For the last decade, Tim Sweeney has shared his formidable record collection with an audience that extends from his New York City home base to the rest of the galaxy, mixing live on his now-legendary show ‘Beats in Space.’ Broadcasting over the FM airwaves and streaming over cyberspace, the show has attracted a cult following by being at the forefront of electronic music. Sweeney has joined forces along the way with the DFA Records family, forging musical kinships with fellow tastemakers such as his T&T partner Tim Goldsworthy. After traversing the globe as one of music’ s most in-demand DJs, releasing a 12′ as one half of T&T, and exposing video game fans to some of the only pop music they’ ll ever enjoy as a soundtrack supervisor for …
For those of you needing a little disco (or a lot of disco) in your afternoon, MoMa has four hours of DJ sets from the recent DFA party held at the NYC museum. DFA figurehead James Murphy stays off the decks, but the rest of the DFA clan mix it up right with T&T (Tims Goldsworthy and Sweeny), Justin Miller & Jacques Renault, Holy Ghost! and Juan Maclean all offering hour long sessions.
A video tour of James Murphy’s “Artist of the Decade” through his own music and his label, DFA…
The Rapture
“House of Jealous Lovers”
The first release on DFA and still its biggest hit. Frontman Luke Jenner later reported to URB that Murphy was inspired to start DFA after reading an article in a UK paper about the resurgence of minimal disco like ESG and A Certain Ratio.
Britney Spears
“Unreleased Demo”
At one point, even the pop princes wanted more cowbell. The track was never released, officially, but that’s just as well since there’s no way Brit-Brit would have made a more surreal video than this black drag queen calling herself Britney Houston. Wow.
It’s the Monday after Grammy weekend here in Los Angeles, which means the endless barrage of open bars and schmoozing opportunities is over. All that’s left to do is pick up the pieces, shrug and say, “Herbie Hancock? Really?” And while I always enjoy a weekend of playing the “who can expense this?” game at dinner with other industry mutts (“Not I,” said the magazine editor) there’s a more pressing matter in my mind: How the hell did James Murphy not take home the Best Electronic/Dance Album prize for LCD Soundsystem’s Sound of Silver? The record had already been proclaimed the best album of 2007 by venerable opinion makers Pitchfork, Village Voice, Mixmag and Uncut [URB gave it top 10 but didn’t rank beyond that]. But would that matter to the voting members of the Academy of Recording Arts and …
Toying with what is without a doubt James Murphy’s mega-opus, the group sticks with the original’s glockenspiel lead melody, but speeds thing up to a choppy two-and-a-half minutes—down from the six minute original, itself a trimmed up version of the instrumental segment from 45:33. And then there’s the just
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