{"id":54,"date":"2010-08-31T19:35:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T18:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.djskelp.com\/mixblog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2010-09-06T20:33:13","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T19:33:13","slug":"span-decks-manifesto-eighties-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.djskelp.com\/mixblog\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Span Decks – Manifesto (Eighties mix)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I love a lot of things about the 80s. I love the fact that all my teen years were spent in that decade – I had a\u00a0back perm<\/a>, a\u00a0Raleigh Super Burner<\/a>, Sta-Prest trousers, poser belts and\u00a0the Atari 2600<\/a> (Pacman ON YOUR TELLY!). In 1983 Aberdeen won the European Cup-Winners Cup in \u00a0Gothenburg <\/a>(Here we go!). The Beastie Boys had their first UK tour in 1987 which had the tabloids in a frenzy and 17 year old boys like me wearing VW badges and drinking budweiser. It’s no wonder that I look back on the music that was made in those years with a great deal of warm nostalgia – I guess that’s why I now have this alter-ego of Span Decks!<\/p>\n

When I first started thinking about djing 80s music, I decided quite early on that anything I did for recordings I should be able to reproduce live, in a club, without too much pre-planning, the same as I do with techno, electro and hardhouse. This I thought of as the Span Decks manifesto, so when it came to my first demo, it had to be named the same. This mix can be thought of as a manifesto of sorts in itself – it’s unthemed (other than by decade) so takes in a bit of funk, rock, electronica and pop. It was mixed in one take using Serato Scratch live with no autosynching and no post-recording edits. There are some loops in there to help make the transitions easier on the ear though – no point having a digital djing setup without using it’s features!<\/p>\n

I hope you enjoy this little trip down my memory lane.<\/p>\n

Right click\u00a0here<\/a> and choose ‘Save As’ to download ‘Manifesto’<\/p>\n

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  1. Going Back To My Roots – Odyssey<\/li>\n
  2. Axel F – Harold Faltermeyer<\/li>\n
  3. Eye Of The Tiger – Survivor<\/li>\n
  4. Nightflight To Venus – Boney M.<\/li>\n
  5. Funkytown – Lipps Inc.<\/li>\n
  6. Theme From S’Express – S’Express<\/li>\n
  7. White Lines (Don’t Do It) –\u00a0Grandmaster Flash \/ Melle Mel<\/li>\n
  8. Beat Dis – Bomb The Bass<\/li>\n
  9. Obsession – Animotion<\/li>\n
  10. Ghostbusters – Ray Parker Junior<\/li>\n
  11. The Final Countdown – Europe<\/li>\n
  12. The Race – Yello<\/li>\n
  13. Fade To Grey – Visage<\/li>\n
  14. The Power Of Love – Huey Lewis And The News<\/li>\n
  15. Call Me – Spagna<\/li>\n
  16. Relax – Frankie Goes To Hollywood<\/li>\n
  17. Blue Monday – New Order<\/li>\n
  18. Super Freak – Rick James<\/li>\n
  19. 99 Luftballons – Nena<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Right click\u00a0here<\/a> and choose ‘Save As’ to download Manifesto<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Right click image or here and choose ‘Save As’ to download I love a lot of things about the 80s. I love the fact that all my teen years were spent in that decade – I had a\u00a0back perm, a\u00a0Raleigh Super Burner, Sta-Prest trousers, poser belts and\u00a0the Atari 2600 (Pacman ON YOUR TELLY!). In 1983 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mixes","category-span-decks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.djskelp.com\/mixblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.djskelp.com\/mixblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.djskelp.com\/mixblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.djskelp.com\/mixblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.djskelp.com\/mixblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/www.djskelp.com\/mixblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"http:\/\/www.djskelp.com\/mixblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.djskelp.com\/mixblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.djskelp.com\/mixblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.djskelp.com\/mixblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}