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1. Intro Grandmix 84 .....Music Maestro
2. Something Heavy Going Down - Golden Earring
3. Matt's Mood - The Breakout Crew
4. What Is Love - Howard Jones
5. Shout - Tears For Fears
6. What's Love Got To Do With It - Tina Turner
7. Solid - Ashford & Simpson
8. When You Look Into My Eyes - Cherelle
9. Just The Way You Like It - S.O.S. Band
10. Feel So Real - Patrice Rushen
11. Somebody Else's Guy - Jocelyn Brown
12. Selfcontrol - Laura Branigan
13. Tanzen Mit Righuera - Righeira
14. Ain't Nobody - Rufus & Chaka Khan
15. Loveride - Nuance
16. Stop Bajon - Tulio De Piscopo
17. S & M - De De
18. Hyperactivate - Thomas Dolby
19. Dancer - Boogie Boys
20. Sweet Somebody - Shannon
21. Breakdance - Zodiac Boys
22. Beat Box - Art Of Noise
23. Matt's Mood - Matt Bianco
24. Change Of Heart - Change
25. Loverboy - Billy Ocean
26. One Night In Bangkok - Murray Head
27. One Night In Bangkok - Robey
28. Hang On To Your Love - Sade
29. Step By Step - Jeff Lorber feat. Audrey Wheeler
30. This Is My Night - Chaka Khan
31. You Used To Hold Me So Tight - Thelma Houston
32. Push In The Bush - Claire Hicks & Love Exchange
33. I Can Dream About You - Dan Hartman
34. Land Of Hunger - Earrons
35. You Are In My System - American Gypsy
36. The Night - Valerie Dore
37. What Goes On - Mai Tai
38. Body & Soul - Mai Tai
39. Kalimba De Luna - Boney M
40. Medicine Song - Stephanie Mills
41. Automatic - Pointer Sisters
42. Down On The Street - Shakatak
43. Treat Her Like A Lady - Temptations
44. Lucky Day - Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes
45. Class Style (I've got it)- Linda Lewis
46. Sex-o-matic - Barkays
47. Carribean Queen - Billy Ocean
48. European Queen - Billy Ocean
49. African Queen - Billy Ocean
50. What Do I Do - Galaxy & Phil Fearon
51. Wood Beez - Scritti Politti
52. Absolute - Scritti Politti
53. Cryin'like A Wolf - Rj's Latest Arrival
54. Zorro - My Mine
55. Feel The Drive - Doctor's Cat
56. I'll Be Around - Terri Wells
57. Doctor Love - First Choice
58. I Love The Piano - Claudio Simonetti
59. Uprock - Rocksteady Crew
60. Calling Mr. Telephone - Answering Service
61. Lost In Music - Sister Sledge
62. Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
63. We Are The Young - Dan Hartman
64. There Is No Stoppin' Us - Ollie & Jerry
65. Reach (Out Ever Lasting Lover) - Unlimited Touch
66. The Mexican - Jellybean
67. White Lines - Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel
68. Let It All Blow - Dazz Band
69. Such A Shame - Talk Talk
70. Lovelite - O'Brian
71. Precious Little Diamond - Fox The Fox
72. Florida - Paul Sharada
73. My Heart's Divided - Shannon
74. Dance Machine - Roni Griffith
75. The War Song - Culture Club
76. The Wild Boys - Duran Duran
77. Running - Gwen Presley & Portable Control
78. Dr. Beat - Miami Sound Machine
79. Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
80. Black Stations, White Stations - M & M
81. Sexcrime (1984) - Eurythmics
82. Bodyrock - Maria Vidal
83. You Are The One For Me - Paul Hardcastle
84. The Second Time- Kim Wilde
85. Shot In The Dark - Michael Zager
86. Jungle Love - The Time
87. Watching You - Shakatak
88. Like A Virgin - Madonna
89. They Only Come Out Of Night - Peter Brown
90. Don't Go Loose It Baby - Hugh Masekela
91. Say Yeah! - The Limit
92. Miss me blind - Culture Club
93. Color My Love - Fun Fun
94. Sex Shooter - Appolonia Six
95. Let's Hear It For The Boy - Deniece Williams
96. Shaft - Eddy Conrad
97. The Game - Peter Brown
98. I Feel For You - Chaka Khan
99. Erotic City - Prince
100. S.O.S. Fire In The Sky - Deodato
101. Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell
102. In The Evening - Sheryl Lee Ralph
103. Glamorous Life - Sheila E.
104. When Doves Cry - Prince
105. Tour De France - Kraftwerk
106. The Reflex - Duran Duran
107. Two Tribes - Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Total Running time 57:44

Equipment
2 x SL1200mkII turntables with Stanton Triple E cartridges
1 x Teac Tascam mixer 3A (8 channels)
1 x Teac Tascam 4 channel tapedeck for tapeloops
1 x Master Recorder: Revox PR99 with Studer "Butterfly" recording heads.
Speed: 38 cm/s 2track
Tape: 1/4 inch BASF 911 at 510 nanoweber level

Background info
After gathering all the dance charts of the year, an initial list was made in the month
November. This list was sorted by tempo (BPM beats per minute) and on the 1st of
December, work was started on the mix. It took the full month of December to complete
and perfect the mix, usually working the last 72 hours in one stretch.

Reel to reel tape
These early Grandmixes were all edited on tape. Have a look how it was done.
As the edited tape was the final thing, each edit and crossfade not only had to be
rhythmically correct, but even more important , at the right volume level. The mix
would otherwise become louder and louder, resulting in overload and distortion.
I never liked limiters and compressors on final mixes, so the grandmix was also made
without them.

The complete mix didn't fit on one real, and had to be transported in 2 sections.
The last 5 minutes of tape 1 were identical to the first 5 minutes of tape 2, and
whilst broadcasting I had to sync up the machines at the NOB (NOS at the time)
to make a very fast (and unnoticeable) live crossfade from tape 1 to tape 2.
Later these tapes were transferred to Digital, solving the live crossfade problem.
The robot voices were created using a vocoder, and this grandmix was made in
the first Studio located in what used to be a bedroom. Also have a look at the other
studios , and the equipment setup for the grandmix 92

Directors Cut
The Grandmix 84 as broadcasted 27 febr 1999 is transferred from Sony F1 to the
Akai DD1000 . The mix was then leveled to 0 dB and minor imperfections were
corrected (example the edit in Duran Duran's Wild Boys has the "w" of "wild"repaired.)
Also some slight timing imperfections have been smoothed out(edit sequence at the end
of Chacka Kahn's Ain't nobody). An intro was added to identify the mix as being the
Grandmix 84, which fades into the original intro of the mix (the purists can remove it,
and restore it to the original version by fading in after the vocoder). The mix was then
recorded on to DAT.