Atonal Disco

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I've been asked to DJ "Atonal Disco"... I have a rough idea what to do, although not of it is really "atonal" per se... I'm pretty sure the concept was just presented specifically to fuck with the DJs invited..

..but if you were asked to DJ "atonal disco", what would you bring? (DFA bands would be far too easy.. although in a very rough way, some tracks qualify surely. But I can't imagine a TRULY atonal disco record.. like Schoenberg 4/4 or whatever... hmmmmm, ideas, ideas.)

(This is also one of those "I GOT TWO HOURS OF SLEEP LAST NIGHT, BECAUSE OF PACKING HI DERE :D" threads.. so ignore as you will.)

― iDonut B4 x86 (donut), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

Are we talking about Disco as disco qua disco or just dancey dance?

― jdubz (ex machina), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

PIL's "Death Disco"
Sonic Youth's "Justice Is Might" (I think that's the name of the dancebeat track on Bad Moon Rising)
The Ethel Merman Disco Album Screwed & Chopped

― miccio (miccio), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

jw, it's up to you at this point. you are hereby crowned the atonal discomaster.

Maybe I'll just bring really obnoxious techno.. which I guess is digitally "atonal" and has a 4/4 beat..

― iDonut B4 x86 (donut), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

anything by surgeon. perhaps christian vogel's "all music has come to an end" too.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

James White and the Blacks

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 27 October 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Just play them the art-school pap they really want to hear.

― Confounded (Confounded), Thursday, 27 October 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

Yoko Ono

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 27 October 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

just play gabba with noise records over it

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 27 October 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

Why not hit the basics? "24→24 Music" by Dinosaur L is pretty damn atonal.
If you want techno, Andy Vaz's Sound-Variation springs to mind instantly: all "wrong" notes and dissonance. The curious thing is how he actually makes hooks out of the dissonance.

― William Selman (William Selman), Thursday, 27 October 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Yoko Ono - Walking on thin Ice

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Friday, 28 October 2005 08:09 (twenty years ago)

DAF are, if not actually atonal, frequently at least a bit off-key.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Friday, 28 October 2005 10:16 (twenty years ago)

Take a drum machine, w/fours programmed into it. Play 2 records at once, EG "isn't anything" on one deck, and "e=mc2" on the other, with the fader set in the middle, so you can hear equal amounts of both records. Keep the drum m,/c running though, so ppl can dance. As well as music, take along some test tone and sound effect records. They want "atonal"? See how hardcore these fuckers actually are.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 28 October 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

I'd play Scenario Rock 'Skitzo Dancer (Justice Remix )'.

― Affectian (Affectian), Friday, 28 October 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

I like Pashmina's idea

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 28 October 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)

i don't know ill the first google result i found do?>

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 28 October 2005 10:59 (twenty years ago)

"The songs sound like atonal disco music made by damaged robots, and that's better than you'd think it would be. I could write more, maybe even throw in some more random life anecdotes for your amusement (including the one where I nearly ran over a snake while driving home one sunny afternoon), but I think I hit this particular nail on the head with "atonal disco music made by damaged robots," so I suggest we take leave of each other's company for now. Adieu. "

this might be better than the stuff on Last Line of the Review

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:08 (twenty years ago)

black dice - cone toaster 12" unless, of course, your audience has heard it hundreds of times.

― l, Saturday, 29 October 2005 04:16 (twenty years ago)

As well as music, take along some test tone and sound effect records.

i like this idea.

― jagged little filly (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 29 October 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)

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