D.J. Mega-Mix Vol. 1
LABEL: None
SERIES: D.J. Mega-Mix
GROUPING: N/A
RELEASE YEAR: 1987
CATALOGUE NO: MM001
RUN OUT GROOVES: MM001A RADIO (Side A) MM001B CLUB (Side B)
COUNTRY: U.K.
FORMAT: 12" Vinyl
COMMENTS: Released in July 1987 (source: James Hamilton's column in Record Mirror). Despite the track names showing 'Radio Mix' and 'Club Mix', the mixes are identical
WHAT JAMES HAMILTON HAD TO SAY ABOUT THIS RELEASE:
DJ MEGA-MIX VOL 1 ‘The Finest Ingredients (Part 1)’ (DJ Mega-Mix MM001)
Maybe purposefully fishy looking bootleg import-style Double Dee & Steinski-type jittery 0-96½-0bpm instrumental scratcher cutting dialogue lines and bits from such as ‘The Champ’, ‘Last Night A DJ Saved My Life’, Rufus Thomas’s ‘Tutti Frutti’ and many more, Part 2 being a suspiciously English-accented 94½-0bpm MCs rap about punk rock b-boys (Radio Mix and Club Mix sides are the same). Another scam?
Housemartins bassist Norman Housemartin is hotly tipped to be behind the always fishy seeming DJ Mega-Mix Vol 1 ‘The Finest Ingredients’, which I had a hunch was British
Norman Cook, now the Housemartins have disbanded, has remixed not only James Brown and a Nitro Deluxe seven inch on his own but also Eric B & Rakim and Kid ‘N Play with Dancing Danny D, plus he’s producing rapper Wildski – who actually started out as a DJ in Brighton at the Pink Coconut. His notorious ‘The Finest Ingredients’ bootleg mixer from last year in reality being a genuine bootleg, put out by someone else with no benefit to him, of a demo he’d created two years earlier just to show what he could do!
SIDE A: THE FINEST INGREDIENTS Radio Mix Part 1
MIXED BY: Norman Cook
LENGTH: 05:07
TRACKS I CAN IDENTIFY THAT ARE BEING CUT UP:
Ram Jam - Black Betty (1977); Magic Disco Machine - Scratchin' (1975); Funk Inc. - Kool Is Back (1971); Gil Scott-Heron - 'B' Movie (1981); G.L.O.B.E. & Whiz Kid - Play That Beat Mr. D.J. (1983); Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There (1963); Malcolm McLaren & The World's Famous Supreme Team - Buffalo Gals (1982); Whodini - The Haunted House Of Rock (1983); Run-D.M.C. - Jam-Master Jay (1983); Whodini - Escape (I Need A Break) (1984); Mohawks - The Champ (1968); Full Force - Alice, I Want You Just For Me (1985); Indeep - Last Night A D.J. Saved My Life (1982); Led Zeppelin - Black Dog (1971); Led Zeppelin - When The Levee Breaks (1971); Gap Band - Burn Rubber On Me (Why You Wanna Hurt Me) (1980); Dolby's Cube - May The Cube Be With You (1985); Beside - Change The Beat (1982); Jazzy Jay - Def Jam (1985); Little Richard with His Band - Tutti Frutti (1957); Cerrone - Rocket In The Pocket (1979); J. Walter Negro & The Loose Jointz - Shoot The Pump (1981); Trouble Funk - Pump Me Up (1980); Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force - Planet Rock (1982); Little Benny & The Masters - Who Comes To Boogie (1985); Fat Boys - Human Beat Box (1984); Jimmy Castor Bunch - King Kong (1975); Jimmy Castor Bunch - The Return Of Leroy (1977); Ennio Morricone - The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1968)
This release also has other tracks on it that are a variation of the main track or are not a D.J. cut-up.
SIDE A:
THE FINEST INGREDIENTS Radio Mix Part 2 - Norman Cook & M.C. Wildski
SIDE B:
THE FINEST INGREDIENTS Club Mix Part 1 - Norman Cook
THE FINEST INGREDIENTS Club Mix Part 2 - Norman Cook & M.C. Wildski
