At the movies: Eden.

Eden hit me in a lot of different ways and a lot of different waves. It's one of the best movies about dance music and DJing yet made, and it haunts your soul like the best of classic ghost stories.

And everyone knows your business.

There have been times when I've written of that peculiarly New York phenomenon of heading back home after having been properly laid and everyone you pass by sorta knowing your business from your carriage and demeanor. Well, if you ever wanted to know what that sounds like, strolling on home twenty-something blocks with a buzzed and blissful smile on your face around four in the morning, this is it.

Mr. Fingers - "Can U Feel it"
from 1986 on Trax Records.

So if you're trying to use iTunes (or whatever non-Apple and their damned proprietary software equivalent to make a playlist of the sounds of NYC as I've been hearing them, here are a few more to add to the list (in addition to our friend Mr. Fingers above).

OMD - "Enola Gay"
Charles Aznavour - "Emmenez-moi"
Buzzcocks - "Love You More"
m83 - "Kim and Jessie"
PiL - "This is not a Love Song"
Giorgio Moroder - "From Here to Eternity/Utopia, Me Giorgio"
The Jones Girls - "You're Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else"
Buzzcocks - "Noise Annoys"
Depeche Mode - "Big Muff"

I will add to the list as necessary and as is accurate.

Yesterday I saw:
LOLA MONTES (d. Max OPHULS) ** 1/2
UN CONTE DE NOEL (A Christmas Tale) (d. Arnaud DESPLECHIN) *** 1/2
LOVE IS DEAD (d.Eric CAPITAINE) ***
TOKYO SONATA (d. KUROSAWA Kiyoshi) *** 1/2

"Take a chance; rise above."

Walking a neat line between current big room house vibes and hands-in-the-air eurodiscery, this is currently the song I can't get out of my head. Mix of preference would be the Out of Office Mix. It's out on D:Vision Records in Italy and on several of the legal download services.


Da Groove Doctors featuring Tommie Nibbs - "All We Need is Love"