CRC Retro Mix #54

Clearance Rack Classics Retro 80s and 90s Dance Mix by DJ Tintin

1. Idiot Country - Electronic
2. Rising Sun - The Farm
3. Patience (Razormaid! Mix) - Celebrate The Nun
4. Soul On Fire - Anything Box
5. The Walk (Everything Mix) - The Cure
6. LSI (Love Sex Intelligence) (Beatmasters 12" Mix) - The Shamen
7. What Can You Do For Me - Utah Saints
8. Blue Monday (Hardfloor Mix) - New Order
9. Channel Z (12" Rock Mix) - The B-52's
10. Sea Of Sin (Razormaid! Mix) - Depeche Mode
11. You Think You Know Her (The Deception Mix) - Cause & Effect
12. One In Ten (UB40 Vocal) - 808 State
13. Red Hills Road - Candyflip
14. Give Me Your Hand (Razormaid! Mix) - Red Flag
15. Tasty Fish (Pascal 12" Mix) - The Other Two
Notes and other random things:
I hope everyone is staying busy and safe during the current craziness. I really assumed that lockdowns and stay-at-home-orders early in the spring would be a boon for my podcasting opportunities, but alas it was not. Still, I finally managed to get around to recording this line up of tunes yesterday that I assembled a while ago. So there's that. If you're a 90s dance music fan there is lots to love here, most of which has not appeared in a #CRCRetro podcast prior to today (I'm looking at you Anything Box, Electronic, The B-52's, The Farm, Cause & Effect and Candyflip). One thing that stands out is a full third of the tunes here are album versions and not remixes. Much like the more you learn the more you find out you have yet to learn, the same applies to my music collection. Seems like the more stuff I collect, the more I realize how much I have yet to get. Because I have no desire to repeat things too often in this 'cast, I assume nobody will have issues with hearing album cuts of some songs strategically placed among the mixes. But, it certainly makes mixing more challenging. Thank God for looping!
A second thing that stands out is that three songs here are from the New Order evolutionary tree. "Idiot Country" (a personal fave of mine) from the super-group Electronic featured Bernard Sumner from New Order, Johnny Marr from The Smiths/The The, and Neil Tennant from Pet Shop Boys. "Tasty Fish", from 1991, is by The Other Two: New Order drummer Stephen Morris and New Order keyboardist Gillian Gilbert. Of course, then there's the 1995 Hardfloor Mix of "Blue Monday", the original of which still sounds cool and futuristic all these years later, and is still the best-selling 12" dance single of all-time. Considering I'm currently reading Peter Hook's book "Substance Inside New Order", which is his take on the phenomenon that was/is New Order I suppose I had them on the brain while assembling this podcast. Nonetheless, there's a lot of good, upbeat vibes in this edition and really we could all use a little more of that these days.
More to come ...