MAW & Company ft. Xaviera Gold - Gonna Get Back To You (1992)
If I were a drag queen, my drag queen name would be Xaviera Gold. It's just a ridiculously excellent name.And this happens to be an outstanding title. The Ken Lou mix starts off as a fairly standard garage affair, but it is extremely well constructed and produced, and I love the hint of India on the backing vocals. It's not too hard to find on CD as it was on the Kinky Trax 2 comp

Earth Wind & Fire - Boogie Wonderland (Total Vocal mix by Slow Supreme)
If you're a remixer, and you're remixing a major artists for a major label, here's a word of advice: don't remove the entire chorus and the part where they sing the name of the song.Inspired fools Slow Supreme did just that when they proposed two mixes of Boogie Wonderland for a Japan-only remix album in 2002, and guess what? The one that completely omitted the title and obliterated the tune didn't get picked for the CD. In fact, I thought it had never been r

Nuyorican extended
Back in 1997 I was working in the dysfunctional Black Market shop in Paris and the buzz around the release of Nuyorican Soul was immense. A frenzy. The Paris crowd worshipped Masters At Work, had in-depth knowledge of disco, jazz and latin influences (Spain is, er, not far) and the Nuyorican Soul album had them all in qualitative spades.Add to that some killer remixes of the album's singles - including a couple from Armand Van Helden at the top of his game - and the album was absolutely

Dimitri From Paris - Sacré Français (Todd Edwards mixes) (1998)
Another example of how the mighty have fallen, Todd Edwards blazed incredibly bright in the early nineties, more or less invented speed garage by accident, milked it as long as he could and continued making the same music way after all his inspiration had left him.Instead of cleverly cutting, pasting and tone-shifting micro-samples, he started lazily filling in any obvious holes with vocodered lines sung by himself (and he doesn't have a great voice).  Increasingly embarrassing and

B.M.U. - U Will Know (C.J. Mackintosh mixes) (1995)
Black Men United was a 'supergroup' made up of R. Kelly, Boyz II Men, Tony Toni Tone, Tevin Campbell, Usher and more (including Lenny Kravitz on guitar!), apparently formed just for this track, in order to promote the film Jason's Lyric.Jason's Lyric, "a modern day Romeo & Juliet from the makers of New Jack City" was clearly aimed at he black demographic - both thematically and musically - and allegedly nearly got an X rating for a racy sex scene (that was removed).