It was so good to be back at Underground last night. Both floors of the Grand Star were open on Friday night, with Larry playing Depeche Mode and New Order jams upstairs and Scarlett Casanova and I playing everything else downstairs. The crowd was a lot of fun. I was happy to see “Loneliness,” the latest Pet Shop Boys single, do well on the dancer floor. What did even better though was TR/ST’s cover of the PSB classic “Being Boring,” which is one of my current favorites. The most successful of the new tunes, though, was “Sangre de Oro,” from Twin Tribes’ latest album, Pendulum. The song also did extremely well at Nocturno’s party in Phoenix last month. Anyhow, thank you for dancing. Here’s the set list.
Set 1:
ABC “Be Near Me”
Kylie Minogue “Cupid Boy”
Saint Etienne “We’re in the City”
Royksopp “Ice Machine (Ewan Pearson Remix)”
Sally Shapiro “Rent”
Human League “Seconds”
Echo and the Bunnymen “In Bluer Skies”
Chromatics “Ceremony”
Chameleons “Reptile”
The Cure “Primary”
Set 2:
Ladytron “Playgirl”
Gorillaz “Dare (DFA Remix)”
Pet Shop Boys “West End Girls”
TR/ST, Jake Shears “Being Boring”
Boy Harsher, Ms. Boan “Machina”
Yaz “Situation”
Talking Heads “Girlfriend Is Better” (request)
Sophie Ellis Bextor “Murder on the Dancefloor” (request)
The Bucketheads “The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind) (Armand Van Helden Re-edit)”
The Rapture “House of Jealous Lovers”
Confidence Man “Angry Girl”
Le Tigre “Deceptacon”
Wet Leg “Chaise Longue”
Set 3:
Donna Summer “Our Love”
New Order “Blue Monday”
Trans X “Living on Video”
Vitalic “La Rock 01”
Crystal Castles, Robert Smith “Not in Love”
Soft Cell “Tainted Love”
Bloc Party “Banquet”
Molchat Doma “sudno (Boris Ryzhy)”
Twin Tribes “Sangre de Oro”
Los Prisioneros “Tren al Sur (Basic Remix)”
Nine Inch Nails “Closer”
Tom Tom Club “Genius of Love”
Daft Punk “Da Funk”
Chumbawamba “Tubthumping”
Set 4:
Pet Shop Boys “Loneliness”
Hercules & Love Affair “Blind”
Animal Collective “My Girls”
Tame Impala “Is It True”
Mr. Flagio “Take a Chance”
My Mine “Hypnotic Tango”
Righeira “Vamos a la Playa”
Desireless “Voyage Voyage”
Q Lazarus “Goodbye Horses”
Depeche Mode “Nodisco”
New Order “Sub-Culture”
If you’re around Cypress Park today, catch me playing records at Footsie’s for Razorcake’s party, which is from 5-10 p.m. and keep checking back here or follow me on Instagram because I have a bunch of stuff to announce in the next day or so.
Liz O. is an L.A.-based writer and DJ. Read her recently published work and check out her upcoming gigs.
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