Hold On We're Going Home (DJ Apt One Italienische Version)

Unearthed a remix I once did for popular 1980s Italian HI-NRG singer Drake (nee Aubrizzio Driaggio Grahamino), best known for coining the Italian phrase "si vive una volta sola" (YOLO) and for his role as "Jimmy di Sedia a Rotelle" in the RAI-Italia afternoon special Scuola DeGrazzio. Ripped from a 1985 German 12" Maxi Single version.
 

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European Digging Wrapup For Tucker Bloom

As I mentioned a few weeks back, I had put together a bit of a "record aficionado's travel guide to Northern Europe" for my friends at the Tucker & Bloom bag company. Go and check it out - comes complete with flicks and musical accompaniment!

Europa Europa

Hiyooo DBJ fam. Just back from a European tour - and if you're interested, there should be a big review I did of record stores across the continent up on the Tucker & Bloom Bag Messenger blog sometime soon. There's also a photo wrap-up on my site as well. Shoutouts to Betino's Paris, SpaceHall Berlin, Flashback London and others for the great records, and many thanks to the numerous Dollar Bin Jams readers I met all over Europe (especially France - we see you!). Here's a great Europdisco pickup I came across in Berlin

Mike Cannon - Voices In The Dark

Mediafire • 1983

Giving Up, Giving In

Apologies for the tainted artwork, but for the sake of accuracy this was the only pic of the U.S. 12" I could find, and I don't have a camera. In any event, this is disco daggering at its most intense, Philly soul meets Moroder chug.

The Three Degrees - Giving Up, Giving In | Divshare | YSI | 320 kbps


And be sure to tune in to Nighttime World radio tonight at 10 p.m. EST on Party 934. No guest this week, but next Monday I'll be welcoming fellow Dollar Bin Jammer Shawn Ryan to the studio. Support internet radio!

Dollar Bin Jammers, Make RCMP Yours

Here's a formal introduction to the newest offshoot of the Philadelphyinz/Dollar Bin Jams family: RCMP.

RCMP is the brainchild of Relative Q (who you may remember from DBJ guest Mix Number 1) and me, DJ Apt One. It's a strictly classic Eurodance project.

More details emerge by the day, but I've just received word that there is a very good chance that RCMP will be on vinyl some time in 2009. Yay!

There will be free music for you at some point, no doubt, but in the meantime, go and listen to RCMP at myspace.com/rcmpmusic and make RCMP yours.

Double - Woman Of The World

Double were a Swiss synth-pop duo consisting of Felix Haug & Kurt Maloo. If you stand in an elevator or department store for 45 minutes or so, you may catch their 1986 chart hit "The Captain Of Her Heart". Those of you cursed with being a thirty-something will undoubtedly remember this track from massive radio play back when radio play meant something.

Two years before they broke, Double were making dark, Italo-influenced proto-House. An incredible and underrated example of their abilities exists in the form of a track called "Woman Of The World". If you are craving oddball cosmic sounds with some sort of percussive "edge", this is your tune and it sounds relevant 24 years after its initial release. Bravo, Double!



Double - Woman Of The World (Instrumental Long Version)