GRANDMIX 84
1st Broadcast : end of 1984 at Radio Veronica
2nd Broascast : Saturday 27 feb 1999 on Radio 538 18:00 to 19:00
| Intro Grandmix 84 (Time warp complete.....Music Maestro) |
| Something Heavy Going Down - Golden Earring |
| Matt's Mood - The Breakout Crew |
| What Is Love - Howard Jones |
| Shout - Tears For Fears |
| What's Love Got To Do With It - Tina Turner |
| Solid - Ashford & Simpson |
| When You Look Into My Eyes - Cherelle |
| Just The Way You Like It - S.O.S. Band |
| Feel So Real - Patrice Rushen |
| Somebody Else's Guy - Jocelyn Brown |
| Selfcontrol - Laura Branigan |
| Tanzen Mit Righuera - Righeira |
| Ain't Nobody - Rufus & Chaka Khan |
| Loveride - Nuance |
| Stop Bajon - Tulio De Piscopo |
| S & M - De De |
| Hyperactivate - Thomas Dolby |
| Dancer - Boogie Boys |
| Sweet Somebody - Shannon |
| Breakdance - Zodiac Boys |
| Beat Box - Art Of Noise |
| Matt's Mood - Matt Bianco |
| Change Of Heart - Change |
| Loverboy - Billy Ocean |
| One Night In Bangkok - Murray Head |
| One Night In Bangkok - Robey |
| Hang On To Your Love - Sade |
| Step By Step - Jeff Lorber feat. Audrey Wheeler |
| This Is My Night - Chaka Khan |
| You Used To Hold Me So Tight - Thelma Houston |
| Push In The Bush - Claire Hicks & Love Exchange |
| I Can Dream About You - Dan Hartman |
| Land Of Hunger - Earrons |
| You Are In My System - American Gypsy |
| The Night - Valerie Dore |
| What Goes On - Mai Tai |
| Body & Soul - Mai Tai |
| Kalimba De Luna - Boney M |
| Medicine Song - Stephanie Mills |
| Automatic - Pointer Sisters |
| Down On The Street - Shakatak |
| Treat Her Like A Lady - Temptations |
| Lucky Day - Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes |
| Class Style (I've got it)- Linda Lewis |
| Sex-o-matic - Barkays |
| Carribean Queen - Billy Ocean |
| European Queen - Billy Ocean |
| African Queen - Billy Ocean |
| What Do I Do - Galaxy & Phil Fearon |
| Wood Beez - Scritti Politti |
| Absolute - Scritti Politti |
| Cry like A Wolf - Rj's Latest Arrival |
| Zorro - My Mine |
| Feel The Drive - Doctor's Cat |
| I'll Be Around - Terri Wells |
| Doctor Love - First Choice |
| I Love The Piano - Claudio Simonetti |
| Uprock - Rocksteady Crew |
| Calling Mr. Telephone - Answering Service |
| Lost In Music - Sister Sledge |
| Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood |
| We Are The Young - Dan Hartman |
| There Is No Stoppin' Us - Ollie & Jerry |
| Reach (Out Ever Lasting Lover) - Unlimited Touch |
| The Mexican - Jellybean |
| White Lines - Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel |
| Let It All Blow - Dazz Band |
| Such A Shame - Talk Talk |
| Lovelite - O'Brian |
| Precious Little Diamond - Fox The Fox |
| Florida - Paul Sharada |
| My Heart's Divided - Shannon |
| Dance Machine - Roni Griffith |
| The War Song - Culture Club |
| The Wild Boys - Duran Duran |
| Running - Gwen Presley & Portable Control |
| Dr. Beat - Miami Sound Machine |
| Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr. |
| Black Stations, White Stations - M & M |
| Sexcrime (1984) - Eurythmics |
| Bodyrock - Maria Vidal |
| You Are The One For Me - Paul Hardcastle |
| The Second Time- Kim Wilde |
| Shot In The Dark - Michael Zager |
| Jungle Love - The Time |
| Watching You - Shakatak |
| Like A Virgin - Madonna |
| They Only Come Out Of Night - Peter Brown |
| Don't Go Loose It Baby - Hugh Masekela |
| Say Yeah! - The Limit |
| Miss me blind - Culture Club |
| Color My Love - Fun Fun |
| Sex Shooter - Appolonia Six |
| Let's Hear It For The Boy - Deniece Williams |
| Shaft - Eddy Conrad |
| The Game - Peter Brown |
| I Feel For You - Chaka Khan |
| Erotic City - Prince |
| S.O.S. Fire In The Sky - Deodato |
| Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell |
| In The Evening - Sheryl Lee Ralph |
| Glamorous Life - Sheila E. |
| When Doves Cry - Prince |
| Tour De France - Kraftwerk |
| The Reflex - Duran Duran |
| Two Tribes - Frankie Goes To Hollywood |
Total Running time 57:44
Equipment
2 x SL1200mkII turntables with Stanton
Triple E cartridges
1 x Teac Tascam mixer 3A (8 channels)
1 x Teac Tascam 4 channel tapedeck for
tapeloops
1 x Master Recorder: Revox PR99 with
Studer "Butterfly" recording heads.
Speed: 38 cm/s 2track
Tape: 1/4 inch BASF 911 at 510
nanoweber level
Background info
After gathering all the dance charts of
the year, an initial list was made in the month
November. This list was sorted by tempo
(BPM beats per minute) and on the 1st of
December, work was started on the mix.
It took the full month of December to complete
and perfect the mix, usually working
the last 72 hours in one stretch.
Reel to reel
tape
These early Grandmixes were all edited
on tape.
As the edited tape was the final thing,
each edit and crossfade not only had to be
rhythmically correct, but even more
important , at the right volume level. The mix
would otherwise become louder and
louder, resulting in overload and distortion.
Ben never liked limiters and
compressors on final mixes, so the grandmix was also made
without them.
The complete mix didn't fit
on one real, and had to be transported in 2 sections.
The last 5 minutes of tape 1 were
identical to the first 5 minutes of tape 2, and
whilst broadcasting Ben had to sync up
the machines at the NOB (NOS at the time)
to make a very fast (and unnoticeable)
live crossfade from tape 1 to tape 2.
Later these tapes were transferred to
Digital, solving the live crossfade problem.
The robot voices were created using a
vocoder, and this grandmix was made in
the first Studio located in what used
to be a bedroom.
Directors Cut
The Grandmix 84 as broadcasted 27 febr
1999 is transferred from Sony F1 to the
Akai DD1000 . The mix was then leveled
to 0 dB and minor imperfections were
corrected (example the edit in Duran
Duran's Wild Boys has the "w" of "wild"repaired.)
Also some slight timing imperfections
have been smoothed out(edit sequence at the end
of Chacka Kahn's Ain't nobody). An
intro was added to identify the mix as being the
Grandmix 84, which fades into the
original intro of the mix (the purists can remove it,
and restore it to the original version
by fading in after the vocoder). The mix was then
recorded on to DAT.