Artist	Song
blur	"girls & boys"
radiohead	"idioteque"
the ramones	"do you remember rock & roll radio?"
beck	"high 5 (rock the catskills)"
james brown	"the payback"
prince	"le grind"
the rolling stones	"miss you" [12" mix]
david bowie	"john, i'm only dancing (again)"
happy mondays	"step on"
the smiths	"how soon is now?"
the stone roses	"fools gold"

Comment:

first of all, i'd like to wish a very happy new year to AOTMers everywhere -- it seems everybody is slowly creeping back to the site, so i hope you all had a wonderful holiday season.

anyhow, onto the mix: this is an idea that i've had kicking around & taken on & off the backburner for some months now. the concept is basically a mix of trashy dance music according to someone who doesn't like dance music; according to someone who was raised on british invasion, merseybeat, 60's pop, soul & r&b, & 70's punk & hard rock. above all, songs were used to give it that junky, whimsical, free-flowing, trashy sound -- which turned out well, i think: everytime you think you're going to hit a rut, you get jerked into a new direction with a different genre that builds in intensity until it explodes into the next one.

for a mix with such a short number of songs, it may draw some question marks as to why it took so long: the last month's holiday commotion notwithstanding, i kept getting frustrated with it & giving up & putting it aside, then coming back after a week or so to continue work for a variety of reasons. one was that many of these songs are incredibly long & have various different mixes, so the question came about which mixes to use, which versions, which lengths, etc. now i wanted this to be dancey, but i didn't want it to be too dancey, so i tried to scale back on too many "dance remixes" (such as the 8-minute 12" version of "miss you," & the 7-minute 12" remix of "john, i'm only dancing") -- i wanted it to sound equally as trashy, if not moreso. plus, with such long songs it was inevitable that many, many quality songs had to be cut; & with a project like this that i considered my baby, that i was incredibly excited about, i had to keep taking breaks before becoming too frustrated with the increasingly difficult decisions of which songs & which mixes to use. fortunately enough, it was well worth it, as this happens to be one of my personal favorite mixes i've yet assembled; however, be on the look out for a volume two in the coming months.

enough of all that jive though, let's get to dancing.

p.s. very, very special thanks to jonpoi for the wonderful cover art!

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