Five-to-Midnight (live sets)

Five-to-Midnight is tired. EPISODE NOTES: This seventh performance podcast was recorded live in the Haçienda tournesol, on 31 December 2016 and 1 January 2017, in Toronto, Canada.

Five-to-Midnight appears around Toronto. She started producing and entertaining back in the ’90s. Now you can enjoy her missed live sets! EPISODE NOTES: This sixth performance podcast was produced for the début of the photography series, Join Us EIR in the Park, at Super-Jet International Coffee House on Friday, 18 November 2016.

Five-to-Midnight appears around Toronto. She started producing and entertaining back in the ’90s. Now you can enjoy what you may have missed during her live sets! EPISODE NOTES: This fifth performance podcast, was recorded live in two parts on 18 September 2016, for the Bechdel Bill’s second annual reception at The Station, 401 Richmond. Named after the Bechdel Test, the Bechdel Bill was created by Joella Crichton and Imogen Grace and is presented alongside the Toronto International Film Festival, or TIFF, in Toronto, Canada.

As part of the DJ Five-to-Midnight podcasts, the Practice Sessions podcast series is a spin-off to chronicle how she gets ideas for her live venue performances. They’re basically home demos. Most run about two hours in duration. Some are more polished than others. These won’t be posted in any particular order. EPISODE NOTES: Practice Session #29 is pretty darn exciting.

As part of the DJ Five-to-Midnight podcasts, the Practice Sessions podcast series is a spin-off to chronicle how she gets ideas for her live venue performances. They’re basically home demos. Most run about two hours in duration. Some are more polished than others. These won’t be posted in any particular order. EPISODE NOTES: Practice Session #27 is the first rehearsal since Performance #4 at Handlebar over eight months earlier.

Five-to-Midnight appears around Toronto. She started producing and entertaining back in the ’90s. Now you can enjoy what you may have missed during her live sets! This fourth podcast, titled ‘‘Craft-a-Ganza!’’, was recorded 7 December 2015 at the Handlebar in Toronto’s Kensington Market. The set was recorded live, as always, with the promise of at least two slow-dance sets and one remix début by Five-to-Midnight of a well-known Canadian classic pop staple. This expanded edition includes the warm-up and winding-down tracks from before her usual start time and after bar closing. In all, this is nearly a five-hour set! * * * Five-to-Midnight live returns soon. Stay tuned. Be delighted by aural artefacts you never knew about. Go home with a better feel of Canadian and Antipodean artists and a whole mess of ‘‘whoa, wtf *IS* this song?’’ moments. Whenever you run into a song here which not even Shazam can ID — and this *will* happen — the episode pages on accozzaglia.ca include set playlists. Five-to-Midnight’s content spans from the ’70s onward. She takes especial care with the decade of 1982 to 1992. She was there and taking names. She knows it intimately. It means you won't experience a better feel for that pop culture anywhere else. ‘‘Retro’’ journeys never get to be this fun! Stop by a live set sometime!

“Call Me Maybe (Five-to-Midnight Remix)” by Carly Rae Jepsen Wednesday, 25 November 2015 Remixing: Five-to-Midnight This project marked a return to remixing after a long hiatus. Also, this CanCon ear worm lacked a sensible extended vision (yes, vision). Débuted 7 December 2015 at the Handlebar’s Rotation Monday, during Craft-a-Ganza! Meta-note: immeasurable thanks in no order to Carly Rae Jepsen and Tavish Crowe. :) Source: © 2011 604 Records

Five-to-Midnight appears around Toronto. She started producing and entertaining back in the ’90s. Now you can enjoy what you missed in her live sets! This third podcast, titled ‘‘New Horizons’’, was recorded 13 July 2015 at the Handlebar in Toronto’s Kensington Market. The set was recorded live when NASA’s New Horizons Pluto mission was less than 12 hours from its closest approach to the dwarf planet. * * * Five-to-Midnight live returns soon. Stay tuned. Be delighted by aural artefacts you never knew about. Go home with a better feel of Canadian and Antipodean artists and a whole mess of ‘‘whoa, wtf *IS* this song?’’ moments. Whenever you run into a song here which not even Shazam can ID — and this *will* happen — the episode pages on accozzaglia.ca include set playlists. Five-to-Midnight’s content spans from the ’70s onward. She takes especial care with the decade of 1982 to 1992. She was there and taking names. She knows it intimately. It means you won't experience a better feel for that pop culture anywhere else. ‘‘Retro’’ journeys never get to be this fun! Stop by a live set sometime!

Five-to-Midnight appears around Toronto. She started producing and entertaining back in the ’90s. Now you can enjoy what you missed in her live sets! This podcast was recorded 23 March 2015 at the Handlebar in Toronto’s Kensington Market. * * * Five-to-Midnight returns to the Handlebar on Monday, July 13th. Come by. Say hi. Stay. Drink Laurier-priced drinks. Be delighted by aural artefacts you never knew about. Go home with a better feel of Canadian and Antipodean artists and a whole mess of ‘‘whoa, wtf *IS* this song?’’ moments. Whenever you run into a song here which not even Shazam can ID — and this *will* happen — the episode pages on accozzaglia.ca include set playlists. Five-to-Midnight’s content spans from the ’70s onward. She takes especial care with the decade of 1982 to 1992. She was there and taking names. She knows it intimately. It means you won't experience a better feel for that pop culture anywhere else. ‘‘Retro’’ journeys never get to be this fun! Stop by a live set sometime!

As part of the DJ Five-to-Midnight podcasts, the Practice Sessions podcast series is a spin-off which chronicles how she gets ideas for her live audience performances. They’re basically home demos. Most run about two hours in duration. Some are more polished than others. These won’t be posted in any particular order. EPISODE NOTES: ideas from Practice Session episode #22 gave rise to some of what would be heard on Handlebar Performance #2.

As part of the DJ Five-to-Midnight podcasts, the Practice Sessions podcast series is a spin-off which chronicles how she gets ideas for her live audience performances. They’re basically home demos. Most run about two hours in duration. Some are more polished than others. These won’t be posted in any particular order. EPISODE NOTES:

As part of the DJ Five-to-Midnight podcasts, the Practice Sessions podcast series is a spin-off which chronicles how she gets ideas for her live audience performances. They’re basically home demos. Most run about two hours in duration. Some are more polished than others. These won’t be posted in any particular order. EPISODE NOTES: Practice session #17 was recorded the day the Science and Security Board for the Bulletin of the Atomic Sciences said nope to 11:55 p.m. and changed things to 11:57 p.m. for the Doomsday Clock. It was brought closer to midnight doom not only because of continuing atomic threats and nuclear waste disposal challenges, but also because of escalating climatological effects of the Anthropocene. All DJ Five-to-Midnight podcasts from this date onward reflect this adjustment of the Doomsday Clock with a transparent “7” for all accompanying podcast art.

Five-to-Midnight appears around Toronto. She started producing and entertaining back in the ’90s. Now you can enjoy what you missed in her live sets! This podcast, recorded 5 January 2015 at the Handlebar in Toronto’s Kensington Market, was her first live-to-podcast set. * * * Five-to-Midnight returns to the Handlebar on Monday, March 23rd. Come by. Say hi. Stay. Drink Laurier-priced drinks. Be delighted by aural artefacts you never knew about. Go home with a better feel of Canadian and Antipodean artists and a whole mess of ‘‘whoa, wtf *IS* this song?’’ moments. Whenever you run into a song here which not even Shazam can ID — and this *will* happen — the episode pages on accozzaglia.ca include set playlists. Five-to-Midnight’s content spans from the ’70s onward. She takes especial care with the decade of 1982 to 1992. She was there and taking names. She knows it intimately. It means you won't experience a better feel for that pop culture anywhere else. ‘‘Retro’’ journeys never get to be this fun! Stop by a live set sometime!

As part of the DJ Five-to-Midnight podcasts, the Practice Sessions podcast series is a spin-off which chronicles how she gets ideas for her live audience performances. They’re basically home demos. Most run about two hours in duration. Some are more polished than others. These won’t be posted in any particular order. EPISODE NOTES: Practice Session #14 was the first rehearsal of the new year. This is very much a winter-inspired set.

As part of the DJ Five-to-Midnight podcasts, the Practice Sessions podcast series is a spin-off which chronicles how she gets ideas for her live audience performances. They’re basically home demos. Most run about two hours in duration. Some are more polished than others. These won’t be posted in any particular order. EPISODE NOTES: Practice Session #13 was recorded the day after I was gifted with a set of Sennheiser HD 25-1 II monitor headphones. The placebo effect would tell me that this practice session was tighter than most of the previous sessions (all of which used a set of Sony MDR-V700 headphones I bought back in May 2001). It actually was when things got easier to hear and to do so with less ear fatigue. By comparison, the MDR-700s felt like unpleasantly flat pancakes afterwards. The music selection had nothing to do with headphones. Except for maybe “Valley Girl”. IDK.

As part of the DJ Five-to-Midnight podcasts, the Practice Sessions podcast series is a spin-off which chronicles how she gets ideas for her live audience performances. They’re basically home demos. Most run about two hours in duration. Some are more polished than others. These won’t be posted in any particular order. EPISODE NOTES:

As part of the DJ Five-to-Midnight podcasts, the Practice Sessions podcast series is a spin-off which chronicles how she gets ideas for her live audience performances. They’re basically home demos. Most run about two hours in duration. Some are more polished than others. These won’t be posted in any particular order. EPISODE NOTES: This ended up being more like a radio station playing a string of the melancholy: the duress of crisis.

“Doctor! Walter (Five-to-Midnight Mash)” by Thompson–Abrams Twins Thursday, 10 October 2013 Mashing up, remixing: DJ Five-to-Midnight As my only mash-up ever completed, it practically made itself. Enjoy it! Meta-note: This podcast was originally posted to SoundCloud. But it was SoundCloud. Immeasurable thanks to Alannah Currie, Tom Bailey, Joe Leeway, Alex Sadkin, and J.J. Abrams. :) Sources: © 1983 Arista & © 2008 Bad Robot.

“Lovers in a Dangerous Time (Halifax Mix)” by Bruce Cockburn Saturday, 2 February 2002 Remixing: DJ Five-to-Midnight (as Midnight in Halifax) An extended version to fill a void left by the original producers. Meta-note: this podcast was originally posted to Soundcloud, but it was too dangerous a time to survive on Soundcloud. Immeasurable thanks to Bruce Cockburn. :) Source: © 1984 True North Records

“Go Insane (Halifax Mix)” by Lindsey Buckingham Saturday, 26 January 2002 Remixing: DJ Five-to-Midnight (as Midnight in Halifax) An extended version to fill a void left by the original producers. Meta-note: this podcast was originally posted to Soundcloud, but Soundcloud lost its sanity. Immeasurable thanks to Lindsey Buckingham. :) Source: © 1984 Warner Brothers Records

“Same Old Scene (Halifax Mix)” by Roxy Music Saturday, 12 January 2002 Remixing: DJ Five-to-Midnight (as Midnight in Halifax) An extended version to fill a void left by the original producers. Meta-note: this podcast was originally posted to Soundcloud. Immeasurable thanks in no order to Bryan Ferry, Andy Mackay, Paul Thompson & Phil Manzanera. :) Source: © 1984 EG Ltd.

“Pride (in the Name of Love) (Incomplete Halifax Mix)” by U2 Saturday, 20 January 2001 Remixing: DJ Five-to-Midnight (as Midnight in Halifax) An incomplete extended remix of the album version, roughly three-quarters of the way there. Meta-note: this podcast was originally posted to Soundcloud, which isn’t completely done with it. Immeasurable thanks in no order to Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen. :) Source: © 1984 Island Records

“Don’t You Want Me (Halifax Mix)” by The Human League Friday, 6 October 2000 Remixing: DJ Five-to-Midnight (as Midnight in Halifax) An extended version to elevate a structural continuity over the original extended mix. Meta-note: this podcast was originally posted to Soundcloud, which didn’t remotely want me. Immeasurable thanks in no order to Philip Oakey, Jo Callis, Philip Wright. :) Source: © 1981 Virgin Records Ltd.

“Perfect Way (Halifax Mix)” by Scritti Politti Saturday, 29 July 2000 Remixing: DJ Five-to-Midnight (as Midnight in Halifax) Combining the best parts of commercially available versions to produce a perfectly good extended version. Meta-note: this podcast was originally posted to Soundcloud, which combines the best parts of NOPE and the reverse of ACMD. Immeasurable thanks to Green Gartside. :) Sources: © 1985 Virgin Records Ltd. / Warner Brothers Records

“This Is Not America (Halifax Mix)” by Pat Metheny Group and David Bowie Saturday, 29 July 2000 Remixing: DJ Five-to-Midnight (as Midnight in Halifax) An extended version to fill a void left by the original producers. Meta-note: this podcast was originally posted to Soundcloud, and they promised this remix wouldn’t stay too long. Immeasurable thanks in no order to Pat Metheny and David Bowie. :) Sources: © 1985 EMI America

“Serious (Submission Mix)” by Duran Duran Saturday, 7 December 1996 Remixing: DJ Five-to-Midnight (as Midnight in Halifax) An extended version to fill a void left by the original producers. The final digital remix project and track 1 from the EP, The Submission Mixes, 1997. Meta-note: this podcast was originally posted to Soundcloud, and there’s a two-in-eleven chance they’re awesome. Immeasurable thanks in no order to Simon LeBon, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, and Warren Cuccurullo. :) Source: © 1990 Duran Duran / Parlophone

“Batucada (Submission Mix)” by Towa Tei with Bebel Gilberto Friday, 6 December 1996 Remixing: DJ Five-to-Midnight (as Midnight in Halifax) The third digital remix project and track 3 from the EP, The Submission Mixes, 1997. Meta-note: this podcast was originally posted to Soundcloud, a real Bronx cheer. Immeasurable thanks in no order to Takeshi Fujii, Towa Tei, Bebel Gilberto, and Marcos Valle. :) Source: © 1995 Elektra Entertainment

“Live to Tell (Submission Mix)” by Madonna Saturday, 31 August 1996 Remixing: DJ Five-to-Midnight (as Midnight in Halifax) My second digital remix project: an extended version to fill a void left by the original producers. Track 3 on the EP, The Submission Mixes, 1997. Meta-note: this podcast was originally posted to Soundcloud. But Soundcloud is sketchy about leaving good things alone. Immeasurable thanks in no order to Patrick Leonard and Madonna. :) Sources: © 1986 Sire Records Company

“Vanishing Point (Submission Mix)” by New Order Saturday, 31 August 1996 Remixing: DJ Five-to-Midnight (as Midnight in Halifax) My first digital remix project. Track 2 on the EP, The Submission Mixes, 1997. Meta-note: this podcast was originally posted to Soundcloud. But it was Soundcloud. Immeasurable thanks in no order to Gillian Gilbert, Stephen Morris, Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook. :) Source: © 1989 Factory Communications Ltd.