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The year has drawn to an end. Music-wise it saw the end of the ‘District Funk’ series and the start of the ‘Disco Blasphemy’ series. Hence, this time around a Disco Blasphemy 2012 is in store for us. 4 hours of eclectic vibes drawing on grooves as far reaching as 70s Turkish disco and deep house tunes that made this year happen. Enjoy and have happy holidays, 2012 was a good one!

01- Dexter Wansel - Time Is The Teacher
02- Billy Paul - Let’s Make A Baby
03- Jazzanova - Rendezvous
04- Patrice Rushen - Where There Is Love
05- DJ Jazzy Jeff - The Definition (ft. Kel Spencer)
06- Ryo Murakami - Just for This
07- Skudge - Ontic (Rolando Understands Remix)
08- Moomin - Raw Like 97
09- James Mason - Nightgruv
10- Tiger & Woods - Gin Nation
11- Dusky - Henry 85 (Fcl Weemix)
12- Blawan - Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage
13- youANDme - Mouche (Luke Hess Electric Dub)
14- Mic Newman - Knickerbocker
15- Smallpeople - Move With Your Vision
16- Detroit Swindle - Guess What (Leftside Wobble Remix)
17- Homework - Cmon Start Moving
18- Drew Sky - Razzmatazz
19- Hodges, James & Smith - What Have You Done For Love
20- First Choice - Let No Man Put Asunder (12” Remix)
21- Leron Carson - Dedicated
22- Rene Bandaly Family - Tanki Tanki
23- Objekt - Porcupine
24- Wil Maddams - My Turn
25- Phors - Fading Away
26- Phors - Shining Star
27- Everything But The Girl - Compression
28- Detroit Swindle - Jick Rames
29- Chasing Kurt - Galaxy Hero (Deep Space Orchestra Remix)
30- Pan/Tone - Stay (Nikki Gibler Remix)
31- Andrés - New For U
32- Joy Orbison - Ellipsis
33- WK7 - Do It Yourself
34- Tony Lionni - Afterhours
35- Green Velvet - Never Satisfied (Studio 54 Re-Re Mix)
36- Bicep, Ejeca - You (Steffi Remix)
37- Azuni - Raw Chord
38- Midland - What We Know (Motor City Drum Ensemble Remix)
39- Groove Armada - Don’t Take Your Love Away
40- Lee Jones - Moment (George Fitzgerald Remix)
41- Deep Future - You Need It (Detroit Swindle’s ‘Never Enough’ Interpretation)
42- Chris James - Kind of Heavy (Andre Crom Remix)
43- Jask - Life
44- Rahbani Brothers - La Tehtab Alayeh
45- Ziad Rahbani - Abu Ali
46- Erol Evgin - Sevdan Olmazsa

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Awesome bourbon during prohibition? checkODing on Pomade? check Cigarette attached to face? checkIncredible lampadina? check
Oh wait, out of this world tattoos?! CHECK!! 
wehadfacesthen:

Tattoo parlor, 1920s

Awesome bourbon during prohibition? check
ODing on Pomade? check 
Cigarette attached to face? check
Incredible lampadina? check

Oh wait, out of this world tattoos?! CHECK!! 

wehadfacesthen:

Tattoo parlor, 1920s

(Source: style-cool-ture, via my1930s)

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c. 1898: The great John L Sullivan with quite possibly the best mustache of all time (and one hell of an awesome hairdoo)! (Gentle)manliness defined?!

c. 1898: The great John L Sullivan with quite possibly the best mustache of all time (and one hell of an awesome hairdoo)! (Gentle)manliness defined?!

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German expressionism in its finest forms.
vintagegal:

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

German expressionism in its finest forms.

vintagegal:

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

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Good old blue eyes as a record selector. At times (in fact most times), the right thing to do is the old thing to do. Get your records out and listen to the waves and rhythms. The acetate vinyl is one of the greatest creations man has ever made, you can physically feel the music, you can touch the ridges, its music right in your palms. It saddens me that the young ones dont even know the difference between a 7 and a 12 inch!
thayllagomes:

Frank Sinatra

Good old blue eyes as a record selector. At times (in fact most times), the right thing to do is the old thing to do. Get your records out and listen to the waves and rhythms. The acetate vinyl is one of the greatest creations man has ever made, you can physically feel the music, you can touch the ridges, its music right in your palms. It saddens me that the young ones dont even know the difference between a 7 and a 12 inch!

thayllagomes:

Frank Sinatra

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One of my favorite movies. Around the time when German expressionism had just crept into psuedo-mainstreamism in Hollywood and in a post-depression post WW1 period. Their imagination was simply sublime.

nickelsonwooster:

Metropolis. 

oldhollywood:

1930s imagining of 1980s New York in the sci-fi musical Just Imagine (1930, dir. David Butler) (via)

Designed by art director Stephen Goosson, the city set was an elaborate miniature model that covered a ground area of 75 x 225 feet and whose tallest tower measured 40 feet.

Just Imagine’s New York was primarily inspired by architect Harvey Corbett’s prediction that 1970’s New York would resemble a “very modernized Venice” and by the futuristic urban designs presented in Hugh Ferriss’s 1929 book, The Metropolis of Tomorrow.

Ferriss’s drawings of the ”business center of the future” (pictures #3-5) provided the most direct inspiration for Goosson’s sets. Broad superhighways establish a geometric ground plan that extends upward through overlapping levels of bridges, streets, and terraced walkways. The grid of streets and bridges is pierced by huge freestanding skyscrapers surrounded by lower setback buildings, a design Ferriss created as an analogy to the natural world of “towering mountain peaks… surrounded by foothills”

The opening scenes of the (otherwise mediocre) film, which feature this cityscape, can be seen here

More on the building of the Just Imagine set. Collection of Hugh Ferriss’s futuristic city sketches here.