Every now and then I need a challenge to keep things interesting for myself. An 80s mix has been on my list for quite a few years but it wasn’t until a few months back that I started to work on it, after hearing The S.O.S. Band.
It was quite a challenge from both the musical point of view as well as the technical side. How are you going to represent the evolution of dance music in the 80s in just 2 hours? I decided to stick to a selection of tracks I used to love and play a lot as kid in the 80s. Like anyone else I was making my own mixtapes, on cassette of course.
The mixing process took much longer than expected as a lot of tracks were not sync due to various reasons: Some tracks have been played live (and thus needed to be sliced up and synced by hand) and most, if not all, extended versions have tape cuts and overdubs all over the place, causing some parts in a song to suddenly be a bit slower or faster due to the tape-to-tape copying process. Something you won’t notice until you try mixing them.
I can say that I walked away from this experience with an even greater respect for mastermixers like Ben Liebrand than I already had.
After 70+ hours of editing/cutting/mixing this is the final result: The Urban Night Grooves 80s Dance Classics Special.
If you want to hear the mix in full quality, make sure to download the original lossless flac file.
The fullsize artwork can be downloaded here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/58uD8oa52qbGKQNT8
Tracklisting:
01. Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full (Coldcut's Seven Minutes Of Madness)
02. Mantronix - Got To Have Your Love (Club With Bonus Beats)
03. The Chimes - Heaven (Album Version / Physical Mix)
04. Cool Notes - Spend The Night
05. Princess - Say I'm Your Number One
06. Jaki Graham - Round and Round
07. Change - Change Of Heart
08. S.O.S. Band - The Finest (Instrumental/Acappella / Album Version)
09. Surface - Falling In Love
10. High Fashion - Feelin' Lucky Lately
11. Advance - Take Me To The Top (Vocal)
12. Breakfast Club - Right On Track (Midtown Mix)
13. Alexander O'Neal & Cherrelle - Saturday Love (Extended Version)
14. Pebbles - Mercedes Boy (Extended Version)
15. D-Train - You're The One For Me (Vocal Version)
16. Unique - What I Got Is What You Need (Vocal)
17. Tyrone Brunson - The Smurf
18. Peter Jacques Band - Going Dancin' Down The Street
19. Sharon Redd - Beat The Street (Special Dub Vocal Edit)
20. Hot Streak - Body Work (Vocal)
21. Candido - Jingo (David Rodriguez 12" Mix)
22. ABC - The Night You Murdered Love (The Sheer-Chic Remix / Bonus Beats / The Reply)
23. Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls (Bobby Orlando Extended Mix)
24. Taylor Dayne - Prove Your Love (Extended Remix)
25. Moses - We Just (New Mix)
26. Alisha - Baby Talk (Special Remix)
27. Colonel Abrams - Trapped (Vocal Version / Dub Version / A Cappella)
28. Robert Howard & Kym Mazelle - Wait! (Short / Beats & Pieces)
29. Jellybean - The Real Thing (West 26th Street Mix / Fun "House" Dub)
30. Krush - House Arrest (The Beat Is The Law)
31. Rick And Lisa - When You Gonna
32. Nicole - Rock The House (Clivillés & Cole Club Mix)
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