Mixes / Groove Radio - Edits & Mixes
AIRED:
Groove Radio 103.1, Los Angeles.
SOURCE:
My CD single.
MIX USED FOR EDIT:
Granny's Epicure Mix
DESCRIPTION:
This one has some history. Buckle in. Please keep you arms inside the car for the duration of the ride...
I did a radio edit of the "Granny's Epicure Mix" of "Anomaly (Calling Your Name)". The edit was a smash. It played all the time on Groove Radio.
When Musicnow Records went to release the song in the U.S., track one on their CD single was "Granny's 7" Edit". The catch? It wasn't my radio edit. Fine. Whatever.
Cut to a few weeks later. I get a frantic call from Musicnow Records. "People are calling our label, complaining that the edit we have on our CD single isn't the one that plays on Groove Radio in Los Angeles!" (my edit)
Musicnow had me quickly rip their U.S. CD single, add my edit as "track six" to their original five track CD single, and FedEx a CD-R to a pressing plant. Within a few weeks, a "corrected" CD single was on the shelves in record shops, with my specific edit.
Cool, right? No.
The ONLY way to tell if you had the CD single with my edit was a small sticker stuck onto the shrink wrap of the cardboard sleeve. As soon as you removed the shrink wrap, bye bye went my credit. The label did not print up a new cardboard sleeve, so EVERY CD single (original and repress with my edit) has a five track track listing, with no credit to me. My only credit was the sticker.
Oh well. I got paid. Fuck it.
Later on, Warners tried to release a CD single, with my edit. The release got as far as CD-R test pressings before Warners realized that while BT was on their label, they didn't have rights to that specific song (BT was the "Libra" in "Libra Presents Taylor").
After that, Rhino released a double CD compilation album of BT called "10 Years In The Life". On disc two, the "mixed" disc in the set, my radio edit appears. Soak that in. A *MIX* CD, usually reserved for full length dance mixes segued together, used my radio edit. Again, let's choose to ignore record label logic. My edit was used. I got paid (again), and this time I got a physical credit on the commercial release.
See, I told you this one would be a wild ride.
Here's a few pictures of the Musicnow CD single. Click to enlarge...
File uploaded: January 15th, 2023
Mixes / Groove Radio - Edits & Mixes
Groove Radio 103.1 FM. This was the third radio station I "worked" for. Take note of those quotes. I did work at the station, but I was not paid. I was assured of "opportunities", instead of actual money.
Unlike at KROQ and MARS FM, opportunities actually happened.
I busted my ass, doing over 80 radio edits in a little over a year. I never received a cent from the radio station. I rarely received credit on air. I occasionally received a sticker or shirt or some other swag, but I never got a dime for my work.
I did, however, get true opportunities. Due to the amount of work I put into my edits at the radio station, record labels began recognizing my skill. Record labels hired me (either as freelance or as "contract") to do work for them. For actual money. By being contract at Warner Brothers, that directly gave me the opportunity to approach the New Media department at the label, and eventually get the job of Webmaster for the band Depeche Mode.
Fast forward (at the time of this post) 24 years. I now run Depeche Mode's website, control their socials and am in charge of their tape vault, with the official title of "Archivist". All of that is due to slaving away for a year, doing radio edits of songs that (honestly) I only occasionally liked, for a radio station that paid me nothing.
Radio does not pay. Radio does not respect you. Radio will use you up and toss you out. But, rarely, you can leverage your radio time into bigger and better things.
For additional clarity: when Groove Radio came back as an online streaming radio station in 2000, I was hired to do edits, radio imaging and to host a show. I was promised $2,500/month. After working for eight weeks, and never receiving a cent, I quit.
Repeat after me: Radio does not pay.
Some notes about these edits. Groove Radio 103.1 FM, and MARS FM, were both on the same low power FM radio signal. You could literally be driving away from the station, turn the first corner, and lose the signal.
Most of these edits are sourced from scratchy vinyl. Swedish Egil would get a record, quickly record it to a DAT (digital audio tape), and then I'd make a radio edit from that. The radio signal was so weak, you (the listener) could not tell that the records were scratched, because the static of the radio signal masked the surface noise! You are hearing these edits now in better fidelity than you did if you listened to them on the air back in the day. I just wanted to provide a "heads up" for anyone expecting crystal clear audio. These are the exact edits aired back in the 90s, surface noise and all!
Every single edit below was on the playlist. My work was a large chunk of the actual playlist of the station.
Enjoy these Groove Radio 103.1 edits, for free! Well, free for you. I'm paying near $300/mo to host this site! Support the artists, and buy the full length versions where you can.
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