Bringing Edits to the masses The Latin Rascals Hall and Oates out of touch the edit dub had to be one of the most memorable tracks for me in the history of editing The Latin Rascals became superstars with rockstar status Listening to their edits you never knew what was coming next they were frenzied but on time They were the first editors I remember playing with speed slowing down voices phrases They seemed to be on everything from radio ktu kiss fm and hot 103 5 and hot 97 1 club music to hip hop king kut Run Dmc King of Rock and pop They produced many hits in the club freestyle genre appeared on movie soundtracks disorderlies and appeared on television the music show second generation with andy panda and tony moran produced a hip hop platinum album the fat boys became succesful artists bach to the future arabian nights and world reknowned remixers Out of the pack omar santana carlos berrios chep nunez etc these guys did it all Albert Cabrera appeared on Ktu solo and what he accomplished with a pause button was nothing short of amazing I m still in shock at some of the things I heard done this coupled with the ability to do megamix medleys seperated him from the bunch when he paired with tony moran things got crazier The remixes they did with Little Louie Vega on vinyl information society s running and the exclusive mixes called hotmixes specially made for bill lee the on air personality who requested they do special versions were incredible two of them appeared on cutting remixes do nt break my heart and let me be the one The radio only version of Jody watley s I m lookin for a new love was insane So was the cover girls show me and Noel s silent morning these were radio only remixes that never appeared on vinyl I only heard Little Louie Vega play them when he rocked hearthrob nightclub in nyc If anyone has access to them I wish they d post them up These were definitley staples in the art of multi editing and remixing Eternal props and much respect to The ultimate duo The Latin Rascals David Anthony Mendez To this list I would like to add DJ s from the left coast West Coast who are always forgotten I would recommend trying to limit your list to some likely forgotten names in strictly the tape cutting trade or very prominently focussing on cutting up masters because the ones we know like Cabrera Berrios etc well everyone can mention those Also not all DJ s do impressive cutting If we re gon na mention each and every person who has cut tape once where do you draw the line HZ wrote I think the Latin Rascals did a lot of things before Nuance By the time of Nuance feat Vikki Love Loveride they were already working separate from Arthur Baker as well and some of those Arthur Baker things must have been earlier Loveride was 1984 Remarkable is that this 12 inch does not even credit them anywhere even though everybody knew if only from their peculiar dark sound that Cabrera and Moran had touched it Arthur Baker s discography at mentions Confusion by New Order in 1981 which is weird I m pretty sure it was 1983 which has multiple edits Yes but it might have been 1982 when Jellybean and Baker tried out their first versions of Confusion in the Funhouse club It usually took quite some time back then for the world to hear those tracks or have them available as a release on vinyl Also interesting And I found Jonathan Scott In early 1984 I spoke to a member of New Orders sound crew who mentioned a Confusion mix he had heard that was basically an unreleased Arthur Baker Jellybean project mixing the basic elements of Confusion with parts of Freeze s IOU I have been told that it surfaced on a dub plate acetate and was produced in a New York cutting house Reportedly a mix of Confusion IOU used to be played a lot at the Hacienda around 1984 85 Q What are those strange colours on the sleeve A It s a colour code Peter Saville same up with see Power Corruption and Lies for decoding information Q What does the W W R L in the beginning of the song mean A Barney s lyrics are always up to the interpretation of the listener but one possible explaination that has surfaced is that W W R L