By Adam Roper (CIVL DJ) – Email
Print Edition: July 3, 2013
Birds of Canada host Adam Roper boasts an estimated two-and-a-half days’ worth of dance music on his computer. Here’s a second round of great mixes he regularly bikes to.
Flight Facilities – “1982-1992.”
Flight Facilities have a decade series out that samples news stories to coincide with popular jams of the day (the ‘80s, ‘90s, and ‘00s) like fascinating history lessons you can dance to. Learning hasn’t been this fun since Schoolhouse Rock.
Fort Romeau – “Homewerk Volume 2”
Artists like Fort Romeau on the Ghostly International roster have become synonymous with fresh approaches to house music. This one is well suited to after-sunset study sessions and night rides in the park.
Mixhell is a dance-pop duo from Brazil, ranging in tone from abrasive and confrontational to suave and assertive. Few DJ artists take their craft quite as seriously, and they do it all without a trace of the industrial dubstep idiot Gen-Y’rs are all over these days.
Moby – “DJ Set at Coachella 2013”
Moby enjoyed high heights of fame in the early 2000s with mainstream pop songs, while the late 2000s have seen him devoted to club-rooted DJ sets. The fact that he sounds like an adonis makes up for the fact that he looks like an epic dweeb while performing.
