I had just returned home after a meeting and noticed a text asking if I could fill in for the opening DJ set at Splash!, which was set to start in a little over an hour. I said I could get there at 7:45, then ran out, got dinner, ate half a banh mi, wrapped up the other half for later that night, grabbed my laptop and the controller that I had yet to unpack from Nocturno on Saturday night, scheduled a ride and showed up at 7:43 p.m., which was more than enough time to set up and get started at 8 p.m.
Since I still had my Nocturno folder loaded into Rekordbox, I played more of an alt. ‘80s set, with a few other random songs that I either happened to have on my laptop or was able to download quickly. It ended up being a great night. I met some super cool people, dropped some tunes I hadn’t played out in a while (“Get the Balance Right,” “Our Darkness,” “No More Words) and finished with Pia Zadora and Jermaine Jackson’s duet “When the Rain Begins to Fall,” from the sci-fi epic Voyage of the Rock Aliens, because why not?
Here’s the set list. I’m still scheduling August gigs, so I don’t know when I’m playing next, so follow on Instagram and I’ll the next date when I have it.
Robin Gibb – Secret Agent
Baltimora – Key Key Karimba
Depeche Mode – People Are People
Japan – Life in Tokyo
Siouxsie and the Banshees- Cities in Dust (Extended Mix)
Book of Love – Boy
Yello – Lost Again
Real Life- Openhearted
Vicious Pink – Ccan’t You See
Alexander Robotnik – Problemes D’Amour
Front 242 – Don’t Crash
Human League- Love Action
Kraftwerk – Das Model
New Order – Temptation
Eleven Pond – Watching Trees
Psychedelic Furs – Love My Way
Fun Boy Three – Our Lips Are Sealed
Alaska y los Pegamoides – Bailando
Duran Duran – New Moon on Monday
Clan of Xymox – Louise
Depeche Mode – Get the Balance Right
Visage – The Damned Don’t Cry
Echo and the Bunnymen – Lips Like Sugar
The Cure- The Walk
The Smiths – Panic
Ann Clark – Our Darkness
Telex – Moskow Diskow
Berlin – No More Words
Duran Duran – Hold Back the Rain
Talking Heads – Life During Wartime
The Selecter – On My Radio
Ole Ole – No Controles
Divine – You Think You’re a Man
Tapps – My Forbidden Lover
Ken Laszlo – Hey Hey Guy
Magazine 60 – Don Quichotte
Pet Shop Boys – In the Night
Pia Zadora and Jermaine Jackson – When the Rain Begins to Fall
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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