2001 - a spaced odyssey NYE
I may have already mentioned what a great flat Andie and I shared in Bethnal Green. With a large living space it was perfect for big parties, and we had a few. Best of the best were our New Year’s Eve extravaganzas. ‘2001: A Spaced Odyssey’ was the biggest headline event I can remember. Andie’s room was earth, floodlit in green, mine was Mars in red, the hallway was a docking station and the main room was space. Everyone dressed up: gay space cowboys, a whole crew of Star Trek ensigns, monsters, aliens, the lot. Clearing up the day after we filled a box with toy ray guns. As with all the best parties, it was a joint effort. Ted designed the invite artwork, Paul, Andrew and Cuneyt dressed the venue after raiding the Paperchase post-xmas sale, I was lights and music. When hosting at home I don’t enjoy DJing through the evening so used to pre-mix the music. This mix kicked in at midnight after Big Ben’s chimes. We start with a few commercial dance favourites from the time, before going into a wad of funky disco house anthems and old skool classics. Ii think I must have run out of time before the party because the last 20 minutes are from a Ministry Of Sound CD. Thanks also goes to Tim Stoller for lending me ‘Salsoul Nuggets’ - my fave track of that Christmas, only available as an instrumental white label at the time. Originally mixed across 4x minidiscs, the mix appears here for the first time as one continuous session. This is the soundtrack from midnight to 5am, at which point we switched to Strangeways Days Vol 2. It’s a big file so may take some time to dload. My fondest memory of the party was at about 8am on New Year’s Day. The sun was rising and a Spanish couple we’re dancing. I’d never met them before - friends of friends of friends - but they had just been reunited as he had been living in Spain. They twirled each other around and around gently, never losing eye contact. A beautiful moment amongst the spilt drinks, fag ends and scattered beer cans! artwork dloads CD covers from Andrew’s discs of this mix, including Ted’s artwork: disc 1 - disc 2 - disc 3 2001: A Spaced Odyssey > New Year’s Eve > mixed 26 - 30 Dec 2000 1 - Daft Punk - One More Time 2 - Lucy Pearl - Don't Mess With My Man - mood II swing mix 3 - Bootleg - modjo / brandy - ladyboy is mine 4 - Spiller - groovejet (if this ain't love) 5 - Cleptomaniacs - all i do (Stevie Wonder) 6 - Soul Vision vs EBTG - Tracey In My Room 7 - Braxe & Falke - Intro (runnin) 8 - ATFC - Bad Habit 9 - Barbara Tucker - Stop playing with my mind 10 - Whitney Houston - I'm your baby tonight - dronez club mix 11 - Afro Medusa - Pasilda - Knee Deep club mix 12 - King Unique - Look ahead 13 - Daddy's Favourite - I feel good things for you 14 - Junior Jack - My Feelings 15 - M&S - Salsoul Nugget (If you wanna) 16 - Bob Sinclare / Sister Sledge - feel for you / lost in music booty 17 - Gamba Freaks - let's get down 18 - Cherie Amour - I don't want nobody telling me 19 - Bini & Martini - happiness 20 - Moloko - Time is now 21 - Sonique - feels so good - can 7 remix 22 - Joe Roberts - Happiness 23 - Bootleg - talking heads - once in a lifetime - remix 24 - Bootleg - bucketheads - the bomb booty 25 - K Klass - Show You Love - 99 remix 26 - Moby - Body Rock - olav bosaski remix 27 - H2O - Satisfied 28 -Bootleg noel - ce ce peniston funked up - finally - noel funk mix 29 - Gamma Funk - shake my ass 30 - Basstoy - runnin' - original 31 - Boney M - ma baker remix 32 - white label - party children 33 - Junior Jack - My feelings - remix 34 - Urban Species - alright 35 - Xpansions - move ur body 3