P.H.O.D.A.

Jazz funk soul boogie

Desert island

Juillet 2018

SoundCloud Weekly

Sunshine disco

Pete herbert

selection of tracks various artists

SoundCloud Weekly W28 Deep House RS

Happy Holidays... See You in 2014.... Peace, Love and Respect...FP...

Fred P.    Dawn

Roy Davis Jr Ft. Peven Everett - Gabriel

Artist: Roberto Rodriguez
Release: Sensible EP
Release date 23.6.2014
Mastered by: Phonogenic Audio

01. Sensible Jungle Tune
ISRC: DEL021440013

02. If I Had You
ISRC: DEL021440014

03. Steal My Heart
ISRC: DEL021440015

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Roberto Rodriguez returns to his own Serenades label with the eclectic and inventive Sensible EP. The Helsinki based DJ and producer has been in the game for over 15 years, paying his dues with an enviable back catalogue that spans 50+ releases on such taste-making labels as Compost, Freerange, Delusions Of Grandeur, Room With A View, FINA and Eskimo, to name but a few. Here, he delivers a beautiful 3-track EP that fully showcases his knack for effortlessly fresh and musical dance music.

‚Sensible Jungle Tune‘ is an atmospheric, shimmering, ethereal piece – layered with sound-sca- pes, field recordings, submerged melodies and poly-rhythmic tribal grooves. Definitely one for the heads, this has an ambient quality that suggests a producer quite willing to take risks – and all the better for it.
‚If I Had You‘ is a different affair – a mid tempo house chugger, with melancholy chords and sparkling keys, driven along on an infectious groove, and sure to get serious attention from the balearic DJs this summer.

‚Steal My Heart‘ is also refreshingly hard to define, throwing in elements of broken beat, garage, pop and deep house to produce a jam that will bring a smile to the face of everyone who hears it.


SRNDS014 Roberto Rodriguez - Sensible EP 128kbs Out Now!

Chas jankel "Boy - DJ Darryn edit"

Foremost Poets   Open Season (Main Mix)

Donna  Summer - Sunset People (MEQ Slow Mo Edit)

Welcome to the second release on a new record label, Real Balearic.  We are record label based in Ibiza and London. We were set up by the team who brought you the world famous "Real Ibiza" series of compilations and released the very first "Café Del Mar" compilation.   We are passionate about music and in particular music with a thread that runs to the musical sounds of Ibiza and the Balearic islands. Whilst we may "chill out" with the best of them it is not what we are all about. Balearic techno, Balearic disco, Ambient soundscapes, Classical interludes, Sun-drenched chords, Sunset grooves, Moon-washed rhythms... and just about anything that grabs us...

Following on from our first release from Ibiza Balearic legend Jose Padilla we follow things up with a second release also brimming with sunshine and optimism. Here we harness the Balearic spirit with a brand new track from the San Francisco based producer Sorcerer (also known as Dan Judd).  His release becomes our first vinyl release and the first opportunity to see our brand new vinyl house bag artwork.

The original of "Video Magic" has the trademark shimmering guitar lines and chords, bags of lazy-afternoon groove and that all important summertime swing.

First up on remix duties is downtempo and chillout DJ, tastemaker, broadcaster and overlord Chris Coco.   He nudges the groove up ever so slightly with his beach front evening re-rub. Perfect for sunset moments.

With a 5 track single it is nice to touch all bases and Slovenian based Ichisan covers the leftfield and slightly quirky version with his remix.  His remix moves along with his usual mix of ponderous bass guitar and analogue synth effects.    South American Daniel Solar cranks the pace a touch more with his beach disco evening time excursion.  As a finale and one final crank on the energy index, the Italian based duo Irregular Disco Workers deliver their peak time disco house stomper. Sweet.

Stay tuned for the third album from Dan out soon on Real Balearic.

Video Magic

Video Magic (Ichisan Remix)

RBLRC002 03 - Sorcerer - Video Magic (Ichisan Remix)

Snippets of the 3 tracks taken from the "Lights Out" EP featuring Kaidi Tatham released exclusively on vinyl November 2016 on Blend it! records. 

Tracklist:
A1. Lights Out
B1. High Flames
B2. Flash Burn

Juno records review:
Verona-based Patrick "Twice" Gibin is making a habit of collaborating with nu-jazz and broken beat veterans. Having previously joined forces with one-time Sonar Kollektiv regular Clara Hill, this E.P sees him acquire the services of killer keys-man Kaidi Tatham of Bugz In The Attic fame. The latter's smart, jazz-funk influenced riffs are all over the sweet, gently soulful and wonderfully positive deep house A-side "Lights Out", but can also be heard on the woozy, broken beat-goes-boogie flex of "High Flames". "Flash Burn", another musically rich, organic house groover - this time complete with what sound like eyes-closed guitar solos - completes an excellent package.

http://www.juno.co.uk/products/patrick-gibin-twice-kaidi-tatham-lights-out/625999-01/

Patrick Gibin featuring Kaidi Tatham "Lights Out" EP

Creative Musicians, Vol. 2

Galaxy Medley

Creative Musicians

This is Party Time 12” Maxi single, produced by Garth David in 1997 for Free Style LP.
The single includes De Los Miedos dub mix and Not Unusual as bonus track.
Ostra Discos 2017 ©

Garth David - Party Time 12" Maxi Single (Snippets)

Northern Disco Lights are releasing a limited edition 7” for Record Store day of two Norwegian dance music classics.

Lindstrøm’s Closing Shot appears for the first time on wax and is the distillation of the modern disco sounds pioneered by the Norwegians.

Erot can claim to have been Norway’s first superstar DJ and this is the tune that kicked it all off that sounds as fresh today as it did twenty years ago.

Tellé - Wall of Sound presents

Erot - Song For Annie [JAMMd]

Finally after 5 years I am happy to be releasing this remix I did of Field Of Dreams as part of the next Music for Swimming Pools 003.
Available 16th September 2022

Field Of Dreams - Pourquoi - Pete Herbert Remix

Previously Unreleased song recorded by Odia Coates in 1977 from forthcoming LP on Family Groove Records

ODIA COATES - CHUMP CHANGE

New remix from me and Dicky Trisco of L'Impératrice "Séquences ''
out now on Microqlima

L'Impératrice 'Séquences' (Pete Herbert/Dicky Trisco Remix)

Rinse FM Podcasts

Kenny Dope: Anything Goes Radio: RinseFM: November 2, 2017

Two new tracks from Pete Herbert backed up with some heavyweight remixes courtesy of Bottin and Yam Who?

Juno says:
Its Riot Gear number 2 and it's a party monster from the ever reliable Pete Herbert 
The EP is packed with Italo madness, house pianos, arpeggios and beats galore. Bottin & Yam Who? provide the remixes.
Venice based Bottin adds a classic Metro Area-esque feel, with new wave boogie touches, proto house beats and killer analogue synthesizers.
Yam Who? tears apart 'Expresso' with rough disco beats, a stripped down pulsating bass and brings in dreamy Rinder & Lewis keys over an authentic '70s disco production, fully optimised for all the late night dance floors.

PETE HERBERT - EXPRESSO

Here's the recording of a fabulous evening up and down the canal.
Thank you so much to Mike O'Mara, that'll go down as a legendary Doodle party!

1) Pay The Price - Stevo 
2) On The Air  - Lexy Mella 
3) 80s Joint (Dan J Edit) - Kelis  
4) ???
5) Yonge Street Jam Band - Carl & Carol Jacobs
6) Bibi_Na_Mpu (Maurice_Fulton_dub) - Mim_Suleiman
7) Do I Do (Rayko edit) - Maurice McGee  
8) You Can't Change a Man (B.I. Edit) - Christy Essien 
9) AllOver Your Face - Ronnie Dyson 
10) I Love To Dance - Kleer
11) Inferno - Soundstream
12) Better - Mood Hut
13) raxxploitation
14) Daniel Wang - Not Feeling It - Honey Pot 
15) Erotic City (Edit) - Prince 
16) Disk Two - I - Cube 
17) Beam Me Up (Jacques Renault remix) - Midnight Magic 
18) The Mystery With Me (Glowing Palms Edit) - Jo Bisso 
19) Lets Lovedance Tonight (Danny Krivit re-edit) - Garys Gang 
20) San Salvador (12 inch mix) - Azoto 
21) Angel In My Pocket - Change 
22) Doyouwannafuck? Do You? - Gay Marvine 
23) Disco Fantasy - Rahaan 
24) You Cant Hide From Yourself (Dimitri From Paris Super Disco Blend) - Teddy Prendergass

Doodle Mix Series # 12 - Mike O'Mara

Cologne based beat magician Hodini is up this week to show you a look behind his musical curtain. 
A regular collaborator with the homies WOLF records and also on top german label Money $ex records. Hodini likes to carve out bumping, jazzy, hip hop influenced beats that are steeped in quality and smoothness, as reflected in this mix.
Watch out for his new record collab coming soon in 2018 with fellow jazzy beatsmith Glenn Astro.



@hodini78

SlothBoogie Guestmix #114 - Hodini

Happy new year folks! @Apparel-Music Radio Show [#186] begins 2018 with a mix from our mastermind @Kisk. A selection of new, unreleased or just cool stuff, the kind of stuff we like, Enjoy!

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Radio show #186: Kisk

TBE1202 - Tugboat Edits Volume 2

A1. Burning Down The Acid House (LNTG Mix)

Perception Productions, a New York based label that ran from the late 60s through until 1974, was a strangely eclectic affair. Its roster stretched from a radical Afro-American poet through to the pop band King Harvest whose hit ‘Dancing In The Moonlight’ became a massive hit for the UK band Toploader a couple of decades later. The inbetween points covered jazz, funk, vocal harmony soul and proto-disco. In fact distilled down into this compilation the label provides us a view of Manhattan’s black music scene of the period, from the established greats to the fresh young things who would make their mark in the coming years. The two men who ran the label, President Terry Phillips and Boo Frazier burned brightly for that half a decade before almost entirely disappearing from the music scene.

You And I - Black Ivory

Juno Review: Groove king Medina is fighting fit and back with an absolute odyssey. "Heart Of Kyushu" is an all-out trip of tranquillity. Weighing in at 13+ minutes, it's for the deepest and most tender of moments and real statement on where Cole is at right now. "Target Woman" follows suit with a little more cosmic welly. Shiny sultry vocals, mystic synth whirlwinds and more immersivity than a VR village, Cole's not messing around with these.

Preorder:
https://www.whatpeopleplay.com/albumdetails/Cole-Medina-Heart-of-Kyushu/id/164897

JOLLY JAMS JJ044 - A.Heart Of Kyushu - B.Target Woman

few days ago, something special happened at the end of a show in France where I was playing b2b with mamene S3A.
the sound engineer, waited for the place to be empty and just played this beautiful track for the staff and the artists packing their stuff and it had a really strong effect on me. something beautiful, out of time, lost in a little snowy village, this song I know since I was a kid sounded different and affected me.
the funniest part of the story is that S3A did a France Gall edit few weeks ago to pay his tribute to this wonderful and talented artist, thanks to him for opening the road.
here it is, only three days after the show cause it feels linked to that moment for ever to me.
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hope you'll like it fam.
folam.
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mastering : Mangabey (thx mamene)

France Gall - Ella Elle L'a (Folamour Edit)

A1. Pat & Pats - Tobago  (Original 12” Vocal)
(Phil Sun - Greg)

A2. Pat & Pats - Tobago (Miro’s Piano Paradise)
(Phil Sun)

B1. Pat & Pats - Tobago (Original 12” Instrumental)
(Phil Sun - Greg)

B2. Pat & Pats - Tobago (Bolas & Dama Dub)
(Bolas - Dama)



“Tobago Bay Tobago Night / No quiero casi ni pensar / Será felizcerca de ti / Verano largo sin final"

Ever dreamt to travel to Trinidad&Tobago? 

Disco Segreta makes this dream come true with its 6th release: the muchawaited officially licensed reissue of this tropicalo-disco synth bass boogie atomic bomb, from the original analog masters.

Written in late 1983 by Mario Baldoni aka Miro (of “Real Life Games” LP(1977) and Brina’s “Stranamore” (1984) 7” fame, was originally released in July 1984 on the small Pineapple label  – a sublabel of Armando Sciascia’s“Vedette” – with close to no success and a pressing fault: a glitch on the vocalversion, that affected all copies.
This tropical summerish blend of italo and boogie, along with the male/femalealternate spanish/english singing, turned into a true classic of the genre over the years, slowly making the playlists of the most respected DJs and diggersworldwide.
The 4-tracks 12" features the original vocal and instrumental versions in theiroriginal lenght, carefully dubbed from the analog stereo masters and takenback to new life through Disco Segreta’s usual respectful mastering. Also, twonew remixes are featured.

Pat & Pats - Tobago (DSM06)

jazzanova - let it go

Previously Unreleased Disco-Funk from 1981

GOODIE Dancin Free [PREVIEW]

Previously Unreleased Modern Soul from 1980

MARY HOLMES Living In A World of Make Believe [PREVIEW]

An unreleased edit of Womack and Womack - Missing Persons Bureau

Womack And Womack - MPB (JA's Tape Edit)

Purchase limited edition vinyl 12" - https://presentediscos.bandcamp.com

The nascent Dj/Producer José Martí takes delight in being the first maker of the Presente life’s work. With this record, he shows his beaming skills with these 2 tasteful edits that will uplift you to the warmest state of dancing.

As the wax flips, “Baile” suggest the dancer a sensible meeting with the almighty groove. Martí gets this chance meeting, pulling out that 70s funky vibe and turning it into a floorfiller leaving his classy mark.

Baile

DIVINE SITUATION - THE PROBLEM SOLVER -

an old edit from ze vaults

I originally played Terje's edit but did one to suit me

memories of playing this to my daughter at sa trinxa  a couple of years ago x

The Osmonds -  I I I (Jamie fatneck edit)

Purchase here: https://vivelamusique.bandcamp.com/album/tabala-mouv

British producer Aroop Roy (@aroop-roy) flexed his record digger muscles to track down 'Tabala Mouv', an ultra-rare Zouk record from the mid-80s, in order to revive it for today's dancefloors with an official reissue on his own Vive La Musique.

Here Mixmag premieres Aroop's own reworking of the original, which features a boosted tempo that flips the iconic track into an irresistible groove with universal appeal to house, disco and Balearic music fans. Without stripping away the core of songwriter and producer, Maurice  Agad's original, Aroop's version is a worthy compliment that will give new life to the iconic track.

The 'Tabala Mouv' reissue, which also included the original as well as a rework by Truccy and Aroop Roy, is out soon.

More exclusive music

Premiere: Tabala 'Tabala Mouv' (Aroop Roy Rework)

I've just uploaded the Stargazer full track from the Dream House Tropicana Volume 5.5. available now!

Info:
Luv*Jam presents DREAM HOUSE TROPICANA VOLUMES - 
Volume 5.5 – The Summer Special / Mini Album 
International nippiness from all corners of the globe. Featuring prime time bobbers from Deep88, Dawn Again, RNR, Mr Fiel and our L*J. Illustrations from the mighty Rubber Hedgehogs.
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Blind Jacks Journey
Dream House Tropicana Volume 5.5
Catalogue: TROP_5.5
Release Date June 2018
Art House Vibes Exit Studios
Worldwide 333 Units

A&R Andrew Cole
Creative Exit Studios
Mastering Mitch Davies
Distribution Rubadub
Production Breed Media
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Deep88 Love In A Level E Tor
Dawn Again Coastal Apartment
Luv Jam Working Hard FX

AA
Mr Fiel Stargazer
Mr Fiel Across The Spectrum
RNR Tropical Sky

Stargazer (now out on Blind Jacks Journey - Dream-House-Tropicana 5.5)

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AOTN12005B Frazelle - Today Is The Day (Linkwood Chop)

Available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/DJsFd_9NETg

Label: This Is Our Time
Artist: DJ Ciderman
Format: Vinyl
Cat Number: TIOT-DISCO3
EP Title: Disco For Lonely Heart
Release Date: August 20th, 2018
Support it: https://lobsterrecords.co.uk/products/dj-ciderman-disco-for-lonely-heart

DJ Ciderman is back with another cider bottle filled with fizzy love ready to pour on the dancefloor. 4 special edits for lonely hearts who just want to dance the night away till the sun slowly starts to peeking up in the background.

This Is Our Time:
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https://www.facebook.com/thisistiot
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houseum.yt@gmail.com

Disco For Lonely Heart

Good Friend G

Listen to YouTube

PREMIERE: DJ Ciderman - Good Friend G [This Is Our Time]

Earthboogie - Gerd Janson & Pete Herbert Remixes
Available now to pre-order is the Earthboogie Remix EP. Gerd Janson & Pete Herbert turn in some cracking dancefloor reworks of two tracks taken from Earthboogie's debut album 'Human Call'. https://lengrecords.bandcamp.com/…/gerd-janson-pete-herbert…

Earthboogie featuring Nina Miranda 'Silken Moon' (Pete Herbert Remix)

Phil Mison returns with another blink-and-miss wax special that takes the name from a medicinal leech. Fitting; one session with any of these three versions will drain you of any ill will or negativity. Rising in tempo and energy from the original across the two remixes by Noche Espanola and Pete Herbert, this is pure Balearica with its glistening strums, sunset chords and magically scattered percussion. The seasonal timing of this is no coincidence.

Cantoma 'Verbana' (Pete Herbert Remix)

Short promo mix of forthcoming Mastermix:

Hamburg’s Front club was already the stuff of legend, when it was still open. When I was teenager on the outskirts of Frankfurt in the very early nineties - and before the name Klaus Stockhausen rang a bell - Boris Dlugosch was not only at the helm of said club, but also one of Germany’s finest purveyors of house music. Front was his home as well as the playground for a colourful bunch of club kids from all walks of life. Its roots went back to the eighties as a gay club and it branched out to anyone who couldn’t „even dance straight “. 
The rumours about this club were strong enough to get people like Playhouse’s Ata on a road trip and have youngsters like me fantasizing about it. The musical menu during that time was the monster house sound from the US and the UK that rotated deepness with hysteric glamour.  
Of course, Front’s sound was finely nuanced. Boris Dlugosch learned his craft from Klaus Stockhausen, who stopped his DJ career in 1992 (because - as he told me in an interview about ten years later - „every Bratwurst wanted to be a DJ all of a sudden“) to pursue a career as fashion editor and stylist.  Stockhausen’s thing as a resident (which actually meant to play at ONE club EVERY week during that time), was a mixture between electro, US-American R&B, British street soul, new wave and the emerging house sound. If you manage to dig up old recordings on the internet (a musical diet I lived on for a few years), there are striking similarities to the way classic US-American DJ would play, while adding a fierce uniqueness that won’t let it pale in comparison. On the contrary, the sound of Front is one of the most interesting, you will ever lend your ears, too. 
So, why a Front mix and compilation 21 years after the club closed its doors? On the one hand, because it’s story hasn’t been told yet and it’s worth telling. On the other one, German clubs like Robert Johnson or Berghain - as divergent as they might are - both resemblance Front’s spirit, diversity and musical open mindedness. And finally, because dancing is still fun.
Even, if putting a compilation like together this took over one year in the making, is peppered with licensing horrors and other obstacles to dreadful to share them here, we are happy to have it done. Spread over a double-CD and two compilation LPs that are mainly chronological, Klaus Stockhausen and Boris Dlugosch picked and mixed some of the club’s most cherished records and sweetest moments. This is the sound of Front. And even, if I was never able to move my feet on its dance floor, I for one would be a very different DJ without it. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Front Part 1 Mixed Klaus Stockhausen & Boris Dlugosch (PROMO MINIMIX)

the B2 track of my first ever EP called "Heartbeat EP" which was released back in 1999
The ep contains 4 tracks i produced together with Jukka Kaartinen

Roberto Rodriguez - Mother [Keys Of Life 1999]

Do It Again (Main Mix) - Rio Edits Volume 11
2012

Do It Again (Main Mix)

Edited as part of a project for Cree Records. https://cree-records.com/portfolio_page/tropical-tricks-cree-records-remixed/

Hamilton Bros Cree

Hamilton Brothers - Music Makes The World Go Round Al Kent Edit

Promo Snipptes M+M v3 (these are heavily edited versions)

“The original process of 're-mixing records' was intended to provide an alternative listening experience which had been optimized for people who went out to dance at Discos. John was one of the early pioneers who loved music, understood his craft and HAD RESPECT FOR THE CREATIVE WORK from which his mixes were derived” 

Patrick Adams – Super Producer. Writer of more than 30 Gold and Platinum records and back to back winner of ASCAP Songwriter of the year award 1996/1997

 This compilation is John Morales’ third for BBE. Few can match his contributions to the world of Dance Music be it soul, funk, disco, to today’s house music.

John Morales is considered one of the true legends of the mix. And his work some thirty years later continues to be cutting edge and inspiring. His epic mix of Universal Robot Bands boogie anthem “Barely Breakin Even”  is the source from which BBE Records got its name.

No attempt has ever been made to summarise the pinnacle of Johns work. This third release on BBE continues that history lesson that John has forged in dance music. He formed The M+M Mix with his late partner Sergio Munzibai, in 1982 till 1990 whose output of over 650 mixes will be unmatched today. John continues The M+M legacy.

From the Rolling Stones to Gloria Estefan, The Temptations, Barry White, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Hall & Oates, Teena Marie, Aretha Franklin to BBE – we have all been molded by Johns everlasting mix influence, love for his work and his Music..  This superb triple CD presents some of John's finest works, and takes the M+M Mix legacy to yet a higher level. CD1 & 2 feature some of the greatest tracks of all time from the Start of CD 1 and Barry White’s “Never, Never Gonna Give You Up” , to the classic rework of Marvin Gaye’s “I Want You”  which closes out CD2, there are no sleepers here. CD3 also features some of the best from the vaults of the Salsoul and West End labels, anthems like Loleatta Holloway’s – “Hit & Run” to legendary Paradise Garage favorite Loose Joints “Is It All Over My Face?”. 

 This is the legacy of the M+M mixes.


      

John Morales
If you grew up in the ‘80s and had even the smallest of passing interest in music, particularly club music, chances are you were very familiar, albeit unwittingly, with the work of John Morales. On the radio, in the record racks and most importantly on the dance floor John’s work (predominantly with studio partner Sergio Munzibai) helped define an era and influence future generations of DJs, producers and artists. 

Born into a hard working Puerto Rican household in the Bronx, New York, at the start of the rock ‘n’ roll era, Morales, like many children of the period was fascinated by this new art-form that was saturating the airwaves and upsetting parents everywhere. So in love with the music he heard, as a 12-year old he persuaded his local record store to give him a part-time job with payment not in dollars, but in 45s. By the time he was old enough to get a full-time job his burgeoning record collection had helped land him one of his first DJ gigs at the influential Stardust Ballroom in the Bronx (his father had earlier owned a bar in Jersey City where John had first got the DJ bug). As his reputation grew Morales was invited downtown to Manhattan to play guest spots at the likes of Pippins, Bentleys, 1018, Limelight and the infamous Studio 54. 

Like many DJs of the ‘70s John ventured into the studio more through need than necessity: “I started to make medleys and remixes because the records in those days were too short, most in the 3 minute range, and being a DJ I needed to get more out of the records I was spinning. I first started to do my edits using the pause button on a Teac Cassette Deck. After many hours of self education I graduated and I purchased a Sony _” reel-to-reel and learned to edit. It was hard work and long hours editing and putting all the little pieces of tape together and making something creative happen. Reflecting now, I realize how important it was to what I would later do. It taught me a lot about what I wanted to do and how to do it, so that by the time I got in a real studio I was virtually a whiz at editing tape much to the amazement of some of the engineers I worked with.” 

His now infamous ‘Deadly Medleys’ and ‘Sunshine Acetate Medleys’ brought him to the attention of New York disco producers Greg Carmichael and Patrick Adams who were impressed by the hunger and desire of the self-taught engineer. “My first credited mix was Inner Life’s ‘Caught Up (In A One Night Love Affair)’, even though I had worked on a few other records before that, but I hadn’t been credited, for acts like the Universal Robot Band and Musique’s ‘In The Bush’.

A meeting at New York’s influential WBLS radio station, where Cuban-born Sergio Munzibai worked as musical director alongside Frankie Crocker  would signal the next chapter in Morales’ career, and resulted in unquestionably the most  prolific remix partnership of the 1980s and 90’s with over 650 mixes  to their name. “We partnered in 1982, when we met at a New York studio called Blank Tapes where I had worked for many years with Bob Blank. Sergio and John’s first record together was Mikki’s ‘Itching For Love’. After that we united and did all our mixes together and the M&M moniker was born.”

Discovering an instant rapport and musical appreciation it translated well into the recording studio where the M&M stamp became synonymous with almost every major dance release of the era. In fact it wasn’t uncommon for the duo to remix upwards of 10 records in any given month. Alongside cult and groundbreaking records for the Fantastic Aleems (‘Get Down Friday Night’), Class Action (‘Weekend’), and of course Jocelyn Brown (‘Somebody Else’s Guy’) they refashioned certified pop smashes for DeBarge (‘Rhythm Of The Night’), Harold Faltermeyer (‘Alex F’), Shakatak (‘Down On The Street’), Miami Sound Machine (‘Dr Beat’), the Temptations (‘Treat Her Like A Lady’) and hundreds more in an eight year period that saw them almost an ever present on the Billboard Dance, R&B or Hot 100 pop charts. Tina Turner, the Rolling Stones, Spandau Ballet, Aretha Franklin, Shalamar, Hall & Oates, Dan Hartman, Candi Staton, Melba Moore, Rose Royce, Billy Ocean, Debbie Gibson, Odyssey, the Commodores and even Peter Schilling and Rod Stewart, in fact just about every major artist of the day was in some way retouched by the hands of Morales & Munzibai. 

“We worked together till around 1988,” John recalls. His solo production projects in the ‘90s included such acts as Debbie Gibson, Brenda K Starr, Denise Lopez, The Thompson Twins, Blow Monkeys, Five Star and Art Of Noise. “Sergio unfortunately passed away in 1991. He was a wonderful person full of life that loved music and was a great people person. Anyone who knew him loved him, and I’m sure wherever he is he’s listening to music.”


DIVINE SITUATION - THE PROBLEM SOLVER -

Diesel