Smokey Robinson "Quiet Storm" John Morales Stripped Down Mix

From the John Morales website:

"John Morales was born in the Bronx, New York. He is recognized worldwide as one of the early pioneers of Dance Mixing/Remixing and producing, beginning his career in 1975 as a local DJ in the Bronx.

John has been involved in the creation of hit records for the better part of 30 years. Known in the industry as an innovator and chance taker, he has always welcomed the challenge of working with new artists and has never been afraid to try new and different ideas...

Morales offers a physical analogy of his craft: "It's like being a plastic surgeon" or, as one UK paper noted, “You'll find the John Morales M&M Mix on many of your favorite club hits ... what John tends to do is make them more danceable, make them beefier, give them more percussive interludes and generally add dynamic elements ... we should have a little corner on every single’s (review) page; He fiddles with so many records, they're probably wondering why people recorded them in their original forms.”

John has worked on over 450 mix/remix and production projects for such renowned artists as Aretha Franklin, The Rolling Stones, Al Jarreau, Billy Ocean, Vanity, The Commodores, Hall & Oates ,The Temptations, Marvin Gaye and countless others. His last production projects in the 90s included such acts as Debbie Gibson, Brenda K Starr, Denese Lopez, The Nylons, The Thompson Twins, The Blow Monkeys, Five Star, Art Of Noize, and many others.

Today, after over 10 years in hiatus, Morales is prepared to take a foothold and return to the industry that he loves so much. Inspired by and rekindled with the passion to be creative and expressive, he is once again creating the rhythms and sounds that made the whole world dance. Let the world be forewarned.

John Morales recently completed mixing Marvin Gaye's lost "Love Man" sessions, a forthcoming 2-CD 25th Anniversary edition of "In Our Lifetime," Marvin's last album for Motown. John is also in pre-production on some of his own material, as well as preparing a series or CDs based on the history of M&M Mix Productions."

Featured on Smokey Robinson's "The Stripped Down Mixes", released in August, and available exclusively through itunes.






Smokey Robinson "Quiet Storm" (John Morales Stripped Down Mix)

Mr. Peabody "The Peabody Trademark Hour #001 w/ Mark, Mike & L-Genius"

Industry insiders associate the name Mr. Peabody with quality, hard to find music. Your favorite DJ's and producers buy their dusties from them ("Disco Spectrum" anyone?). Mr. Peabody the record store has been a Chicago Southside institution for over 15 years - just being in that store for 10 minutes is a lesson in itself!

Most of what Mr. Peabody the DJs play in their sets come from the era spanning from the 70s to 80s and specializing in the obscure, but browsing around their amazing store I also came across a really nice selection of Jazz, old school Hip Hop, and rock 12" singles, so don't base their stock solely on what they play out. Here is the link to the store website. I would imagine the turnover for their stock to be quite quick, so giving them a call or emailing them your want lists might be good idea.

Here is the first volume in what I hope is many podcasts to come. Enjoy!



And make sure to pick this up if you haven't already.

Bobby Franklin's Insanity "Bring It On Down"

Originally produced by Curtis Mayfield and released on the legendary Curtom label (you can really hear it in the flute lines). A couple of decades later "reissued" as a 45 RPM 12" single a couple of years ago by some record store out of New York (a sonically beautiful pressing I might add). Unfortunately this was to be the label's one and only release.

Mr. Franklin currently records and tours sometimes performing as a one man band!

Buy it here!







bring it on down for me

The Real Roxanne "Bang Zoom! Let's Go Go!"

This is what is missing in today's Hip Hop on so many levels - a go go charged vaudevillian anthem about her DJ, and how they're better than you, proving their point with show tunes and Bugs Bunny samples!

Produced by Full Force


Here Lou talks about "Basketball", "Roxanne, Roxanne", "I Wonder If I Take You Home", and jheri curls.
"You know sometimes people act like Full Force was the only ones wearing jheri curls, but everybody was wearing it. But we stood out because, you know, we were FLEXIN'!"


In part 2 Lou talks about making the movie House Party and talks shit about today's R&B.
"If you're gonna fit it in, then you gotta STICK IT IN!"


In the conclusion of the interview Jarrell breaks it down and connects the dots at the same time.
"So you guys were doing the Hip Hop and R&B thing before Teddy and pretty much laid the ground work for what Teddy did some years later with Keith Sweat with Make It Last Forever."

Make It Last Forever contained a song called "I Want Her", which pretty much spawned this, and where would the career of many Hip Hop and R&B artists today be had Full Force and/or New Jack Swing never existed?

More Time Machine interviews here!

Buy "Bang Zoom..." here!



some karate in your body

Deodato "Whistle Bump" Victor Rosado Remix

Issued on the mysterious East End Music label, and I do need to emphasize the part where it says, "alternate versions and edits sourced from production tape and multi-track backup tape copies".

Released in 2008 what was once everywhere is now hard to find. The only places that I saw it for sale were Picadilly and of course Discogs.



Deodato "Whistle Bump" Victor Rosado Remix