Matthew Reate

FIELD NOTES / ISSUE

Wedding at The Madison Hotel

MADISON_ISSUE_011 / Archive

Room log from the archive.

Set Context

VENUE

CITY

DATE

SET

CROWD NOTE

Live Set Recording

A straight room capture from first pour to close.

Highlights

Photo Evidence

Unique image files only.

Vendors

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

Every track I cued, in order. 108tracks

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

Dinner · Japanese City Pop Reception opened at six and dinner ran on the city-pop lane they asked for — Junko Ohashi, Haruomi Hosono, Anri, Casiopea.
  1. Telephone Number Junko Ohashi 94 BPM · 10B
  2. SPORTS MEN (2018 Yoshinori Sunahara Remastering) Haruomi Hosono 109 BPM · 10B
  3. SURPRISE OF SUMMER Anri 120 BPM · 10B
  4. ミッドナイト・ランデブー Casiopea 107 BPM · 10A
  5. This Is All I Have For You - 2018 Remaster Makoto Matsushita 120 BPM · 10A
  6. BAD ADVICE Cornelius/Arto Lindsay 113 BPM · 10A
The Dances Both parent dances, then the first dance — a custom edit that starts as Chet Baker and breaks into Disturbed. They approved it in eight minutes when I sent it.
  1. Mother/Daughter The Sound of Silence Disturbed 86 BPM · 11A

    Mother-daughter dance — Disturbed’s ’The Sound of Silence.’ Their pick.

  2. Mother/Son Forever Young (Slow Version) (Album Version) Bob Dylan 135 BPM · 10B
  3. First Dance First Dance (custom edit) Chet Baker X Disturbed —

    A custom edit built for them: Chet Baker’s ’Let’s Get Lost’ breaking into Disturbed’s ’Down with the Sickness.’

The Floor Opens Straight off the first dance, twelve minutes of disco before dinner service pulled the room back to the tables.
  1. Floor opener Lady - Hear Me Tonight Modjo 126 BPM · 3B

    The floor opened here, three minutes after the first dance.

  2. The Rhythm of the Night Corona 128 BPM · 4A
  3. Hot Stuff (Single Version) Donna Summer 120 BPM · 6A
  4. You Should Be Dancing Bee Gees 123 BPM · 6A
  5. Hung Up Madonna 125 BPM · 7A
  6. Music Sounds Better With You (radio edit) Stardust 124 BPM · 3A
  7. Believe Cher 133 BPM · 3B
Dinner, Continued Back into city pop and indie for the main course — two Plastic Loves back to back, and a Spirited Away song hiding in the middle of dinner.
  1. monkey buisiness RYUSENKEI/HITOMITOI 112 BPM · 11B
  2. Blind Curve Momoko Kikuchi 118 BPM · 9A
  3. After 5 Crash / Tokyo Tower / 初恋 / I’ll Do My Best 角松 敏生 111 BPM · 9A
  4. MIDNIGHT DRIVER Minako Yoshida 104 BPM · 9A
  5. Maybe You Can Owe Me Architecture in Helsinki 99 BPM · 1B
  6. 3rd Planet Modest Mouse 84 BPM · 9B
  7. Lisztomania Phoenix 98 BPM · 8B
  8. Ordinary Pleasure Toro y Moi 115 BPM · 8B
  9. Town Minako Yoshida 117 BPM · 12B
  10. Autumn Sweater Yo La Tengo 102 BPM · 9B
  11. Bara To Yaju Haruomi Hosono/Cornelius 78 BPM · 7A
  12. The Valley of The Pagans (feat. Beck) Gorillaz/Beck 130 BPM · 8B
  13. Plastic Love (new re-mix) Mariya Takeuchi 102 BPM · 7A
  14. Plastic Love Friday Night Plans 104 BPM · 7A
  15. Mayonaka no Door / Stay With Me Miki Matsubara 108 BPM · 7B
  16. 真珠のピアス Yumi Matsutoya 103 BPM · 11B
  17. 中央フリーウェイ Yumi Arai 104 BPM · 4A
  18. Always with Me Yumi Kimura 124 BPM · 10B
  19. ルージュの伝言 Yumi Arai 77 BPM · 5B
  20. Little Secrets Passion Pit 100 BPM · 7B
  21. ルビーの指環 Akira Terao 97 BPM · 6A
  22. WINDY SUMMER Anri 107 BPM · 10B
Dance Floor The lift at 8:26, an emo block at nine that ended on Rage Against the Machine, a K-pop and anime run at 10:40 with the Sailor Moon theme in it, and High School Musical to close at 10:57.
  1. One More Time Daft Punk 123 BPM · 10B
  2. Don’t Start Now - Purple Disco Machine Remix Dua Lipa/Purple Disco Machine 124 BPM · 10B
  3. Disturbia Rihanna 125 BPM · 10A
  4. Can’t Get You out of My Head - Peggy Gou’s Midnight Remix Kylie Minogue/Peggy Gou 130 BPM · 8B
  5. Ain’t No Mountain High Enough Inner Life 128 BPM · 8B
  6. Believe Cher 133 BPM · 3B
  7. You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) Sylvester 131 BPM · 4A
  8. Nobody’s Supposed to Be Here - Dance Mix Deborah Cox, Hex Hector 128 BPM · 3A
  9. Just Dance Lady Gaga, Colby O’Donis 119 BPM · 12B
  10. In da Club 50 Cent 90 BPM · 12A
  11. Gold Digger Kanye West/Jamie Foxx 92 BPM · 1A
  12. Lip Gloss Lil Mama 96 BPM · 1A
  13. The Way I Are Timbaland feat. Keri Hilson & D.O.E. 115 BPM · 1A
  14. Dancing on My Own Robyn 117 BPM · 2B
  15. I Didn’t Just Come Here To Dance Carly Rae Jepsen 122 BPM · 2B
  16. Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) Katy Perry 126 BPM · 2B
  17. MakeDamnSure Taking Back Sunday 140 BPM · 2B
  18. Shake It Metro Station 150 BPM · 12B
  19. I Write Sins Not Tragedies (Album Version) Panic! At The Disco 85 BPM · 8B
  20. Killing In The Name Rage Against The Machine 88 BPM · 7A
  21. Hot Like Sauce Pretty Lights 90 BPM · 7A
  22. Booty Swing Parov Stelar 113 BPM · 7A
  23. D.A.N.C.E Justice 113 BPM · 11A
  24. Burnin’ Up Jonas Brothers 114 BPM · 10B
  25. ゲット・ラッキ — Remix Daft Punk 116 BPM · 11A
  26. Beauty And A Beat (Album Version) Justin Bieber 128 BPM · 8B
  27. I Love It (feat. Charli XCX) Icona Pop, Charli xcx 126 BPM · 4B
  28. Fantastic Baby BIGBANG 130 BPM · 7A
  29. No Broke Boys Disco Lines, Tinashe 131 BPM · 1B
  30. Throw Some Ass Sofi Tukker 131 BPM · 2A
  31. Crank That (Soulja Boy) Soulja Boy Tell ’Em 140 BPM · 5A
  32. God’s Menu Stray Kids 78 BPM · 4A
  33. party 4 u Charli xcx 80 BPM · 3B
  34. Fancy Iggy Azalea/Charli xcx 95 BPM · 5A
  35. I Like You (A Happier Song) Post Malone feat. Doja Cat 101 BPM · 8B
  36. NISSAN ALTIMA Doechii 117 BPM · 9A
  37. Stacy’s Mom Fountains Of Wayne 118 BPM · 9A
  38. This Is Why Paramore 123 BPM · 9A
  39. I Don’t Wanna Be In Love (Dance Floor Anthem) Good Charlotte 125 BPM · 2B
  40. DONTTRUSTME 3OH!3 130 BPM · 6A
  41. Sweetness Jimmy Eat World 135 BPM · 7B
  42. All The Small Things blink-182 149 BPM · 8B
  43. The Middle Jimmy Eat World 81 BPM · 10B
  44. Get Busy Sean Paul 100 BPM · 4A
  45. Freek-A-Leek Petey Pablo 105 BPM · 6A
  46. Tití me preguntó Bad Bunny 111 BPM · 4A
  47. Everybody Everybody Black Box 118 BPM · 4A
  48. Call Me Maybe Carly Rae Jepsen 120 BPM · 9B
  49. Call Your Girlfriend Robyn 125 BPM · 4B
  50. Low (feat. T-Pain) Flo Rida/T-Pain 128 BPM · 2A
  51. Von dutch Charli xcx 130 BPM · 4A
  52. Baby Justin Bieber/Ludacris 130 BPM · 5B
  53. Sugar, We’re Goin Down Fall Out Boy 81 BPM · 10B
  54. Stuntin’ The Floozies 84 BPM · 9A
  55. Teenage Dirtbag Wheatus 95 BPM · 12B
  56. Turn Down for What DJ Snake/Lil Jon 100 BPM · 9A
  57. Work It Missy Elliott 102 BPM · 4A
  58. Hot in Herre Nelly 107 BPM · 9A
  59. Gimme More Britney Spears 113 BPM · 11A
  60. Bad Romance Lady Gaga 119 BPM · 8B
  61. BOOMBAYAH (Live) BLACKPINK 125 BPM · 4A
  62. Lucifer SHINee 125 BPM · 9A
  63. I Am The Best 2NE1 128 BPM · 5A
  64. Sailor Moon - Theme Coded Channel 141 BPM · 5A
  65. MakeDamnSure Taking Back Sunday 140 BPM · 2B
  66. Toxic Pony ALTÈGO x Britney Spears x Ginuwine 143 BPM · 5A
  67. Yummy Justin Bieber 73 BPM · 8B
  68. My Neck, My Back (Lick It) Khia 102 BPM · 8B
  69. Take Me Out Franz Ferdinand 108 BPM · 9A
  70. Last Song Breaking Free (From "High School Musical"/Soundtrack Version) Troy 108 BPM · 5A

    The whole room in a circle, arms up, 10:57 PM.