Unknown or obscure 80s/90s mixes of major label artists

Any secret weapons to sure?

I mean stuff like this: MARY J. BLIGE (Sure Is Pure)

MC HAMMER (Tenaglia Mix)

DINA CARROLL (I’ve got several Dina mixes I play) (Tony Humphries Mix)

SELENA (Morales Dub)

LISA STANSFIELD (Morales Dub)

TAKE THAT (Joey Negro obviously inspired by Italo-house on this one)

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I can’t think of many that I haven’t posted already except for:

And this, which might not count as it is from 2001:

Two favourites from previous threads. From the falsetto one:

From the pop remixes one:

Doesn’t seem to be on YouTube, but I love this dub mix of I’m Every Woman.

Edit: found it

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That reminds me… the 1989 Dancin’ Danny D remix of the Chaka Kahn version. A High On Hope classic:

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This is more like it! I only know one of these. More please peeps x

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Wasn’t expecting MC Hammer to be my favourite from this list

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From 1990, Junior Vasquez remix of a fantastic song written by Prince for Mavis Staples:

This MK mix of little known Canadian singer on Warner Bros was massive for me in the mid 90s, but I never heard it anywhere else

Bjork had a few in the 90’s, so many 12’s and CD singles, I still find a few nuggets once in a while that I hadn’t heard before.

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I’ve played that a lot over the years, good call.

V nice, Tim, never heard of that and I thought I was an MK fan!

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If you’re from New York, you’ll probably know this, but it’s not v well known in the UK, unless you go to Low Life (in which case you’ll definitely know it).

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Another I used to play a lot. Basically a superior Chic cut-up.

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I played this to death at the time. I still dig it out now and again.

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Just been released digitally. So found through Spotify recommendation. New to me. It’s ace.

No dub unfortunately, but super F. Knuckles sounding. Down tempo, Balearic-leaning house groove. Love it.

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Shep Pettibone mixes of Michael McDonald from 1990. The stuttered vocal samples at the start sound very dated now but its a great song. Probably worth an edit between the main mix and dubs.

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Another Shep Pettibone mix from 1991:

My GF played this one out a lot for a while:

Terence Trent D’Arby, “Sign Your Name (Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry Remix)”

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V good, like this one a lot :cowboy_hat_face: :disguised_face: