Shep Pettibone - 1983 Mastermix Dance Party, New York 98.7 WRKS Kiss.FM

Shep Pettibone was in the summer of 1983 a year into creating mastermixes for now defunct and legendary NYC dance radio station Kiss.FM 98.7. His pioneering work creating remixes and mastermixes from reel to reel cut n' paste became so popular they were released as vinyl compilations + saw some overtake the originals in popularity. He started producing for iconic Salsoul Records and his idea of submitting several remixes for one song, thus fitting more radio formats, became the norm in the industry. He was an early collaborator with Pet Shop Boys and did wonders for Janet Jackson's singles from the Control and Rhythm Nation 1814 albums. Of course, he's most famous work is with Madonna; the ingenious production on 1990's Vogue and 1992 album Erotica - legendary. Sooo, we found this mix and wanted to post it as it's awesome, but also as the others are available on vinyl they have a tracklist and cover art. This baby clocks in at almost 100 minutes and we know some of the sickenin' beats. There's Herbie Hancock's Rockit, Nunk (New wave funk) by Warp 9 First Choice's Let No Man Put Asunder and Crown Heights Affair's Rock The World to name but a few. We can only imagine clubbing in the 80's, it would have been so cool to be part of that. But how fantastic since this is a summer '83 mix to be able to post it in July '13! Shep's website looks like it's straight outta 1996 and we saw he owns the Paradise nightclub in New Jersey so we should all hang out there next summer together! Grab the mix below and d.a.n.c.e! PS. There aren't many images of this legendary producer so above is him and M recording Erotica!