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14 - Chic - Chic Cheer

New Edition Mix

Mint Condition - Caught My Eye

Two and a half hours of classic disco. With a twist.
*Finally remembered to enable downloads if anyone's still interested!!*

Al Kent Classic Disco Mixtape. August 2013

Tony Humphries and Shep Pettibone 98.7 Kiss FM N.Y Mastermix 25/12/1980

Shep Pettibone Mastermix Danceparty Part 1 from the Summer 1983 aired by the best early 80's dance music station in New York City: Kiss FM 98.7 WRKS.

Shep Pettibone Mastermix Part1

Shep Pettibone Mastermix Danceparty Part 2 from the Summer 1983 aired by the best early 80's dance music station in New York City: Kiss FM 98.7 WRKS.

Shep Pettibone Mastermix Part2

Without a doubt the most requested and downloaded mix series that ive ever done. The title says it all...but you have to absorb to understand whats really missing from today's musical environment.

Part 4 will be coming in summer 2010

01. Rings Of Saturn Vocals - Ur
02. Reel By Real - Sirkut - Interface
03. Kenny Larkin - Metropolis - Plus 8
04. Rhythm Is Rhythm - The Beginning
05. Rhythm Is Rhythm - A Relic - Buzz
06. Pod - Vanguard - Buzz
07. Pod - Myopsis - Buzz
08. Psyche - Evolution - Fragile
09. Bango - Mystical Adventure - Fragile
10. Rhythm Is Rhythm - It Is What It Is - Transmat
11. Reese - Funky Funk Funk - Fragile
12. Vft - Locations - Plus 8
13. Casey Tucker - Untitled Promo - White Label
14. Psyche - From Beyond - Transmat
15. Pod - Clavia’s North - Art Of Dance
16. Cosmic Messenger - I Find Myself - Eclipse
17. Rhythm Is Rhythm - Drama - Transmat
18. Eddie Fowlkes - Sex In Zero Gravity - Red Planet
19. Cosmic Messenger - Untitled - Promo
20. World 2 World - Cosmic Traveller - Ur
21. Humana - Millsart - Axis
22. Carl Craig - At Les - Planet E
23. Tres Demented - Demented Drums - Planet E

Vince Watson - Detroit Classics Part 1

Without a doubt the most requested and downloaded mix series that ive ever done. The title says it all...but you have to absorb to understand whats really missing from today's musical environment.

Part 4 will be coming in summer 2010

01. 69 - Microlover - Planet E
02. Fix - Diligent - Ignitor
03. Carl Craig - Twilight - Planet E
04. Rhythim Is Rhythim - Kaotic Harmony - Transmat
05. The Martian - Skypainter - Red Planet
06. Speedy J - Rise - Plus 8
07. The Martian - Stardancer - Red Planet
08. Aril Brikha - Groove La Chord - Transmat
09. Carl Craig - Science Fiction - Blanco Y Negro
10. Robert Hood - The Grey Area - M-Plant
11. Galaxy 2 Galaxy - Journey Of The Dragons - Ur
12. Yennek - War Of The Worlds - Buzz/Transmat/Art Of Dance
13. The Martian - Journey To The Martian Polar Ice Caps - Red Planet
14. Blake Baxter - Altitude - Esp
15. Lfo - Dial - Planet E
16. Robert Hood - Make A Wish - M-Plant
17. Robert Hood - Interior Suspect - M-Plant

Vince Watson - Detroit Classics Part 2

So Fine(Remix) - Mint Condition

WBLS NY, October 1st , 1982  John Morales Mix Tape soulful R&B and Dance sounds ina classic mixture by John Morales 

John Morales WBLS 10-1-82

SHEP PETTIBONE – MASTERMIXES       
 
 A SELECTION OF RARE EDITS, UNRELEASED MIXES AND UNDERGROUND CLASSICS 

Out March 2012 Limited Edition CD Only.

Remixer Shep Pettibone first emerged during the early '80s as a force in disco, boogie, hip-hop and house. Starting with Arthur Baker, he was responsible for Afrika Bambaataa and the Jazzy Five's influential "Jazzy Sensation," and concurrent with the rise of scratching and other turntable innovations created KISS-FM's "MasterMixes."   By the mid-'80s,Pettibone was in hot demand, producing and remixing tracks for such dance-pop innovators as the Pet Shop Boys and New Order; his most successful collaboration, however, was with Madonna, for whom he produced a series of hits, including "Vogue," "Causing a Commotion," and "Justify My Love."  For a long time it was impossible to live in New York without hearing 'This is a KISS Master Mix... Mix... Mix... by Shep Pettibone!' resounding across the airwaves and into the streets. While there had been disco radio mixes before Pettibone, there was never anything like the buzz that kept building on the streets until demand was such for his remixed tapes that Prelude released the landmark KISS Master Mixes LP. 
Pettibone, at 22, worked part time at 'WBLS, where he won recognition for his remix of MFSB's 'Love Is The Message' in 1980.  Shep’s perspective differed from others in that he had a strong pop orientation and the fact that he liked to get right to the point, where the remix needed to be as familiar as the song itself. Stating in a rare interview with Steven Harvey which appeared in the Collusion magazine in 1983 “Basically, it's up to my mood and my feeling. Nobody calls me and tells me what to do. I've gone two weeks at a time without a take on a mix, and then I'll turn around and produce four in one week. The key is to make each one different”.
 Shep's "Mastermixes" were remixes of hit post-disco and dance songs of the time, and continued into 1983, after which Shep became more closely involved with Salsoul Records and expanded into studio mixing and production. He was one of the first to submit multiple remixes (with different approaches) to be released all on the same single. Today this is standard practice to market a song to a multitude of different radio formats and markets.  Shep's "Mastermixes" would often incorporate the "dub" version or instrumental version of the 12" single, using the vocal-only track or other unique portions of the various versions of the 12" singles. Shep made ample use of tape splicing and other methods of editing to create repetitive lines of music or vocals, often in quick, staccato rhythm, and he also made judicious use of tape delay and digital delay effects, usually opting for an eighth-note 'triplet' continuous echo effect either effected on a specific vocal or musical point, or set on a continuous mode with limited delay length to allow for an echoing effect as the music played.  Some "Mastermixes" he did for 98.7 Kiss FM which featured these effects significantly include those for "Do It To The Music" by Raw Silk, and "So Fine" by Howard Johnson (both hits in 1982). In late 1982 Prelude Records released the infamous double-album LP set of "Mastermixes" by Shep Pettibone for a number of Prelude-released songs. The remixes Shep did for D-Train's "You're The One For Me" and "Keep On" are considered classic "Mastermixes" from this set. 
Shep Pettibone added to his work at 98.7 Kiss FM from 1982 by working in the studio on a number of well known 12" singles for Salsoul Records in 1983, including hits by Skyy, Inner Life, the Salsoul Orchestra and Loleatta Holloway, among others. His now classic remix of First Choice's "Let No Man Put Asunder" is the version now found in the majority of urban DJ's record crates.  During Shep Pettibone's peak years at the end of the 1980s, he copied an effect of the use of a sequenced "machine gun"-sounding snare drum sequencing of the Roland TR-909 drum machine, typically as an end-of-bar fill. Shep's "bazooka snare" evolved into a singular sound that can be used with great accuracy to identify his remixes from the period 1988 to 1992, though his attempt to claim credit for the initial use is spurious. Current hip hop and dance recordings, such as the long mix of Beyoncé's "Sweet Dreams" or Azari & III ‘Reckless With Your Love’ continue this tradition.   During his hiatus from radio remixing, Pettibone played records at Better Days, a Black gay bar in the Times Square area. Every club's sound reflects its demographics and, at Better Days, Pettibone spun almost exclusively Black urban post R&B style disco. He constantly mixed over-the records, dropping in extra hand claps (like the delayed intro clap in Prince Charles' 'Jungle Stomp') and effects and hardly ever seemed to let a record play through. The peak would come when he juxtaposed an accapella such as a version of Chocolate Milk's 'Who's Getting It Now' with the instrumental version of Michael Jackson's 'Billie Jean', creating a new song that remains perfectly in sync for minutes; A DJ practice that is now standard in a digital age and with software but back then he was constantly having to tease the discs with his finger and tapping the rims of the turntable to bring records into sync. 
 At Better Days, where Shep Pettibone was often to be found spinning alongside the club’s infamous resident Tee Scott, the loyal crowd there had nostalgia for old classics. In the original Collusion interview he tells Steven Harvey, "True. The music right now is not good. I'm sick of hearing drums and synthesizers. I'd like to hear music again; Strangely enough, all these computer records started after 'Thanks To You' by Sinnamon. It was kind of like that computer sound within a Black vein."   Although never the intention of the inventor, re-mixers such as Pettibone have generated a culture of re-mixers who now have the ability to reach a higher status of recognition than the artist they mix and achieve a legacy that can be even more enduring. Over the years since following Shep taking a back seat from studio a number of porducers both in the States and in Europe have been inspired by his pioneering early work including Masters At Work, Steve ‘Silk’ Hurley,  Jellybean Benitez, Joey Negro, Greg Wilson, and Tensnake,

Shep Pettibone MasterMixes blend 96kbps

A special mix of the songs of the group Klymaxx. Meeting In The Ladies Room and The Men All Pause.

The Ultimate Klymaxx Mix

PURE GROOVE(80S SOUL MIX)

Kevin Sugar-Daddy Woodley Live on 98.7 KissFM New York


Oceana Broadcast 11 25 12 (No Commercials)

Mint Condition -Believe In Us

Mint Condition - Breaking My heart (Pretty Brown Eyes Sample)Prod.By @YounginSoSleaze

A dj set I recorded for national belgian Radio "Pure FM"...They wanted a one hour set of good detroit tracks...so thats what I've made...Could do it each week and it should be a different tracklist...

fabricelig detroit classics djset

ITS THAT TIME OF YEAR!! FEEL GOOD 4 is NOW READY..here is a snippet..for the full mix go to www.tonytouch.com 

FEEL GOOD 4 snippet

A selection of classic mid 80s Shep Pettibone remixes put together as a DJ mix by myself......

Hope you enjoy :)

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