Show Notes: Texting, Episode 10
"Aural Orgasm and the 4/4 Beat" - Paul van Dyk's "Seven Ways"
Here, at long last, are the show notes (with timestamps) to episode 10 of Texting! Link to the original podcast audio on Substack or YouTube as you take a deeper dive into Paul van Dyk’s Seven Ways!
00:00 - opening theme
00:35 - Tomek free associates
1:18 - welcome
1:19 - “climax”
1:36 - intro to “progressive house/trance DJ Paul van Dyk”
1:56 - “ascension”
2:55 - “a German with a Dutch name”
3:35 - “I’m Mark van Will, bitches!”
3:40 - more background on van Dyk
4:54 - Paul van Dyk would have been a teen in East Berlin while Bowie was recording the Berlin Trilogy on the other side of the Wall in West Berlin
6:17 - Seven Ways voted #1 record by readers of DJ Magazine
6:39 - why Seven Ways instead of “The Grand Inquisitor”?
7:23 - Seven Ways is Tomek’s “comfort food”
8:00 - Tomek describes the first time he took ecstasy
8:38 - Tomek frets over his public admission of drug use
9:08 - Tomek describes the first time he saw Paul van Dyk live (while on ecstasy at a venue in Tempe called Club Freedom)
10:11 - Zia Records: I had never heard of this outlet, but here’s their logo:
10:32 - Tomek’s theory of ecstasy flashbacks and serotonin boosts
10:44 - Tomek expands his musical taste from hip hop to electronic dance music
12:12 - Tomek defines “progressive house,” “trance,” and “house”
12:57 - “progressive house” vs. “progressive rock”
14:17 - “the King Crimson guitarists”: Robert Fripp (who played on Bowie’s “Heroes”) and Adrian Belew (who played on Bowie’s Lodger)
15:16 - “progressive” in the context of “progressive house” means “building”
15:40 - cf. Bjork’s “emotional landscapes”
15:54 - “like a wave crashing”
16:18 - Tomek mentions Len, who may or may not have contributed to Koreality
16:38 - DJ Hide?
16:51 - “Aftermath” by Eric Prydz:
16:57 - Perry O’Neil’s “External Key”:
17:14 - “It’s very sexual, isn’t it?”: Not an especially original insight, but still apt.
17:28 - “an aural orgasm”
17:30 - “a famous track in house music . . . called ‘Orgasm’ . . . or ‘French Kiss’”:
17:42 - “the sound of a woman having an orgasm over a beat”
17:50 - “many DJs will use breathing”
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