Look Out, Argentina Just Score Another Goal!

Last night I played a DJ set at an invite-only party along with the band Los Super Elegantes and Senior from Junior Senior. This should give you some indication of what to expect for tonight’s Fluxblog Vs. Stereogum event at Luke & Leroy, though I am planning on playing a fairly different group of songs.

The Silures “21 Ghosts” / Ce’cile “Hot Like We” / M.I.A. “10 Dollar” / Vanesshina & Allesandra “Gira” / Edu K “Popozuda Rock and Roll” / Wir Sind Helden “Guten Tag” / Girls Aloud “Models” / ABBA “You Owe Me One” / Cristina “Mamma Mia” / Ludus “Breaking The Rules” / Maxi Geil! & Playcolt “Makin’ Love in the Sunshine” / Beyonce with Slim Thug and Bun B “Check On It” / Fox “S-s-single Bed” / Goldfrapp “Ride A White Horse” / Robyn “Konichiwa Bitches” / Junior Senior “Take My Time” / Out Hud “It’s For You” / Gene Serene and John Downfall “U Want Me” / Ladytron “Destroy Everything You Touch” / Celestial Choir “Stand On The Word (Larry Levan Mix)” / The Meters “Cabbage Cosby Alley” / Zalatnay Sarolta “Hadd Mondjam El” / Prince “Controversy” / The Slits “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” / The Make Up “Pow! to the People” / Mia. “Heroes” / David Wrench “World War IV” / Hank “Defreeze and Top Gal” / Fox and Wolf “Youth Alcoholic” / Johnny Boy “15 Minutes”

Many longtime readers will notice that I pulled out a lot of old Fluxblog classics from ’03 and ’04 for this set. For newer readers, here are two of those golden oldies:

Mia “Heroes” – Not to be confused with M.I.A.! This Mia is a German pop band, and this is their cover of the David Bowie song, though it’s probably more accurate to call it a “reimagining” or somesuch since they take some rather drastic liberties with the song and sing the entire thing in German. I recently rediscovered this song after about not hearing for about a year or so, and I’ve fallen in love with it all over again. This track was originally posted here on February 18, 2004. (Click here to buy it from Amazon Germany.)

The Silures “21 Ghosts” – Though I do enjoy sharing music with you all, I ultimately do this site for fairly selfish reasons – if I didn’t work within this artificial structure, I would probably get lazy about seeking out new songs and then I wouldn’t have amazing obscure gems like this in my life. This is undoubtedly one of the best songs that I’ve ever featured on the site and probably my favorite way to open a DJ set, but since I’ve written about this song at least twice before, here’s a bit of testimonial from James at Green Pea-Ness:

“21 Ghosts” may well be the most stupefying jump-around-like-an-idiot hammer-of-the-gods not-actually-a-rock song I’ve ever heard in my life, with the possible exception of a certain song dedicated to determining the placement of bitches on one’s 99-strong list of problems. Honestly, I feel a little funny even giving credit to Pascal “Vitalic” Arbenz (one-half of the Silures along with Linda Lamb) for this one simply because it out-rocks everything he’s ever done, no small feat considering we’re talking about motherfucking VITALIC here. I’m thinking that this must have just been a lightning-in-a-bottle moment; all I can say is thank Jebus someone had a bottle handy.

This track was originally posted here on March 11, 2004.
(Click here to buy it from Amazon UK.)

Elsewhere: Eppy begs God to explain the existence of the new television series Love Monkey.