Mondo Disco in Paris

Dj extraordinaire Aisha and I had the best ever gig in Paris Saturday night March the 24th, playing fast tempo boogie all night long to an appreciating full house. Check out some of the action at ...
www.discolounge.net/discoqueer/24mars/.

At one point I did an impromptu lipsync to Night School's original version ( not the AVI 12") of "Do You Speak French?" , conducting a call and response session with the mostly male crowd going: hello girls, this your first French disco lesson, now how do you say "love"?, and they would all reply "L'amouuur!" in a chorus. How do you say caress? - caresser! How do you say sexy?"-Zexy! at which point I yanked my t-shirt up to a wild cheer...must have been screams of horror there as well. But hey, what's done is done. Blame that and the 2 times I pushed the wrong button on the flu and too many 500mg painkillers.

And what sounds went down well along with the Night School? "Drum Dream" by Krenzell, The Scherrie Payne version of "One Night Only", Ritchie Family's "Summer Dance", Box-o-Lettes: "Feel Africa", Yellow Magic Ork: "Mad Pierrot", the Tom Moulton mix of Black Soul's "Mangous Ye", "One For Me One for You" by la Bionda, "Ite Missa Est" by Martin Circus, Asha Puthli's stunning "1001 Nights of Love (the fast version)", and naturally, "Volare" by Al Martino.

Aicha herself created a magnificently caleidoscopic soundscape with exotic percussion, familiar chants emerging from unexpected breaks, swirling violins rising higher and higher, all over a relentless euro beat pounding straight thru our skulls.