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Michael Jackson’s passing is a very sad affair and my thoughts certainly go out to his friends and family. The man was a legend and had a fundamental impact on music as we know it. He’ll certainly be missed.

It’s been a crazy couple of weeks with the Treasure Fingers show and a trip to LA so I’ve been pretty lax on posting, but I plan to make up for all that this week. I’ve bought a ton of music of late and as soon as I get it all cataloged I’ll be dropping some flavor.

Firstly, I want to kick off a new feature on the blog. Going forward I’ll be posting some of the rare gems that I come across while digging through used record stores/thrift shops/garage sales. All tracks will be ripped from vinyl. For the kick off I have a few songs to share.

The first I picked up from Amoeba Records in Hollywood. This is a “Special Disco Version” of Blondie’s “Rapture” that was released in 1981 on Chrysalis Records. The track is over 9 minutes long and has some SWEET instrumentation that works right in with all the great nu-disco stuff that is coming out of late.

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Blondie – Rapture (Special Disco Version) MP3

Starting on July 10th the First Fridays party that DJ Pascale and I have been throwing at Debonair Social Club is going to be re-branded as “Night Versions”, based on the late night disco cuts bands like Duran Duran and The Human League used to include on their singles before the remix revolutions kicked into effect. Here is one of those “Night Versions” of the track “My Own Way” that Duran Duran released on EMI in 1981 (that year kicked ASS, apparently).

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Duran Duran – My Own Way (Night Version) MP3

The last track for this week was released on Mercury Records in 1982 (so close to being all ’81 this week…) by the band “Trio”. This German outfit was a one hit wonder that released the 8-bit wonder “Da Da Da” which you probably remember from the Volkswagen commercial a couple years back where two guys pick up and then re-trash a stinky couch (check it on You Tube here). I got the record for that track but I kind of dig the song from the flip side.

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Trio – Sunday You Need Love Monday Be Alone MP3

That’s it for this week. I have a TON of stuff to rip in and listen to. I’ll drop some of the highlights on here in the next couple days.

First off I have to get some housekeeping out of the way. It has come to my attention that some of the MP3s that I posted on here may be tainted. The reason for this is that I bought some new needles and when I moved the Grado stylus that I use to rip my vinyl in I accidentally wired it incorrectly. When I was ripping the vinyl in and listening to it through my headphones they sounded fine and I thought all was well. But recently I have noticed that when I route some of my songs through a mixer they sound like crappy crap. SO, the last couple days have been spent re-ripping in songs that were a product of my unsmartness. The upside of this is that tomorrow I will replace the bad’ns with with good’ns so if you are so inclined you can go back and download again. Anything earlier than March 17th should be tiptop so if that Bjork/Modeselektor track is ok. Mea Culpa.

Now that that is out of the way, happily I’ve been gigging quite a bit which has left me little time to post, so apologies for the lack of music on here. That is the case again tonight since I have the privilege of sharing Debonair Social Club with Devlin and Darko (and Ryan Paradise and Goldar and Pascale) tonight so here’s the deal: I’ve gotten my hands on a lot of great stuff in the last week and want to share it with you guys but I don’t have the time to research a lot of editorial on these acts so I’m just going to put the songs on here for you to preview. If you like what you hear you can go out and troll the interweb and check out fun facts, tour dates, etc. plus buy everything these artists have ever put out (everyone is happy). Please email me if you come across something worth sharing. Ok, maybe one related tour date – if you are in Chicago, The Juan Maclean is going to be at Double Door June 16th – I’m happy about that and I’m sure you are too.

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The Juan Maclean – One Day (Surkin Remix) MP3

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Sebastien Tellier – Kilometer (Strangelets Remix) MP3

Don’t miss Weap and DJ Pascale cooking plates at Uptown Lounge from 11 on. I know it says 10 but we are generally fashionable in our lateness.