Mr. Thing / Jim Sharp - Tribute To Cool V Pt.2 / Where We Are (FF45-035)

Mr Thing : "Quick story and some background on the 45 of mine that Koco posted yesterday in his stories, some of you know about this but here’s the whole scoop!
Around the time Biz Markie’s second album was coming out Westwood used to play Tribute To Scratching Part 2 using all Jackson’s/Michael Jackson samples - absolutely amazing but never came out for obvious reasons. Fast forward a few years and I’m doing my debut set on the show and I asked about it and if I could get a copy - he was very cool about it but said he couldn’t let me have it, which was fair enough, although he DID play it on the show when it aired when he interviewed me.

Fast forward a bit more and the Hot Chillin’ 12” comes out and even that is what sounds like a radio rip pressed on the record.

Soooo … September 2005 I’m working on a samples mix and I decided to remake it from the records and i put it as a bonus track on the end of mix. It was recorded on my VS-1680 so it’s not perfect or anything as it’s supposed to be a raw DJ Track.

I mixed it again and had a dub cut of it so I could play it out from @thecarverystudio but was never really happy with the mix down I did (my hearing is pretty damaged and I’ve got next to no high frequencies).

Fast forward again and Jim Sharp comes to the rescue and mixes and masters it for me from the original parts, which i somehow still had! It sounds great now and I’m super happy it’s finally coming out soon on Fridays Funky 45s via @dinkedrecords.

Thanks for reading my long-ass post but it was important to talk about it all!"