Bridge Mix ~ The Original Bootleg Megamix of Stars On 45 Edit

I love this mix so much because it deepened the my passion for editing/remixing back in early 1980. I wonder if this one will fly....A few weeks ago I posted the Stars on 45 trilogy Megamix and made mention of the original bootleg vinyl that it was based on. Well this is that mix that started Stars On 45-mania. When I first heard it at the club, I almost peed myself, it was such a sweet mix! I ran out and got myself own vinyl copy that I digitized here. It's an amazing journey through dance music, disco, 60's pop, 70's rock and funk....it is the epitome of inventive, the dream of inspired DJ Michel Gendreau who probably spent hours cutting tape and getting it just right, doing it old school style. Seamless and shamelessly upbeat, it was a trip down memory lane for me, I mean Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, The Beatles, I challenge you to list each song. This one ends up with the James Brown vamp of "Doing It To Death" and the synthesizer break from Edgar Winter Band's "Frankenstein" that closes out this oddly hypnotic audio odyssey. He connected the dots in this totally pleasing mash up. I remember hearing this in 1980, and now I recognize that Kano's "I'm Ready" is on there too. Yes, the mixes were done live to tape and then he would have edited the tape. Editing is fairly easy once you get the hang of it, using a grease pencil to mark where the razor would make the diagonal cuts and then applying the adhesive tape to the back to make it playable, the idea being that there was a quick fade in and a quick fade out would make the edit less noticeable. (It does!). Any way, this was the state of dance music back in da day and I can tell you it's time consuming but immensely pleasing to hear the finished product. Back in da day late 1980, the copyright owner of "Venus" by the Shocking Blue heard this mix and could not determine who was responsible. It motivated him to produce his own bootleg called the Stars On 45 so he could capitalize on his investment with royalties. He even did his new versions using the exact same editing arrangement and sequencing that the Gendreau created. This is out there strictly for educational and promotional purposes. Genius! I went on the basis of a rumour and contacted Ben Liebrand the esteemed remixer\producer who pointed out that Michel Gendreau from Montreal was the creator in an article on his website here http://www.liebrand.nl/inthemix/miche... The DJ at my club would go to New York to pick up new stuff and he came back with his copy that he played. Once he came back with Herb Alpert's 12" Rotation 1979 on special edition clear vinyl in a showcase die cut black sleeve for me, I still have that one too!