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    Published on: 7/25/2008    Last Visited: 7/25/2008  

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    John Morales (DJs / Remixers)

    An interview with New York Disco DJ turned studio remixer best known for his M & M Mixes during the 1980s.

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    John Morales was born in the Bronx, New York. He is recognized worldwide as one of the early pioneers of Dance Mixing/Remixing,and producing beginning his career in 1975 as a local DJ in the Bronx.

    John has been involved in the creation of hit records for the better part of 30 years. Known in the industry as an innovator and chance taker, he has always welcomed the challenge of working with new artists and has never been afraid to try new and different ideas.

    The road to the top of the profession has been a long and steady climb for John. He honed his talents in an unlikely arena - as a disc jockey for the United States Air Force. "It was two hours a night," he recalls. "Your main job was to take their minds away from reality ...." After that grueling hitch, he returned to New York and a day job, mixing music at night in his homemade studio, pursuing his lifelong dream. John landed a gig at the Stardust Ballroom in the Bronx, spinning for "tops, $40-$50 a night, but you considered yourself lucky. Guys do it for nothing. In order to get some relief from his relentless work schedule (seven nights a week, 12-3pm., 7-1Opm., then 10pm-3am.), John began to mix his sounds on tape.
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    It is SO COOL that John Morales has joined us. John, one Question.
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    John, in all seriousness, I have been playing M&M product, since day one.
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    John Morales of M & M!! Oh My God!! This is fabulous. John, you have given me countless hours of great music.
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    John Morales was born in the Bronx, New York. He is recognized worldwide as one of the early pioneers of Dance Mixing/Remixing,and producing beginning his career in 1975 as a local DJ in the Bronx.

    John has been involved in the creation of hit records for the better part of 30 years. Known in the industry as an innovator and chance taker, he has always welcomed the challenge of working with new artists and has never been afraid to try new and different ideas.

    The road to the top of the profession has been a long and steady climb for John. He honed his talents in an unlikely arena - as a disc jockey for the United States Air Force. "It was two hours a night," he recalls. "Your main job was to take their minds away from reality ...." After that grueling hitch, he returned to New York and a day job, mixing music at night in his homemade studio, pursuing his lifelong dream. John landed a gig at the Stardust Ballroom in the Bronx, spinning for "tops, $40-$50 a night, but you considered yourself lucky. Guys do it for nothing. In order to get some relief from his relentless work schedule (seven nights a week, 12-3pm., 7-1Opm., then 10pm-3am.), John began to mix his sounds on tape.
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    JOHN IS HERE!! Thank God!! this site rocks!!
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    It is SO COOL that John Morales has joined us. John, one Question.
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    John, in all seriousness, I have been playing M&M product, since day one.
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    John Morales of M & M!! Oh My God!! This is fabulous. John, you have given me countless hours of great music.

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    Published on: 4/21/2006    Last Visited: 7/25/2008  

    (Remixer) New York remixer part of M & M team with John Morales.
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    Sergio Munzibai along with remix partner John Morales were amoung my favorite remixers of the 80's, when remixing meant just that: REMIXING the master to bring out different elements of the original production.
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    I remember his many re-mixes with John Morales.M&M, remember??GOD BLESS>

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    New York Remixer, John Morales (An M & M Mix)

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    A listing of all the records that New York remixer John Morales worked on.
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    New York Remixer, John Morales (An M & M Mix)

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    Published on: 7/7/2006    Last Visited: 6/6/2009  

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    Published on: 7/25/2008    Last Visited: 7/25/2008  

    Disco Music > Disco People Index > DJs / Remixers > John Morales
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    New York remixer John Morales in the studio. (Early 1980s)

    The following is an interview with 70s/80s Disco Dance DJ and remixer, John Morales who was part of M & M Productions with Sergio Munzibai.
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    John Morales and I had been speaking on the phone several times before I was invited to his home to conduct this interview.We would talk about his DJ career, the music and of course the mixes.I was thrilled to be able to meet him in person so on an overcast November day I drove several hours from my home in Maryland to New Jersey.He and his wife, who were only married just last year, were gracious hosts and made me feel very welcome.Morales is a very warm and personable person and has a voice that reminds one of TV star Ray Romano.
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    Born and raised in the Bronx, New York (April 14, 1954) in a hard working Puerto Rican household of four, John Morales became interested in music at around the age of twelve.This would have been at around the time the Beatles first broke in the United States although he admits he was not a Beatles fan, but of mainly Top 40 radio and Pop bubble-gum music.

    There was a record store called Stan's Record Shop at 3rd Avenue and 156th Street in the Melrose section of the Bronx.Each day Morales would buy one record and after one year the owner asked him if he would like to work in the store.Back then the records were 49¢ a piece and the owner offered to give John ten records each week in exchange for his work.Even though he knew he was underpaid, and underage, he was in heaven because he was getting music which he would love to play.That was his real introduction to music.He liked all kinds of music and didn't care whether it was Rock, Country or R & B. He worked at Stan's till he graduated 8th grade from Immaculate Conception grammar school.

    Morales attended Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx after his parents saved up to buy their own home and moved to the Park Chester section.He went to Cardinal Hayes for two years, but failed religion classes and then went to Monroe in the Soundview section.Soon after he went to work for Alexander's department store on 59th Street in Manhattan and was fired for eating pistachios on the job(!).His father was not thrilled and gave him an ultimatum, "either get a job or enlist in the Service--No bums in this house."John signed up for the Air Force in 1970 while he was still under 18.He was there for two years and in the second year became involved with the Armed Forces Radio while stationed in Colorado Springs.He returned home in 1971 after getting hurt and taught himself guitar and tried to emulate Carlos Santana.This culminated with him forming a Rock group with friends called the "F Band."Their first performance in front of an audience was at Saint Raymond's High School, which was a disaster because his amp blew up while on stage.

    John Morales editing reel to reel tape the old fashioned way: with a razor and tape.

    Birth of the Disco DJ

    In 1974 his father bought a bar in Jersey City, New Jersey.It was here that John Morales started to play music for the patrons.No mixing or anything like that, but just playing music on a single turntable.This was the beginning of his career as a Disco DJ as he enjoyed the experience and began buying turntables and a mixer and practiced music selection and mixing.

    During this time John lived on 233rd Street near White Plains Road in the Bronx and had a very secure and respectable position working for New York Telephone.It was his girlfriend at the time who inspired him to follow his dreams and pursue a career in music.From that point on music was a 24/7 affair.Every day he would practice at home and do his mixes using Technics SL 1100 turntables, which he bought at Rock and Soul Electronics near Macy's in Manhattan.He used a broken Uri mixer with the rotary knobs, then a Bozak and eventually moved onto a GLI mixer with sliding pots which he bought at Richard Long's AST Sound on West Broadway in lower Manhattan.

    After knocking on the doors of several area clubs he landed his first job as a DJ proper at the Stardust Ballroom on Eastchester Road in the Bronx where a young John "Jellybean" Benitez previously had worked.Morales would spin Friday and Saturdays and unlike today where many DJs only play an hour or so, he played Disco and Salsa music from 8PM till 2-3am or later.After leaving Stardust, Morales went to spin at a Latin / Disco club called Epoca 2 on 233rd Street and Gunhill Road right off the New England Thruway.
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    John Morales landed the house DJ position for these rinks and was responsible for providing the music and DJs for all the rinks.He got paid $65.00 a night to DJ at the rink and he would pay someone else to play the other rinks.This was seven days a week-day and night.On Saturdays and Sundays there were multiple time slots: 10am-1pm, 1pm-4pm slot for the teens and a 5pm-10pm slot for the adults.John claims he gained a lot of experience from doing this.Although he initially enjoyed the work, he soon found the owners to be less than honorable as there were numerous times he wouldn't be paid and soon had to leave for other clubs like Jumbalaya in the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

    John Morales with Disco recording artist Sylvester in 1977.
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    The two became good friends and Velazquez introduced Morales to Eddie Rivera of the International Disco Record Center (I.D.R.C.). Eddie Rivera had formed the I.D.R.C. record pool to service Hispanic Disco DJs after his departure from David Mancuso's New York Record Pool.
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    Now that John Morales was a record pool member he was receiving all the new and hard to get records each week making it even easier to find better work.He later would join one of the first black run record pools out of Harlem called Disco Den on 125th Street and Lexington.

    The Deadly Medleys and the Sunshine Sound Acetates

    It is during the 1977-79 timeframe that Morales started to create special edits of his favorite songs.These edits later became multi song medleys, which could be the best of a particular artist or label or hit songs of that year.He took a combination of records and packaged them in a condensed form.Morales describes how he would first use an old Sansui cassette deck and repeatedly hit pause trying to time how long it would take to engage pause and record ... and later a reel to reel using razor blades and splicing block.It was tedious and time-consuming, but it was enjoyable for him and proved to be a valuable skill that he needed for his future studio mixing career.Bootleg releases like the famous Hollywood Mixer were based on what John had done with his edits.He created two famous medleys called the Deadly Medley 1 and 2, which was one medley, but cut in half and released as two separate 12 inch records.

    John Morales at the mixing board in 1985.

    John would take these edits to be pressed at Sunshine Sound, which was located on the twelfth floor of 1650 Broadway in midtown.
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    Morales went there often and Sunshine's owner liked John's Deadly Medleys so much that he began selling them to other DJs and giving Morales a cut of the proceeds.These medleys became so poplar with other DJs that Morales almost couldn't keep up making newer varieties.
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    Inner Life's "I'm Caught Up" with Jocelyn Brown was the first record mixed by John Morales.
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    The session is pretty much over and we're listening to the stuff and Greg introduces me to Patrick and says to him that we're going to get John to mix this record... and I always tell this story to Jocelyn: We're listening to the playback and there is a section where Jocelyn just screams... out of key... and she says to me; Make sure you don't use that on the record!
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    John Morales goes on to say how happy he felt when he first heard one of the records he mixed played on the radio.
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    John Morales at RPM Studios in 1978.

    Inner Life's "I'm Caught Up ... " was initially released on a small label called TCT based in Guttenberg, New Jersey, but soon after the radio exposure a frenzy developed for that record and a number of larger record labels got into a bidding war over who would distribute it with Prelude Records winning out by shelling out a then unheard of $5,000. for the rights.Morales considers himself very fortunate that the first record he worked on became a big record.

    I asked John if he would change anything from that mix session and he replied: "You always think you could have done something di

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    Published on: 6/6/2009    Last Visited: 6/6/2009  

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    John Morales is the Disco DJ who also became a legendary Mixer/Remixer in the eighties. John started playing records in his native Bronx, ending up playing in several of the Manhattan clubs. He started editing/remixing his favorite tracks to get himself longer versions to play at his gigs. He also experimented with editing medley's and much of his work ended up being pressed on acetates.
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    I got this opportunity to interview John and here's his life - so far... ENJOY !

    John Morales was born in the Bronx, New York on April 14, 1954. And to straighten things out right away - John is not related to the David Morales of DefMix, even though he's asked this question all the time. John has always loved music and as he tells me himself; "My first taste of music was when I was about 12 or so.
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    But I [Discoguy] had to ask John: Have you ever done something else? Or has music always been your life? "Well I've done music for most of my early adult life, it's what I wanted and loved to do, and I am grateful I had the opportunity to do it. Today, I'm in the Sports Collecting Business and have once again started to work on my music. Hopefully, to do something that I really enjoy and love, what I feel is in my blood."

    As told above John started out his musical career as a DJ, he fills in; "I started DJ'ing at home like most of us..
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    One thing led to another and all of a sudden John was involved in mixing and remixing records as well. He soon became one of the first classic Remixers.
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    John practically lived in the studio and he believes he has mixed/remixed and edited more records than most of the people back then. So how would he explain the difference between - mixing, remixing and editing?
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    At the time that John was involved with us, I always felt that my work was in good hands. The original process of 're-mixing records' was intended to provide an alternative listening experience which had been optimized for people who went out to dance at Discos. The breaks and the unique equalization of bass and drums was for the dancer. The extended versions which built to a fever pitch was for the dancer. The sparse vocals, the swirling string and brass lines punching in and out; All was to make a recording as hot and enjoyable as possible for a dancer!!! John was one of the early pioneers who loved music, understood his craft and HAD RESPECT FOR THE CREATIVE WORK from which his mixes were derived.
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    How much work have you done on your own (as John Morales) and how much was done together with Sergio as M&M?
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    CLICK to hear some works of John Morales
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    John follows up by adding; "Those are just a few of the ones I still listen too and brings a smile to my face.
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    In 2006 John launch his own web-site - www.johnmoralesmix.com

    John Morales home stereo and a few of his records

    John has been working with numerous of acts and has been involved in well over 500 songs.
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    Specially for you readers of this page, John has also added this information on the background of Editing, Remixing and Medleys... Enjoy!
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    John Morales

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