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How did they make 12" versions in the 80s? I've been wondering about this. Now everything is in the computer and its very easy to let a beat loop or something, but how did they do this in the 80's? Did they also use computers? I dont even know how they edit a song. If there is a long recording of a song, how did they take away some parts? Wasnt everything recorded on tape? There are also 70's remixes, i cant imagine they had computers to make the remix or extended version. Anybody know? | |
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Some people did use computers. I remember Lynn Malsby, from Klymaxx, telling me once how she used an Apple to sequence her keyboards.
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Also, it was common for instrumentals and a cappellas to be issued commercially or for DJ use. I believe some remixers even mixed songs live on their turntables until they got a take they liked. Back in the day I did a remix of "The Pleasure Principle" using the 12" and my aunt's dual-deck cassette player. My 12 year old self was very impressed with the results. | |
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Single/7" versions were often edited versions of longer studio "jams" anyway. The edits were made by simply cutting and pasting the reel-to-reel tape. Many 1980s 12-inches are the original studio jam + some unrelated bit of filler spliced in the middle of it - let the drum machine go for a few minutes longer, call it the Special Disco Mix. | |
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Thank you all for the answers! I heard about cutting the tape, didnt know if it was true. I must have been a lot of work! | |
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Quote from a 1990 article about Paula Abdul's remix album:
"Extending songs into sleek, continuous dance tracks is a specialized art form, involving creative slicing and dicing, either by hand or on high-tech multitrack recording consoles (complete with DAT tape and computers). To create ”The Way That You Love Me (Houseafire Edit),” for instance, Las Vegas DJ and remixer Chris Cox used two reel-to-reel tape decks to cut the track up into tiny bits. Then he physically rearranged the song and taped the bits together for a final edit. ”Dance-club DJs love (a dance mix), because it gives them more variety to work with,” Cox says." | |
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Definitely splicing tape, cutting pieces of sections and hanging them on the wall to arrange them, and splicing them together. | |
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I have never once considered how this was done. Potentially one of he most interesting things I’ve read in so long and what a skill and labour of love. Mind blown. | |
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