In my 30+ years of collecting music, I completely forgot that I had this track in my arsenal of 12″ records. I do not even remember buying this record at all. A few days ago I was going through my record collection, looking for another track …but along the way I came upon this Jeopardy 12″. Thus I reacted with such enthusiasm as if I’d just discovered/heard the track for the very first time. Perhaps my elder brother was the one who bought it in 1983, no? I do not know for sure; I do not recall. Nonetheless, I love the song. It has been YEARS since I’ve listened to Jeopardy. The record was very dirty. I cleaned it up as much as possible, recorded it straight into Protools and did as much mastering to it as I could. I utilized Waves’ R-EQ4 equalizers, Waves R-Compressors, Lexicon Vintage Plate Reverb and Waves L3 ultra-maximizer software/digital plugins …in order to enhance the sonics and widen the stereo-field of Jeopardy (both sides/versions of the record). Great, timeless track from 1983 when it was first released. It reached only #2 spot, just under Michael Jackson’s Thriller single being #1 in the top-10 music charts at that time.
Greg Kihn Band – “Jeopardy” (Dance Mix)…
Artist: Greg Kihn Band
Title: Jeopardy (Dance Mix)
Year: 1983
Label: Beserkley Records
Media Source: Recorded straight from 12-inch record to enhanced digital.
Greg Kihn Band – “Jeopardy” (Dance Mix) (mp3)
Greg Kihn Band – “Jeopardy” (Instrumental Dub)…
Artist: Greg Kihn Band
Title: Jeopardy (Instrumental Dub)
Year: 1983
Label: Beserkley Records
Media Source: Recorded straight from 12-inch record to enhanced digital.
Greg Kihn Band – “Jeopardy” (Instrumental Dub) (mp3)
Music Video: Greg Kihn Band – “Jeopardy”…
While the norm for most tracks go anywhere between 3:30 to 6:00 minutes in length, I prefer 15:00 minutes or longer, like the four seasons. Give me 4 long tracks to fill the hour, and I’ll be one very happy Iraqi. I love tracks that take me on long journeys through various movements. One of my all-time favorite synth-pop groups is PROPAGANDA from germany … who sound like twisted ABBA + Industrial + TechnoPop + Darkness. My favorite Proganda track is P:Machinery. I’ve taken two 12-inch vinyl versions of that track and conjoined them together as one … the way I want to listen to P:Machinery by:
Propaganda
Although he produced only a handful of tracks of renown and disappeared into obscurity almost as quickly as he had emerged from it, Manny ( Man ) Parrish is nonetheless one of the most important and influential figures in American electronic dance music. Helping to lay the foundation of electro, hip-hop, freestyle, and techno, as well as the dozens of subgenres to splinter off from those, Parrish introduced the aesthetic of European electronic pop to the American club scene by combining the plugged-in disco-funk of Giorgio Moroder and the man-machine music of Kraftwerk with the beefed-up rhythms and cut’n'mix approach of nascent hip-hop. As a result, tracks like “Hip-Hop Be Bop (Don’t Stop)” and “Boogie Down Bronx” were period-defining works that provided the basic genetic material for everyone from Run-DMC and the Beastie Boys to Autechre and Andrea Parker — and they remain undisputed classics of early hip-hop and electro to this day.
Man Parrish
What made Trevor Horn’s productions stand out was his unique and genius production techniques and the heavy use of state-of-the-art pro-audio gear, which made him become the torch-bearer for the kind of technology-led pop music which was hip and incredibly disciplined. Trevor Horn’s 12-inch remixes were uniquely long (anywhere from 8 to 13 minutes in duration) and told stories which took the listeners through long instrumental journeys at the begenning of tracks until the climax is reached (around the 5/6 or 7 minute mark). After the climax, the original or alternate full vocal version of the track takes over from that point on to the end, lasting additional 3.5 to 5 minutes in length.
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Trevor Horn is the guy who produced and performed “
The Buggles
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