Weekend Mood

Ken Nordine - "The Sound Museum"
Norman McLaren - "The Animator As Musician" 
John Baker - "Chino"
Devo - "Ono"
Clara Rockmore - "The Swan"
The Supremes - "My World Is Empty Without You"
John Baker - "Woman's Hour (Reading Your Letters)"
The Capitols - "Cool Jerk"
Cold Grits - "It's Your Thing"
Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra - "I'm Nuts About Screwy Music"
Hotlegs - "Neanderthal Man"
Konk - "Konk Party"
The Trashmen - "Surfin Bird"
20th Century Fox Orchestra - "March Of The Siamese Children - from "The King And I"
The Meters - "Jungle Man"
Yul Brynner - "A Puzzlement"
Ennio Morricone - "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly"
Wings - "C Moon"
Ken Nordine - "Looks Like It's Going To Rain"
The Beatles - "Taxman"
Les Brown & His Orchestra w/ Joe DiMaggio - "Joltin' Joe DiMaggio"
Young-Holt Unlimited - "Wah Wah Man"
Electric Light Orchestra - "Telephone Line"
Harry Belafonte - "Dolly Dawn"
George "Bongo Joe" Coleman - "Transistor Radio"
Julius Sumner Miller - "Acoustic Toys"
Led Zeppelin - "Moby Dick"
Brian Eno & David Byrne - "Regiment"
The Who - "Who Are You"
"The Beatles' Story" - "Beatles Will Be Beatles"
The Rolling Stones - "Can You Hear Me Knocking"
 Led Zeppelin - "Good Times Bad Times"
Big Brother & The Holding Company - "Ball And Chain"
Tom Tom Club - "Genius Of Love"
James Brown - "Funky President"
Percy "Thrills" Thrillington - "Heart Of The Country"
Paul & Linda McCartney - "Heart Of The Country"
Public Enemy - "B-Side Wins Again"
The JB's - "The Grunt"
Edgar Hayes - "In The Mood" 
Beastie Boys - "Root Down (A Cappella)"
James Brown - "Give It Up, Turn It Loose"
Raymond Scott - "Baltimore Gas & Electric"
Dick Hyman - "Give It Up, Turn It Loose"
Lenny Bruce - "The Sound"
Sweet - "Coco"
Machito & His Orchestra w/ Graciella - "Si Si No No"
The Beatles - "Til There Was You"
Flying Lizards - "Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine"
Think Tank - "A Knife & A Fork"
Kraftwerk - "Boing Boom Tschak"
Beastie Boys - "Time To Get Ill"
June Havoc - "Costar With June Havoc"
Brother Bones & His Shadows - "Sweet Georgia Brown"
Malvina Reynolds - "Love Is Something"
 Isaac Hayes - "Breakthrough"
John Baker - "Printemps"
Mike Oldfield - "Tubular Bells"
Kid Koala - "Tricks & Treats"
Vince Guaraldi - "Linus & Lucy" 
ZZ Top - "La Grange"
"Peanuts" - "excerpt from "A Boy Named Charlie Brown"
Steely Dan - "Black Cow"
The Band - "Chest Fever"
Lewis Black - "My..Virginity"
Pink Floyd - "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" 
 Lynyrd Skynyrd  - "I Ain't The One"
Willie West - "Fairchild"
Joe Smith / Library Of Congress - "Interview Of Milt Gabler"
Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - "The All-Night Record Man"
Charlie Christian - "Til Tom Special"
Average White Band - "School Boy Crush"
Grace Jones - "My Jamaican Guy"
Steve Miller Band - "Fly Like An Eagle" 
Undisputed Truth - "Smiling Faces Sometimes"
Bert Kaempfert - "Happy Feeling"
Firesign Theatre - "The Further Adventures Of Nick Danger" 
Son House - "Grinnin' In Your Face"
Mrs. Sidney Carter - "Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby" 
Microstoria - "16:9" 
Neal Hefti - "Waltz For Jeannie"
Alan Lomax - "Alan Lomax Speaking To Charles Kuralt"
The Beatles - "If You Got Troubles"
Blur - "Song 2" 
The Beau Hunks - "Good Old Days" 
"Our Gang" - "excerpt from "Forgotten Babies"
Jun Mayuzumi - "Black Room"
Lounge Lizards - "Do The Wrong Thing"
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - "The Barbarian"
Mountain - "Mississippi Queen" 
Flying Lizards - "Money (That's What I Want)" 
Buddy Miles - "Them Changes"
Yazoo - "Situation"
Dave Barker - "Lock Jaw" 
Henry Mancini - "Peter Gunn" 
Julius Sumner Miller - "Rolling Things"
Depeche Mode - "Policy Of Truth" 
Boz Scaggs - "Lowdown"
Yes - "Roundabout"
Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean"
Steely Dan - "Do It Again"
The Doors - "Riders On The Storm"
Bruce Haack & Miss Nelson - "Abracadabra"

TooMuchInformation (Vol. 3)

Found this track on one of her solo albums (purchased for $2 or so) and decided at roughly 4mins it's not cutting it. 


Debbie Harry - Backfired (Lars Behrenroth Re-Edit)

Tal Wilkenfed: The River Of Life

Tal Wilkenfeld-Table For One

Billy Griffin's classic tune is updated by 'The Floacist' and UK soul veteran: Junior Giscombe.

"Hold Me Tighter In The Rain" - Karlito (Featuring 'The Floacist' and Junior Giscombe)

My Night For Love (ReEdit Dj Amine)

Best female bass player yet...  played in Jeff Beck's Band 4 'bout 5 years, now has her own band...   first album is "Transformation" on which she wrote and sings all the songs

04. Serendipity

02. Cosmic Joke

the love unlimited orchestra

Millie Jackson - Hypocrisy (dj mila edit)

What's Going On-Marvin Gaye-Motown

Scritti Politti / Hypnotize (Remix2012)

Brian Bromberg - And I Love Her

On The Beach (Master Chic Mix)

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.”


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