051 For the Record || Midnight Magic

New York City native and longtime contributor to its music and nightlife scene, W. Andrew Raposo is best known as a crazy dog dad and for his work with DFA records--most notably with Hercules and Love Affair, Still Going, and Jayson Green & The Jerk--and as a founding member of cosmic dance floor stalwarts Midnight Magic. His studio, La Piscina Recordings, has hosted such clubland luminaries as Justin Strauss, Eli Escobar, and Nomi Ruiz as well as rocketing torchbearers The Illustrious Blacks, Muscle Cars and Cesar Toribio. Raposo continues to tour both on stage and in the DJ booth with Hess Is More, Midnight Magic and 79.5 (Razor N Tape) bringing his three layer dip of post-punk, psychedelic disco, and haunted-house to sweaty basements and debaucherous mountain chalets all over the world.

For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them.

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Formed in 2009 by Tiffany Roth, W. Andrew Raposo, Morgan Wiley, and Carter Yasutake, Midnight Magic is responsible for some of the most beloved 'new classics' from the disco-revival era of the early oughts including club mainstays "Beam Me Up" and "Drop Me A Line." Through their collaboration with Brooklyn jazz legend Nick Roseboro, former Charles Bradley & The Extraordinaires drummer Caito Sanchez, saxophone and synthesizer wizard Julio Monterrey and past members Max Goldman, Andrew Frawley, and Jason Disu, Midnight Magic casts a genre defying spell on sweaty discotheques and festival stages across the universe.

MUSIC MENTIONS

• Sonic Youth
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Green Day
• LASPEES
• The Come Ons

Early days of Midnight Magic (16:20):

• Bernard Herrmann
• Ennio Morricone
• Angelo Badalamenti
• Goblin
• ESG
• Siouxsie and the Banshees
• Grace Jones
• Chaka Khan
• Selda Bağcan
• “Yaz Gazeteci Yaz” by Selda Bağcan
• Wendy Carlos
• “The Shining” by Rachel Elkind & Wendy Carlos
• Sequential
• Dave Smith
• Patrick Crowley
• August Arnell
• Patsy Alley
• Jorge Roeder
• Patrick Adams
• “Journey into Paradise: The Larry Levan Story” album
• Larry Levan
• DFA Records
• Factory Records
• Beastie Boys
• Bernard Edwards
• Bootsy Collins

Q&A

• H0L0 (NYC)
• Toribio
• Antenes
• “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg” by TLC
• “Let’s Talk About Sex” by Salt-N-Pepa
• Tyler Pope
• !!! (chk chk chk)
• LCD Soundsystem
• Interference Pattern
• “Australia und vorbei” by Angela Werner
• “Stop The War” by Örö
• “Suicide Commando” by Echo Park and No More
• “Síntesis Moderna (An Alternative Vision Of Argentinian Music 1980-1990)” by Various Artists
• “Ain’t That Better (Harari Edit)” by Toby
• Aphex Twin
• Sylvia Striplin
• Faze-O
• William Devaughn
• Denise Williams
• Patrice Rushen
• Weezer

Discovering music today (34:19):

• Shazam
• Friends, DJ’s
• Justin Strauss
• James Mulry
• JKriv
• Razor-N-Tape

First album ever purchased (43:10):

• “Violator” by Depeche Mode
• “Dark Side of the Moon” by Pink Floyd

Most recent album purchased (46:05):

• “I hit the water” by Lollise
• “Pay Attention To The Bass” by Tyler Pope

Artists discovered in the past year (49:58):

• Kate Fagan
• Tik and Tok
• Todd Terje
• Jex Opolis
• Angela Werner
• Örö
• No More

Desert island discs (59:28):

• “Standing On a Beach” by The Cure
• “Catching Up With” by Depeche Mode
• “Champion Sounds (Funk)” by Various Artists
• “Selected Ambient Works II” by Aphex Twin
• “Roseland NYC Live” by Portishead
• “King Sunny Ade” by Juju Music