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SUPPORT ME ON PATREON\n\nWATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE\n\nI love solving a mystery. These two 12\u201d vinyls have been sitting in my collection for over 30 years, completely ignored. I assumed they were one-offs from local DJs looking to make a buck, that my DJ partner & I found at one of the many stores that catered to this stuff on Chestnut St. in Philly. NOPE. Well, yes, but NOPE.\n\nThese albums got way more circulation than I ever knew. They were both hatched in \u2026 anti drum roll cuz this is no surprise \u2026 NYC, by mixing teams looking to make a buck and get some kind of notoriety. I would bet thousands of DJs own(ed) these. And I\u2019d bet they\u2019re two of hundreds or thousands of albums of this kind. They were great for DJs looking to learn how it\u2019s done, get ideas for their own mixes, and especially to fill in gaps in DJing sets with mixing done by the pros.\n\n\u201cBits & PCs 86\u201d was by The Dynamite Mixers. They are Carlos Berrios & Norberto Cotto, and not only did they release \u201cBits & PCs\u201d from 1985-1998, they are still out there working, though it looks like separately. \u201cMega \u2013 Mix 86\u201d was harder to track down. Some wonderful person put it on YouTube (which I coupled with \u201cBits & PCs 86\u201d in my playlist above), and listed some song credits, but there\u2019s no artist/DJ credit. So I did some further searching, and I\u2019m pretty sure it was done by Deejay B@m B@m (not to be confused with the much younger DJ Bam Bam), apparently originally from Mexico. It might be a miscredit, but it\u2019s the closet I could come to figuring this out. Cool that all of these mixers are Latino.\n\nI listened to these \u2013 for the first time since probably 1986, and they reminded me of stuff I\u2019d hear on Philly\u2019s Power 99 FM: whole sets from featured DJs mixing and cutting and scratching. And it reminded me of my own DJing. I never got this good. Not with vinyl anyway. I went through a cassette mixing phase, where I\u2019d record using three cassette players: two to play songs so they could overlap or I could punch in phrases/licks/beats over another track, and one to capture it all. I still have one or two of those efforts, and will def transfer them soon.\n\nMe. DJ history. Dance beats. My music. You\u2019ve heard it before. This is about as barebones seminal as it gets. The perfect example of this is \u2026 another anti drum roll \u2026 a mix I made of my funky tune output from 1986-2020:\n\nNICK & REC - \u201cFunky Time Machine Mashup\u201d\n\nHave you ever done any mixing or DJing, or even made a mixtape or compilation? Do you have any obscure vinyl you\u2019d love to track down? Discuss dammit!\n\n\n--- \n\nThis episode is sponsored by \n\xb7 Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app\n\nSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/musicisnotagenre/support\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices