I edited this track for my "Billy Idle Reworks The 80s - Vol. 2 - Originals In" radio show (get it from http://www.billyidle.de) but then I noticed it I can make it clubbier by re-organizing the parts (verse/chorus structure is not the thing we care to keep from the 70s/80s) and I also re-did the mix-in using the beats of the song itself. Much better than borrowing a kick drum from elsewhere. Oh, and the track is remastered as usual.


Kano - I'm Ready (Billy Idle's Edit)

Billy Idle is a resident DJ and promoter of @discobizarre, the weekly disco dancefloor at Berlin's KitKatClub. Our current focus is on 70's disco and 80's HiNRG… in the past decade Billy had specialized on 80's edits and ran a radio show on TWENFM. Billy still produces nearly one edit a day, but they are not available from soundcloud. If you're interested, get in touch using the website's contact form. Billy is miserably bad at checking mail on soundcloud. Catch him on Telegram instead. Also if you want your tracks to be played at Disco Bizarre. Disco Bizarre has also started its own label and was just about to publish Billy's first vinyl EP when the Corona virus came! After a bit we published it anyway.

Summer 2020 and 2021 saw Billy performing in parks, beer gardens and live streams (check out the youtube link) rather than in clubs. Subscribe to his newsletter, or invite him over. Tempelhof airport saw a lot of spontaneous bluetooth disco workouts.

Billy started routinely producing 80s' edits around 2010… the tracks typically maintain the sounds of the originals but adopt a more modern dramaturgy, suitable for beatmatched mixing (which until then was uncommon with music from the 80s). More instrumental parts, more time for the audience to tune into the song before the singing starts, if it starts at all. If you like Billy's edits, search soundcloud for 'Billy Idle' because various folks have been re-uploading them occasionally. Or follow the links on his website.

Why Billy uploads using FLAC? Because it is the best format for professionals on the Internet: Half as big as a WAV or AIFF of the same quality and much better than an MP3 that loses sound details each time you convert to it, even when using a bitrate of 320. Get yourself a free and open source FLAC decoder from http://flac.sourceforge.net