Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Power, Corruption, and Lies



Brad Owen- Power, Corruption, and Lies MIX

Been a while since I have posted but I felt the need to spread this fantastic 4-cd mix that Brad Owen put together. If you live in Chicago or know anything about clubs, you know who he is. He is the man behind Smartbar, the club voted best underground club in the US, and the spot that is by faaar my favorite club. Smartbar has been renovated recently and the soundsystem sounds fantastic now. All of the best DJs in the world play there and every weekend there is somebody worth checking out. It is not like some of the "ultra" clubs where the swank and fashion is more important than the music. Smartbar has always been 100% about the music and there is no attitude, no dress code, and always a packed dancefloor. Check out the lineups at Smartbarchicago.com

ANYWAY, aside from dropping tech house bombs or classic electro records at the club, Brad pulled from his collection and mixed some of my favorite post punk, electro, indie rock, and other assorted gems into a 4 cd mix. I uploaded it as a zip file for faster downloading. This is a fantastic mix to expose you to a lot of older tracks you may not know but most likely have influenced the bands you do.

Power, Corruption, and Lies
4/18/06

an brown - all ablaze ** CD 1 starts here
interpol - obstacle 1
maximo park - apply some pressure
pixies - tame
suede - trash
arcade fire - neighborhood #3 (power out)
editors - munich
joy division - transmission
gorillaz - dirty harry
broken social scene - cause = time
dinosaur jr - feel the pain
sugar - a good idea
radionhead - myxamatosis
lcd soundsystem - too much love
happy mondays - loose fit
stone roses - elephant stone
david bowie - suffragette city
the clash - pressure drop
the stooges - no fun
the jam - going underground
the fall - hit the north pt 1 ** CD 2 starts here
charlatans uk - weirdo
ride - twisterella
oasis - supersonic
art brut - moving to LA
doves - pounding
franz ferdinand - auf asche
love and rockets - kundalini express
jane's addiction - been caught stealing
fugazi - burning
bloc party - pioneers
arctic monkeys - i bet you look good on the dancefloor
gang of four - we live as we dream, alone
psychedelic furs - president gas
velvet underground - waiting for the man
the pioneers - the more you ignore me, the closer i get
new order - dreams never end
public image limited - poptones
lush - ladykillers
echo and the bunnymen - all that jazz
magazine - shot by both sides
minutemen - i felt like a gringo a certain
ratio - shack up
badly drawn boy - disillusion *** CD three begins here
the smiths - the boy with the thorn in his side
the walkmen - the rat rentals - please let it be you
primal scream - damaged
teenage fanclub - the concept
swervedriver - how does it feel to look like candy
chapterhouse - pearl
my bloody valentine - sometimes
mr projectile - love here
adam johnson - blinding sun
jesus and mary chain - tower of song
leonard cohen - tower of song
nouvelle vague - too drunk to fuck
ian mcculluch - the flickering wall
curve - horror head
cocteau twins - heaven or las vegas
new order - your silent face
depeche mode - policy of truth *** CD 4 starts here
kraftwerk - radioactivity
yamo - guiding ray
ladytron - beauty * 2
portishead - revenge
primal scream - higher than the sun
the orb - blue room - chocolate hills of bohol mix
air - surfing on a rocket
broken social scene - swimmers
sonic youth - schizophrenia
spiritualized - pure phase
spiritualized - electric mainline
slowdive - souvlaki space station
smashing pumpkins - suffer
postal service - we will become silhouettes - matthew dear mix
the verve - slide away
the dears - lost in the plot
durutti column - otis
u2 - mlk
stone roses - i wanna be adored

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

thanks silver! By the looks of it i might be making a trip up to chi town.

From indy with love
J

Anonymous said...

Nice mix..lots of tunes stirring alot of memories!! cheers.

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所謂「日式酒店酒店應徵」,50%以上的來客都是日本人,跟「台式酒店」較隨興的台灣客不一樣。日本客人重視細節,連廁所都要整理得非常仔細,裡頭不但有漱口水、牙線、香水、擦手毛巾,還必須插鮮花,席耶娜說:「每一個客人上完化妝室,少爺都會進去把洗手台的水漬擦過一次,捲筒式衛生紙前端也一定要尖尖的,連酒店工作小姐自己上完廁所,都要把所有東西整理一次,所以我們進去不是只有脫褲子尿尿,還要巡一下廁所有沒有乾淨?」
日式酒店連裝潢都很特別,譬如入口一定會有二道門,免得那些喝醉的人誤闖進去。當第一道門打開時,酒店內沙發後面的燈就會發亮,讓酒店工作小姐知道第一道門打開了,接著大家一起喊「歡迎」(日文),隨即小姐們就到第二道門那邊去迎接,而且第二道門是,酒店工作小姐要從裡面推才推得開的門,外面客人是推不進來的。
因此,要是打開第一道門看到的是不認識的客人,她們酒店公關就會小心詢問其目的,所以像《華燈初上》那樣,有一大堆大學生走進去,實際在日式酒店是不可能發生的,因為會在第一道門口就被擋掉了。另外,客人入座之後也有一定的SOP流程:客人進來幫他換好拖鞋,接過他的包包和外套掛起來,冬天給熱毛巾、夏天給冰毛巾,每一家日式酒店甚至都有一台洗衣機,專門洗這些毛巾。而且日式酒店是「公檯制」,台式酒店是「私檯制」。私檯制是像錢櫃那樣有很多小包廂,客人坐進去之後,酒店小姐會排排站讓你選,你點越多小姐、坐的時間越多,買單的金額就越高。但「公檯制」是坐下來算桌面使用費的,也就是「人頭費」,你只要一坐下來就是1200元,酒是另外算,5000元起跳,買單兩個人的話,就是2400+5000元,所以不能不點酒。
席耶娜說:「因此你只要開始喝酒,酒店小姐們就會輪流陪你聊天,如果今天有7個小姐,她們都會輪流坐在你座位5分鐘,所以小姐們的自我介紹必須有趣一點,才能讓客人記住妳。」
「由於大部分的日本客人,都是頂著公司名譽來台灣工作的,所以公司不會派菜鳥出差,都是派有點資歷的人出差到台灣,因此他們不太會為了一個小姐,引起兩國的外交問題,或讓公司知道你在這邊性騷擾小姐之類,搞到警察都來了,那很有可能會丟掉工作,所以喝酒醉打小姐或做不規矩的事情,也比較少發生,日本客來酒店比較是紓壓的。」席耶娜透露,她們跟客人的互動,比較傾向於賣曖昧為主,「我們賣的是一種氛圍,透過酒精讓這些客人覺得,白天有什麼不順心的事,有人站在他們那邊。而賣曖昧又因人而異,像我認識新的客人,可以在30分鐘之內,決定他是戀愛客或朋友客,從眼神和肢體運用,可以看出他有沒有感覺來做分辨。」
因此日式酒店的小姐,跟日本客談戀愛算滿多的,畢竟來的都是日本公司各行各業的菁英,賣曖昧之後,很容易發展出戀情。