The Bootleg Megamix Archive

LABEL: Streetwave
SERIES: N/A
GROUPING: N/A
RELEASE YEAR: 1983
CATALOGUE NO: WAVEL 2
RUNOUT GROOVES: WAVEL2-A1 DAMONT (Side A) WAVEL2-AA1 DAMONT (Side B)
COUNTRY: U.K.
FORMAT: 12" Vinyl
COMMENTS: Released in April 1983 (source: James Hamilton's column in Record Mirror)

WHAT JAMES HAMILTON HAD TO SAY ABOUT THIS RELEASE:
C.O.D.: ‘In The Bottle’ (Streetwave WAVEL 2)
The much loved/hated 117bpm vocal and instrumental electrophonic versions of Gil Scott Heron’s classic are here on 3-track 12in flipped by my own 115-116-115bpm ‘Special Megamix incorporating ‘The Smurf’ by Tyrone Brunson‘ (for full description see Odds ‘N’ Bods). Getting great floor reaction, this one I’m quite proud of.

Streetwave’s version of C.O.D. ‘In the Bottle’ includes another of my “hit piggyback” remixes (and I do mean re-mix this time), amidst electronically altered “gating” it slips into Tyrone Brunson ‘The Smurf’.

C.O.D. ‘In The Bottle’/Tyrone Brunson ‘The Smurf’ megamix begins with some electronic drum beats laid down by Streetwave’s resident engineer Rob Mallett (a big inspiration and help with the studio tricks), a quick ‘Smurf’ scratch before editing alternate beats into some “harmonized” instrumental, the “uno dos” countdown then synched over the music before it then synchs one bar apart, phases, adds Rob on electronic drum “gating” another synched copy, then runs the vocal over the instrumental before hitting the main “gated” break which segues into a similarly “gated” ‘Smurf’ before returning to a less tampered with but much re-edited mainly instrumental finale — so now you know! (“gating” is a trick that cuts out the body of the beat to leave just the peaks)

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