V/A - Shaking Moving Dancing People: The Stickydisc Records Anthology 2xLP
$39.98
Eric Broucek was the ur-engineer of the most fertile era of DFA Studios, from about 2003 to 2008 (no one knows anything precisely about that time, as it’s all lost in the fog of chaos). His hand was on all of the remixes, LPs, dance 12s. He was there in that over-designed gear dungeon almost every day, recording, mixing, struggling to not roll his eyes at Tim and me. And somewhere in that fog, he quietly dropped limited runs of three 12-inch delayed reaction bombs on his own label Stickydisc Recordings—two under the name Babytalk, and one as Watussi with another DFA regular, Morgan Wiley.
Back in the day, Eric did not want his music released on DFA. He wanted to forge his own identity, which he did, sending out music that wandered from the DFA path with its uniquely wonky, upended and understated power. His music is so unlike everything else of that era, so profoundly singular, that it still sounds completely out of time.
A few years back, I started DJing the tracks again, and saw how the world was still surprised by what Eric had made, and the idea of this compilation was born.
So, in the end, Eric, we totally got to release your records anyway. We heart you, man.
-James Murphy
Babytalk - Keep On Move (Original Mix)
Babytalk - Keep On Move (Six-Leg Friend Mix)
Babytalk - Chance (Original Mix)
Side B
Babytalk - Chance (Hercules & Love Affair Remix)
Babytalk - Chance (Babytalk Remix)
Side C
Watussi - If All We Had Was Love
Watussi - Purple Moon
Side D
Watussi - Purple Moon (MFWiley dubmix)
Babytalk - Enough
Babytalk tracks written and produced by Eric Broucek
Watussi tracks written and produced by Morgan Wiley and Eric Broucek
Additional keys on “Chance” by Morgan Wiley
Mixing on “Chance (Hercules & Love Affair Remix)” by Eric Broucek
Trumpet on “If All We Had Was Love” by Carter Yasutake
Original design by Stephen Aldahl and Eric Broucek
Design by Leslie Cha Cha Chavez
