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). Even though the Side A tracks are named 'Radio Mix' and the Side B tracks are named 'Club Mix' they 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
COMMENTS: This is a D.J. cut-up rather than a megamix
SIDE B: THE FINEST INGREDIENTS Club Mix Part 1
MIXED BY: Norman Cook
LENGTH: 05:07
COMMENTS: This is a D.J. cut-up rather than a megamix
This release also has other tracks on it that 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 2 - Norman Cook & M.C. Wildski
