For the 4th,
I reported at 9:30 A.M. to the house of Mark and Mary Counts to meet up with
Mike King and unload DJ gear, while around me whirled a river of humans on
their way to view a parade of mechanical wonders and marching mirth-makers.
After sweating a great deal, the gear was prepared and I left the Counts’s to
collect my family.
At approximately
1:15/1:30 (post meridian), I returned to the scene of the party, sugary and
blended coffee drink in hand, to play music and enjoy the company of some
people who I don’t get to visit with nearly often enough. As this was a reunion
of sorts for Mike and I, many moons ago we spinned music together as the DJ
collective “SATCHMO BASTICH,” I thought it fitting to begin the day with a
Louis Armstrong song---and thus began a day of fanciful food, drinks,
ultraviolet radiation, heat, sweat, talking, art, button making (also an art),
visitations, remembrances, fireworks, and clever tunage!
My kids came
and went, and my wife came and went and returned. People bopped by and chomped
on Mary’s collection of feastibles and drank much liquid, which was essential
in the near 100 degree f temperatures. Some couldn’t handle it (and I don’t
blame them) and bugged early. Others were in it for the long haul. All in all,
it was a great time! Perhaps these photos and the playlist will serve as
evidence of the truth of my estimation!
XXX
Big Boom!
Mark Counts art on cardboard!
I tend to add digital effects to my drawings (for the obvious reasons...)
This bug was, apparently, a huge music fan. It hung out on the bottom of this speaker almost all day...
XXX
Playlist
(Unfortunately, Mike didn’t write down his songs, so I’m marking his
turn-taking with an MK! Like so…)
[Yates Spins
1st:]
Louis
Armstrong – “Jeepers Creepers”
Siouxsie
& The Banshees – “Fireworks”
Gary Numan –
“Stormtrooper in Drag”
The Beatles –
“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (Rhythm Scholar Remix)”
David Bowie –
“Breaking Glass”
The Cure – “A
Letter to Elise”
The
Galvatrons – “Robots are Cool”
Eduard Khil –
“Trololo Song”
The
Waitresses – “Wise Up”
Beats
International – “Dub be Good to Me”
Go Home
Productions – “Thin Genie (Mash-Up)”
Colatron – “Whole
Lotta Bass”
The Idle
Race – “Sitting in My Tree”
Dephicit – “Aristocatnip”
Peter
Schilling & Boom-Bastic – “Major Tom ’94 (English Version) (Chillout Mix)”
MK
Kat Edmonson
– “Just Like Heaven”
Dr. Calculus
– “Full of Love”
Lene Lovich –
“Shape Shifter”
The
Weathermen – “Poison”
Nine Inch
Nails – “Head Like a Hole (Mustache Riot & Direct Feed Remix)”
Peter
Schilling – “Retro (Toolbox Remix)”
Para One
feat. Surkin – “Compute”
The Smiths
vs Rootical Record Crew – “Stop Me Cruising (Chocomang Mash-Up)”
Devo – “Come
Back Jonee”
The
Neanderthals – “Martian Hop”
Them – “It’s
All Over Now (Kissy Klub Version)”
Blondie – “Atomic”
And One – “Dancing
in the Factory”
The Diceman –
“Supervisor Error”
Meat Beat
Manifesto – “Genocide”
Tiny Tim – “Ever
Since You Told Me You Loved Me (I’m a Nut)”
April March –
“Chick Habit”
My Life with
the Thrill Kill Kult – “Burning Dirt (The Hand That Bleeds Mix)”
Oingo Boingo
– “No One Lives Forever (Live)”
Gorillaz – “Rhinestone
Eyes”
Visage – “Night
Train”
Caught a
Ghost – “No Sugar in My Coffee”
Big Audio
Dynamite – “The Bottom Line (12” Remix Edit Version)”
ABC – “How
to be a Zillionaire (Wall Street Mix)”
The Bonzo
Dog Doo Dah Band – “You Done My Brain In (Disco Beard Catwalk Edit)”
Crystal
Cadillac – “Love & War / Cities in Dust (Cosmo Radio Edit)”
Uffie – “Hong
Kong Garden”
Psyche – “Unveiling
the Secret”
MK
Skold – “Tonight
(Rotersand Rework)”
Jan Johnston
– “Unafraid (Paul Oakenfold Mix)”
Bird
Peterson – “The Bad Atom (Smalltown Romeo Remix)”
The English
Beat – “Rotating Head”
Skinny Puppy
– “Wornin’”
The Cure – “Close
to Me (Funkanizer Remix)”
Tennessee
Ernie Ford – “Sixteen Tons”
Rise Robots
Rise – “Flowers & Birds II: The Return”
The Funk
Hunters & SkiiTour – “Candyman”
Specials – “A
Message to You Rudy (Dreadsquad Remix)”
Go Home
Productions – “Models on Film (Mash-Up)”
Jimmy Edgar –
“Heartkey”
M.E.S.H. – “Meet
Every Situation Head On”
Joy Division – “A Means to an End”
Joy Division – “A Means to an End”
DJ Sammy – “Heaven
(Downlow’d & SY4E Bootleg Remix)”
MK
Ministry – “Here
We Go”
Trust – “Shoom”
Kissing the
Pink – “Big Man Restless”
Plump DJs – “Hump
Rock”
The
Cruxshadows – “Dragonfly (Conjure One Remix)”
Studio
Killers – “Ode to the Bouncer (Extended Mix)”
The Wombats –
“Let’s Dance to Joy Division”
And that was
it. We played until it was too dark to read the song titles on the CDs! Then,
not too long after, the fireworks went boom overhead!
---Richard
F. Yates
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