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So I have been tasked with providing the soundtrack to a small little trashy/druggy after-hours party in Las Vegas next weekend. It's gonna be in a swank suite-penthouse at the Cosmopolitan, and there will be a small collection of spun/ coked out people (some probably on E) hanging out watching the fountains at the Bellagio late night/ early AM. They will have just come from a DJ Set by Steve Aoki at Hakkasan , and I'll want to cleanse everyone's aural palate after all of that house music and get the afterparty started right. I don't really want to DJ per se, so I'm bringing a thumping Bose Bluetooth and plan to make some playlist/ iTunes mixes that I can drop like it's hot and mingle without having to fuss about the music at all.
I have three loose ideas for mixes, and would welcome some suggestions for songs or artists that you guys think might fall into one of the following playlists. In general, I want the tunes to all be good late night thumpy groovers that sound good to spun-out glammo tweakers:
1- Saccharine Longings I picture this as a sort of sensual, trashy, cheesy slick well-produced sex groove vibe. Maybe even some Yacht Rock/ groovy early eighties pop confections, like the soundtrack to Anchorman II. Think the general sleazy creepy sexy feeling throughout Destroyer's Kaputt, and you can maybe sense where I'm trying to go here. Was gonna put "Savage Night at the Opera" from that record on there, Steely Dan's "Babylon Sister," Bryan Ferry "Slave to Love," ABC from "The Lexicon of Love," Prince "The Ballad of Dorothy Parker," Prefab Sprout "When Love Breaks Down,' Maxwell "Ascension."
2- Seduced by Robots Dubby, deep electro seduction. Think good Depeche Mode remixes, Suicide, Fad Gadget, Ultravox, Love and Rockets/ Tone on Tail, Garbage, Cabaret Voltaire, the Knife, David Bowie.
3- Hushed Meteorology Quiet storm- Like Grover Washington Jr, Sade, Jessie Ware, Quadron, Purity Ring, Frankie Beverly, Raphael Saadiiq, Erykah Badu.
Hive mind, activate. You guys have really good ears. Bruegel, Paves, Raj, Undo, Soma, Phixed, nick, Petey, Michael K, Reuben, BG Waves, Zappo et. al I'm looking at you guys.
I have three loose ideas for mixes, and would welcome some suggestions for songs or artists that you guys think might fall into one of the following playlists. In general, I want the tunes to all be good late night thumpy groovers that sound good to spun-out glammo tweakers:
1- Saccharine Longings I picture this as a sort of sensual, trashy, cheesy slick well-produced sex groove vibe. Maybe even some Yacht Rock/ groovy early eighties pop confections, like the soundtrack to Anchorman II. Think the general sleazy creepy sexy feeling throughout Destroyer's Kaputt, and you can maybe sense where I'm trying to go here. Was gonna put "Savage Night at the Opera" from that record on there, Steely Dan's "Babylon Sister," Bryan Ferry "Slave to Love," ABC from "The Lexicon of Love," Prince "The Ballad of Dorothy Parker," Prefab Sprout "When Love Breaks Down,' Maxwell "Ascension."
2- Seduced by Robots Dubby, deep electro seduction. Think good Depeche Mode remixes, Suicide, Fad Gadget, Ultravox, Love and Rockets/ Tone on Tail, Garbage, Cabaret Voltaire, the Knife, David Bowie.
3- Hushed Meteorology Quiet storm- Like Grover Washington Jr, Sade, Jessie Ware, Quadron, Purity Ring, Frankie Beverly, Raphael Saadiiq, Erykah Badu.
Hive mind, activate. You guys have really good ears. Bruegel, Paves, Raj, Undo, Soma, Phixed, nick, Petey, Michael K, Reuben, BG Waves, Zappo et. al I'm looking at you guys.
