Fall Edition 2016

The mornings may be getting a bit cooler but the days are still sweltering up in the 90's. After another summer that beat record-breaking temperatures from 2015, don't tell me there isn't global warming. The good news from this hot mess, is that the circuit beats keep getting equally as hot as Party Favorz presents the 2016 Fall Edition. We kick things off with the Danny Verde progressive remix of Boys Like You by Who Is Fancy, who with some big names behind him (Scooter Braun and Dr. Luke) managed to rope in Meghan Trainor & Ariana Grande for additional vocal duties. The end result is a fun romp through camp that only WIF could pull off. Expect to be hearing this A LOT in clubs and circuit events this fall. The heat quickly builds up into a massive mashup with the infamous Lula in the mix before moving into the head-turning remix of Alicia Keys latest In Common. Barry Harris totally flips the script on this slow burner making it a cross between big-time Ibiza vs. tribal while throwing in a bit of George Kranz (Din Daa Daa) into the mix. I was totally blown away the minute I heard this; that is until we get to one of Barry's original mashups below. I am such a HUGE fan of Betty Who's remake of I Love You Always Forever, I was pleased to find out Toy Armada & DJ Grind remixed the song. With their big room sweeping sound, it just fits so perfectly it should have the boys singing along in unity. Currently, we have competing remakes of the Lovestation classic Teardrops running up the Billboard club charts by Cole Plante and Dawn Tallman. Both are equally good but Dawn gets the edge in that it's well... Dawn. We don't have a big room circuit-styled remix from her yet but I predict we will. In the meantime, Cole does an outstanding job with remixes by Chris Cox and Toy Armada & DJ Grind. He plays with the lyrics a bit to make them more suitable for a male singer, but there is no mistaking the classic seeds of the original. Skylar Stecker delivers a worthy remake of the Eurythmics' classic Sweet Dreams (#1 Billboard Club Dance a week ago) and Bent Collective (a.k.a. Steve Redant and Danny Verde) churn out a release for Swishcraft Get Up Stand Up. While I prefer the original, for the sake of cohesiveness I went with the more progressive mix by Louis Lennon, which scales back the vocals much to my dismay. Now, we get to one of Barry Harris' shiniest moments in circuit history. I guess a little musical education may be in order for those of you not old enough to appreciate the songs used in his mashup; so here it goes: Musique was a last minute throw-together by Bob Blank of four women (Jocelyn Brown, Angela Howell, Gina Tharps and Christine Wiltshire) of which Jocelyn Brown went on to greater things and became an artist in her own right. The four-song EP they released in 1978 was titled Keep on Jumpin'. The lead single, In the Bush (which is utilized extensively through Push) stalled on the top 40 due to it's uhh, rather sexual nature but still reached number one on the Billboard Disco Charts. In fact, the second single Keep on Jumpin' also reached number one on the disco charts and again in the 90's when Todd Terry enlisted Jocelyn Brown and Martha Wash to perform a new house version of the song. Are you ready? Are you ready for this?  Do you like it? Do you like it like this? Push, push in the bush.  I used to keep up with all the pop songs and remember this one being played at local radio. In sixth grade, I was sexually naive (except for masturbating) and had written the lyrics down and passed them to a girlfriend in one of my classes. That note, was intercepted by Sister Phyllis (I attended parochial school) and was chastised after class for writing such garbage. I was embarrassed but didn't know exactly what for. Sister Phyllis was a large burly woman known for beating the crap out of her students when they misbehaved but I skirted that by attempting to explain what it was I had written.