The first time I heard James Murphy DJ was opening for Black Dice. The singer Vince Martin, who was a Greenwich Village folkie from the early sixties, was also playing. I remember James played Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” into Hawkwind’s “Silver Machine” and I was like, “Holy shit! That is some visionary shit!” Really, that sums up the whole DFA style right there, a DJ badass enough to play those two songs back-to-back, and you know what? Nobody stopped moving. Everyone was totally into both those songs, like they were both from the same freaky place.
