MP3 Welcome Back 1997!
posted by on August 17 at 13:45 PM
Yes, it’s another post about Daft Punk. Deal with it.
Daft Punk’s Essential Mix for the BBC from 1997 has been making its way around the blogosphere recently, and I haven’t seen it here on Line Out, so here’s a link to it in case you haven’t yet downloaded it. Here’s the post that link comes from, which features a tracklisting.
Even without my renewed love for the duo, this Essential Mix is a wonderful throwback to a simpler time in dance music. It was before genres were so stratified, when a DJ was free to just DJ without concern for sticking to a signature sound. Sure, plenty of people still pull that off elsewhere, but that sure as hell isn’t happening in Seattle. Techno DJs play techno, house DJs play house, and they rarely get one another’s chocolate in the other’s peanut butter. It’s a damn shame really, since good records are good records, as this mix displays. Jumping from deep to funky to hard, Daft Punk’s mix is all over the place, including everything from disco-y jems to straight-up bangers. It’s great stuff. If all the other music posted here today isn’t enough, let this mix lead you into the weekend.
In other 1997-related news, earlier this week I bought tickets to see Underworld(!) down in San Francisco. Just another check off the list of groups I was dying to see in ‘97 that I’d long since given up on. Who’s next? Orbital? Portishead?
I thought Sneaker Pimps were playing at the Showbox, but it's actually some weird shoe-related event.
levislade, i thought the same thing.
you'll love underworld! they put on a great show!
ya gotta see orbital! such a show. really. it might not be as good as your daft punk seemed to be, but in my day, we didn't have the daft punk. we just had drugs and orbital.
Dude, go see Swank play at one of the Electric Avenue nights, or catch him at the DanceSafe stage at HempFest on Sunday around 5. Housey, techno-y, electro-y, punky fun stuff. Matter of fact, you should send tons of folks to the DanceSafe stage at HempFest this weekend, since Eddie will be playing 420 on Sunday as well.
yup, swank is indeed the man. cool dude, cool tracks.
word on the underworld show, i just did the same thing myself. except for the nyc show.
@4 - i thought they were officially kaput.
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