98.7 kiss fm mastermixes 2 LP Set

[mixtape]

Anyone know any info on this LP?

98.7 KISS - FM Mastermixes

believed to be from 1982. Contains following tracks:

D-Train - You're The One For Me
The Strikers - Body Music
France Joli - Gonna Get Over You
Gayle Adams - Love Fever
Sharon Redd - Can You Handle It
Jeanette "Lady" Day - Come Let Me Love You
Secret Weapon - Must Be The Music
Nick Straker Band - A Little Bit Of Jazz
France Joli - I Wanna Take A Chance On Love
Unlimited Touch - Searchin' To Find The One
Empress - Dyin' To Be Dancin'
Conquest - Give It To Me (If You Don't Mind)

[Forrrce]

It is from 1982. There were two volumes in the series. They're currently both available on Unidisc CDs. What exactly is it that you want to know?

[mixtape]

is this really from Kiss FM and did they put out any other LP's? what about 92 KTU did they put anything out? or WBLS?

[NickNack]

The mastermix seems to be a Prelude fest.

Forrrce: Would you happen to know why only one label is represented? Were both volumes like this?

[Forrrce]

Sorry about the gap, went looking for the LPs and found volume one vinyl and CD, but only the CD for volume two.
Also, some of the tracks are from 1983, so it's a little later than I first indicated.

Here's the track listing:

Toney Lee 'Reach Up'
D-Train 'Keep On'
Warp 9 'Light Years Away'
Indeep 'Last Night, A DJ Saved My Life'
Sharon Redd 'Beat The Street'
D-Train 'Music'
Visual 'The Music Got Me'
Wuf Ticket 'Ya Mama'
Musique 'Keep On Jumpin''
Sharon Redd 'In The Name Of Love'
France Joli 'Come To Me'

All titles are suffixed 'Mastermix'. I'm not sure, but I don't think the last two or three titles are on the vinyl versions. These tracks are all blended, also.
Annoyingly, the mixer credits aren't included on the CD - though I remember Visual being a Tony Humphries remix. In fact, the whole thing was probably mixed by Humphries.

Volume two represents a different station, probably WBLS (?) - what station was Humphries on in 1982, Nicky?

[Forrrce]

Also, not sure why volume one is exclusively Prelude product. All tracks were "Mastermix"ed by Shep Pettibone, who, if I remember correctly, was doing a lot of mixes for Salsoul and Sam at the time - while Francois Kevorkian was the main mixer at Prelude.

[02tranzam]

there are songs added and songs deleted from the cd version as compared to the lp version so if you can get both lps and both cds. off hand rockers revenge walking on sunshine is deleted i guess because they were a street wise product. as well as other songs. there were no 92 ktu albums put out unfortunately. believe me if there were i would of picked them up. i was a huge ktu fan at the time,recording all the paco supermixes on tape. unidisc did a great job of transfering these albums to cd.
carmine

[Greg Wilson]

Musique's 'Keep On Jumping', France Joli's 'Come To Me' and Sharon Redd's 'In The Name Of Love' don't appear on the vinyl for Vol 2.

Unlike Vol 1, where all are Prelude tracks, only 5 of those on Vol 2 are from Prelude, while the rest are from a variety of other labels (although the album is still issued on Prelude).

Tracklisting is:

Side A:
Toney Lee 'Reach Up' (Radar)
D-Train 'Keep On' (Prelude)
Warp 9 'Light Years Away' (Prism)

Side B:
Mahogany 'Ride On The Rhythm' (West End)
Raw Silk 'Do It To The Music' (West End)
Rockers Revenge 'Walking On Sunshine' (Streetwise)

Side C:
Indeep 'Last Night, A DJ Saved My Life' (Sound Of New York)
Sharon Redd 'Beat The Street' (Prelude)
D-Train 'Music' (Prelude)

Side D:
The Limit 'She's So Divine' (Arista)
Visual 'The Music Got Me' (Prelude)
Wuf Ticket 'Ya Mama' (Prelude)

Sides A&B are mixed by Shep Pettibone, with C&D mixed by Tony Humphries.

Kiss FM Mastermixes Vol 1 was imported into the UK in June 1982.

Kiss FM Mastermixes Vol 2 was imported into the UK in August 1983.

[Greg Wilson]

Originally Posted by Forrrce

Also, not sure why volume one is exclusively Prelude product. All tracks were "Mastermix"ed by Shep Pettibone, who, if I remember correctly, was doing a lot of mixes for Salsoul and Sam at the time - while Francois Kevorkian was the main mixer at Prelude.

Hi Forrrce: Francois Kevorkian is label credited with 'original mix' on 7 of the tracks on Vol 1.

[mixtape]

I was born just a little after 92 KTU closed its door to K-Rock. When I found out that the commercialized KTU in NYC actually existed under a different frequency 20 years ago I was amazed. I only found 1 paco supermix tape from the net. It was the latin rascals. Call me crazy but I am not the biggest fan of the latin rascals because there is too much going on in the mix. Indeed it is amazing for that time the stunts that the pulled on there mixes! Nevertheless, was the latin rascals the only resident dj's there or were they just a guest dj for the night? What time did Paco's Supermix air? I'm guessing this mix I have was one of the last ones because it says its from 1985 and KTU signed off on July 13, 1985. It has Shannon, Alisha... so it's about right for that time period.

[Sami M]

Except that at least on the lp the Last night a dj saved my life track is by a group called Sweetness. I never heard any difference in vocals though? Anybody here know more of this?

[Bernie]

Paco's Supermixes" were aired every weekday at 4PM and ran till about 4:30 on Disco 92 - WKTU. Since the time period was short the mixes were usually quick edits/medley type affairs to cram as many songs into the piece as possible. Various guest DJs would be spotlighted, but towards the end it became more of a Latin Rascals and Aldo Marin show.

[02tranzam]

hey bernie werent does the good old days :D i remember coming home from school and getting my radio set up to tape pacos supermixes. a few years ago i put all of them on about 30 cds. to bad i didnt have better equipment back then but i kept them for sentimental reasons anyway. i remember they would come on at exactley 4:10 and end about 4:35. they were mostly the latin rascals especially at the end like you said, but there were a couple of times when he had djs from other countries like brazil come and guest mix for him. they way they mix today doesnt compare to how they mixed back then. the mixing today sounds to synthetic to perfect, but has no soul no imagination. the latin rascals were truly pioneers in djing. somebody posted that they had alot of things going on in their mixes, but that was the beauty of it, trying to guess what songs are being used at once, it was really challenging.
to bad i didnt have my minidisc recorder back then.
carmine

[mixtape]

so it was a 30 minute show? cuz the recording I have lasts 60 minutes of air time. Oh yea and I have another question amoung all the radio stations who had the best mixes ? 92 KTU, Kiss, WBLS, Hot 103 which later became Hot 97?

[mixtape]

Bernie perhaps you know, how did the latin rascals do all those stunts in there mixing? I don't think they used computers for that back in '84 although i could be wrong?