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Colin Faver: Kiss FM Hardest Mix (mastermix series #6)
The mastermix series rolls on. A short and sweet effort this time, with the personal touch from Rich Color:
“London’s Kiss Fm began broadcasting illegally on 94fm in October 1985 and soon Colin Faver played this mix late one evening. It blew me away. Some correspondence to Colin followed and by special request he played it [...]
Cattanach, Lee & McKeehan: Octomnipent Zeitgeist (mastermix series #5)
‘Octomnipent Zeitgeist’ - loosely meaning ‘THE spirit of 1985′, apparently - was the brainchild of mixing engineer Glenn Cattanach, along with Greg Lee and Jeff McKeehan, a pair of DJs from Lexington, Kentucky (that’s in the USA, fact fans). Everything was laid down using two turntables, a ¼-inch track 15 IPS reel to reel recorder, [...]
Barry Jones: September Funk (mastermix series #4)
Yes, it’s not actually September. But think about all those times when you’ve been shaking your thing on the dancefloor in a club, and a track like De La Soul’s ‘A Rollerskatin’ Jam Named Saturday’ comes on.. when it’s a Tuesday. Either way, it’s yet another classic from the Rich Color vaults to give you [...]
Big Apple Production Vol. 2 (mastermix series #3)
Cutting to the chase, it’s 1984, and the Big Apple Production mastermix has gone on to the next step - volume 2 courtesy of the Latin Rascals. Rapidfire ain’t the word - this mix wedges in everything but the kitchen sink! Every few bars a new track or one-shot sample. As Rich Color puts it: [...]
The art of the Mastermix
Pressing pause to cut out ‘talking’ on the radio must seem like quite a daft idea to the kids of today. The military precision required to gain a clean dub from the radio in order to avoid going to the shops to spend all your pocket money in one go on a 7-inch record or [...]
