These Radio Mixes I think are an important part of "the times" and should be preserved and shared like this... thanks for recording the tapes, and sharing them with us! I have some deep in my storage from San Diego, but I don't know who the DJs were...something like "hot mix" or "Super mix"... done very similarly to these tapes. I happened to record the new year's eve countdown...
THIS is HOUSE MUSIC!!!!! All these fools from around the world who call themselves making House music NEED TO LISTEN AND STUDY THIS RIGHT HERE!!! CHI-TOWN STAND UP!!
And this is the reason I still have a cassette player in my car! I just wore out my Kenwood and glad I kept the Sony in storage, to keep playing my Maxwell mixes.
Wow I remember those old Maxell cassettes. Talk about old. The 90 min ones played so long they often sweated and stuck to the rollers. I recorded tons of the old mixes off WGCI, WBMX and even B96. Those were the good old days of music. The crap they play today isn't even worth 5 mins of time.
And halt!!! The Hotmix 5 were: Mickey 'Mixxin' Oliver Ralphi "The Raz" Rosario Kenny 'Jammin' Jason Scott 'Smokin' Silz and Farley "Funkin" Keith....from the words of Armando "102.7FM/AM 1390, the more music...B.M.X. Mike Hitman Wilson & Co. came afterward.
hotmix 5 were: fast eddie mike hitman wilson mario smokin diaz kenny jammin jason they were called THE JACKMASTER 5 before they were the hotmix 5 you get it right lol.....cheers
It was awesome how the nickname was in between the proper name. What I can't understand is where did the moniker "DJ so and so" came from? Appears like someone trying to sound professional but the only image that comes to mind is a guy lugging his equipment around playing a bunch of gigs but never breaking that glass ceiling.
@qwandiddy - Wow, sounds like a nice collection. Bobby D was my favorite back then. I don't like any of the new music, its just noise. My biggest collection is his stuff, but I have a bunch of 80/90's mixes from other Dj's. Visit energeticsounds and you can get stuff from many of them. Also this site - deephousepage is a good place to get mixes from the old Hot Mix 5
Those people would never have gotten considered to be played near a house club or scene in 1987. Even through to the early 2000s, people who didn't really know what house meant much, still would have been very aware there were better things to listen & dance to than the kind of drivel like Skrillex. That stuff is heavy metal on synths. It's nothing like house, any dance music or anything that house came from - soul, rare groove, Balearic beat, disco, r&b, gospel, electro, white pop, white soul.
