned EP. Not bad for a US-based band who suffered the slings and arrows and broken beer bottles of misfortune hurled at them for using electronics on stage at a time when punk was still king. But even skill and deigning to employ sequencers could not save the group from a dust up with their label, EMI. According to Scott Simon, the LA office killed the momentum of their full-length album, Moving Windows, which was released in 1982, because a label exec had a personal issue with one of the band's representatives. The track here, Auto Music, is a Razormaid! mix of the lead track to that first and only full-length. The sweet electronic bass line you hear came about from Simon and David Spradley, the producer for Moving Windows, "jamming one morning in our Union Square loft."

    To cut a long story short, Spandau Ballet are good. Go buy their records. Seriously, though, Spandau Ballet seems like a perfect name for a slick and sophisticated band who helped spearhead the New Romantic movement, an era of glossy images and high fashion that gave rise to groups like Duran Duran and Visage and others. That is until you remember that, like other groups, SB had their roots in the punk scene and that their name was Allied trench warfare slang for corpses whose bullet-riddled bodies twisted and danced on barbed wire as they were hit by German gunfire. Perhaps they would have been better off going with The Cut or The Makers, both previous band names. But, the name Spandau Ballet stuck as did the amazing voice of Tony Hadley, the Kemp brother's guitar prowess (Martin and Gary), Steve Norman's saxophone riffs and John Keeble's percussive underpinnings. That classic lineup produced a string of Top 10 hits (10 to be precise) including "Gold", "Only When You Leave", "True", "Chant No. 1" and the song in this podcast, "To Cut A Long Story Short", the groups' debut single, which reached #5 in the UK. Speculation surrounding the song is that it pertains to a veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after being drafted, but getting no explanation why he must join the war. This song apparently inspired Vince Clarke (Depeche Mode, Yaz, The Assembly) to write DM's third single, "Just Can't Get Enough" which, as a side note, is currently being used in a Wal-Mart advertisement. I did NOT see that coming!

    What more can be said about Gary Numan that hasn't already been said over the course of four decades by the music press? Probably nothing, so I'm not even going to try to break new ground. But, in case you missed it, Gary did just drop his 18th solo album, Savage (Songs From A Broken World), this past September and it instantly shot all the way up the album charts to #2 in the UK and #1 on the UK Indie charts. Call it a love of the man and his music or an indictment of the current music scene, but for a guy who goes down in history as the first artist to secure a #1 song using an all-electronic approach with the highly-coveted and frequently-covered "Are Friends Electric?" way back in 1979, the fact that Gary is still making music that questions, challenges, lifts, destroys and defies convention is impressive. Despite the lofty charting position of the new album and its predominant use of electronics, it failed to register on the Billboard Electronic charts because, according to a Billboard executive, “Sonically, the Numan album just does not fit in" with Billboard's perception of electronic dance music. Seems a bit ridiculous, but Numan is no stranger to such disinterest or indifference on the part of the music cabal. In fact, even during his heyday, "Are Friends Electric?" was perched atop the British charts for three weeks before any radio station would add it to their playlists. The song in this podcast, "I Die: You Die", which appeared in 1980 on the Telekon album a mere two years after his Tubeway Army signing with Beggars Banquet, is his rebuke of the music press and their God complex, star-maker/star-breaker tendencies. The track eventually reached #6 on the UK singles chart.

    And finally, speaking of the music press, the last band I'd like to mention here had them completely baffled and befuddled for the bulk of their career, or at least until 1990 when Hugh Cornwall left the group. The Stranglers, originally known as the Guildford Stranglers when they embarked as a band in 1974, were comprised of guitarist/keyboardist Hugh Cornwall, bassist/vocalist Jen-Jacques Burnel, keyboardist Dave Greenfield and drummer Brian Duffy (aka Jet Black). Though not one member hailed from Guildford, they were "tweeners" in every sense of the word, dabbling in numerous styles from electropop to soul during the course of their long and storied career. And while many of their successes came during their early punk days, they never quite fit into the punk scene. Ostracized for their relative age, their humorous, often self-deprecating lyrical style contrasted with their often anti-politically correct stage antics, their stunningly fast musical growth and development, and their hit-making skill, which generated 21 Top-40 singles, The Stranglers set themselves apart from their punk contemporaries and gave the press fits as they did not know how to put square pegs into round holes. The track here, "All Roads Lead To Rome" was from their seventh album, Feline. As you can hear, it has distinct new wave overtones, which makes total sense having been released in 1982, but it is certainly a brave departure from their earlier work. And while this track did not chart, it still stands as one of the high points from the Feline album and provides a glimpse into a chameleon-like band that was firmly in transition.

    Another episode in the books. Thanks for reading/listening. Enjoy the music!


    18 February 2018, 6:23 pm
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