Tribute to the Masters mixed by Dubbyman – Chapter Two: Defmix (Frankie Knuckles & David Morales)
I can’t help to relate the name of Frankie Knuckles and David morales to that time when we all didn’t search records sitting on a couch with a laptop over our legs. To me, the Saturday’s mornings used to be the “haunt days”. I used to woke up early and drive to downtown in a obsessive search to those plastic slices… Dear second hand shops where you couldn’t listen the records. Just using your own knowledge or the intuition in most of the cases…to find more jewels to increment your repertory.
At the beginning of the 90′s, any 12″ where appeared Knuckles or Morales doing the remix or just envolved in the production, went directly to the bag because often their work used to have a big success.
I used those vinyls so many times to change the rum of the set from a hip hop beat to a house feeling…those basslines and slowly kick pulsation over the 100 bpms were always a friendly tool for a perfect mix and it still working..
Knuckles & Morales aka Defmix were everywhere in the 90′s, sometimes both together, sometimes individually. But you could read their names on the flipside of thousand 12″, putting their touch over Pop music, funk, R&B…From Madonna to unknown underground artists, no one was safe from their talented fingers. We can say without no doubt that they wrote many of the rules for the Club’s game. Truly masters in an age where the scene was just beginning.
This second chapter of Tribute to the masters meet in two separated parts with much of my 12″ Defmix’s collection. Obviously many of them have been out of the project because their work is too much extensive to resume in a few hours. So basically i have focused in what i call the “my Defmix golden age” that means end of the 80′s and the entire 90′s.
Like in the previous chapter with Larry Heard, there is no tracklist available, just to give all the value to the amalgam of their legacy as a whole. A union of their sounds. Also you will discovered that many of the songs are transformed and remixed in real time so the result is not exactly as the original version was…well you will see…
Hope that you will enjoy the beats…
Dubbyman
Dubbyman-Tribute to Defmix part 1
Dubbyman-Tribute to Defmix part 2
Fuck yeah… really looking forward to this
What do you mean by “many of the songs are transformed and remixed in real time so the result is not exactly as the original version was”?
Do you use Ableton to change those songs?
Greetings
sooor
no, no, no….all the songs are played on vinyl.. but some of them have the vocals from another song .. or just have some little details inserted during the set…
Temones como soles!
Im’ a great fan and listener of DEFMIX Production. I have some, not all discography (I bough the original mixed treble CD for 20 anniversary), you find me on house-mixes or soundcloud. I realized last year one tribute (digitally) mainly on Dave (only one is Knuckles remix). Here are some pearls, more smooth……
In the 3rd track i hear the Frankie style….. I listened one of his recorded session of early ’90 and sounded like this….
GREAT WORK!!! I download a copy…. There are some rare. DEFMIX IS PURE CLASS, SOUND ENJINEERY
DEFMIX ALWAYS!!!!
Hey Man, whose that Chaka Khan remix? Morales or Knuckles?
Finally I was able to listen the 2nd mix too…. I find in it more conscious… I know many of these records…. Very good work but I think the UP passage is at 1h 39′ in I’ll be your friend (one of my three favouirite song ever)…. You had mixed two TRAX RECORDS no matter in DEFMIX…. but are two masterpieces…. above all YOUR LOVE IS HOUSE MUSIC HISTORY…
So if you are interested I play Dave and Frankie records…..
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hey Sand B!!
sorry for the delay.. the remix from Chaka khan that you ask.. i think is this one:
http://www.discogs.com/Rufus-Chaka-Khan-Aint-Nobody-Remix/release/1379970
best regards!!
Dubby
Many Thanks and Keep on Defmix Records!