<<any comments on how this guy pioneered the art of dj'ing, moved on to be the first dj/producer and then released the seminal, stripped-down classic "set it off'? i have a salsoul lp with him doing mixes back in 77...>>
Well, I don't know what type of comments you're looking for. I have that LP of dubs and it really rocks. I like playing it together with the original mixes of the same songs, fading in and out of the vocals. It's a lot of fun. A little hard because of the off-beat live percussion, but that's life for a disco DJ (imagine having to deal with that a whole night... Thank god I also play electronic stuff). I always admired TP for his mixing skills. He does it so seamlessly. Anyhow, I'm getting side-tracked. Walter Gibbons made some of the greatest early mixes indeed, most of which came out on Salsoul. Come to think of it, most of the early guys had their mixes put out on Salsoul... Of course Tom Moulton had his break long before Salsoul became a staple label, but he still had tons of landmark releases on it. Shep Pettibone too (the Inner Life and Aurra remixes); of course Larry Levan had a few, along with his West End stuff. What I find funny is that along all the articles and interviews I read in the past about early remixers, they never mention Gibbons. Moulton, Levan... The others are in the shadow. It's like there was nothing between Moulton and the House/Techno explosion. For those who like parsing through lists of disco-related tracks and name-droppings, you can pretty much spend a few hours on this web site (which I have NO realtion to): http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/1392/ I'm out. Sqrrt
