is the duo of Daniel «Sorcerer» Judd and Sam «Hatchback» Grawe from San Francisco. Both also purvey their own musical careers under their personal monikers. But their styles are so similar that it doesn't really matter which consigner is repsonsible for their balearic-chill-slow-mo-disco. Together or separately they remixed LCD Soundsystem, 9wd, Tycho, Low Motion Disco and They Came From The Stars.
Bubblin to Hawaiin guitar, soft vocoders, flutes and the warmest Kraftwerk music.
you relax on a beach?
John Cameron - Half Forgotten Daydreams
Hatchback made a classic beach mix for our summer trip to Mexico this year and we heard this song so many times. Perfect for grabbing a corona and chilling in a beach chair to watch the surfing.
you prepare a candle light dinner?
Gabor Szabo - Dreams (LP)
His guitar is so romantic and smooth.
you go to a club?
Broker/Dealer - Afterhours
Our friends in San Francisco know how to keep the atmosphere bubblin'.
you prepare for an important date?
Wings - Goodnight Tonight
Captures that giddy feeling of having fun and never wanting it to end.
you are in a depressive mood?
Sun Ra - Lanquidity
His music and life was deep and this record is so moody and relaxed, it washes away the blues and reminds you that there is a bigger world out there.
you want to disturb your neighbours?
Rhythm & Sound
you drive a car late at night?
Raiders Of The Lost Arp - City Lights
Perfect music for night time cruising over the bay bridge into the city.
you make love?
Love Unlimited Orchestra
you jump out of a plane with a parachute?
The Alan Parsons Project - Mammagamma
The ultimate reach for the gold/skydiving track.
you sit in a plane?
Brian Eno - Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks
Planes are a sketchy place to be sometimes, so you need music that is calming.
you have to spend a night in a spooky hotel?
Alice Coltrane - Hare Krishna
To shoot a rainbow of light at all the evil spirits.
you sit in the subway?
Isolee - Pillowtalk
A ten minute submarine journey underneath the San Francisco bay with so many fresh sounds to keep us awake.
you wake up?
Michael Rother - Sonnenrad
Tight, focused, and triumphant yet light enough not to give an early morning headache.
you feel bitchy?
N.W.A.
Anything by NWA.
a song that reminds you of school
Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again
My dad brought this tape back from the States when we lived in India when I was about 8 years old. I had this big crush on a girl in my class and I would pretend all the songs were about her and me.
best Beatles song
The Beatles - Flying
I always wish this track was 10 minutes longer.
best concert you ever attended
David Axelrod
Easily David Axelrod at the Royal Festival Hall in London in 2004. My friend and I had vouchers on Air Canada so we flew out for the concert from California (and got to see Roedelius from Cluster the night before). It was actually painful having goosebumps for the better part of two hours.
your boozed up anthem
Herb Alpert - Rise
I wish this song would follow me out at night.
a song guaranteed to make you feel depressed
Mary Hopkin - Earth Song, Ocean Song
This song doesn’t really «depresses» me per se, but the vocal overdubs at the end are the most haunting two minutes of music I own.
record you were looking for the longest
Paul Simon - The Paul Simon Songbook
This is the album Paul recorded in England before the "Sound of Silence" got re-recorded and became a big hit. It had been out of print forever, and every time I went into a record shop I would look for it (kicking myself that I didn’t buy the late 70’s box set that it was repackaged in when I had the chance in high school). One day I got a call from my friend in Boston saying he’d found a pristine version of it the 1964 original for $4 because the shop obviously just thought it was some lame comp. Anyway, I visited him in Boston not too long after and we were up late listening to records and goofing around and as one of those not really funny jokes you make at 3 AM I put it with the stack of vinyl I was taking home to San Francisco with him looking on and not really laughing. Anyway. When I got back home, guess what was in my bag still? He let me keep it because he had never figured out how to ship me the Wurlizter 206 I bought on eBay.
a record you fell in love to
Joe Dassin - Le Jardin du Luxembourg
The first mixtape I made for my ex-girlfriend started off with this song which is about 13 minutes long and has all these different sections. We used to drive around in her car listening to it and singing along (there are male and female parts). Dassin is kind of like the cheesier poor man's version of Gainsbourg, but there's this shit hot disco breakdown in the middle. For some reason I'll never fully understand why my parents had this record.
first record you remember
Burl Ives - The Little White Duck
I wore the grooves out on this when I was 4.
the song to be played at your funeral
Brian Bennett - Solstice
They’ll play this as my monolithic matte black casket is rocketed into space. I was born on the winter solstice, so I always figured this was a personal anthem.
a song that evokes the greatest summer of your life
Sand - Sand
I discovered this record a few years back when I would buy anything looking remotely country rock at the flea market, as long as it wasn't more than $2. The album is actually two records that are only pressed on one side each «for continually flowing Sand» (like on your record changer). I love this music so much I tracked down the guy who was the lead singer and guitarist and drove up to his house in Oregon to hang out and shoot the shit. Sand has one of the sorriest stories in the history of rock... everything that could have ever gone wrong did go wrong. Musically though they're incredible: playing this totally unique stoner prog country folk moustache rock. Apparently back in the day in Portland they all lived in a house called «The Sandbox» together. They would wake up, smoke a joint, make pancakes, and then play music for the next 16 hours. Anyway. It's summer sounds with the best pedal steel playing you'll ever hear.
your ultimate heartbreak song
Leonard Cohen - One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong
Some of my favorite lyrics around, even though they're pretty morose. You get drowned priests drooling on lawns, a room filled up with mosquitoes, shivering eskimos showing movies, and the dust of a long sleepless night. Cohen clearly gets it.
first record you bought
The Best of The Doors
It's a little unclear and it was definitely a tape. The first CD I ever bought was «The Best of The Doors». I pretty much can't stand The Doors these days, but that disco-style "Ghost Song" they did after Jim died is great.
a song that reminds your friends of you
Area Code 615 - Devil Weed And Me
That's what The Sorcerer said. I make people a lot of mixes. Different strokes for different folks.
perfect anthem for San Francisco
Leon Ware - Why I Came To California
«...San Francisco. Catch a cable car to where your dreams go. There’s a lot of make believe...»
best video clip you ever saw
Electric Light Orchestra - Xanadu
a song you wish you'd written yourself
The Beach Boys - Busy Doing Nothing
You would really have to be on the edge of losing your mind a la Mr. Wilson to write something this baked and yet genius. Also if you know the song, the melody from that whole bit where he's talking about writing a number down on a piece of paper but losing it and then trying to remember it is really fun to apply to every task in your day to day life. Try it sometime.
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