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The Future Is Past Vol.6
Welcome to the sixth installment of The Future is Past show after a prolonged hibernation period. Wearily we squint our eyes towards the sky and soberly find it’s still overcast and dismal right as we left it. Add to the misery, rain still reigns and our face is being by chapped by the cold. No one is there to embrace us in our sorrows and we feel a most undesirable sentiment creeping up inside us. Tip Tap. Bit by bit. Weltschmerz is increasing. Asudden solo piano music and films by Ingmar Bergman make sense. Longingly we wrap up warm in our blankets and reminisce about those days in summer, roller skates on our feet and the sun titilating our skin. Oh Melancholia. Dainty sweet sadness taken on lightness. You make us realize why life is worth living for. Now lets wallow in it…
The Future Is Past is a forth-nightly radio show featuring sixty minutes of eclectic and unmixed music from all genres. The next show will take us to France avec Monsieur Phillippe for another popular editon of pop cities, c’est bien ça?
Side A:
1. Sophia – Reprise (Crescendo)
2. The Knife – Colouring of Pigeons
3. Philip Glass – Koyaanisqatsi
4. The XX – Island (Nosaj Thing Remix)
5. Pantha Du Prince – Saturn Strobe (Ingmar Bergman Edit)
6. Joe Goddard – Sour Grapes
Side B:
1. The Books and José González – Cello Song
2. Kings Of Convenience – I Don’t Know What I Can Save You From (Live)
3. Philip Glass – Metamorphosis One
4. Justin Timberlake feat. T.I – Dead And Gone (Instrumental Edit)
5. Matias Aguayo – Rollerskate
6. oOoOO – Sadsumting
Next up at Cosmic Dancer
Der Sommer kehrt zurück zu Cosmic Dancer im Januar, denn wir haben uns den DJ ins Alte Wettbüro eingeladen, der die Morgenröte am authentischsten vertonen kann. Steffen Bennemann ist einer der Väter des besten Festivals unserer Welt, dem Nachtdigital, macht unter dem Pseudonym Koi dubbigen House für Styrax Leaves und Ortloff und legt hauptamtlich in geschätzten Clubs wie Leipzigs Distillery und Jenas Kassablanca House und Techno auf: Nicht einfach so, sondern gleich dreifach mit Gefühl.
Einerseits ist da die Musik, die er spielt. Er pickt nur Platten mit Esprit heraus, oft bittersüß und doch mit Widerhaken, aber irgendwie immer wunderschön. Die Übergänge sind sanft und ehrfürchtig zugleich, was sein Set zu einer echten Erfahrung macht und einem jegliche bösen Gedanken aus dem Kopf pustet. Bewusstseinserweiterung ohne Nachwirkungen. Dazu das ständige Grinsen, das Lächeln von Einem, der die Musik genießt. Wer seine berauschenden Sets vom Nachtdigital kennt, weiß ohnehin Bescheid.
Egal also, was einem wichtiger ist. Inhalt, Art und Weise oder Form…Steffen Bennemann macht es mit Gefühl.
Zur Einstimmung empfehlen wir sein Set vom letztjährigen Nachtdigital:
Download: Steffen Bennemann @ Nachtdigital 12 (part 1)
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Download: Steffen Bennemann @ Nachtdigital 12 (part 2)
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Download: Steffen Bennemann @ Nachtdigital 12 (part 3)
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Stern Combo Meißen – Kampf um den Südpol (1971)
Founded 1964 in Meißen (East Germany), Stern Combo Meißen (SCM) is considered one of the seminal bands of the East German rock scene in the 70′s alongside Pudhys, Karat and Electra. “Der Kampf um den Südpol” is a track from their self-titled debut album released in 1971 through state-owned Amiga Records. The song is illustrated with various documentary clips of the South Pole conquest and and a recorded live set for East-German television. Enjoy.
Extraordinaryparapsychologically
Zombocombo conjured up a magical treat on the 18th December 09 at Cosmic Dancer. Parental Advisory. This video features explizzzzit content. 
Cosmic Dancer meets Zombocombo!!!!!!!! 18.12.09 ab 22 Uhr im Alten Wettbüro
Cosmic Dancer-Wiederholungstäter DJ Mooner sowie die Kollegen Kitt Bang, PollYester und DJ Kaput werden in München mit Kult-DJ angesprochen und machen mit der Zombocombo wilde Themenpartys für die ortsansässige Trash-Schickeria. Inklusive durchgeknallter Miniaufführungen wurde dort unter anderem zu den Motti Wrestling, Robotik oder Voodoo gefeiert. Im Dezember werfen sie ein paar der beliebtesten Deko-Items in ihren Transporter, fallen bei Cosmic Dancer ein und feiern mit The Moroders gemeinsam Weihnachten – italienisch, versteht sich.
Zombocombo on TV
ZOMBOCOMBO | MySpace Music Videos
Liegt ja nahe: Einerseits ist München die nördlichste Stadt der Pastarepublik, andererseits protzen die Gastgeber ständig mit ihrer italienischen Herkunft. Klar, dass unten im Süden ein wenig anders gefeiert wird. Erwartet werden unter anderem die spitzhütigen und Triller pfeifenden Pifferari, als auch die Weihnachtshexe La Befana. Der ganze Abend wird im Zeichen der Presepio stehen, dem Krippenspiel, dessen Aufbau Italiens Familien in der Vorweihnachtszeit beherrscht und für Stimmung zwischen den Nachbarn sorgt.
Dompteur Mooner KING Disco Mix by DompteurMooner
Mooner says:
This mix is a bit older (2007 i believe) but sums up quite nicely what i play in a club – I know my other mixes here are quite often too conceptual. This one should make you dance . If not, go home!
hahaha!
Musikalisch passt bei diesem Szenario natürlich nichts besser als die Zombocombo- und The Moroders-eigene Version der heiligen Disco und einem Betonmischer voll mit Beatschmarrn obendrauf, der von den (Durchgezählt!) sieben DJs aufgetischt wird. Zieht euch also warm an und feiert mit uns fröhlich dem Fest der Feste entgegen. Es verspricht eine lange Nacht zu werden.
Und einen hammer noch:
BAVARIAN CLÄSSICKS Part1 by Dompteur Mooner and Kitt Bang by DompteurMooner
Mooner says:
This is a mix to take with humour! We took the worst bavarian 80s so-to-say “Bavaria-Italo” and other weird shit and put it alltogether into a mix.
Lots of fun for everyone, more fun for those of you that speak german, of course!
Kratzen Sie jetzt!
MGM04: Club Silencio
Our friend Sebastiano of Club Silencio has just done a gorgeous guest mix for us. Grazie mille! In his own words: “Hey guys, here is a special mix for your blog. I would like to take the opportunity to present a new side project of mine called Robotalco that is solely dedicated to the roots house scene, such as early U.S. house music, garage and deep house. I will be releasing two records soon under that name: One on Mr.Chinn’s (Rongdfa, American Standard) new label called Godwrk and another one on Canyons’ (Dfa/Modular) Hole In The Sky Records.
The mix I have put together is inspired by my first taste of club culture in the 90′s, perhaps the golden age for Italian clubs! I was just a kid back then but my older friends started listening to mix tapes from a club called Ethos Mama Club in Gabicce (one of the most important clubs in the famous ‘riviera romagnola’) and Vae Victis (a very cool afterhour). The resident djs that played there were amongst others: Ralf, Ricky Montanari and Flavio Vecchi and they used to spin this kind of wonderful deep and groovy house music from great labels like Nu Groove, Bottom Line, and many others. Recently this sound has influenced me a lot and and I tried to recreate that kind of mood with a new Club Silencio remix for The Parallels, a Canadian band that will be out soon on Thisisnotanexit recods ( Listen to it here). Enjoy the mix”
01. Ubq Project – Feel My Soul (Soulful Mix)
02. Foremost Poets – Reasons To Be Dismal (Late At Night Blunt Mix)
03. Scrappy Feat. Wet Boxx – Love Motion (Acid Love)
04. A Dose Of Paradise – Dream (Factory Mix)
05. Houz’ Neegroz – All Night Long
06. Sax – Don’t Turn Your Back On Me (Funny Bone Pop)
07. Deja Vu – Move Your Waistline ( Sweat Mix)
08. Underground Mass – Hard Times (Mix 4)
09. Jay Williams – One Step At Time (Club Mix)
10. O.D.C. – My Mind Is Going (Total Insanity Mix)
11. Dreamer G – I Got That Feelin (Original Dub)
12. Lectroluv 2 – Lectroluv Theme ( 909 Joyful Mix)
13. Eve Gallagher – Love Is A Master Of Disguise (Classic Club Mix)
Straight Up: Gavin (35), Magician
This interview with Gavin Russom of Black Meteoric Star was conducted last Saturday at a secret location in Dresden. Turns out it wasn’t such a good idea to do it in a middle of a buzzing club at 4am completely drunk with a respondent feeling terrible and sick with flu. Add to this a recording device that only captured parts of the interview and well….I’m just telling you beforehand, so you don’t get too excited. Thanks to Gavin. Hope you are feeling better by now. Here we go.
Keep it it kind of short. I feel terrible.
[Yeah! Good start for an interview]
In Da Club: Disco Edits T-Shirt
Not a day passes without a new category on our blog. This one is called ‘In Da Club’. And yes, the title is a reference to a rap song. After heated discussion with the head of our marketing department, we are being pushed to broaden our approach in order to attract a wider target audience (and subsequently increase ad revenues). This of course is not uncommon for a business to have to refocus and revisit their targeting, especially if it was not clearly identified in the beginning stages of their launch.
We have been told that it is necessary to find the right balance when defining our target market in a way that causes our audience to recognize that we are talking specifically to them. Therefore introducing references to Hip Hop seems like a super-excellent solution. I mean, seriously. Who is interested in disco edits these days?
That leaves me to conclude this post with a statement of intent for the aforementioned category. To woe the intelligentsia at the other end of our reader demographic I would hereby like to take the opportunity to quote Horace and merely say that we are difficili, queruli, laudatori temporis acti. Se puero, castigator, cesorque minoruri.* (Grumbler, inclined to praise the way of the world when they were boys, to play the critics and to be censors of a new generation). Word!
Oh Giorgio: NME Interview 1978
Yeah, new category! This one is called ‘Oh, Giorgio’ and focuses, would you have guessed it, on some of the achievements and anecdotes in the life of our all time favorite superhero: Giorgio. Disco Machine. Moroder. For a start we have here an original transcript of an interview he did with NME in 1978. Check, Check it out. He is telling you something very important.
The Future Is Past Vol.3
Third round of our weekly podcast The Future is Past: A 60minute ride in a borrowed Alfa Romeo coupé driving down the winding roads of the Corso Matuzia. Top down. Wind playing mischievously with your hair. A tiny transistor radio emitting squelches of tinny blare. Soon you will be reaching San Remo and then…
Side A – Bordighera
1. Cerrone – The Loft
2. Albatros – L’ Albatros
3. Dj Okawari – Afterschool
4. Koudlam – Eagles of Africa (via alainfinkielkrautrock)
5. Joel Van Droogen Broeck – New Wave Rock (via lovefingers)
6. Jackson Jones – Put Your Pants On
7. Malatu Astatke – Yekermo Sew
8. Thomas & Richard Frost – December Rain (via lovefingers)
Side B – Ospedaletti
1. Jeremih – Birthday Sex ( Sorry!)
2. Dam Funk – Hood Pass Intact
3. Chromeo – I Can’t Tell You Why (Dub Version)
4. Mayer Hawthorne – Green Eyed Love (Classixx Remix)
5. Soft Rocks – Leave Your Earth Behind (Roots Unit Remix) (via 20jazzfunkgreats)
6. Tocotronic – Pure Vernunft Darf Niemals Siegen (Lawrence Remix)
7. Léo Delibes’ – Lakmé – Les Lianes En Fleurs
Rockstars
Look, who I met on the car boot sale the other week. Haven’t seen you guys for ages! Where have you been? Yeah, sorry I haven’t been in touch. I lost my phone and didn’t have your numbers. So, how’s it all going? You still doing music and stuff… Cool, going well, yeah? Really!? When will it be released? I will definitely check that out. Yeah, I know. The music industry is fucked at moment, innit? Everybody is just downloading for free and listing to stuff on Spotify. I’m mean, even I haven’t bought a record for aaaages. Oh well, you can still make money from gigs, can you? Do you have anything lined up? No, i don’t know that club. What was the name again? Don’t worry, I look that up on the interweb. Are you guys on facebook? Yeah, send me an invite and I come down for sure. Cool. I need to shoot. Nice meeting you. Good luck with the album and everything.
Jean Constantin – Le Pacha
“Jean, for fuck sake. Stop that right now. You are doing my head in. What the fuck are you wearing. Take that off. Fucking idiot” – Jean, left that evening and was never seen again. Intoxicated by freedom he didn’t look back either.
Tracks: Volo AZ 504
Ciao…Ho passato dei bei giorni con te…Piccolo, stupido, meraviglioso ragazzo. Ciao. Anzi addio. Allora, non stavi scherzando te ne vai. Certo che me ne vado. Cosa volevi. Guarda quanto cielo. E quanti amori ci stanno dentro.
E quanti volano via. Potevo lasciarti avere il bambino. Ti rendi conto, cosa sarebbe successo? Per forse sarebbe stato meglio. Almeno non saresti andata via. Sandra, ma dove vai? Dai non scherzare, torna qui. Sandra, ascoltami, ma dai, cosa fai. Ti amo, Sandra. Ti amo, Sandra. Ti amo…
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Straight Up: Steffi (27), Ingenieurin
Und jetzt stellen wir einem unserer Gäste bei Cosmic Dancer auch noch ein paar knifflige Fragen. Unser erstes Opfer heißt Steffi und kommt aus Dresden. Sie war sehr geduldig mit dem etwas betrunkenen Interviewer. Danke Steffie.
Bist du das erste Mal bei Cosmic Dancer?
Nein, Ich war schon ein paar Mal hier.
Und wie gefällt dir es dir?
Gut.
Wer sind die Moroders?
Die sind drei.
Und wo kommen die Moroders ursprünglich her?
Ich habe heute gelernt, dass Sie aus Italien stammen.
Was hast du heute noch gelernt?
Das die Dolomiten sehr toll sein sollen.
Nenne mir eine Lebensweisheit die dir viel bedeutet
Die Mikrobe ist nichts, das Milieu ist alles!
[???]
Was wolltest du werden als du sechs Jahre alt warst?
Ärtztin.
Was macht deine Grossmutter?
Sie ist tot.
[Upps]
Welche Musik würdest du spielen wenn du selber Dj wärst?
Electro und Drum ‘n Bass.
Lieblingsband im Moment?
The XX
Was ist das Beste was dir jemals in deinem Leben passiert ist?
Das Ich meinen Freund kennengelernt habe.
Dresden oder Berlin?
Berlin
Und wie heißt deine Lieblingsband im Moment?
Diese Frage hast du mir schon einmal gestellt.
Ok, Wenn du dir selber eine Frage stellen dürftest wie würde die lauten
Darf Ich jetzt aufhören.
Last Night at Cosmic Dancer
To celebrate a party under the banner ‘The Last Day of Summer’ is an audacious undertaking to pull off considering it had snowed the day before in Dresden. Luckily for us Mix Mup (Erkrankung durch Musique/ Mikrodisko) from Leipzig had brought with him a zestful summer-disco-house orchestra and deco to match: Colorful cardboard palm trees, scrumptious wooden ice cream sticks and over-sized beach cocktails turned the dismal walls of Altes Wettbuero into a picture book Rimini beach setting. Add complimentary tropical fruits and the launch of our very own cocktail entitled Limonata Morosa (more soon) and you felt like Summer has never stopped. But no. It has. Honestly! It’s over now. Live with it!!! That’s it. Awright?!
PS: You will find a tiny clip of Mix Mup’s performance over on our youtube account here.
BOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYSSSSSSSS
An excerpt of visuals shown at the October edition of Cosmic Dancer. Sabrina Salerno’s infamous liberal performance of her tune wedgie ‘Boys’ is pleasurably prolonged by recompressing the speed of all video frames by 10%. Unfortunately the projection had to be terminated fairly early in the night after some male members of the audience became so fixated by all those bouncing balls that the Dj felt like he was (direct quote) ‘playing for drooling zombies’.
If you can’t get enough of Boys though why not check out this version by v/vm on their myspace. (Thanks Mix Mup). Sabrina on the other hand has since left this passage of her life (or should we blatantly call it a slip up?) waaaay behind and now runs a respectable managment agency. It’s called New Boys Productions. And you should check it out if your looking for a good time.
Finally! New Website and Blog.
Good things come to those who wait… Or so they say. Anyway. Without much further ado. Here is our new website and blog. Please have a look around and let us know what you think. Big thanks go out to James Chambers who programmed the site for us. We owe you. Cari Saluti
x The Moroders
Think Pink! Vol.1
First edition of our monthly video-clip-show ‘Think Pink!‘ celebrating the color pink in all its effulgent facets. For more roseate shenanigans check back next month. And why not try pink shampoo? Pink toothpaste too. Play in pink, all day in pink. Pretty okay in pink. Drive in pink, come alive in pink. Have a dive in pink. Think Pink!
Cosmic Dancer with Mix Mup
„Funky-Punky-Acid-Disco-Tec-House-Trash-Cutup-Symphonies” mit Mix Mup beim Cosmic Dancer am 17. Oktober ab 22 Uhr. Achtung! Bis 23 Uhr Eintritt frei!
“Music is no more about technology and new software. this time is over!
now one can concentrate on the thing that seemed to get lost: virtuosity.”
Myoon machte sich anläßlich der Mikrodisko 4 Releaseparty in die Spur und feierte zusammen mit dem Leipziger Partyrudel das “more to play”-Prinzip. Einige Tage danach lud Mix Mup in sein Atelier und sprach über die gute Schule des Musikhörens, seine ersten Tapesessions, seine fruchtbare Liaison mit der Mikrodisko und sein ständiges Spiel mit den Genres.
Quelle: Myoon Music
Portland here we come…
If you live in Portland or close by come and check out C Moroder playing alongside the lovely Linqer&Quiet Dj Team (Nightclubbing) and the fantastic Stephen Quirke of Click Track Fame at Ascension (OR 97227) tomorrow. Entry is $5. And it’s going to be a fun night. If you have missed it check out this splendid mix by Linqer&Quiet for Beatsinspace Radio. Here.
The Future is Past Vol.2 – Love Edition
The second edition of The Future is Past show is dedicated solely to love songs. Old and new. Happy and sad. Because love, you know, has two sides. Just like a tape. Enjoy xx
Side A – Glory of Love
1. The Paradise – In Love with You
2. Antony And The Johnsons – Crazy in love
3. Electronic Concept Orchestra – The Look Of Love (Thanks Half Boy!)
4. Air – Love
5. Jean Michel Jarre – Geometry of Love part 1
6. Kid Cudi – Enter Galactic (Love Connection Part 1)
7. Eugene – Livin’ In Your Love
8. Paul McCartney – Silly Love Songs
+ Bonus Love Song
Side B – Tragedy of Love
1. Phoenix – Love Like a Sunset
2. TV on the Radio – Love Dog
3. Windy & Carl – My Love
4. The Big Pink – Love Song
5. Savage – A Love Again (Special Remix)
9. Man Friday – Love Honey, Love Heartache (Larry Levan Vocal Mix)
10. Slick Rick – Teenage Love
+ Bonus Love Song
Profondo Rosso by Goblin (live)
Play all videos at once for a live performance. One. Two. Three…
