Keeping it Reel to Reel - Found Latin Rascals Mixes

Keeping it Reel to Reel – Found Latin Rascals Mixes

The Honest Ape
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In their day they worked and remixed some of the times most popular artists and were true innovators and mixing pioneers. The Latin Rascals were New York DJ Albert Cabrera and Record Shop Employee Tony Moran and appeared on the scene hosting a series of “continuous mix” radio shows on local New York stations like WKTU and KISS FM. As they developed their sound they took in aspects of electro, freestyle, R & B, disco and hip hop.[1] Stylus’ The Bluffer’s Guide to Freestyle gives us further insight on their sound:

Using a quarter-inch reel-to-reel machine, the Rascals would physically cut the original reel-to-reel master tape numerous times with a razor blade, and then piece things back together the way with splicing tape. It was a very time consuming process, but it resulted in a highly-precise set of stuttering loops, odd drop-outs, arrhythmic breakdowns, and abrupt, seemingly random edits.

Edited on 6/15/08
The original files were taken down, so I’ve uploaded them for download. Enjoy!

Latin Rascals on WKTU NY 1985 Part 1
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Latin Rascals on WKTU NY 1985 Part 2
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Latin Rascals on 98.7 kiss fm 1985 Part 1
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Latin Rascals on 98.7 kiss fm 1985 Part 2
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Links
The Bluffer’s Guide To Freestyle

[1] Gill, Michael F. “The Bluffer’s Guide to Freestyle.” Stylus. 13 Aug. 2007. 4 June 2008 .

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9 comments ↓

#1 djentropy on 06.15.08 at 4:05 pm: These don’t work!
#2 djeurok UpsetTheSetup on 06.16.08 at 2:37 pm: They do not work…
#3 The Honest Ape on 06.16.08 at 3:13 pm: Thanks for checking out the post and letting me know the links were dead. They should be working now. Peace
#4 djeurok UpsetTheSetup on 06.16.08 at 3:21 pm: they are alive!
#5 djeurok UpsetTheSetup on 06.16.08 at 4:08 pm: wow. these mixes are dope. flashback for real. and the fact they did this with tape splices? wow…
#6 Scratch-D on 05.21.09 at 7:29 pm: these links are dead again please reup them all
#7 The Honest Ape on 05.26.09 at 1:11 am: Hey Scratch-D, let me dig them up, they are one of my other hard drives. I’ll let you know when I got them back up.
#8 jason on 06.18.09 at 11:35 am: off the scale….. none of the kids believe it when I tell them about the low-tech around 25 yearsr ago.
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