THE NO DISC DISCO

Imperative Reaction: Hype
Liquid Divine: Lotus
Monarchy: The Phoenix Alive (Kris Menace rmx)
The Chemical Brothers: Hold Tight London
VNV Nation: Streamline
Freezepop: Magnetic
Assemblage 23: Spark
Apoptygma Berserk: Black & White
Orchestral Maneuovres in the Dark: History of Modern Part 1
Soulwax: E Talking (Rex the Dog rmx)
Melotron: Stirb Fur Mich
Moby: We Are All Made of Stars (DJ Tiesto rmx)
IAMX: Kiss & Swallow (Moonbotica rmx)

I was going to get a new podcast out by Christmas, until I took an arrow in the knee. [rimshot]

In every respect, this has been a great year for the podcast. Thanks to all of you for making it so. 2012 is just the beginning. Ring it in!

U2: New Year's Day (Ferry Corsten rmx)
Zombiegirl: Bleeder (Industrial Strength rmx by Seb O Tron 2000)
Straftanz: Monkey Do, Monkey Say
Heimataerde: Dark Dance (mainfloor)
Uppermost: Cake Shop is Dope
Pin Me Down: Cryptic (Phones Materialisation rmx)
VNV Nation: Space & Time
Friendly Fires: Strobe
SITD: Rot
Aesthetic Perfection: The 11th Hour
Rotersand: If You Don't Stop It
Tiesto feat. Mark Knight: Beautiful World
De/Vision: Flash of Life (Solitary Expirements Backscatter rmx)
The Do: Bohemian Dances
Tyler the Creator: Tron Cat
Covenant: The World Is Growing Loud

What started out as an attempt to make a mix of music from, for and in mind of video games kind of uh, went off the rails a bit. Enjoy!

Perfect Circle: Count Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums
Rammstein: Links 234
Celldweller Vs. Tainted: The Best It's Gonna Get
Edge of Dawn: All the Time
Goldfrapp: Rocket (DJ Tiesto rmx)
Asbury Heights: Smile
Freddie Filter: Packet of Peace (feat. J. Don Sauro)
De/Vision: Rage (Mesh rmx)
Absurd Minds: Serve or Suffer
And One: Zerstorer
Suicide Commando: Death Cures All Pain (Aesthetic Perfection rmx)
The Birthday Massacre: Shallow Grave (Assemblage 23 rmx)
Deadmau5: Strobe (Plump DJs rmx)
Ghost and Writer: Hitman (File Not Found)
Zodiac: Just Be Good to Me

Felix da Housecat: Silver Screen (Jacques Lu Cont rmx)
Covenant: We Want Revolution
Seabound: Without You
Icon of Coil: Wiretrip
Benny Benassi: Get Loose
Trans X: Vivre Sur Video
Richard "Humpty" Vission: Hardcore Motherfucker
Tok Tok Vs. Soffy O: Day of Mine
Duran Duran: Girls on Film (Tin Tin Out rmx)
Ferry Corsten: Show Your Style
Nightwatchers: Insomnia
Dekoy: I Live Again
Lasgo: Something

Have you ever been shopping in one of those Halloween stores that seem to pop up this time of year, bought a $3 CD of "Halloween Party Tunes", listened to it and thought "I could make a better Halloween Party mix than that!!"

Of course you have. And so have I. Happy Halloween everybody.

1. London Philharmonic Orchestra: Peer Gynt Suite no. 1, Op. 46: In the Hall of the Mountain King
2. David Bowie: Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
3. Bobby "Boris" Pickett: The Monster Mash
4. Killing Miranda: Teenage Vampire
5. Richard O'Brien: The Time Warp
6. Lydia Kavina: Suite from "Ed Wood" I
7. The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror V
8. God Module: Let's Go Dark
8. Mark Snow: Theme from "The X-Files"
9. Travesty Ltd.: It's Not Alive
10. Ladytron: Ghosts
11. Ministry: Every Day is Halloween
12. The Cramps: Rockin' Bones
13. John Carpenter: Halloween Main Theme
14. Warren Zevon: Werewolves of London
15. Squirrel Nut Zippers: Hell
16. The LoveCrave: Thriller
17. Danny Elfman: Psycho Film Score
18. Oingo Boingo: Dead Man's Party
19. Alice Cooper: School's Out
20. 45 Grave: Partytime
21. Danny Elfman: This is Halloween
22. Dead or Alive: Something in My House

That's right, just 14 days or so until GEARS OF WAR 3. Which is
probably the only reason you are seeing this; once that awesomeness
drops I don't expect to be very productive for the rest of the year.
Although I do have ambitions to do Halloween and Xmas specials. Until
then, cogitate on this!

Belfegore: All That I Wanted (Extended club mx)
Noisuf-X: Beatz and Bass (Blast in Your Face)
Pulp: Metal Techno
Faderhead: Destroy, Improve, Rebuild
Aesthetic Perfection: Siren
Gorillaz: Dare (Soulwax rmx)
Ashbury Heights: I Can Kill You so Easily
Syrian: Navigation
Depeche Mode: World in My Eyes (Oil Tank rmx)
Pet Shop Boys: Opportunities (Disco rmx)
Ladytron: Runaway
White Lies: E.S.T.
Bella Morte: Lights in the Sky
Edge of Dawn: Damage
Nena Mit Tok Tok: Ich Bella In Immer Noch

The Brain Guys: When I Held Your Brain in My Heart
Apoptygma Berserk: Shine On
Necessary Response: For All The Lost
DJ Blakee: Around-n-Stuff
Mystery Jets: Half in Love With Elizabeth (Foamo rmx)
Ayria: My Revenge on the World
Scandy: Split
Vandal: Captain Magic
Stone Roses: Made of Stone (808 State rmx)
Hyperdex 1 Sect: Death is Not the End
Lutzenkirchen: Daily Disco (Boys Noize rmx)
Royksopp: This Must Be It (Rex the Dog rmx)

Well it's hot as Hell on the East Coast, and it's about to get a lot hotter, because less than 24 hours from now is the Dracula's Ball in Philadelphia. If you don't know what I'm talking about, go to draculasball.com and educate yourself. If you do know what I'm talking about, Tweet the requests to @DJKangal and make them good ones! Not too long ago I found a scrap of paper containing my setlist from the first Drac Ball I ever did. Last episode was the first half, and now, the thrilling conclusion! Or at least 17 reasons to marvel at what 30 year old me was thinking. Enjoy something cool under the Heat Dome.

Apoptygma Berserk: Eclipse
Funker Vogt: Wartime
Numb: Suspended (primary axiom)
Loreena McKennitt: The Mummer's Dance
Depeche Mode: Halo
Simpson, Homer Simpson
Snog: Late 20th Century Boy
Mindless Faith: Our Way Down
Mesh: You Didn't Want Me
Cruxshadows: Cruelty
Informatik: Watching You Watching Me
Covenant: Tour de Force
C-Tec: Let Your Body Die
Neuroactive: Parallel (club mx)
Mind on Prosthetix: Kore 1
Flesh Field: Fallen Angel
London After Midnight: Kiss

About two and a half weeks from now, I will once again be DJing one of the coolest parties I have ever mixed it up, The Dracula's Ball in Philadelphia. I DJ'd that party for the first time just over a decade ago, in January of 2000. I don't remember much about that night, other than that was when I first met Bella Morte, I was so nervous I'd fuck up I barely drank at all (isn't that cute?? I thought sobriety helped), and that winter night was the second coldest night I have ever endured in my life. I often wish I had more memories of parties like that, which is why it was so cool to find the setlist I wrote down for that night in a box of old receipts and memorobilia. So here's the next best thing to phone cameras before we all had them: Me repeating a night of Goth/Industrial sets from 11 years ago. Think of it as a Time Capsule. A better mixed, VNV Nation-laden time capsule with bpm all over the place. I ask you to Drac It Up.

Just a little something short but sweet to fill some space. On a disc; and on a Sunday afternoon.

She Wants Revenge: Take the World
Army of the Universe: Resin (Bobermann rmx)
De/Vision: I'm Not Enough
KMFDM: Amnesia
The Ting Tings: That's Not My Name (L.A. Riots rmx)
Caustic feat. Faderhead: White Knuckle Head Fuck
Tiesto & Mark Knight feat. Dino: Beautiful World (original club mx)
FM Attack: Dreamer

Valve: Team Fortress 2
Aesthetic Perfection: Schadenfreude
Sonik Foundry: Poison
Front LIne Assembly: Sturm
Utah Saints: Lost Vagueness (Oliver Lieb mx)
Celldweller: Frozen (Celldweller Vs. Blue Stahli)
Japanese Popstars: Let Go
Underworld: Born Slippy (NUXX)
VNV Nation: Art of Conflict
Binary Park: My Angel
Suicide Commando: Mordfabrik
Aperture Science Laboratories: The Friendly Faith Plate

OK, first of all, WOW. The response to the last mix has literally been staggering. I was sure when I made it that I could count the amount of old friends on one hand that would care at all about a vintage Tracks mix, and I was wonderfully wrong: "2011" got a better response than any podcast I've ever done. Old friends and new, THANKS for the trip down memory lane. I'd say lets do it again sometime, except that I'm doing it RIGHT NOW. Just a little bit more nostalgia. Then forward to the future. I can quit anytime I want to.

2Xtreme: Der General (Bewegt Euch)
Revolting Cocks: Stainless Steel Providers
Rednex: Cotton-Eyed Joe
Die Warzau: Suck it Up
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult: After the Flesh
Marilyn Manson: The Angel With the Scabbed Wings
Gruesome Twosome: Hallucination Generation
Machines of Loving Grace: Butterfly Wings
De/Vision: Dinner Without Grace '98
Anything Box: Living in Oblivion
Erasure: Waiting for the Day

Throughout the 80's and 90's, in Our Nation's Capital, Washington D.C., if you were a club kid, a freak, gay, all three or in love with any of the above, there was only one club to hit on Thursday nights and weekends: TRACKS. For yours truly, it was my gateway drug to club music, dance music, DJing and kamikaze shooters. In the late 90's I wouldn't have missed a Thursday night for love or money, and I completely used up my supply of both, every Thursday night. Tracks is long gone now: Torn down in favor of baseball and big government, and only the memories and the music remain. The wonderful, wonderful music. Over the last few days there's been a bit of a spontaneous Love-in and Nostalgia overdose in the Facebook Community for Tracks alumni, and you know, one of my great regrets was that I never took the opportunities I got to DJ there. So this is my way of closing that little chapter: A podcast featuring all my favorites from that era, that I first heard and fell in love with at Tracks. Try not to make fun of the mohawk.

Headcrash: Freedom
Apotheosis: O Fortuna
L.A. Style: James Brown is Dead (7" mx)
Eon: Spice (Original mx)
4 Non Blondes: What's Up (techno rmx)
Prodigy: Breathe
Frontline Assembly: The Blade (technohead)
Meat Beat Manifesto: Dogstar Man
Acumen: Gun Lover
Depeche Mode: Strangelove
Yaz: Situation
Nitzer Ebb: Lightning Man
Microchip League: New York
Erasure: A Little Respect
The Lords of Acid: Blowing Up Your Mind
Everything But the Girl: Missing (Todd Terry club mx)

Turns out, it was allergies. Which anybody who was on the East Coast of the United States in the past 3 months can more than understand. However, the date I had to blow off to stay at home deciding whether I was sick was probably not impressed. BUT, like most sick days, I got a mix out of it. Enjoy my suffering.

Anoraak: Night Drive With You (Grum New Wave rmx)
Ampere: Dial Code (Electrixx rmx)
Binary Park: System Sucks
Depeche Mode: Martyr (Booka Shade full vocal mx edit)
Silent Auction: Reverie (mind.in.a.box rmx)
BT: Suddenly (Ferry Corsten mx)
Merge: Lost in Eternity (Extended mx)
Presets: This Boy's in Love
Rotersand: Wasted Wings
AlterRed: Amphetamine Chic

So a couple of weeks ago a few friends and I made the relatively routine pilgrimage to Philadelphia from Washington D.C. to see the Summer Synthpop tour featuring De/Vision, Iris and Mesh (unqualifiably awesome, by the way). This is a journey that all DC scenesters make on a regular basis, since Philadelphia offers so many things not available in Your Nation's Capital: Cool shows, skyscrapers, real graveyards and anything even remotely approaching retail. Anyhoo, being the DJ of the trip, I was designated the, er, DJ of the trip, and asked to bring some appropriate music for the journey. I threw together a no effort hour and a quarter mix. Turns out despite not even trying, the mixing was pretty decent. So why don't you all take the journey with us, again? Enjoy!

1. Depeche Mode: Home
2. The Knife: Heartbeats
3. De/Vision: Rage
4. Mesh: I Fall Over
5. Edge of Dawn: Siren's Call
6. La Roux: Reflections are Protection
7. Everything But the Girl: Missing (Todd Terry club mx)
8. Ladytron: Ghosts
9. Jon Tejada: Sweat (on the walls)
10. Information Society: Going, Going, Gone
11. Iris: Twilight
12. Code 64: System Failure
13. Innocent Lovers: Hommage a John Dahlback (Frankie and Neumann rmx)
14. Absurd Minds: Deficit Mindset
15. JUSTICE: Stress
16. Royksopp: This Must Be It (Rex the Dog rmx)
17. The Faint: Let the Poison Spill (Tommie Sunshine Let the Clock Punch rmx)

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