Nickv all night long at mOna

Keeping up with the blogging has been quite hard of late. The past two months have been full of interesting and amazingly fun gigs that have taken a lot time to prepare, on top of that I have had a lot of work on the two latest mOna nights, plus my daytime (all be it partime) acoustics consultancy job. So I just haven’t had time to sit down and write a few lines on this space.

Firstly though, I thought I’d put up this all night long mix up. It was recorded at the last mOna night on 17th April. Despite being serious about our music, we have always been more into the fun side of things at mona (as opposed to the more serious dj orientated parties), so this time instead of inviting a guest dj we decided to invest heavily on the deco side of things around the chosen theme of Masters and Servants, and I played music all night.

It was quite a stressful affair at the start as we were obviously late on most aspects (deco preparation, lighting, opening time …) and as usual people really started to show up at 2am, which left us worrying again for a couple of hours (this may even be heard on the mix itself).

Anyway as the night went on and energies were released things began to flow. This mix becomes quite varied, especially towards the end (sorry for the distortion and approximate mixing over the last hour, what was I drinking at the end?!) and includes tracks by : Grace Jones, Lil Louis, Taana Gardner, Aril Brikha, The Digital Underground, Tamiko Jones, Carl Craig, Oliver Cheatham, Seiji, Faze Action, Melba Moore, The Cure, Aksidan, James Pants, DOP, The Daou, Malcolm Mc Claren, Crazy P, The Roots, Deelite, Hot Chip, MCDE, Omar S, Lektroluv, Kink and Neville Watson, Cookie Watkins, The B52s, Coral Way Chiefs, YBU, Nathaniel X, The Motivators, Donna Summer, Kenny Dope, MFSB, James Johnston, New Order, Llorca, Omar, Madonna, Andre Lodeman, Tony Lionni, Pepe Bradock …
I hope you’ll enjoy it.

I must thank once more everyone who worked on mona this time around a lot of good work and creative energy was put in : Carlos, Fred, Moh, Arnaud, Adeline, Mat and David. Also big thanks to Titi and Khiet for their performances and all the heads who came down and dressed up!

Next mona : Saturday 15th May

Photography by David Volants