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

That Terence Trent D’Arby dub is pretty magical. Not what I expected.

I found this after a lot of discogs and youtube digging. I only heard it once on the radio back in 1994. MK mixes of Paul Hardcastle.

Another early '90s mid-tempo house number. Lenny Williams remixed by Eric Kupper.

There’s a nice dub with a great, rubbery bass but the rapper who turns up for just a few lines at 3.30 slightly throws things off. I’m sure he was in the wrong studio.

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Agreed, really love the Terence mix.

I had no idea that this Lenny Williams tune was by THAT Lenny Williams. Think it was one of those unidentified tunes I heard here and there without knowing who it was by.

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A bizarrely good (imho) acidic dub of a KD Lang track from the early 90’s.

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That reminds me, I love this KD Lang track from 1992. 12" mix by Greg Penny which only slightly beefs up the original,rather than reworking anything.

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KD bloody Lang! :upside_down_face:

I don’t mean to turn this into a KD appreciation thread, but here’s another decent remix, this time by Angel Moraes.

And it seems highly improbable that an arty hip-hop dude like DJ Krush might have been asked to remix one of her tracks, yet it did happen and here’s the proof:

Makes me wonder who their intended audience was.

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I adore “Gotta Lotta Luv.” I put it with Frankie Knuckles’ “It’s Hard Sometime” as scratching a certain slightly slower, almost R&B crossover kind of vocal house itch.

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Danny Tenaglia mixes of East 17:

And a Danny Tenaglia and John Ciafone mix of the Pet Shop Boys which I posted in a another thread a while ago.

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This is cool, never heard it before. That said I wouldn’t say Jane Child was little known—“Don’t Wanna Fall In Love” is an all-timer! I’m also into the “Dub It” remix although the original is the GOAT for the chorus lyrics: “Love cuts just like a knife/ You make the knife feel good/ I’ll fight you to the end”

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