Track-By-Track: O/B #04
Where do we even start with Bruce Forest?
He produced, mixed or post-produced (usually for the US market) Alexander Robotnick ('Problèmes D'Amour') Paul Haig (self-titled LP), Whitney ('Thinking About You'), Val Young ('If You Should Ever Be Lonely'), Robert Palmer ('I Didn't Mean To Turn You On'), Jesse Johnson from The Time ('She I Can't Resist'), Donna Summer ('All Systems Go'), Georgio ('Lovers Lane'), Earth Wind & Fire ('Thinking Of You'), Madonna ('Everybody')...and this is just a fraction of his output.
He was also resident DJ at NYC gay club Better Days, where he would try out edits done in the studio that day. He posts on discogs every two years or so under the name 'droopus' and you definitely have to read his anecdote about he and Shep Pettibone doing the Better Days Mix of 'I Was Born This Way' by Carl Bean. Oh to have been there that night! There's a funny bit of trivia about his US mix of 'Problèmes D'Amour' too.
Oh, and this Was (Not Was) tune? Banger obvs.
Was (Not Was) - Walk The Dinosaur (Bruce's Prehistoric Dub) (Fontana, 1987)
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Note: this is an entry in the Track-By-Track series for my mix for O/B.
Track-By-Track is a series that looks back at records you will have heard in my mixes, one by one in the order they were played. Who made them, and when? How did I come across them? And what do they make me feel?