Remix Friday

• Jerry Reed – Chuck Berry Medley
• Chuck Berry – Promised Land
• Chuck Berry – Johnny B. Goode
• Chuck Berry – School Days (Ring, Ring Goes The Bell)
• Chuck Berry – Maybelline
• Chuck Berry – Memphis, Tennessee

Remix Friday

The crossfader breaks (when the music cuts in and out) are the sparkle in your China …

“If I had to sum up the Ministry of Sound, it’s got to be the night Tony Humphries played and had a slate of a mix that Pete [Heller] and myself had done of Boy’s Own licensed track “What Would We Do” by DSK. The place was really going off and THAT system was at its finest. I think that was the night a lot of London DJs started to really give us props. Tony and Frankie Knuckles were really instrumental in getting the Fire Island/Roach Motel remixes to break in the UK and the USA.”

— Terry Farley

• DSK – What Would We Do [Eight Minutes of Madness Mix]


• DSK – What Would We Do (Original)

• DSK – What Would We Do (Hurley’s Dub Mix)

• What Would We Do (Hurley’s Extended Remix)

Bonus Sample: Wiley – Wearing My Rolex

Remix Friday

I’m not sure if Take That was serious or taking the piss with this video. And, of course, the Dan Hartman version is better. But whatever this was, the fact is that a boy band covered Dan Hartman’s Relight my Fire and didn’t totally bollix it (and had Lulu on the track) so … take that.

• Dan Hartman – Vertigo/Relight My Fire (feat. Loleatta Holloway)
• Take That Cover

Remix Friday

“Doesn’t say Produced by Bernard Sumner anywhere. But it screams Bernard Sumner with every brilliantly synched melodic click of the new music machines. So don’t tell him, but the bastard inherited the Hannet mantle. Quietly and oh so successfully.” — Tony Wilson

• Looking From A Hilltop
• Another Hilltop (Stephen Morris Mix)

Remix Friday

There’s something strange about the remix (or maybe it’s my speakers), it’s out of this world when you’re positioned right in the middle of the speakers, serious sound; but it sounds sloppy when you’re not …

• Prince – Dance 4 Me
• Jamie Lewis Revamped Purple Mix