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From 1988's remix of Bobby Brown's Don't Be Cruel with Timmy Regisford and Boyd Jarvis in New York in a studio underneath the famous Studio 54 Club, there was a period of 10 years intense studio experience which had various personal id's like Egor, AKA, EG's Remix, EDdidit and Eddie Gordon before finding a permanent id of Westend after the big hit with Sybil and the No: 3 National hit song "The Love I Lost" which stayed locked at No:1 in the UK Club Charts for 5 weeks too. After that there was a big demand for Westend remixes and we hit the Number 1 spot on the UK Club Charts no less than 13 times in the years that followed.
Stand out EG remixes for me in the early days were Bobby Brown's - Don't Be Cruel because it was the first one and MCA Records put my name on the front of the sleeve - they didn't pay me as it was the record company I was employed by but the sleeve credit more than made up for that and being in New York for the first time. Timmy Regisford was instrumental in me joining Motown Records later too. Pete, Barney and I did some fabulous work on Eternal's first six hit singles which all went to No:1 in the UK Club Charts and helped the girls sell 3 million copies of their debut album. Lisa Stansfield - All Around The World remix with its Runaround Love sample really worked a treat as did her first hit "This Is The Right Time". The DOC - Portrait Of A Masterpiece (a Dr Dre production) which we sampled Charles Earland and Teddy Pendergrass on in the studio with CJ Mackintosh. Remixing The Temptations "All I Want From You" for Motown was an honor and it turned out really funky too with my name on the front sleeve again. Lucky guy.
The Lonnie Liston Smith sessions in PWL studios were incredible too with Lonnie playing keyboards over our remake of his classic Expansions - much loved by EG the disco dancer. Check out Wag Ya Tail's - 'Xpand Ya Mind' those keys are the man himself, nearly blind but on fire in the studio with Aadil, Mike and Kevin on vocals - another UK Club No:1 without any trouble.
The best Westend remixes were done with Peter Pritchard, a brilliant classically trained keyboard player and programmer plus Steve'Barney' Chase, a top class recording studio engineer. Together wewould spend hours in studios across West London in Olympic or Townhouse creating mix after mix in House, R&B, Trance, Pop and Dub styles sometimes many different styles for the same song to satisfy the record company or artist. We prided ourselves on being so versatile musically across the genre's. Pete and Barney are still good close friends today which is a true testament to the quality of our work because some nights the tense creativity in those studios could go on until the morning and EG normally hit a moment of magic at 3am which meant hours more work :-)
If I was to pick my Top 5 Westend remixes No:1 would be the Millennium mix of The State Of Independence for Donna Summer feat Martin Luther King for the 1996 re-release hit single . Barney and I spent two weeks solid on that remix because we had Quincy Jones's original master tapes from Qwest Studio's. Those tapes included backing vocals from Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, James Ingram, Dionne Warwick, Michael McDonald and DeBarge. We turned out a classic for one of my all time favorite artists, Donna Summer, she was amazing to work with. Watching her sing our new version on stage at The Royal Albert Hall was a life moment for me personally. No:2 would be Ce Ce Peniston's "Keep On Giving Me Your Love" which was used as the Radio version for BBC Radio 1 and gave Ce Ce another hit record. She was a great artist to work with in the 90's - so talented. Then No:3 would be Dina Carroll's "Express" as it broke her on Radio and started her solo career with our very funky mix that went straight on the playlist. No:4 would be Eternal's "Save Our Love" an inspired session that saw us take an R&B song into a deep gospel influenced house track and finally No:5 would be Donna Summer's "Melody Of Love" which brought her back from the wilderness in the UK Charts before I got to join her label and re-do "I Feel Love" and "State Of Independence" as mentioned before.
I also need to give a mention to the 13 Minute Dub version of Westend feat Sybil - The Love ILost, re-titled The Love I Dub. We created 6 mixes for that and then re-edited the best parts from all six into one mix that rocked the Ministry Of Sound dance floor for months being played by the best USA and UK House DJ's on that great MOS sound system. When you are on the dancefloor enjoying yourself then the DJ drops one of your remixes into his set its an incredible feeling -you want to shout "that's mine" but you have to keep it cool and just watch the floor grooving to something that you know every beat and sound of.
I have a lot of people to thank for my EG/Westend remix career and they include Adrian Sykes, Bob Fisher, Timy Regisford, Boyd Jarvis, Denis Ingoldsby, Peter Pritchard, Steve ' Barney' Chase, Peter Oxendale, Steve Wolf, Nigel Lowis, Paul Witts, John Trott, Penny (Townhouse), Lola (Sarm West), Greg Castell, Richard Marshall, Tony Cook and Asher (we changed the sound of the famous PWL Studios with that Sybil record), Tilly Rutherford, Les Sharma, Pete Day, Pete Waterman, Phil France RIP, Aadil Rasheed, Paul Kindred, Charvonne (Olympic), C&C Music Factory, Tony Humphries, CJ Mac, David Morales, Frankie Knuckles and Todd Terry for the benchmarks, all the artists and backing singers who came back into the studio to re-sing their songs in different keys so we could weave our Westend magic for them.
Thank you David Cole (RIP) for the inspiration - you were the man who lit up New York, the dance music from that city died with you such was your pedigree. A Deeper Love A Deeper Deeper Love - PRIDE. You were a genius.
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RCA 12" UK 1995 Club remix of the Lamont Dozier and Simon Climie song Love Rules sung with gusto by the West End girls, the template for the Spice Girls. A Club Chart No.1
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Dome Records 2x12" UK 1997 UK garage,house,garage house
BMG 2xCD UK 1994 house,acid jazz,downtempo
Sony Soho Square 12" UK 1993 house, downtempo
EG And Westend Remixes
EG and Westend Remixes
From 1988's remix of Bobby Brown's Don't Be Cruel with Timmy Regisford and Boyd Jarvis in New York in a studio underneath the famous Studio 54 Club, there was a period of 10 years intense studio experience which had various personal id's like Egor, AKA, EG's Remix, EDdidit and Eddie Gordon before finding a permanent id of Westend after the big hit with Sybil and the No: 3 National hit song "The Love I Lost" which stayed locked at No:1 in the UK Club Charts for 5 weeks too. After that there was a big demand for Westend remixes and we hit the Number 1 spot on the UK Club Charts no less than 13 times in the years that followed.Stand out EG remixes for me in the early days were Bobby Brown's - Don't Be Cruel because it was the first one and MCA Records put my name on the front of the sleeve - they didn't pay me as it was the record company I was employed by but the sleeve credit more than made up for that and being in New York for the first time. Timmy Regisford was instrumental in me joining Motown Records later too. Pete, Barney and I did some fabulous work on Eternal's first six hit singles which all went to No:1 in the UK Club Charts and helped the girls sell 3 million copies of their debut album. Lisa Stansfield - All Around The World remix with its Runaround Love sample really worked a treat as did her first hit "This Is The Right Time". The DOC - Portrait Of A Masterpiece (a Dr Dre production) which we sampled Charles Earland and Teddy Pendergrass on in the studio with CJ Mackintosh. Remixing The Temptations "All I Want From You" for Motown was an honor and it turned out really funky too with my name on the front sleeve again. Lucky guy.
The Lonnie Liston Smith sessions in PWL studios were incredible too with Lonnie playing keyboards over our remake of his classic Expansions - much loved by EG the disco dancer. Check out Wag Ya Tail's - 'Xpand Ya Mind' those keys are the man himself, nearly blind but on fire in the studio with Aadil, Mike and Kevin on vocals - another UK Club No:1 without any trouble.
The best Westend remixes were done with Peter Pritchard, a brilliant classically trained keyboard player and programmer plus Steve'Barney' Chase, a top class recording studio engineer. Together wewould spend hours in studios across West London in Olympic or Townhouse creating mix after mix in House, R&B, Trance, Pop and Dub styles sometimes many different styles for the same song to satisfy the record company or artist. We prided ourselves on being so versatile musically across the genre's. Pete and Barney are still good close friends today which is a true testament to the quality of our work because some nights the tense creativity in those studios could go on until the morning and EG normally hit a moment of magic at 3am which meant hours more work :-)
If I was to pick my Top 5 Westend remixes No:1 would be the Millennium mix of The State Of Independence for Donna Summer feat Martin Luther King for the 1996 re-release hit single . Barney and I spent two weeks solid on that remix because we had Quincy Jones's original master tapes from Qwest Studio's. Those tapes included backing vocals from Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, James Ingram, Dionne Warwick, Michael McDonald and DeBarge. We turned out a classic for one of my all time favorite artists, Donna Summer, she was amazing to work with. Watching her sing our new version on stage at The Royal Albert Hall was a life moment for me personally. No:2 would be Ce Ce Peniston's "Keep On Giving Me Your Love" which was used as the Radio version for BBC Radio 1 and gave Ce Ce another hit record. She was a great artist to work with in the 90's - so talented. Then No:3 would be Dina Carroll's "Express" as it broke her on Radio and started her solo career with our very funky mix that went straight on the playlist. No:4 would be Eternal's "Save Our Love" an inspired session that saw us take an R&B song into a deep gospel influenced house track and finally No:5 would be Donna Summer's "Melody Of Love" which brought her back from the wilderness in the UK Charts before I got to join her label and re-do "I Feel Love" and "State Of Independence" as mentioned before.
I also need to give a mention to the 13 Minute Dub version of Westend feat Sybil - The Love ILost, re-titled The Love I Dub. We created 6 mixes for that and then re-edited the best parts from all six into one mix that rocked the Ministry Of Sound dance floor for months being played by the best USA and UK House DJ's on that great MOS sound system. When you are on the dancefloor enjoying yourself then the DJ drops one of your remixes into his set its an incredible feeling -you want to shout "that's mine" but you have to keep it cool and just watch the floor grooving to something that you know every beat and sound of.
I have a lot of people to thank for my EG/Westend remix career and they include Adrian Sykes, Bob Fisher, Timy Regisford, Boyd Jarvis, Denis Ingoldsby, Peter Pritchard, Steve ' Barney' Chase, Peter Oxendale, Steve Wolf, Nigel Lowis, Paul Witts, John Trott, Penny (Townhouse), Lola (Sarm West), Greg Castell, Richard Marshall, Tony Cook and Asher (we changed the sound of the famous PWL Studios with that Sybil record), Tilly Rutherford, Les Sharma, Pete Day, Pete Waterman, Phil France RIP, Aadil Rasheed, Paul Kindred, Charvonne (Olympic), C&C Music Factory, Tony Humphries, CJ Mac, David Morales, Frankie Knuckles and Todd Terry for the benchmarks, all the artists and backing singers who came back into the studio to re-sing their songs in different keys so we could weave our Westend magic for them.
Thank you David Cole (RIP) for the inspiration - you were the man who lit up New York, the dance music from that city died with you such was your pedigree. A Deeper Love A Deeper Deeper Love - PRIDE. You were a genius.
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The Temptations - All I Want From You - EG Remix for Motown '89
Club Z - I Wanna Be Someone
Club Zanzibar from New Jersey with Tony Humphries on the mix too. After years of the same programming at the famous PWL studios we were teaching those boys new tricks. A UK Club Chart No:1 followed. Click more to listen...
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Wag'Ya'Tail - Xpand Ya Mind
Lonnie Liston Smith giving some real energy to the Wag Ya Tail cover of his Jazz Funk classic Expansions track. Xpand Ya Mind went to No:1 in the UK Club Charts and all the white label promos carried Lonnie's autograph on the label - check Ebay :-) Click more to hear.
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West End feat Sybil - Sybil It, The Love I Dub
The Love I Dub bounced around in the Ministry of Sounds club for months and months thanks to a 13 minute mix that the USA and UK House music DJ's loved playing, which was great because that is exactly why is what made the way it turned out - deep and dark. more coming soon.
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Alisha Warren - Touch Me
Alisha is Mica Paris's sister and can sing the houses down but never really hit the heights of her younger kin - the percussion on this track "Touch Me" on RCA was the first time Louie Vega of Masters At Work was used on a UK production after bringing him in from New York. He went on to become very famous whilst Alisha did great session work. Listening back now her Mic is too bassy on this mix. "Touch Me" song was sampled by the 49er's who had a huge hit with their version of Touch Me worldwide. Enjoy by clicking more..
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Third World - Now That We've Found Love
Remixing this classic was amazing as we received the Multi Track tapes direct from Compass Studios in Nassau with all the band members writing on the track sheets describing the sounds in their own Jamaican language. It was like touching genuis. We did this remix for DMC as a gift for all their members worldwide. It sounds dated now on the sampling but we did this in 1993 - computers have come on a long way now. The timbali drums, kick and bass are well put together though. Click more to hear....
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West End - Love Rules
RCA 12" UK 1995 Club remix of the Lamont Dozier and Simon Climie song Love Rules sung with gusto by the West End girls, the template for the Spice Girls. A Club Chart No.1 more...
Toni Braxton - Breathe Again
Arista CD5" Germany 1993 RnB/Swing,ballad
Those Two Girls - Wanna Make You Go...Uuh!
Arista 12" US 1994 house,euro house
Simone Angel - Walk On Water
A&M Records CD5" UK 1994 euro house
Shiva - Work It Out
FFRR 12" UK 1995 house
Rodeo Jones - Ain't No Sunshine
A&M Records (UK) 12" UK 1993 house
Richard Darbyshire - Wherever Love Is Found
Dome Records 2x12" UK 1997 UK garage,house,garage house
Kylie Minogue - Where Is The Feeling
BMG 2xCD UK 1994 house,acid jazz,downtempoPauline Henry - Feel Like Making Love
Sony Soho Square 12" UK 1993 house, downtempo
N.Y.G - The Real Thing
Warner Music UK Ltd. 12" UK 1995 house,garage house
Pauline Henry - Can't Take Your Love (Promo)
Epic 12" UK 1993 house
MN8 - I've Got A Little Something For You
Columbia Records 12" UK 1994 RnB/Swing
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