The Mix Of Q (uinny)

[QUINNY]

THE MIX OF Q

Well that was the original title of this little opus that was made by me in 1985 and released by DMC in August that year. In their wisdom (and to fit everything they had to fit onto the record) they did a few edits, left out a few tracks and renamed it Q To The Break.
It was an attempt at what was a pretty commercial mix, as I thought too many DMC mixes disappeared up their own butts (art for art's sake) and originally I only did it for my own venue, for the Thursday Hen Nights (hits & oldies nearly all the way), so that I'd have enough time to dish out the bottles of bubbly and say Hi to all the gals who were getting married without breaking things up too much.
It was one of my few claims to fame and to be honest I should have pursued doing these things for DMC, but at the time it didn't seem like a good idea. The pay was pretty awful for the amount of time, energy, materials and constructive thought that went into them.

I found my original Nicam video audio master of this on Tuesday and transferred it onto a CD, via a little noise reduction. Hell, I was ahead of my time, using Hi Fi video to master to in 1985, wasn't I? :o I'm glad I did this as a parallel master at the time, 'cos the reel to reel ended up in the DMC vaults and I would have only had the edited, inferior sounding DMC record as a memento.

Track list.
Sandy Mercer - Work Your Body
Hot Streak - Body Work
Q - The Voice Of Q (all in the first 30 seconds or so) It went " I don't know what I've been told....This is the voice of Q....Music Makes me loose control....What Ya Gonna do......Work your body to the beat.....Open the doors and listen.......Body Work will set you free......Prepare to receive transmission......Sound off 1,2, Sound off 3,4, Bring it on down, Bring it on down, 1,2,3,4,1,2..3,4.. Work, Work, Work.. etc
Forrest - Rock The Boat/Feel the Need In Me (triple mix with)
La Fleur - Boogie Nights
Eddy & The Soul Band - Theme From Shaft
The Bombers - Dance, Dance, Dance
Konk - Your Life
T Connection - Do What You Wanna Do (triple mix with Q and Konk)
Michael Jackson - Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
George Kranz - Din Daa Daa
Arrow - Hot, Hot, Hot
Arrow - Long Time/Hot Hot Hot
Edwin Starr - Contact (superimposed so that you had "Feeling Hot Hot Hot....I was Looking at You....Feeling Hot Hot Hot....You were Looking At Me....Feeling Hot Hot Hot......I Was Looking At You.....Feeling Hot Hot Hot.....You were Looking At Me.....Contact!"
Gonzalez - Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet
KatMandu - The Break
Earth Wind and Fire - Boogie Wonderland ( short beat mix 4 final horn stabs of Boogie before vocal over the second 4 violin beats of KatMandu at the end)

I haven't included all the mixing details and edits, but I'm sure you get the drift. I guess it's after the "Golden Age"so far as most of the material was concerned for many of you, but in a way, to me it's fairly timeless and is typical of how I would try and mix things up during an evening. There are tracks from 1977 - 1985 included, and I felt kinda good about that at the time (although I feel now that there were probably too many oldies on it, and I used a few sound FX that I regret).
Any comments good or bad, let me have them.

P.S. So this is what drag and drop from MS Word looks like. Hope you can read between the &#8217 and &#8216's :lol:
P.P.S Luckily, I sussed out how to correct these irritations.

[DJ-Pir]

Quinny,

I can remember having something like this on tape a while ago, a cassette that was in my car permanently because some of the tracks are all time favouriytes of mine:
Bombers, George Kranz, Gonzalez and Katmandu.
Was this your mix then you get my long overdue compliments.

Not sure if this came from DMC though, i can't remember La Fleur being in there or Forrest (thank God for that)

Tracklist of your mix would be a genuine classic imo if the tracks between Q and the Bombers be removed, but this is really personal, i'd listen to (or play) Heatwave instead of the cheap La Fleur rip-off anytime f.i.

[QUINNY]

DJPir: Thanks for your comments. I do realize that any mix is subjective. Personally, I loved La Fleur 'cos it brought one of my all time faves 'up to date' and exposed the song to a fresh audience. Ditto for Forrest and Eddy & The Soul Boys. All three were a mixers dream, whereas the originals weren't (simply because they belonged to a different, less discofied era).

I doubt if the mix you had been listening to was the same one, although it could have been, 'cos although Forrest, La Fleur etc were in there, only La Fleur had about 30 seconds before it was into Eddy and the Soul Boys. Of that 30 seconds it was mostly the really great slapped bass break and just one chorus of Boogie nights, the vocal timbre of which almost sounded like the original (which I played and loved back in '78, but by '85 sounded ever so dated and so could not have been included easily). Forrest was completely hidden in a triple mix and was used to really thicken up the rhythmic content.
Konk and Q were almost entirely edited out of the DMC release.
The give away will be sound FX between the horn stabs of 'Shaft' and too many 'Turn On' jingles at the end of T. Connection. If they're in there, then it IS the mix.
The whole thing was only 11 minutes or so as released.
Thanks for your interest. How come Holland was so darned funky? Was it the Caroline/Nordzee effect?

[DJ-Pir]

Quinny,

I'm afraid there's no way of telling if yours was indeed the mix on my tape because the last cassete stereo in my car was replaced by cd a decade or so ago and most of the tapes wandered off to friends of mine and didn't come back....

There were indeed some nice funky records made in Holland, remember groups like The Houseband, Chaplin band and of course Time Bandits or more recently the various combo's formed around Hans & Candy Dulfer and Saskia Laroo (one of the best percussionists/drumsters we have).
The offshore radio stations did bring a lot of foreign (black and funky) music to the attention of young people in the 60's and 70's and surely influenced the musicians of later days in a country where up to today people respond very well to live bands that play old and new soul/funk.