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Razor Maid

Chapter Eight: Special Delivery

Razor Maid Records (US)/ 1985 (?)/2x12" orange vinyl 33 1/3rpm/DJ subscription service

Producer: Joseph Watt, Executive Producer: Art Maharg, Remix Engineer: Bill Thompson, Mastering Engineer: John Golden, Photography: Anthony Russo, Razormaid: Erin Leigh

All remixes by Joseph Watt

Side 1
One Way Love by Agnetha Faltskog /6:18/118bpm
Don't Give Up by Savage Progres /6:15/126bpm

Side 2
Serious Japan by Melon /6:29/122bpm
Serious Dub/3:37, Serious Out-takes /3:40

Side 3
Samurai by Michael Cretu /7:50/116bpm
Raised by Snakes by Telex /6:46/114bpm

Side 4
Famous People by Sharpe & Niles /7:25/122bpm
Around My Dream /7:53/113bpm

The first issue giving credit for using the original 24-track tapes provided by the record companies. As per the RazorMaid! discogoraphy they stumble upon getting original tracks quite by accident. Early on in RazorMaid!'s tenure they recieved a "cease-and-desist" letter from CBS records. Even though it proved fake they were very paranoid of stepping on record companies' toes as far as using copyrighted material. The fact that RazorMaid! actually asked permission to re-mix the labels' artists, especially the lesser know artists, charmed the record companies so! In Europe and the UK especially, that they gave Watt and Maharg access to the original 24 track tapes, unheard of for DJ subscription services. Up to this point the other services (Disconet, Hot Tracks) were relying on DJ's to tape vinyl and splice these tapes togther for their remixes. These resulted in some great re-edits, but with somtimes less-than-stellar acoustics. RazorMaid! was now truly re-mixing, not just re-editing, resulting in songs that sometimes had little relation to the original commercial realeases.

I love to shock my friends with the profanity-laced "Serious Japan".

Submitted by David d. (13)