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1. Intro Grandmix 86
2. Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
3. Ego - Nat Augustin
4. Let's Go All The Way - Sly Fox
5. Alice, I Want You Just For Me - Full Force
6. Bang Zoom Let's Go - The Real Roxanne
7. Radar Love - Centerfold
8. Just Buggin' - Whistle
9. Don't Waste My Time - Paul Hardcastle
10. Headlines - Midnight Star
11. Rain Or Shine - Five Star
12. Broken Wings - Mr. Mister
13. Ain't Nobody Ever - Aretha Franklin
14. Point Of No Return - Earlene Bentley
15. Borrowed Love - S.O.S. Band
16. Stay A Little Time Child - Loose Ends
17. Night of Pleasure - Loose Ends
18. C'est La Vie -Robbie Neville
19. Human - Human League
20. Set Me Free -Jaki Graham
21. Mountains - Prince
22. Nasty - Janet Jackson
23. I Can't Wait - Nu Shooz
24. Walk This Way - Run DMC
25. Typical Male - Tina Turner
26. Ain't Nothin'goin'on But The Rent - Gwen Guthrie
27. Prove Me Right - Shannon
28. Facts Of Love - Jeff Lorber
29. Can't Wait another Minute - Five Star
30. Notorious - Duran Duran
31. I'm Not Perfect - Grace Jones
32. Goldmine - Pointer Sisters
33. Rumours - Timex Social Club
34. Jealousy - Club Nouveau
35. Mixed Up World - Timex Social Club
36. Boing Boom Tchak - Kraftwerk
37. Broken Glass - George Duke
38. The Finest - S.O.S. Band
39. Paranoimia - Art Of Noise
40. Automatic - Millie Scott
41. Dreamer - BB & Q Band
42. Point Of No Return - Nu Shooz
43. You and me tonight - Aurra
44. Prisoner of love - Mildred Scott
45. Can't Let You Go - Haywoode
46. I Wouldn't Lie - Yarbrough & Peoples
47. Dance Around The World - Richenel
48. Armed And Dangerous - Atlantic Starr
49. The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby & The Range
50. Who's Johnny - El Debarge
51. Kiss - Prince
52. Gravity -James Brown
53. 100 % Pure Pain - O'Chi Brown
54. Say It Say It - EG Daily
55. Open Your Heart - Madonna
56. Female Intuition - Mai Tai
57. Passion From A Woman - Krystol
58. Burning Love - Confunk Shun
59. Burnin'up - Michael Jonzum
60. Sweet Freedom - Michael Mcdonald
61. Lessons In Love - Level 42
62. What Have I Done For You ? - King MC (featuring Screamin' K)
63. What Have I Done for you Lately -Janet Jackson
64. Talk To Me - Chico Debarge
65. Oops Oh No - Latoya Jackson & Cerrone
66. Word Up - Cameo
67. Hey Don't Waste My Time - The Walkers
68. Goin'to The Bank - The Commodores
69. A Love Bizarre - Sheila E
70. All Played Out - Life
71. When I Think Of You - Janet Jackson
72. I'm Not Gonna Let You - Colonel Abrams
73. The Promise You Made - Cock Robin
74. What's The Colour Of Money - Hollywood Beyond
75. Come Get My Love - T. K. A.
76. What I Like - Anthony And The Camp
77. Saturday Love - Cherelle & Alexander O'Neal
78. Set Fire To Me - Willy Colon
79. Holiday Rap - MC Miker G & DJ Sven
80. Midas Touch - Midnight Star
81. Sweet Sexy Thing - Rick James
82. You Are Everything - James "D-Train" Williams
83. Find The Time - Five Star
84. Dial My Number - Pauli Carmen
85. Just Another Lover - Johnny Kemp
86. Shadows Of Your Love - JM Silk
87. How Will I Know - Whitney Houston
88. Unfaithfull - Full Force
89. In The Heat Of A Passionate Moment - Princess
90. Showin'out - Mel & Kim
91. If I Say Yes - Five Star
92. Say When - Nirvana
93. Dictator - Centerfold
94. Control - Janet Jackson
95. Ti Sento - Matia Bazar
96. People Of All Nations - Shawn Christopher
97. This Time - Private Possession
98. Speculation - Colonel Abrams
99. Mr. DJ - The Concept
100. Jack Your Body - Steve Silk Hurley
101. You And Me - Symphonia
102. To The Beat Of The Drum - Wired
103. What You See Is What You Get - Brenda K Starr
104. Don't You Try It - Raw
105. Ain't Nothin'but A Party - Phil Fearon
106. Love Can't Turn Around - Farley Jackmaster Funk
107. We Just - Moses
108. I Can't Turn Around - JM Silk
109. Papa Don't Preach - Madonna
110. Venus - Bananarama
111. Warriors Of the Wasteland- Frankie Goes To Hollywood

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.
This mix was transferred from analog tape to the Sony SL-F1 prior to broadcasting.
(See also Reel to Reel on the '84 page)

TV appearance
The Grandmix 86 was also the first mix that made it to a TV show. Mixes started to become
mainstream gathering a steady growing audience. Ben Liebrand was the first DJ/Producer to
show on TV how these mixes were made. On the TV show "Tineke" Ben demonstrated how
tapeloops worked, synchronizing records to tape-looped rhythm patterns live on stage.
As Tineke was switching between to sets of Studio decor for each interview, Ben had 7 minutes
to install a mixer, turntables and a four-track tape recorder, including selecting a tapeloop, and
synchronizing the record "Broken Wings" to this loop, whilst hooking up his system to the
TV studio set-up. The difficult bit was to stay "cool" (temperature wise) when the cameras
switched on.

Directors Cut
The Grandmix 86 as broadcasted 24th of April 1999 was transferred from to the Akai DD1000 .
The mix was then leveled to 0 dB and minor imperfections were corrected.
The intro starts of with "Timewarp complete - Ready for transmission" followed by the original
"Control" Intro featuring Ben Liebrand on Vocoder. The mix was then recorded on to DAT.