My name's Eddie Richards.
Hi I'm Steve Bug, I'm at Amoeba doing a thing called... what was the name?
First time I went to New York, I went to the Paradise Garage.
So Run DMC play live and
Dominatrix, they were doing a set and it really blew me away. I thought it was like
really different. I'd never heard anything quite like that.
The show was really good, they were both live. I mean I went to the Paradise Garage twice.
Once just to see Larry Levan play, but the other one was...
they'd hide it out mid week or something and Run DMC were playing
it was great. Anyway, Dominatrix.
I started with something completely different.
This is probably the most influential band on my musical career.
This album, because I was too young I discovered it quite late
and today I found the picture disc.
So I'm really happy. The Cure is definitely my biggest influence in music.
I've been listening to it as a kid and growing up and it's been a long time.
I think you really discover music after you listen to it a few times.
I still put it on sometimes to listen to the whole album.
This is a Patti Day track and I remember that when the rave scene started in the UK
they became really huge, y'know 25,000 people were going out to these raves.
They had one in a grain silo where U2 used to rehearse
and it was massive. It was so big that
when the smoke machines were on, you actually couldn't see where the people ended.
This starts off with a piano break, and it's really recognizable.
So when the piano break starts, you can see this wave going down the back
as the sound traveled backwards, all these people were like, whoa.
We were like 40 feet up in the air.
Had to go up this little ladder to get to the DJ booth, and it was an incredible view
and I just remember, as the piano started, all these people just went, whoa, into the background.
So yeah, I remember that for that.
I found this old Todd Terry Project record. 'Weekend' and another track called 'Just Wanna Dance'
but the 'Weekend' track really reminds me of the first club I've ever been to
listening to house music in '87-'88.
At the time it was normal that people would dance facing each other or having their eyes closed
That's what's been lost I think.
Yeah, nowadays everyone's just staring at the DJ instead of
y'know like listening to the music and getting into it.
The house DJ setup is set up like a band
where you've got speakers and DJs on the stage
I'd prefer actually to be out of the way and for people to face one another.
It should be about the music and not the visuals.
I mean, it's a lot of the fist-pump thing
but a lot of people, I think they come to the club and they want to be entertained instead of
contributing something to the party.
The whole thing changed like everything changes over the years so...
But yeah, this is a good reminder.
You found a Visage record?
Yeah.
I've been looking for it.
Really? I mean, I haven't actually got this album but, Visage.
They started at a small club called The Blitz
y'know they started hosting the New Romantic scene, started there.
And it got so popular. I think Boy George used to work in the cloakroom
and they knew Heaven 17, they knew Spandau Ballet were their friends, Ultravox.
It was all a little crew. It became actually the most popular club in the world
or voted the best club in the world.
And I was resident DJ there from the beginning. So this guy was my boss.
I picked this one. Ennio Morricone. Something completely out of the club world.
This is an album I got from my mother. I stole from my mother, kind of
from her collection because I liked it so much.
He's been touring again. I think that's because of the 60 years of Morricone
and he also had a show in Berlin and we got lucky and got tickets.
It was a great experience, I think.
I'm not a big fan of classical music but there's a lot of classic elements in his music.
You have very storytelling elements. Without his music, a lot of movies wouldn't have been the same.
There's one track on the album with a singer and she did like this opera-ish
kind of voice and it was amazing, really, goosebumps, everyone like, ohhh.
This was one of the tracks, that was Carol Jiani‎'s called 'Hit 'N Run Lover'
I was DJing in a pub in our local town.
Mostly you weren't welcome in most of the clubs if you kind of dressed up a bit weird
so I had all the waifs and strays turn up to the pub that I was playing at.
And they used to bring in tracks. It was pretty much a gay crowd really.
So we used to play a lot of Bobby Orlando y'know and Lime and
just gay disco stuff and this was one of their favorites
that one of them brought in for me to play so... I really like all this kind of music.
It kind of led me onto y'know, that's where I first started to mix.
It's another band of my youth. I think it's an album I've listened to the most.
It kind of explains my music nowadays
maybe, even though it doesn't sound any close to it but
I remember sitting on buses, going from my hometown to a skiing vacation resort
which took like 20 hours, and I listened to the album. I had it on both sides.
And yeah, this definitely helped me getting to places.
Ok this is actually my last one but
This is my favorite label just because it was so quirky.
I mean, look, it's got a spaceship there and I was thinking, I have got to meet these guys.
So when I first came to New York I just knocked on their door.
I was expecting some like big record company thing, and it was operating out of a really tiny space.
And they were so blown away that someone from London had come to see them
right, they just gave me a whole pile of their music.
And of course Dinosaur L as well is just, y'know
the music itself is really quirky. Arthur Russell.
And I still think it's one of my favorite ever labels.
Also a late discovery for me.
Herbie Hancock. I was looking for another album but this is this is great too.
Today a lot of DJs play music that is basically not older than three months.
Some DJ's even say they only play stuff that hasn't been released.
There's also another fraction that's only playing old stuff, which I think is also stupid
because that's not the idea of DJing. It's also to discover and educate and introduce music to people.
It should be a balance of just trying to find the right music for the right moment
and then it's gonna be the greatest night.
Very good.
It was.
Congrats on that.