BITS & PIECES 1985

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Mastermixing Live and Direct. Recorded from the early days of Kiss 94fm on Paul Oakenfold’s show. This one has the Conway Brothers Turn it Up as it’s foundation break. Features great choice of tunes, some pop and rock (One Night in Bangkok, Easy Lover) which gave it a distinct feel, a little different to most other mixes of its time. This recording is actually a join of two broadcasts, the original recording suffered interference so there’s a ‘live pause button edit’ at 1’15” when the mix was broadcast again a week later. Good deep 94fm voice overs in this one

Update April 2018: Since 2009 WallabyFC has maintained an archive of Oakenfold mixes at oakenfoldmixes.com . Plenty of great listening there. Respect to Wallaby for providing a tracklist: Conway Brothers – Turn It Up (Instrumental), Cybotron – Clear (Remix By Jose “Animal” Diaz), Hashim – Al-Naafiysh (The Soul) (B1, CR-200), Alexander Robotnick – Problèmes D’Amour (Original), Kool & The Gang – Fresh (Remix), ID?, George Kranz – Din Daa Daa (Dub Version), ID?, DeBarge – Rhythm Of The Night (Long Version), ID?, ID?, ID?, ID?, Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five – Pump Me Up (Original Mix), Boney M. – Kalimba De Luna, Animotion – Obsession, ID?, Cymande – Bra (Danny Krivit Re-edit), Rock Master Scott And The Dynamic Three – The Roof Is On Fire (Club DJ), Diana Ross – Swept Away (Extended Mix), C.O.D. – In The Bottle (Vocal), Martin Circus – Disco Circus, Phil Collins – Sussudio (Extended Remix), Aleem Featuring Leroy Burgess – Release Yourself (Dub), Cosmetic With Jamaaladeen Tacuma – So Tranquilizin’ (Special Dub Mix), Philip Bailey & Phil Collins – Easy Lover, Jeff Lorber – Step By Step, Murray Head – One Night In Bangkok, Wish Featuring Fonda Rae – Touch Me (All Night Long). If you can help ID the unknowns please get in touch, and copy in WallabyFC too. Cheers!

Update February 2026: After 41 years, I can finally ID this track! It’s Bits & Pieces 1985. Credited to Carlos Berrios. Great quality recording here on YouTube from The Bootleg Megamix Archive. Full tracklist from DJdiegomolina in the YouTube comments:
Pretty Poison – Nightime (1984)
Cybotron – Clear (1983)
Hashim – Al-Naafiysh (The Soul) (1983)
Alexander Robotnik – Problemes D’Amour (1983)
Kool & The Gang – Fresh (1984)
George Kranz – Din Daa Daa (Trommeltanz) (1983)
Pilot – You Are The One (1984)
DeBarge – Rhythm Of The Night (1985)
Afrika Bambaataa & The Godfather Of Soul James Brown – Unity (1984)
Trouble Funk – Pump Me Up (1980)
Animotion – Obsession (1985)
Cymande – Bra (1972)
Rock Master Scott & The Dynamic Three – The Roof Is On Fire (1985)
Skratch – You Should Have Known Better (1985)
Diana Ross – Swept Away (1984)
Rock Master Scott & The Dynamic Three – Request Line (1984)
C.O.D. – In The Bottle (1983)
Martin Circus – Disco Circus (1979)
Phil Collins – Sussudio (1985)
Aleem – Release Yourself (1984)
Philip Bailey duet with Phil Collins – Easy Lover (1984)
Jeff Lorber featuring Audrey Wheeler – Step By Step (1985)
Murray Head – One Night In Bangkok (1984)
Wish featuring Fonda Rae – Touch Me (All Night Long) (1984)