Thode’s drop-in segues are casual but resonant, and he makes thematic connections as well as musical ones, as when Candi Staton’s “Victim” transforms into Tracy Weber’s “Sure Shot.” Alas, this really was Thode’s final set: He died in May 1982 as Walters notes, some friends called it a suicide, others an accidental O.D. Find the latest tracks, albums, and images from Stammheim Kassel. He decided to retire from the decks after New Year’s 1982, and his mammoth morning set – the above embed is part two ( all four parts can be found here) – is a model of “sleaze,” the mid-tempo bump favored by AM groovers after more frantic overnight sets. Listen to music from Stammheim Kassel like Der letzte Akt 2002 (techno schranz), Clubnight 28.02.98 & more.
A former resident at Fire Island’s Ice Palace, Thode was a troubled perfectionist: “If somebody came up to him and said ‘You suck,’ that would ruin the rest of his night,” ex-Saint DJ Robbie Leslie told RBMA’s Barry Walters earlier this year. Translation slightly adapted from Lipton, Images, p. Roy Thode, The Saint, New York City (December 31, 1981)Īlong with Alan Dodd and Jim Burgess, Roy Thode was one of the trio of DJs that opened New York’s legendary Saint on September 20, 1980. Epic: The Kassel I/Villehalm Codex and the Landgraves ofHesse in the Early Fourteenth Century.
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