Fusion
LABEL: Special Disco Mixer
SERIES: N/A
GROUPING: N/A
RELEASE YEAR: 1979
CATALOGUE NO: 1201001
RUNOUT GROOVES: 12-1001 (Side A) 12-1001 (Side B)
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
FORMAT: 12" Vinyl
COMMENTS: Released in May 1979 (source: James Hamilton's column in Record Mirror)
WHAT JAMES HAMILTON HAD TO SAY ABOUT THIS RELEASE:
DISCO MIX: ‘Fusion’ (US Disco Mix 12-1001)
Latest and by far the best of the special New York DJ bootlegs, this incredible 15:30 12in contains all your favourite rhythm breaks edited together and vari-speeded so that there is an amazingly consistent bass beat running through them all without any dancer-throwing hiccups! Starting at 122bpm, it remains in the 122-123-124bpm bracket apart from some mind-blowing 126bpm bits towards the end, where various Cerrone/Moroder synthesizer breaks erupt into ‘Dance Dance Dance’, the individual “dance” words interspersed with accurately inserted snippets from other “dance” records. You can dip in and synchronize the rhythm with whatever you were playing, leave the mixed breaks on for a while to amaze your punters, then go back into something else. However, this is not being generally imported so may be hard to find – though it’s almost worth the trip to New York.
SIDE A MIX: FUSION
MIXED BY: Uncredited
LENGTH: 15:36
GENRE: Disco
TRACKS I CAN IDENTIFY IN THE MIX - I have only listed the ones that have prolonged elements or have a short sample repeated multiple times:
Cerrone - Sweet Drums (1977); Samba Soul - Chove Chuva/Mas Que Nada (1977); T-Connection - Do What You Wanna Do (1977); Softones - That Old Black Magic (1975); Larry Page Orchestra - Erotic Soul (1976); Vamps - Disco Blood (1977); Vicki Sue Robinson - Hold Tight (1977); Mike Theodore Orchestra - The Bull (1977); Santa Esmeralda starring Leroy Gomez - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (1977); Andre Gagnon - Surprise (1976); Cerrone - Love In C Minor (1976); Black Light Orchestra - Touch Me, Take Me (1977); Cerrone - Cerrone's Paradise (1977); Giorgio Moroder - Faster Than The Speed Of Love (1977); Meco - Star Wars Theme (1977); Celi Bee & The Buzzy Bunch - Superman (1977); Macho - I'm A Man (1978); Soul Train Gang - My Cherie Amour (1977); George McCrae - Kiss Me (The Way I Like It) (1977); Michael Zager Band - Let's All Chant (1977); C.J. & Co. - Devil's Gun (1977); Love And Kisses - I've Found Love (Now That I've Found You) (1977); Bruce Johnston - Pipeline (1977); D.D. Sound - Disco Bass (1977); Cerrone - Supernature (1977); Donna Summer - Now I Need You (1977); Giorgio Moroder - Utopia-Me Giorgio (1977); Donna Summer - I Feel Love (1977); Kay-Gee's - Celestial Vibrations (1978); Chic - Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah) (1977); Bee Gees - You Should Be Dancing (1976); Village People - Macho Man (1978); Montreal Sound - Music (1977); Crown Heights Affair - Dancin' (1976); Donna Summer - Working The Midnight Shift (1977); Donna Summer - Faster And Faster To Nowhere (1977); Donna Summer - Rumour Has It (1977); Love And Kisses - Accidental Lover (1977); Munich Machine - Get On The Funk Train (1977); Michele - Disco Dance (1977); Claudja Barry - Sweet Dynamite (1976); Anthony White - Block Party/I Can't Turn You Loose (1977)
SIDE B MIX:
Same as side A
