Click here to watch short video of the recording session of this 12-inch single at my home-studio.
Although Hey DJ was released in 1984, but the first time I’ve heard and bought it was in Christmas time 1986 in England. Lots of good tracks with similar sound and feel, like this one, were released at that time. Stellar production on this 12-inch single. As mentioned in the blog/post previous to this one, Doug Wimbish on the bass and bass-synthesizers; Keith LeBlank on the drums; and synth & drum machine programming by Jack Waldman, Clifton Chase and Craig Peyton. Although Stephen Hague produced this track, Malcolm McLaren was somehow involved heavily in Hey DJ (check out the music video below).
World’s Famous Supreme Team – “Hey DJ” (Extended)…
Artist: World’s Famous Supreme Team
Title: Hey DJ (Extended)
Year: 1984
Label: Charisma Records
Media Source: Recorded straight from 12-inch record to enhanced digital.
World’s Famous Supreme Team – “Hey DJ” (Extended) (mp3)
World’s Famous Supreme Team – “Hey DJ” (Extended Instrumental)…
Artist: World’s Famous Supreme Team
Title: Hey DJ (Extended Instrumental)
Year: 1984
Label: Charisma Records
Media Source: Recorded straight from 12-inch record to enhanced digital.
World’s Famous Supreme Team – “Hey DJ” (Extended Instrumental) (mp3)
While the norm for most tracks go anywhere between 3:30 to 6:00 minutes in length, I prefer 15:00 minutes or longer, like the four seasons. Give me 4 long tracks to fill the hour, and I’ll be one very happy Iraqi. I love tracks that take me on long journeys through various movements. One of my all-time favorite synth-pop groups is PROPAGANDA from germany … who sound like twisted ABBA + Industrial + TechnoPop + Darkness. My favorite Proganda track is P:Machinery. I’ve taken two 12-inch vinyl versions of that track and conjoined them together as one … the way I want to listen to P:Machinery by:
Propaganda
Although he produced only a handful of tracks of renown and disappeared into obscurity almost as quickly as he had emerged from it, Manny ( Man ) Parrish is nonetheless one of the most important and influential figures in American electronic dance music. Helping to lay the foundation of electro, hip-hop, freestyle, and techno, as well as the dozens of subgenres to splinter off from those, Parrish introduced the aesthetic of European electronic pop to the American club scene by combining the plugged-in disco-funk of Giorgio Moroder and the man-machine music of Kraftwerk with the beefed-up rhythms and cut’n'mix approach of nascent hip-hop. As a result, tracks like “Hip-Hop Be Bop (Don’t Stop)” and “Boogie Down Bronx” were period-defining works that provided the basic genetic material for everyone from Run-DMC and the Beastie Boys to Autechre and Andrea Parker — and they remain undisputed classics of early hip-hop and electro to this day.
Man Parrish
What made Trevor Horn’s productions stand out was his unique and genius production techniques and the heavy use of state-of-the-art pro-audio gear, which made him become the torch-bearer for the kind of technology-led pop music which was hip and incredibly disciplined. Trevor Horn’s 12-inch remixes were uniquely long (anywhere from 8 to 13 minutes in duration) and told stories which took the listeners through long instrumental journeys at the begenning of tracks until the climax is reached (around the 5/6 or 7 minute mark). After the climax, the original or alternate full vocal version of the track takes over from that point on to the end, lasting additional 3.5 to 5 minutes in length.
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Trevor Horn is the guy who produced and performed “
The Buggles
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What a great feel good track,a good one playing loud in ur car,on the beach,whatever.
I had a chance 2 get this for about £1 in a boot sale 5 years ago,& as i didn’t know it by name left it. What an idiot i felt when i found out what it was a few years later!
the world supreme team a group that had radio stations playing there song all night long c larock from the younger generation first single breakloose was the song of overseas air-play that song was number two on billboard in London with lots of break-dancen