A big shout out to my friend Clifton Weaver for inviting me to play with him at Apotheke in Chinatown last night. I had never DJed there before and it was so much fun with a great crowd in a really beautiful venue. 

Check out the set list below to see what I played for this all-vinyl set. If these are the tunes that make you groove, click this link for tickets to the next Disco Matinee, which is May 5 at Grand Star Jazz Club. 

Set One: 

Toto Coelo “Milk from the Coconut” (extended version pt. 2)

Melba Moore “You Stepped Into My Life” 

Skatt Brothers “Walk the Night” 

Cherrelle “I Didn’t Mean to Turn You On”

Midnight Star “Operator”

Klymaxx “The Men All Pause”

C-Bank “One More Shot”

Suzi Lane “Harmony” 

Gino Soccio “Dancer” 

Candi Staton “Me and My Music”

Jackie Moore “This Time Baby”

Paul Parker “Right on Target”

Giorgio Moroder “First Hand Experience at Second Hand Love”

Claudja Barry “Sweet Dynamite”

Set Two: 

Cissy Houston “Think It Over”

Bee Gees “I.O.I.O.”

Lizzy Mercier Descloux “Fire”

Sylvester “Dance (Disco Heat)”

Ready for the World “Oh Sheila”

Nacho “Da Da Da”

Space “Magic Fly”

Dee D. Jackson “S.O.S.”

Yello “Bostich” 

Set Three:

(My picks from a B2B set with Clifton)

Dan Hartman “Vertigo/Relight My Fire”

Bohannon “Let’s Start the Dance III”

Taana Gardner “Heartbeat”

Convertion “Let’s Do It”

Tom Tom Club “Genius of Love”

Love Unlimited Orchestra “Love’s Theme”

Bee Gees “Love You Inside Out”

Liz O. is an L.A.-based writer and DJ. Read her recently published work and check out her upcoming gigs.

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