Matthew Reate

FIELD NOTES / ISSUE

Larissa-Helen & Manoo at Pleasantdale Chateau

PLEASANTDALE_ISSUE_010 / Archive

Room log from the archive.

Set Context

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Live Set Recording

A straight room capture from first pour to close.

Highlights

The Video

The night, in three minutes.

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Photo Evidence

Unique image files only.

Vendors

Who made the night work, and where to find them.

Every track I cued, in order. 83tracks

BPM and key for the crate-diggers. Soundcheck and test cues stripped — this is the room as it actually ran.

Dinner & the Dances Cocktail and dinner ran mellow and patient — Frank Ocean, Solange, Sade — through the formalities: the first dance, both parent dances, a Persian classic for mother and son.
  1. Pink + White Frank Ocean 80 BPM · 9A
  2. Wood Rostam 83 BPM · 1B
  3. Bad Habit Steve Lacy 84 BPM · 4B
  4. Don’t Touch My Hair Solange 91 BPM · 7A
  5. Pets Deadmau5 128 BPM · 6B
  6. First Dance Stand By Me Don Shirley 131 BPM · 11B

    First dance — the Don Shirley version. Not choreographed; just theirs.

  7. Father/Daughter My Girl The Temptations 105 BPM · 8B
  8. Mother/Son Shah Doomad Viguen 98 BPM · 6A

    Mother-son dance — Viguen’s ’Shah Doomad,’ a Persian standard.

  9. Charcoal Baby Blood Orange 92 BPM · 7A
  10. Kiss of Life Sade 97 BPM · 11B
  11. Somebody Else The 1975 101 BPM · 8B
  12. Essence Wizkid 104 BPM · 8A
Dance Floor The S.O.S. Band lifted it into disco, then 80s pop, then the cross-cultural peak — Persian and Nigerian woven together — into a 2000s throwback run, and Rihanna to close the main room just past midnight. A house-and-techno afterparty followed next door in the Music Room.
  1. Floor opener Take Your Time (Do It Right) (long version) The S.O.S Band 119 BPM · 9A

    The lift: the long S.O.S. Band version opened the floor into disco.

  2. Hot Stuff (Single Version) Donna Summer 120 BPM · 6A
  3. Let’s Groove (Album Version) Earth, Wind & Fire 125 BPM · 10A
  4. Ain’t No Mountain High Enough Inner Life 128 BPM · 8A
  5. I Feel Love Donna Summer 126 BPM · 6A
  6. You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) Sylvester 131 BPM · 4A
  7. Stayin’ Alive Bee Gees 104 BPM · 4A
  8. Hung Up Madonna 125 BPM · 7A
  9. Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) Eurythmics 125 BPM · 5A
  10. Just Can’t Get Enough Depeche Mode 128 BPM · 9B
  11. Believe Cher 133 BPM · 3B
  12. You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) Dead or Alive 128 BPM · 11A
  13. Dancing Queen ABBA 101 BPM · 11B
  14. What Is Love - 7" Mix Haddaway 124 BPM · 7A
  15. Show Me Love Robin S. 120 BPM · 8A
  16. Million Dollar Bill Whitney Houston 120 BPM · 10B
  17. Rock With You Michael Jackson 114 BPM · 2A
  18. Supercut Lorde 125 BPM · 8B
  19. Distance YEBBA 140 BPM · 9B
  20. Easy Easy King Krule 74 BPM · 1A
  21. Are You Looking Up Mk.gee 77 BPM · 1B
  22. Damage H.E.R. 80 BPM · 3B
  23. Self Control Frank Ocean 80 BPM · 4B
  24. I Want You Around Snoh Aalegra 84 BPM · 2A
  25. Easy Mac Ayres 91 BPM · 7B
  26. Cranes in the Sky Solange 97 BPM · 2B
  27. 99 Olamide 112 BPM · 4A
  28. Dokhtare Irooni Andy 121 BPM · 3A
  29. Soy Como Soy - Arodes Remix Makossa & Megablast, Megablast, Arodes, Cleydys Villalon 122 BPM · 3A
  30. SUMMER RENAISSANCE Beyoncé 120 BPM · 5A
  31. I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) - David Solomon Remix Whitney Houston, David Solomon 125 BPM · 2B
  32. On The Low Burna Boy 100 BPM · 1B
  33. Temptation Arash 108 BPM · 9A
  34. Fantasy Mariah Carey 102 BPM · 9B
  35. The Woo Pop Smoke 100 BPM · 10A
  36. Bermuda MACAN Band 126 BPM · 7A
  37. Aiyola Harmonize 122 BPM · 7B
  38. One More Time (Short Radio Edit) Daft Punk 123 BPM · 10B
  39. Like Sugar Chaka Khan 107 BPM · 7A
  40. I Feel for You Chaka Khan 125 BPM · 12A
  41. Rain On Me - Purple Disco Machine Remix - Edit Lady Gaga/Ariana Grande/Purple Disco Machine 123 BPM · 12A
  42. Love at First Sight Kylie Minogue 125 BPM · 2B
  43. We Found Love Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris 128 BPM · 2B
  44. I Love It (feat. Charli XCX) Icona Pop, Charli xcx 126 BPM · 4B
  45. Clarity Zedd/Foxes 128 BPM · 4B
  46. Slow Motion Juvenile feat. Soulja Slim 86 BPM · 5A
  47. Get Low (Clean) Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz feat. Ying Yang Twins 101 BPM · 5A
  48. Gasolina Daddy Yankee 96 BPM · 4A
  49. Gas Pedal Sage The Gemini/Iamsu! 98 BPM · 4A
  50. Don’t Tell ’Em Jeremih 98 BPM · 7A
  51. Yeah! (feat. Lil Jon & Ludacris) USHER, Lil Jon, Ludacris 105 BPM · 6A
  52. My Bébé Yemi Alade 115 BPM · 12A
  53. Jooneh Khodet Black Cats 120 BPM · 10A
  54. 212 Azealia Banks feat. Lazy Jay 126 BPM · 12A
  55. I Could Be The One (Avicii Vs. Nicky Romero) - Radio Edit Avicii/Nicky Romero 128 BPM · 11B
  56. OMG (feat. will.i.am) USHER/will.i.am 130 BPM · 11B
  57. Trap Queen Fetty Wap 148 BPM · 8B
  58. Everytime We Touch Cascada 142 BPM · 4B
  59. Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin’) (feat. Yung Joc) T-Pain/Yung Joc 80 BPM · 4B
  60. Laffy Taffy D4L 78 BPM · 5A
  61. Blow the Whistle Too $hort 100 BPM · 5A
  62. Tití me preguntó Bad Bunny 111 BPM · 4A
  63. Temperature Sean Paul 125 BPM · 3A
  64. Friend Of Mine - from the Smurfs Movie Soundtrack Rihanna 130 BPM · 4B
  65. Guess Charli xcx featuring billie eilish 130 BPM · 9A
  66. You Make Me Feel… Cobra Starship feat. Sabi 132 BPM · 6B
  67. Low (feat. T-Pain) Flo Rida/T-Pain 128 BPM · 2A
  68. Ocean Avenue Yellowcard 174 BPM · 11B
  69. Dynamite Taio Cruz 120 BPM · 12B
  70. Main-floor close Don’t Stop The Music Rihanna 123 BPM · 11A

    Closed the main room here, just past midnight, before the afterparty next door.

  71. Summertime Blues (feat. Nathan Nicholson) Chris Lake/Sammy Virji/Nathan Nicholson 130 BPM · 1A