After parking up on a country lane that passes by one of the runways at Manchester Airport I hopped over a style and found a decent vantage point next to the fire training module!
Loads of planes knocking around… who’d have thought?
With mp3’s being much cheaper than vinyl, and Serato releasing a version of their software for free to use with the Numark Mixtrack Pro, going digital was inevitable. Especially as it includes features such as assignable cue points & a bunch of effects (HPF/LPF/Flange/Echo…) previously only available via my Korg KAOSS Pad 2.
As I’d not done a “live” mix for so long I purchased the Mixtrack in November 2011 to give myself a kick up the arse…
The third instalment (In The Mix Volume 3) comprises of old Breaks tracks that were influencial to me from the early 2000’s, plus some newer tracks and a deviation into Drum & Bass for the finale.
After Fancy vs The Flirts I was compelled to mix some Italo Disco tracks from the previously mentioned Neon playlist on Spotify. Due to some vastly differing BPMs it turned out to be a bit difficult & I ended up chucking in the last 2 tracks unmixed for the Hell of it.
What is happen now? Now, you click play and rock out for the next 52 minutes! Unless you hate Italo Disco…
Kano – Another Life
Stage – Can’t Get You Out Of My Mind (Dance Version)
Bobby O – One More Shot
Airplay ft. K. van Haaren – For Your Love
Fancy vs The Flirts – Slice Me Helpless (Mashup)
Fancy – Turbo Dancer (Remix)
Fancy vs The Flirts – Slice Me Helpless (Mashup) (Reprise)
Repeat listenings to an Italo Disco playlist on Spotify sparked a conversation over two tracks that seemed to use the same chord pattern.
Digging deeper into the Italo Disco legend it became clear that a maverick producer by the name Bobby Orlando (Bobby O) directly used a riff from “Slice Me Nice” by Fancy in the track “Helpless”, that he produced for The Flirts.
It was from this, and listening to several bad mashup attempts, that the idea to create a bootleg version was conceived…
Photographs of my holiday in Spain, 2009.
Locations include: Fuengirola, Mijas, Puerto Banus, Marbella & Gibraltar.
Tracks mixed by me.
Animation by me.