The Megamelle Mix




LABEL: Sugar Hill
SERIES: N/A
GROUPING: Single Artist Megamixes
RELEASE YEAR: 1985
CATALOGUE NO: SHL 141
RUNOUT GROOVES: SHL-141-A1 MT.1 DAMONT (Side A) SHL-141-B1. MT.1 (Side B)
COUNTRY: U.K.
FORMAT: 12" Vinyl
COMMENTS: Released in March 1985 (source: James Hamilton's column in Record Mirror)
WHAT JAMES HAMILTON HAD TO SAY ABOUT THIS RELEASE:
GRANDMASTER MELLE MEL & THE FURIOUS FIVE: ‘Pump Me Up’ (Sugarhill SHL 141)
Here’s a timely turn up: the rappers of the moment not only cover but are actually backed by go go kings Trouble Funk on a choppily rattling 106⅓-108-106⅓-108-106⅓-108-106⅓ revamp of the latter’s current B-side, flipped by its scratchier inst and — a really big bonus — last month’s Disco Mix Club medley by Sanny X, his excellent 102bpm ‘The MegaMelle Mix‘ which should be bigger on the floor than the A-side.
SIDE B MIX: THE MEGAMELLE MIX
MIXED BY: Sanny X
LENGTH: 05:04
GENRE: Hip Hop
COMMENTS: This is an edited version of the mix that is on side B of D.M.C. - February 1985 Mixes
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:
Furious Five featuring Cowboy, Melle Mel & Scorpio - Step Off (1984); Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five featuring Melle Mel & Duke Bootee - The Message (1982); Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five with Mr. Ness & Cowboy - Beat Street (1984); Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - New York New York (1983); Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five - World War III (1984); Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - It's Nasty (Genius Of Love) (1981)
This release also has other tracks on it that are not a megamix.
SIDE A:
PUMP ME UP - Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five
SIDE B:
PUMP ME UP Instrumental - Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five