In June 2017 Andrew Weatherall played an afternoon DJ set at Terraforma, a festival near Milan, Italy. It was billed as a Music's Not For Everyone set, Weatherall's banner for an eclectic mix of music- rockabilly, dub, krautrock and cosmische, post- punk, weird indie, leftfield electronic/ Balearic, music from the fringes and the margins. The set he played at Terraforma is one piece of evidence to show what a master of the art of DJing he was, a two hour selection of songs that are perfectly selected and sequenced and that get a young and beautiful Italian crowd dancing despite the heat.
The full two hour long genre and decades spanning set can be found at Soundcloud and there's an almost complete tracklist too. Anyone that lines up Fujiya & Miyagi's Extended Dance Mix, The Dream Syndicates' John Coltrane Stereo Blues, Moon Duo's Sevens and AMOR's Paradise in the same section of a DJ set is touched with genius.
- Karl Hector & The Malcouns: Kingdom Of D'mt
- M'Bamina: Kilowi-Kilowi
- Aşık Emrah: Bu Ellerden Göçüp
- The Orielles: Sugar Tastes Like Salt (Andrew Weatherall Tastes Like Dub Mix Pt.1 (Live Bass))
- Gerry & The Holograms: Increased Resistance
- Fujiya & Miragi: Extended Dance Mix
- The Dream Syndicate: John Coltrane Stereo Blues
- Poncho Brothers: Danza Oscuro
- ?: ?
- Moon Duo: Sevens
- AMOR: Paradise
- Scientist: Step It Up (Black Star Liner RMX)
- Iries In Roots: Dub Signs
- Winston Edwards & Blackbeard : Airport Smuggling
- Mugwump: At The Dub Front (Mugwump Extended Dub Version)
- La Logia Sarabando: Todos O Ninguno
- ?:?
- Klaus Dinger & Japandorf: Udon
- Andrew Weatherall: Evidence The Enemy
Even better, if you go here you can watch the man at work for a section that starts with his remix of The Orielles, CDs in a plastic bag on the desk, sunglasses, workshirt and braces and jeans with big turnups, shimmying in the afternoon sunshine and air guitaring when he spins The Dream Syndicate.
Short of gorging oneself on chocolate I can't think of a better way to spend Easter Sunday. Happy Easter!
I don't see a link to watch. Maybe overlooking it?
ReplyDeleteArgh! Forgot to put it in, will sort later
ReplyDeleteSwiss Adam
Here... https://www.ursss.com/2018/04/andrew-weatherall-terraforma/
ReplyDeleteGreat find, I used to live in Milan up until about 6 months ago. We got to see some great DJ's but most of the discotheques were half empty (possibly just a sign of the times). We saw Baldelli play a youth club in torino think there was us and 5 other blokes, he was on very early. Would have been interesting to see the crowds reaction to the great man.
ReplyDeleteBaldelli at a youth club in Torino- sounds like an ideal gig!
ReplyDeleteHa ha, yes it was not long after we moved there and thought we must have the wrong place, was out in some suburb. He came on at 9 too. Dortmunder on draft as well.
ReplyDeleteDortmunder on draft. That's some youth club.
ReplyDeleteItalians do things differently.
ReplyDeleteBack to weatherall, this is a great set. 👍 (sadly missed but always with us).