Hot 97 All Night Dance Party with Tony Humphries, 1996
Kind of an odd classics mix, not one of his best, makes me wonder how happy he was working for Hot 97 (I’m not sure how many shows he did for them). I’d forgotten the date but the R&B records mentioned during the ad break were released in 1996; this was the point at which disco and house were about to almost completely disappear from NYC radio. Can’t recall hearing Tony playing “The Message” on any other mix show I’ve heard.
When I first moved to NYC in 92, radio was great: weekends would have Red Alert followed by Tony Humphries on Kiss, and the late John Robinson did a weekday midday mix on WBLS (which I would wake up to, during a long pathetically lazy period of unemployment that year). My favorite Tony tape is posted on the main site (side A, side B); although the file is titled differently, I’d scrawled, “Tony Humphries Pumping it to Fuckery” on the cassette case. Have very fond memories of listening to it on a Sunday back then, lived on West 93rd and we’d leave Sound Factory late Sunday morning wacked out of our gourds, have an amazing cab ride up the West Side Highway staring twinkly-eyed at our new home, then get back to the apartment and rock out to the tape, smoking joints and drinking tea until we were no longer capable of speech. Even the bit where the announcer comes on and says “it’s definitely snuggle weather, that’s for sure” ends up being part of the ride, and I just love the moment where he cuts out from “If I can’t have you” (which, I found out much later, is Kim Wilde) into this amazing long dubby track (if any passers by happen to know the name of it, please post it!). His mix of First Choice’s Pressure Point also makes an appearance, along with many other great tracks (Beats International - Change Your Mind, Ronny Jordan - So What, Sure is Pure - Is this Love Really Real? Eve Gallagher - Love is a Master of Disguise).
Finn Johannsen’s blog has an interesting recent interview with Tony Humphries (”house music genres have broken in so many fragments it looks like a subway map”).
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March 28th, 2008 at 5:14 am
Thanks for posting these. I actually downloaded the 1992 one ages ago but didn’t really give it a proper listen and have it on some backup drive so I downloaded it again. I just scanned through it - sorry, don’t recognise the dubby track, but also I didn’t hear the Sure Is Pure in there either. I only recognise, at first listen, a handful of the tracks, I’m ashamed to admit!
Do you know some/most of the others?
Side A
01. Hear the Music - Gypsymen (E-Legal)
02. ?
03. ?
04. ?
05. ?
06. Helpless - Urbanized
07. Workout - Frankie Knuckles
08. ?
09. ?
10. ?
11. If I Can’t Have You - Kim Wilde
12. ?
Side B
01. Love Is A Master Of Disguise - Eve Gallagher
02. Pressure Point - First Choice
03. ?
04. ?
05. Lift Every Voice (Take Me Away) - Mass Order
06. ?
07. ?
08. The Afterworld - The Underworld
09. ?
10. ?
11. ?
12. ?
13. Keep On Keepin On - Disco Elements
14. ?
15. ?
March 28th, 2008 at 9:22 am
Hi Frank, I can fill in some of the blanks but there are a bunch that I don’t know.
01. Hear the Music - Gypsymen (E-Legal) - would love to know the other track layered over this with the female vocal sample
02. All I Want - Richard Rogers (John Robinson mix I think)
03. “all alone” - pretty sure I found out what this was at one point, now forgotten
04. Change Your Mind - Beats International (one of the Tenaglia mixes)
05. Romance (Sexy Sax Mix) - Jorio feat. Jay Rodriguez
06. Share My Love - Michelle Ayers (not sure which mix, sounds very different from clips of the main mixes on the Emotive release I can find online)
07. Helpless - Urbanized
08. Workout - Frankie Knuckles
09. “I’ll do anything” ?
10. One True Woman - Yazz
11. ? This track is just gorgeous, but I have no idea what it is
12. If I Can’t Have You - Kim Wilde
13. ?
Side B
01. Love Is A Master Of Disguise - Eve Gallagher
02. Pressure Point - First Choice
03. So What - Ronny Jordan
04. Is this Love Really Real? - Sure is Pure
05. Lift Every Voice (Take Me Away) - Mass Order
06. Love You All My Lifetime (Love Suite Opus Mix) - Chaka Khan (this is an all time favorite of mine, those bubbly ascending synths on a big system will just wreck you)
07. ? “baby I’m burning”
08. “what do you want from me” - another track that I love to death, would really like to know what this is
08. The Afterworld - The Underworld
09. Keep on Reaching - Voices Of Fine Tune feat Barbara Dixon & Anthony Darby (guess - the way he mixes into this track is one of those killer Tony Humphries moments)
10. Still in Love (MAW mix) - Meli’sa Morgan
11. ? another lovely unknown track
12. Keys of Life - Nick Jones Experience
13. Keep On Keepin On - Disco Elements (not sure which track this is - the D-Train samples are def from the Nick Jones track)
14. ? “hooked up to the heavens”
16. ? monster bassline
15. Make it On My Own (T-Scat Mix) - Alison LImerick
March 28th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Thanks for that Richard!
I’ll have another proper listen to it and see if anything rings any bells. Looks like I got the Disco Elements one wrong, the one I was thinking of had the same D-Train samples…
March 28th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Thanks, any additional IDs would be much appreciated! The vocal on that “what do you want from me” track is almost Al Green-like. The Nick Jones is from an EP called “Music for the Neighborhood” on the NuGroove subsidiary Massive B, only know it because I bought it for one of the other tracks, although can’t remember which one.
March 29th, 2008 at 5:46 am
I’ve got an ID for you!
09. “I’ll do anything” ?
This one with the Inner Life sample is Todd Terry. The version I have is this one:
http://www.discogs.com/release/29972
His Unreleased Project series usually included rejected remixes - on this EP is a different version of his PM Dawn remix - so I don’t know if this track was originally done as a remix of something else or is a standalone and I haven’t had a chance to dig out the actual record to see if it’s the exact same mix
March 29th, 2008 at 6:50 am
Yeah, just checked it out - it’s definitely the same one
March 29th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
I have a semi-ID for you.
07. ? “baby I’m burning”
is definitely a Terrence Parker production. Which one I can’t say for now but the production is almost exactly the same as his Seven Grand Housing Authority stuff
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Excellent, thanks! Also just bought a copy of the Voices of Fine Tune from Vinylmania on Discogs and the guess was right, it’s the Kim Boogie mix.
July 21st, 2008 at 7:16 pm
The song before Kim Wilde “If I Can’t Have You” is:
Morenas - Cuando Brilla La Luna (Fabrice Rawmix) on DFC Records
http://www.discogs.com/release/46436