BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1990
I originally posted this fun 12″ on George’s birthday way back in 2012. At that time I was still using ClickRepair and the old stylus this 12″ was way over due to have a new meticulous re-rip and 2017 remaster. Also created a new picture sleeve to go along with it!
On this 12″ we have the Wham! “Summer Fun Megamix”. A really nice mix featuring some of Wham!’s biggest hits including “Wham! Rap”, Freedom, I’m Your Man” and more. On the filip side is a megamix of early 80’s disco/funk/r&b tracks, including “Love Come Down” by Evelyn King, “Get Down Saturday Night” by Oliver Cheatham, and “You’re The One For Me” by D-Train.
Black Wax was an an early 1990s bootleg remix label which put out remixes and megamixes of music covering everything from ’50s to ’90s music. Many of the single artist remixes have new production under them making them very unique.
SIDE A:
Wham! – Wham Summer Fun Mega Mix 5:44
A.1 Wham Rap (Enjoy What You Do)
A.2 Club Tropicana
A.3 Young Guns (Go For It)
A.4 Bad Boys
A.5 I’m Your Man
A.6 Freedom
A.7 I’m Your Man (Extended Stimulation)
SIDE B:
Various – Classic Grooves 3:13
B.1 Unique (5) – What I Got Is What You Need (Vocal Mix)
B.2 Sharon Redd – Never Give You Up (West End Girls)
B.3 Evelyn King – Love Come Down
B.4 Phil Fearon & Galaxy – Dancing Tight
B.5 Terri Wells – I’ll Be Around
B.6 Oliver Cheatham – Get Down Saturday Night
B.7 D-Train – You’re The One For Me
B.8 D-Train – Music (Get Dancin’)
B.9 D-Train – Keep On
VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint
RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Black Wax– BW4
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM, Unofficial Release
Country: US
Released: 1990
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop
Find the 12″ on DISCOGS
EQUIPMENT USED:
Turntable: Pro-Ject Debut Carbon (DC)
Cartridge: Ortofon 2M
Stylus: Ortofon 2M Bronze
Isolation: Auralex Acoustics ISO-Tone Turntable Isolation Platform
Platter: Pro-Ject Acryl-It platter
Stabilizer: Pro-Ject Record Puck
Phono Pre-amp: Bellari VP130 Tube Phono Preamp
Tube: Tung-Sol 12AX7ECC803-S Gold Electron Tube
Soundcard: ESI Juli@
Record Cleaning: VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Artwork Scans: Brother MFC-6490CW Professional Series Scanner
SOFTWARE USED:
Recording/Editing: Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Down Sampling: iZotope RX Advanced 2
Artwork Editor: Adobe Photoshop CS5
Click Removal: Manual
FLAC/MP3 Conversion: dBpoweramp
M3U Playlist: Playlist Creator
RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
FLAC (Level Eight)
MP3 (320kbps)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi
Very Wham!my cover mock-up, thanks for that. ^_^
I think I have the same Wham!-megamix on another slab of bootleg vinyl, backed with a hilariously bad (bootleg) remix of Freedom! ’90, with tons of ah yeahs and boogies.
Awesome megamix – thank you very much!
As a side note, I’ve recently been going through my collection, and I’ve noticed the Wrap Her Up Single Version is exclusive to the 7inch vinyl.
Sadly this is just a fade out from the album version at 4:16 whereas the album version is 6:21.
Also, I can’t find evidence of the 7inch Fade ever being on an Elton John hits collection.
It’s great discovering new gems!
🙂
This does look fun. I love these mega mixes, although i don’t think i’ve heard this one before. I love the sleeve design you created too.
Thanks Paul 🙂
Thank You for George Michael.
He was / and is to me what Prince and David Bowe have been to others.
Many of his Songs are Songs from my personal Life Soundtrack.
December – as much as I like this month with the Christmas Season – was this year a bad and tough one in Berlin, Germany. Terror Attack and the death of George Michael.
Great artwork！ｔｈａｎｋｓ ｕ ｖｅｒｙ ｍｕｃｈ ～～～～～
I love this! and I love your custom picture sleeve.
Thank you Conner! 🙂
Do you have any other Black Wax records? There was a megamix from Eurythmics from that label that was awesome. Heard once in a club almost 30 years ago and have been trying to track it down ever since.
I think both the Queen and the Abba megamixes by this label were the best.
I have them at home.
There are currently 11 for sale on Discogs. Why not buy a copy?
Like most he’s probably here for DJ Paul T’s rips. We don’t all have fortunes to buy vinyl. Or a record player. Besides isn’t the money best spent here donating a bit each. All in all a stupid comment, SimonP
Paul, thanks so much for your continuing tribute to George Michael. He was an amazing talent that let us far too soon!
You’re welcome Dreamtiger 🙂
Thanx for every post!! Amazing collection!!! Big Hug from Buenos Aires – Argentina.
Big hug Martin 🙂
Thanks Paul for this re-rip. This Mega Mix is well done, sounds great and it’s a great tribute to George Michael’s works with Wham. I haven’t done any comments for weeks so I use this opportunity to wish you and all BTG readers all the best for this new year 2017.
Thank you Daniel Happy New Year!
Thanks Paul for the memories of GM.
You’re welcome Omar 🙂