Disco Horror

SORRY FOR THE DELAY. MANY THINGS HAVE HAPPENED, INCLUDING MY HD CRASHING AND ME LOSING 90% OF MY MUSIC. HERE IS A POST THAT I WROTE A MONTH AGO WHILE I WAS VISITING MAX IN NEW YORK.  NO PICTURES OF MY WEINER WILL BE POSTED, BUT HERE’S A PIC OF MAX I TOOK AT A CARNIVAL WHILE HE WAS VISITING HIS CARNY PARENTS.

Ok so now you’ve been cruisin on an astral dance plane of fog and lasers for several hours and as you begin to tire you look to the back of the warehouse to the folding chairs situated against the wall. You turn to your friends, shout something about taking a break and begin to weave your way through the crowd towards the back. A peace settles across the dance floor as one of Mark’s pressure dubs starts to cook. You collapse in the foldable chair with your friends, but the simple synths progression and the hi-hat start to gain momentum. The snare drops and a high pitched whine begins to rise out of the dark. You begin to move in your seat and before you know it you are itching to get back on the dance floor. It’s unfair really, when DJs pull that, all you want is rest, but they make you dance, they MAKE you dance. But it’s delightfully tortuous and sore feet and achy legs are a small price to pay for a night of escapist debauchery. Enjoy perhaps one of the best Mark E tracks out there from the Juno 10th anniversary series. Simple. Clean. Patient. Perfect.

The Detroit Experiment – Think Twice (Mark E Pressure Dub)

Now the finale. The recently released edit off of Under The Shade (parent label Jiscomusic) that I have played at every party I’ve DJed in the past few months and another epic from Mark E’s RA Podcast. The B-side is a rad housey edit of “Frankenstein,” the artist of which I can’t recall right now. On the A-side is Mark’s edit of Grace Jones “La Vie En Rose” is minimalist, but perfect in it’s simplicity. It ends every night well and I’m not going to say much more about it. Enjoy.

Mark E – Freakin Shriekin

So last night I went out to the Warm Leatherette party in the Western Addition. Dudes there play coldwave, italo, and other dark minimal synthy jamz in what I could only describe as a gothy dance party, but it works great! I’ll let you know when the next one is due to occur, but just a heads up if you’re in the SF area, check this party out cuz it’s fun.

Ok here’s the next in my series of Mark E trax. As the night creeps on, you’ve had a few drinks, inhibitions are dwindling, and when this track comes on you just start to lose your shit and don’t care what you look like on the dance floor anymore. A funky incarnation that drives the self-confidence-o-meter to new highs as you groove to the house beatz. I hate that term because it makes me think of the late 90s when house music was cheesy and dudes referred to their records as wax, but I felt it fit here. Enjoy the AA side of Mark’s new release on his own label Merc.

Mark E – You

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One last reminder, our inaugural party is tonight at 222 Club in the Tenderloin. The place has a new soundsystem and also a larger dance floor than it used to! The party starts at 9 and Dan Judd aka. Sorcerer will be kicking things off so be sure to get there early! And remember it’s FREE so say fuck the work week and come party with us!

Mark E, one of our favorites here at DiscoHorror, has finally been releasing all of the looped slo-mo madness he has been gradually unleashing on dance floors worldwide for the past year or two on an assortment of labels, so here is the first of four posts covering his latest and semi-latest releases.

I’ll kick things off with an opener that rises out of the depths like a sunrise over the open ocean, slowly bleaching the night sky until it turns it to a pale morning gray. Then finally washing you over with warm beams as it begins to peer over the waves crashing on the beach. The hypnotizing beat with its whooshing synths stirring up the calm sea. The release, Codsall Juniors, features two original compositions released on the fantastic Endless Flight label and I first heard this track on Mark E’s RA Podcast, but KZA has also used it in his new mix I’m Starting to Feel OK Vol. 3, enjoy!

Mark E – Codsall Juniors